Month: November 2013

Haters Gonna Hate (A Note on Your Critics)

You’re doing something new in the service of your [ref]mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, or sexual[/ref] health. You’re lifting weights. You’re eating all whole, real food. You quit talking to your back-stabbing “friend.” You stopped huffing glue, or smoking tryptophan. You’re

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17 Distracting Things to Say at the Holiday Table

Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle: Holiday Season Edition[ref]Thanksgiving – Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/Kwanzaa/Festivus – New Years’.[/ref] – where good intentions and new commitments come to die. If you’re doing things differently at your traditional holiday gatherings this year[ref]Not eating sugar, not eating starch,

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Bench Press Begets Bench Press

For folks like me, cookies are cannibalistic: we choose to eat just one, but that first cookie chooses to eat untold hordes of other innocent cookies. Luckily, this snowball effect can work in our favor, too. Weight training, especially for

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That Cookie is a Cannibal

If you struggle with food addiction and/or compulsive overeating, maybe you eat the first cookie, but that cookie eats all the rest. Here’s what it can look like when one sets a binge in motion. I’ve been enjoying a weeks-long

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