Entries from July 2007 ↓

Wordless Wednesday

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No one can stay on a diet indefinitely because it is not natural. It is an artificial way of living that can be adopted and adhered to temporarily, but must come to an end.

When it does — as it inevitably will — and you revert to the old ways of eating and relating to food which were familiar to you for so long before you began the temporary program, all of the weight lost will be regained. And more. Because your body will protect itself instinctively from any repeat onslaught of starvation such as the one it just survived.

I’m not a nutritionist, but I have read a great deal of literature about this.

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This photo was taken the same day as the one I shared yesterday for Wordless Wednesday. It was taken in July 1979 when my good friend and I came home to pick up my first-ever brand new car, the 1979 Mercury Capri Ghia that my sister (left) and parents (check out those snappy plaid pants) are leaning on next to me (with a seriously bad perm).

Throwback Thursday

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I am not on a diet. I have changed my lifestyle as it pertains to food and exercise.

What’s the difference?

Conceptually, diets are of finite duration. They prescribe what, when and how much food you can eat. They involve counting calories or points. All too often the diet becomes a new obsession and when the novelty wears off or it becomes too difficult to maintain the momentum, the old eating habits are resumed. Old patterns prevail and the weight lost regained.

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