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Going into Marathon Survival Mode

I have 27 days until my marathon. Did 20 miles on Saturday (by far the furthest I’ve ever run) and got through it, so I’m feeling optimistic. I’ve been dropping excess fat a little at a time for the last few weeks and just won a competition on WeightLossWars, so that was exciting. A lot [...]

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The Beck Diet Solution

The latest of my diet-reading: The Beck Diet Solution by Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. The sub-title is “train your brain to think like a thin person.” I don’t remember how I first heard about this book, but it was probably one of many that I find while playing on Amazon (I know, some people play [...]

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The Shangri-La Diet: lose weight by drinking oil?

You may have noticed that several of the links on my “Kindred Spirits” blogroll go to blogs that talk about “SLD” or the Shangri-La Diet. I enjoyed specific posts by these bloggers, but really didn’t know much about the diet (except for the odd mention about drinking oil!) or the book that started it. When [...]

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