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EatSmart Nutrition Scale, an old-fashioned dieter’s new best friend

It’s often the little things in life that make me happy. For instance, with all the expensive toys and bikes that I own, one of my very favorite possessions is my heated mattress pad.
Along the same lines, one of the things that regularly frustrated me was my kitchen scale. It wasn’t annoying enough to motivate [...]

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Encouragement from PUSH.tv

There are many things about the PUSH.tv videos that are quirky, most of them in a good way (though there is a sort of “shoe stampede” transition that makes me cower under my step… okay, not really).
One of the things that I like is their little affirmations that they show periodically throughout the workout and [...]

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The Beck Diet Solution, Day 1: Record the advantages of losing weight

Today’s assignment is to list out, on a 3″x5″ card, all of the advantages of losing weight. This will be a tool for those times when it just doesn’t seem worth it and it’s so hard to stick with the diet. Having firm reasons in mind helps battle temptations and makes it possible [...]

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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 [...]

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Starting week eight on PUSH.tv

After waiting for my new PUSH.tv DVD for a long time, I contacted PUSH.tv and they resent it via 2-day air. It arrived on Friday, June 15, and, as Murphy’s Law would have it, so did the original DVD mailed on June 1st. Somehow this seemed inevitable.
My contact at PUSH.tv told me that [...]

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