Okay, well I was partly successful. Now I see why the old RSS feed only used excerpts! It doesn’t support HTML, so the entire text is compressed so that paragraphs and stuff are gone. Yuck!
I don’t think there are too many folks who have subscribed to the old RSS feed, so what I’d like to […]

Okay, I’m just tweaking my RSS feeds. I think I fixed the older RSS feed that was just including abstracts and I’ve added a logo to the other versions. Now to test with feedvalidator.org.
Oops, let’s get rid of that extra paren in the feed template. Oh, and the HTML. RSS .92 doesn’t care for it.

Earlier this week, I talked about my a ha moments in my journey of choosing health. A number of people had very interesting comments, and a discussion about the pros and cons of “personal responsibility” led me to consider a different concept: one of personal power.
Here’s the difference I see:
personal responsibility: Accepting responsibility for […]

Have I mentioned I’m a big fan of Cook’s Illustrated?
I started with their magazine, which is completely free of advertising. It’s not a glossy, but if you like to cook, this is a great magazine. What they do is choose a recipe and then test the heck out of it to figure out the […]

So I came across this in Tish’s fat acceptance-oriented blog:

There’s a difference between acknowledging the too often difficult experience of being fat and the intellectual dishonesty inherent in trying to be fat political and still trying to lose weight.

Ouch.

Nutrition & Metabolism has just published a study, Control of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes without weight loss by modification of diet composition, that is interesting if you, like me, suspect that your weight and/or your overeating is related to how much “white stuff” you eat.
Now this study looks at the use of […]

Last Sunday, Amanda asked the following in a comment on the persistance post:

I’m just wondering, since I can’t seem to “get it” myself…what got you to the moment when overeating ended and the new lifestyle began? I mean, the real moment, the light bulb that you knew would never burn out?

I sat on this […]

I realize that polenta is the easiest thing in the world to make, but I came across Melissa’s organic polenta in my regular grocery store, and just had to give it a try.
It comes in different flavors (I’ve tried the sundried tomato and the Italian herb), though the flavor isn’t that strong. There’s actually some […]

So today’s Oprah was a repeat from a show last May. One of her guests was Mireille Guiliano, author of the book French Women Don’t Get Fat.
So she went thru her litany of why French women aren’t so fat, and it had a lot to do with the amount of pleasure they get from […]

Regina has a must-read post over at Weight of the Evidence.
In it, she talks about why the focus on “losing weight” completely misses the point and why looking at carb consumption in the diet is critical for people who have one or more of the following: obesity, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, low […]

Oh, I’m really doing this with misgivings, as this has all the appearance of plugging a diet. But, as I mentioned briefly over the weekend, I caught Mark Hyman on PBS basically doing his version of the Wayne Dyer, Andrew Weil, Neil Perricone “I wrote a book and now I’ll tell you all about it […]

Earlier this month, AlterNet posted an article that looked at the why the idea of an “obesity epidemic” is flawed: One Big Fat Lie.
The article is really good, so please go there and read the whole thing. But I want to highlight one part (emphasis mine):

There is a slippery slope from dieting to disease, as […]

If you were following the fat and food posts, you know that I recently have been doing some soul-searching with regards to the fat acceptance movement. I have a lot in common with many in the movement:

I believe that dieting is harmful, and figure dieting is largely responsible for my gaining as much […]

Over the last few months, I’ve developed a habit of catching Hardball and Countdown on MSNBC. On Thursday’s Hardball, Chris Matthews talked with Michael Berman, author of the new book, Living Large: A Big Man’s Ideas on Weight, Success, and Acceptance.
Transcripts and more after the break.

Here’s part of their discussion (from the MSNBC transcript):

MATTHEWS: […]

My favorite quote in the world has to be this one (which I’ve already posted here once):

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of […]

I’ve been doing my “choose health” plan for for a bit over a year now. One of the things that hasn’t been part of my plan (yet) is exercise.
Initially my thinking was that, at 375, my number one priority was just to stop overeating. My theory has been that my overeating has been due to […]

Alright, I’ve been putting this off because I’m still having trouble putting all the pieces together in my head. But I’m just going to go with what I got, and will add more later.
So, in part one of this thread, I talked about coming across the following from Pattie Thomas, someone very prominent in the […]

A co-worker has turned me onto Pandora which is an effort by the Music Genome Project.
I am seriously hooked!
My music tastes run to the soft alternative; I’d have to say the Indigo Girls are my favorite musical group (and Girlyman and Vienna Teng are my favorite new artists). And here in DC, that kind […]

I mentioned the other day that I ordered the Drs. Hellers’ The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan. The book is meant to help low-carb dieters who have gone off track. I picked it up just to see how their plan has changed over the years.
I’ve skimmed the book, and see that the Hellers are […]

Over at Weight of the Evidence, Regina has posted a guide to low-carb menu planning made easy.
We clearly have different definitions of easy :).
There’s a reason I came up with what I call the lazy person’s guide to managing carbs…I just don’t have the mental fortitude it takes to do all that counting and planning […]

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

I know I promised part 3 of my food and fat thread, but I had another episode of bleeding related to my fibroids and I wound up in the emergency room at 5AM on Sunday morning. Just as in the past, this eventually resolved itself, but it […]

I’m hoping to post part three of my thread on fat and food sometime this weekend, but I had to just put in a quick post. I finally upgraded to a wireless laptop, and I’m sitting here, reading a very interesting thread on health and wellness in the fat acceptance context, with my laptop on […]

This is the second part of a three-part thread I started yesterday. I think this one will be fairly short, as I really want to work on part 3, in which I’m going to explore whether wanting to lose weight and supporting fat acceptance are mutually exclusive.

But first, I’m just going to just list a […]

My story with food and fat is a complicated one, but whose story isn’t? The way I got to nearly 400 lbs was to eat my way there. There’s no question of “but I don’t eat any more than” such-and-such skinny friend. No, I’m a binge eater…one of those who can eat a thousand […]

Thanks for your patience. I’ve gone ahead and updated my feed scripts so that they append a short blurb at the end with a link to my blog and to the Creative Commons license I write Act Boldly under.
I decided this was necessary after coming across what looks like a splog (a spam blog) […]