Back June 4th or thereabouts!

Just a quickie during lunch (really more of a placeholder for later).
This may be a bit of a duh, but it occurs to me that it’s worth thinking about the differences between impulses and compulsions.
For example, I consider that I’ve been pretty much on track since Sunday. That makes today day 5. However, I had […]

I’m technically on leave this afternoon, so I’m gonna sneak in this quick at-work post before I leave to pick up my aunt at the airport. We’re off to a family reunion week on Friday, so posts will likely be sparse until I return June 4th.
I got an email ad for a book from the […]

Hey, look at me, I’m live blogging :). I’m watching Oprah’s Legends Ball. Boy, do I wish I was an influential black woman…what a party!
But Oprah just shared this as part of the show, and it was a bit of an “a ha” for me:
I think happiness is having something to look forward to.
More later. […]

Cook’s Illustrated (I’ve been a long-time subscriber, and have mentioned them here previously) just sent me out a sample copy of their relatively new Cook’s Country magazine. This is the second sample issue, and it reminds me a lot of Penzey’s One Magazine.
In both cases, neither of these really appeal to me (though I love […]

I had this in my other post on the June issue of Oprah, but there was just so much good stuff in it, I decided to make it a separate post.
There’s a great article by Eve Ensler on her new play, The Good Body. Here are some highlights:
[The Good Body] is an examination of what […]

I mentioned last week that I picked up the June issue of Oprah. And at least one of you (hi Debbi!) took me up on the suggestion to buy it, since it was an issue that focused on the body.
They now have the June issue online, though what’s there is just a few of the […]

I managed to snap this pic on my way to work. The water on the left is the Potomac River, and since there is greenery all along it, it gets really overpopulated with geese when they are doing their migrations.
But ya gotta love spring and goslings! It’s a bit fuzzy since this is a tiny […]

Okay, so Jimmy Morris is a low-carb evangelist (which I am not completely on board with), but I really like what he says about the issue of calories in versus calories out:
The problem with calories-in/calories-out is that it relies on a subtle bit of misdirection that has had a dramatic and negative impact on America’s […]

Oh, I know, nothing for a while, and now I can’t stop posting! But if you don’t regularly buy Oprah magazine, you may want to pick up the June issue. According to Oprah.com, it’s not on sale until May 16th, but I picked it up today. It’s their third “body” issue, and there are some […]

Last weekend I went to see Akeelah and the Bee with my nieces. What a great movie! If you like feel-good stories, I’d encourage you to go see this even if you don’t have a child escort :).
One of the inspirational parts of the movie is its (edited) use of a Marianne Williamson quote:
Our deepest […]

I’m happy that Regina Wilshire (of Weight of the Evidence) is back. I’ve been trying to post a comment there, but Blogger seems to be uncooperating. Here was my point:
One semantic quibble. I’m not sure I would call a diet of 43% carb low-carb. Is it be a low-carb diet when nearly half the cals […]

Jimmy Moore (of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb) turned me on to Jimmy Morris (of Bread and Money) a while back. Both are low-carb evangelists who have lost lots of weight low-carbing.
The latter Jimmy recently wrote an article on the relationship between emotional eating and diet that really resonated with me.
In Is Emotional Eating Another Chicken […]

Well, we had a meeting today with our group’s senior vice president. He did announce that our boss had resigned (yeah right). However, the good news is that our new interim boss is well liked by our team. This is a huge relief, as we had been expecting the SVP to put one of two […]

Sorry to be so quiet, but I had a feeling this was coming. The last time it seemed like all the planets were aligning and things were good, my mom had a heart attack and died four months later.
So the events of April (a successful embolization for my fibroids, a huge bonus at work, and […]

Okay, so tomorrow is two weeks, but I’m still not back completely on track. Sigh. More about that later.
But first, a bit of good news. Today, I took the Metro to work for the first time since I think sometime in 1998 or so.
When I first moved to DC, I did the bus/Metro thing regularly. […]

Okay, maybe in hindsight, going to two happy hours the same day I gave up Diet Coke was a mistake. I did fine at happy hour #1 (ordered a virgin Mary), but wound up ordering a beer at happy hour #2.
Big mistake.
That one led to a second, and then on my way home, to […]