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Will a Late Night Snack Make Me Gain Weight?
Monday, April 17, 2017 23 comments www.theglobeandmail.com/ life/health-and-fitness/he alth/will-a-late-night-sna ck-sabotage-a-weight-loss- regimen/article34629307/ The "conventional" wisdom is "a calorie is a calorie" and it doesn't matter WHEN... Read more
Fake Buddha
Sunday, April 16, 2017 23 comments fakebuddhaquotes.com/pai n-is-inevitable-suffering- is-optional/ "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional". This was an "old saying" referenced in a recent novel I galloped through . . . but although billed as an o... Read more
Size, Shape, Behaviour: Birding Class!
Saturday, April 15, 2017 41 comments How do I tell one bird from another? Beginning birders focus on colour. If it's a red bird, it's a cardinal. But: supposing it' s just a glimpse of red in a bush mostly concealed by foliage: could it be a scarlet tanager? Yes, it was... Read more
Self Sabotage
Friday, April 14, 2017 32 comments Sunrise walking the beach. Listening to the waves. The birds. Snowy plovers, black bellied plovers, ruddy turnstones, willets, brown pelicans. And yes, of course: eavesdropping and people watching too! People who've also got up ear... Read more
Just one of many micromoments today . . . so far!!
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 31 comments 
No, not my picture: I'm not that fast with the camera.
But this morning shortly after dawn I saw a roseate spoonbill flying across the roseat... Read more
Can I Turn Myself Into a More Positive Thinker?
Sunday, April 09, 2017 45 comments www.nytimes.com/2017/04/ 03/well/live/turning-negat ive-thinkers-into-positive -ones.html?_r=1 Apparently I can. (And yes, I think that would be a less intrusive project than trying to turn somebody ELSE into a mo... Read more
What Makes Us Happier
Friday, April 07, 2017 54 comments brightlineeating.com/201 7/04/what-makes-us-happier /?inf_contact_key=2100b018 ff4e43103703a8cfac8acf26f9 201e72d4b89cc4ee36b7e52792cc8b Susan Peirce Thompson's weekly Bright Line Eating vlog introduced me to th... Read more
Is it Harder to Lose Weight When You're Older?
Thursday, April 06, 2017 30 comments www.theglobeandmail.com/ life/health-and-fitness/he alth/is-it-harder-to-lose- weight-when-youre-older/ar ticle34601990/ Sigh. Yes. Of course we knew that. (And if you google that headline phrase, lots of art... Read more
Micro HOW Power: The Ripple Effect
Wednesday, April 05, 2017 28 comments www.theglobeandmail.com/ life/health-and-fitness/he alth/greg-wells-on-how-mic rochanges-can-make-a-major -difference/article34560657/ The ripple effect. No no no, not the effect of butterscotch ripple ice crea... Read more 
Two Kinds of Why: and HOW POWER!!
Tuesday, April 04, 2017 58 comments Thanks for all your great, thought-provoking comments on my How or Why blog yesterday. The comments made me think more about the useful and less-useful types of Why. Future Why -- why I want to lose weight for my best future --that's h... Read more
Which Comes First: WHY or HOW?
Monday, April 03, 2017 48 comments There's lots of focus on "why" right now: in business, for example. "Find your why" to differentiate your business from other businesses: to focus in on your "unique selling proposition". And knowing WHY is important to the weight loss ba... Read more
The Good Wife!
Sunday, April 02, 2017 25 comments Yesterday DH was in Toronto all day teaching trial techniques to other lawyers. A long day for him. Left early. Home late. I was pretty sure he would be exhausted. And so I completed all the laundry. And handled all that silver whi... Read more
What a Difference a Day Makes!
Saturday, April 01, 2017 26 comments So often, when I'm feeling down or despondent or exhausted or useless or . . . . any and all of that negative stuff . . . . it can be easy to forget: such a state of mind may be recurrent but it is not permanent. I can get through it. Got ... Read more
Peregrines are Baaaaaaaackkkkkk!!!
Thursday, March 30, 2017 26 comments //animals.nationalgeogra phic.com/animals/birds/per egrine-falcon/ So thrilling!! I've been hearing the unmistakable sounds of peregrine falcons flying over the house since at least Monday. Yesterday morning ea... Read more « First Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 Last Page » |
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