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Choosing My Own Adventure
When I was a kid, I really wasn’t very interested in reading. It took more effort than watching a movie or listening to a story. As well, it required that I concentrate for longer than my...
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Which Stairway Are You In?
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Program for Weight Loss and Metabolic Control, the program that helped me lose 250 pounds, recently opened a new office on the UAMS campus. While I’m...
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Thanks to the wonder that is the Body Mass Index, I’m now clinically obese. My BMI, which is a very rough estimate of body fat based only on height and weight, is 30.4. Anything 30 and above for...
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70,000 Calories
I’ve gained just less than 20 pounds since my last official weigh-in. Since there are 3,500 Calories in a pound of fat, that means that I’ve consumed just shy of 70,000 needless Calories in the past...
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Bypass
The Foodtritionist, whom I recommend you follow on Facebook for the humor as much as the sound nutrition and recipe advice, recently posted a cartoon that resonated with me. “You have many weight-loss...
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The Knowing-Doing Gap
Let’s just rip this BandAid off. I haven’t posted in over a year because I’ve been struggling with weight maintenance. There. That’s better. What I love about the UAMS program that helped me lose...
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Change is Hard
In class last week Brooklyn, my new dietitian, talked about the stages of change. Although I’ve been through the 16 UAMS classes several times each, I saw this week’s lesson through different eyes....
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It’s Always Something
Christmas. New Year’s. Birthday. Wedding. Valentine’s. Easter. There’s always a reason to eat something with empty calories in it. For me, the gauntlet was Teacher Appreciation Week. My...
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The Struggle Is Real, Y’all
That was my best Paula Dean voice. I’ve been back on the program since May 6th, and the closest I’ve come to straying from the plan has been eating more than my daily half-cup ration of salsa and...
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Moving Sidewalk
I started back on the UAMS program in May. Cinco de Mayo, actually. I’ve been as successful this time as I was last time; I’ve lost nearly 60 pounds since May, people have mentioned how much better...
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