My Own Thoughts

Although my husband is working and so are the garbage guys (Hurray for them being there!), most people who live around here must have a holiday. I went for my morning bike ride and saw about fifteen people, which is a bit up from normal. But this afternoon I was getting tired, so I went [...]

You read other people's stories and you are supposed to get excited. Sometimes I do. This lady, Nicole Weeks, lost 16 pounds of fat and gained 11 pounds of muscle in her first 12 week challenge with Body-for-Life. In two challenges she went from a size 14 to a size 4. WOWWEE. I am so [...]

A plus for the list of newly updated blogs. I like that. A plus for the list and description of folks blogs. It isn't always as useful as I'd like, but that's because folks don't say what they're doing. They kind of use it as another blog entry. A plus for the price. A plus [...]

Okay, I took off the date rant. Now I am going to have to put up another one. No, I am not talking about going out with your “sweet patootie” as I read in a men's health book today. I am talking about the day that your blog entries show up. I wrote the MacWorld [...]

For non-Macfanatics, MacWorld is a twice a year event, January and summer, held normally in San Francisco and New York or Boston. Next week is the CA event. Wired is carrying news that Apple may pull out of MacWorld NY this summer, something they had already talked about when it was supposed to be moving [...]

The other calculation thing I had found was on the zone site. This one is much closer to my body fat scale. Drats.

I didn't find the site I got measurements from, but I did find this site with several different ways to calculate your body fat. I think one of them is the one I used to use. I love these measurements, because they say I am making much more progress than my scale says. According to [...]

Okay, you may not relate, but there is almost nothing as “feel good” as going into a teeny bopper clothing store and being able to buy clothes, even though you're forty. It's even better when some of the clothes are too big. It's even better when you look really hot in the clothes. It's even [...]

We have Tivo. Have had it for a while. It's great. You can tape what you like and then watch it when you have time. It doesn't mean there's always something on you want to see, but at least there's a better chance. My husband's best friend got it just two weeks ago, after hearing [...]

My husband says I need to add to my clothes list. So I now have a total of three mini skirts. I have two extra shirts and one sweater. I also bought a pair of pants. The pants are flared at the bottom, like bell bottoms. Man. I remember wearing those when I was ten [...]

Normally in Body-for-Life this is a free day, but we take our free days on Saturday. I think I had about 4200 calories yesterday. And I did weights, because we didn't on Friday. Normally I would do aerobics today, but I did them on Friday, so this is my exercise-free day. I've lost four pounds [...]

A friend came over on Monday and let me borrow her vacuum, since mine was on the fritz. Better than that, she vacuumed while I cleaned the kitchen and the bathrooms. Afterwards, she asked to see the closets, since that's what I'd done all morning was clean closets. So we started with mine. She looked [...]

I've almost decided that I need a blog no one knows is mine. Not because my parents are reading what I've written. They're not. They don't even know what a blog is. But because my husband is reading it. Then he comes home and says, “Ooh, life is hard. You slept late, then you went [...]

A sophisticated, and in some ways easy, way to count calories is to use the free accounts at FitDay and have them figure your calories for you. There are lots of entries and they can also do custom foods. Even though BFL doesn't call for calorie counting, I do it anyway. It helps me know [...]

This site, Going Bridal, is someone’s blog I think. My guess is she is also engaged to Dennis. But she has the FUNNIEST stuff in Cavalcade of Bad Bride Fashion. (On her site.) You click on that and it gets you some really ugly wedding dress pictures with hysterical titles like “Frankenstein Got a Bride. [...]

Pumping iron doesn't boost metabolism says a study reported on Reuter's today. “There is no magical boost in your metabolism,” said the author of the study. But I found two flaws with the study. And the reporter found two others. My first flaw was that the study used 10 men. I like men. I love [...]

I have a friend who is a doctor who read a media article on the first of the studies mentioned in Myths about Water. His response to it was, see, we don't have to drink water. According to these articles and the reviews of the research, however, that is not what the articles said. One [...]

According to Alcohol and Breast Cancer there is a slim increase in the risk of breast cancer by having one drink a day, but that the rate rises as the alcohol consumption rises. This same study found that there is no correlation between tobacco consumption and breast cancer. So, if you smoke, you'll die of [...]

Getting older myself, and worried about the state of my brain in later years, I tend to read dementia articles a little more closely than I did when I was younger. I looked at this discussion of a study in which it was found that drinking wine monthly or weekly was an indicator for decreased [...]

I found a fun new site at the National Electronic Library of Health for the UK. They've been reviewing British newspapers' presentation of medical information and the studies from which the papers got their information. I thought that was fascinating. For example, one was the discussion of weak presecriptions damaging children's eyesight which was sent [...]