My Own Thoughts

This is day 5 on Physique Transformation. Physique transformation is a website/diet/nutritional database which is free for a 5 day trial. I already did that. It said I was eating exactly what I was supposed to on BFL, 40% protein, 40% carbs, and 20% fat. Since I haven't been losing weight for a while, and [...]

According to an Italian study, the one thing you need to do to lose weight is fall in love. I vaguely recall that I lost weight at that point. I had to have my wedding dress made smaller after only two months. I am waiting for the study that shows why men gain weight after [...]

I've been looking up stuff on fire because I am writing a novel where the second half of the book involves a fire cult. I learned that eucalyptus, sage, and spruce are highly flammable. In CA they're trying to get rid of those plants because of the wildfires. Came home from lunch with my dad [...]

Okay, I'll admit it. I talk when I am driving. In fact, I get in the car and the first thing I think to do is pick up my phone and call someone. I'm probably also someone who would say I don’t feel that talking on the phone impairs my driving. I will certainly have [...]

I actually read about this on another site, but I thought it was interesting enough to go to the source. Angie , who is apparently a programmer, has added her “brain lint” to the internet. This particular article is about stupid job descriptions which HR people put up. This particular ad, a real one she [...]

Read this article a while ago. Read it again today. It is a very good explanation of why US and UK intelligence won't detail the information they have. It is a fascinating article. All except the last sentence. Which I totally disagree with.

According to Reuters, forgetfulness runs in families. They found a protein in your brain that makes a difference. What I want to know is, can my dad's stroke impact my memory? I ask this because my dad had a stroke and lost a lot of language abilities just a bit before I started losing words. [...]

According to the news there is already an issue in Hong Kong in gyms where people's cell phones are being used to take pictures which are subsequently posted to the internet. This is especially interesting since the article ends with the comment that the Chinese are less concerned about privacy issues than Americans, for example. [...]

I knew there was a reason I was on a diet other than to get sexier. A study on aging and food shows that eating less slows your brain cell death as you age. This is something I need!

“Embrace your uniqueness.? Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.”?? – Kobi Yamada Found this quote on darkblue today. It isn't what I have been thinking about, but it is related. And I just had to throw it in here. I'm 40. (Yeah, for some of you that is old. Oh [...]

I think that new stuff is always scary. I am taking it on faith that Physique Transformation will work. But I have always had problems with low protein/high carb and, for me, a 35/55 ratio is exactly that. I started today and I am not sure how it is going to go. I was nauseous [...]

I don't know if this is a topic of conversation around your dinner table, but I've been talking about it a lot recently. When smallpox hits a previously uninfected population, the death rate can go as high as 95%. This was what it hit in South America after the Spanish landed there, based on some [...]

I found a study on Reuter's health that freaked me out. The study talks about night blindness in kids and how some kids' eyes don't adjust to the dark, they are just blind. I do not have this and neither do my kids. I thought it was fascinating, though, because I have trouble seeing in [...]

After 44 weeks on BFL and having lost a final count of 42 pounds and 27 inches, I am bailing. I've been losing muscle, not fat, in the last few weeks and nothing I could do would change it. So I am going to start a new program on Monday. Monday I start SEVEN weeks [...]

Tonight I learned something I didn't know. My husband said he and his friends didn't even talk to a girl who wore any kind of ring at all on her third finger of her left hand because they figured she was taken and didn't want to poach.– When I wore a ring, that is the [...]

I don't normally weigh on Wednesdays, but I didn't weigh on Saturday. So, I weighed. According to the scale I have gained fat and lost muscle. Again. I have lost a minimum of three pounds of muscle in the last eight weeks. This is not a good thing. I am doing everything in BFL as [...]

Plastic carried a story about California school children being REQUIRED to attend an assembly, in lieu of normal school activities, held by antiwar protestors. “Anti-war activists and pacifists spoke to between 5,000 and 10,000 students in sessions that replaced the normal class schedule for 30 schools in Oakland, California,” writes ms_sue_collins. “One speaker brought a [...]

Have you noticed that Americans (maybe all Westerners) have too much stuff? I called a girlfriend today whose husband got transferred last week. One day's notice. So he's up north and she's down south trying to get their house in order to sell. She has decided that as a single parent with three kids in [...]

You probably know someone with this disease. Remember the guy in JP who walked by the computers and screwed them up? That's the disease I am talking about. Apparently, I have it. My kids laugh because I can't do something on the computer that they find easy. I know how to do it. It's just [...]

A friend from NC just called me, as I got on line. She said that when they got home from their Christmas tours (They go see both families in other states.), they had a pile of cards waiting for them. One card said, “The angel that was with us has ascended.” and was signed by [...]