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Atkin’s Ongoing Weight Loss, and Working out with my Sweetheart
OWL is Atkin’s lingo for ongoing weight loss. I have been maintaining my 25-30 grams of carbs per day, mostly out of habituation. It has become pretty easy to just naturally stay in that zone. I decided to add more regular workouts since joining the Y. I’ve done lots of bike, elliptical, a cardio-pump class, [...]
Yes, I am a porn star in bed
OK, I admit it. I love sex with my husband! I absolutely crave it, adore it AND him, and it is absolutely hot. I am 43 years old, probably nearing the end of my peak. In my early 20′s, and thirties, a whole decade, sex was not my forte`. Yes, I was and still am [...]
I Told You to Be Careful! Hit & Run
I told you to be careful! Bent fender shredded plastic flying metal two riderless Reeboks, too slow to keep up with you stay fixed on the street macabre I told you to be careful! Did anyone tell him to look, listen, slow No!! blood soaked asphalt broken head- such pretty hair , your pretty hair [...]
Low-carb and Cruising right Along- and some Product Reviews
Well, I haven’t been blogging much about low-carb, because I have settled in to my 132-3 and don’t seem to be too worried about really losing a lot more weight, just maintaining the loss I have. My body seems to have adjusted to about 25-30 grams per day. I sometimes have less, but not intentionally [...]
Depression, fatigue, or low thyroid?
My younger daughter has been fighting a lack of energy and motivation over the past couple of years. She has also suffered with serious depression and cutting. The cutting is something she has promised and vowed to never do again, and I know she means it, but we want to make sure she doesn’t slip [...]
Ten Things My Father Taught ME
I just read a really lovely, wonderful post about a great dad, and a great daughter. It was very sweet, and I was wistful, and a bit envious reading it. What would it have been like to have had a father for more than my first three years of life? Even better, a dad who [...]
Some Studies Suggest a Link between Sugar Cravings and Alcoholism
From caloriecount.about.com: ARTICLE: Does a Sweet Tooth Mean Alcoholism? An affinity for sweets appears to be a marker for those at risk of developing alcoholism. This could be because both sugar and alcohol affect the same pleasure area of the brain. By:Colin Allen Sugar-addicts beware; an affinity for sweets appears to be a marker for those at [...]
Places We Can’t Go
It’s almost nine a.m., and I feel things shift, like the world has somehow tilted. People all over this part of the world have just realized that everything starts in ten minutes. Time to open the bank, the hair salon, the office. Many other workers started hours ago, but there’s still that nine o’clock rush. [...]
All the News That’s Fit to Blog
It’s actually been more like two weeks since I have written a blog. Call it distraction. Call it disillusionment. Call it busy! One distraction is that annoying necessity called ‘work’. Returns at the customer service desk, pretending I don’t fathom the very pricey batteries the junkie is returning were just pulled off the shelf by [...]
News of the Week. Can we not do Better?
The news. First of all, the networks keep rehashing the same stories, stringing them out over a week’s time, with just enough change to the preview blurb to make you think there may be new developments in what you’ve already heard. But, despite their attempt at jazzing it up, it’s the same story. Facebook’s IPO [...]