For the past six weeks or so I’ve been measuring and weighing my food, have given up soda, am drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day and have been walking more than usual. After what looked like a 2 pound weight gain last night, I got on the scale again this morning and saw I’d LOST another 5 pounds! Woohoo! To date I’ve lost 26 pounds since January 1, 2011 - 18 of that after giving up soda and getting serious about my diet. I think the 8 pounds prior …

There’s an old saying about being “in the moment.” It involves a zen master chased off of a cliff by a tiger. On the way down he passes a vine with a single, ripe luscious strawberry on it. He plucks it and eats it - savoring the flavor immensely even as he falls to his death. He is so IN the moment that he can enjoy the strawberry and not worry about what is about to befall him.
We spend so much time worrying about what MIGHT happen, or what …

I was standing in line at Walmart with all my fresh veggies and healthy food last week when a woman got in line behind me. I noticed her looking at every item in my cart and on the conveyor belt as though judging it. Maybe I was just being sensitive, but maybe not. Her two girls, about 8 and 10, maybe older - it’s hard for me to judge kid’s ages, watched her and then looked at my items too. Suddenly a woman in the aisle next to us caught …

I finally figured out how to break a bad habit and create a new one without going back into therapy for feeling like a failure! It’s so simple really. So I am going to share.
Last month I decided AGAIN to lose weight. UNLIKE the past 200 times I made this decision I opted to try something different - the 80/20 rule. Instead of “perfection or nothing” - meaning if I slipped and drank a soda, or had a burger and fries then the whole diet was off and I was …

Sixty years ago the US government deliberately infected almost 700 hundred people, many of them mentally ill patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis as part of a medical testing program. The people, all Guatemalans, were infected without their knowledge or consent and are now suing the US government.
It wasn’t the first time or the last time the government would experiment with deadly diseases on its citizens or the citizens of other countries, or on children. Age, race, health - nothing mattered really. And if someone hadn’t discovered the testing and blown …