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Maintenance means simply guarding the status quo, but it requires a little monitoring—on the scale, in your portions, and in your daily activities. Yet, when suggesting that you monitor your weight, we are out of step with some of the clinicians and researchers of our day. For example, those who research and serve individuals withContinue reading “Maintenance: It’s Just Plan Easier”

Good intentions are important, as are good ideas. But we don’t make permanent changes in our lives without good habits. How long does it take to establish a new habit? We have heard people say that you can blaze a trail toward better health in as little as six weeks. In my experience, it takesContinue reading “Good Eating Habits”

Today is another gym day, and I have to say I’m looking forward to it. Since the gyms closed with the pandemic, we have diligently walked several times each week and taken online exercise classes. Nonetheless, when we got back to the gym, we quickly found that we had lost a lot of ground. ThroughContinue reading “What Do We Mean by “Fitness?””

Beginning in 2020, my partner and I suddenly and completely quit our gym habit. Why, you ask? You’ll remember how the COVID-19 pandemic closed everything down. The YMCA provided us with online classes and we participated from our little living room, but we never got the kind of workout we did by working out. BeginningContinue reading “Celebrating Sore Muscles”

I had a retirement event at the university yesterday and I dithered about what to wear. Since I’ve seen my colleagues, we had a major pandemic, I retired, and I put on weight. I wanted to look my best as I’d be behind a podium with a mike for at least a few minutes. AndContinue reading “Mrs. Maisel’s Playbook—Your First Line of Defense”

My partner and I are preparing to entertain our book club group. Well, I use the term “book club” loosely, as we generally have a brief discussion of our monthly selection followed by a leisurely feast comprised of dishes that we prepare in the theme of the book. Over the past four years, we haveContinue reading “A Cautionary Tale”

One of the things Karen and I do in our upcoming book, Stop Losing and Win, is to combine ideas from intuitive eating and what we call “planful” eating. Intuitive eating was popularized in Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch’s book titled (you guessed it!) Intuitive Eating. The ideas are simple but very powerful: tune in to yourContinue reading “Planful and Intuitive Eating: A Great Combination”

The scale is both my enemy and my ally. Lately, I have found the benefit of getting on the thing each day simply because I am going through a period of flux. The scale was ticking up each week until I started getting on it daily again. Then I was able to stop and reverseContinue reading “Balancing on the Scale”

I don’t know about you, but my weight is inconsistent. I maintained a low weight for five years after my last big dieting extravaganza, but my weight has crept up. And I can’t muster the motivation to diet again—I just cannot bear the deprivation. Not only that, but Karen and I have recognized how stressfulContinue reading “Loving Yourself Through Thick and Thin”

I’m now six weeks out from my knee replacement surgery and I’m doing well. I’m walking two miles plus several days each week, getting strength training, and eating well (even though added desserts are somehow weaseling their way into my diet each day). Sleep is the only problem area and I am gradually getting moreContinue reading “One Point on the Space-Time Continuum”