Category Archives: TIPS & TOOLS

Sucess Tastes Best Animal-Free

It’s time to take this bull of a body by its horns and force the weight off. No kidding around. I want to be trim so I will be trim. Remember the scales? I just found another interpretation that just might do the trick. When you want to be trim more than you want toContinueContinue reading “Sucess Tastes Best Animal-Free”

Eating Habits Signs Of Procrastination

Overeating and eating too frequently are signs of procrastination. That means you’re not yet ready to proceed at whatever needs to be done, so you fill your time space with food and beverage. Are you a procrastinator? Chances are you struggle with your weight – either up or down. Eating and drinking substitutes for whatContinueContinue reading “Eating Habits Signs Of Procrastination”

RE: The Two Minute Rule

How do you stop procrastinating by using the two minute rule by James Clear? The Two-Minute Rule states “When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.” You’ll find that nearly any habit can be scaled down into a two-minute version: “Read before bed each night” becomes “Read oneContinueContinue reading “RE: The Two Minute Rule”

Feel The Hunger

The Pain Of Hunger And The Pain Of Excess. You’re so accustomed to degrees of fullness, that you forgot to feel the hunger – not the full feeling that you interpret as hunger pangs, even though you know better. Feel the hunger with the same detachment you feel the full. How to tell the difference.ContinueContinue reading “Feel The Hunger”

The Washing Machine Effect

Ever wash your own clothes, either at home in a machine or at the laundromat? What happens when you overload the machine? Your clothes don’t get as clean, because they’re packed in too tightly not allowing for the freedom of movement required for the water and detergent to reach every fiber. Many fat people areContinueContinue reading “The Washing Machine Effect”

Habits Don’t Have To Die Hard

I used to have a sweet tooth as a kid and into adulthood. When I finally conquered that habit, I just never went back to it. It’s kind of like going animal-free. At some point you don’t look back. You could put me in a hotel room with a refrigerator filled with all kinds ofContinueContinue reading “Habits Don’t Have To Die Hard”

What exactly is intuitive eating?

What exactly is intuitive eating? “Intuitive eating is a simple idea. It means that you make peace with all types of food. Unlike traditional diets that restrict or ban certain foods, intuitive eating requires you to stop looking at food as “good” or “bad.” Instead, you listen to your body and eat what feels rightContinueContinue reading “What exactly is intuitive eating?”

The Law Of Inertia Keeps You From Losing Or Gaining Weight

THE LAW OF INERTIA KEEPS YOU FROM LOSING OR GAINING WEIGHT Quitting one food or beverage to lose weight may not work. For instance, say you quit alcohol and you cut calories by 500 per day. Your body will instinctively try to replace those 500 calories with some other food or beverage to keep youContinueContinue reading “The Law Of Inertia Keeps You From Losing Or Gaining Weight”

Daily Caloric Intake For Optimal Weight Loss

Optimal Weight Loss Per Daily Caloric Intake At some point on the calorie continuum you will lose the greatest amount of weight for however many calories you consume. Find that calorie number which produces the greatest amount of weight loss for you. It’s not the same for everyone. There is some truth to eating moreContinueContinue reading “Daily Caloric Intake For Optimal Weight Loss”

TRUST THE WAR SIGNS

TRUST THE WAR SIGNS When you feel really sick and bloated and swollen, trust that there’s a war going on in your body. You need to play defense and offense to win that war. You know your body better than anyone; don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. You know how to fight intruders – allContinueContinue reading “TRUST THE WAR SIGNS”

Simple Fat-Free Fruit Dessert

SIMPLE FAT-FREE FRUIT DESSERT Fruit for dessert is traditional for the Italians. Something about the enzymes in fresh fruit that aid in the digestion of the main meal filled with carbos, meats and fats. I like it for breakfast or lunch or evening snack. You pick. Of course you’re going to get the sweet withContinueContinue reading “Simple Fat-Free Fruit Dessert”

What do I eat now so I won’t want to eat again in a half hour?

Nothing is the only answer. The introduction of food wants/begs you to keep introducing it. So why do it? Stopping requires more discipline than starting in the realm of food consumption. Go the easy route. Wait 15 minutes. It’s time to switch gears to what you need instead of what you want. Most fat peopleContinueContinue reading “What do I eat now so I won’t want to eat again in a half hour?”

HOPE AND THE HORIZON

Hope And The Horizon I quit drinking coffee for three days and felt like my old self. Calm, in control, smiling that my old self was still there. Hope was no longer on the horizon; it was right here in me. I wondered if Starbucks was manipulating their coffee beans. I wonder how many AntifaContinueContinue reading “HOPE AND THE HORIZON”

WHY WE GET STUCK

The body tends to want to stay where it’s at – for survival reasons. If you’re alive now then something is right. Something might also be wrong, but survival mechanisms are fairly simple. How not to be dead this minute is where the brain operates from, not if you’ll be dead next year or nextContinueContinue reading “WHY WE GET STUCK”

Your Fat Body Is Telling You You’re Wrong

If you’re fat, your body is overloaded with nutrients and it’s trying not to absorb them all, because your body doesn’t require as much as you’re telling your body it does. Your body is telling you you’re wrong. The proof is in the fat. It’s storing what you don’t need, which means you’re on nutrientContinueContinue reading “Your Fat Body Is Telling You You’re Wrong”

DELAY GRATIFICATION

If you’re not sick and just ate thirty minutes ago and are compelled to eat again and can’t stop yourself while your brain is signally you just ate, and you feel full, then the ‘delay gratification’ mechanism in your brain is out of whack and needs an adjustment to slow it down. TUNE UP TIME.ContinueContinue reading “DELAY GRATIFICATION”

OR DO THEY?

People take responsibility for their diabetes and high blood pressure by treating them. People take responsibility for their alcohol and drug addiction by treating them. Judging by the girth and number of strokes plus alcohol and addictive drug sales not nearly enough do. How about you? Are you controlling your diseases, or are your diseasesContinueContinue reading “OR DO THEY?”

Don’t Let Go Of The Bad Stuff; Release The Good Stuff

People are always saying, ‘let it go’, but nobody knows how to do that, so why keep saying it? Release the good stuff instead of letting go of the bad. It’s easier and once done, it magically takes care of the bad too. Where did it go? Who cares. A lot of people don’t relaxContinueContinue reading “Don’t Let Go Of The Bad Stuff; Release The Good Stuff”

Build Muscle Instead Of Fat

Exercise till your mind is steady and your heart content. My questions: If fat can be interspersed within your muscle tissue, can muscle tissue be interspersed within your fat tissue? No answer. Can fat even be called tissue? Google: Is body fat considered a tissue? Adipose tissue, body fat, or simply fat is a loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes.ContinueContinue reading “Build Muscle Instead Of Fat”

Slow Isn’t Sexy Anymore

Speed it up and be done with it. Relief is the new sexy. Done. I love the concept the reality the finality. I love being in that space between done and before I start the next thing. No matter how small that space, it exists just for me. I own it. When I feel reliefContinueContinue reading “Slow Isn’t Sexy Anymore”

The Cream Of Tartar Debate

F-FC ClipBoard: Can cream of tartar, no matter what it’s mixed with, help as a quit-smoking aid? Commercial withdrawal systems stand to lose if it works. What’s wrong with trying it? If it worked for just one person to quit smoking, whether it be a psuedo-placebo effect or just one person’s biology that worked withContinueContinue reading “The Cream Of Tartar Debate”

THE CONSTANT REMINDER

My age is a constant reminder of my mortality. Old age is like an incurable disease with an expiration date. When we’re young it’s the crossing of the street or getting into a car that could end it all prematurely. It helps to lift the doom knowing the odds that it probably won’t happen andContinueContinue reading “THE CONSTANT REMINDER”

The Process Is What Will Get You There

Do the best you can with what you have to work with. Then you don’t need excuses. No excuses. Improvise. Get the job done to the best of your ability, not somebody else’s low expectations. When others don’t expect much from you, they see you as weak. When they expect too much, they show theirContinueContinue reading “The Process Is What Will Get You There”

Sharon’s Umbrella Spotters

Not just for seniors. Plenty of people have trouble with their balance when doing certain exercises they aren’t used to doing and even when they are used to them. Squats are top of the list for balance issues. It’s easy to lose your balance while squatting or feeling like you’re going to lose your balance.ContinueContinue reading “Sharon’s Umbrella Spotters”

Skinny vs Skinny

Skinny plant-eaters are like skinny animal-eaters. They’re not that much into food, unless they’ve been bingeing and purging, and that happens in both categories. People into food don’t move their food around the plate conflicted over what to do with it. The smartest approach to take when assessing your own weight is not to compareContinueContinue reading “Skinny vs Skinny”

‘A Watched Pot Never Boils’

Distraction makes it boil faster, or so it seems. Watch your weight and see how long it takes to lose it. Look away and poof it’s gone before you know it? When I was a kid, I’d stay up till Mom got home from work, greeting her with a familiar face, a cup of coffee,ContinueContinue reading “‘A Watched Pot Never Boils’”

FOOD IS NOT AN ANTIDOTE FOR FATIGUE

When you’re tired, eating will not make you less tired, no matter what you eat. We often think we’re tired because we need to eat when it’s often eating that makes us tired. We want energy, so instinctively think more fuel in the tank will provide that. If your tank is full, and you’re stillContinueContinue reading “FOOD IS NOT AN ANTIDOTE FOR FATIGUE”

What Can STUCK Do For You?

PEOPLE LOVE TO CROSS BRIDGES Even if it’s a bridge to nowhere, no one cares; they want to see what nowhere looks like. Blame our adventurous animal nature to seek beyond what we can see to find what we need to survive or better yet to thrive. We like the anticipation of not knowing whatContinueContinue reading “What Can STUCK Do For You?”

COWARDS EAT COWS. WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?

People want you to do what they’re doing. It makes them feel more comfortable if you’re as fat as they are, or at least if you’re dining out together, that you eat as much as they do. Or eat the same kinds of food. Or drink the same drinks. Smoke the same cigarettes, wear theContinueContinue reading “COWARDS EAT COWS. WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?”

Eliminate 2 Phrases From Your Vocabulary

A Stanford professor says eliminating 2 phrases from your vocabulary can make you more successful “Your language shapes the way you approach your goals. … 1. Swap ‘but’ for ‘and’ You might be tempted to say, “I want to go to the movies, but I have work to do.” Instead, Roth suggests saying, “I wantContinueContinue reading “Eliminate 2 Phrases From Your Vocabulary”

Ease Up The Search For One Action Solutions

There isn’t going to be one food or one diet action that makes you lose all the fat you want to lose. It’s a conglomeration of a lot of simple, easy, little actions that gets you where you want to be. It doesn’t have to be slow either. What if you lost most of theContinueContinue reading “Ease Up The Search For One Action Solutions”

Working It Out With The Main Brain

If my brain gets that I’m unpredictable in my food consumption choices within the category of animal-free, then that’s what it will expect as being okay with me. I’ll stay in the unpredictable category and my brain will rest easy with that, since there’s a lot going on there to focus on without needless worryContinueContinue reading “Working It Out With The Main Brain”

Walking Talking To-Do Lists

Just do it and stop talking about it. When I announce in advance that I’m going to do something, it almost feels like I’ve already done it, so I’m not as compelled to complete the pursuit as I might have been had I kept quiet and just done it. It’s like seeing a preview toContinueContinue reading “Walking Talking To-Do Lists”

Unreasonable Food Expectations

People want me to take an apple and transform it into a thick, juicy, fatty steak, while keeping it raw, that when ingested will melt their excess fat baggage down the toilet in thirty days or less. Why don’t you just stop eating and drinking high caloric foods and beverages? Because when I lose weightContinueContinue reading “Unreasonable Food Expectations”

Dandelions Wanting To Make Your Wish Come True

While walking out and about a few days ago, I came across a patch of dandelion fuzz heads, separated from their stems, just laying on the ground in perfect round form, ready to be picked up and made a wish upon – outside of course, so you can spread the seeds. Seems these dandelions wantedContinueContinue reading “Dandelions Wanting To Make Your Wish Come True”

Everything About It Clicked

Recently I started holding back posts for the purpose of releasing them on the same day every week, in response to reading someplace that people like the consistency of knowing what day new posts are scheduled to be released. In doing this, I sometimes forget to post on the day I commit to, due toContinueContinue reading “Everything About It Clicked”

This Is Crude…but…

Okay, so Steve calls me and says he has an idea. He prefaces it by saying it’s crude, well not so crude, but still crude – a way to lose weight. Or something that could jolt a person into getting serious about losing weight. Of course it wouldn’t be for everybody, but it could helpContinueContinue reading “This Is Crude…but…”

“Two Days At A Time”

Instead of living one day at a time, how about two? What’s wrong with two at a time? Live today cognizant of how you want to feel tomorrow. That gives you more control over what you do today. No ‘Last Supper’ scenarios. Doing for one last time whatever you want to do before the bigContinueContinue reading ““Two Days At A Time””

Lose It, Or Reduce It?

Nobody likes to lose, so ‘losing weight’ might not be the best phrase to apply to your goal of weight reduction. I’m not losing any weight. I’m not losing…is a positive phrase that every human loves to hear or to say to themselves. Yeah I’m NOT losing. I’m not a loser. I like that. MakesContinueContinue reading “Lose It, Or Reduce It?”

Feel Your Weight

I want to feel my weight. Being numb to it isn’t helping to reduce it. When factoring in the time and effort it takes to wake up to it and stay awake, it isn’t worth whatever short-term benefit the ‘numb to it’ provided. So each day for a while, in my mind, I will weighContinueContinue reading “Feel Your Weight”

Discipline Leads

We tend to think discipline is doing something we don’t feel much like doing, but we suck it up and do it anyway, because it’s good for us or somebody or something else. Quite the contrary. True discipline is finding that which we enjoy doing and then doing it. Suffering is not a by-product ofContinueContinue reading “Discipline Leads”

Can A Strict Eating Schedule Prevent, Treat Or Cure Diseases?

FFC COMMENT > A strict eating schedule could probably assist in weight control as well as lessening the ravaging effects of some diseases and disorders. The world is out of control with its eating habits of eating and drinking something all the time. Even in poor countries I see lots of fat people. I don’tContinueContinue reading “Can A Strict Eating Schedule Prevent, Treat Or Cure Diseases?”

Something About Weight Watcher’s That Came To My Attention

Curious about their 200 zero points food list that everybody’s been talking about, I surfed the net looking for it, and found I had to go all the way to Canada to get it. It just didn’t seem right. Weight Watcher’s in the USA under the direction I’m assuming of multi-billionaire Oprah Winfrey – she’sContinueContinue reading “Something About Weight Watcher’s That Came To My Attention”

Listen While You Work

TIP > I like to watch videos, as I’m sure most of us do, otherwise there wouldn’t be a zillion of them produced on You Tube and other venues. However, watching is time-consuming, so I go for the short clips. But with the talking videos it isn’t necessary to watch – generally speaking – soContinueContinue reading “Listen While You Work”

Unfixate Yourself

Tell the voices in your head, no, I’m not going to do that. Tell them no. You’re in charge. Not them. They’re only there to assist not to commandeer your thoughts and take you over. You’re you, not them. Those are only suggestions that you fixate on. Unfixate yourself. You can do it. I knowContinueContinue reading “Unfixate Yourself”

Performing CPR On Yourself

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this: 1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. 2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. 3. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and upContinueContinue reading “Performing CPR On Yourself”

A Motivating Tool|Or Exercise

Yes, making lists is a form of exercise – mental/brain and physical. For me, rarely if ever do I follow the list. It’s the making of one that motivates me to get going again. It doesn’t matter at what. One thing leads to another thing is the continuing motivating force that leads to success inContinueContinue reading “A Motivating Tool|Or Exercise”

Bottled Salad Dressing – cut cost and fat

This is how I extend the more expensive bottled salad dressings, while reducing the fat on my green salads. Follow Your Heart makes good vegan Caesar and vegan Bleu Cheese salad dressings. Steve and I both like them. What I do is drizzle half of one or the other onto my green salad, then addContinueContinue reading “Bottled Salad Dressing – cut cost and fat”

You’re Flooding Me

When you drink a half gallon of carrot juice your brain screams STOP. What are you doing? I don’t want all that vitamin A. Don’t need all that. Slow down. What am I going to do with all that? Where am I going to put it? It’s too much. You’re flooding me. I’m on overload.ContinueContinue reading “You’re Flooding Me”

Not Every Day

Not every day. It gets too old, too familiar, too fast. Break it up. Doing something every single day, at the same time in the same way creates a need for it. Rather than helping as designed or expected, it harms. Or it creates a resentment. Boredom sets up a mindset that affects how theContinueContinue reading “Not Every Day”

Control Your Addiction

When you say ‘I can’t help myself’ you relinquish control to food or drink or whatever else you allow to control you. We allow ourselves to be controlled by whatever pleasures us – until it becomes an addiction. Over-eating or under-eating are addictions of control. That being the case, you can control what is controllingContinueContinue reading “Control Your Addiction”

Use Your Instincts

Eat wiser today. You know how to do it. All humans instinctively know what’s good for them to eat and what is not good for them to eat. How many times do you think to yourself or say out loud, ‘I really shouldn’t be eating this?’ That goes for amounts too. Why do you thinkContinueContinue reading “Use Your Instincts”

A Time To Be Careful

I lost a pound today. Well, I was one pound lighter when I weighed myself this morning than I was yesterday morning. This is the time to be careful. There’s something in my brain that happens when I lose one pound. For some strange reason I think, now I can eat, and for another strangeContinueContinue reading “A Time To Be Careful”

LAY THE FOUNDATION FIRST

Right now I’m not so much concerned about weight, as I am focused on establishing new habits that will eventually lead to the weight loss I desire. Laying the ground work – the foundation – I am. P.S. I’m not sure if this is a rule or a tip. Guess I’ll go for both. No.ContinueContinue reading “LAY THE FOUNDATION FIRST”

MAKE A BIG WISH OUT OF LOTS OF LITTLE ONES

Stop wishing for the big stuff. In order to get the big stuff, lots of little stuff has to happen in the meanwhile, along the way, to pave the way for the big wish to come true. So start working on wishing for the littler stuff, then you make every little wish you make happen.ContinueContinue reading “MAKE A BIG WISH OUT OF LOTS OF LITTLE ONES”

CUTTING BACK ON SALAD DRESSING

When I eat out and order a salad, the salad dressing is usually placed on the side of the plate or bowl. In the past I would pour the whole container of dressing over the salad, then ask for another one. Now what I do is keep it to the side and dip the veggiesContinueContinue reading “CUTTING BACK ON SALAD DRESSING”

THIS IS HOW CONTROLLING MY HUSBAND IS:

I took the laundry cart out as a precursor to doing the laundry – only bedding today. He sees it before taking a shower and says what’s this cart doing out here? Don’t do laundry. I’ll do it on my day off. I say I’m only doing bedding. He says okay, then says no. IContinueContinue reading “THIS IS HOW CONTROLLING MY HUSBAND IS:”

MOTIVATED BY MONEY

Money is the greatest motivator – having it, spending it, saving it, counting it, giving it, making it, investing it, building with it. We all love money. Bingo. Go for the gold. Lose weight by cutting portion size, cutting calories, thus cutting costs. Cut back on going out to eat, buying coffee out, drinking alcohol.ContinueContinue reading “MOTIVATED BY MONEY”