The Resolute Woman

Category: food

  • What’s going into your mouth?

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    I often eat breakfast while reading the newspaper or making a to-do list for the day. I generally consume my lunch at my desk while I’m busy at work on a project.  And, I have dinner and conversation with my husband. Too often, I realized recently, I finish eating and I don’t even remember tasting…

  • The cookie conspiracy

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    Why does it always happen? The day that I decide to be Resolute—to stop the overeating for a few days and the dieting for a few days cycle—that’s the day that my order of Girl Scout cookies arrives. And, Girl Scout cookies arrive only once a year. Wouldn’t it be wise to postpone my back-to-healthy-eating…

  • Winning the food wars

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    During February of last year, I was jubilant. I had survived a Christmas filled with rich chocolates and pecan pie, mashed potatoes with gravy and pine-nut dressing. I had gained a few pounds, but, by February, the scales indicated that I weighed exactly what I wanted to weigh. Plus, I felt great. After years on…

  • Why it’s so hard to keep those pounds off

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    Tara Parker-Pope, an editor at The New York Times, provides some bad news about why we lose weight and then gain it back again. In an article in the Dallas Morning News, January 8, 2012, Parker-Pope reports that researchers are finding that, long after people had lost weight, their bodies “were acting as if they were…

  • Time to make a resolution

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    I couldn’t resist opening the People magazine I found in the grocery store. Pictured on the cover were two beautiful, smiling, slender women. One had lost 131 pounds, and the other had lost 114 pounds. The headline proclaimed: “How they did it. Half their size!” The photos and the stories were amazing. One woman Natalie…

  • Be cautious, friendly and conscientious

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    Trying to take off the pounds you gained during the holidays? A new study from the National Institute of Aging, featured in the AARP Magazine, suggests that you should be more cautious, friendlier and more conscientious. According to this study, impulsive people weigh 22 pounds more than cautious people. If you are antagonistic, you’ll gain…

  • A holiday reminder from Scout Finch

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    I had forgotten about the Christmas story in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird until recently when I listened to the audio book. Scout is pleased when she and Jim receive air rifles for Christmas, but not very happy about having Christmas dinner with Aunt Alexandra. “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my…

  • Another crazy diet

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    We were talking the other day to a friend who is losing weight on a new diet. We are happy that she is losing weight, but we are skeptical about her crazy diet. We’ve both learned from experience a sad truth. Diets don’t work. What works is a plan for eating healthy food now and…

  • Making a healthy decision

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    How did I lose 29 pounds this year? I have a gene that pre-disposes me to diabetes. After talking to my doctor, I decided that I need to treat myself like a person who is pre-diabetic if I want to be healthy and live a long life. I knew that I needed to lose some…

  • Fun Plus Easy Ways to Lose Weight

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    When I read the headline on the magazine at the grocery store, I shook my head. Fun plus easy ways to lose weight? Fayteen has lost 29 pounds this year, and she looks great. But she’s the first one to tell you that it hasn’t been much fun and it hasn’t been easy. Of course,…