The Resolute Woman

Category: food

  • A weight gain of two tons a year

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    Recently, when I stepped on the scale and shrieked in dismay because I had gained a few pounds, I remembered the Sauropods, the world’s largest dinosaurs. Fayteen and I saw an exhibit about “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs” while visiting the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. We learned that a baby Sauropod, which…

  • Orthorexia?

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    I’m counting Weight Watcher points, and my dietician has suggested that I should count grams of carbohydrates because I’m prediabetic—and now she wants me to count grams of protein to make sure I’m getting enough protein. Just when I am feeling really frustrated, I found an article in The Dallas Morning News about “orthorexia.” The…

  • Counting points and grams

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    First, I joined Weight Watchers and started counting Weight Watcher points. I have counted Weight Watcher points for a decade now, and I am very good at doing it. Then, my doctor informed me that I am pre-diabetic and sent me to see a dietician. She told me to count grams of carbohydrates. Now I…

  • Professional eaters?

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    The speed-eating record for glazed, cream-filled doughnuts is 47 in five minutes, according to the May 13, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Most of these kind of speed-eating records are held by professional eaters, the newspaper reports in its “Wellnews” column. “The rest by people who really should find something better to do.”

  • The forever diet

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    Michelle Funez lost 90 pounds in 1-1/2 years reports the Ladies’ Home Journal in its March 2014 issue. Weight Watchers helped her, she says. “When I put together a healthy eating and exercise plan I asked myself, ‘Is this something I can do forever?’ I didn’t want a diet that eliminated foods. I wanted to…

  • Nix the Quick Fix

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    I love the headline—“Nix the Quick Fix”—which I found in the March 2014 issue of Oklahoma magazine. What a great reminder as summer approaches, and I would like to lose five pounds now, instantly, before-I-switch-to-summer-clothes. I needed the timely reminder. I read the article, but it wasn’t necessary. The headline and two subheads offered great…

  • Avoid fashion magazines?

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    Three out of four teenage girls feel worse about themselves after spending just three minutes with a fashion magazine. “The media is sending a dangerous message to our youth about what kinds of bodies are or aren’t acceptable,” leaders of The Representation Project stressed in a recent email newsletter. Those dangerous messages affect not only…

  • Small victories

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    I appreciated the reminder about celebrating small victories. I found it one Saturday in my Weight Watcher newsletter. I had showed up early that morning, half asleep, because I had a long list of things to do after the meeting. I was reluctant to come. My goal had been to lose all the weight I…

  • Remember the larger reward

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    When I go off my diet and eat two donuts for breakfast, I’m performing “temporal discounting.” Temporal discounting is the tendency to prefer a smaller reward now—like the pleasure of a couple of donuts—instead of waiting for the larger reward later—like being able to fit into the pants I bought last year. I found that…

  • Done any “hedonic eating” recently?

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    When I finished my holiday dinner and felt really full, but I went ahead and ate a big piece of pecan pie with whipping cream anyway, I was engaged in “hedonic eating.” Hedonic eating is eating for pleasure rather than physical need, explained my December 8-14, 2013, issue of Weight Watcher Weekly. It’s interesting to…