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posted by Joe Muka at 3:17 PM
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Skinny Sick Day
Skinny Sick DaySorry folks. Taking a sick day from skinniness. A cold grabbed my asthmatic airways and is shaking them down. I'm drinking my fluids and watching old movies. Snoozing and sitting in steamy bathrooms. All the echinacea and Vity C and Zicam and Zinc couldn't quite fight my lifelong bronchitis, former smoking habit, and asthma.Much as a girl wants to be a rock, sometimes a girl can't beat a stampeding herd of rhino viruses. My goal: not letting it go to pneumonia. Oh the Staples creampuff mafia ad just came on again. I love that one.I'm curled up with Frances Kuffel's "Passing for Thin," Broadway Books, 2004. It's a memoir of a funny, smart, beautiful woman's transformation as she lost, I can't remember right now, 170 pounds? Well, half her weight. Her writing -- and she is a writer, with her MFA in creative writing from Cornell, and having other literary works published in some of the most prestigious literary mags in the world -- is beautiful, haunting, careful. Her attitude is not. She's baldly truthful, jarringly honest, and.... I'm not writing this review now, but will when I've finished it. At any rate, it's not like I'm not thinking about you. I'm reading about Frances and thinking about you.And going through boxes and boxes of tissues.JuJuWant to discuss past posts? Visit The Skinny Daily Forum at 3fatchicks.com. more...
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 4:39:55 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_02_03_skinnydaily_archive.html#107577512903349734
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 4:39:55 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_02_03_skinnydaily_archive.html#107577512903349734
posted by Joe Muka at 2:39 AM
No One Will Love You: Oh, really?
No One Will Love YouOh, really?There is some tiny part of me that admires spam authors. They used to be unimaginative hacks with four selling verbs under their belts. They had no idea how to lure someone at all, whether they peddled mortgages or biophysical miracles, websites or drugs. But lately, just lately, a new breed of spam peddler has surfaced who can write truly compelling headlines. Real grabbers. I got one today. The headline read:No one will love you if you are fat. And I thought, Oh, really?I mean, yes, there will be people around who mock, think less of, avoid, ignore, feel sorry for people who are fat. Sure. That happens. But being without love because we are fat? No. No, see, that’s not the way it works, ever. I mean, there are plenty of reasons a person can be unlovable, but fat isn’t one of them.Still, many of us are raised to believe it, and so with extra fat on our bodies, we feel unlovable. And feeling unlovable has a way of fulfilling itself. We react in two main directions. One way to go is by overcompensating, overreaching, over-nurturing, overdoing for others, over-performing at work. Or we react by shutting down, shutting out the world, other people, relationships, opportunities. Or maybe we do both. A very few of us manage to maintain a strong self image without swallowing this line of horse poo-poo.What could possibly be unlovable about fat? It’s energy. That’s all it is. It’s potential energy. Storage. Walk-in closets, full of energy. Bins and boxes and barrels full of that which makes us go. It’s warmth, it’s heat. Sure, too much of it hurts us. No doubt about it. But that’s another issue for another day. Stop and count up the big people in your life who you love. Would you say you would love them more if they were thinner? Silly question, right. Absolutely.Do you think you’d love yourself more if you were thinner?Is that question not so silly?Fat can be a problem in a lot of ways, but making you unlovable to other people? No. Actually it can’t do that. Some people may not find fat sexy. That’s okay. Many others do. Fat is mainly a problem when it makes you unlovable to yourself. And that’s what this wily spam writer knows. The spam headline wakes and shakes that little driveling fool that lives in all of us, big or small, that fears going through life without love. Silly old fool.So, got a little extra hanging around? Hating yourself for it? Maybe spend a little time soon writing in your journal or body log to consider what fat does to your ability to care about and for yourself. Write out some memories of how you’ve felt about your extra weight. Where did those feelings come from, do you think? Read them over.When you’ve really had a chance to analyze them, decide to change your mind about what you think about your own fat. We can do that, you know. We don’t have to live with every little feeling that shows up. We can reprogram our thinking. Spend a little time actively apologizing to yourself for giving yourself too hard a time about your weight. Apologize for beating yourself up. Apologize for punishing yourself excessively. Apologize for making yourself a doormat or shutting yourself off from the world. For being angry or defensive or bitter about it. Consider all the people you love who carry extra weight, and decide to put yourself in the same boat with them. All of you go on a nice cruise somewhere.Then promise yourself you’re going to see your fat and anybody else’s for what it is, plain old stored energy, and nothing more. There is no magical person-shifting aspect to stored fat. You will not change for better or for worse by having it or not having it. And so, there’s no more poor you. No more poor unlovable you. Just you with energy to burn. Want to discuss today's Post? Visit The Skinny Daily Forum at 3fatchicks.com. more...
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 3:49:47 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_02_02_skinnydaily_archive.html#107568068853197256
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 3:49:47 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_02_02_skinnydaily_archive.html#107568068853197256
posted by Joe Muka at 1:49 AM
Maude's Beloved Buckwheat: A grain you can love
Maude's Beloved BuckwheatA grain you can loveMy grandmother, Maude Williams Garlinghouse, was an osteopath, a whole-body doc back in the early half of the last century. She was a friend of Adele Davis,' and preached from the same food gospel. That is, she spurned packaged foods, believed in eating lots of veggies. And she wanted us to use more buckwheat in our diets.She made buckwheat pancakes instead of the white-flour sort. Nutty, intensely-favored things. I never had the chance to taste them, but my mother did, remembered them well, hankered for them. So we found and tweaked recipes to make one we feel closely approximates Maude's simple griddle cakes. They were a hit among three generations around our table that morning.Why was she such a buckwheat nut? Why do we care now? Well, a whole lot of us are sensitive to wheat products. Refined wheat, whole wheat, it doesn't matter. If we have it, we have trouble. So we look for other things to eat. Many, many more of us are insulin resistant and looking for healthier carbohydrates that don't send our insulin production into overdrive with every bite. Those of us in that category cut most grains from our diets at least until we get our blood sugar back in line. Buckwheat offers one exception to grain restriction for those of us in that boat. Well, it's not a grain at all.I started making my own pasta from buckwheat flour awhile ago. Easily done, you just whip up an egg per person you're serving, then knead in enough buckwheat flour until the dough is no longer sticky. Run it though your pasta maker as you would any pasta. Dry anything you don't want to cook right away. Buckwheat has a slightly more distinct, nuttish, vegetable flavor that loves stronger sauces. When you cook it, in pasta or griddle cakes, it has a chocolatey look to it, or at least that's how one 14 year-old in my house described it. Aside from tasting good, it's a higher fiber, higher protein, gluten-free, grain-like food rich in magnesium (we're nearly all deficient in magnesium) and potassium and lots of other goodies. There are compounds in it shown to lower your bad cholesterol and help people with Type II diabetes. What I'm saying is, grandma was right. Again.*Use in place of wheat flour in recipes that call for regular flour but don't require the gluten of a wheat flour for rising. Think muffins, crusts, quickbreads, crackers. You'll find buckwheat wants more moisture to work well, and the doughs will be very soft, needing a light hand. I've had great luck with a tart crust, and will soon share my buckwheat morning muffin recipe. *Make your own pastas from it. Involve kids, who love to cut noodles.*Eat buckwheat groats, kasha, cooked for breakfast or as a side dish. *Exchange buckwheat flour for wheat in your cornbread recipe for a delicious difference.Try Maude's pancakes:For Maude: Simple Buckwheat Pancakes, 6 servingsMix:3 cups buckwheat flour2 T. Stevia powder1 tsp. salt1 T. cinnamon4 tsp. baking powderWhisk together:2 eggs3 cups water (or milk if you're not carb careful, or milk and cream if you're not calorie nervous)2 T Grapeseed oilHeat your non-stick griddle until it's hot enough for droplets of water to dance like you remember dancing oughtta go. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet stuff. Use an ice cream scoop (If you can find it, because you're not really eating much ice cream any more, are you? That stuff can kill you.) to drop batter onto your griddle, which you may wipe with a smidgen of grapeseed oil or butter if you like. Cook those cakes until they're dry around the edges and bubbling a bit, then flip them. Let them brown on the other side, then serve them up to someone hungry for something real. This mixture will thicken as it stands. You can loosen it with water or milk as you make your cakes. Lowcarb folks, these are not without carbs, so you may want to wait for your maintenance plan, or enjoy them on special occasions. They won't tank your program, though. Consider topping them with whipped cream or whipped cream cheese sweetened with Stevia, and a few strawberries. Other folks, go easy on the syrups, will you? I worry about you people. Everybody, keep track of the calories. Overeating matters. And these will encourage overeating.Nutrition info, based on pancakes made with water, from dietsite.com Servings: 6Calories per serving 267, Calories from Fat 72Fiber 6gCarbohydrates 43gFat 8gProtein 10gBuckwheat flour facts from Nutritiondata.comDoc Weil on buckwheatWant to discuss today's Post? Visit The Skinny Daily Forum at 3fatchicks.com. more...
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 3:18:46 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_30_skinnydaily_archive.html#107543028991398613
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 3:18:46 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_30_skinnydaily_archive.html#107543028991398613
posted by Joe Muka at 1:18 AM
Those Wussy Athletes: Suck it up and move just a little
Those Wussy AthletesSuck it up and move just a littleI encounter this guy, Fred, everywhere. Fred very much wants to get back in shape, lose weight, regain his fitness. He hasn't exercised in years. He's tried. He laces up his old Keds and runs a few miles, he hurts himself. He gives up. I suggest to Fred that he try something a little easier, kicking laps in the pool. No, he's not getting in the pool with a lapboard. I suggest to Fred he try an elliptical machine. He crosses his eyes. No. Videos, no. Aerobics class, heckle no.So, I have to ask, "Fred, by any chance were you at all athletic while you were growing up?"The answer, of course, is yes, absolutely. Fred was a part of one team or another from about the age of 10 until marriage, the job, the kids came along. Fred can tell me his handicap, his averages, his speed, his distances, his events, his medals, the big game, the big night, the things his coach would say to him. He can recall to the most infinite level of loving detail the special piquant smell of his own beloved high school locker room, the taste of the victory steaks, the feeling of the pads as he geared up for a game. Fred can't exercise now because anything short of his early performance just feels ridiculous. He's an athlete. He doesn't belong on an elliptical machine. He's a jock, he doesn't belong in a therapy pool. For Fred getting in shape involves exercising until you puke. His recollection of "workouts," meant wind-sprints until he fell over, teammates fainting in their gear in the heat, running endless laps, doing endless pushups. Hours of practice every day, for a season. He tries to go back there. And of course he gets hurt. Or he makes a valiant effort for about the length of one season, and then his inner clock tells him to stop.Just try to get this guy to go for a half-hour brisk walk every day, forever. Just try to hand this guy a set of 10-lb. dumb-bells for a few reps. A maintenance level of exercise does not compute. A metabolism-boosting level of exercise has no place in the mental model for "workout" that Fred locked into his brain many, many years ago.You may at this point have a pretty clear picture of Fred in your mind. But I need you to understand I meet Fred in the most surprising places. I meet Fred in high school girls. I meet Fred among girlfriends at lunch. I meet Fred at the retirement village. I even meet Fred among fitness professionals. You might have a little Fred lurking inside you somewhere.And I say to your inner Fred, and mine, and to all Freds: Just get over yourselves.Your body needs to move every day. It doesn't have to move perfectly, dramatically, endlessly, or until you throw up or fall down. It needs to move some. Every day. Some movement every day, some strength work, some sweat. A bit. It never, ever has to hurt you. Just, get over yourself, Fred, and move today.Advice for the aging athlete from active.comMore advice for geriatric jocksWant to discuss today's Post? Visit The Skinny Daily Forum at 3fatchicks.com. more...
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 2:04:39 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_29_skinnydaily_archive.html#107534365280532369
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Originally Posted on 10/12/2005 2:04:39 AMContent source: http://skinnydaily.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_29_skinnydaily_archive.html#107534365280532369
posted by Joe Muka at 12:04 AM
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