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As I read an article about choosing happiness, the last paragraph brought back memories of events that deeply impressed me. I had a number of times the great privilege of sitting in a few public and private meetings with Les McGuire before his death. On his radio program, he would introduce himself saying, “I [...]

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Two weekends ago, an unexpected revelation struck me. I’ll be participating in a large cycling event next month, and decided to focus that Saturday on distance riding. I thought that perhaps if I pushed myself I might be able to ride 30 miles (48 km). I prepped and started pedaling. I enjoyed the morning, and [...]

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Ever set yourself up for getting bitten?
Last week I went on a father/son outing for three days in the mountains. Because it was being organized by a third party, and I’m very busy, I only put the minimal required thought into planning. Tent, sleeping bags, insect repellent, clothes, water bottles, etc., were accounted for. [...]

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I read people’s fitness and weight loss blogs, looking for people’s successes. I find those personal stories energizing. However, the most common theme that I run across on weight loss blogs is self-criticism and negativity. When I see this, I often think of some principles that I learned from Dr. Fred Luskin’s book Forgive for [...]

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I stumbled across an article at WiseGeek that shows how much food is 200 calories. Each picture is a different type of food, all of them 200 calories’ worth. Be sure the click on the pictures to bring up a full-sized image.
I wrote previously about food energy density, or how some foods “have more [...]

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I had an interesting conversation with a friend last Thursday. I was previously unaware that we share a number of similarities with regard to health matters, and she, too, has embarked on her personal journey to lose some weight.
One place where we found similarity was our daily food cycles. When I get up in [...]

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