“Keep a diary or journal. Record your reflections on your life experience in a journal. You will find this simple practice to be invaluable in your quest for wisdom.” Warren Bennis (March 8, 1925 – July 31, 2014) was the distinguished professor of business administration and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University […]
Monday I restarted a food diary. The recollection of my indiscipline over the past several months plus a recent online article on this topic reminded me of the effectiveness of writing down what you eat especially if you want to lose weight or maintain what was lost. Put simply I’ve been bad. Time once again […]
Journaling, it seems, is one of the most successful strategies for achieving long-term weight loss.[3-4] It increases a person’s awareness of what they’re eating and helps to unveil habits and patterns of eating. A Kaiser Permanente study with 1,700 participants found that those who kept food diaries six days a week lost twice as much […]
Female participants who consumed an avocado a day as part of their meal had a reduction in visceral abdominal fat — the hard-to-target fat associated with higher risk — and experienced a reduction in the ratio of visceral fat to subcutaneous fat, indicating a redistribution of fat away from the organs. However, fat distribution in […]
With food inflation absolutely skyrocketing I decided to write a post about finding bargains. Yes, bargains in the grocery store. A little while ago I boasted about finding a dozen eggs for $0.89 and wrote Egg Salad (because you will be eating more eggs). Well eggs in my part of the world are no longer this […]
5.4 now. 5.7 pre-COVID. Made dietary changes, and upped my exercise. Also increase the number of hours asleep by two hours per night. Not sure whether that affects blood sugar. But I read that it can decrease chances of developing dementia.
5.8 but it’s been a few years so I need to get mine checked again. FBS has been OK not great the last three times: 96, 98. 103.
Creeping up. I just checked and actually mine was 5.8 pre-Covid. Yours is probably greatly improved with the weight loss during Covid.
Probably and hopefully so. I have a very strong family history of DM (F dx age 50 and B dx upper 20’s). But so far I’ve managed to delay the onset for myself.
And maybe adhering to your healthy lifestyle and diet you’ll avoid it altogether. How’s the craft beer situation going?
Crept back up to 174, a five pound gain and have stopped the craft beer. (sad emoji)
Good for you! Maybe an occasional craft beer on trips or when you go out?
Behavioral restrictions re-engaged. Yes, only the occasional craft beer for the foreseeable future. I allowed myself a watered down single can of Miller Lite yesterday. (insert another sad emoji).