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I’m really enjoying SparkPeople, the free weight loss site.  I’m LibrarianJen on there.  This is the site I was hoping for when I signed up for eDiets (the site of the many duplicating ingredients and cheese and raspberries on everything.)  I’ve only been on Spark People for a few days, but I’m already addicted to [...]

I know I said I was tired of talking about weight, but I think I still need to focus on it deliberately for a little while longer.  This year has been a great year for rethinking my relationship with food and my relationship with my own body.  A question I have been working on this [...]

Since I’m doing about as well as can be expected with the exercise (working to fit it into family life, especially, and to make it fun,) it’s now time to look at the food again.  I hate bouncing between plans like this.  I have made a lot of progress this year, thanks to the classes [...]

Neat article about some significant weight loss.
An article about how, yet again, our food industry thwarts our health.  There’s something incredibly warped about America’s food industry, combined with the insistence on relying on our “air-conditioned wheelchairs” (as Edward Abbey calls it) to get everywhere.  We’re like veal.  But what are we being fattened up for?  [...]

I just joined eDiets.  I’m going to compare it to WeightWatchers online, to which I still subscribe, even though I’m thinking of canceling.  I hope eDiets has a better selection of healthy recipes.
So far, eDiets has really annoyed me with about 20 “special offer” screens to get through before finalizing my order.  If this is [...]