Declutter Your Diet
RSS Feed- The FPP ‘bagged fat’ food drive June 1, 2012Last year, on the suggestion of a Wells Weighs In competitor, Team Caylor did a “canned fat” drive in which we donated the equivalent amount of team weight lost (38 pounds) to Community Harvest Food Bank in Fort Wayne. This … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Shifting my weight-loss focus May 31, 2012Though it’s far too odd to publish anywhere other than this blog, if I wanted to lose weight right now — and I do want to drop a couple of pounds, actually, because I’ve slacked off a bit after the … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Food fight: Single-serve Nutella vs. Snickers May 30, 2012Given how dangerous it is for us to keep a container of Nutella in the house, I was thrilled to see they’ve come out with a single-serve container paired with tiny cracker “breadsticks.” Then I compared this snack to a … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Fitness Tunes and fried plantains: The ‘Eclectic City’ flashback interview May 29, 2012What do Nikola Tesla, Disco Demolition Night and Neil Young’s new rendition of “Oh Susannah” have in common? They’re all part of the mix on Gabriel Szoke’s most recent episode of “Eclectic City,” a pod cast of diverse tunes and … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The upside of the 98-degree ‘brick’ wall May 28, 2012My sister and I were planning to get together for a run on Friday, but when we realized it was going to be in the 90s, we decided on a bike-run “brick” instead. I’m not sure when I’m going to … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Not-so-stealthy smoothie secretly satisfies May 26, 2012Nearly an hour after she griped about trying the blueberry-kale smoothie I’d loosely based on a recovery drink created by Elizabeth the Ironman competitor, Colleen ‘fessed up: “It was OK. I’d probably go ahead and drink it next time.” She … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Fitness Protection Program in 5th-place finish May 25, 2012The official results have been tabulated for Wells Weighs In, and our team, the Fitness Protection Program, finished fifth out of 101 teams with a loss of 8.96 percent. We’ve got to salute the winning team, “Here We Go Again,” … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The ‘whim triathlon’ training schedule May 24, 2012One of the problems with deciding to do a triathlon with just four weeks lead time is that I had to start in week 7 of the 10-week training schedule I was ostensibly going to use. I’d been running about … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Communicating with your brain May 23, 2012Like a baseball coach using hand signals to communicate with a batter, I sometimes tweak a simple snack — a banana folded like a hot dog into a slice of Healthy Goodness bread — to signal my brain as to … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- How People Eat: author Ann Staadt May 22, 2012Deciding which of Ann Staadt‘s novels to read first was an easy choice for me: A New Moon for Emily, featuring a character who drives a purple Volkswagen Beetle like I did back in the day, got first dibs. Between … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The FPP ‘bagged fat’ food drive June 1, 2012
Category Archives: Glossary terms
Engine run-on
Here’s another vocabulary word for my emerging glossary of dietary terms: “Engine run-on” is what happens when your eating machine doesn’t shut down immediately after you thought you turned the ignition off. For me, this happens most frequently when I … Continue reading
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Don’t take a lifeboat to Thanksgiving dinner
When I ask thin people the “Death Row question” — what they’d request if they knew it was their last meal on Earth — most come up with very specific answers that would fit on a normal-sized dinner plate. My … Continue reading
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Tagged Death Row, Final meal requests, lifeboat strategy
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Guilt goggles
Monday at the orthodontist’s office I was reading in a fitness magazine about some celebrity chef who “maintains her rock hard abs” despite her high-risk occupation by “religiously measuring everything.” If you eyeball olive oil rather than using a tablespoon, … Continue reading
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Tagged graham crackers and frosting, Guilt goggles, measuring, Weight Watchers
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Taking a stand against ‘food porn’
If I worked for a newspaper — which I do, but not when I’m writing these blog posts — I’d choose much “sexier” images to illustrate my topics. The idea in traditional media is to draw readers in, and few … Continue reading
Premature inhalation
Here’s something I bet Andy Downs has never had to deal with: Inhaling the equivalent of a meal before you sit down to eat. This still happens to me all the time, even though I‘ve maintained my goal weight for just … Continue reading
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Tagged Fig Newtons, graham crackers, Premature inhalation
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Naming your nemesis
I hate the word “binge.” I despise the images it conjures up. I even dislike the way it sounds — like a congealed leftover from my previous life. Lately I’ve been revising my dietary dictionary, substituting words and phrases that … Continue reading
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Tagged binge, dietary dictionary, Mike Nash, momentum reversal
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The referee is always right
Lately it seems like I have a tendency to lowball entries in my food log. Every time that happens, I think of this phrase from a blogger who calls himself the Anti-Jared: “The house always wins.” Meaning: You can’t lie … Continue reading
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The long view
In yesterday’s Laudable Loser interview, Ralph Reinhart said that knowing he can eat regular meals every seventh day helps him stick to his diet the rest of the week. I call that the long view. It’s a pattern that’s shown … Continue reading
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Tagged Faith Van Gilder, Laudable Loser, long view, mini marathon, Mitch Harper, Ralph Reinhart
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‘Normal People’ Notebook: The conquest
We had a lot of down time at Traci’s garage sale last week. Enough so that I cornered three members of my emerging “Normal People” panel to test a new survey question: How do you feel about conquests? Not the … Continue reading
