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: ‘Laudable losers’
How John McGauley slimmed down
John McGauley is best known for running for office and running other people’s political campaigns. Over the last couple of years the Allen County Recorder has taken up running for his health, and it’s a slimmer McGauley who’s now running … Continue reading
What a difference a year makes
As we gear up for this year’s Wells Weighs In contest, we’re kicking one person off the team: Cassie simply doesn’t have any weight left to lose. At her physical last week, Dr. Rusk noted that Cass weighed in 11.5 … Continue reading
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How Ragu lost 105 pounds (and counting)
When our old pal Ragu got breast cancer a couple of years ago, she figured that the “bright side” of that scary situation was that her excess weight would “just melt off” during treatment. That’s not what happened, though. She … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, Coney Island Wiener Stand, medically supervised diet, Ragu
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Rising above the dietary language gap
Seated amid aunts at the recent Isch Christmas, I was feeling a bit like an interpreter — and not just because of the state dinner-like table arrangement.* The topic was dietary monitoring code. To my right, Aunt Imogene was of … Continue reading
Fort Wayne City Councilwoman Karen Goldner’s diet strategy
Karen Goldner is wearing her skinny jeans now, in the final days of her re-election campaign for Fort Wayne City Council’s 2nd district. She’s dropped at least 20 pounds, according to her Facebook updates, where she claims it’s due to … Continue reading
Another ‘Laudable Loser’: Librarian Sharon Moriarity
Sharon Moriarity is a familiar sight behind the circuation desk at the Wells County Public Library. But these days, there’s a lot less of her to see. When I ran into her at Weight Watchers last week, she said she’s … Continue reading
Interview: Weight-loss master* turned hula hoop guru
Five years ago Linda Tobey Duesler was 58 years old, 264 pounds and suffering so badly from arthritis she was walking with a cane. Now more than 110 pounds lighter, she’s teaching Fort Wayne to hula hoop for fun and … Continue reading
Laudable loser interview: Health scare trumps night-shift munchies
“You’ve got to interview this guy I work with,” my sister told me recently. According to Traci, Ralph Reinhart started work as a respiratory therapist at Bluffton Regional Medical Center about the same time she did, in the early 1990s. … Continue reading
A ‘laudable loser’: Marsha’s story
Think you’ve got so much weight to lose, you don’t know where to begin? That’s how Marsha has felt ever since she struggled with being an overweight child. When she signed up for the Wells Weighs In competition in January, … Continue reading
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1 year later, 184 pounds lighter
They don’t make anniversary cards for people celebrating a year’s worth of weight loss, but if they did, I can’t think of anyone more deserving than Tim, a family friend and former college athlete who’s shed 184 pounds since last … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, motivation, strategy, success story
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