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Keeping Track: Using a Journal to Lose Weight
posted 4 days ago by ScottQMarcus | 2 comments
When my children were young, I registered their growth on the hallway doorjamb with pencil marks and knife notches. Next to each was inscribed a date and name. Since those statistics are most likely meaningless to the latter owners, I assume sandp...
Handling Family Gatherings
posted about 1 month ago by ScottQMarcus | 3 comments
Not all family reunions are, well, shall we say, “familial.” Despite the two-dimensional, everything-works-out-in-the-end, sitcom model of American life, some relatives are just not cut from the same cloth. Gatherings can more resemble armed camps...
An Essay On a Four Letter Word
posted 3 months ago, updated 7 minutes later by juudycootie 
| 6 comments
As you have probably figured out by now ( and those of you that haven't...(well, I don't know...
Hold the ice cream sundae
posted 3 months ago by AuthorSandy | 2 comments
My dog Susie Says
To die or to diet
We returned from California a few weeks ago and I had my regular check-up at our local veterinarian place. Surprise... I was three pounds overweight when we left the Atlanta airport for LA, then mysteriously l...
To die or to diet
We returned from California a few weeks ago and I had my regular check-up at our local veterinarian place. Surprise... I was three pounds overweight when we left the Atlanta airport for LA, then mysteriously l...
Food as an Addiction
posted 6 months ago by ScottQMarcus | 2 comments
He was celebrating four years of sobriety. When I asked how he knew it was time to initially seek help, he said, “I finally realized I had no control over alcohol. I thought about it all the time. I couldn’t wait to drink. I was obsessed with it.”...
A primer on how to change habits
posted 8 months ago by ScottQMarcus | 0 comments
Most of life is done by rote.
For most of us, alarm clocks buzz the same time every morning. The average grocery store stocks over 38,000 items; yet the standard shopper goes to the same store every week, usually on the same day, and chooses from...
For most of us, alarm clocks buzz the same time every morning. The average grocery store stocks over 38,000 items; yet the standard shopper goes to the same store every week, usually on the same day, and chooses from...
Why Deprivation Diets do not Work
posted 9 months ago by ScottQMarcus | 1 comment
If deprivation was a successful weight loss strategy, obesity would be obliterated.
At first blush, sacrificing one’s favorites appears like it would blast away those extra pounds, and it does — but only temporarily. Long-term, it’s unnatural an...
At first blush, sacrificing one’s favorites appears like it would blast away those extra pounds, and it does — but only temporarily. Long-term, it’s unnatural an...
Coping with Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclea
posted 11 months ago by SandwichGen | 0 comments
By Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D. and Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by 24-hour cable and Internet news, with vivid pictures, highlighting the dreadful effects of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan? These...
Are you feeling overwhelmed by 24-hour cable and Internet news, with vivid pictures, highlighting the dreadful effects of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan? These...
Can Smell Cause Weight Loss?
posted about 1 year ago by ScottQMarcus | 1 comment
Smell is our most dramatic sense.
As example, it might have been years since losing touch with a friend who always wore one particular brand of perfume. One day, while wandering through the mall, someone passes you adorned in that exact long-forg...
As example, it might have been years since losing touch with a friend who always wore one particular brand of perfume. One day, while wandering through the mall, someone passes you adorned in that exact long-forg...
Obese children and bullying
posted about 1 year ago by ScottQMarcus | 5 comments
It was lousy growing up fat. Nothing was more degrading than buying my clothes in the “husky” section. Okay, maybe showering in front of a bunch of guys after high school P.E. was worse… or, wait, never dating … or, wait a second, here’s one: bein...
