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Super Skinny Slim Me

June 9th, 2011 | Add a Comment

I watched two BBC documentaries, Super Skinny Me and Super Slim Me on Youtube (you can go watch them too).  On one, they took two ‘regular’ looking sized reporter women and they five weeks to get down to a US size 0. They tried all of these crazy methods, starving themselves, colonics, overexercising… one of them reached the goal, and promptly went back to her normal life after, although she was irritable, sick and tired throughout. One of them developed an eating disorder and had to drop out. This really alarmed me because it was so dangerous!  I hope that the latter woman was really able to fix herself…she seemed kinda shaky afterward.In the second one, they had a cute slim but not skinny reporter who also had to reach … Read entire article »

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Results of Almost No Sugar – Will I Go Back or Not?

April 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Almost 2 months ago, my roomie/best friend decided to give up sugar for two months. Since we share groceries and cook together, and since I don’t have a large sweet tooth, I decided to try his experiment, and do an almost no sugar for the same time. I wrote about this, and updated it. For maybe a week and a half out of this whole time, I’ve had sweetened soymilk, and I’ve had craisins in my sandwich every week day the whole time. Once I had sweetened hot chocolate, once I had a chocolate spritzer drink. Once I had a sweetened juice. I can’t remember the other times during these two months that I’ve eaten sugar, but I can tell you, there weren’t that many more. My friend has a … Read entire article »

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Link to A Guy who Really Gave up Sugar Cold Turkey

February 12th, 2011 | Add a Comment

My best friend, who I mentioned is a total sugar guy, & is giving up sugar for the next two months as an experiment (nudging me to cut my sugar myself) has written a blog entry about his first few days and what it’s been like so far. I thought some of my readers might find it interesting, so I’ve linked it. Click here for his blog entry: Sugar Intervention. … Read entire article »

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Taking a Sugar Break

February 7th, 2011 | Add a Comment

A few people dislike sweets. A lot of people really LOVE sweets. I’m kind of in the middle. Even as a child, I’ve never been a fan of most candy. I’m more a fruit or chocolate dessert person. Growing up, I had an average amount of sweets, with my mother/myself/my sister baking us (usually from scratch) desserts usually on a weekend, and a sweet homemade family breakfast once a weekend. I was more prone to snack on something savory. Left to myself, I probably wouldn’t eat too many sweets. But, then, there’s my best friend. He isn’t a candy person either, but he loves sugar. He pretty much has to have something sweet every day, so every couple of nights I’ll hear, what’s for dessert, do you want cake or … Read entire article »

Filed under: Food, Health/Exercise