Morning Musings: September 20

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…this food tells my body to store fat.  Foods that elevate insulin levels, put me in fat storage mode.  Carbs and proteins raise insulin, with carbs raising it the most.  The […]

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Morning Musings: September 19

A calorie is not just a calorie to me…when eating this food does not displace any other food.  Seems like bread, especially at restaurants, is always in addition to the other food, not in place of it.  One of my […]

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Morning Musings: September 18

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I can’t tell if I am full with this food. It dissolves instantaneously in my saliva – like those 20 calorie puffed discs and rice cakes, and of course, any white […]

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Morning Musings: September 17

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I can smell the bread baking.  Smell is the most evocative of the senses.  If the smell continues, chances are the eating will too.  It baffles me how people can own […]

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Morning Musings: September 16

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I have associated that particular food, person, mood, place, smell with “unconscious hypereating” (a term coined by Dr. Kessler in The End of Overeating).  The circumstance itself has a history that […]

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