Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


November 11

I can figure out from past experience exactly how much I might need to bank to net out with no weight gain January 1.  It’s not unlike knowing how much I spent on presents the year before and paying in […]

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November 10

There are 42 days between Thanksgiving and New Years – plenty of time to overindulge and still balance the budget.

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November 9

Figure out what aspect of the season is your biggest Achille’s heel (being too busy, stress, baking and cooking, entertaining, people’s parties, exercise drops out, junk you allow in your house, the influence of other people) and then make plans […]

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November 8

When I abandon my good habits, now I have two problems: one = eating too much of the wrong stuff, and two = not eating enough of the right stuff.  This is one of the basic problems with extremely low […]

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November 7

Don’t lose the good habits – keep your basic nutrition going.  You can still get your basic nutrition in and have plenty of room to play.  Fortunately, healthy food doesn’t take up that much space in your budget.  I know […]

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November 6

Make room for calories out – keep your exercise routine in place.  It is so easy to let calories in and who doesn’t want to during the holidays?  I remember the first time I attended the special Thanksgiving morning classes […]

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