http://takeaction.buddyslim.com Diet, weight loss, fitness blog from BuddysSlim.com Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:00:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's amazing to me, how I can cognitively know that food can't really make me well when I'm sick, can't really console me after a long stressful day, and certainly can't give me what I want, yet I turn to it time and again to meet these needs. In one of ... http://takeaction.buddyslim.com/2008/02/21/food-cant-fix-it/ ...with Bird's Eye easy steam vegetables. yes I know that my title was cheesy and this sounds like an advertisement, but for 140 calories, you get a lot of food. I love steamed vegetables, but generally am not into frozen veggies. These are tasty and fill me up mid-afternoon. I ... http://takeaction.buddyslim.com/2008/02/19/im-in-love/ So after a few really good days last week, control-wise, I had a bad weekend. Traditionally, weekends have been tough for me, b/c I lack the structure that I have during the week. That is an issue that I'm really going to have to trouble-shoot. Anyway, I went out ... http://takeaction.buddyslim.com/2008/01/28/fail-to-plan-plan-to-fail/ I cannot complain about today. It is 7:30 and I have spent 11 hours with kids with kids with autism today and although I didn't get any cardio-vascular exercise, I have to assume that I burned some calories. My food choices were pretty decent, and, again, although I didn't cut ... http://takeaction.buddyslim.com/2008/01/24/good-day/ When I think about commitment and weight loss, I have a small panic attack.  I commit to showing up at work every day at 7:15, and it sucks sometimes, but I do it.  I commit to driving 40 minutes after work to three hour grad school classes.  Again, this sucks, ... http://takeaction.buddyslim.com/2008/01/22/why-is-commitment-so-hard/ When I turned 13, I began to struggle with weight. This did not happen overnight, but by the time I was 15, I weighed somewhere near 165 lbs. I am 5'8" and although that falls within an acceptable BMI index, it was not acceptable to a high school ... http://takeaction.buddyslim.com/2008/01/21/its-time/