food

Hunger versus comfort: How I lost 45 pounds in three months.

April 5, 2011

This is a short story of how I lost 45 pounds in three months Hunger, for most of us in the U.S. isn’t a real feeling – or at least few of us can readily say we ever really felt hunger. Comfort – or the lack thereof – would be the closest thing to hunger [...]

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My new toy

January 13, 2011

A little bit of Amazon gift card love this holiday and birthday means I had to splurge and pick up a food dehydration machine. This weekend we will be drying bananas and pineapples to test it out. Then on to the dried meats.

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Turning food into a points-based game to lose weight.

January 8, 2011

I told some of you a few days ago that I began a trek to lose sixty pounds by the end of the year. After seeing pictures of myself at  the heaviest I’ve ever been this New Year’s, I realized that a steady 7 pound gain a year over the last ten years has not [...]

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Cupcakes and philodendrons

March 3, 2010
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There’s a small container of cupcakes on the table. I made them last night. They aren’t frosted and are hermetically sealed in a cake-carrying plastic container which I inherited through marriage. Part of the large dowry consisting of furniture and baking items that never quite made it on my various moves around the country. Among [...]

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