Sometime in the tenth grade I fell in love with a run of science fiction novels titled The Ringworld Series authored by Larry Niven. These books were written in the early seventies so they were already decades old when I discovered them in ninety-three. However, the concepts in these novels would endure to inspire one …
At the age of 37 I found myself staring into my kitchen trash can trying to sort out which piece or pieces of trash I could use to cover up two empty pints of ice cream I’d just eaten in the last half hour… No, wait. Let’s back up. That’s the version I tell on …
Cigarettes are BAD. Somewhere between 1980 and 1990 we collectively understood this to be true. But in the decades before 1950, we collectively understood them to be GOOD, healthy even. Physicians in the 1930’s recommended smoking as a treatment for everything from throat irritation to “healthy” weight loss via appetite suppression. “Cigarettes are downright GOOD …
Meal prep. You just have to do it. It’s drilled into us by our coaches, diet gurus, and lifestyle experts; if you don’t meal prep you will fail your diet. Come lunch time, you’ll find yourself cruising the parking lots of fast food establishments trying to justify what you can get away with, knowing that …
7p.m. Central Standard Time, just after dinner. Taco-seasoned ground turkey, sweet potato, a few cups of steamed broccoli; the perfect recovery meal after a long work day and a hard workout in the gym. But before I can sleep, there’s one more trial to overcome. A final challenge from an enemy I know too well. …
There are probably hundreds of sites with long lists of facts regarding sugar cravings taken from research papers written by so called “experts”. What I’ve created here is a list of the seven main things to keep in mind while fighting with your own sugar demons. As a sugar addict myself, I find it best …
Headache, cravings, depression; the trifecta of sugar withdrawal. Right now I’m feeling all three symptoms at the same time. It’s not the worst headache I’ve ever had, just a dull ache in my left temple that comes and goes every few minutes. The cravings on the other hand are the worst I’ve ever had. An …