A young friend, a former colleague actually, told me this phrase as part of a teenage-hood anecdote. When she got upset about something she couldn’t do anything about, her Mother would say, “You’ve got to change your mind”. As someone who didn’t grow up with that kind of advice, I see its immense power and wisdom.
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I’ve only ever known how it feels to eat whatever I want for short periods of time. I’ve been on Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and always have a few Lean Cuisine dinners in the freezer, so I don’t get caught without anything to eat and have to tear into an entire elephant or something. Whenever I’ve strayed from the basic tenets of Weight Watchers, I’ve put on weight. True, the formula is calories-in, calories-out, but I’m not about to become the marathon runner my metabolism apparently wants me to be. (Darn you scoliosis!)Â …
This week in Our London, I told everybody what size clothing I wear. But my weight? You’ll never get that out of me. …
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Love her or loathe her Amy Schumer – I love her – is a powerful force in pop culture. Her TV show, Inside Amy Schumer, is a boundary-pusher. She spoofs, and therefore brings to light, even serious issues like rape culture on university campuses. She did a skit about college football players gathered in a locker room after winning a big game, and asking their coach about every possible scenario they could find themselves in, and whether it would make a rape okay. Doesn’t sound funny? Well it was, and every time the coach said an emphatic “No” to the increasingly ridiculous hypothetical situations, it drove the point home that it’s never okay.
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When I was a kid, it was the height of cool to drop by a record store and pick up the CKOC street sheet to see that week’s top 40 songs. CKOC was Hamilton’s all-hit radio. If you were in Toronto, it was CFTR. Any top 40 radio station worth its 45s was putting out a little top 40 chart every week.
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So, this was kind of cool. Entertainment Weekly picked up one of my tweets for a story last weekend. Â …
Once, I nearly bought my step-daughter a gift card for Abercrombie and Fitch. Â As of this moment that company is off my radar forever more, and here is why. Â Â …
We’re a fat nation on a fat planet.  Well, the first world countries are fat while the third world countries starve. That’s an atrocity but a different discussion. …
To weight loss, that is. I have been struggling with about 20 extra pounds for the past few years. Â I’ve lost 5 or 6 only to put on 8 or 9 and just couldn’t get control of the darn thing. Until my pal Jenn introduced me to My Fitness Pal. Â …
HAES: Health At Every Size. Â It’s an approach to health that’s growing, no pun intended. Â It takes the focus off weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) and puts it on being as healthy as you can. Â …
Alright. It’s been a month and my resolve appears to be holding up. Somehow my depleted willpower of the past couple of years has topped back up and I think I know how it happened. And I feel confident in talking about it…this time.  …