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By: Making Something LEGAL is NOT the same as Making Something MANDATORY « I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape.

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:57:28 +0000

[...] days (by means of no solid foods for 40 days). While I was pondering the food related aspects of fasting for 40 freaking days, I also was thinking about my feelings on the social stance these folks were [...]

By: April D

April D — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:34:39 +0000

Thanks for watching/reading! ^^

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:19:47 +0000

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:17:27 +0000

Fasting is done when I’m sleeping hahaaa.. like your blog name: I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:29:36 +0000

Great blog! Very entertaining!

By: Sidonia Mar

Sidonia Mar — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:28:30 +0000

As a nutritionist-in-training, all this fad dieting and fasting gets me all worked up! It isn’t healthy, it isn’t going to work, and eating right or working out shouldn’t be about being able to squeeze into your teenage daughter’s jeans (though we’d all like to, sure)! Without the adequate amount of calories, from the right sources (like those apples, toast and eggs) and the right kind of exercise that will burn more fat than carbs, nobody’s ever going to lose anything but brain function. Even people who know better have their Inner Demons, and its good to see so many people taking a stand against them.

By: dario

dario — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:25:21 +0000

Great blog!

By: oregonnerd

oregonnerd — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:17:59 +0000

Several things. First of all, the very first god(dess) was the latter–a goddess–and not even faintly similar to today’s idiotic notions of comeliness/beauty/conformity/enslavedness. Secondly, I have a lot of personal experience with overweight people and with every one of them it started with a blood sugar problem. I mean, before the real weight gain shakiness between meals. Thirdly, a lot of what is throwing metabolisms out of kilter has to be human-contributed changes to the environment. In particular the addition of the once-savior antibiotics. If I recall correctly the girls that reach puberty more quickly because of this also have a higher percentage that consider themselves to have weight problems.

I’m nearly six feet tall and occasionally make it back over 160 pounds again. I lost down to 140 last year–epilepsy. I have a mother, aunts, cousins related by blood, all with weight problems. Go back a couple of generations and it isn’t true.

And dieting can definitely wreak havoc on your body’s system of balance, whatever you want to call it.

As far as Freud or behaviorism, there are some fatal flaws. I do actually have a degree in psychology.

Keep trying to achieve what you want to achieve…so try to define the wanting first. Know you can believe in yourself. Know you’re lightening others’ days and giving them smiles. You’re a good person. But you don’t get to beat yourself up any more. That’s the next resolution in Congress; we have to give up self-flagellation as a way of life.
–Glenn

By: prinsesamusang

prinsesamusang — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:39:31 +0000

i think you are cool. loving your body no matter what is the way to go! cheers to you!

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