THE CIGARETTE COMPANIES ALREADY TRIED IT!!!! Shame on Weight Watchers®. Shame on you Oprah. Society has finally started to catch wise to the fact that dieting doesn’t work for the vast majority of people. Weight Watchers, itself, revealed in an internal memo that it relies on repeat customers for a large part of its revenue. …
First, let me be clear, my own husband and our household is not the subject of this blog. My husband is very appreciative of what I do and I try to reciprocate. The work that is done around the house is often undervalued. This is a very old issue and it continues today. (And…
My fat old lady ass has been at half-mast for quite a while now; and it was getting really bad during and after this last heatwave. All I wanted to do was sleep. And I would fall asleep lying in bed and reading or sitting in front of my computer. And all that sleep…
Do not tell me global warming is not real or “questionable”. I have now lived in San Jose for over 20 years and summers never used to be this hot. You’d get a few days in a row of really hot weather a few times each summer and that would be it. Now it…
Every year, we get June bugs. Lots of them. It’s gross, but they stay on their side of the screen and we stay on our side. For some reason, this year we have July/August bugs; and somehow, one got through to the wrong side of the screen. Crafty little fucker. Our orange tabby…
vs. Do you ever have those flashes about something bad happening just before it happens? Something that has never happened before, and yet, you can picture it happening – and then it is part of your reality? Kind of spooky, huh? Well, I’m petting our orange cat Murphy. Murphy is lying…
I went for almost 2 years without a haircut. I hate to admit it, but this isn’t all that unusual for me. When it comes to my hair, I’m not much of a girly-girl. I don’t know what to do with it, so I want it in a style that I can get by…
It’s true. I have no idea how it happened. I went to McDonalds to pick up dinner for us, and I didn’t order fries! I didn’t even think about ordering fries. It did not even occur to me that I had been to McDonalds and left without ordering fries until I got home and…
A recent “study” is all over the news this week. http://www.pulseheadlines.com/artificial-sweeteners-lose-weight-linked-overweight-diabetes/65287/ “Artificial Sweeteners Makes you Fatter” (Okay, I’m paraphrasing … but that’s the gist of it.) So I look at the abstract for the study (because no, I’m not shelling out money to read the whole thing, which I probably wouldn’t understand anyhow): http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/28/E929.abstract And…
I have sleep apnea. I was diagnosed 6 years ago. I use a CPAP. I’ve used it for 6 years. Me and my CPAP are very happy together. Until last night, when it suddenly died – as in blinking the message “Needs Service” and refusing to turn on – at all. On a Thursday night,…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 