The desire for fast food is an illusion. It is not cheap anymore and it is often not really fast either. As far as financial efficiency, the days of the dollar menu are long gone. In the wake of rising consumer debt (the single most heavily marketed product...
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Behavior-based goals can move you forward quite a lot, but they’re conditional. They’re contingent upon changed behavior. Changed behavior is not always a solid foundation given human nature. Feeling-based goals, on the other hand, can be based on a strong...
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A few hundred days ago, you could frequently find me in the fast food drive thru line at either McDonald’s or Dunkin Doughnuts, especially after a trip to my gym next door, double especially if I had a kid with me, wanting to reward them with a treat for...
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Oh sugar, you promise sweet pleasure, yet you deliver far more pain. Oh sugar, you promise fun and excitement and variety full of colors and tastes and aromas; Yet you deliver mere distraction with the discomfort of my blood sugar soaring and then sinking at...
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Pictured above is me in 2007 when I had just completed a half-marathon and had spent my life dieting versus Present Day (refusing to diet EVER again). It would be nice to think that in this day and age, we have finally found effective means to help people...
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.