Tag Archives: Food

A Very Merry, Healthy Christmas

What’s on your want list this Christmas? At our house we each make lists of things we want. We put lots of stuff on the list in order to give each other options and to have some element of surprise … Continue reading

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Salvation and Hoecake

My Grandmother taught me to cook. I loved helping her prepare any meal, allmeals. Her patience seemed most evident in the kitchen. She answered my cooking questions by the dozen, even when they came one after another. Whenever I went … Continue reading

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Big, fat foreigners

When the credits to the movie, End of the Spear, roll, Steve Saint talks about the impressions Mincaye, an Ecuador Indian, has after his visit to the United States. He says when Mincaye described the autowalks in the airport, he … Continue reading

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Seven Things Seven Years After Gastric Bypass Surgery

If you have 10 pounds or 210 pounds to lose and looking for an easy way to lose it, I’ll let you in on a little secret, there is no short-cut to losing the weight.  It takes hard work, discipline, … Continue reading

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What? Me? Holy?

Be holy.  I can remember my Dad preaching a sermon on the subject, taking his text from 1 Peter 1:16.  I was a teen at the time and although I wouldn’t admit it to him, it affected me and I … Continue reading

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20 ways to gain over 100 pounds

Don’t exercise. Don’t even try to find an exercise you might enjoy. Eat whatever you want especially sweets and breads. Eat whenever you want especially late at night. Don’t ever deal with any situation that causes stress. Never set any … Continue reading

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Weight Loss: Breaking the chains that bind

There was a time, my friends, when I weighed 200 pounds more than I do today.  I was in the hospital. I had fluid build-up around my heart. The cardiac surgeon came into my room followed by scads of residents … Continue reading

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From Depression and Addiction to an Extraordinary Future

Do you feel you have an extraordinary future? Some days, I dare to dream that. But most days I don’t. Recently, I was more than a little down on myself.  I was hungry, angry, lonely and tired.  There was no … Continue reading

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Number 1 Passion

When I was in junior high, my eighth grade English teacher, Mrs. Jean Graebner turned me on to writing.  She encouraged me, fueled the passion by giving me a job as features editor on the West Junior High Sword and … Continue reading

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Nightmare: The End Of My Life

Her breath was coming in short puffs as she lumbered from her Mercedes up the few steps to her massive mahogany front door.  The back of her cream silk blouse was wet and sweat poured from her forehead.  She barely … Continue reading

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