TGIF – Food For Thought

As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment.

Quote of the Week: “Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.”   Anonymous

Humor Break:

Bev: Al, give me one good reason you can’t stay on your diet long enough to lose 5 pounds.
Al: Food

Stat of the Week: March is an excellent month to think about your health … especially if you are 50+.  The end of winter is near and in the past few months you may have easily increased your food intake and decreased your exercise regime (despite that New Year’s resolution).  So today we present a short slide show about 5 things you should never eat and 5 alternatives food choices that help stave off those extra pounds.

Action Tip: This is National Nutrition Month.  This year’s theme is “Get Your Plate in Shape”.  Check out the website for some good eating advice.

Weight Watch – Preview: Today I am going to follow my own advice.  I am beginning a 16 week series on Food in Mouth Disease.  I am going to attempt to lose something gained.  Weight.  This was prompted by a recent photograph of moi.  A picture is still worth 1,000 words.  I would put the picture on my fridge as a reminder, but I don’t have a magnet strong enough to hold it up. I am a victim of weight creep.  I only gained two or three pounds a year.  No biggie, right?  But now look at me.  Hell, you can’t miss me.

This coming Wednesday I am going to an official scale and weigh myself.  I shall call that weight “X”.  Each week for 16 weeks I shall return to the official scales and report on my progress.  In the process I shall change exercise and eating habits.  I want to develop my “Won’t Power”.  Won’t eat as much, won’t snack on sweets, won’t ignore mom’s advice about eating my vegetables, won’t (to be continued).

On my way to Lean, I am going to lean on a model developed by Envisia Learning in their new book Clueless.  The model has three stages: Enlighten, Encourage, and Engage.  The book wasn’t written for dieters, but I think it works. After all, it is based on feedback.  (I’m not sure FEEDback is a good word here, but I will go with it.) 

So I am going to need some help.  Some help from you readers.  Be my coach!  Right now I am in the Enlighten stage.  So enlighten me.  What works for you?  What should I avoid?  What about WeightWatchers?  Nutisystem?  JennyCraig? Slim-Fast? Other Diet programs?  Helpful hints please!

And finally, for today, is there anyone else who will join me in this 16 week effort?  Come along for the ride (well, walk or run).  Use the comment section to make your commitment and make weekly reports.  Let’s do this thing together.

Stay tuned.

Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.