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Chinese New Year Goodies

February 6, 2010
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Chinese New Year is coming. That means lots of festive treats, which also means lots of binges and bulging waistlines. Recently, an article in the Singapore Straits Times, ‘Bulge-Free Binge’ (with the online version here), tackled just this topic. It showed pictures of various festive foods, giving the caloric count for 100g of each type [...]

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Life isn’t Linear: What Dieters and Stockbrokers have in Common

February 4, 2010
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A linear relationship means that if you put in 3 units of effort and get say 2 units of reward, adding another 3 units of effort should yield you another 2 units of reward. Life isn’t like that of course. More often than not, the progress of any condition comes in spurts and stops. Let’s [...]

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Eating Less

January 13, 2010
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In the case of eating to lose fat, the problem is usually psychological in nature. For many, eating is a very emotional experience. Eating less ≈ compromising emotional security. I think that people who manage to maintain their goal weight/physique/etc somehow internalise that sometimes eating is a needed emotional filler, and sometimes it is simply [...]

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Fad Diets

December 4, 2009
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I’ve mentioned my dislike for fad diets every now and then, but I have never defined what I deem to be a fad diet. This post will clarify some of that, and I will touch on my definition of a fad diet, as well as attack two notable examples. I will stick to the diets [...]

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What to Do if You’re Eating out on a Diet – Moderation is Key

October 22, 2009

“Everything in Moderation”, was what I remember hearing from my mother all the time. My question, is how true is this philosophy, and thus where should it be applied? So far, my best answer is: In anything whereby the means are beyond your control of preparation, and where happiness is a function of your individually [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 4: Preventing Self-Sabotage

September 19, 2009
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This is the last (and shortest) post in Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets. It is mainly a summary, and ultimately, change will have to be initated by the subject himself/herself. In Diet Self-Sabotage 1: The Lack of Proper Expectations and the Proper Plan, I talked about how people set unrealistic and unspecific goals and expectations [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 3: The Lack of Flexibility

September 16, 2009
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This is part 3 of the Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets series. In Diet Self-Sabotage 1: The Lack of Proper Expectations and the Proper Plan, I talked about the need to set both realistic and specific goals and expectations. In Diet Self-Sabotage 2: Patience, Perception and Randomness is Dieting, I talked about how the body [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 2: Patience, Perception and Randomness is Dieting

September 12, 2009
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This is the second post in the series, “Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets“. This is a long post. The words patience and randomness don’t go well together. In this post, I will tell you why most people fail in their dieting attempts, and why in my first post in this series, I said that women [...]

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Diet Self-Sabotage 1: The Lack of Proper Expectations and the Proper Plan

September 8, 2009
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This is the first post in the “Self Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets” series. In this post, I will talk about 4 things specifically: How people often set unrealistic or unspecific goals for themselves What some realistic, specific goals are, and some examples of unrealistic, fuzzy goals The result of a lack of a plan [...]

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Self-Sabotage in Fat Loss Diets

September 5, 2009
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This is another series of articles centered around a central theme. This time, I argue that just like in many other pursuits, one must sort out one’s personal nuances to experience success in dieting. Losing fat isn’t an opinion. Aside from a few special cases (see End Notes*), all we need to do is to [...]

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