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Health

Salt. It’s More Than Just a Seasoning

April 7, 2010
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OK. You have to picture this. If you want to get a great image and laugh your ass off, clear your mind of everything else and let it imagine.
There’s a middle aged fat couple sleeping peacefully in their queen sized bed. The wife has a pile of covers on her, because she’s always cold. She’s [...]

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I F*cking HATE Ahi Tuna!

April 6, 2010
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Oh.
My.
God.
The first day on the Six Week Body Makeover was just horrible. HORRIBLE! Forcing myself to eat every two hours is much more difficult than I had anticipated.
By lunch, I was gagging on the Ahi tuna. It was literally sticking in my throat and wouldn’t go down. I skipped the forth “meal” and ate very [...]

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Food Bill is Through the ROOF!

April 4, 2010
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Six Week Body Makeover: Prepping for Day 1 – Holy crap!
The Six Week Body Makeover is freaking expensive!
I spent $400 on nothing but lean meats and veggies — organic lean meats and veggies.
We’re not exactly great cooks, you know. But, hubby has seared some Ahi tuna. I love Ahi tuna! It’s going to be our [...]

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Looky What I GOT!

March 12, 2010

Yay! Yay! Finally!
Remember how I fired my doctor? Well, I went looking for Nature Thyroid to fill my prescription. Seriously, I hit every pharmacy in town. Nada. Nothing. Most had no idea that the drug even existed.
What I did find was a thyroid specialist – a DO who prescribes Nature Thyroid. Well, surely he’d know [...]

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Just Stop Eating, Beotch

September 20, 2009
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Stop eating, beotch is essentially the message I got when I presented information that I’d been diligently spending massive amounts of time gathering on hypo-thyroid treatment to my doctor.
Let me back up a bit here.  It was the information I’d been reading about Nature-Throid that really got me excited — crying [...]

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Pesticides, Fat Cells and Weight Loss

August 18, 2009

Did you know that your fat cells store certain kinds of toxins that you’ve consumed over your life time?
And that when you lose weight, those toxins are released and roam through your blood stream?  That those roaming toxins kill thyroid function? And actually promote weight re-gain?  Oh, that’s not all. To [...]

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How I Broke My Thyroid

August 11, 2009

This is going to be an extremely personal post. It’s something I loathe to talk about. My struggle the past ten years has been excruciating and I’ve kept the pain inside and private — I can’t even talk about it with my husband.
From heel spurs to backaches, weight issues obviously [...]

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