Tag Archives: health

Biggest Loser: Family Edition. Doing the Cha-Cha

Posted on August 12, 2011 by pegoleg

“Step forward with the right foot, then again with the left.  Good!”  “Now back one with the right foot.  That’s it.  Now cha-cha!” The summer’s family weight loss challenge is like an Arthur Murray dance class.  Every week I do … Continue reading →

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She Who Acts As Her Own Doctor Has a Fool For a Patient

Posted on August 1, 2011 by pegoleg

I’m coming down with something.  When you’re going on 52 years old, you have to stay on top of this stuff.  I’ve had the symptoms for some time so I did a little research.  I consulted the Physicians Desk Reference, … Continue reading →

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MAB SmackDown: Raw

Posted on July 28, 2011 by pegoleg

I’m a peaceable woman.  I abhor violence and am filled with the milk of human kindness.  Yet, at this moment I am looking forward with all my being to witnessing an epic takedown; a beating so brutal it will be … Continue reading →

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Biggest Loser: Family Edition. Virtue is It’s Own Reward (But Not For Me)

Posted on July 27, 2011 by pegoleg

We are now 6 weeks into our family weight loss challenge.  Most of my sisters, sister-in-law and Mom have adopted a slow and steady strategy. We’re all making progress, trying to eat sensibly, and some are becoming more active. If you’ve … Continue reading →

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Biggest Loser: Family Edition. Partying In Hell

Posted on July 21, 2011 by pegoleg

ASTOUNDING WEIGHT-LOSS BREAKTHROUGH! I have discovered an appetite suppressant that is easy, low-tech, requires no special food and costs nothing. All you have to do is suffer the burning agonies of hellfire. Most participants in the family weight loss challenge … Continue reading →

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Biggest Loser: Family Edition. Getting Philosophical About It

Posted on July 14, 2011 by pegoleg

If a big slab of meaty ribs is cooking in the woods, and nobody can smell them, are they really there?  It has been a week of good news/bad news in the family summer weight-loss challenge. The good news is… … Continue reading →

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Ode To The Summer Cold

Posted on July 12, 2011 by pegoleg

I lay me down upon my bed, To seek a little sleep. Begins the drip, begins the hack, No rest – no dreaming deep. It does no good, I cannot breathe, Downstairs I go to find Some solace from the … Continue reading →

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Biggest Loser: Family Edition. Party Like It’s 1999

Posted on July 5, 2011 by pegoleg

Did you know that alcohol has calories?  If you’re following along, you’ll know that this is the summer of the family weight-loss challenge.  We just finished the third week, and I conducted a little experiment over the weekend.  I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Biggest Loser: Family Edition. Losing Is For Winners!

Posted on June 27, 2011 by pegoleg

Here we are, with the first week of the family weight-loss challenge under our slightly looser belts.  Time for a status update. As I posted last week, my sister Terry issued a challenge  for all the women in our family to … Continue reading →

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Biggest Loser: Family Edition. Game On.

Posted on June 20, 2011 by pegoleg

All the women in my family are voluptuous.  Zaftig.  Generously padded with fleshy fleshliness.  At least that’s what we would be in a Rubens painting.  In modern parlance, one might say fat – if one were an insensitive boor. Enter … Continue reading →

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