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When I was in my 20s I managed to diet and exercise my way from size 16 to size 8, and while I loved shopping for clothes for the first time in my life, I felt incredibly uncomfortable with being checked out on the street. Many years later I dieted from a size 26 to a size 16 (I think you can see my life pattern here,…
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Miss Manners always counsels us to respond to rudeness with politeness, as the best form of shaming, for example: "You will need to lose even more weight before you can be in my wedding" gets a reply of "Of course! And I want to thank you for giving me some motivation. Apparently I didn't have enough while I was losing the…
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I quit about 4 1/2 years ago after smoking for most of the previous 35 years. Two things helped. First my doctor told me I was showing some signs of kidney stress due to high blood pressure, which scared the heck out of me, so I tossed my cigarettes at the end of that call. But then I kept off the cigs because, unlike…
