Archives: November 2008
Mon Nov 24, 2008
Thanksgiving Dinner
Although every bariatric patient has the capacity to figure out how to handle Thanksgiving dinner, it is important for the physician to give specific advice, because, otherwise, the it's-okay-to-do-what-everyone-else-does error takes over. The idea of Thanksgiving gives people warm, fuzzy feelings, leading directly to fuzzy thinking. No, you may not overeat on Thanksgiving to any great degree. Gluttony is gluttony on the last Thursday in November as much as any other day.
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Thu Nov 20, 2008
Back to the Media
I will be speaking at Bus Boys and Poets bookstore 2021 14th St., N.W. from 3-6 on December 18. Other book stores too, and I'm going back to radio. I have a press agent. Are you reading this, Sheryl? My successful patients are eager to go on, with me.
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Tue Nov 18, 2008
Confusing Size with Quality
Americans have terribly confused size with quality. They think anything is better if it's bigger. Food certainly. But also cars, TVs, houses, breasts, theaters, stadiums. Europeans, on the other hand, appreciate quality, the best they can get, but as for size--things should be only big enough and no more.
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Wed Nov 12, 2008
Report on Group Lessons
My first session of group lessons is now finished. I began with six intelligent, overweight women who had nevertheless not learned the Six Lessons or read my book or lost weight. My initial idea was that (1) they were visual, not verbal learners (2) motivated to make changes and lose weight; and (3) they were victims of oversized meals, plates, pots, pans & packages, and (4) NOT significantly snacking on cakes, cookies & ice cream.
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