A Diet guarenteed to work… if you dare.
OK, if you are like me you have gone on plenty of diets, tried “everything” but “nothing worked.” Most of the times, if we are honest, we probably do something to sabotage it without even realizing we are doing it. But I believe I may have found a cure. The only question becomes, if you have the “stomach” to see it through.
My idea stems from a book I heard about recently, Everything I ate for a Year. We all have some sort of camera at our disposal at virtually all times, whether it be that little point and shoot, or is there a phone left that doesn’t include a camera in it nowadays? So, do exactly what that author did. Whenever you are about to put something in your mouth, whether it is a cup of coffee, a “little snack” or whatever it is, if it is going to go in your mouth, take a picture.
This solves to different issues. Issue one, you have documentation of everything you have put in your mouth (assuming you don’t “skip” a few pictures), and it will help you see what you are actually consuming on a daily basis. The second potential helpful benefit, is that you may even start questioning whether the calories are “worth” having to take a picture and add it to your collection. (Or should you be particularly daring, and post it to a collection on say Flickr, “Is it worth letting people know that I eat that junk?”)
What do you think… would photographing every single thing you put in your mouth deter you from eating more?
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Help Wanted - This one isn’t a link. I have been a bit lagging on my posting lately because I am working on a new endevour that I have been wanting to work on for quite some time. A new Podcast. Any tips or tricks on setting everything up would be greatly appreciated. I have been looking at MightySeek’s PodPress plugin for WordPress, any opinions to share?
Go ahead, defend DRM now - Microsoft announced that it is taking offline the License Servers that handle the DRM (Digital Rights Management) for the now defunct msn Music store. Once that happens, anybody who “purchased” music from the store will only be able to listen to it on the devices it currently resides on. So if that PC holding your music dies, too bad, your music is history, and you would have to go buy it again. Once again proving that you do not “own” music that is bogged down with DRM. While the music labels may like this idea, it is just plain stupid in today’s day and age. Just another reason, I am now using Amazon for my music purchases.
You must be a terrorist - Freedom? Protection against unreasonable searches? You must be some sort of terrorist or pedophile with something to hide, right? No matter, according to Ars Technica, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that US Customs agents have the right to take your laptop and search it without reason. Only your alimentary canal is safe against search without cause. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Bad Wiring? - BusinessWeek offered pure speculation on Dell acquiring Radio Shack. While most stories I have seen talk about how it would ruin Dell, or be bad for Dell, I am more terrified of what Dell would do to Radio Shack. I mean, you could be sure that the days of being able to buy circuit boards, and wiring would be over. Where would millions of kids get their parts for science projects?
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Idiot du Jour - You probably spotted this piece if you read Career and Kids (and if you don’t… why not?), but I couldn’t help but really get a bit steamed about the idiotic comment in middle:
“Text messaging is perfect for moms because it doesn’t require a BlackBerry or high-end data device, but can be used on any phone,” said Roger Entner, a senior vice president at IAG Research.
(The full article, which other than this stupid snippet is actually quite good can be found here.)
IAG Research is supposed to be “know” consumers, so the fact that the senior vice president of the company would say something so patently offensive is vexing. As I said when I first saw it, I cannot figure out exactly which way he was intending this sort of backhanded comment to go. Does he assume that all mothers are Stay-At-Home moms and thus not have the need for a corporate device such as a Blackberry? Or is he simply suggesting that women can’t figure out a “high-end device?”
On a bit of a side note, I continue to be amused at how texting is viewed as such a phenomenon here in the United States. Like it is some big mysterious thing. Yet get out of the States, and texting is just a way to communicate, no different than the way e-mail is viewed here.
Some things just never go away - I am not one that is much on following the lives of celebrities and gossip, so I may have missed the real point of this article over at Fame Crawler (well not entirely, but it is not my point here) about Jennie Garth possibly getting cast over Tori Spelling in the new 90210 series. What got me is… THEY ARE MAKING A 90210 spinoff !! Yikes!
Can we talk? - Perhaps I have had my head in the sand, or hopefully I am right that I don’t need to worry about this quite yet, but Liz over at This Full House, has an excellent post with lots of resources about talking to your teens about drinking.
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CHO me the outrage - I have to admit that I am more than a little surprised at the lack of lashback against Yahoo! and their new Shine. Ask.com recently decided it was going to be a niche search engine, dedicated to “married women looking for help managing their lives” and now Yahoo! has seemingly taken the steps to create a sight dedicated to the “Chief Household Officer” (CHO). According the story on Yahoo News, Yahoo said the site will have “attitude,” “personality,” and humor, while providing advice and secret tips like “a friend.” Maybe it is just me (and am I really the right one to be offended by this?), but about the only way I could see Yahoo! making this a bit more misogynistic, would have been if they added to that saying something like, “would be just like your best friend, only it won’t steal your boyfriend.” The only thing I can figure is that the content is good enough to keep people from being annoyed by the marketing mis-steps.
Comparison shop on the fly - So you are shopping in a store and see something you like, but you are thinking, “I could probably find it cheaper online” but that requires you to avoid the instant gratification of buying it “now” right? Well, not anymore. Amazon has now started the TextBuyIt program, which people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that’s “Amazon” on the keypad) from anywhere their cell phones work — including from inside physical stores.”
And you thought it was just to wake you up - According to a new research report, coffee may cut the risk of dementia. So, as it turns out, not only will coffee enable you to keep up with your kids, it will help keep them from driving you nuts. (I’m joking, please no e-mail defining what dementia really means)
Not Just Wrong, well beyond it - Every time I think I can’t see anything new that parent’s do that would bother me… bang… there it is. This time, it is an article in Philadelphia Magazine about mothers taking their pre-pubescent daughters in for Bikini Waxes, eyebrow waxing and other spa beauty treatments. Tell me, what are the odds of these girls not growing up with severe body issues?
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I thought Raven-Symone was pretty much done when she passed on actually being part of the Chetah Girls, but apparently not. It seem she is on a 55 city “Pajama Party” tour with the child band Clique Girls (the Clique Girls are 8, 9 and 10 years old, making them the youngest pop group in music history. How cool is that?)
Whenever I am in a store like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. I almost always wind up helping or explaining something to another customer. Either because the sales associate doesn’t know the information, or is trying to push something on a customer that isn’t really quite right for them. I guess now I had better be careful, because there have been times that I have badmouthed a product, or spoken about how overpriced it was at a given establishment. When somebody did that at Best Buy recently however, apparently they called the cops on him.
When I first read about a new study that says teens don’t worry about losing their hearing. My first reaction was, “Duh… Ya think?” But as I thought about it a little more, I seem to remember hearing and reading about such thing when I was a teen (yes… all those years ago), because of the sudden popularity of the Walkman. Now I don’t doubt that the damage that can be done with today’s stronger earphones, especially with noise cancellation. But I don’t see “everybody” being deaf from those Walkan’s now, so I am kind of thinking that these studies are overstating things, just a tad.
Being a father of a little girl, I was quite outraged by the message presented at the website missbimbo.com. But Tracee from So Sioux Me has done such a good job, and expressed exactly what I was thinking, it would probably be best if you just read her post.
How funny is THAT Department - The RIAA who has no problems with suing and attempting to collect a $220,000 award in the one (and only) file-sharing suit they have won, from a woman that allegedly shared 24 songs. But now they are mad and think it is excessive that they have been ordered to pay $298,000 in attorney’s fees on a case they didn’t win.
A worm in the Apple - I am sure there are plenty of Apple Fan-boys that thought nothing about Apple trying to sneak Safari onto iTunes users machines, but if you think you are safer using Safari, you are sadly mistaken.
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