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New evidence is suggesting that one on one coaching may help many people lose weight and maintain their weightloss. Today's New York Times has an article Winning the Nutrition Game, With Help From a Coach. A typical coach charges $100-200/hour for personalized consulting. Coaches might plan meals, suggest exercise routines, or uncover hidden problems like food allergies. Diet coaches typically have degrees in nutrition, exercise physiology or medicine.
Being a smoker is hard these days. In Colorado and California you can't smoke in any public place that serves food. You are usually relegated to designated spots outside in all weathers. When you do smoke, people glare at you or make comments about how you are killing your children.
Luckily, along with anti-smoking laws, the government is also making a lot of resources available on how to quit smoking:
Know of any others?
This website used Photoshop to add weight to celebrities. Here's what Sandra Bullock and Catherine Zeta-Jones might look like if they were obese.
The website author said that it will convince you not to eat. I don't think so but I do think it illustrates how much our society values being thin. I had no problem believing that those actresses would never have made it if they were obese.
Cognitive Friday got some interesting data about who is always hot and who is always cold. As most of us would have guessed, women are much more likely to be cold than men. (As I type this my hands are freezing!) Thin people and young people are also more likely to be cold.
One related theory I heard is that women have a much smaller range of "comfortable" temperatures because their bodies need to be able to regulate a fetus' temperature. I no longer believe this one because the one thing I really loved about being pregnant was always having warm hands! So obviously I was much warmer when I was pregnant than when I'm not pregnant.
Cognitive Friday also discovered that exercise didn't change people's answers at all which surprised me. I wonder if you could measure muscle mass if that would coorelate to feeling warmer like being overweight does?
Do you fit the data? If not, how are you different?
Here's a trick I use to figure out if I really, really want to eat a cookie or not. I figure out how much weight I would gain if I had that same snack every day for a month. So an oreo a day is half a pound a month. A bud light a day is a pound a month. Would you rather eat an oreo every day (assuming you can stop at one) or would you rather weigh half a pound less at the end of the month?
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