Just 4 Today, take my fiber supplement twice (once so far), drink 2 liters of water (1/3) and weigh myself (done). And walk 3 times today for 15 minutes each time (3415!). Just today.
What are you going to do today?
Monthly Archives: February 2007
My Daily Affirmation
Just today, I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds. And I’ll weigh myself and use the tools of The Hacker’s Diet to help me reach (and keep) my goals.
Murder by Spreadsheet or Why Market-Based Health Insurance CAN’T work
I’ve been remembering the USPS discussions of the early/mid 1980s. That was a time when everyone was terribly impressed with the successful efficiency of Federal Express and UPS. And there was talk that we could disband the USPS and let the Free Market handle all postal service.
Of course the problem with that idea was that Federal Express and UPS don’t deliver everywhere. While the USPS delivers a first class letter everywhere in the country for the same price, Federal Express & UPS wouldn’t. It wouldn’t make Free-Market-Sense to price a letter to Alaska at the same rate as a letter across New York City. Rural customers, those in Hawaii or Alaska — they’d be charged the full market cost of transporting their mail. If they could get it delivered at all.
And gradually talk of dismantling the USPS quietly faded away.
How does the Postal Service compare to Health Care?
February 24, 2007 — Just 4 Today
Just 4 Today, I’ll drink my fiber twice (done it once), drink 2 liters of water (about 1/3), walk 3 miles (I’ve walked 2 miles already), NOT eat between meals & NOT take seconds.
What are you going to do today?
The Sugar Report
I totally forgot to take my medication this morning with breakfast. And when I (finally) remembered to do a glucose test it was 173 — and that was 2-1/2 hours after I ate! So I took my medication and went off on my walk (the 2 miles I mentioned above) and now it’s down to a good-healthy 82.
I know I’m lucky that I can snap myself back into the good-zone so easily. And I’m also lucky that by monitoring my glucose so closely I’ll lose weight more consistantly.
I just wish mistakes weren’t so potentially dangerous.
My Daily Affirmation
Just today, I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds. And I’ll weigh myself and use the tools of The Hacker’s Diet to help me reach (and keep) my goals.