Author: grossi1219

We get it, it's kinda hard.  Stop telling us it's hard.  Beating cancer is REALLY hard. Birthing a baby is REALLY hard (trust me). Losing a parent is REALLY hard. (POO)   Drinking your coffee black. Is. Kinda. Sucky. You might have done stuff harder than this, we think, and you might come up with a million excuses not to complete the program in the most anal retentive of ways in which this program was written. It’s thirty days (we get it, that sucks, try finding a month without an alcohol event in your life, I dare you), and it’s for the most important health cause on your quiet street, potentially—the only physical body you will ever have in this lifetime, unless science and technology are able to get their shit together in combination with some of those stem cells of yours and they just grow you another one.  It's possible, right?

I think we've all experienced a certain reluctance when it comes to seeing doctors.  It's either fear of doctors (it's a thing, really - latrophobia), or it's the frustration of finding a good one, or maybe it's a question of time, or insurance and healthcare costs...   There is also the issue of having a … Continue reading What Do Milk Thistle and Zinc have in Common?

After getting pregnant, happily, but unexpectedly, I was not very thoughtful or careful about the way I ate or thought about food.   I knew that the "eating for two" idea had been debunked and was no longer accepted advice, but I somehow fell back upon that lore and used it as a subconscious excuse as … Continue reading What I’ve Learned from Trying to Lose Weight