Battling Obesity

By Jackie Bushell

Your thyroid is a gland situated in the front of your neck. The hormones (chemical messengers) that it produces affect a great number of your body processes and other glands. So if your thyroid becomes underactive (medical name hypothyroidism), your whole body is thrown off balance.

Official estimates of hypothyroidism in Western populations vary from two to seven per cent, although some experts believe it is significantly under-diagnosed, and that the true percentage is probably as high as thirty per cent. Whatever the case, hypothyroidism appears to be increasing and this is starting to attract the attention of researchers, clinicians and government health departments as an emerging public health problem.

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Greetings and Salutations ..

The nameservers have kicked in and this blog appears to be ready for new posts. I am in the final stages of testing the database, the permissions, etc etc etc.

We’re almost there .. and back to normal!

Please take a look around, and see if you notice anything different. I would appreciate your comments …

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Glad to be able to contribute!

He finally did it, he got me to contribute to his blog. Of course, I’m referring to Hartley, my dear husband .. the one you all know as HART (1-800-HART).

Hartley and I joined Weight Watchers in May of 2005. That means we’ve just had our 2nd anniversary. Even though I joined Weight Watchers because Hartley’s cholesterol was too high, it was the best thing I could have done for myself.

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Breakfast

Coffee - 1 point
4 whole wheat toast - 4 points
2 TBSP Peanut Butter - 4 points

Lunch

none

Snacks During the day

Orange - 1 point
All-Bran Bar - 2 points

Dinner

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Breakfast

Coffee - 1 point
orange - 1 point

Lunch

Orange - 1 point

Snacks during the day

None, really!

Meeting, Dinner, and Socializing with Clients & Friends

>> over the course of the evening “Wing Night Tuesdays at Smitty’s Lounge”
.. 24 small chicken wings (in 6 lots) .. - taking 24 points
.. 2 pints of regular beer @ 4 points per pint - taking 8 points
.. 2 pints of lite beer @ 3 points per pint - taking 6 points
.. 2 small bowls of lounge popcorn~ - taking 4 points

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Breakfast

Coffee - 1 point
4 Whole Wheat toast - 4 points
with Peanut butter - 4 points

Lunch

Cheerios - plus refill - 4 points
plus 1 cup of 2% milk - 3 points

Snacks during the day

Nutrigrain Sweet & Salty bar - 3 points
Thinsation Oreo cookies - 2 point
Singles Pringles - 2 points

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