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Eat Foods to be Healthy, Not to Lose Weight

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        Lately, I have been reading social media posts from friends who want to lose weight. They are posting online hoping others will leave comments as to what foods are best to achieve that. They receive plenty of suggestions. Some are good. It bothers me that our society is fixated on losing weight instead of wanting to eat healthy just for the sake of wanting to be as healthy as possible. There are plenty of businesses who make millions of dollars off those of us who believe their sales pitch. I could name them but I think we know who they are. Dieting is big business. Telling us, especially women, what we should look like and our society's definition of what beauty looks like unattainable.  All of us come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Diversity is good. We are all beautiful. Each of us has value. Stop listening to advertisements from companies who do not care about you. They only care about making more and more money. My suggestion is to eat less proce...
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How it all Began

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    We were in the midst of the “Great Recession,” 2010 and full-time work was hard to find, so I worked three part-time jobs. If that wasn’t stressful enough, my “internal plumbing” was giving me a lot of trouble. Most of my days were spent juggling work schedules and looking for bathrooms. I was tired all the time but blamed it on the fact my day started at 5 am, to make sure I got my “morning business” done before I was sitting on the 5 freeway, driving to my first job. There is nothing worse than having a bathroom emergency and finding yourself stuck in rush hour traffic!      Over the years I saw different doctors hoping to find out what was going on and each of them told me the same thing; I was suffering from stress or IBS — caused by too much stress. Then one day I found drops of blood on my toilet paper after I wiped myself. About six months before my “correct” diagnosis, a nurse practitioner insisted the blood was from hemorrhoids that were p...
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I Made a New YouTube Video

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Someone contacted me today, asking how I'm doing. I had not made a video in five years, so I decided today that I will start making them again. June 3rd of this year will be my ten year anniversary kicking cancer in the behind. It's a good time to share what I learned about health, wellness and life in general. I am also open to suggestions. What would you like me to talk about?  Be well. Ingebird
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Resting is Essential

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  A gentle reminder. Be well. Ingebird
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4-7-8 Breathing Technique (Dr. Weil Video)

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 I just want to make a quick post about breath work. Breathing is a huge part of our well being. It is the most important thing we do to stay alive and many us breathe too shallow. Dr. Weil created a good breathing exercise to help remind us to slow down. I started doing it this week.        Be well   Ingebird  
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RectalCancerMyAssPart2

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     It has been a while since I posted on my original blog; rectalcancermyass . In 2013, I moved my blog over to WordPress . A few years later I moved my posts to my Facebook page. I kept the original name and after eleven years of posting on Face Book, some idiot decided that the name of my page went against their "community standards." The name,  "Rectal Cancer My Ass" is pornographic. I was told to change the name or they would take down the page. I told dear Zuckerburg to shove it. They removed my page. So I went back to WordPress and discovered they changed their page format. It is no longer user friendly. The block format sucks big red ones. I can change it back to its original format but I have to pay to do it. WordPress can shove it. So, I went back to my original blog site and they changed the web address. I cannot get into my old account. (This is when I remind myself to go with the flow) so I started a new Blogger account and it is now called rectalcance...
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