Hire a Slippery Slope Architect for Your Weight Management House-PODSNACKS-ArtoftheDiet119-Rebroadcast
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley, Pat Coakley-Writer/Photographer/Blogger
3y ago
“I think losing weight, on any program, is done from a house built on a flat piece of land but weight maintenance needs a house built on a slippery slope.”-Pat Coakley [THIS IS A RE-BROADCAST from 2016 and guess what?  I think Slippery Slope Architecture for Weight Management is the single best concept I've had on this whole subject of weight management in 10+ years of gabbin' pretty much non-stop about this topic, including another reference to my evil twin.  September 2020?  Slippery slopes have taken on new meaning and once the anxiety of March and April initial lockdown lev ..read more
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Voices from My Bunker 2020: Seat in Reality Ballpark with only Cut-Outs of Friends & Family.
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
3y ago
The Reality Ballpark is a phrase I first used 10 years ago to describe how I began trying to maintain a weight loss. I needed to take a seat in the Reality Ballpark each day by stepping on the scale. It has been a winning strategy but now, in 2020, I am using this phrase in an entirely new way. I've been able to manage my weight these past 10 years but today am trying to manage risk by remaining in my seat. It is a formidable challenge. One way of understanding this challenge is: As the last ferry leaves the harbor with most of my friends and family, I am sitting in The Reality Ballpark with t ..read more
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Mindful Eating is for Normal People
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
3y ago
I am reposting this post in August 2020 when most of us are now dealing with a pandemic as well as weight issues.  Although managing life in a pandemic has taken over the #1 spot in my consciousness, it is always good for me to periodically affirm a few truths about weight management that are true pandemic or no pandemic. My souless twin now uses pandemic issues as a cover!  Anyway, hope you can relate to some of it as well. —————————————————————————————————– The rage is on apparently: mindful eating.  Let your intuition be your guide.  “Make peace with food.”  “Honor ..read more
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Meet Joan. Voices from My Bunker 2020
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
3y ago
This week on my podcast, “Voices from My Bunker 2020”, meet Joan. This podcast was for five years known as Podsnacks/Art of the Diet. 2020 changed that. COVID19's life-altering challenges supplanted 10 years of weight maintenance as my number #1 preoccupation. Although fingers crossed, my weight is holding steady through this! Anyway, meet Joan. She did not have the prerequisites for a successful quarantine as I did. In other words, she is not a sloth or someone who enjoys sitting for hours at a time reading, clicking, snackin', snoozing and I feel 100% sure never uses her bed as her living ro ..read more
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Voices from My Bunker 2020. Meet Steph. A quarantined life in South Africa today.
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
3y ago
Meet Steph, living in South Africa during COVID 19. Send to anyone complaining about wearing a mask. Think you are tired of your phase of reopening from quarantine in the US? Listen to my guest, Steph, this week on the podcast “Voices from My Bunker 2020” (formerly known as PODSNACKS/Art of the Diet) speaking to me from her home in Stellenbosch, South Africa, (she grew up in Portland, Oregon) where she and her family are living while her husband finishes his graduate program there at the University. I spent most of the interview going, “Really?” or “Wow!” She has a way of describing her life a ..read more
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Voices From My Bunker 2020. Meet Alice. A First Grade Teacher During Covid19 in Washington, DC.
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
3y ago
Every day we see one school announcing they will be “virtual” starting in September or we see snapshots of crowded corridors with 90% unmasked students in hallways. In my latest episode, of Voices From My Bunker 2020 (formerly “Podsnacks/Art of the Diet”), I interview my niece, Alice, who is a First Grade Teacher in a Catholic school in Washington, DC. As we spoke she was still not sure what would happen with her school but we focused on the period of March to June when the school closed and two days later she was teaching “virtually” her students. She was in brand new territory and the challe ..read more
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Voices from My Bunker. Meet Carol. Ep. 2. 70+ years old, Lives Alone, Receiving Chemo Treatments for 3 years AND has to deal with the quarantine of COVID19. What does she wish?
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
3y ago
I was asked this past week why I am so conservative in this whole “reopening” phase 3 in Massachusetts. I have tried to do a COVID19 safe picnic on my porch but was hopeless in keeping the proper distancing as a hostess so I don't think there will be many of those in my future. At any rate, I answered the question by saying that when you are 75 years old, live alone, and the best scenario is if you contract COVID19 that you can remain in your home rather than be hospitalized… it poses the immediate question to the solo sick person, “Who is going to take care of me at home?” Um..that would be m ..read more
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Voices from My Bunker, ep.02. Meet Babz. Hope is all I feel after listening to her.
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
4y ago
Voices from My Bunker is the evolution from my Art of the Diet podcast where for five years I focused on maintaining a significant weight loss to 2020 when in addition to weight maintenance I am forced to focus on my sanity maintenance. It ain't easy, is it? I decided to focus on other people and how they are maintaining their sanity in order to get some tips I, and maybe you might need. Today, Meet Babz. “Needed to. Meant to. “This is how she answered my question about if she was fearful of being a health care worker in the middle of a pandemic in Boston, Massachusetts.  After the interv ..read more
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Voices from My Bunker 2020. At play in dangerous times. Meet Melissa
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
4y ago
Voices from my Bunker 2020, Episode One! Formerly known as “PODSNACKS/Art of the Diet, this podcast interview will reintroduce you to Melissa from Iowa. She is a great transition to my rebranded podcast, now titled, “Voices from My Bunker 2020”. I am taking my own advice and beginning, again. The former podcast focused mainly on weight maintenance but in 2020 my life, and perhaps yours as well, has by necessity just focused on sanity maintenance. My doorbell hasn't rung in months and at 75 it is not likely to until there's a vaccine. So, I decided to invite folks into my virtual living room vi ..read more
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Eating Our Way Through a Pandemic-PODSNACKS/Art of the Diet
Art of the Diet
by Pat Coakley
4y ago
It occurred to me that interviewing a wise woman after almost three months of quarantine might help me and maybe my listeners. So, I called on Melissa who I'd interviewed in the first year of the podcast in 2015 when, at that time, both of us had been five to six years into successfully maintaining a significant weight loss. That interview is available for free in transcript form if you use the sign-up form to the right of this post. It turned out to be one of the most popular interviews I did in these past five years. So, who better to call and ask for a new interview? Melissa is her name. Sh ..read more
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