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		<title>OK, I Lost the Diet Competition</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/04/14/okay-i-lost-the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve probably eaten about 25,000 grape tomatoes in the past three-plus months, part of my now-failed campaign to beat Sean Kelley in the weight-loss smackdown. Yes, I concede: Kelley lost 20 while I lost something between 11 and 12 (you have to shave it finely when you&#8217;ve lost), and that&#8217;s that. 
But it&#8217;s turned me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=215&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Real&#8221; Weight-Loss Numbers</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/04/03/the-real-weight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Weight-Loss Competition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tanita Body Composition Analyzer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been concerned for some time that my measurements are off. Although I am using an expensive and technically advanced digital scale to measure weight loss, there&#8217;s little consistency in the readings it gives. On some mornings it will read 180 pounds; by the evening, I may weigh 187. Sure enough, the next morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=201&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of the Dieter as an Ancient Tortoise</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/03/31/some-headline-h/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weight-Loss Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven pounds in 11 weeks: At this point, I have to accept the dreary fact that it’s going to take me six months to lose 25 pounds. That’s twice the time it would take my triumphant opponent, Sean Kelley, to do the same (though he is prone to spectacular fluctuations; he says he has roller-coastered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=195&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On My Diet I Ate the Superfat Gelato, Not the Nonfat Sorbet</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/03/18/on-my-diet-i-at/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight-Loss Competition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I own, because I’m a guy and enjoy owning impractical machines, a real Italian gelato maker. It weighs about as much as Toyota Prius and isn’t much smaller. I almost threw my back out the other day heaving it onto the kitchen counter. I then proceeded to dump in a custard made of tangelo essence, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=180&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I’m Switching to Cage-Free Eggs</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/03/11/im-switching-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight-Loss Competition]]></category>
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I’ve been eating a lot more eggs on this diet (two, poached, 150 calories—what a deal) and noticed at my local supermarket that a dozen of the large, cage-free, antibiotic-free, hormone-free, vegetarian-diet variety (Nature’s Yoke brand) cost only 60 cents more than eggs that are entirely free of any claims to virtue—i.e., eggs probably produced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=173&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My New Diet Mantra: Learn to Love Hunger</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/03/06/my-new-diet-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Tuesday evening I trudge to my healthy-eating class with trepidation. Four things are bound to happen that will make me uncomfortable.
• My dietitian will know how things are really going at the weekly weigh-in.
• I will inevitably confess my nutrition sins.
• I will explain (again) why I haven’t been exercising.
• I will become very, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=168&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beaten (Almost) by the McDonald’s and Fried Seafood Diet</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/03/03/beaten-almost-b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight-Loss Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10 pounds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point in any failed campaign the loser wants to call the challenger a cheat. My advisers—actually, I have none, except the angry little voices that I’m starting to hear in my calorie-starved brain—are telling me to do that, because Sean Kelley is wiping the floor with me in this weight-loss smackdown. Between Jan. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=163&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Miracle Fat-Burning Power of Resistant Starch!</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/02/25/the-miracle-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just ordered a bag of resistant starch on the Internet. I thought I had a can of it at home—the stuff I use to spray my shirts with when I’m ironing—but it turns out resistant starch is (according to the March issue of Prevention) “the new power nutrient,” not a laundry product. It’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=156&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weight-Loss Success Hinges on My Food Journal</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/02/21/weight-loss-suc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Kelley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few days in January I ate really well: Lots of fish and vegetables, a smidgen of dairy, and very few carbohydrates and fat. These are the pages I like to look at in my weight-loss food diary. (I considered putting gold stars on those pages, but my three-year-old won&#8217;t let me borrow any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=153&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Diet Isn’t Failing</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/02/18/my-diet-isnt-fa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thus end two plateau weeks on the diet—virtually nothing lost, nothing gained. Probable cause: too much restaurant-hopping and the reintroduction of wine. Or: the old metabolism-adjustment trick, as my body cottons on and turns the pilot light down to compensate for the threat of starvation. In any case it’s not depressing to make almost no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=148&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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