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email stated "already getting family resistance but trying" By now you’ve probably heard of our “tweet it don’t eat it” hash tag (#TIDEI).   If you are on twitter, tweet to me (@Foodtrainers) or Carolyn (@onesmartbrownie) or to both of us.   Any time you find yourself eye to eye with a food you’d like to avoid, tweet to us “my coworker brought in Christmas cookies they don't look worth it #TIDEI. We’ll fire back encouragement as soon as we see it. The secret is that just sending that tweet usually helps you bypass the food threat. Recently, I received an SOS #TIDEI message: @Foodtrainers using my might to stay out of the kitchen after dinner #TIDEI My reply: Keep that kitchen closed! Love the #TIDEI, let me know how it goes And then: @Foodtrainers I forced myself into a Netflix binge, I even put dishes on hold to avoid the kitchen.  Me: Ooh, does @Netflix save calories? Generally TV isn’t great for your eating. We tend to eat mindlessly in front of the TV. Have a toddler ...

I’m a clipper. Even though everything is available online when I read an article I like, I rip it out of the newspaper or magazine(when it is my newspaper or magazine, I mean I have manners). This weekend, for some reason I was fascinated learning Tupperware parties are huge in Indonesia . Of course I left thinking that I hope the Indonesian women do not microwave in plastic, do they know about BPAs? How can I tell them? Then, I moved to the Style section.   I’m always a sucker for the Modern Love column but this one about a mother and daughter and poems in her shoe ? I saved that. But there’s always one article each weekend that is my #1. I am still thinking about “ Medicating Women’s Feelings ”.   While the author, Julie Holland, discusses that mood meds are overprescribed, particularly to women, she also explained that part of what makes women women is our moods. “But we are under constant pressure to restrain our emotional lives. We have been taught to apologize for our te...