Published in ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR·PinnedMember-onlyLose 100 Pounds With ‘SMART’ Weight LossWeight Loss is a Lifestyle, Not a Diet — For many people, weight loss is a series of ups and downs. You may lose some weight, then you plateau, and before you know it, you gain the weight back. Every year or so, you wind up repeating the cycle. This is referred to as yoyo dieting. It is not…Weight Loss4 min readWeight Loss4 min read
Published in Perspective View·PinnedMember-onlyThis Is The Best Weight Loss MethodLose weight and keep it off for good — The most frequent journey taken is a weight loss journey. According to Statista, 184.83 million Americans went on a diet in 2020. Among that number of dieters, less than 10 percent have likely achieved weight loss success. ‘Diet’ is a dirty four-letter word because it insinuates extreme and excessive weight…Weight Loss2 min readWeight Loss2 min read
PinnedMember-onlyLose 100 Pounds With These Weight Loss HabitsMust-have habits for a successful weight loss journey — Are you dieting with no results and losing more patience than weight? The simple truth is that diets don’t work. Reports suggest that up to 95 percent of diets fail. This study concludes that the more you diet, the more likely you are to gain weight. The average dieter gains…Weight Loss4 min readWeight Loss4 min read
Published in Perspective View·PinnedMember-onlyI Stopped Intermittent Fasting For Three Days and This is What HappenedI intermittent fast every day for a minimum of 16 hours. On most days, I fast for 18 hours. Throughout the month, I occasionally have one meal a day (OMAD). During the weekend of my wife’s and my wedding anniversary, I dropped my fasting routine and ate incessantly. On the…Food3 min readFood3 min read
PinnedMember-onlyI Lost 100 Pounds With This Daily RoutineLifestyle habits that support weight loss — Weight loss is a difficult and arduous task. It is easy to drown in the sea of information that weight loss presents. Prior to taking control of my weight loss journey, I was certainly inundated with conflicting information. All of the special diets and weight loss programs can leave you…Weight Loss3 min readWeight Loss3 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyIs She Saying I’m on Food Stamps Because I’m BlackCashier assumes I’m on food stamps — I recently made a quick trip to the local grocery store to pick up a gallon of milk and some water. It took me only about 5 minutes to grab the few items on my shopping list and head toward the checkout counter. While walking into the self-checkout area, I…Race4 min readRace4 min read
6 days agoMember-onlyBlack Celebrities Are Not the Leaders of the Black CommunityWho are the Black thinkers and leaders today — When I think about influential Black intellectuals and leaders, some of the first names to come to mind are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, and Langston Hughes. Behind them are the next generation of influential Black intellectuals and leaders: James…African American4 min readAfrican American4 min read
Mar 26Member-onlyWhy Do You Write? Here’s My StoryThis is my 200th article: reflecting on my writing journey — I’ve always known that I wanted to be a writer. I recall when I was in 2nd grade, for a writing assignment, I wrote a poem about my paternal granddad who had passed away a few months prior. My teacher was impressed with my writing, and she sent a note…Medium4 min readMedium4 min read
Mar 25Member-onlyThe McDonald’s Diet: The Latest Dumb Weight Loss Trend“Eating only McDonald's for 100 days” diet — By now, we should be accustomed to the abundance of fad diets. Every few months, some old dieting trend resurges on social media sparking interest among weight loss hopefuls. The latest to reappear in the dieting community is the McDonald’s diet. Yeah, you read that right—the Mcdonald's diet. When you…Weight Loss3 min readWeight Loss3 min read
Mar 22Member-onlyCorncob Pizza? This Is So AmericanBefore having “Knowledge of Health,” I frequently ate at Little Caesars. Those “Hot-N-Ready” pizzas used to be “everythang” — (in my southern dialect). It was nothing for me to stop by the local pizza spot and grab a few cheese and pepperoni pizzas for a quick family dinner. Even after…Food2 min readFood2 min read
