It's been three days-can we tell the truth now? updated

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Thursday December 16, 2010 · 1:51 PM PST

2010/12/16 · 13:51

Update: Right now it is running about 50/50 on whether it is ever ok to mention negative information when a public figure passes. However, it seems as though those who are voting "Never," are not giving us the benefit of their reasoning. So, c'mon, folks. If it's "Never, no matter what evil thing they've done" tell us why.

I recieved my first hide rating here at Dkos when Richard Holbrooke passed away a few days ago. At first I was confused ("Gee, what happened to my comments?") Once I figured it out, I felt taken aback and a little embarassed. It hadn't been my intention to offend and it certainly hadn't been my intention to become an archetype, as someone called me. If you go to the parent of this comment you can see what I mean. I reread the glowing tributes and wondered if my recollection was so wrong. I mulled over a "Mea Culpa" diary in my head these last few days. Being quite short of time this past week, I just didn't get to it. Good thing, it turns out.

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Is it ever ok to post a negative comment in a R.I.P. story/diary?

42 votes Vote Now!

Is it ever ok to post a negative comment in a R.I.P. story/diary?

Never. (Explain in comments.)

14 votes

Sometimes. (Explain in comments)

28 votes

WHEE - Ecstatic Dance Openthread

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Saturday May 08, 2010 · 3:45 AM PDT

2010/05/08 · 03:45

Wanna fly? Wanna float? Wanna plunge joyfully into chaos and emerge grounded in the unity of all things? Then you might wanna check out the 5 Rhythms. More after the fold. Welcome to WHEE!!!

WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts.

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Moving to music with open hearted people can be

16 votes Vote Now!

Moving to music with open hearted people can be

fun

2 votes

sweaty

0 votes

beautiful

0 votes

sacred

0 votes

Did I mention fun?

2 votes

thirsty work

1 vote

good exercise

0 votes

profound on the molecular level

2 votes

all of the above

9 votes

WHEE - Open Thread... oops edition

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Thursday April 22, 2010 · 6:32 PM PDT

2010/04/22 · 18:32

Dang! There I was, raisin' the stakes and all with a cocky "I'll see you and raise you..." etc etc and I just totally forgot that I was supposed to be doin' the Thursday pm WHEE. I feel like that last little pig that went whee, whee, whee... all the way home. Wanna join me?

WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts.

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I'm late... can I ever make it up to you?

15 votes Vote Now!

I'm late... can I ever make it up to you?

yeah, right

2 votes

0 votes

maybe - if you get your shit together

1 vote

of course, don't worry about it

11 votes

pie

1 vote

WHEE Open Thread - True Confessions Edition

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Saturday April 17, 2010 · 6:55 AM PDT

2010/04/17 · 06:55

Greetings, Wheebles. Just got done catchin' up with Wee Mama's "Plateaus and Pooties" diary (ooh, I love it when she speaks French!) and thought I'd just jump in and post this open thread.

WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts.

I'm dealing with the plateau thing myself. I know what to do. And (here is the "true confession" part) what not to do.... Won't you join me below the fold?

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Does your alcohol consumption an obstacle to your goals?

22 votes Vote Now!

Does your alcohol consumption an obstacle to your goals?

Sometimes.

5 votes

Never.

6 votes

Yes.

5 votes

I don't drink at all - don't like to.

3 votes

I don't drink at all - I am an alcoholic.

3 votes

WHEE - "Go To" Recipes for Health

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Saturday April 10, 2010 · 6:24 AM PDT

2010/04/10 · 06:24

We all seem to have such busy, busy lives these days, either by necessity or choice. This can be an obstacle to eating healthfully, but maybe if we tweak the way we look at it we can use some of the basic tenets to actually make it easier. I just took a few minutes to visit Wee Mama's Friday diary and saw that she, too, has been thinking about sharing recipes. I think I'll just ride that wave. Won't you join me? Welcome to WHEE.

WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts.

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34 votes Show Results

If you had a pony, would you ride him on your boat?

34 votes Vote Now!

If you had a pony, would you ride him on your boat?

yes

18 votes

7 votes

other - explain in comments

2 votes

pie - carrot pie, for the pony!

7 votes

WHEE - 3 Cheers for Synovial Fluid

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Saturday April 03, 2010 · 3:59 AM PDT

2010/04/03 · 03:59

What do paint, ketchup, and shampoo all have in common? Like sinovial fluid, they are all examples of a non-Newtonial fluid - a fluid whose viscosity changes. If I had to choose one, and give up all the others, it would be no contest. Sinovial fluid all the way! Welcome to WHEE....

WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts.

Full disclosure: I am not an expert and am not trying to play one on the intertubes.

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Saturday March 27, 2010 · 4:35 AM PDT

2010/03/27 · 04:35

Bodymass index. Training heartrate. Calories. Fitness goals. Okay, okay, yes that is all very important and I am truly rivetted. What is the point of it all, anyway? I mean, really. Health, ok, good - priceless, in fact. Feeling at ease in our bodies, ok, excellent.

As I close in on my health and fitness goals and near the half century point in my life, I'm realizing the need to deal with issues that are related to that other stuff. For me, this is also about intimacy. I have used being overweight to keep people at a distance. Even though I likeee! And for better or worse, unfair though it is, it works - at least to a certain extent.

I'm not so sure a candid discussion in this forum is appropriate and I don't feel a need to get into it any deeper. I just wanted to acknowledge this aspect of my journey to keep it real and to hold myself accountable. In the meantime, tomorrow is my birthday and I feel pretty good about it! Welcome to WHEE!

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Is your sap rising?

18 votes Vote Now!

Is your sap rising?

Yes is the answer...

4 votes

Sap? Who you calling a sap?

2 votes

Always....

1 vote

No and you can't make me.

2 votes

Pancakes with warm maple syrup.

2 votes

Love is the answer and you know that for sure.

7 votes

WHEE - Go Vernal! Goals for spring

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Saturday March 20, 2010 · 5:37 AM PDT

2010/03/20 · 05:37

Although it just worked out that way, the morning of the spring equinox seems a fitting time to review, reflect and refresh our goals. I'm going to share some dribs and drabs I have collected about goal setting and attaining. Won't you join me? Welcome to WHEE!

WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts.

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Have you written down you goals?

12 votes Vote Now!

Have you written down you goals?

Yes!

4 votes

Naw...

6 votes

Sure, another piece of peanut butter pie would be lovely.

2 votes

WHEE: It's 4:30 am- Do you know what your values are?

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Saturday March 13, 2010 · 4:57 AM PST

2010/03/13 · 04:57

One of my goals this week was to get out all the information I had collected at a fitness retreat (www.hhhealth.com) I went to late last year and figure out what would be worth sharing with the WHEE community. Gee, come to think of it, organizing that material has been a "goal" since returning in mid December. Yet here I am, at 4:30 Saturday morning, papers spread all over the bed (where's the dog?) realizing, once again, that reaching my goals is not a magical process.

I set some concrete fitness and health goals, oh, about three and a half months ago. Went through all the steps, clarifying values, writing them down, identifying roadblocks. So... what happened? Where are the results?

Turns out that you have to keep at it if you really want to make it happen. Hmph!

WHEE (Weight, Health, Eating and Exercise) is a community support diary for Kossacks who are currently or planning to start losing, gaining or maintaining their weight through diet and exercise or fitness. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are working on your weight or fitness, please -- join us! You can also click the WHEE tag to view all diary posts

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I want to reach my goals so I value this exercise and will prioritize it, completing within a week.

9 votes Vote Now!

I want to reach my goals so I value this exercise and will prioritize it, completing within a week.

Definately.

4 votes

No, and you can't make me.

3 votes

Pie.

2 votes

Cup of tea.

0 votes

WHEE- Cabin Fever Reliever

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Saturday March 06, 2010 · 5:32 AM PST

2010/03/06 · 05:32

At 7 am est, up here in midcoast Maine, it is already a gorgeous day by most standards- sunny, blue sky, light to no wind and perhaps a high of fifty later on. A day to make your heart sing, right? Then why am I so grumpy?

I am going to try to figure it out, and deal with it, on the backs of YOU, dear reader. Welcome to whee.

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Which of the Seven Dwarfs do you feel like today?

21 votes Vote Now!

Which of the Seven Dwarfs do you feel like today?

Grumpy

5 votes

Sneezy

4 votes

Sleepy

5 votes

Dopey

3 votes

Doc

1 vote

Bashful

0 votes

Happy

2 votes

Don't need no stinkin music!

1 vote

WHEE- Can we get it back?

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Saturday February 27, 2010 · 4:54 AM PST

2010/02/27 · 04:54

Have you ever watched a baby learn to crawl? Or witnessed the tremendous effort as they learned to pull themselves upright by grasping a (hopefully sturdy) table? Maybe you've vicariously enjoyed the surprise and delight of the baby's first steps, and the heady rush when the baby realizes,"Hey, I can run! And I can make Mom chase me!!!"

All of these accomplishments, and the attendent joy of mastery, are something most of us have experienced. These are not small things. To go from zygote to stair climbing, precariously at age one or two, oh-so-confidently by age five or six, and perhaps explosively as a teenager, is an amazing example of sweet and in some ways simple, human progress. At some point in life the stairs become a bit more challenging, weighed down as we may be by children, laundry, groceries or maybe just the list of what we have to do for the day. As life goes on the stairs may become just one more thing to get through.

Can we learn to reclaim the joy of our original great accomplishment? Can we get it back?

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Are you going to play today? If not, why not?

15 votes Vote Now!

Are you going to play today? If not, why not?

It's against my religion.

1 vote

Can't. I don't know the rules.

0 votes

Don't need no stinkin' music anyhow.

0 votes

Don't have the time, must get up the stairs right now!

0 votes

Yes, today and everyday.

4 votes

Playin' those mindgames- pushin barriers, plantin' seeds.

2 votes

Don't want to get dirty. Mommy scrubs so hard.

4 votes

Ewww... sweat.

1 vote

Yum... sweat.

1 vote

Yes is the answer...

2 votes

WHEE- sweetness and light edition

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Friday February 19, 2010 · 4:08 AM PST

2010/02/19 · 04:08

Yeah, ok. So... I was getting desperate. That's what got me goin' this time around. Last time, too, in fact. Maybe you've been there? Broken heart, the world sucks, not out of control eating but totally in control overeating. Going from feeling good and looking pretty ok in a nice slim dress to, "Screw you. I'll just spend the night with Ben. AND Jerry!" Ha, ha, real funny.

Except my friends would to hide their grimace while they tried to laugh with me. Those who know me best would know that I could actually be funny. But this was not one of those times. And it is so hard, as a friend, to know what to say or do, when someone you love is in pain, but also pissed off at the world. Those people are scary!

I could talk to my bestest friends about "it." But I usually didn't want to. So, some of them hung in there, being supportive when they could, and withholding judgment always. (As far as I know, anyhow- and that's good enough for me.)

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Are there to many you tube clips in this diary?

14 votes Vote Now!

Are there to many you tube clips in this diary?

Yes.

2 votes

Almost.

0 votes

Uh, kinda.

1 vote

Don't need no stinkin music anyhow.

1 vote

Not quite.

1 vote

No.

9 votes

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