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Whew lord, but do I have a lot to talk about the path I’ve been this month back in North Carolina. The whole ballgame’s changed. I’ve spent the two years of this Web site choosing my words very carefully: discussing maintenance, post-weight issues, and answering “now what?” is so rare I thought I had...
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This week, I appeared in an article The Fat Man Walks Alone on Newsweek’s Web site. In it, writer Abby Ellin, author of Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat-Camper Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight, And How Parents Can (And Can’t) Help, noticed more men publicly discussing weight loss — among them former New...
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Is there a “right way” to lose weight? If so, Russ discovered that it’s really not the germane question about weight loss. Russ Lane of Second Helping was the subject of a the Living La Vida Low Carb podcast with Low Carb Champion Jimmy Moore about life, post-weight, low carb eating and what it...
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Local boy-done-good? More like “done small.” Russ’ hometown newspaper, The Wilmington Star News, interviewed him on his Today show appearance, weight loss, Second Helping and more. The link is below. Wilmington Star-News: Weight-loss-efforts-land-Wilmington-native-on-Today-show An interesting footnote: The Star-News is also where Russ took his first crack at writing about post-weight living. As an intern...
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When we talk about “overcoming your expectations of yourself to live beyond your wildest imagination” at Second Helping, we walk our talk. When Russ Lane appeared on the Today Show as the latest member of the Joy Fit Club on Sept. 21, he had no clue the decision he made almost eight years ago...
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