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Voices from my Bunker 2020

“Voices from my Bunker 2020” is a series of interviews with all ages of people of what 2020 has been like for them.  This is a rebranded podcast that used to be named, "PODSNACKS/Art of the Diet" but the first six months of 2020 has shifted my preoccupations from five years of weight maintenance to minute by minute sanity maintenance. Attention must be paid to the issues before me. I'm 75, live in Massachusetts, and my doorbell hasn't rung in 5 months and probably won't until there's a vaccine. My hair has its own zip code and I look like the Unibomber when captured in his Montana cabin. None of which interferes with my ability, thankfully, to ask questions over a Skype connection. I'll be recording interviews until the election on Nov 3, 2020. If he is reelected, look only for my obit.
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Now displaying: 2016
Dec 14, 2016

“If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.” ― Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves The Unconscious Diet.  Is there such a thing where one maintains their weight loss without having to think about it? Apparently, yes. I’m not […]

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Dec 7, 2016

“I would have assumed you understood despite our vague suggestion otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.” -David Thorne There are two topics that elicit spontaneous snarkiness from folks: weight and clutter issues.  This week I am tackling both and the name of my diet book (the title seems to change from week to week) […]

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Nov 30, 2016

“I think losing weight, on any program, is done from a house built on a flat piece of land but weight maintenance needs a house built on a slippery slope.”-Pat Coakley So, why do I say this? Because losing weight can be done over and over.  Our individual stories can attest to that.  Statistics from […]

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Nov 23, 2016

Holiday Madness, Literally. Food and Tempers on Your Menu? By Hostess decree: Only food at my table. Perspective has returned! This week's podcast gives some suggestions for food management the day AFTER Thanksgiving-to me the most critical day of Thanksgiving week–an article below to help you with the other type of Holiday madness! Good luck! […]

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Nov 16, 2016

“The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a day I would be grounded, rooted. Said my head would not keep flying away to where the darkness lives. Andrea Gibson This week, tips on how to manage your weight when the darkness comes to live at your […]

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Nov 8, 2016

“In one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, nearly 30,000 women told researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that they'd rather lose weight than attain any other goal, a figure that alone suggests just how complicated the issue of appetite can be for women. This is the primary female […]

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Nov 2, 2016

Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in morning, sailor's warning. So, what are the warning signs for weight watchers (the generic term not the national chain)?  That was Diet Reboot Part I Today's podcast is about that we do with our warning signs.  Sailors don't go out to sea if they see their […]

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Oct 26, 2016

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times–or you will be useless.” Mitch Albom How do you know it's time to reboot your diet plan? In my case, when I declare at [1:50] PM that I am not going to eat anymore popcorn for a week and at […]

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Oct 19, 2016

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.–Raymond Carver What?  A quote about booze in a blog about weight maintenance?  Yep.  Hear me out.  The great short story writer has a famous story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” and it considers love […]

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Oct 12, 2016

“The Road to Hell and your BMI is paved with good intentions.”-Pat Coakley How to help children with a weight issue turns out to be easier done than said. Translation: Words don't help, even well meaning words and, in fact, may make it worse- but there's hope: actions do. This week research is discussed about […]

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Oct 5, 2016

“Shame is a soul eating emotion”. C. G. Jung “As my mother once said: the boys throw stones at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.” ― Joanna Russ, The Female Man Ok. Welcome to episode 61 of Podsnacks the weekly podcast of my blog www.artofthediet.com.  I'm Pat Coakley and I think most […]

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Sep 21, 2016

“Do you have an appetite for self-respect?” This is my version of a quote from the great Leonard Cohen, the songwriter of “Hallelujah”.  He said, his “writing begins with an appetite to discover my self-respect. To redeem the day. So the day does not go down in debt. It begins with that kind of appetite.” […]

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Sep 14, 2016

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.” Lindy West I may murder someone at a WeightWatcher meeting so I am taking a break from them for the foreseeable future.   This is Part II to last week's podcast. “To Leave or Not Leave Weight Watchers”. To Leave or Not to Leave […]

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Sep 7, 2016

“Talent is extremely rare.  What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of a writer.”-Kurt Vonnegut Now, why I am using a quote from author Kurt Vonnegut in a weight maintenance blog? Listen in to find out.  In essence, losing weight is extremely common but what is rare is the willingness to endure […]

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Aug 29, 2016

“You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.”-William S. Burroughs This week's podcast takes a look at our doctors and if they talk about weight issues with their patients and how do they approach this sensitive topic. I read an article in the NYTimes recently that made me think that […]

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Aug 23, 2016

Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. -Michael Moss, “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hook Us”. To which I say, “How can 10,000 taste buds wired for sugar ALL be wrong?  There must be a good reason Mother Nature did that, don't you think?  It can't just be a […]

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Aug 17, 2016

“Why, sometimes, I eat six impossible things before breakfast.”  Alice in Wonderland.  (Well, not really, it was the Queen in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, talking to Alice, and she actually said, “Why, sometimes, I think as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Sometimes, I say to myself, we just have to adapt […]

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Aug 10, 2016

    “Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” -Zig Ziglar It’s vacation and hurricane season all in one. At least in the northern hemisphere. Last year, I read an article by Walter Isaacson about Walker Percy, author of “The Moviegoer” which I read and loved years and years […]

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Aug 3, 2016

There's nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport picture.” Erma Bombeck Hello, this is Pat Coakley and episode 52 of Podsnacks, the weekly edition of my almost daily blog, www.artofthediet.com. And, today's episode was triggered by my new passport arriving in the mail this week, the K-POP, […]

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Jul 27, 2016

Today's Podsnacks episode is about all the stupid diet tricks we consider and some so called “experts” are suggesting we try. www.artofthediet.com/51 I researched in Google, “Stupid diets” and believe you me, I discovered some new ones, all attached to someone who thinks they are an “expert”.  How did I miss “the cotton ball” diet? […]

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Jul 20, 2016

  “Weight Loss hasn't solved all my problems or made me a better person, just a littler one.”-Jen Larsen “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”-Zig Ziglar “Success didn't spoil me. I've always been insufferable.” -Fran Leibovitz Hello this is Pat Coakley and […]

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Jul 13, 2016

“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it.  And, I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, “Please–a little less love and a little more common decency.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slapstick, […]

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Jul 6, 2016

“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”  Lucille Ball Welcome to episode 48 of Podsnacks, the weekly edition of my daily blog www.artofthediet.com.  Today's edition is the very first “Humor Collection” episode.  As you know each week of the podcast (this is my 48th) I try to begin each episode with a humorous quote that seems […]

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Jun 15, 2016

  “I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn't met me yet.” ― Rodney Dangerfield Comedian Roger Dangerfield, and I am dating myself here, but he made a living on riffs on how, “I can't get no respect”.  O, Lordie.  His path was rose-strewn compared to […]

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Jun 8, 2016

  Right now there are thirty-one satellites zipping around he world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store.  •Ed Burnette Welcome to episode 44 of Podsnacks the weekly edition of my daily blog, www.artofthediet.com. Today, I'm going to talk about technology and what part it has played […]

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