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Dear kay2@seotooluniverse.com, who just signed up for a user account, obviously intending to dump a bunch of referrer spam into my blog: Do you think I am stupid? "SEO Tool Universe dot Com"? And a username of "Kay2aSEO"??? Could you possibly pick an email address and username that more obviously scream, "I AM AN SEO SPAMMER!"?

EPIC FAIL!

This site has never been much about diet or food, and certainly not about diabetes -- and I'm not exactly the food and nutrition blogger of this family -- but I find myself compelled to put in my own two cents on the matter of the recent article in Diabetes Health, written by Hope Warshaw, a "diabetes expert" who has written several books published by the American Diabetes Association.

OK, you may remember when Dana got brave and posted her photos before starting down the Slow Burn trail. Now it's my turn! Now, these aren't strictly "befores", because I've been at this for a few months, but I can't exactly go back, nor would I want to.

I'm not happy with the muffin-top, the sway-back, or the scoliosis, and I wish I had combed my hair (yes. okay. I'm vain. deal.), but I guess I can't expect to eventually have some awesome "after" photos without starting with some relatively sucky "befores."

Thanks to some very generous help from Fred Hahn, I can barely move today! You see, last Thursday, I sent Fred the link to my workout videos (here and here), on the off chance that he might be interested in seeing how I was doing. He actually watched them! (Thanks, Fred!) And not only did he watch them, but he made a couple of suggestions, and we ended up exchanging several messages about ways I could improve my form, thus improving my results.