Snacking can be a big problem when it comes to weight loss.  All those extra calories (along with other bad stuff that comes with most snacks) don't help at all in our quest to drop the pounds.  But snacks are so delicious!  It's hard to control our cravings and quit.  This article has a solution.  I

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Sometimes we want to write a foreign loan word in Japanese.  We type it in like normal, but when we hit the space bar, the Japanese Input system doesn't recognize our intention and gives us a bunch of random kanji (Chinese characters).  Luckily, there is an easy hotkey to force the Japanese Input system to give us ka

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Want to lose weight? Want to get in shape? Want to punch and kick something? Bas Rutten's Mixed Martial Arts Workout is just what you need. It's on 4 cds, so you can even do it in your home. Bas Rutten is a former king of Pancrase and former UFC Heavyweight Champion, so he knows about getting into top shape. I use this

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"Horseshit" and "Bullshit" are two words that have a similar meaning. We use them when we think some statement is wrong, ridiculous, a lie or just plain stupid. So are they interchangeable? Not quite. Believe it or not, there are some differences between these two adorable words. This article examines these differences

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Fat Brother Kenny recommends that you piss a lot to lose weight. In this post, he talks about the important of drinking water: what it does for your body, how much you need and why, and what happens when you don't get enough (believe it or not, drinking less water in an effort to avoid gaining water weight will backfire on you and give you

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Going monolingual is an important step in learning a language. As long as you are looking up words in a (target language)-English dictionary, you are thinking in English. Once you make the switch to a monolingual dictionary, you are only thinking in your target language. Today I made the monolingual switch. No more Japanese-English dictio

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Do you know which months have 30 days and which ones have 31? I don’t. At least not off the top of my head. If I need to know how many days are in a month, and there isn’t a calendar around, I use the knuckle-counting method. It’s not as fast as having them memorized, but it works. The Japanese have a cool trick for remembering it: nishi muku

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FatBrother Kenny chimes in on the overeating topic. He finds that he overeats when he is hungry, bored and stressed and there’s ‘nothing to eat’.

Nothing to eat???

That’s right. The kitchen and pantry may be filled with food, some of it healthy food, but in his weakened state of mind the perception is that there still is ‘nothing to ea

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Overeating is a big obstacle for many people trying to lose weight. We tend to eat when we are not hungry: when we are bored, anxious, stressed, watching a movie. In this post, I talk about my habit of overeating, and a solution I discovered. Keeping a record of when you crave unhealthy food and how you feel at the time can help you to ide

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Reading comics is a good way to learn language. Since every word is dialog, you can use what you read in daily conversation without having to worry about whether or not you are mistakenly using formal literary language or not. Pictures are great for context clues and cool onomatopoeia words are everywhere. In this article, I take a look at

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Fat Brother Kenny shares his amazing turkey meatloaf recipe. Each serving has 225 calories, 32G of protein, 15G carbs & 3G of fat (1G sat fat)! It tastes delicious and (he claims) is a natural aphrodisiac. It's super healthy for you too.

TwoFatBrothers.com documents the competition between two overweight brothers to see who can lose th

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Kenny shares his knowledge concerning bread and dieting in this hilarious post. What bread should we avoid and why? What bread should we go for? What bread does God endorse? What bread will help you crap easier? Are there any tortillas that are good for you? How eating the wrong kind of bread can cause you to go blind. Learn to lose we

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TwoFatBrothers is a blog about a competition. A competition between two overweight brothers. A competition to see who can lose the most weight by April 1st, 2008 using only healthy methods. Both have a goal to reach their "fighting weight" of 205, but can they stay on track and go all the way? In this post, the other brother, Kenny weighs

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The first week of the TwoFatBrothers.com 2008 Weight Loss Challenge comes to an end. Weigh-in results are in and Thomas takes an early lead. Some thoughts on the first week of competition as well as some general announcements about the blog.

TwoFatBrothers.com chronicles two overweight brothers as they compete to lose the most weight by

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TwoFatBrothers is a blog about a competition. A competition between two overweight brothers. A competition to see who can lose the most weight by April 1st, 2008 using only healthy methods. Both have a goal to reach their "fighting weight" of 205, but can they stay on track and go all the way? In this post, one of the brothers, Thomas,

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