Scale It Down

90/10 Rule A personal tool used for staying within good caloric boundaries. Eat well and maintain exercise 90% of the time and go wild the remaining 10%. (Over a year's time period, this translates into eating like a pig for approximately 36 ½ days.)

AQ Stands for Any Quantity foods - those foods that you can eat as much of as you want to and not do dietary damage.

Anti-flab Laboratories A place where evil nutritionists concoct weight loss diets from hell.

Anytime List A list of foods that can be eaten anytime and in any quantity.

Blimpdom The place where you skyrocket to on the overweight express.

Calorie Mentality How (if at all) cognizant you are of the calories in the food you eat.

Candy Challenge A test to hone your skills on eating the right amounts of candy.

Coffee Clotch A group of European women who gather frequently around a dining room table to gossip openly about the neighborhood while sipping percolated coffee from china cups and consuming mass quantities of strudel.

Control is the Goal Mission Statement and mantra of ScaleItDown.com

Chubbies & Huskies The labels Sears marketed clothing under for heavy children in the 1960's.

Denial Files Anything that represents negative and/or repressive motions and thoughts with regards to dieting.

Dunch The foods you would consider eating for both dinner & lunch.

Everyday Eats The types of foods and menus you want to eat on a daily basis.

Fatdom The space you occupy when you're overweight.

Fat Mentality Something you were born with - an emotional and potentially gluttonous romance for food, that wants to assume that all thin people are thin because they have mega metabolisms.

Find Your Jacuzzi A metaphor for finding a vehicle to do the things you don't want or like to do in the most possible pleasing manner.

Food Arsenal All the foods you should and want to eat - the object of which is to build a repertoire that includes enough fun foods to go along with all the good-for-you foods.

Food Diary An obnoxious but eye-opening exercise to become aware of what you eat.

Food Nazi One who approaches dieting with strict limitations, inflexibility and extreme denial.

Jean-O-Meter The fail safe way to maintain weight control executed by trying your jeans on at least once a week.

Fridge Posting A copy of your chosen Food Arsenal posted on the fridge.

GMA Fat House A place where 7 beefy strangers received professional guidance to lose weight in front of a nationwide television audience.

Garbage Cooking The art of cooking without recipes, with whatever ingredients are on hand - like Gramma used to do.

Harris Benedict Equation A formula that calculates the exact amount of calories you can have on a daily basis to maintain and/or lose weight in accordance with your height, current weight and age.

Kitchen Grazing The art of grabbing something quick to eat while walking through the kitchen - usually by peeking inside the fridge for cheese, lunchmeat or leftovers or seizing cookies & chips from the cabinets.

Kingdom of Thindom A place where thin people ( those that can control their weight) live because they know how to eat well, exercise regularly, and compensate for food abuses immediately.

Label Games A game that is played by reading food labels and understanding that serving sizes are most often misleading when it comes to calorie counts.

Lifestyle Fit The process of figuring out how to apply a weight control system into our own schedules and lifestyles.

Mini Eats The alternative to not having any Oreos. Mini eats come in reduced sizes of regular cookies, candies and/or portion controlled sizes such as vending machine bags of chips.

Menu Scheme The general daily food parameters you set up for yourself to lose and maintain weight - usually loosely based on the healthy food requirements you want to achieve and embellished with goodies.

Mustgo What Grampa used to call leftovers: "Everything must go!"

Negative Shutdown What happens when you hear or read weight loss items like, "fries and pizza don't go with exercise".

Noshes Usually refers to snacks like crackers, cheese, dips and the like.

Noy-cha-foy-chull What we call Neufchâtel (reduced fat cream cheese).

PC Stands for Portion Control. Those foods where the quantity consumed should be controlled due to their high calorie contents.

Rubbers What we affectionately call our strength and resistance training rubberbands.

Shvitst Factor The elements of exercise.

Swing Date A day set aside each week to fall back on when you can't exercise on the day you wanted to.

Switcheroo Substitution cooking as it relates to replacing high calorie ingredients with lower calorie alternatives.

The Age Factor The awful truth that age is the biggest culprit when it comes to weight control. The fact is, that the older you get your body automatically decreases the amount of calories you can have on a daily basis without gaining weight.

The C Word CHANGE

The Last Butt Editorial synopsis of this site.

The X Word EXERCISE

The UnPopular Mechanics The basic tools of weight loss and control: 1) Recognizing and monitoring calorie intake 2) Maintaining an exercise program 3) Drinking at least 64 oz. of water daily 4) Education

Thin Tales What thin people think, say, feel and do about food and weight control.

Turning Point Those instances when you recognize important events, things and ideas.

Tweener A heavy person who isn't obese but definitely not thin, most likely considered chubby.

Watering Hole The level you want to be at with daily water intake.

Yeah-butts The many objections used to avoid the task of losing and controlling weight.