Healthy Food Chart

As you may have heard, this blog will no longer be active in 2011. We have enjoyed sharing useful information with you, including the latest research, tips on dieting, exercise, weight loss, cooking and recipe ideas, and more. Thank you for reading and…

I used to underestimate the effect stress had on me when it came to managing my weight and sticking to my diet and exercise. Now that I understand the power of the Stress Monster, I am a lot more mindful about preventing stress and, when I start to fee…

Whenever I start to fall off the health food wagon, I reach for one particular book to help get me back on track. Surprisingly, it’s not a diet book or a motivational book. It is a gorgeous book entitled “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.”Why would a…

You know the feeling: you’re going about your day, minding your own business, when you get this nagging feeling. Your mind drifts to the sandwich in the fridge, the vending machine around the corner, or the diner down the street. You’re hungry, you rea…

Albert Einstein stated that: “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” With that statement I’m even feeling smarter because it took me years to learn how to maintain my weight loss in a…