Stop Dieting Forever

Snacking is a common, and diet destroying, eating behavior. That “food-to-mouth” motion is natural; you do it at least three times a day during meals. It’s when you do it while cooking that it becomes dangerous to your health and weight loss. It’s possible – and very easy – to eat an entire meal while [...]

Most people would agree that losing weight is difficult. For some it might be how long it takes to see results or learning to eat differently. For many, though, the difficulty lies in “all-or-nothing” thinking. This attitude – if I can’t do it perfectly, it’s not worth doing – can affect your diet every day [...]

My husband just asked me out for dinner. We have been married a long time and “Date Night” isn’t something we normally do and besides, it’s a Thursday. We easily decided on Romano’s Macaroni Grill, one of our favorite Italian restaurants. We haven’t been there in months and I know I won’t be able to [...]

I cringe whenever I see those commercials on TV or in magazines. You know the ones: “I lost 78 pounds in 4 months on ____!” They don’t add: “By eating boxed food they mailed to my house!” I’m sure it’s still a challenge to lose weight when someone is on one of these kinds of [...]

Back in the mid-1970s, I remember being on one of those 800-calorie-a-day diets where I had to go into the weight loss office Monday-Friday to get weighed, “counseled” and, once a week, a B-12 shot. You can lose weight this way but at what price? Your metabolism goes into starvation mode which slows down weight [...]

Water is very important for weight loss. It speeds up your metabolism and makes losing weight faster and easier. Even so, there are days when it just seems impossible to drink another 2-1/2 quarts of plain water. If you’re having one of those days, make fruit water. It’s just water with a little fresh fruit [...]

I remember a valuable “Aha!” moment I had years ago. It was a Monday morning and I was looking at my calendar to see what commitments I had that week. There were parent-teacher conferences, doctor’s appointments, a meeting at church and the orthodontist in addition to work and business meetings scattered throughout. Just looking at [...]