Stop Dieting Forever

There’s something about a new year that fosters renewed hope. Are you ready to make 2011 the year you finally get serious about your weight? Are you ready to give up fad diets and find a better way to lose those pounds? One of the biggest pitfalls for people with a lot of weight to [...]

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 [...]

I started taking piano lessons when I was in the third grade. As any child, I had an on again/off again love affair with my piano but when I loved it, I dreamed of doing something professionally with music. That was, until I was in eighth grade and asked my piano teacher something about doing [...]

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 [...]

There are times in everyone’s life when staying on a diet is difficult, especially if you have a lot of weight to lose and the months drag on and on. Those are the times when you need to start keeping a food journal or get back into the habit of journaling. As time goes by, [...]

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 [...]

We all know water is good for us and we need to drink a lot of it – even more when we’re losing weight – but it seems like one of those things we do without asking any questions. When it comes to our health we need ask questions. So I did some research and came [...]