I’ve always envied people who have a separate exercise room in their homes. Half of my reasons why I don’t exercise regularly have to do with lacking both a comfortable space and complete privacy.
My exercise bike, for instance, sits in a corner of my bedroom which, during the summer, feels like a sauna from around [...]

I’m starting on Alli again today, thanks to a friend who found out the hard way that she’s just not capable of cutting her fat intake back to the 30 grams or less required to avoid the “unwanted treatment effects”. Her loss (and lack thereof) is my gain since she gave me the rest of [...]

Earlier we were talking about the “good ol’ days,” and how people ate in the 1950s compared to how we eat these days. As a number of you noted, back when gravy-swamped Salisbury Steak and buttery mashed potatoes swam on our plates next to green beans simmered in bacon fat and a slice of pie [...]

A while back I read a magazine article (which I now can’t find) about a woman who spent an entire month living in a 1950s style household, eating meals prepared precisely as called for in 1950s recipes, performing housework exactly as a housewife would have done it in the 1950s.
She lost 14 pounds in a [...]

By now the evidence favoring resistance training as a method of weight loss is well established. But new research shows that slow and steady repetitions may not be the optimal way to work out.
The researchers explored the effects of explosive verses slow contractions and exercise intensity on energy expenditure in their study.
The study showed that [...]

A (skinny) friend recently suggested that one way to squeeze my workouts in with my other commitments is to incorporate exercise throughout my day.
“Do squats while you put away dishes,” she suggested. “Lunge while you vacuum the floors. Wear wrist weights when you dust. Instead of carrying all of the laundry in one basket [...]

Since I’ve been sick for the past three days, I didn’t bother stepping on the scale. I’d kind of hoped, as a matter of fact, that all of the soup I’ve been living on would’ve led to a little weight loss.
No such luck.
Sure, I didn’t gain an ounce but I haven’t lost any, either. I’m [...]

Some days it feels like I’ve tried everything — everything — to lose weight. I’ve eaten low fat, I’ve eaten low-carb, I’ve watched my glycemic index, increased my exercise and tripled my water intake. I spent a week eating clear broth before every meal in an attempt to reduce my appetite. I’ve taken Alli and [...]

You know, just the other day I was saying to myself, “Self, perhaps the reason your garden is dying isn’t the unrelenting 95+ degree temperatures we’ve been having. Perhaps it’s because you don’t talk to your plants often enough.”
So, during the 5 brief pre-dawn minutes when the temperatures actually dipped below 90 degrees, I [...]

So many of the diet options out there insist on three meals and two snacks per day, beginning with breakfast. I’ve never been a breakfast person. Ever, ever, ever.
Even on days when I have only a salad for dinner, I simply don’t wake up hungry. Now, waking up craving coffee? Oh, yeah, I definitely [...]