I’ve always loved the thought of jetting off to one of those fancy weight-loss spas — the kind where a 4-star chef turns ordinarily salads into culinary masterpieces and, between rounds of seaweed wraps and Swedish massages, you still manage to drop 15 to 20 pounds. Unfortunately, my budget can barely stretch to cover [...]

At my husband’s request, I’m not going to be trying that Cabbage Soup diet until the weather warms up. He’s got a point: being cooped up in the house with the smell of cooked cabbage (and the GI symptoms that can produce) is pretty much anyone’s idea of hell. Which means I either need [...]

You’ve probably already heard about the Gorton’s fish fillet recall prompted by a Pennsylvanian woman’s discovery of pills in her crunchy-battered fish fillets. What you may not know, however, is that I have 19 boxes of these things in my freezer… the same 19 boxes I bought last July.
See, back then my husband was [...]

The cabbage soup diet (also known as the Dolly Parton diet for some reason) seems like it’s been around forever.
A couple of women over on the Fox health blog have been giving it a shot, though, and by day 7 each of them had lost five pounds. Oh, sure, with fad diets like [...]

Yet another drawback to being an overweight 40-year-old mother of two who has a history of smoking, drinking and exercising as little as possible: affordable insurance is something that, like thin thighs, I pretty much just dream about.
However, because I am a mother, I know that no matter how expensive insurance is, it’s well [...]