Jae’s been doing a weekly Wednesday Weigh In, and I’ve been meaning to participate. Except that might involve actually stepping on a scale, and I’m trying to avoid that.
What’s that, you say? Why would I eschew weighing myself if I’m trying to lose weight? Because I’ve been overly-obsessed with my scale of late and I’m [...]

Has anyone caught an episode of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew? I’m not a fan of reality TV or VH1 (I’ve never forgiven them for following in MTV’s footsteps and abandoning music videos), so until recently I hadn’t realized how shady the show really is.
Take, for instance, the list of various celebrities appearing on the [...]

Last week when I asked ElectricVenom.com readers to vote, Survivor-style, on which blog I could cut out without disappointing anyone, I was really surprised how many people voted to keep ChubbyMommy.com.
Let’s face it: you don’t participate in comments much and, for whatever reason, many of you who run your own blogs haven’t linked this site. [...]

Next July, my husband and I will be celebrating our 10th anniversary, and this time, we’re going to do it in style.
We’ve never really been big on exchanging anniversary gifts. For our first anniversary — the paper one — we exchanged Tom Clancy novels. On our second anniversary, the Cotton one, we picked up a [...]

Is it just me or does it seem like to you, too, that every where we look these days there are news stories, advertisements, reports, studies and medical alerts all bearing one message: “You’re too fat! You’re too fat! You’re TOO FAT!” Is it any wonder, then, that anorexia and eating disorders are increasing among [...]

Last night on ElectricVenom.com I wrote about Miss Narfeld, the librarian at my elementary school whose rubber date stamp sounded much like a starting signal to my young ears. Whenever I checked a book out, the ca-chunk of her stamp marked the beginning of the all-too-short period I had to race through the stack of [...]

Dear Self,
You are not going to engage in stress-eating. You are not going to fatigue make you rummage through your son’s snack drawer in search of something with sugar. You are not going to eat that last donut left in the package of snack cakes he bought at the store yesterday.
You are going to [...]

Monday marked the end of my first two-weeks on Alli, the weight loss pill that’s causing such an uproar all over the blogosphere. (Mainly, I might add, by those who have not yet tried it.)
In that time, I’ve skipped taking my Alli on four separate occasions. I either forgot — since I’m not good at [...]

As employers continue to look for ways to trim the bottom line, they are now turning to employee health insurance as a fast way to shed financial fat. Overweight or tobacco-using workers at Clarian Health in Indianapolis, for instance, will now have to pay additional money toward the cost of their own insurance if they [...]

This list of “21 Sure Fire Ways to Lose Weight” certainly has some excellent tips in it. Among my favorites:

- Start somewhere; what is important is start doing something about losing weight, here and now.
- Challenge yourself that you can lose weight. Keep reminding yourself that you have to lose weight and entertain a positive [...]