Until my diagnosis of Celiac disease — which means I can’t eat gluten in any form — I’d been toying with the idea of diet food delivery again. I’ve tried it in the past and have to admit that I loved the experience. Having UPS show up weekly with a dry-ice filled box of breakfasts, [...]

Last night while scrolling through program guide the title of one show on BBC America caught my eye: Super Skinny Me. Obviously, it’s a play on the now-infamous documentary ‘Super Size Me’ which chronicled one man’s month of living on nothing but food from McDonald’s, including every “super size” serving offered to him.
Only the BBC [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Oh, sure, it’s only 6°F outside my window right now, but I can sense that Spring is in the air.
How can I be so sure? All I need to do is glance at the huge amount of diet-related email hitting my InBox that promise things like: “Eat all you want and lose 10 lbs. [...]

Some of you may have experienced what I found myself doing just the other night: I plunked down in front of my computer with a bag of potato chips to eat while reading email. Twenty minutes later I reached for another chip and… they were all gone. Where did they go? I didn’t remember eating [...]

Have you seen the latest Weight Watchers ad? The one featuring a woman shopping at a grocery store with a voice over about how diets don’t work but WW does?
Can anyone tell me why is that woman eating in the grocery store? I didn’t believe it the first time I saw it, so I rewound [...]

Although I said I wasn’t going to make a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight (preferring, instead, to simply resolve that I won’t gain any, either), I’ve nevertheless found myself on a diet.
I blame this on the recent discovery that my bathroom mirror is in no way related to my car’s rear view mirror [...]

If you spend much online time reading diet and health news, you’re bound to have heard about the Kimkims diet scam, a low-carb (fee-based) program created by a woman who used the screen name “Kimmer”.
For years, “Kimmer” kept her real identity under wraps while she boasted of losing more than 200 pounds in a [...]

I’m one of those strange people who actually reads cookbooks, page by page, cover to cover. My husband considers this a very strange habit but then again he doesn’t get the same thing out of reading them that I do: I can practically taste each recipe as I read it.
I can look through the [...]