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 [...]

I’d been doing so good avoiding wheat and dairy products this past week. I’d really felt some benefits, too: less congestion, no stomach problems, and I’d even lost a pound.
Saturday morning, I woke up with a lovely sore throat and a bad case of laryngitis. I get it every winter and spring — it must [...]

A friend of mine recently became a raw foods fanatic and dropped a whopping 65 pounds in four months. That’s right: sixty-five pounds. That’s not even the biggest improvement she’s experienced since changing her diet.
No, the real benefit has been an improvement in her own allergies which are almost as bad as mine. [...]

A while back I signed up for Jenny Craig in the hope that getting out of the kitchen might actually help me lose weight. I’m one of those cooks who nibbles a bit while slicing vegetables, then a bit more after putting them in the pot, with another nibble or two once things have had [...]

My little boy has had a cold all week and now I’m battling it myself.
This unfortunately comes right after Janet sent me her Alli starter pack, having decided she’s not going to use it herself. I’d just run out of my own supply, but didn’t want to completely derail my diet, so I’m really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last weekend, since it was my first “mini-vacation” in ages, I decided I wasn’t going to count calories. I wasn’t going to worry about what I ate. I was in a luxury hotel with room service and free Happy Hours, and I was going to enjoy myself.
Friday night’s dinner: a Reuben sandwich and French fries. [...]

The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) project, which began in 1993, has tracked some 4,500 people, all of whom have lost at least 30 pounds and kept the weight off for a year or more. The registry has been trying to find the “key” to their combined success — a trait or similarity, if you [...]