After looking over one of my food and exercise logs, Donna B. wondered what BRM was. Well, it’s a typo. I meant to type BMR, which stands for basic metabolic rate. That’s the number of calories your body needs just to live and maintain minimum functions, assuming you didn’t move a muscle all day (e.g., [...]

Dieting in the Big Apple just got a whole lot easier now that chain restaurants are posting the calorie counts of their foods on prominently displayed menu boards. The law requiring such disclosure went into effect in May but enforcement was delayed until last Friday to allow companies to implement the required changes.
Not that everyone’s [...]

I’m really not sure what I did right over the past seven days, but I’ve managed to lose five — yes, five! — pounds. Oh, I know most of it’s probably water weight, but if I was carrying around that much excess water I can’t say I’ll shed a tear to see it go.
A [...]

I’ve never understood how a woman could find anything remotely attractive about Jack Nicholson, an actor known in part for the number of women he’s bedded over the years. (Now that the man has no functioning saliva glands, I’m betting there are quite a few more women disenchanted with him, too.)
That said, I can guarantee [...]

Now that I’ve started Blogging For The Money, a blog about my passion to teach people how to start a blog, write better and make money at it, I’ve decided that one of my blogs must go. The readers at Electric Venom voted, both publicly and via email.
We’ve all agreed it’s time for me [...]

Ever since that prime rib Christmas dinner I’ve been waddling around in my least-restrictive clothing, miserable and bloated, feeling very much like some fat-riddled sausage crammed into a casing that’s three sizes too small.
That, of course, hasn’t stopped me from sitting down with my family at each and every meal and, although I’ve tried [...]

It’s that time of year, and I’m not talking about Christmas. I’m talking about what comes afterwards, when everyone I know will be sharing their New Year’s Resolutions and politely waiting to see if I will share mine in return.
Well, I’m not.
I am NOT going to resolve to diet next year. Oh, no, most definitely [...]

Around this time every year, websites and MSM begin posting their “Top 10 Stories” recounting some of their favorites over the year. I figure I might as well jump in on the action, too. (Hmmm… does that count as exercise?) So here, without further ado, is the Year In Fat: the Top 10 reasons we’re [...]

Like just about everyone struggling to lose weight, I constantly find myself engaging in mental gymnastics that really, if life were fair, would burn a bazillion calories and hour. It goes like this:
I know the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than I consume. Since I hate to exercise and spend [...]

For future reference, and the benefit of those to come, when switching from a standard, unhealthy diet to one that’s chock full o’ fruit and veg goodness, I’d advise doing it slowly.
According to my scale, I’ve lost 3 pounds this week. But according to the waistband of my pants, I’m due to give birth [...]