So last night was the finale of The Biggest Loser. Matt won. Rats.
Actually, while I had been rooting for either Suzy or Seth, I had to grudgingly give Matt props. He really did lose all that weight, even if he did it in his “crazy, insane” kind of way. And as the stats show […]

I’ll have the longer post-Thanksgiving post later tonight, but just wanted to get in a quick post to bookmark this cool looking site, everydiet.org.
The site is from Jim Foster over at Diet-Blog. He posted about the new site two weeks ago, and wrote:

The vision of EveryDiet.org is to have detailed outlines, sample meal plans […]

Well, I’ve got to get up in just a few hours and begin the holiday drive. PA Turnpike, please be kind!
But I can’t leave without getting in a quick post re The Biggest Loser and my ongoing exploration about how unfair it was to begin this season’s competition with the men versus the women (discussed […]

I mentioned that I picked up Andrew Weil’s Healthy Aging this past weekend. When I get back from Thanksgiving, I’m going to share more from the book, as I think there’s a lot it has to say about healthy weight loss.
But for tonight, one quick mention. Healthy Aging has a lot in common with Weil’s […]

I picked up Andrew Weil’s new book, Healthy Aging, over the weekend. I’m a big fan of his, and often go searching his website when I have questions on health.
Interestingly, his book briefly touches on the subject of health and weight in a way that is complementary to the themes being raised by books […]

It’s been three weeks since my last weigh-in. I’ve mostly done the weigh-in thing every other week, but decided to hold off an extra week to get a number just before the holiday.
Wowee wow wow. I’m down 12 lbs to 281!
Since last year, I’ve lost 93 lbs. Seven more to go to 100. Alas, at […]

Okay, so I’ve been a bit snippy about the media deciding to “expose” what it’s like to weigh 350 by putting Tyra Banks and an ET correspondent into a fat suit and then parading them around with a hidden camera. Of course, what both of them made a huge deal about was the “horrible” way […]

When you’re not getting spammed, blog comments just are the best. The recent rash of comments has prompted me to go coder on you and add recent comments to the right nav. Hope you like it!
One of these comments was from PastaQueen, who has a very, very interesting blog called Half of Me, which I’ve […]

Ugh. Well, isn’t that a bummer? Dr. Jeff got booted off The Biggest Loser last night. Rats.
Oh well, at least I can point out that the men beat the women, again, if you compare their respective weight losses. (If you’re new to this blog, I have been complaining how unfair it was to have […]

Calligraphy by Sherrie Lovler
I love this quote from Anaïs Nin:

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I had seen a black and white ad for the calligraphy above in a magazine years ago, which I had cut out and held […]

Breakfast just looked so good this morning, I had to preserve it for posterity :). From left to right, my healthy oatmeal (oatmeal with cranberries, cinnamon, ground flax, and brown sugar), lite yogurt, and mixed fruit (mostly cantaloupe, blueberries, and blackberries).
Yum!
All this for about $2.70. Now, you may be saying, “well, that’s great for you, […]

So I got Eric Oliver’s Fat Politics from Amazon on Saturday. I was out quite a bit over the weekend, so only had a chance to skim it last night. Based on what I’ve read so far, I think it has many of the points covered in Paul Campos’ Obesity Myth:

BMI is terrible as […]

Must be a trend! Is it time for the sit-com featuring the 350-lb star?
Last week it was Tyra’s turn to play a 350-lb fat woman on TV. Now whether this was a case of copycatting or serendipity (?) I don’t know, but ET has the same plotline with their correspondent, Vanessa Minnillo (pictured).
Again with the […]

I have been wanting to get flax into my diet for a while. The gurus say that flax is a great source of omega-3s, the fatty acids that we’re supposed to get more of, and flax is also a phyto-estrogen, which may have beneficial effects for some womanly things (like PMS).
However, flax oil goes […]

I was doing some cleaning Monday night (it’s my exercise), and came across an old article I’d saved from Yoga Journal on meditating using the Buddha’s Five Remembrances.
I was getting ready to toss it, but in scanning, I re-read the remembrances and was struck by the relevance of the last one in my current […]

Ah, the Matt haters should have loved last night’s episode of The Biggest Loser. Matt may have well shot himself in the foot. But first, you might think that with Matt’s strategy of gaining weight, I can’t say much of the inherent unfairness of the men’s versus women’s approach (covered here, here, here, and […]

So, I watched both Tyra Banks and Oprah yesterday. Both shows were on the subject of fat.

I was a bit surprised to see Oprah and Kirstie Alley together at the opening. In her commercials, Kirstie has looked a bit tubby (the angles didn’t really hide the middle she was still carrying). In yesterday’s show, […]

I mentioned my recent dream, but here’s another sign of change…what I bought at the supermarket yesterday:

I’ve long wanted to want to buy healthy stuff for myself. I actually can remember the first time I went into the store, years ago, and bought healthy stuff for myself. It was such a “a ha” moment. These […]

So, as I mentioned, I had my last therapy session last week. While there, I mentioned that I was interested in coming up with a flow chart of sorts to try and account for the different places people are with their weight loss or compulsive overeating.
For example, so far I see the questions being […]

Has this ever happened to you? You go on a diet, and at some point relatively early on, you have the sweets dream. In mine, this usually involves a buffet of treats, something you’d find at the best restaurant brunch. And of course, in my dream, I’m inhaling all types of sugar.
I’ve always […]

Debra has a great post today about eating to soothe. It’s very interesting when put this up against yesterday’s Oprah, which was about a country music star (Mindy McCready) whose boyfriend had nearly killed her a few months back.
Did she leave him? Nope. She loves him, and in fact is pregnant with his […]

I saw a mention on Good Morning America about Tyra Banks donning a fat suit, and then found this entry from Big Fat Blog, who linked to this entry from People magazine. In it, they explain that Tyra goes “undercover” in a 350-lb fat suit. Her experience?

[It was] one of the most heartbreaking days of […]

So I’m having an exchange with some posters over at CalorieLab. They are commenting on a Mythbusters-like news item that notes that you’d need nearly two feet of fat to be “bulletproof.”
Okay, so that’s one of those not particularly useful bits of scientific speculation. But I can see that someone might actually wonder. […]

If you’re here to check in to see how The Biggest Loser’s battle of the sexes is going on, you’re in luck! I’ve talked about this several times (see here, here, and here).
So, no big surprise. Even though two of the men had terrible weeks (relative to the show), the men still soundly beat the […]

So yesterday’s Oprah was interesting. The topic was why women let themselves go. This was mostly code for why women let themselves get fat. Yes, there was a bit of discussion about putting hair in ponytails and not putting on makeup. But given how easy those problems are to fix, I don’t think this would […]