Well, me yeah, but…it’s Susan Powter!
If you’re a long-time dieter like me, you may well have remembered the buzz cut Susan and her Stop the Insanity program, a book and video series that focused on exercise and a low-fat diet as the key to weight loss.
Back now after an long absence (she says she took […]

The other day, I read an interesting post on “slow burn” exercise over on Dr. Michael Eades’ (Protein Power) blog. He writes:

It appears from these statistics that you can’t have it all. You can’t stay in shape and keep your body from wearing out after you’ve put a few years on it, or so it […]

I’ve been doing my “choose health” plan for for a bit over a year now. One of the things that hasn’t been part of my plan (yet) is exercise.
Initially my thinking was that, at 375, my number one priority was just to stop overeating. My theory has been that my overeating has been due to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ha! I’ll bet you thought that since they got rid of the men’s and women’s teams on The Biggest Loser that I wouldn’t post about how unfair men versus women is. Guess again :).
Just because I can’t let go of it, I have to share that I crunched the numbers last night just to see […]

Well it had to happen sooner or later, but I finally did it. I went for a walk with no purpose in mind other than to get some exercise in the fresh air.
It really was beautiful out last night, and the alternative was to watch the same episode of 30 Minute Meals they had […]

One of the other things that helped me in this latest effort was finding a book totally unrelated to weight loss. I like to think of it as one of those serendipity things. Back in January, I had seen a show on Dr. Phil about money makeovers (part of his New Year’s resolutions series). Watching […]

One somewhat sad thing about being perilously overweight is that you have to lose an obscene amount of weight before people might mention it to you. I’m down 70lbs (about 20% of my starting weight) and I think I’ve had three, maybe four, people say something about it to me. And the later they wait […]