It’s time. I hate to do it, but I simply must, must give up Diet Coke.
This is gonna be really hard. I don’t remember when I started the serious Diet Coke habit (probably when I started working at Burger King at 16), but it has been a serious habit for nearly thirty years.
I first […]

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’m really tickled by seeing posts from other bloggers (like Amanda and Wendy) who are, like me, making a bigger point of focusing more on nutrition and less on weight loss and/or dieting.
I don’t know why this hasn’t ever clicked before, but perhaps it was because I was frankly far more obsessed with the whole […]

Okay, so here’s the followup inertia post I promised the other day.
I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while, and have been meaning to post something about it for a month now, ever since coming across this post from Rantings of a struggling fat chick:

HOW do I change my mindset so that […]

Today’s Diet Blog has an entry about YADB (yet another diet book) with a healthy eating focus: Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less.
Looks like a sensible book with good science behind it. That said, a commenter on Diet Blog sums it up pretty well:

Good advice, but it’s the same information that a hundred other books give […]

Over on the Weight of the Evidence, Regina dings the AHA for taking the position that lowering trans fats in the diet is an acceptable position (compared to eliminating them). I just love what she writes at the end, and note that this applies to more than the issue of trans fats:

By refusing to support […]

Nutrition & Metabolism has just published a study, Control of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes without weight loss by modification of diet composition, that is interesting if you, like me, suspect that your weight and/or your overeating is related to how much “white stuff” you eat.
Now this study looks at the use of […]

So today’s Oprah was a repeat from a show last May. One of her guests was Mireille Guiliano, author of the book French Women Don’t Get Fat.
So she went thru her litany of why French women aren’t so fat, and it had a lot to do with the amount of pleasure they get from […]

Regina has a must-read post over at Weight of the Evidence.
In it, she talks about why the focus on “losing weight” completely misses the point and why looking at carb consumption in the diet is critical for people who have one or more of the following: obesity, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, low […]

Oh, I’m really doing this with misgivings, as this has all the appearance of plugging a diet. But, as I mentioned briefly over the weekend, I caught Mark Hyman on PBS basically doing his version of the Wayne Dyer, Andrew Weil, Neil Perricone “I wrote a book and now I’ll tell you all about it […]

Earlier this month, AlterNet posted an article that looked at the why the idea of an “obesity epidemic” is flawed: One Big Fat Lie.
The article is really good, so please go there and read the whole thing. But I want to highlight one part (emphasis mine):

There is a slippery slope from dieting to disease, as […]

If you were following the fat and food posts, you know that I recently have been doing some soul-searching with regards to the fat acceptance movement. I have a lot in common with many in the movement:

I believe that dieting is harmful, and figure dieting is largely responsible for my gaining as much […]

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 […]

While browsing the forums over at Big Fat Blog (BFB), I came across an interesting movement called health at every size (or HAES).
The basic principles of HAES are:

Accepting and respecting the diversity of body shapes and sizes
Recognizing that health and well-being are multi-dimensional and that they include physical, social, spiritual, occupational, emotional, and intellectual aspects
Promoting […]

Regina Wilshire, who writes Weight of the Evidence, has, IMO, a must-read blog for anyone interested in following the science of weight and who speculates, as I do, that there’s a lot more going on to weight loss than “eat less, exercise more.” Composition of foods in the diet is a particularly valuable research topic […]

I was reviewing the very interesting comments over on Diet Blog’s What is the Best Diet? thread.
I came across a neat blog called The “Duh” Diet, written by Edward O’Neill. After scanning his rules, I realized he could pretty much be describing what I do (except I don’t eat so many snacks…maybe just a […]

The folks at Big Fat Blog have put together a great page called Big Fat Facts:

The overall goal of Big Fat Facts is simple: to get information out there that directly combats “conventional wisdom” on fat, diets, weight loss, and health.

As the credits for BFF indicate, this is a good summary of the work of […]

There was a great pointer on Big Fat Blog to a UCLA report that concludes that “the so-called obesity epidemic is at best a metaphor and not a very effective one at that.” (I’ve talked about why I agree with this perspective a while back, so I won’t go into it here.)
The full […]

I caught just a snippet of this on the news shows this morning, but didn’t manage to find out what they were talking about until I checked my Google alerts. Apparently the FDA has approved over-the-counter Orlistat.
The biggest beneficiary of this move is GlaxoSmithKline, who, according to Forbes, had seen a 60% […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Yesterday was both a horrible and a great day. It was horrible, because some ongoing premenopausal bleeding problems (due to fibroids) had me in the emergency room. I’ve been dealing with this since June, when I had my first-ever three week period. Fortunately, I didn’t need to be admitted yesterday (I was astonished I […]