This is the second part of a three-part thread I started yesterday. I think this one will be fairly short, as I really want to work on part 3, in which I’m going to explore whether wanting to lose weight and supporting fat acceptance are mutually exclusive.

But first, I’m just going to just list a […]

My story with food and fat is a complicated one, but whose story isn’t? The way I got to nearly 400 lbs was to eat my way there. There’s no question of “but I don’t eat any more than” such-and-such skinny friend. No, I’m a binge eater…one of those who can eat a thousand […]

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 […]

I just posted this very long comment over at Big Fat Deal in response to a thread about the recent study purporting to show that lower the GI of a diet isn’t helpful.
Needless to say, this is stressing folks out. And in my quick review, I’m not so sure the press has gotten this […]

Well, I had a great day yesterday (one day after the angel food cake and vanilla ice cream episode). Today, I wound up going out with friends from work to Acadiana, a Louisiana-inspired contemporary seafood restaurant.
Check out my lunch options. I probably could have done okay, but in the spirit of Mardi Gras, I ordered […]

I had one of those weird serendipity-like moments during my recent vacation to Florida. On the drive from Miami to Orlando, we pulled off the turnpike to do a loo break. We pulled up to Mickey D’s, only to find that the interior was being refurbed. So we wound up going to a place called […]

Regina Wilshire recently reviewed a JAMA study (published a year ago) that compared the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone diets.
The study authors summarized their study conclusions this way (emphasis mine):

Each popular diet modestly reduced body weight and several cardiac risk factors at 1 year. Overall dietary adherence rates were low, although increased […]

All I can say is huh?! I gained nearly a pound and a half from last week.
I normally don’t weigh myself from week to week, but I’ve been experimenting with a way of tracking how well I’m doing with eating a varied diet. So I’ve been writing down generally what I eat each day […]

I caught the first part of this past week’s episode of YOU The Owners Manual on Discovery Health where they talked about weight and gastric bypass. The overall impression of the surgery was favorable, highlighted by a woman who’d lost 120 lbs after hers.
But what struck me as amazing was what Dr. Mehmet Oz said […]

So yesterday I mentioned I was going to be pan-frying up some salmon fillets. I had to cook them, as they had been thawing for three days, and even though they were vacuum-packed, I knew they wouldn’t last forever.
But I had been putting it off, probably because 1) it had been a busy week […]

One of my diet books had a paragraph that suggested that microwaving food was terrible since it supposedly destroyed the enzymes in food. At first read, this was a bummer for me, since I reheat in the microwave religiously.
Thank goodness for Google. A quick search turned up this page on enzymes and […]

Last month, I commented on a blog post on the site Weight of the Evidence re high-fat foods that said:

Often the very foods we’re told to avoid or reduce significantly are often the ones that offer the higher levels of essential nutrients!

She used the example of cheese, and in the case of cheddar cheese, […]

I meant to post this the other day. What Jimmy Moore says about Sylvester Stallone’s high protein pudding!

Stallone Puddings have quickly risen to the top of the bestseller lists on many of the online low-carb stores because these are high-quality, protein-fortified snacks that actually taste GOOD because they are sweetened with Splenda and Ace-K!

This stuff […]

I’ve moved away from making bars a daily part of my diet and more towards an item I have on hand as a backup. And while I’m a big chocolate fan, I’ve never cared too much for the candy-bar style of snack bars. So I’m psyched that I found another bar that I like: […]

Note to self: check out Rodale’s (aka Prevention Magazine) The Sugar Solution to see if there’s anything new or interesting there.

So I’ve decided to postpone my next weigh-in until next Monday. Mostly I’d like to give myself a better chance of seeing some downward movement since the last one. I should be in pretty good shape. Even though I went way off track for two or so weeks after Thanksgiving, my theory is […]

Well, it’s 12:35, and it’s looking a lot like I’m going to skip our company’s holiday party (which started at noon and goes til 3PM). I mostly think this is a good thing. I had a great night last night (had brown rice California roll and a salad from Whole Foods) and a pretty good […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]