Here’s another reason to go for whole foods: according to the CSPI, you just cannot trust package labeling these days:

For years, CSPI has filed complaints with the FDA about egregiously mislabeled foods — for example, “blueberry” waffles with no blueberries or “strawberry” yogurt for kids with no strawberries. The FDA’s inaction on such products has […]

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 […]

So McDonalds is putting nutritional info on their food:

Patrons of the world’s largest restaurant company will be able to learn the amount of calories and fat, among other information, in a McDonald’s product by looking at the wrapper instead of having to go to its Web site or ask for it at the counter.

As Diet […]

Well, you’d think I’d wait until Wednesday, when I’ll likely vent some more about NBC’s The Biggest Loser, but I can’t help myself. Last week, I complained that having the men versus the women was inherently unfair.
Thus I was interested to pick up the November Oprah magazine and find an article on this very subject […]

I don’t know if this is something common to compulsive overeaters and/or the morbidly obese, but I have a fantasy of getting to the place where I have a gourmet kitchen where I cook fabulous meals with my SO while sipping Chardonnay and looking at the sunset in the distance out the picture window. This […]

In its October issue, Health magazine takes on the issue of dieting by doing “a study rigorous enough for a medical journal.” (It’s not currently available online.)
Well, they are right, it is “far beyond what magazines usually offer.” Alas, too bad it doesn’t really provide a satisfactory answer to the question of dieting.
First […]

The October issue of Health magazine has a special report titled “Our Real Life Diet Face Off” (not online yet). I hope to have more on this soon. But for now, I just have to vent about one of the diets in the face off, David Katz’s The Way to Eat.
I don’t really begrudge Katz […]

Today’s USA Today has a number of articles (here, here, and here) related to weight loss coming out of the annual meeting of the Obesity Society. Here’s my two cents on a couple.
Weight war can be never-ending — In this article, researchers emphasize what most of us know. It’s a hell of a lot harder […]

Okay, so I know I’m trying to mellow out and not let things get to me, but sometimes people just annoy me. For example, I was reading Mary Dan Eades’s blog (of Protein Power fame) and decided to go to their Low Carb Cookworx site to find out if their PBS show was on in […]

The other day, I shared what I’m calling the lazy person’s guide to
managing carbs. I thought it might be helpful to share a bit more specifics about what I’m eating.
Well, of course, as the previous post states, I’m pretty leery of (and less-than-compliant with) any diet that requires a lot of work. I’m also […]

So, when I announced this blog, I said that my premise was that the way to manage overeating is to choose to be HEALTHY. I strongly believe that this is possible.
For example, I have some vague recollections about seeing a Dr. Phil episode where he pointed out the truth that this is indeed a choice. […]

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 […]

I’m catching up on the weight loss/overeating blogosphere, and had to chuckle at this parenthetical comment from Denise at Do you have that in my size???
She writes re nutrition classes:

Not that I need that - I could teach the class on what you’re supposed to eat!

I said nearly the exact same thing recently when a […]