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 […]

I mentioned last week that I picked up the June issue of Oprah. And at least one of you (hi Debbi!) took me up on the suggestion to buy it, since it was an issue that focused on the body.
They now have the June issue online, though what’s there is just a few of the […]

Okay, so Jimmy Morris is a low-carb evangelist (which I am not completely on board with), but I really like what he says about the issue of calories in versus calories out:
The problem with calories-in/calories-out is that it relies on a subtle bit of misdirection that has had a dramatic and negative impact on America’s […]

I’m happy that Regina Wilshire (of Weight of the Evidence) is back. I’ve been trying to post a comment there, but Blogger seems to be uncooperating. Here was my point:
One semantic quibble. I’m not sure I would call a diet of 43% carb low-carb. Is it be a low-carb diet when nearly half the cals […]

Okay, so tomorrow is two weeks, but I’m still not back completely on track. Sigh. More about that later.
But first, a bit of good news. Today, I took the Metro to work for the first time since I think sometime in 1998 or so.
When I first moved to DC, I did the bus/Metro thing regularly. […]

It’s a slow day at work (we’re moving this weekend to new office digs, so most stuff is packed up), so I’m gonna sneak in an at-work post.
Over on BreadAndMoney.com, Richard Morris (pointer courtesy of Jimmy Moore) shares his personal perspective on his weight loss:

For decades our obsession with quantitative analysis, manifested by our need […]

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 […]

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 […]

So if you’ve been here before, you know that I’ve been struggling to articulate why I’m not more anti-weight loss (for example, see why I weigh myself). Curiously, even if I’m not anti-weight loss, I am against dieting as a weight-loss tactic.
Seems like an unlikely position? Well, read on!
Today, I came across a […]

Post-recovery, I started to try and respond to the most recent comment in the intellectual dishonesty thread. I typed up a few paragraphs, and debated about a comparison to religion and abortion before thinking better of it, and just trashed my response.
But watching yesterday’s Oprah got me thinking about this in a different way. […]

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 […]

Ugh. What a weekend! I don’t know if it was something going around or whether it was something I ate, but I spent most of Saturday in the bathroom exploding out both ends. Sunday it was just the runs, and Monday, I regretted having yogurt for breakfast. Duh!
Well, a couple of immodiums later, I seem […]

Last Sunday, Amanda asked the following in a comment on the persistance post:

I’m just wondering, since I can’t seem to “get it” myself…what got you to the moment when overeating ended and the new lifestyle began? I mean, the real moment, the light bulb that you knew would never burn out?

I sat on this […]

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 […]

Over the last few months, I’ve developed a habit of catching Hardball and Countdown on MSNBC. On Thursday’s Hardball, Chris Matthews talked with Michael Berman, author of the new book, Living Large: A Big Man’s Ideas on Weight, Success, and Acceptance.
Transcripts and more after the break.

Here’s part of their discussion (from the MSNBC transcript):

MATTHEWS: […]

Alright, I’ve been putting this off because I’m still having trouble putting all the pieces together in my head. But I’m just going to go with what I got, and will add more later.
So, in part one of this thread, I talked about coming across the following from Pattie Thomas, someone very prominent in the […]

I mentioned the other day that I ordered the Drs. Hellers’ The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan. The book is meant to help low-carb dieters who have gone off track. I picked it up just to see how their plan has changed over the years.
I’ve skimmed the book, and see that the Hellers are […]

Over at Weight of the Evidence, Regina has posted a guide to low-carb menu planning made easy.
We clearly have different definitions of easy :).
There’s a reason I came up with what I call the lazy person’s guide to managing carbs…I just don’t have the mental fortitude it takes to do all that counting and planning […]

I’m hoping to post part three of my thread on fat and food sometime this weekend, but I had to just put in a quick post. I finally upgraded to a wireless laptop, and I’m sitting here, reading a very interesting thread on health and wellness in the fat acceptance context, with my laptop on […]

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 […]

So, as promised, I did my post-vacation weigh-in. Last weigh-in (on January 29th), I hit the century mark, and got down to 275.
Today’s weight: 272.
Sweet! Three pounds isn’t a huge amount of weight for five weeks, but given that at least two of ‘em were vacation/post-vacation off-track eating and it took me a while to […]

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 […]

Geez, four posts in one day! That’s gotta be a record for me. But I just finished reading The Hungry Years and wanted to blog this passage:

I don’t think there’s any real answer to the obesity crisis. Getting fat–it’s in the system. In a way, it is the system. I heard an item on the […]