So I’m still on track to weigh in a week from now. But boy, I’m not as on track as I really should be. I’ve not fallen off the wagon, but I’m sure hanging over the edge!

What probably isn’t helping me is that I added cereal to my diet last week. If you’re new to […]

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 […]

Well, what a difference a week makes! I cut back on the eating out/takeout (from 5 to 1), the Diet Coke (from 1/2 gal each day to 1/2 gal for the week), and added in a tiny bit of exercise (an hour total on the treadmill).
I lost a little over 4 […]

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% […]

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 […]

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, […]

So I finally stepped on the scale. First, the actual number: 278. Last weigh-in (before Thanksgiving) was 282. That makes 97 lbs overall, and 89 since I started this new style of eating back in early February.
I guess it’s good news, as I did lose, though certainly not what I could have lost […]

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 […]

Well, I’m still not on track (still finding reasons to put off trying the program in The Diet Cure). I gotta get my butt in gear, or else this will wind up being slip sliding all through Christmas, and since I’m traveling again, it could wind up being a month straight of being off-track. Not […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s been three weeks since my last weigh-in. I’ve mostly done the weigh-in thing every other week, but decided to hold off an extra week to get a number just before the holiday.
Wowee wow wow. I’m down 12 lbs to 281!
Since last year, I’ve lost 93 lbs. Seven more to go to 100. Alas, at […]

Okay, so I’ve been a bit snippy about the media deciding to “expose” what it’s like to weigh 350 by putting Tyra Banks and an ET correspondent into a fat suit and then parading them around with a hidden camera. Of course, what both of them made a huge deal about was the “horrible” way […]

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 […]

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 […]

Must be a trend! Is it time for the sit-com featuring the 350-lb star?
Last week it was Tyra’s turn to play a 350-lb fat woman on TV. Now whether this was a case of copycatting or serendipity (?) I don’t know, but ET has the same plotline with their correspondent, Vanessa Minnillo (pictured).
Again with the […]

Ah, the Matt haters should have loved last night’s episode of The Biggest Loser. Matt may have well shot himself in the foot. But first, you might think that with Matt’s strategy of gaining weight, I can’t say much of the inherent unfairness of the men’s versus women’s approach (covered here, here, here, and […]

So, I watched both Tyra Banks and Oprah yesterday. Both shows were on the subject of fat.

I was a bit surprised to see Oprah and Kirstie Alley together at the opening. In her commercials, Kirstie has looked a bit tubby (the angles didn’t really hide the middle she was still carrying). In yesterday’s show, […]

Has this ever happened to you? You go on a diet, and at some point relatively early on, you have the sweets dream. In mine, this usually involves a buffet of treats, something you’d find at the best restaurant brunch. And of course, in my dream, I’m inhaling all types of sugar.
I’ve always […]