When my daughter first started 5th grade, she loved science. She loved math. She loved the videos and games she played on my iPad, loved seeing the way things moved…
Your period-related weight gain comes like clockwork, just like your cycle. Read about my favorite app to track it.
Take charge of your health and fight back against the misinformation. Reversing diabetes, what causes it, how it links to heart disease, and more.
How I contend with being a survivor of being multiple experiences with sexual violence, and what I think prevents us from decreasing the likelihood it’ll happen again.
Q: After a few weeks of eating healthy and perhaps including some exercise, I find it hard to maintain motivation, and even falling off the wagon for a few days can reverse what little ground I have gained…
YES YES YES. There is such a thing as too much cardio, especially when we’re talking about targeting for weight loss.
The food landscape is different, and our children have different challenges to face. What did you learn as a kid? What would you change?
Q: Hey I’ve been a big fan of your blog for a while. I remember you mentioning that you went through a period of self imposed celibacy in order to…
Exploring when and where I learned the instantly gratifying feeling of overeating, and why I think overeating is so common.
This round, on my weight loss journey, I rarely check the scale. Here’s what I check instead, and why.
Sugar hides everywhere. It triggers your cravings. It slowly eats away at your soul. Here are a few places to find it, destroy it, and win the war against the ever-pervasive enemy.
Q: After a few weeks of eating healthy and perhaps including some exercise, I find it hard to maintain motivation, and even falling off the wagon for a few days can reverse what little ground I have gained…
Q: You see, my family is mostly slim women – I was the odd one. So my relative Who was skinny all her life, asked me over dinner ” how you keep small ? That is what you eat ?” … I was lost for words her intentions were not good, she was being rude as she was not looking for help/ advice
I think there’s a lot of misconceptions about what it actually takes to get and keep a flat tummy. Let’s change that.
The water bottle, a personal favorite of mine, gets an upgrade with fancy new attachments, AND a tea-based alternative.
Q: Thing is, I’ve been thinking about the reality of counting every single calorie forever. I never want to be this big again, but how realistic is this?
Last week, a flurry of news reports were released, discussing research from the American Heart Association that discusses whether or not we can consider coconut oil a “healthful” food. From…
The American Heart Association’s Healthy For Good initiative has solid tips straight from my weight loss journey to help you live a healthier life!
What did I learn? That depression might be more familiar than I thought to me… it might be more familiar than you think to YOU, too.
Photo credit: Flickr /Â DenizenFamily First, there was the drink that promised to help you melt fat away. “Just drink one of these for breakfast, have a salad for lunch,…