Share Today I’m partnering with Sargento Cheese to challenge you to cut out sweets to restore energy in your body. My greatest sweet addiction? Nutella. Hands down. No contest. I love it in jelly rolls, on toast, bananas, or even just spoonful by delicious spoonful. But a few minutes after that last decadent bite, the…
Share After the bliss of success last week, this week’s weigh in revealed a slight gain of a pound and half. A pound is almost a rounding error, a plateau from week to week, but it’s certainly not a step in the right direction. My immediate response was bitter disappointment, coupled with the strong urge…
Share Do you remember Mireille Guiliano’s book French Women Don’t Get Fat? Long before it came out, my mother shared her version of French women diet secrets. I was a pimply teenager just beginning to suffer the effects of a slowing metabolism. We had just finished eating dinner at a family friend’s apartment, a simple…
Share Our scale is tucked away in the basement, in a frigid, dark little room. Even through the cotton rug, the tiles are painfully cold on my bare feet. It’s not an inviting room, not one where I have any desire to linger. Avoiding it between weekly weigh ins is easy. It’s actually walking in…
Share Simple is better. One hundred thousand million years ago, I worked in the corporate world. I went to meetings. I had yearly goals and mission statements. I worked on teams to draft said mission statements, going back and forth over key words to clearly define our project objectives. That was then and this is…
Share A week has passed since I rashly stepped on the scale and shared my weight with all the world to see, or at least, anyone reading my various social media feeds. Putting the number out there was empowering and terrifying at the same time, but it did give me a little extra willpower to…
Share This morning I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and stepped on the scale. Time seemed to stand still while the digital display went dark then it spat out the number I’d been dreading to see since my 6 week postpartum checkup: 140 pounds and a vengeful half. I thought long and hard about…
Share After I gave birth to my third child, I really struggled with losing the baby weight. At nine months postpartum, I still had a good 25 pounds to lose, but they turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Those 25 pounds let me discover the joy of running and playing tennis. But exercise…
Share > Food Rules by Michael Pollan is just little book. Just 139 pages, many of which are filled with only a couple of sentences. But it’s going to revolutionize the way we eat. With this important little tome, Michael Pollan has debunked every fad diet book ever written. He’s laid out, in simple terms…
Share > I recently had the pleasure of spending a few very inspirational minutes talking with Tosca Reno, author of the Eat Clean Cookbook: Delicious Recipes That Will Burn Fat and Re-Shape Your Body!. Just shy of her 40th birthday, Tosca decided to change her life around. She was unfit, overweight, hyperglycemic, and depressed. Through…
Share >After four weeks of winter, I feel flabby and slow. I don’t know what it is about the freezing cold weather, but come four o’clock, I NEED chocolate, big spoonfuls of Nutella or a few handfuls of chocolate chips, just keep me going until dinner time. Unfortunately, chocolate combined with being cooped up inside…
