Last fall I blogged about Obie, a 77-pound dachshund who had been over-fed by his elderly and infirm owners to the point that a family member arranged to have the dog removed from the home. Obie's weight loss journey is incredible: as of last week he's lost about 46 pounds (thanks to his adoptive human ...Read More...
The Just One Change Club's focus for March is measuring. Until you do, you have no idea how much you're eating. Even if you think you know, I'll bet you a dollar to a donut that you don't. We started last week with the why and how of measuring (check it out here). This week I ...Read More...
It's that time of year when people struggle with grand New Year's resolutions: lose 30 pounds, exercise every single day, give up all sweets. Ugh. Those are big changes and while they're admirable goals, they're not stated in a way that makes them seem do-able. Let's do something different this year. Let's resolve to make just ...Read More...
How's your holiday eating? Are you staying on track and enjoying the occasional splurge or is it more like a free-for-all? While it's true that the holidays are just once a year, they're a big part of the year. Plus it can be harder to lose any weight gained, especially if your exercise decreases because of ...Read More...
Weight gain is a real concern during holidays. I'll let you in on a little secret: eating until you burst on a holiday is not the problem. Eating anything we want every day is. What we tend to do when faced with a string of food-related holidays is let our everyday eating get off-track. We succumb to the ...Read More...
Thanks to Gay Gasser for today's guest post! We’ve all heard, “laughter is the best medicine” but it is really? Well, that depends who is answering the question. Many studies have been done to empirically prove that humor and laughter can measurably better one’s health but none have succeeded definitively. However, most experts believe that we ...Read More...
One of our main sources of sugar and sugar-like substances is soda, both regular and diet. Neither one is something I recommend as a regular part of your diet, for a few reasons: • Regular soda is full of completely empty calories. One 12-ounce can of regular soda contains about 150 calories, and no nutritional value. • ...Read More...
I find that most people don’t eat enough vegetables, for a variety of reasons. They don’t like them, don’t know how to cook them, hated them as a kid and so on. None of those reasons changes the fact that vegetables are vital to a healthy diet. Why You Should Eat More Vegetables There's a garden-full of ...Read More...
