December 2007

Quotes About New Year's Resolutions

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs NinI think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry MooreOne resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To...

Thanks to the 804 people who answered the first poll. The question was - How Many Pounds Do You Want to Lose? The results were surprising as I had thought a larger percentage of people would have wanted to lose more than fifty pounds. But it turns out that 65% of the readers here want to lose less than...

Wishing everyone very happy holidays ahead.I'll be back to posting in a few days. Thinking of New Years resolutions yet anyone?The poster here is Santa Skii...

“The Biggest Loser” finale is on TV tonight. One of the four finalists - Hollie, Isabeau, Julie or Bill will win $250,000. A lot of people seem to think Bill will be the winner. If you've been following the series and have a firm opinion on who's going to win, go place your vote for the winner here.Update:...

Kevin is a chef in a Four Seasons Hotel. He has succeeded in losing 85 pounds in the past nine months. The pounds crept on as he was sampling most of the food that was created in his kitchen. He had a weakness for the muffins, danishes and croissants. But he finally made the decision to lose weight...

Hi There -I love your blog, and read it frequently. It's always such a motivator to see others who have lost weight and taken their lives back. I'd like to share my story with you. My name is Carrie Falquist, and I'm a mother, wife, artist and online weight loss group leader. In December of 2006,...

A few months ago Yin Teing started trying to avoid sugar in her daily life. She says she discovered that her eating habits were contributing to increasing fatigue and yearly weight gain. She started a blog about Saying Goodbye to a Lifelong Addiction. In Goodbye Sugar she details her journey, discoveries...

Jeremy has lost 25 pounds in about four months. He kick started the weight loss with a simple diet plan recommended by one of his coworkers. He stayed on this diet for two weeks and this really helped to lessen his appetite for big portions. Since then he's added other food to his daily eating but is...

Thanks much to everyone who answered the first poll. The results are surprising, I'll sum them up when the poll is finished. Now for the second poll, I'm wondering if most people share the same habit in terms of what is keeping them from losing weight faster. If you were to state only one habit that...

Ayres topped the scales at 550 pounds not too long ago. It was in early 2006 that he started a drastic program to lose weight. What finally motivated him to do it was that he started losing his vision due to diabetes. This really frightened him and got him motivated in a big way. A year and a half later,...

The New York Times has a perplexing but interesting story today about how a study showed that women (hotel maids) lost weight and decreased their blood pressure without increasing their daily exercise but by just being more mindful that they were getting some exercise. See the mindful exercise story...

I've been featuring weight loss stories here for many months now. A lot are about people who have lost a huge amount of weight (over 150 pounds). But I am curious about how many pounds the typical regular reader here wants to lose.Do most people just want to lose less than twenty pounds for example?...

Carol Alt celebrated her 47th birthday a couple of days ago. She looks absolutely amazing. (See her in person on the video below). Her skin is radiant and she has masses of shiny hair for someone who's almost fifty. Her figure is also incredible.Could this all be the result of her raw food diet regimen?...

The author of The Clear Skin Diet recommends people who have acne try switching to a diet high in fiber, fish, vegetables, lean protein and matcha green tea.The typical teenage diet often contains too many burgers, pop and donuts.Alan Logan, a New York naturopath says the wrong diet is not the only...