If I have a child, and that child’s school outlaws cupcakes, I will be throwing a giant temper tantrum. That said, I will be the mom bringing the natural-sugar, carrot-flecked, whole-grain, cream-cheese frosted cupcakes. And the kids will like them!

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Often they have almost the same amount of calories as the originals. (Why? See 2.)
When they take out the fat, especially in deserts, they need something else to make it tasty: Sugar. So as the fat goes down, the carbs and sugar go up. You eat more sugar, you get more hungry. Whereas if you […]

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Having trouble getting in your greens? Try a green smoothie — lots of volume, not lots of calories.
For an extra boost: While drinking, think about how healthy and vibrant you are — or will be, after a few smoothies. Alternatively, think about dancing penguins.
GREEN SMOOTHIE:
Blend 1/2 apple, 1/2 banana, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1 cup […]

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Shapely Prose has an interesting conversation going on on her page about the Italian No.li.ta ads featuring a naked anorexic woman. I put my two cents in the comments over there.

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Sunday evening I had my friend over for a yummy lasagna, and she told me something that had my stomach turning: On the reality TV show Wife Swap, there’s a family who, among some other pretty gross habits, eat their meat raw. As in, they have a glass jar in the fridge full of nice […]

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I thought I knew everything about sugar sensitivity, but Kathleen DesMaisons (also the author of Potatoes Not Prozac) taught me a few more things in The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program. There’s much to learn here, in particular about how your brain functions (or doesn’t).
The downside of this book is that is recommends eliminating sugar […]

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Blood sugar responds best to a combo of cardio and strength, apparently. How about trying flow yoga, so you can do both at once?

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Here is all that’s sane and good about Fat Acceptance, in contrast to my earlier post. Still, I’m not ready to join the movement, for pretty much the same reason I’m not really involved in any movements — the madness of the crowd.

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Here’s the first-person story of a girl who lost 50 pounds in five months, just prior to college. It’s a textbook case of The Trouble with Diets, heartbreaking and familiar. Fortunately, she came out the other end with a very healthy attitude and some words to live by:
“I eat because I am hungry or because […]

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This is an amazing, harrowing piece — you won’t read another so brave and so intimate — about one woman’s decision to have weight loss surgery at 530 pounds. Her voice is so true, so strong, that you don’t feel pity in reading her words. You find yourself putting yourself in her shoes and living […]

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