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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Here’s a challenge: Spend an hour of private time completely naked (or at least in your undies). Nope, not kidding. I’ve done this and found it marvelously enlightening. No, not in a horrifying way; in a surprisingly calm, peaceful kind of way. Really!
Read a book, watch TV, chat online–in the buff. Being in […]

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Since starting this site, a full 70 percent of the traffic that’s come via Google has had exactly the same search term: “how to stay skinny.”
Seventy percent, folks. And I bet 99 percent of them are disappointed when they get here and they don’t find a diet that promises Point A to Point B in […]

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This is a neat idea: A month of daily tips on increasing your fruits and veggies. Maybe I’ll sit down and make my own 30 days of small habits to adopt.
I like the idea that a month of small changes adds up to a big change. Even though throwing out everything in your kitchen and […]

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ~ Miss Piggy

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