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Are you extremely concerned with your eating – perhaps too much?  If you starve yourself, or follow extremely limited calorie consumption, or binge and then make yourself vomit, or compulsively overeat, it’s time to get help. Eating disorders are very real, and dangerous.  Pressures from our culture to be thin and perfect are very real…

This is the season for great summer vegetables!  Visit your local farmer’s market, and see what’s at the peak of perfection.  Corn?  Green beans?  Squash?  Tomatoes?  Pick up some farmer’s pride today, and make a wonderful summer dish.  It’s served over nutty-delicious brown rice.  This is a dish that’s perfect for those of us weight…

This morning, I’m taking my regular dance class again. I am a regular for many years now, and just love it, but this summer it’s been on an abbreviated schedule as our teacher, the glorious Naomi, has been traveling a lot.  She’s presenting her choreography, and giving classes all over the place this summer.  I’m…

It’s simple: if you’re trying to lose weight, or maintain a healthy weight or weight loss – stick to a diet, perhaps – drinking and smoking pot make it hard or darn right impossible. It’s a fact:  alcohol is high calorie stuff.  Made from various grains or fruits, alcohol is by definition carbohydrates.  Drinking a…

Remember that time when you were really in trouble, or sick, or needed help?  That moment when someone reached out and helped you?  That time when a loved or, or even a perfect stranger took you by the hand, and helped you through? This could be one of those times you need a helping hand.…

This is it.  The moment we’ve all been waiting for.  Right now!  It’s time to do what needs to be done. Take the plunge, let go of the baggage.  Just do it. You’ve been waiting for so long for the right moment.  It’s come up again and again.  It wasn’t the right moment perhaps, back…

I recommend weighing yourself only once per month. Same day, time, place. Try weighing yourself first thing in the morning, before breakfast, after your morning “constitutional.” Then write it on a piece of paper, with the date, amount, and variation up or down. Once a month is enough. If you weigh yourself more than that,…

A lot of people feel like they’re in a tired stupor between 4 and 5 p.m. every day. Many make the mistake of eating candy or fatty stuff to get an energy boost. The secret is that many times that slump comes because we’re really thirsty! Drink a big glass of water, and see what…

I wrote about Qnexa recently, a “new” weight loss drug that combines two older ones, phentermine (an amphetamine) and topirimate (for seizures).  Last week, an FDA panel of advisors voted to not approve it. The panel saw that it contains those older drugs which have proven to be a bit dangerous for some, and was…

It’s guacamole!  This is a rather fattening and delicious dip, but without saturated fat.  It’s high in good vitamins and minerals, too.  Guacamole is a favorite at our house, and I hope it will be at yours, too.  Here’s my recipe.  Be careful – it’s easy to eat too much of it as it is…
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