Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

The book French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano hasn’t been published just recently, but it’s only very recently that I’ve read it, so I decided to write a little blurb about it here.
Well, it’s not true we don’t get fat: after all, I’m French, and I got fat, and I remained fat for [...]

Beginning an exercise program out of the blue is never easy. Most of us are not born-athletes, and to be honest, most of us are even persuaded (or want to be?) that they’re not cut for exercising at all. Alas, it’s not like we really have many options in that regard: if we want to [...]

Here’s a little something that could be of interest to the readers of this blog. After all, it has been of interest to me, and I’m now pretty confident that I’m far from being the only person who, while trying to manage her weight, has run into a trivial enough problem, but one that can [...]

I’m sure all of us, at some point, have been there–weeks or more of inappropriate eating, pounds coming back full-force, and finding ourselves at a loss about how to climb back on that proverbial wagon before all the weight is finally back. So, especially after having wagged my finger about nipping it in the bud, [...]

I’ve very likely already stressed that point in other posts of mine, but since I’m neck-deep into that situation again at the moment, it cannot harm to remember that simple fact, and state it out loud again (if this ever makes sense in the world of written media):
If you happen to gain a few pounds [...]

I’m beginning to get talented at pondering matters out of nowhere, then pondering so much that I feel like sharing them here.
So, this post won’t exactly be about tricks to help losing weight… but it could be. Or could become. It all depends.
Recently, I was reading an older article about genetic factors related to obesity, [...]

Another thing I’ve had to figure out for myself, another thing I’ve had to mull over and think upon: “how come I’m not losing weight, although I’m doing everything right?”
Well, maybe not. There are plenty of little details that, when losing weight, we tend to overlook. Not because we want to cheat or whatever: just [...]

Because I’m on a crusade again high fructose corn syrup (a.k.a. HFCS, a.k.a ‘that crap’), which comes close second to trans fats in my book, it was unavoidable that I’d have a look at this article on Back in Skinny Jeans. Simply put: it’s sugar, it’s empty calories, it may make us crave sugar even [...]

It seems when dieting the magic number for a snack is 100 calories. In recent years, more products have been showing up on store shelves touting they contain only 100 calories. While some of these snacks are downright unsatisfying, there are those that are really good.
New to the 100 calorie family is Hostess 100 Calorie [...]

Summer tends to be a slow period for a lot of things, but certainly not for weight loss blogs these days, because I keep on finding very interesting things every day. This time, I’d like to highlight an article by Corinne from Phit-N-Phat, which she has titled Evading Fat Girl Thinking–and I couldn’t agree more [...]