Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

According to Stick, it’s ok to eat all the Halloween candy if he says “Trick or treat” while doing so. I wonder if I should buy a second bag so our real trick-or-treaters can have some.
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Have you ever had one of those weekends when you just get sick of eating healthy? Eating healthy requires always being prepared. You have to cook fresh food, can’t eat food on the run and have to be pretty pick about what you eat at restaurants. It gets too complicated and sometimes [...]

Regular Table Salt: Can be bad for you, especially since people use in high amounts.
Mortin Lite Salt: Has way less sodium than table salt. It also has potassium. I think it tastes the same as table salt but others compare it to “licking a sidewalk”. I never thought that. I find [...]

Hot-hot or spicy hot?
I don’t have any complete phrases, or ancient Chinese sayings, but one Chinese word has made it into our everyday vocabulary. Stick and I both use la de to talk about food, instead of saying spicy-hot-not-hot-hot.
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I was recently eating a can of a popular brand of bean and ham soup when I got to looking at the health facts on the back. Did you know one serving (1 can has two servings) contains 8 grams of fiber? It also has 11 grams of protein. It also appears to be a [...]

The 3 Day Diet is another fad diet. The diet claims that you can lose 10 pounds in 3 days by following the recommended plan. The plan calls for very low calories, low fat, low carbs, etc. Most followers will lose some weight, but most are certain to put the weight back on once they [...]

This is a product that sells online for $9.99 for 36 capsules with the normal price being $40. Apparently you are supposed to take 2 pills a day, morning and night, and the website claims that you will lose 12 pounds in 72 hours. Here are some of the ingredients of the 72 Hour Diet [...]

We all know donut is bad because it is fried and cover with tons of sugar. However, there is better and worse between different donut. If you choose the worst donut, you will consume 110 more calories per donut. There is a few different factors that will increase the calories in a donut - size [...]

Berries are an essential part to any healthy diet. Two of the very best berries are strawberries and raspberries. These can definitely aid in weight loss for many reasons. For one, these berries are low glycemic. In fact, strawberries and raspberries are the lowest glycemic fruit on the glycemic chart. This means that it has [...]

Berries are an essential part to any healthy diet. Two of the very best berries are strawberries and raspberries. These can definitely aid in weight loss for many reasons. For one, these berries are low glycemic. In fact, strawberries and raspberries are the lowest glycemic fruit on the glycemic chart. This means that it has [...]