Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

“Eat your vegetables” is something a lot of people must have heard in their childhood. “Eat your vegetables” is also what Weight Watchers and many more diet programs tell you as well, because we all know it: there are few calories in most vegetables, so you can eat a lot, not feel deprived, curb your [...]

Let me be straight: I didn’t take any. I realized that what I wanted to do was in fact going on with things I was already doing, so making a resolution about it didn’t make sense!
Nevertheless, even though I don’t really believe in New Year’s resolutions, some (most?) people do, and if it can help [...]

So It’s Boxing Day, and although it’s still a holiday in my area of the country, I know it’s not the same for everyone. It might mark the end of family visits and of the cooking craze, or getting back to work, or simply enjoying a quiet day. But whatever it is, now is the [...]

Exerciseis necessary to a sustained weight loss and, more importantly, to sustained maintenance–for who wants to spend months dieting only to regain everything plus more, and having to do the whole thing again? Yes, it can be annoying. Yes, it takes time out of sometimes already busy lives. But the gist of it is that [...]

I haven’t had such a misadventure in a long time, but it has happened in the past, and could very well happen again. So, because I’ve recently been reminded of it, I thought about mentioning it here: when buying food, make sure to pay attention and properly do the math when it comes to calories [...]

I’ve already harped a few times (or more) here about the necessity to not let lapses turn into relapses, then collapses, or about how it is important to nip every pound gain in the bud before you can add a 0 behind that number and really start to feel despaired. I think I’ve probably also [...]

I’ve finally got around to look for a link and a few more explanations about this plan so many dieters in the blogosphere seem to be crazy about (well, many of the dieters whose blogs I read, that is). I’m probably panting far, far behind the bandwagon with that, yet I also don’t think anything [...]

I doubt everyone will find this to their taste (har, har), but if used well, maybe this idea can actually be a good incentive, either all the time or from time to time.
Belly Acres Diet Incentives are dinner plates and various panels printed with a custom message meant to inspire you when losing weight. Personally, [...]

You may already have encountered the ‘NSV’ acronym now and then. In the world of weight loss, it stands for non-scale victory, and it is something that I find all of us tend to overlook a little too much, sticking to that daily or weekly number on the scale as to the roll of faith [...]

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 [...]