“What are we going to do today to cause ourselves pain?” I”™ve been asked this question daily in the past week by a visiting family member who is firmly convinced…

Here is a test to determine if you are a nutrition nut like me. Did you get excited last week when you saw that one cup of kale provides 1,327%…

(If you want to see my altered Walt Whitman ode first, it’s at the end.) Let me tell you something easy to do, and then something hard to do. It”™s…

When I was young there were only two things I had ever encountered that I did not want to eat”¦eggplant and mushrooms. If you”™ve had both of these you might…

Vacation is not good for diets. It”™s good for relaxation, relationship building and memory making, but not diets. As a case in point, yesterday on a mini-motorcycle vacation with my…

Any restriction on food, whether its is my own doing or outward circumstances like camping, makes me want it all the more passionately. Therefore, simply restricting what I eat can…

AWWW! Peace turns to sudden movement and panic, repressed cries, screen door falling off the track and confusion. Someone has gotten a splinter. Trust me, I felt foolish entering “splinter”…

This morning I compressed a week’s worth of self revealing statements and candidly bestowed them upon my dear husband as he was gulping down his last bites of breakfast while…

I met a nice woman on my walking trail early this morning who actually looked up and smiled when our paths crossed. “I”™ve lost 12 pounds lately”, she said, so…

Caught your eye, didn”™t I? Are you dreading it or are you planning a crash diet? You know diets don”™t work, ever, because if you don”™t change your eating patterns…