How many times have you laid in bed and been unable to get to sleep because your mind was racing and wouldn’t quiet down? I had that experience this week. I’d had a great meeting with a publicist that afternoon and as I settled down into bed that night, my mind started buzzing with possibilities …
Category: weight loss myths
Building Muscle: Nasty Tricks Your Body Plays on You
I was flipping channels when I came upon a show about “the world’s strongest toddler.” Whoa. A little boy has a condition that causes superior muscular development. He’s just 3 and already has bulging biceps and washboard abs. He demonstrates the physical abilities of children twice his age who are at the high end of …
Mocked for Being Too Thin? What It Says About Fat Shaming
In an interview with HuffPostLive, television personality Giuliana Rancic describes how she endures taunts for her extreme thinness in social media. The interviewer seems to be suggesting that Rancic is very thin as a result of having battled cancer but she looks about the same today as she did before her diagnosis. Rancic wants to …
The Four Things Wrong with Every Weight Loss Diet
Every “breakthrough” diet promises it’s the one that will work! I went on “diets” for decades. They never worked. I lost half my bodyweight and kept it off when I stopped “going on a diet.” It happened when I realized what had always been wrong about EVERY diet I ever tried. Hunger does not matter. …
Why that Weight Loss Magic Bullet Just Might Work
We’ve all been seduced by the promises of a “magic bullet.” I happen to work in two fields that are overwhelmed with programs and plans for quick results and low effort—Finance and weight management. Get rich quick! Lose weight quick! Make thousands in just minutes a day! Get ripped in just minutes a day! It’s …
Even the Famous and Accomplished Struggle with Weight
What’s it like to be well-known, in the public eye and struggle with weight? I happened to see a couple items in the news today. A terrible boardwalk fire has New Jersey’s governor, Chris Christie, in the media spotlight. Here’s a photo from a current news story: You may be aware the Governor had lap …
The Rules and Not the Rules of Weight and Weight Loss
Calories in, calories out, right? Eat less and move more. Those are the two foundational rules of weight loss and weight management. There really can be no argument, they are true. But why do our bodies seem to defy them? I’ve had a fever for four days. Picked up some viral thing I guess, very …