When his son questions why the overweight cop in the conspicuously tight uniform is eating a certain “healthy” breakfast cereal, Dad replies in a weary, hopelessly resigned voice, “Gotta do something.” I don’t remember the cereal this commercial was advertising. It ran so long ago, it pre-dated the deluge of “healthy food” products and marketing …
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The Toll the Weight Loss Struggle Can Take on Your Life
Can you put a price on your life? Yes. Everything you want in life has a price. Resources, effort, time, money, sacrifice. We pay in many ways. We don’t always want to see the price. In all things, we want a bargain. Even if we don’t acknowledge or recognize the full price of something, we …
Weight Loss Motivation: Shadow & Substance
When I set out to write my book, I wanted it to be set apart by two facts: I had actually lived what I write about and the book is not a memoir. The overwhelming majority of weight loss books are written by people who work in fitness, nutrition, psychology, or some medical field. If …
Realities of Weight Loss Surgery
Today I saw a blog comment that felt like a dagger to the heart. I monitor a great many blogs through RSS feed. This comment was to a physician’s post about weight loss surgery on a gastroenterology blog. The person commenting was bemoaning a significant regain following weight loss surgery, “My problem is, I thought it would always …
Takes One to Know One: A Weight Loss Book by a Former Fat Person
A recent book buyer admitted when she first saw my book she initially thought, “Oh great, another skinny person telling me why I’m fat.” Then she read about me and made a purchase! (and thank you so much!) Part of why I wanted to write Powerful Hunger was because I am also sick of the …
Is there a big secret to successful weight loss?
At this year’s WordCamp Chicago, I had the pleasure to meet Jennette Fulda, author of Half-Assed: A Weight Loss Memoir. Click here to find Jennette’s wonderful book on Amazon, more about it in a bit. Jennette told me that after the publication of her book Half-Assed, chronicling her 200 lb. weight loss, people always asked her …
A Look at the NYC Soda Ban: Should the government control what you eat?
Through this election season, there’s plenty of opportunity to continue politically-related discussions. The New York City ban on sodas over 16oz recently came up in my Facebook news feed. As you might guess, I think it’s pointless and symbolic at best, not in a good way, for several reasons. Let’s start with the most basic …
The hidden message of the “cheat meal”
A current reality show trainer is making himself known for what he calls “amazing transformations.” In a recent appearance on a morning show, he credited a man’s huge weight loss to “lacing cheat meals throughout the week.” Not developing health-supporting eating habits, not daily exercise. Cheat meals were pitched as the real key to that …