McDonalds “Track My Maccas”: Why this is the Crappest App of 2013
Useless apps. I’ve downloaded a few stinkers in my day. The Bible app kept crashing my phone – further convincing me that the apocalypse was nigh. I couldn’t find a Koran app – they are all in Arabic. The Torah apps were too expensive and the Bhagavad-Gita app keeps sending me ads for cronuts. Religious […]
What is the Most Attractive BMI? What Should You Weigh to Look Your Hottest?
What’s your Body Mass Index (BMI)? What do you mean you don’t know? This is probably one of the most important figures you will ever find out. This is the number that protects you from obesity. The most attractive BMI is a number that’s particular to you – and one you must find out. Really, what […]
Does Anyone Remember the Pro-Ana Sites on Live Journal?
Warning: if you are suffering from an eating disorder, this may not be an appropriate post for you to read. This post is a discussion about what used to be on the pro-ana sites of the mid 2000s. Lots of this stuff was bad for people. These sites were frequented primarily by women, but there […]
Professor Loses 27 Pounds on a Junk Food Diet: Should You?
Have you heard of this guy? For 10 weeks, Mark Haub ate only junk food. He lost lots of weight, improved his cholesterol and got his BMI down to a healthy level. All by eating lots and lots of Twinkies. I am not kidding. To make things even more interesting, he is a professor of […]
Can You Drink Miso Soup to Lose Weight Like Peaches Geldof Did?
Update: 8th of April, 2014. Peaches Geldof has passed away. I would like to say how much I feel for her family during this time, as this is a true tragedy. Rest in Peace, Peaches. Read my tribute here. Here is the original article. Miso soup is great for weight loss but please remember that […]
I Couldn’t Even Taste the Food: My Journey with Emotional Eating
Ugh. I have been eating so terribly lately. Due to a recent personal event I have been feeling awful, sleeping badly and not able to eat. Hang on a minute – did I just say that I’ve lost my appetite? Previously, I always thought of myself as an emotional eater. I am a food lover […]
The 7 Craziest Diets From History: Do They Work?
Crazy vintage diets: I’ve done a few in my time! People have always been obsessed with keeping trim and looking fantastic, and over the centuries people have resorted to lots of strange things to keep their waistlines in check. Here are some of the most bizarre methods of weight loss I have come across from […]
A New Method of Controlling Your Weight: Therapeutic Hunger
Are you struggling with food issues? Do you feel that food controls you? Are you overweight and find that no diets seem to work? Therapeutic Hunger is a method of mindful eating that allows you to understand your digestion and to eat more or less, based on your own body’s needs. There’s no need to […]
Anorexia and Bulimia: Portia de Rossi talks
I have stopped keeping books when I’ve finished them. I pass them on to friends, or leave them in the communal laundry upstairs in my apartment building. There are few books I wished I’d kept a copy of. Portia de Rossi’s book Unbearable Lightness is one of those books. I have to admit that I […]
Inconsistent Calorie Labelling: Why I like McDonalds, Loathe Subway
I’m going to come right out and say something here. I am a fan of McDonalds. Not just the food, but the company in general. In fact, I think as a global brand, they have been particularly responsible when it comes to innovating healthy products and providing nutritional information to their customers. Yes, you heard […]
Very Low Calorie Diets: More Harm than Good?
There was a time when I was desperate to lose weight. I was about ten kilos (22 pounds) heavier than I am right now and it was all due to stress. I was miserable in my life, having a hard time at work, going through a personal and spiritual crisis and living thousands of miles […]
“Can’t” Eat Breakfast in the Morning? Here’s Why.
So – you can’t eat breakfast in the morning, right? We are constantly told that we need to eat breakfast in order to have optimal health. There are studies that show that eating breakfast helps keep our metabolism firing, helps us to moderate our intake of food throughout the day and gives us that first […]
Should You Put Your Fat Kid on a Diet?: “The Heavy” Dara-Lynn Weiss Review
The Heavy: By Dara-Lynn Weiss. She’s the “Vogue” mom who put her chubby daughter on a diet so the kid would look better at upscale Manhattan parties – or so Weiss’ bad press would have you believe. The truth is very, very different. I definitely do not agree with everything this modern mother has done, […]
Does Exercise Actually Make You Fatter?
Years ago, a friend of mine told me that exercise wouldn’t help me lose weight. I thought that was the stupidest thing I had ever heard – exercise burns calories, right? So of course it would help me lose weight. Now there are some studies that have shown that my friend is right. Exercise may […]