Lose weight with the white food diet – your full DAY 1 diet plan
You’ve heard the statistics, right? They say white food is BAD. Even Oprah jumped on the bandwagon, demonising any food with a pasty-white appearance. On the list: sugar, white bread, potatoes, white rice, biscuits, cake…you name it – if it was white and delicious, it was labelled as “bad”. What on earth is the no […]
Should I drink juice to lose weight? The hidden problems with juicing
I do not drink juice. In fact, I am afraid of juice. In general, I do not like to drink my calories, therefore I avoid milky coffees, milkshakes, smoothies and juices. Wine – I drink – but I factor the calories into my daily calorie allowance. Despite the hype, drinking wine does not add too […]
My first memories of comfort eating
Oh seriously GUH. Blergh and ugh. I have had the most weird crazy couple of days where I feel this sense of being completely overwhelmed. You know the feeling – when you feel that there is simply too much going on all at once so you feel the need to comfort eat and self-nurture. It […]
Do you need to heal your relationship with food?
Something occurred to me the other day – I now find it more difficult to overeat. Even when I think I have eaten a lot, often, I will add up the calories I have eaten that day and they will amount to less than 2000. There was a time when I could (somehow) eat double […]
5 best natural energy boosters you can do right NOW
Today I feel OK but there are many days when I wake up tired and feel like I have next to no energy at all. I have heard a theory that all humans (and indeed, all living things) have a finite amount of energy each day. When this is used up, we feel drained and […]
Are you and your pet obese because you’re miserable?
Your life has its limits, and so does your pet’s! Every minute is precious and we waste so much time with pointless things. Today’s era is not a great one for spirituality, for morality, for family and for mental health. We’re a mess, collectively. I was watching TV this morning while I drank my plunger […]
What should you order on a first date and who should pay?
It has been a very long time since I went on a first date but I have been on many in my time. I remember in my youth, sitting opposite a teenaged date of mine who had just had a cappuccino – he spent the entire date with a chocolate moustache and I was too […]
6 super-fast ways to lose weight in 3 days
Weight loss should be done slowly to be sustainable, but I have also read reports that it’s imperative to kick-start your diet by seeing some fast results as this can encourage us to keep going. Indeed, in French Women Don’t Get Fat, the author speaks of her Leek Soup Diet which is just awful and […]
1200 calories a day is a lie? Fat chance!
LIE #1: Focusing on calorie counting alone is a shallow and harmful approach to health and nutrition. LIE #2: If you reach starvation mode it means your body realises it is not getting enough food (calories). It thinks that you are starving and slows down your metabolism in order to conserve energy. LIE #3: If […]
Fasting: will it work for you? Is fasting dangerous?
There is lots in the news about fasting these days. Juice fasting is popular, as well as the 5:2 diet where you eat normally for 5 days and fast for 2. According to Wikipedia: “Fasting is primarily an act of willing abstinence or reduction from certain or all food, drink, or both, for a period […]
Why “mouthfeel” is important to help you lose weight
Have you ever heard about “mouthfeel”? It’s defined as “the tactile sensation a food gives to the mouth” by dictionary.com and as “the sensation created by food or drink in the mouth” by Merriam-Webster. There is a theory I have heard that it could be one of the essential components of food that leads to […]
The hidden calories and fat in “healthy” smoothies
This picture of a healthy smoothie angers me. It makes me furious with rage and I fear for society. Just look at this smoothie. I did not make it. I did not drink it. It was made by theveganchemist and this is not going to be a critical post, merely a deconstruction on what is […]
Is self-love the key to losing weight?
I used to have a problem with food, having said that – I am not suggesting that I am out of the water yet – I anticipate that at some stage in the future, I may have a problem with food again. There have been times in my life when I have been overweight. My […]
Male anorexia on the rise
The Boyf and I are obsessed by our scales. I have blogged about this before: My Love/Hate relationship with the scales and I have been on both sides of this argument: that you should weigh every day in order to maintain optimal health and that weighing yourself daily can cause emotional distress, eating disorders and […]