Today’s the day society says you have to give away buckets of candy to those kids who show up for free stuff but are NOWHERE to be found when you need something shoveled. Any dieter knows that bringing a Pumpkin Ton of candy into your house is like bringing a Pumpkin Ton of candy into your mouth. [...]

We’ve all been on many different plans and well, failed right? But here’s the question, is your failure on a previous diet derailing this one? Are you letting the time you went over on points that one week, or ate a donut during a low-carb phase, or the time you skipped exercising one day and [...]

We all know it’s coming. The holiday season. It’s not really a holiday season, is it? It’s more like a two-month-office-sugar-bomb-free-for-all. Everybody bakes things, brings in candy and generally tries to flarg with your diet. I’ve read the other online tips for staying “good” through this dreaded two month stretch. “Pick healthy choices. Save yourself [...]

 There are only SIX days until National Blood Sugar Wack-A-Doodle Day (Halloween.) We needed a little inspiration from others to stay on track this morning.  So here you go SIX ways to handle the next SIX Days until National Blood Sugar Wack-A-Doodle Day: 1. If you’re thinking of starting a weight loss blog – here are [...]

We’ve all been on many different plans and well, failed right? But here’s the question, is your failure on a previous diet derailing this one? Are you letting the time you went over on points that one week, or ate a donut during a low-carb phase, or the time you skipped exercising one day and [...]

We’ve got 26 Days until the blood sugar and gore fest known as Halloween. Here are some October Resolutions to get through this month: October Resolutions I resolve to exercise 18 times before Halloween. I resolve to drink an unreasonable amount of water 20 times before Halloween. I resolve to purchase Halloween Candy on October [...]

I’ll explain my last 24 hours by way of political analogy (’tis the season and all). Halloween 2008 has been like the Iraq War II. Put aside the argument whether it was necessary to “go in” or not. We’re there. It started out spectacularly in that I only ate 29 points (over my Weight Watchers daily [...]

We all need to form a circle and join cyber hands. Four days from now marks the beginning of the dreaded holiday season. We all know it really starts on Halloween, slides into the Thanksgiving food orgey, then snowballs into “f$%k it, I’m eating this” Chrismahanukwanzakah. Though I haven’t done my usual wikigoogling scientific research, [...]

We are now firmly in October and this month is the departure platform for a bullet train ride to 2009. It’s a train filled with candy corn, Thanksgiving dinners, Thanksgiving leftovers, baking, holiday parties and a New Year’s Eve gorge.  In the blink of an eye it will be January 1, 2009 and if tradition holds I’m at risk of starting the year laying [...]