Does this sound familiar? During the week, you eat salads, chicken and steamed broccoli, wild fish and vegetables for every meal. You follow a strict “diet” that promises quick results. You feel restricted and deprived, but you white knuckle through it. Then, the weekend hits and you...
Imagine this. It’s book club night. Your host has homemade gooey, fudgy brownies – made exactly the way you love them. You tell yourself; I can’t eat a brownie. Then, after they are passed around for the third time, you think: “I’ll just have half.” The next thing you...
The holiday season is upon us. From now until the new year, you will probably have many festive gatherings full of yummy, mouthwatering treats and family delicacies. Unfortunately, this can lead to annual weight gain, of which 51% occurs during the last six weeks of...
Summer is in full swing -- the airports are packed with eager travelers off to their summer destinations and the interstates are more crowded than usual. Due to the crowds, you're probably at the airport several hours before take-off to allow adequate time for check-in....
I read an interesting essay in Aeon by Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, who has a new take on hunger and weight loss. Graziano experimented on himself for about a year, eating the same thing every day to establish a baseline. He would...