Apparently, for me, camping is to be avoided at all costs.  Unfortunately, I love camping and refuse to avoid it. There have been three “very bad” weekends this summer, meaning significant and uncharacteristic weight gain. All three have been camping weekends. All three weekends have involved significant exercise of the biking persuasion, and I try [...]
The basic concept of weight loss is simple: burn more calories than you eat. As long as you do that, your weight will go down (barring unusual medical conditions and the like). Eat 500 calories less than you burn every day, and you’ll lose a pound each week. If there’s a 1000 calorie daily deficit, [...]
The latest of my diet-reading: The Beck Diet Solution by Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. The sub-title is “train your brain to think like a thin person.” I don’t remember how I first heard about this book, but it was probably one of many that I find while playing on Amazon (I know, some people play [...]
You may have noticed that several of the links on my “Kindred Spirits” blogroll go to blogs that talk about “SLD” or the Shangri-La Diet. I enjoyed specific posts by these bloggers, but really didn’t know much about the diet (except for the odd mention about drinking oil!) or the book that started it. When [...]
I don’t know that I would have been aware of it if I hadn’t done work on their blog (through my company, Blogging Expertise, and working with corporate blogging guru Debbie Weil), but GlaxoSmithKline’s new over-the-counter weight loss drug debuted today, apparently to some pretty eager buyers. The drug is called alli, it’s the low-dose [...]