Book Reviews | The Fit Shack

Here’s a cookbook review that I have for you today, but first I must tell you that I’m not diabetic so I do not have personal experience with diabetes.
The cookbook is put out by the American Diabetes Association and is The Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook. I was asked if I would review this book by [...]

Here’s the post I alluded to on Friday, the post that I’ve been meaning to write for awhile now on the topic that several of you smart readers of The Fit Shack have asked me about. Yep, we’re talking about Splenda - you’ve heard of it, do you use it?
I first heard of Splenda in [...]

Remember my review of the Eat Clean Diet by Tosca Reno? If you don’t, let me tell ya that she’s a woman who in her 40’s dropped 60 pounds by eating clean and exercising, and then went on to become a fitness model at the age of 45 - goes to show that it’s never [...]

What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the previous
forty thousand. - Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
It’s been awhile since I’ve written about just how toxic and non-nutritious fast food is for the body. Remember the post I wrote about Super Size Me? I just love that DVD. Not only [...]

Do you want to eat better but you aren’t sure how to make the switch to fresh, whole foods? Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to feel and look better, have lots of energy, and feed your body clean fuel instead of processed, additive-filled convenience foods?
I can tell you from my own [...]

Have you heard of The Eat-Clean Diet by Tosca Reno? Recently the publisher of the book asked me if I’d be interested in reviewing it because they noticed that I have often talked about eating clean here at The Fit Shack.
The topic of eating clean has come up so often because my healthy experiences have [...]

I often write about emotional eating here at The Fit Shack, in addition to writing about sugar addiction. I write about these topics because they have been my experience, and based on my experience, I’ve felt that the whole topic of food and weight are complex issues. I’ve felt that weight loss is a complex [...]

In yesterday’s post I mentioned that today I would share a useful tool with you that you can use to discover why you overeat. This is all about becoming conscious of the reasons that you overeat and keep yourself overweight. While I don’t expect this one post to solve all of your issues, it will [...]