Book Reviews | The Fit Shack

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I would be conducting yet another experiment on myself, this time being an experiment in mono dieting.
If you haven’t read my original post yet I suggest you do that before reading this update. It will give you a better understanding of what mono dieting is, that it’s [...]

It’s time for another experiment and this time I’m doing something that I’ve wanted to do for quite a long time. For over 10 years I’ve owned the book, You CAN Prevent Breast Cancer! by Harvey Diamond. To put it very simply, the premise is to mono diet periodically in order to allow your lymph [...]

Last week I received a question in a comment from Sandee on my post How “YOU On A Diet” Influenced Me to Change. She wanted to know if I had ever followed the diet plan offered in the book, and if so, how I liked it.
I haven’t ever followed their diet plan, even though [...]

You might think that you’re eating healthier because you’ve replaced refined white table sugar with honey, but think again. I’m currently reading Sweet Deception by Dr. Joseph Mercola and was amazed to learn about the process of forced honey production and its correlation with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
I have learned from Dr. Mercola’s book [...]

Are you familiar with the teachings of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale?
I first read The Power of Positive Thinking when I was a kid, somewhere between the ages of 10 - 12. I picked it back up again and have been reading it over the past couple of months. Even better is a cassette tape [...]

Have you ever noticed the line, “Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine” at the bottom of the ingredients list on various beverages and processed foods? Were you curious about this ingredient? Well, I was, too!
I first noticed this warning listed on Crystal Light and on some of the beverages that I researched in the grocery store for a [...]

I must admit, I have been under an extreme amount of stress for the past 2 weeks. I thought that I would take this opportunity to give you some information on how severe stress affects your appetite and hence your weight, in case you haven’t gone through this before.
This might not be the case for [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the importance of believing in yourself, believing in your ability to accomplish your weight loss goals.
After all, if you do not believe that you can lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life, how could you expect to be motivated to begin the process of change? Why [...]