Since you’re a smart reader of The Fit Shack (yes, you! ) you already know that there is no shortcut to weight loss. You know that there’s no magic pill and that it takes a change in lifestyle to get the weight off and keep it off.
If you do opt for a fad [...]
Archive for the "Diet Reviews" category
Last month I watched The Shrinking Woman on Discovery Health. I taped it so I watched it again tonight and I find it very insightful regarding the topic of emotional eating.
The show is about a woman, Connie Jackson, who used to weigh 630 pounds. She had most of her stomach removed in order to get [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s something both fun and informative that I came across while doing some online research. It’s a site run by the FTC that lists links to 2 separate sites they have set up in order to illustrate what to look for in a bogus diet or health cure site.
The diet site is titled Fat Foe. [...]
Even though there truly isn’t a magic pill or supplement that can give you quick, healthy, easy weight loss, so many of us still don’t want to give up the hope. We still want to believe that “maybe there is a cure for overweight, a cure that won’t require that I look at my emotions, [...]
Several years ago I saw a type of “Dateline NBC” show that was an exposé on weight loss ads. I hang onto interesting information like this in my mind, however I didn’t take notes at the time because I didn’t know that I’d want to use it in the future! This has led [...]
The Six Week Body Makeover by Michael Thurmond is the best weight loss plan that I have ever experienced. I am so grateful that I found this program and purchased it in January, 2004. I have been very successful with it, initially losing 43.5 pounds (**not in 6 weeks — I started at 171.5 — [...]
