February 7, 2012

Weight Loss Surgery – Not A Cure For Emotional Eating

Surgical Instruments

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 [...]

Eating Clean & Getting Fit with Tosca Reno – The Eat-Clean Diet

Eat-Clean Diet by Tosca Reno

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 [...]

The Diet Plan in YOU On A Diet

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 [...]

How To Spot a Bogus Diet or Health Cure Site

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 [...]