Dating a Diet Disaster? No fear, Jenna Bergen’s Your Big Fat Boyfriend can help.
March 3, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Book Reviews, Diets and Dieting, Food and Drink, Health, How To
As you might have already guessed from the title, Your Big Fat Boyfriend is not just another diet book. Written by Jenna Bergen, a freelance writer and yoga addict, it reads more like a click lit novel than a diet. But diet book it is and a very useful one at that for anyone who is suddenly discovering that the guy that you’re falling is causing you to let your diet and healthy eating habits fall by the wayside.
It’s pretty much a given that once in a relationship, many women will pick up their partner’s unhealthy eating habits, resulting in …read more
Sleep or Get Fat People, Your Choice
June 10, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under A Mother's Wisdom, Easy Health Tips, Happy Living Tip, Weight Loss, Your Body, sleep
Sleeping or getting fat? Hmm, tough choice.
Image details: Portrait of a young woman sleeping fully dressed on a white bed served by picapp.com
Well, you don’t have to tell me twice to follow this advice:
Get more sleep!
So the deal here is that we can go about our business, scraping for anything remotely resembling rest, or we can make sleep a priority and lose weight. Boy, I’m just not sure on that one. Lemme think a sec…
Okay, yeah, I’ll play. I am officially on board with the findings that too-little sleep ends with a 40% increase in cortisol in the blood (cortisol …read more
