In short – the answer is no.
I have heard women lament about how as soon as they got married, 5-20 pounds immediately appeared on their frame, as if a wedding band were a magnet for saddlebags and love handles. The same deflection is heard every Fall when a bunch of kids trot off to college and promptly gain “the freshman fifteen”.
No, your husband and your marriage are not making you fat. And this is coming from a woman who has probably put on close to twenty pounds since the wedding day! To be fair, the slide downhill probably started a …read more

Have you fallen off the healthy food wagon? It happens once in a while even when you have the best healthy eating intentions. I’m at that point right now. The last week or so have been hectic, and my food choices haven’t been great. I haven’t completely blown it, but need to get back on track.
If you have a lapse in your healthy eating plan how do you get back on track? Over the last few years I’ve learned a few things that help me get back to healthy eating when I start to stray:

Don’t beat yourself up about it.
Get …read more

You may be getting older everyday, but I’m getting younger.
 About a year and a half ago, after I had my son, I went on RealAge.com . I was only 33 at the time, but after taking the questionnaire I discovered that my real age – the age of my body due to my unhealthy habits – was 38.5 years old!
Hello! Who wants to be five-and-a-half years older than they really are? Not me.
I joined the gym and started a cardio, weights and yoga. I took Chantix and quit smoking. I changed the entire way our whole family eats based on …read more

If I were a smart blogger, I would have created a survey which would help determine the eating habits of small home business owners.
However, it would probably depress me…because, I think most of us in this category don’t eat as well as we should.
I know I don’t — which is weird because I’m kind of a self-proclaimed foodie.
I’m hoping in the year ahead, I change several of my bad habits — in the mean time, I thought I would give you a glimpse of how this small business owner  deals with meals during the working week:

Breakfast: Tea
Morning snack: Handful …read more

I have never been on a diet, but I have to imagine that having to manage and keep track of calories has got to be one of life’s more tedious endeavors.
I’m sure there must be thousands of books, articles, magazines, talk-show hosts, videos, experts, Doctors, movie stars, blogs and bloggers dedicated to THE best, most efficient, logical, easy, hard, demented, strenuous and not strenuous ways to lose weight.
It dawned on me that common sense and humor have a lot to do with success or failure too.
In the spirit of making fun of diets (not of people on diets), I have …read more