The song from Ciara featuring Missy Elliott, 1, 2 Step, runs through my head as I sit here pondering why we eat more than a few bites of ANYTHING. We do not need a lot of something to feel a lot of pleasure from it. In our culture of more, we often equate quantity...

Have your cake and drink your nutrients too. Life is meant to be lived in joyful balance. Green juice all the time would be boring. Chocolate cake all the time would feel terrible and cause weight gain. The solution is balance. Think of the old joke of the fast...

I do not believe in counting calories. At the same time, I know that calories count. The magic trick we are all searching for is how to make the weight disappear without constantly keeping track of and cutting our consumption. Like a magic trick often has a slight...

My history with dieting is very full. I switched diets at a rate and rhythm reminiscent of the “bend and snap” made famous in Legally Blonde. I am, in fact, legally blonde…that is, according to my driver’s license! Not that I have ever done the “bend and snap” to...