In honor of my tenth month of Jenny Craig maintenance, of course we have to have a dieting post. I’m happy to say that in the last ten months, my weight has stayed within a five pound range, and I never got higher that one pound below my goal weight, holidays included. I like that. Read more…
I haven’t posted about hunger/weight loss for awhile, but in honor of my tenth month of weight loss maintenance, I thought I’d share two new articles that crossed my desk today. The first, by Kaveh Ashfrafi and his colleagues at UC San Francisco, looked at the effects of serotonin on appetite Read more…
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has just published a new report entitled “Where the Girls Are” that concludes that schools are not handicapping boys in order to address perceived gaps in education for girls. They conclude: “Educational achievement is not a zero-sum game, in which a gain for Read more…
We all know that a combination of diet and exercise is important to good health and psychological well-being. If we only diet, we don’t get the cardiovascular and psychological benefits of exercise, and we run the risk of lowering our metabolic rate, making weight loss even harder. If we only Read more…
All of us have had the experience of knowing that we’re not hungry, that we’re in fact full, but going ahead and eating anyway. In my experience, this usually happens when I have the opportunity to eat something unusually yummy. I typically don’t overeat my broccoli or salad. So this Read more…