I like documentaries a lot, a lot a lot. I don’t watch as many as I would like to these days partially due to life and partly because they tend to send honey right off to sleep but I digress. By far and away my favorite category is food documentaries. I’m not sure exactly why... Continue Reading →
The Science Behind Weight Loss Plateaus: Why They Happen and How to Deal
Something that get’s a lot of dieters down, so down that it often needlessly puts an end to a diet. Why they happen is probably pretty variable from person to person and there’s also no clear answer on the cause. In theory the body is a furnace that burns food and stored energy in a... Continue Reading →
What it Means to Live in an Obesogenic Environment
Whether you know about it or not, are overweight or underweight or even care about it at all we all pretty much live in an obesogenic environment. One weird thing about me is that I love to watch really well done food and health documentaries. If ya’ll want I can do a post about my... Continue Reading →
What A New Waitress Needs to Know But No One Tells You
Many, many moons ago in a land far, far away I used to be a waitress and did some bar tending. Actually it’s how I paid for one of the most expensive collages in the country, bought a truck and saved for my downpayment too. When said truck and my fridge broke a lot in... Continue Reading →
How to Finally Lose Weight This Year, No BS, Nothing to Buy
Here in North America about 50% of us are overweight and around 30% of us are obese. That ain’t good. That leads us all down some crazy roads like spending literally all of our government dollars on healthcare and human lifespans shortening for the first time ever form our lifestyle choices alone. That’s straight up... Continue Reading →
Is Yo-Yo Dieting Really That Dangerous: What Does Science Say?
This is one of those things that we hear so often and it just sounds right so we accept it as gospel, but is it true? I was wondering about this one day when I was thinking about someone that I know has struggled with addiction. Then I thought about my experience asking for a... Continue Reading →
The Myth of 1200 Calories
It’s no secret that I view the word diet as a four letter word. That’s because they are often dangerous, unhealthy, temporary, hard on the head and mostly a short term solution to a long term problem. Sure there are a few variations on a theme but most diets at their core are calorie deficit... Continue Reading →
What the Hell is Noom: Review
You can’t swing a cat video on the internet right now without seeing an ad for noom. Branded as a phycology based app for loosing wight, personalized coaching especially for millennials, It’s supposed to be an easy list of daily tasks rather than a food logger or fitness tracker and it will only take 10... Continue Reading →
It Turns Out I Know A Lot About Canning
Do you ever have one of those moments where you’re like “holy crap I know a lot about this!” Well that happened to me a few weeks ago. My next door neighbor is going through her second trimester hardcore nesting stage and she discovered canning. She was taking me all sorts of questions and get... Continue Reading →
Why We Carb Load: It’s More Than Just Energy
I’m not a serious carb loader but before a big race, and my mom recently reminded me back in the day for swim trials I do indulge. Do I find it helps, ehhhh, maybe? Many, many years ago I took a metabolism course that required us to memorize every pathway in human metabolism so I... Continue Reading →