photo by Wedding Wire: wedding cakes & flowers

For those of you who haven’t heard, I have to share with you the biggest news of my life up to this point… On October 10th, 2009 I will be marrying my best friend in the whole world! We are so excited and busily planning the big day.

And part of the planning involves dress shopping…which I was doing last night. Bridezilla happened to be trying on dresses in the fitting room adjacent to mine. It’s no secret that many brides try to exercise/>lose exercise/>lose-weight-exercise/>weight to look their best for their wedding day, but apparently bridezilla has a lot of exercise/>lose-weight-exercise/>weight to exercise/>lose. She’s planning on losing 30lbs by August, and she plans to do it by not eating anything all day but a granola bar and yelling at the fitting room attendant to burn calories. Really?!

While this poor girl didn’t know that she was giving nutritionista in the room next to her good material to write about, a lot of people identify with her. Starving yourself to exercise/>lose a bunch of exercise/>lose-weight-exercise/>weight really quickly sounds morbidly unpleasant but somewhat successful in theory, only it actually is the worst possible way to exercise/>lose exercise/>lose-weight-exercise/>weight. You see, when you don’t eat, your metabolism turns to mush and Read the rest of this entry »

The problem with Protein Powder is that there are so many bogus “studies” that really aren’t studies at all but rather sneaky advertisements by scientific sounding companies to sell you protein. I dug around, did some research, and the most reliable data I found was a roundtable discussion from the American College of Sports Medicine. I’ll do my best to condense the serious 12 page report… Read the rest of this entry »

How many hours of TV do you watch every day? Be honest, you dont have to say it out loud or anything…just think it. Think it real good… and keep reading.

Don’t freak out on me here, I’m not going to tell you not to watch your favorite FRIENDS reruns. But I am going to recommend that you keep it to just one or two episodes. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has shown that Read the rest of this entry »

Something magical happens when a person learns that they can indulge in an ice cream bar without also indulging in the guilt of 40g of sugar; they go nuts and this “magic” ingredient begins to pop up in everything from chocolate to instant oatmeal. Today’s Read the rest of this entry »

If the very sight of PEMDA drags you back to Algebra kicking and screaming, “No! I will not excuse your dear Aunt Sally!” you are in luck. When it comes to your health, reaching and maintaining your ideal exercise/>lose-weight-exercise/>weight has only 2 steps, and while the order of operation to achieve Read the rest of this entry »