What the hell is gluten, anyway? It sounds like something undigestible, that might get stuck in my esophagus. Those that are anti-gluten will tell you that description is pretty much dead-on. I poked around a bit after reading about gluten on some other blogs. I still don’t understand completely, but basically if you can avoid wheat ...
I had my monthly check-up with my doc this morning, something I'm doing during the initial stages of my diet to help enforce some accountability, along with monitoring some real-world medical issues. When I started the diet, I agreed not to weight myself between visits because she didn't want me focused on short-term variation. If ...
On the heels of my post about mice getting the benefits of dieting without the diet, I came across this site: Turn Fat People Into Mice Mostly, there’s a bunch of posts about medical research involving mice. I think the doctor writing the blog thinks they should be doing the research on humans: Since we are experts ...
Discovery News reported earlier this month that scientists were able to remove a single gene to extend the life span and quality of life of female mice. The most popular diabetes drug in the United States, metformin, targets the same proteins produced by the deleted gene, raising the possibility that millions of ...
So, yesterday I slipped. I won’t get into what it is I ate during the day, not because I’m embarrassed, but… Ok, it’s because I’m embarrassed. It was just so damn silly. Anyway, I was so full when I woke up this morning that I couldn’t eat breakfast. So, I suppose it means my stomach is shrinking ...
Knowledge @ Wharton published an article last week about a company that is avoiding rising health insurance premiums by creating incentives for employees to lose weight. They use a BMI of 30 as the discriminating factor between employees that pay a lower insurance premium and a higher insurance premium, and incentivize employees to make progress during ...
Peter Bregman, in To Change Effectively, Change Just One Thing on the Harvard Business Blog pointed me to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that concluded Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize. When I state that I am agnostic with regard to weight loss programs, ...
Yes. I have started. I won’t share the site I’m using except to say it’s new to me. After I have a chance to explore and use it a bit more I’ll share it, but I wouldn’t want my mentioning it to constitute advising you to use it. My total calories are doing ok, but I need ...
I read a story on a news site about a guy that weighed almost exactly what I weighed two weeks ago. Nine months ago. Today he weighs 120 lbs less. Awesome! Meet Tyler. Inspirational because he’s doing what works for him, not a program or fad diet, and getting the results. Look forward to joining you in the not-obese ...
We hit a street festival here in Northern Alabama today. Yeah, a pretty dangerous place for a dieting fat man… funnel cake… mmmm…. I was good, though. I ate a decent breakfast, 2 fried eggs and a piece of toast, and loaded up on water. I also exercised some discretion and didn’t hit an ATM before ...