Hey There! on Thursday, January 25th at 6pm Eastern time, I am going to be presenting the webinar ‘The Martial Art of Weight Loss – Class One – Overview’. The class is currently ‘Pay-What-You-Can’ and I pass the hat in a follow up email. You can do the webinar version of a ‘dine & dash’ if you like. Interested? Send an email to TheMartialArtofWeightLoss@gmail.com and let me know you’d like to attend and I’ll send you a Zoom link right before the webinar. Easy-peasy. On day 1 I started my flavor fast. I chose hamburger. Seasoned with salt. A total of 730 calories. I was satisfied. I wasn’t ..read more

This is what ChatGPT created when I plugged the post in it – I’m not a headless woman with 6-pack abs and I don’t eat wraps. Hey There! on Thursday, January 25th at 6pm Eastern time, I am going to be presenting the webinar ‘The Martial Art of Weight Loss – Class One – Overview’. The class is currently ‘Pay-What-You-Can’ and I pass the hat in a follow up email. You can do the webinar version of a ‘dine & dash’ if you like. Interested? Send an email to TheMartialArtofWeightLoss@gmail.com and let me know you’d like to attend and I’ll send you a Zoom link right before the webinar. Easy-peasy ..read more

I haven’t posted a recipe in a long while because I don’t really use recipes on my diet and my recipes always had more of an element of ‘mad-scientist’ than ‘gourmet’ to them. This follows my tradition: my daughter was shocked at my creation but I’m planning to go shopping today and thought I’d be sure to have the ingredients on hand – so I guess I like it enough to make it again. The thing that offended my daughter so much was the pairing of the word ‘savory’ with ‘smoothie’. It just didn’t sound right to her. She wouldn’t even *try* it. I thought it was pretty good – and pretty filling. Ingr ..read more

Let’s start by defining ‘junk food’ for me, on this particular day. Junk food is something that a person in 1880 might not recognize as food. To go a little deeper, it might resemble it from an outward appearance but they would not recognize how it was made. The first example that pops into my mind is bread. Bread used to be flour, salt, and yeast that would be rock hard in a day and moldy in a couple if not completely dry. Today it is a shelf-stable product that resembles bread but contains a spectrum of chemicals so it can remain on food shelves for a long time without going bad. This is ho ..read more

On 11/19/2023, 54 days ago, 357 days after starting my unconventional DIY diet, I did it: the scale read 179 pounds for the first time in a long time. I had started the Monday after Thanksgiving 2022. For anyone who reaches their goal weight, the air is a little rarified: so few people actually *reach* their weight loss goals that there’s little interest in books and articles on *how* one is supposed to maintain their loss. There are articles out there, but I’d think you’d agree that they probably don’t get read as often as the ones that talk about weight loss. I tried searching on Amazon and ..read more

Overweight folks tend to have a screwed-up relationship with food. People losing weight tend to have a screwed-up relationship with food. And people who’ve lost weight tend to have a screwed-up relationship with food. That pretty much covers most of the people I know. It’s remarkable to think that this societal norm barely existed 150 years ago. The picture above is from the ‘Fat Man Club’ – an organization of well-off fat gentleman who would get together for activities – a lot of it eating prodigious amounts of food. there were a lot of these clubs – it wasn’t an isolated phenomenon. This ar ..read more

I correspond with my students and sometimes the things they say humble me. Here’s a quote that I keep coming back to in my head. The ‘it’ for me in your program, then, is permission. No one is telling me what to do or shoving crap down my throat that their way is the only way. It’s guidance, yes. But it is also, figure out your foods and what works for you, no insistence of exercise, be kind and gentle with yourself as you would a friend, no more grinding it out even though you’re miserable, do an occasional cheat to not only shake up your metabolism but to also give yourself a mental break ..read more

Hi Folks. Interested in an innovative approach to weight loss? Yes? No? Something in between? I’ve developed a free 1.5-hour class designed to introduce a very unconventional weight loss strategy that breaks all the rules about diets that I always thought were necessary – but, by golly, they weren’t – and I lost 110 pounds in a year, and I’ve been keeping it off without much effort for 2 months so far. But here’s the twist – I want your input to make it truly impactful! Everyone’s journey to health and fitness is unique, and I designed this class to let you make the choices in what you eat. Bu ..read more

If you’ve already started your 2024 diet but would like to learn an approach to make it less miserable and a mental burden, why not spend about the same time it takes to watch a bad movie and discover what I did to lose 110 pounds in a year while cheating all the time and not exercising? Bring your own diet. I don’t tell you what to eat, but what to think and how to eat – stuff most other diets leave you to figure out. I’m diet-neutral. And if you’re still searching for a diet, I do have some simple approach I can share if you need it. If you have a lot of weight to lose, are sick of the diet ..read more

What’s your diet plans for 2024? The apple cider vinegar diet? The potato diet? The bone broth diet? Or maybe one of the 40,000 other diet books on Amazon? Why not spend about the same time it takes to watch a bad movie and discover what I did to lose 110 pounds in a year while cheating all the time and not exercising? If you have a lot of weight to lose, are sick of the diet merry-go-round, and the thought of going on a diet and exercise regimen long-haul just makes you exhausted and want to take a nap, this free overview might give you a new approach with no drugs, magic foods, guilt, shame ..read more