FiftyFierce

If you follow my blog, you know I don't believe diets work (specifically, weight-loss diets) though of course I recognize that this will never stop marketers from trying to get you to believe they will. With the current statistics stating that 35.7% of the US population over 20 years of age is obese, and-that this number has more than doubled in less than 50 years, I'd say those are some pretty 'sit up and take notice' numbers, as that equates to approximately 79 million Amer

Talk about your ghosts from the past...As I mentioned in my last blog 'When it's Good to Look Back', this is part II of a long story. It deserves so much more recognition than I can give it primarily due to the fact that there is still little progress on this disorder in the way of a cure and yet there are millions of people suffering. I also hope that I am not losing the respect of my small readership. I will reprint only portions of this article that was published 17 1/2 ye

As 2017 rapidly approaches, I've been considering goals I hope to accomplish in the coming year and realized that losing weight won't be one of them. This caused me to ponder the time it has taken to reach this point and the craziness I've been through on this journey. To put it all in the proper perspective, I am going to tell you the story. It's not pretty and there's a part of me that really doesn't want to expose this deeply personal history, though I have eluded to it th

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” The quote above is from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., a Swiss-born psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies and author of

As much as I like to believe that the general public gets the relationship between food intake and fat gain/fat loss, this will probably never actually match reality. It's just that when I am asked so often what has made the most difference in my transformation program, and I reply with a resounding "Diet!", I get the nods of understanding that seem to say "Oh yes, we knew this all along!" yet it is still the number one issue people struggle with. I feel pretty confident with