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• Commented on What Is a Healthy Pregnancy Walking Routine?
  Honey, why didn't you just ask your doctor?...
• Posted Why You Should Never Eat Processed Food Again to Share
  It may be a bit off-topic but everyone should read this exceptional piece in the NYT about how the (US) meat industry works: Ms. Smith, 22, was found to have a severe form of food-borne illness caused by E. coli,...
• Commented on Weight Loss: Focus on Cutting Calories
  Musajen, can you give me an example for what you'd eat on an average day with a 70-20-10 ratio?...
• Commented on Losing Weight With the Grapefruit Diet
  Having a deja-vue right now ......
• Commented on How Can I Change My "All or Nothing" Mentality
  It helps me to keep an online food-diary that calculates the calories as I put in what I eat. So I see that this one "bad" food item doesn't kick me over my daily allowance - and if then I...
• Commented on How to Make Exercise Work For Your Fat Loss
  Great summary! But - since you stress weight training to build muscle mass - what do you think of this paragraph in the Times-article? "According to calculations published in the journal Obesity Research by a Columbia University team in 2001,...
• Commented on HELP: All This Running But No Drop in Weight
  By the way: What IS a good program for strength/resistance training at home if you don't have any weights/machine/things? Is there any?...
• Commented on 5 Ways to Tame Post-Workout Hunger
  About the "when to eat": My doctor said to not eat anything for one hour after the workout. And that's what I want to get my body to: emptying the fat cells for energy, don't I? So if I refill...
• Commented on Losing Weight Didn't Make Me Love ME Better!
  You know, the funny thing is that I still see a slim person, when I look into the mirror. Even though I'm not. The brain sticks to long known images so you have to fool it. When I see pictures...
• Commented on How Effective is the Glycemic-Load Diet?
  Sabrina: Sorry, we seem to talk about different Low GL diets. Yes, fruit has a lot of sugar, but it's fruit sugar, fructose, which - as far as I know - doesn't spike insulin levels that much, except bananas. And...
• Commented on How Effective is the Glycemic-Load Diet?
  Oh, I didn't know that. I thought that everything with a low GL is safe territory. Not in a "eat a pig each day"-way but nothing you should keep track of. On the other hand: I have a glass of...
• Commented on How Effective is the Glycemic-Load Diet?
  Because there actually is a growing amount of studies that say so. And more and more experts (yes, the ones who studied at universities) come to the conclusion that the level of insulin and the body's ability to burn fat...
• Commented on How Effective is the Glycemic-Load Diet?
  Thanks for your support and your thoughts! Margaret: I eat when I'm hungry. That's one thing that I need to learn. My problem is not junk food, chocolate or stuff like that. It's just that I love to eat delicious...
• Posted How Effective is the Glycemic-Load Diet? to Share
  If been on low GL foods for almost one month now. I haven't eaten a piece of bread since then, and just slipped occasionally when invited. (In the amount of maybe one small chocolate cake or a croissant per week.)...
• Commented on Is Gary Taubes Onto Something?
  Incredible. If I were old enough (and immortal, of course) this would remind me of the old discussion about the earth being flat or a sphere. We're flying to the moon, for heaven's sake. But we are not able to...
• Commented on Is Gary Taubes Onto Something?
  One last question about that: If he is right shouldn't be Italy the land of the obese (pizza, pasta)? And Japan as well (rice!)?...
• Commented on Is Gary Taubes Onto Something?
  The book is on its way, should be here any minute now. But: In what way do I ruin my health if I eat low-fat/high-carb? And I did WW before the new "fill up with pasta for 4 points"-program. So...
• Posted Is Gary Taubes Onto Something? to Share
  I just watched Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories lecture in Berkeley, and he seems so convinced and convincing about what he believes. So, is there a flaw in his argument? And if "yes" what is it? I've been on...