Never take orders from a cookie!
Welcome to Small Steps to Health where we do not take orders from a cookie! My friends will laugh if they know that I have been watching America’s Next Top Model for the last three seasons. My husband is confused since he hears my constant gripe about society’s relentless pressure on women to remain youthful [...]
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Your food choices will have the biggest impact on whether or not you will lose weight. In general, we know that daily caloric intake should be our weight multiply by 10. Then you throw in some multipliers such as your activity level and your age, and voila! You arrive at your “magic number” on how [...]
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What is your dream weight? Mine would be at 125 pounds. I am 5’3″. I haven’t seen this weight since freshman year in college. I rather be able to maintain this weight for life than to win the lottery. But I think I have a higher chance in winning the lottery than to ever get [...]
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Like children, sometimes what we hear and what we do when it comes to improving our health are two different things. What we hear: What we do: Eat less at night. Eat nothing at night. Eat smaller meals. Eat carrot sticks. Your caloric needs will eventually decrease with weight loss. Start counting calories and eat [...]
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Lisa over at Workout Mommy wrote a post about vanity sizing that resonates with my complaint about women’s clothing. I hate shopping for clothes because it takes too much time. I hate picking something up from the rack, trying it on, only to discover it is either too small or too larger when the size [...]
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Enjoy the funny breakfast clip. Breakfast is the most importance meal of the day for weight loss or at least that is what most people say. And that we should eat breakfast within 1-2 hours of waking. I think that is good advice in general, but might not be true for everyone. For those dieters [...]
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There are many factors that affect how our bodies convert the food we into energy. Most people, including myself, have no problem with eating enough food to supply our bodies with the energy we need to function (though it is questionable whether we are supplying our bodies with premium or regular fuel). This post is a discussion of the other side of the energy equation: other than fat storage for excess calories, how are the calories distributed inside our bodies?
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The thing about human nature is that we have a tendency to want to change the environment around us. If we are going to get healthy, we want to share this new discovery with everyone, no matter how annoying we might sound. I was raving about using the exercise ball instead of an office chair [...]
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I asked a co-worker once how she could be satisfy with a small microwave dinner for lunch every day, approximately 250-300 calories. She was 53 and I was fresh out of school. Here I was, wolfing down 400-500 calories every day and still hungry by 3pm. She said to me : When you get older, [...]
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Do you find yourself depressed, moody, erratic, volatile, forgetful, and impulsive when you do not get your sugar fix? Can you say no to a small slice of cake without eating half the cake? You just might be addicted sugar like I am. Sugar addiction is a result of low serotonin and beta-endorphin (brain chemicals). [...]
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