Sheer Balance

When it comes to looking and feeling our best in a little black dress (or whatever sexy number you feel like wearing), there is nothing like baring beautifully toned arms and shoulders, and feeling slim in you waste and tummy. What if, however, you have a special event coming up in the next few days [...]

We all survived the low-carb mania that swept the country a few years back, and if you’re like me, you didn’t have too much difficulty retraining yourself afterward to indulge in pasta dishes and sandwiches sans guilt. But lately it looks as if the pendulum may be swinging back. As I browsed the diet and [...]

Recently, I was having a discussion with my friend who claimed that eating healthy and dieting are the same thing.  Ouch!  If that is true, then I must have been on a diet my whole life!  How awful!  The fact of the matter is, that healthy eating and dieting are two very different things.  But, [...]

Chances are that at some point in your life you went on a diet.  You may even be on one now.  Or, you may be making a New Year’s Resolution to diet in 2010.  Let me stop you there.  If you are planning on losing weight in 2010, save your money and time, and instead, [...]

Many people count calories when they are trying to lose weight.  Doing so can be very helpful, and often, can lead to greater and more sustainable weight loss.  In a study done by Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, those participants who kept a food diary lost almost twice the amount of weight of those [...]

Starting with Thanksgiving, the holiday season gives us reason (or an excuse) to celebrate and indulge.  Some of us are great at managing the amount of celebrating we do, and some of us are not so good.  The worst, however, is waking up the day after New Year’s, dumbfounded as to how we gained ten [...]

I’m not a big believer in counting calories.  I do think that it is important to be MINDFUL of how you eat, but counting calories makes anyone trying to be healthy feel like they are on a diet.  Who wants to be on a diet?  No one.  Mindful eating, however, allows you to enjoy the [...]

Sometimes when I go to the gym, I have this urge to tell some of the most religious treadmill riders “Ma’am, Step away from the treadmill!” No matter how many articles and reports are written on the benefits of other than cardio, it never ceases to amaze me how many women (and men too…) relegate [...]

Many people looking to get into shape and lose weight choose walking as a way to do so.   It makes sense:  It is low-impact, pleasurable, and manageable for most fitness levels, making it far from intimidating.  Further,  it has been widely accepted that walking three times a week for 30 minutes each time can help [...]

Weighing yourself every day, let alone three or more times a day, in short, is obsessive.  Most nutritionists and dietitians will swear that it is mentally unhealthy and because of a lot of factors, a poor way of tracking your weight.  In reality, the best way to weigh yourself is once a week, on the [...]