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How I Use My Lazy Gene to Uplevel My Weight Loss Success
Let me say right off the bat that there’s nothing special about me (my grandma wasn’t a Rockette and my people never brought home the gold). True to my genetics, I was “well-insulated” for three-plus...
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Why the Cycle of Overeating Is a Game-Changer When We’re Losing after 50
I told myself, this time will be different. And it was, but only because I was different. Here’s the scoop. Like so many of us, I’d lost weight before – from kid-hood into my mid-30s – only to find...
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Step Away from the Easter Calories and Nobody’s Waist Line Gets Hurt
This is how they get us: they go one of three ways. First, your standard chocolate companies transform chocolate, sugar, nuts and/or marshmallows into darling shapes like bunnies, chicks, and lambs....
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Do You Still Believe What Your Parents Told You About Food?
Many of us were raised by survivors of the Great Depression. My grandma once told me, “We were hungry, but your grandfather’s family was starving.” Which explains why the man would eat anything put...
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The Best Question to ask yourself When Losing Weight after 60
After losing 55 lbs. in my 40s and keeping those pounds off for 16 years now (I’m 57 today), there was a reliable go-to question that I asked myself almost every day, and I want to share its power...
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8 Hacks to Gain Skills, Not Weight, Over the Holiday Weekend
I never met a holiday menu I didn’t embrace. Like so many of us I was “dieting” (here and there) some of the year, but when a holiday rolled around, out the window the diet went. Problem is, we...
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Our Great Grandmothers Wouldn’t Recognize Us: We’re Healthier, Happier and...
When I was young, the stars aligned, and I was able to know my great grandmother. I remember a kind lady who was very smiley, but tough to talk with because she mostly spoke Italian. My mom remembers...
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Yes, Virginia, You Can Indulge in Low Calorie Holiday Drinks: Your Ultimate...
Turns out, maintaining a 55-pound weight loss – after age 50 – isn’t as easy as one might think (quick backstory: I lost the pounds in my early 40s and have kept them off for 17 years now. I’m 58 as I...
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Live with a Scarfer? How to Lose Weight Anyway!
If the book hasn’t yet been written, it’s utterly overdue, and just to get the ball rolling let me suggest the title: Surviving Life with a Scarfer. It seems to be a truism in life that those of us...
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Be Still My Eating Heart. How One Special Dessert Changed Everything
After a lifetime of being – uh – well-insulated, I lost 55 pounds in my early 40s and have kept the pounds off for 17 years as I write. I’m currently 59. (I know you’re wondering, so, yes, I carried...
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Have You Heard? There’s a New Cutting Edge Weight Loss Trend
I was a roly-poly kid, a squishy teen, and a squashier young adult (ages 18 to 36). Like most of us, I’ve yo-yo’d through a bazillion diets and a million more workouts with the likes of Jane Fonda;...
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Look What I Found! It’s a Golden Girls Pajama Party!
At the last second, my husband had to bail on an upcoming cruise. Family couldn’t swing it either, so I asked – as one does – the busiest woman on the planet if she’d like to be my plus-one. As busy...
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8 Ooey-Gooey Book Desserts Better than Robert-Redford-on-a-Stick
I lost 55-pounds in my early 40s and figured out how to maintain the loss for 18 years now. I call it a “forever-loss.” That said, one of my most favorite hacks is to make a deal with myself earlier...
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