Why your scale is keeping you from losing weight

Why your scale is keeping you from losing weight

What’s your relationship with your scale? Do you step on it and smile? Or do you gingerly put one foot and then the other on it, hold your breath, and take a furtive glance down – waiting for it to tell you how good or bad you are? If you’re like most women trying to...
In defense of breakfast

In defense of breakfast

The “breakfast hypothesis” – i.e., the assumption that breakfast eaters are better able to manage their weight – got some bad press earlier this year. Debunked by research at Columbia University, the go-to proclamation by health coaches and nutritionists everywhere...
Why you should make friends with your sugar cravings

Why you should make friends with your sugar cravings

Here’s the thing about sugar cravings: They’re not going away. Ever. Humans crave sugar for some very good reasons. Back in the day – the caveman/woman day, that is – it told us which foods would give us energy. It also told us which foods were safe, since lots of...