weight loss

The summer after the seventh grade, Middle School Stan was tired of being made fun of for being fat. From a fairly young age, kids - even his close friends - called him "Stan, Stan - the big, fat man." This happened even though he wasn't that overweight, by most standards. But kids are brutal, and the criticisms kept flying. Fortunately, rather than pushing Stan to despair, it pushed him to action. So that summer, he stopped taking "seconds" at meals, cut back on sweets, started drinking diet drinks and water, and made (at least to a 13 year old) some major diet shifts. It worked. When he went to school in the eight grade, people who hadn't seen him that summer (or on Facebook, since, you know, we were still using AOL Instant Messenger via our Netzero dial up internet back then) could b

Last year I ballooned to a weight that I had never hit before, and it scared me. But the shocking thing is that I had been trying to eat healthy, had been exercising, etc. and I was still gaining weight. Eventually, I was able to figure out the issues I was having, and once I did, I lost 30 lbs easily in just a few months. But before delving into those details, it's worth listing some of the misconceptions I had that caused me to gain weight. So here are the top dieting mistakes I made when I was gaining weight. I thought fat was bad. You know how when you're looking at the nutritional content of food, and "fat" is near the top of the "bad stuff" list? Well, in my opinion, it should be at the bottom. When I was gaining weight, I was worried about fat. The moment I stopped worrying a