Tag: diet
Soapbox | Dr. Oz and the 200-Pound 11-Year-Old Girl
I’m not a fan of Dr. Oz–you know, the doctor who has a talk show but wears scrubs ON HIS TALK SHOW?!? (Yeah, that guy.) I don’t know what it is, but he makes me all twitchy. Maybe it’s the overly touchy way he deals with his guests or that creepy leering thing he does more »
New reason not to diet
So I’ve come to the point where I’ve decided to join *some* online program to help me get healthy again. I mean, 2.5 years after giving birth to your daughter might be stretching the post-40 “it’s still baby weight” line. But, something needs to change in my lifestyle. I’m exhausted all the time and despite my more »
Self-scanners are big tattletales
I love those self-scanner lanes at the grocery store. I don’t know what it is about them–if it’s that I can just zip in and out, not making small talk with anyone, or that I can bag the stuff exactly how I want, or that I have some latent need to be a grocery store more »
Soapbox: Children’s Meal Toys Are Not Making Our Kids Fat
I become mildly annoyed every time I see an article like the one that appeared in Daily Finance on June 22, 2010: “Lawsuit Threat: McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys Make Kids Fat.” I realize it’s a little past the buzz about this article, but it’s been on the bloggy back burner and I still want to write more »
Bursting with Fruit Flavor*
Yesterday on Twitter, I posted the following from the grocery store: And then @DADiaperBank and I had a fun little exchange on Twitter about how we were getting our daily values of fruit from pop tarts and kid fruit snacks. (HA HA! Aren’t we funny?) So I started thinking about what “Made with Real Fruit” meant from a more »
Don’t, Don’t Lick Your Fruits (and Veggies)
I have to tell you, this whole eating healthy thing is stressful. Not that I’ve been eating THAT healthy, but I have been trying to make better choices in the local and organic fruit, veggie and meat selections. (But I keep forgetting to ask The Golden Arches where they get their potatoes. Note to self…) The more »
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