The iPhone is known for its wide variety of fitness apps, but fortunately the top few most useful apps are available on both iPhones and Droids: RunKeeper Couch to 5K (several varieties) Lose It MyFitnessPal tracker … and the major diet programs have apps for both, or web apps that work on either, so you’re not [...]
Archive for February, 2012
28 Feb
How to make your salads as pretty as the ones at restaurants.
(1) cut your veggies with a potato peeler. This $5 instrument is just as good as a $20 mandoline if you’re only making a couple of salads. (2) Use different colors and shapes. The bowl at left is a nice example. (3) Things you like to eat, are pretty to you. Use things you like. [...]
27 Feb
What to do when losing weight sucks
I really wish the self-denial involved in losing weight came easily. It just doesn’t. And the rosy testimonials we see in the media really don’t help in that regard. It’s not joyful. It is no fun at all to feel hungry. It’s not fun to pass up free food. Not being able to eat what [...]
25 Feb
Nutrisystem vs MediFast
This one is in answer to a reader question about how to choose between the two. Nutrisystem is, foundationally, a food delivery service. Some of the entrees are (or were) made here in the Cincinnati area at a plant that also makes military MRE‘s. They’re a collection of packaged MRE’s, with an optional add-in of [...]
24 Feb
Yes. Here are a couple of illustrations: 1. Your doctor tells you you have to lose a whole bunch of weight really fast, and lays out what it is you’re going to do to get there, and you’re following that with extra supervision. 2. You don’t know how to cook yet, at all, nada, noting, [...]
24 Feb
Is it sometimes ok to have a different food plan for losing weight than for keeping it off afterwards?
Yes. Here are a couple of illustrations: 1. Your doctor tells you you have to lose a whole bunch of weight really fast, and lays out what it is you’re going to do to get there, and you’re following that with extra supervision. 2. You don’t know how to cook yet, at all, nada, noting, [...]
24 Feb
Cooking Tips and Cooking Questions Answered – Cooking Light
What a nice article — the 41 most common mistakes we make with our light cooking techniques. via Cooking Tips and Cooking Questions Answered – Cooking Light.
20 Feb
Frozen grocery store meals, or home delivery diet?
Thanks for the question, by the way. Happy to share a few thoughts on the subject. According to Consumer Reports, both NutriSystem and Jenny Craig are helpful, if somewhat expensive home delivery food. It arrives as a collection of little boxes in a big box, you divide it up day by day, adding your veggies [...]
19 Feb
Lean Cuisine Culinary Collection — Ranchero Braised Beef review
This one made it straight from the New shelf at Kroger into my cart without any actual thought as to the reality, or the magnification, of the really pretty cover art. The Chef’s Pick line is LC’s attempt to give us something resembling really good restaurant meals, appropriately spiced, pretty, with memorable ingredients and a [...]
