The detox ritual: Stop eating for a few days or a few weeks; consume only juices - vegetable juices, fruit juices, or all kind of mixtures that include lemon juice or "special" powders. The detox diet promise: This diet will cleanse your body and flush out toxins such as food additives, heavy metals, medications and other pollutants. The result: a better health, a faster metabolism, and - of course - a skinnier you.

If you’re like me, then getting to the gym can be a real chore. Especially now that I’m blogging, I have come up with nearly every excuse in the book to avoid the gym. “I haven’t written a blog in a couple of days, so I want to write this morning. I have no time for the gym today!” Now I’m in pretty decent shape. I won’t lie. I’ve been active my entire life, from ballet as a little girl through to late teens, and then fitness after that.  Being fit and eating healthy have always been a part of my life.

Is it possible to eat cookies and lose weight?  Well, Dr. Sanford Siegal would certainly like you to think so.  After all, at $56 for a week's supply, Dr. Siegal is going to make an estimated $18 million this year selling his weight-loss cookies.   It's called The Cookie Diet, and if you like cookies it may sound like a great way to lose weight.  But is it?

So we’re all busy right? Running to and from places. To Starbucks, to the office, to visit an elderly grandparent, to the gym, to an extra-curricular activity, a meeting. Running running running. And yet, I always roll my eyes at those skinny girls who say, “I just don’t have time to eat!” Yah, WHATEVER! Rome could be burning, and there I am, chompin’ away. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of meals I’ve missed in my ENTIRE lifetime. If you ask my husband, he’ll attest to it! No joke. I NEVER miss a meal.

Wow, sitting at Second Cup, writing today’s blog entry before going to serve pizza lunch at my son’s school. I have to say, I’m enjoying this new venture. I simply love everything women related, all the issues, and this has become an incredible medium for me to connect with all of you.

Like I said last week I was looking forward to do over monday once again.  It is here and I have to say I am really glad that it finally is.  I loved all of your comments and especially Hanlie's advice on not waiting until monday to get started.  Although I did not jump right back on at the moment I did start researching and really thinking about what I was going to do.  Since my last post

I remember my children's vitamins clearly. They were pastel purple, pink and yellow, and they tasted like Pez. I longed to take the whole bottle, for I loved them so.And I don't give my daughter vitamins with any sort of regularity.

While the American Heart Association's new guidelines for sugar consumption did not get the same level of media attention as Surgeon General Luther L. Terry's 1964 landmark report on the health hazards of smoking cigarettes, the sugar guidelines have the potential of doing to the food industry what Surgeon General's report did to the tobacco industry.

The obvious negative effects of overeating are extra weight and jeopardized health. Most people are well aware of these negative effects. But overeating affects so many other aspects of your life, too.  As a psychiatrist who has worked with overeaters for decades, I understand that if you’re an overeater, there is so much more at stake than just your weight.

 Okay, here's the thing...I have seriously fallen off the healthy eating wagon this summer.  Of course this isn't entirely my fault.  And if we're going to place blame, some of that should go to my son.  Because for some reason, he was compelled to make homemade brownies once or twice a week throughout the entire summer...And I was (obviously) compelled to eat them.

It is my first posting in Blogher and I'm not very common with blogging world. So, I don't really know what to post...I am exhausted... And finally giving up to shop a new dress for my friend's wedding. I entered 3 stores looking for a dress that will possibly covering my huge body. And I don't have the right size for myself in my own boutique...And I think all the staffs looking at me with pathetic way, I don't know maybe they were saying, "Give up already you will never find your size here." in their mind...