Losing weight isn’t like quitting smoking or drinking or heroin or anything else, we say. People can quit smoking cold turkey. You can stop drinking and never have to touch another glass of alcohol. Once you’re off the needle, you’re off the needle. You don’t have to smoke, drink or sniff glue, but I’m addicted […]
So I’m walking toward the door and my buddy’s yelling at me from the bar. “T, let me drive you home, dude. You can’t drive. I’ve never seen you this drunk.” I scoff at him, drop my keys, stumble, pick them up and walk out the door. “Don’t worry, bro. I got this.” He turns […]
America is the most medicated civilization in the history of, well, civilization. Nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug regularly. 50% take two. A mind blowing 1 out of every 5 Americans is on 5 or more prescriptions. We take them for wide variety of reasons: High blood pressure (22%), High Cholesterol […]
Two years ago, I was a couple of Krispy Kreme donuts shy of 300 pounds. As of today, I’ve lost weight for 8 consecutive quarters. Two years. That’s a winning streak I’m pretty proud of. Yay me. Now I wish I could say that’s the heaviest I’ve ever been, but it’s not. This ain’t my […]
There can’t be too many things that are a bigger kick in the groin than a doctor saying the words “You have cancer.” Except for maybe a doctor letting you know that you have cancer without ever saying a word. I had a mole on my stomach that had been growing for a couple of […]
Your grandmother probably told you not to eat late at night because you didn’t burn off as many calories and it made you fat. Today, nutritionists disagree on whether late night eating in and of itself can cause weight gain, but recent studies at Northwestern University show that mice that ate when they should have […]
I was driving home the other night from an after work function, around 8 o’clock or so and I was starving. Not starving in the third world country sense of the word, but starving in a middle aged, chubby suburban kind of way. I hadn’t eaten since lunchtime and I was seriously ready for a […]
Americans love sugar more than a fat kid loves cake.. actually pretty much exactly the same as a fat kid loves cake. Which is to say… a whole, whole lot. We eat about 100 pounds of sugar each every year. When Hostess filed for bankruptcy last year, we went into a national state of crisis […]
