For 27 years, I was one of those people everybody hates because I could eat anything. Fast foods and chocolate chip cookies were my staples. I never thought about my weight because it never changed. At 144 pounds, I was a size 10. Then, in 1989, on my way to pick up my daughter at…
Ridiculously simple strategies to get your mind and body in a much better place. A stay-slim secret: Keep this shut 1. Close the menu to lose weight The next time you’re dining out, make a healthy pick, then dose the menu. Researchers from the University of Chicago say that one simple move increases your satisfaction…
If you know what’s good for you, you’d better take the word fat out of your workplace vocabulary. That’s not easy to do because there are a lot of fat people in the library, both in front of the service desk and behind it. But it’s not just libraries where fat people abound. They are…
After more than 21 years of arriving at the Days of Our Lives set in the early-morning hours, my body was programmed to wake up ridiculously early, even when I didn’t need to anymore. I figured, if I’m up, I might as well answer emails, right? But I’ve learned that shut-eye is as important as…
The exercise technique known as the Pilates method (pronounced “Puh-lah-tees”) has become a boom in the exercise industry; there were just five Pilates studios in the world in 1976–by the late 1990s, there were more than 500 in the United States alone. Though it has become a twenty-first-century fitness craze, the regimen was created by…