If you haven’t heard about it, have a look at this NY Times review: …Matthew Bonifacio, stars as Neil, a young, 300-pound New York man who has an epiphany about his weight and flees upstate to get away from his mother’s gravy (the Italian, tomato-based variety). Popcorn anyone?

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Sunday morning is for grocery shopping and my weekly call to my step sponsor. I woke up at about 5:30, fired up the kettle, made some organic decaf coffee (I use a Melita drip cone, one cup at a time). I let the water cool a bit before pouring. It’s recommended the water be about [...]

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Nestlé, that most ethical of international food conglomerates*, will, starting today, introduce it’s Jenny Craig brand of diet to Europe. France of all places. PARIS — Could U.S.-style diet coaching offer a solution to the rising tide of obesity in Europe? Nestlé, the Swiss food goliath, hopes so. It is bringing Jenny Craig, its quintessentially American [...]

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The New York Times today has a piece which debunks the idea that dropping one cookie a day can lead to meaningful weight loss: But bodies don’t gain or lose weight indefinitely. Eventually, a cascade of biological changes kicks in to help the body maintain a new weight. As the JAMA article explains, a person [...]

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Many thanks to an OA buddy who posted this on Facebook: The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Sweden collapsed beneath a group of 20 members of the weight loss programme who were gathered for a meeting. Building contractors are looking forward to updated building codes requiring floors in all publicly accessible spaces to [...]

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I was up late Monday night finishing my vegetable canning (8-15.5 ounce jars of stewed veggies. I eat one a day as part of my lunch) and winding down by watching the end of a Stargate SG-1 episode on Hulu when my daughter popped back and asked if she could lie about her age and [...]

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