Category Archives: Diet Industry

Weight Watchers and The 3 phases of weight control

By katiebird | Published: October 20, 2006
I’ve said it a million times and I’m going to keep saying it until I start hearing it said casually on television and in commercials and on the street when I’m standing at the corner: Obesity is incurable. But it can be controlled. And contolling obesity takes 3 steps (not 2): Begin a “diet” Lose Weight Maintain goal weight Most [...]
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The Performance Diet an Introductory Evaluation, update edition

By katiebird | Published: September 13, 2006
Is age a factor?  I don’t have that much new to report except that I have actually broken into the program and begun entering my personal statistics. The data entry screens work easily and some of the things can be automatically calculated.I have had a moment or two of insecurity related to the fact that none [...]
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The Performance Diet an Introductory Evaluation

By katiebird | Published: September 12, 2006
I’ve started digging into The Performance Diet — and it’s a real surprise. They have about 50 pages of introductory information that they want us to read before even opening the software. And they are serious. I clicked on the desktop icon that normally (I would have said always before this) starts a software program, and [...]
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Obesity. Is it curable? Or am I stuck with it forever?

By katiebird | Published: March 17, 2006
Some people call it The YoYo syndrome. It’s that popular pastime where we gain weight and lose weight and gain weight, and more weight and lose weight and gain. Up and Down. It’s so predictable no one is surprised when it happens. It seems that only the person directly affected notices. I’ve been Eating 4 Today [...]
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It’s all ManEegee’s Fault: Adventures in Splenda, contributed by DuctapeFatwa

By katiebird | Published: March 15, 2006
What is remarkable about this: One of my first posts here, I bewailed the state of “diabetes forums” in general. Most of them, I whined, are essentially people arguing about the relative merits of various artificial sweeteners. An exercise in imbecility if there ever was one, I opined. I have no interest in these things, [...]
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