Category Archives: Dieting Blogs

Blog Hopping on a Thursday Night


Posted by katiebird

I found a fun “About” Page at Your Elegant Bed and Bath. From top to bottom, it’s a hoot. I love the date of the post (impossible), the author’s relationship with her cat, the subject assigned the “About” page and (of course) any list of hobbies that includes lots of reading pleases the librarian in me . . . .

At Live Longer, Live Better, Keven has a good idea or goal. The post, Making exercise non-optional he says, “To our ancient ancestors, exercise was in fact, non-optional.” And he goes on to list 5 ways to fake ourselves out and end up getting some exercise everyday. Stop by and take a look — one of his ideas could work for you!

Sir Squishy is back! I stopped by Born Squishy today and there was a new post — the first since the beginning of October. I was starting to fear that he was gone forever, and was thrilled to see yesterday’s post. Well the excitement didn’t stop there — tonight he’s got 3 more posts — including some information about the much anticipated film, Fast Food Nation.[MORE]

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Cruising the Diet Blogs


Posted by katiebird

It’s a beautiful day for a drive and I haven’t visited the Diet Blogs for a couple of weeks.

Over at The Road to Reduction, Reallytobig is contemplating the ravages of summer (I think that on the whole, he did better than me.) He’s also got a couple of interesting posts on obesity — as a social norm and as a public health issue (in Great Britain and various states here in the U.S.)

Born Squishy has kept me busy all week with his posts — with 10 articles just this week and all of it interesting and valuable. A recipe (Enchilada Lasagna), a discussion about the effect of great weight on our knees, another about the question of an “All Natural” 7Up — and whether there could possibly be such a thing. He’s also covering the lighter side of life with birthdays, vacations and to-do lists. Squishy, like my dad, subscribes to MensHealth (I said that before I remembered about the online component — maybe he doesn’t actually subscribe?) and several of his stories get their inspiration from that periodical. Anyway, if you’re looking for a health-oriented blog that has something new virtually everyday Born Squishy is the place for you.

Fitness Mantra is looking at climbing obesity rates and the ineffectiveness of starvation as a diet technique.

At Healthhacker we learn Jack LaLanne’s secret, some of the risks of Gastric Bypass Surgery and how even slight weight issues can cause trouble.

And the Diet Detective Investigations has an excellent article asking about Dieting Skills. Which seems to be his term for what I call Dieting Tools, he’s talking about such things as Journalling, cooking and sports. His sight is crammed with interesting articles and stories. I spend a lot of time there every week.

Every week I make it a little farther into the blogrolls of these exciting sites. I’ll continue to add links to our blogroll here as I become familiar with those new (to me) sites. And if you spot a site that you think would be of interest to our visitors, please let me know — I’d love to check them out.


Cruising the Diet Blogs


Posted by katiebird

What’s going on in the Dieting World? First of all there are 10 worthless sites for every 1 with something interesting.
At CalorieLab Calorie Counter News (Weight loss, diet, nutrition, and food news and information)
They’re talking about Setting Weight Loss Goals:

Keep your goals simple and realistic. If youire commitment phobic, it sometimes helps to set extremely short-term goals, to be accomplished within a matter of hours rather than within a day or a week.

And this scary (but not really surprising) news:

Outlook murky for the obese. Inlook even worse.The problem, quite simply, is that an increasing number of patients are literally too oversized to fit into scanners, and/or are so layered with fat that X-rays and sonograms can’t pass through it to inner tissues and organs.

The official term for this diagnostic roadblock among radiologists is “body habitus,” meaning “body build,” a phrase whose appearance in radiology reports doubled in frequency from 1989 to 2003 as a confounding factor in attempts to use X-rays, CT scans, MRI imaging or PET technology to spot tumors, blood clots, fractures and other ailments and injuries.

This last story was also reported at Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb, Airplane Seats, Restaurant Booths And X-Rays? Check out the UPDATEs to read correspondence with Dr. Raul Uppot, one of the authors of the study under discussion.

And there’s always a lot to read at Healthacker.com. It was their link to a story at Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb about the Weight Loss Buddy Site that brought me to the article I linked to above this.

This isn’t an easy cruise, there is a lot of hooey along the way . . .

The Road to Reduction – An Integrated Strategy for Sustainable Weight Loss. He’s got some links to sites for do-it-yourself dieters (a link to The Hacker’s Diet helped me find this one.). And I love his evaluation of a guy featured in this New York Times story. This The Road to Reduction appeals to me and I’ll come back.

This is it — 3 hours of hammering on the Internets and I’m out of here!