When you think about helping your child develop good eating habits, do memories of your own upbringing surface? For many of us, our eating patterns grew out of early family experiences. Forming... Read more >>

After years of trial and error, heartbreak, and bitterness, I finally found the perfect-for-me guy and am loving engaged life! When I met my new beau, I was at the peak of my physique—135... Read more >>

Cutting calories may seem like a daunting task, especially when you’re trying to cut hundreds of calories each day to lose the recommended one to two pounds per week. Will you go hungry? Will... Read more >>

When it comes to food choices, it is hard enough to select the “right” things when the “wrong” things constantly surround us. We are bombarded with bad food choices all the... Read more >>

You may think you are the only mom who seems to go a little crazy around 4 or 5 p.m., when it is getting dark, and it’s too cold or icy to go outside, and your kids are getting cranky or worse.... Read more >>

It’s 3 p.m. Do you know where your Doritos are? You probably do. Actually, they’re probably smeared all over your fingers and keyboard now that you’ve frantically wolfed them down... Read more >>

Who determined that it was necessary to have “just in case” snacks, when driving in the car? As a young child, I can remember filling up the cooler with sandwiches, cookies, sodas and... Read more >>

Television advertisements for highly caloric, yummy-looking foods have been around for so long that some of us avert our eyes when they appear so we won’t immediately give into the... Read more >>