I’ve noticed that the BFD readers I know who have lost a lot of weight without surgery (such as Pasta Queen) and kept it off have done it on the South Beach diet. Passed along by Kari, this New York Times article reviews the new book Good Calories, Bad Calories, theorizing that carbs, not fat, […]

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Another find from the referral logs; a “confession” of “fat sins.” As a girl who was raised Catholic, the format really struck a chord. I love the idea of getting absolution for your fat sins. (That’s what happens when you confess, right?) I’m one of the slobs conservatives talk about who buys a 12-count box […]

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Okay, we know you guys think so. (And you think she’s both evil and fat.) And according to friend of the blog Ken Wheaton, Anthony Bourdain called her evil publicly. Why? Because of her Dunkin’ Donuts endorsement: Bourdain told Outside magazine, “I’m not a very ethical guy. I don’t have a lot of principles. But […]

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Even though Subway is associated with The Biggest Loser and that guy with the fat pants, their food does not always have fewer calories. When asked how many calories their meal contained, Subway eaters (vs. McDonalds eaters) consistently underestimated. This article is about that psychology. 46 college students were given coupons for either a McDonald’s […]

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Well, my local Starbucks has shifted over from whole milk to 2% milk as the default, just as Starbucks Gossip predicted. (I read Starbucks Gossip every day, by the way. Once a barista, always a barista.) They still have whole milk available, although you have to request it now. Starbucks claims it’s due to consumer […]

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Today I learned from Jezebel and Elastic Waist that Reese Witherspoon diets by eating baby food. My reaction, of course, was along the lines of what the hell!?!?!? I looked into this a little further and found the text of an article in Marie Claire about this “phenomenon.” Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Marcia Cross […]

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Another in the world’s continuing series of “[noun] makes you fat” articles. This time, it’s credit cards. And how do credit cards make you fat, you ask? Because you can use them to buy fast food. But while customers like the convenience of being able to pay for fast food with plastic, their waistlines might […]

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A follow up to our first post on the topic. You see, TUS brought the link over there, and now I’m returning the favor and bringing a TUS link back here. Specifically, this one. It’s a review of the book from which the photos were taken. It wasn’t until I finished the book that I […]

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Have you ever been surprised by the nutritional content of something you’ve eaten? When I was on Weight Watchers, that happened to me a lot. For instance, I knew the Starbucks brownie bites weren’t healthy, but they’re so small that I figured eating one or two as a treat couldn’t be that bad. Once I […]

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This is actually pretty cool: without being told to exercise or change their lifestyles, overweight people with diabetes were able to lose weight and cut down on the need for diabetes medication. How? By eating off of a magical diet plate. [The] subjects used the so-called Diet Plate, a British-made tool that allows people to […]

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Is love, sweet love. And also, food. This fascinating Time magazine photo essay depicts families from all over the world along with examples of the foods they eat in a week. (It also lists what a week’s worth of food costs them.) Lots of processed foods in America, lots of fruits and veggies in Mexico, […]

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