Now I know why I call myself the Rebel Dieter. I mean, I knew before but it really hit me this week just how futile dieting in the traditional sense really is. But you know what? Despite this, I tried anyway. I would eat breakfast because I was supposed to. I followed Clean Eating meal [...]

Weight loss shouldn’t be stressful. I think all those diet books cloud our own instincts. They prevent us from understanding what our body needs. Weight loss is a simple mathematical idea. Your calories in should be a little less than what your body needs. That way, it will burn excess body fat as fuel. Simple, [...]

It takes 21 days to break a habit. Day 1 of my 21 days did not go as planned. In fact, I succombed to night eating. I had a late dinner of a bunch of random things and I didn’t sit down and enjoy them. I had the food at my computer. I don’t like [...]

I have a problem with diet plans. They’re hard to follow and rather stifling. Each meal I have, I am already thinking of the next one. It can be fun to try new recipes and new foods but… I don’t like to be tied down to eating certain foods. I also don’t like the exercise [...]

Just as not being on a “diet” defines my quest for better health, thinking like an herbalist does. When I was getting my Diploma in Herbal Studies, I was trained in the art of “finding the cause” or an ailment. In my case, the ailment is excess weight that is behaving rather stubbornly.

Fact - My [...]

I need to lose some weight. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been - and this is not a good thing. I’ve never had a weight problem, yet I packed on the pounds at a steady rate over the past four years or so. I had been at the same weight for a year or so, [...]

I read somewhere that people who have a food journal end up automatically losing extra weight. It makes sense to me. Think about it. When I write down what I eat, I don’t want to eat things that are bad for me because I don’t want to see it written down.
I don’t expect that I [...]

I was thinking back to the time in my life when I was at my thinnest to see what I could be doing differently now to restore that level of health and balance. The main thing I did was pay attention to what my body was telling me. If I was tired, I napped. Hungry [...]

I am retaining water again - that seems to be happening a lot. When my time of the month is coming, that is when I am especially susceptible to it. But, I also tend to eat a salty diet - I’ve always loved olives!
I know that water retention probably isn’t responsible for my weight gain, [...]

I call myself a rebel dieter because I need to lose weight. However, I believe that going on a “diet” is the wrong approach. Instead, I like to focus on exercise and eating right. If I try to diet or follow a diet plan, I become obsessed with food and I don’t end up consuming [...]