As I made my journey along to the way to health and weight loss I have been asked numerous times what diet I was on or following. I quickly respond with “I am not on a diet nor do I follow any specific diet”. People then give me a dumb look and ask how [...]

Yes, I realize it has been way too long since my last post. I promised to keep you up to date with my health and the reasons that I have been successful.
To start off with, I went to the doctor since the last post and here is how things look.
May 2008:

Weight – [...]

Let me start off by saying that the tips I am going to post here are things that I found have worked for me. Most of these things are available through various means including searching the Internet. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or health professional just a guy who made the changes necessary [...]

First off I would like to wish everyone a belated Happy New Year. I have been negligent with my blog the last while and for that I apologize.
While I was away I kept up with the lifestyle change that I started last May when I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. For those of [...]

Can you guess what that lovely purple fruit is to the right? Grapes? Plums? Cherries?
Nope to all of those. They are tomatoes. That’s right, genetically modified tomatoes. Tomatoes that have had anthocyanins, a category of antioxidant pigments, added to their DNA.
Anthocyanins are typically found in blueberries, cranberries and blackberries and other dark red [...]

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It has been a long while since I last posted. No excuse for it other than laziness. It’s that plain and simple.
I had several of my faithful (used to be anyway) readers send me e-mail over the last 6 weeks to ask how I was doing. Well, I went to the doctor last [...]

Now that I have to watch what I eat and pay attention to the “Nutritional Value” charts on boxes I have discovered some interesting things.
The first thing I have noticed is that there are variances with what is listed as a serving size. For example, a serving of rice on the packages  of Jasmine [...]

Having received life altering health news at the beginning of May, I spent the last 4 weeks making changes in my life.
The first change I had to make was the daily regimen of medications. OK, 4 pills a day is not really a regimen but it took some time to remember that I had [...]

It has been three weeks since I did a post. I have been meaning to do a post for the last week however I just didn’t have the gumption to do so.
It has been a life-altering last three weeks too. My last post was detailing the “FAT” shows that are a constant on the [...]

The “FAT” epidemic of western society seems to be getting a lot of attention these days. The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and it appears that television has gotten on the bandwagon as they continue to grind out “FAT” shows.
NBC has had their successful show “The Biggest Loser” which just finished its [...]