Holiday Eating and Diet Cheating: How to Make It Up to Yourself
January 28, 2009 by allison
Filed under Diet & Weight Loss, Health
The vast majority of dieters would agree that the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day is the toughest time of the year to stay on a diet. I know from experience that diet slippage is almost certain to happen at this time of year. So as the season of ho-ho-ho gets into full swing, [...]
Keeping Winter Weight Away
January 7, 2009 by admin
Filed under Diet & Weight Loss
Of all the challenges to keeping our weight down, probably the two greatest are the holiday period followed by what I like to call “the winter blues.” It’s a tough one two punch for all of us who would like to head into spring — when the coats come off and the more reveling clothes [...]
The Cougar Phenomenon
Ladies, ever thought about dating a younger man or are you already dipping your toes in a “younger “dating pool? Then join us tomorrow night on SingleMindedWomen.com blog talk radio when SMW host Rachelle Chase will interview Valerie Gibson; author, radio, and television personality on her new book, COUGAR: A GUIDE FOR OLDER WOMEN DATING [...]
On Love & Loss: The Break-Up Diet
My boyfriend is making me fat. Well, okay, it might be the steady stream of soda that I just can’t shake, or the fact that I’ve moved from big metropolitan cities where people, like, actually walk to a Texas town where people hop in their trucks just to check the mail, or the fact that [...]
Weight Wars: The Midwest Spread
I’ve made dozens of trips to the nation’s vast center, from Texas to Kansas, from Missouri to Wisconsin, and with each visit it seems with each passing year, the center of our nation is slipping deeper into an obesity crisis.
I notice more and more people who are well beyond heavy, and are now morbidly [...]
Dead End Diets: Don’t Go There!
Jenny Abbot tells a story that many women have told. “I’ve started and dropped out of more diets than I could ever hope to remember.” the 40 year-old single mother of twin 12 year-old boys explains. “I don’t care if it’s South Beach, Atkins Diet, the Zone, or a dozen others I’ve long forgotten. I [...]
Dead End Diets: Don’t Go There!
August 6, 2008 by allison
Filed under Diet & Weight Loss, Health
Jenny Abbot tells a story that many women have told. “I’ve started and dropped out of more diets than I could ever hope to remember.” the 40 year-old single mother of twin 12 year-old boys explains. “I don’t care if it’s South Beach, Atkins Diet, the Zone, or a dozen others I’ve long forgotten. I [...]
Another Oil Crisis?
It has been said that “manners are the oil that lubricates society”. Are we out of oil?
I am amazed and dismayed at the lack of social graces people exhibit to one another. I remember the days when you referred to your elders as Mr., Mrs. or Miss, held the door open for someone just out of [...]
“Why Am I a Lousy First Date?”
Mars Venus Relationships expert, John Gray, answers this question for one of our SingleMindedWomen.com readers:
Dear John,
I’ve been told I’m sexy and sweet. Despite this, I’ve been on a lot of first dates-but not too many second or third ones. I’ve finally figured out what I’m doing wrong: I’m a chatterbox. Besides saying too much, I [...]
Bottoms Up: Amtrak Moonliner Express in Southern California
Looking for one of those, “Crazy Southern California Summer Stories”?
Well, look no further.
On Saturday afternoon, July 12, the Los Angeles Times reported, “Police were called out to break up the annual “mooning” of Amtrak trains in Laguna Niguel this afternoon when the crowd grew to 8,000 began baring more than just their behinds.”
Shows what little [...]
