Home Cooking Tips

Home-cooking is a great way to lose weight and eat healthy.  You can cook at home with basic, whole food ingredients and have more control over what goes in your mouth.  Even something as simple as making your own chicken sauce (instead of using condensed cream of chicken soup) will save you calories, sodium, fat, and eliminate monosodium glutamate.  It will also taste fabulous.

Here are some other tips to remember:

1. Avoid dough that is sold in a tube.  That pop! is the sound of the button on your skinny jeans Wranglers popping off. 
2. Avoid cheese product.  Stick with cheese.
3. Don't buy foods with the word "Grandma" or a picture of a Grandma.  Your grandma didn't make it.
4. Frozen bagged mixed veggies aren't for poor folk.  Nope.  They're for skinny folk.  They're one of my fave convenience foods.
5. Eggs are cheap and healthy and good.  Buy lots.
6. Read ingredient lists like a love-sick vampire.  Make it an obsession.  My fave foods are ones without ingredient lists.
7. Make something amazing TONIGHT!!

Bariatric Surgery: From Size 26 to Size 6

Like it or not, the words fat and lazy typically go together.  When it comes to weight loss there's no room for an ounce of lazy.  It's all about being active, assertive, in control, and proactive. 

I guess that's why an ad for bariatric surgery that boasted "FROM SIZE 26 to SIZE 6" made me a little concerned.

First, no one I know has had those results.  Usually they go from a 26 to a size 16/18.  No shame in those numbers, but 26 to 6??  Really??

Second, bariatric surgery is an easy way out.  Where's the blood, sweat and tears?  Where's the guts and all the glory?  Where's the good feeling that comes from knowing that you came, you burned fat and conquered?

How do you feel about bariatric surgery?  Easy way out or viable option for major weight loss?