Hey! Where's My Feet?

Being overweight has been a life long battle for me... I think I first joined Weight Watchers when I was 14!  I think I've tried every weight loss "method" known to man... grapefruit pills, Weight Watchers, cabbage soup, various prescribed meds, Atkins, slim fast, paleo, just to name a few... after years of yo-yo dieting I had finally figured out it's more about just eating healthy... but what's healthy? Seriously!  What's healthy anymore?  Eggs are bad for you, then they're good, then only the whites are good... butter is bad, you should use margarine instead... oh wait, butter is actually better for you and that other stuff is about 2 molecules away from becoming plastic.  WHAT!?  Oh sure, we've gotten lazier over the years as those handy inventions have come along to make things easier but how are we supposed to know what's truly healthy when doctors keep changing their minds?  Just look at Dr. Oz... great guy right?  I'm sure he's a v...

That little four letter word that will drive you insane... DIET! Yeah yeah yeah, I know... you've heard it all before.  There's a fad diet around every corner you turn and I've likely tried every single stinkin one of them!  The grapefruit diet, cabbage soup diet, Atkins, HCG, Apple Cider Vinegar, Dukan etc... Well a month or so back I was reading the Reader's Digest and there was a wonderful article about this diet that the Editor had devised and wrote a book about.  How she'd spent years and years compiling and researching what works... yeah, right - skinny thing that she is knows all about trying to lose weight.  And of course there were success stories involved to insprie the uninspired - like me. What the heck, none of the others have worked, we'll give this one a whirl.  Of course in the Reader's Digest they didn't give details - you have to get the book.  To the library I went... they didn't have it, all the interlibrary resources ...