We just returned home from our second year at Adam’s Camp, a fantastic program that takes place in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, at the YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch which is between Frasier and Granby, CO. The program is geared towards almost any special needs child – cerebral palsy, downs syndrome, autism, etc. – they really [...] Read more »
My Challenges Implementing a New Diet
Hi. I’ve been asked by several people what challenges I’ve had in changing over to the Diet Solution and subsequently narrowing down even further to the Paleo Diet. I thought I’d share some of my experiences, learnings, and most importantly past and current challenges I’m finding on this journey. Weight Loss Challenges One of my [...] Read more »
Can You Lose Weight Without Exercise?
I feel that more middle aged men and women focus on the question “can you lose weight without exercise” versus the younger generation. My personal experience with exercising for weight loss kind of mirrors this trend. When I was younger, single, lived in an apartment, and had a fairly low stress and low responsibility job [...] Read more »
Learn More
There are a lot of resources out there to learn more not only about the Diet Solution, but also other popular diets to compare against each other [a comparison chart will be coming shortly to this site]. Some recommended reading: Isabel’s Extensive Program: The Diet Solution Program Video Overview WebMD Review of a large [...] Read more »
Flat Stomach Foods
If you’ve found this page, you are already several steps ahead of other women and men looking to lose their stomach fat and get to that six-pack abdomen look. Why? Because a flat stomach starts with healthy foods – and while there isn’t any magical flat stomach foods that immediately get you to a flat [...] Read more »
Diet Solution Program Results – One Belt Notch
Hi all! So wanted to drop a quick post in about how the diet solution program has been going for me. Since I embarked on this approach to eating healthier about 2 months ago, I – like most people- have found that so far I am about 70% compliant to the overall program. I follow [...] Read more »
The Dark Side of Eating Healthy Foods
What a title right? Are you referring to bad things that may happen if you focus on healthy food options? Well, I want to share another step in my journey towards losing my body fat – a step that happened today and did NOT leave me a happy camper for the remainder of the day. [...] Read more »
Can We Really Trust Weight Watchers?
Wired magazine just posted an article on 1/3/2012 about Weight Watchers “revamping its Magic Formula”. What does this mean? Can we really trust weight watchers given this breaking news about their changes to their famous weight loss and fat burning program? I read the article, and below are my key takeaways from this relative to [...] Read more »
Safe Weight Loss
The internet [not to mention your local book store and nearby strip mall] is loaded with weight loss advice – some of it focused on safe weight loss approaches, and some of it being completely unhealthy approach. Being a pill driven society, way too many people are always looking for that magic weight loss pill [...] Read more »
I’m too fat – I need a healthy diet plan!
Have you every looked yourself in the mirror and literally uttered the words “I’m too fat”? I have, and worse, my daughter has been commenting on the size of my stomach lately, not to mention the unhealthy portions I tend to eat pretty much at every meal! I’ve decided, as you can tell from this [...] Read more »