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Preparing for Thanksgiving on a diet…

The holiday season, traditionally, for me, is a straight run from the first week of October all the way through the new year – almost 3 months of unfettered food hedonism filled with meats and candies, gravy and rolls, and general gluttony galore.  Does that paint a pretty picture?  Probably not, but it sure has [...]

How to eat at Claim Jumper without killing your diet…

Many restaurants are a challenge for the diet-concious, but perhaps none so much as Claim Jumper, land of gargantuan portions of fatty, tasty meat.  Just check out their nutritional information right here (and kudos to them for offering this information in an easy-to-read chart format at every table, at least here in Washington state).  Keep [...]

So, what’s the plan?

There are a lot of diet plans out there, but I decided to choose the simplest one:  count calories and get some exercise to burn extra calories.  The reason I chose this method is simple:  counting calories always works.  You can count carbs or fat or whatever else, and this may give good results because [...]