Can I still eat for pleasure?

I’m reading Mireille Guillano’s terrific book, French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure.  How’s that for a great title?  I want to know how to eat for pleasure and still stay thin.  One thing I have learned so far:  choose your pleasures wisely.   Don’t fill up on a bag of chips you [...]

Should I eat Valentine’s Day chocolates?

You’re trying to lose weight, but then comes the beautifully wrapped truffles for Valentine’s Day.  What is the chocolate-deprived-because I’m trying to lose weight-mom supposed to do? 
 Here are a few suggestions: 
1.  Eat only dark chocolate. Give all your milk and white chocolate pieces away to your skinny friends. Enjoy dark chocolate that is at least [...]

Super Bowl Snacks

 Are you ready for the biggest chow fest of the year, Super Bowl Sunday?  With millions of people gathered around their televisions, there’s only one thing to do, snack all day! Surrounded by chips, dip, pizza, buffalo wings and soda, what’s a person supposed to do who is trying to lose weight?
Have healthy snacks on hand. [...]