While a California winter isn’t as wintry as New England, or even Walla Walla, we’ve been getting our fair share of damp chill lately. But unlike the onset of winter in Boston, the Bay Area winter doesn’t fill me with dread. I’m actually loving it: [...]

From Health magazine Low-carb and no-carb strategies make it harder, not easier, to lose weight. Got it? You actually need carbohydrates to burn fat, according to Nancy Snyderman, MD, chief medical editor for NBC News and author of Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat and the 101 Truths That Will Save Your Waistline—and Maybe Even [...]

Losing weight takes time and patience. However these sneaky tricks, courtesy of the CarbLovers Diet book, may help to speed up the process. 1. Automate eating.Some people can lose weight while enjoying lots of variety in their food choices, while others discover that variety only stimulates their appetite. Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, calls this the buffet [...]

The holiday season hectic-ness has set in around here. On top of the standard holiday stress of present-buying and event-attending, we’re pressing ever onward toward a critical deadline at work. Then I decided to spend two days at an intensive leadership workshop, and Sean and [...]

“Carbophobia,” or the fear of carbs, is rampant. Almost every woman has skipped the bread basket or a pasta dish at some point in her life. We’ve learned to fear carbs because we’ve been told for more than 25 years that foods filled with carbohydrates make us gain weight. Well, we, the editors of Health [...]

Need to know what to order at a restaurant or fast-food joint on The CarbLovers Diet? It’s here. You’ll even find the right foods in the right portion sizes, so you don’t have to do the math yourself. The following choices all contain at least one ingredient high in Resistant Starch as well as several [...]