Let’s Pretend It’s Meatloaf
Remember how I told you I’m trying to make “clean eating” food taste like yummy (“high-sugar-salt-fat-processed-food-that-is-really-bad-for-you-but-tastes-good”) food? Well, here is my newest...
View ArticleWeekend experiments + recipe
Oh snap! Double experiment time: Cooking AND organizing! I was standing in the checkout line, saw this magazine and had to get it: Better Homes & Gardens I took the organizing personality test,...
View ArticleHow Do I Get My Kids to Eat Their Veggies?
It’s now time for another episode from my YouTube channel vlog: How Do I Get My Kids to Eat Their Veggies? How about you? How do you get your kids to eat their vegetables? Lisa @sheslosingitnet...
View ArticleLose Weight FAST! No exercise!
Starvation diet Magazines are a guilty pleasure of mine. I could sit by the pool for hours and read them if I a) had a pool and b) had hours to sit and read. They always have catchy titles that draw...
View ArticleI Can’t Believe It’s Not Bad To Eat Butter!
From time to time a particular food group gets demonized, only to get redeemed several years later. When I was a kid coffee was supposed to be terrible for you. That’s when coffee cost thirty cents....
View ArticleCupcake ATMS?
Did you ever have an insatiable desire to have a cupcake RIGHT NOW? Well, you’re in luck because a cupcake ATM could be coming to a city near you. For real. nydailynews.com Sprinkles Cupcakes is...
View ArticleHappy Easter!
My keyboard is sticky with the remnants of chocolate bunnies my kids were eating while playing on pbskids.org. I limited them to two bunnies each, plus a few peanut butter cups, peeps and Easter eggs....
View ArticleAn Open Letter of Apology to My Metabolism
Once upon a time, when I was in my early 20′s, I used to love grocery shopping. Maybe love is too strong a word, but I enjoyed shopping. As a new adult with a car and a paycheck, I thrilled to the...
View ArticlePop Quiz: Cupcakes?
My son and daughter just had their birthday parties this past weekend. I bought them cupcakes from Walmart. They turned out really well (in terms of looks, anyway.) This was my son’s cupcake cake – a...
View ArticleAm I Pregnant?
Yum, pickles! My husband came home the other night and looked at me kinda strangely. The front room was meticulously clean and I was sitting at the kitchen table eating directly out of a jar of kosher...
View Article5 Tips for Getting in Shape After a Divorce
Hi Lisa, Your blog is very inspiring. I’m hoping you can help me. I’m 45 and going through a messy divorce and menopause too. Most people I know lose weight during a divorce, but I’m actually...
View ArticleSupplements for Weight Loss
Which Supplements Should I Take for Weight Loss? Let me start by saying there is no single pill that will make you look like a super model because if it existed A) I would have bought it by now, and B)...
View ArticleOrganic Turkey Costs How Much?!?
My main goal for Thanksgiving is to incorporate some organic foods into the mix. I finally made it to the farmers market today and looked at the turkeys. This is what I discovered: Regular turkey...
View ArticlePop Quiz: Would You Eat Crickets?
Uh…Yum? It started innocently enough. I was doing my cardio and reading a copy of my husband’s Men’s Health and noticed a huge picture of a cheese burger. But if you look closer you realize it’s made...
View ArticleWhat Does IIFYM Mean?
Between bodybuilders and people just wanting to shed some weight, there is an ongoing debate between “clean eating” versus “IIFYM”. Here are the basics, so you know what people are talking about at...
View Article3 Quick Tips for Breaking Plateaus
Dear Lisa, I’m going to they gym now and trying to eat healthier to lose weight, more chicken, less red meat, but I’ve hit a plateau. Do you have any suggestions? I’m getting discouraged and it’s...
View ArticleEmotional Eating and Show Prep
I’m feeling nervous today. My mother had been doing well; back to her old self and laughing again. She was even cracking jokes about my show prep. I was posing in front her bathroom mirror (formerly...
View ArticleBe Strong, Daughter
Like a lot of women, I’ve had body issues the majority of my life. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease run in my family and I did the yo-yo diet thing for years before I discovered bodybuilding. In...
View ArticleChasing Arnold – 11 Weeks Out
Last November I did something a little crazy, even for me: At age 40, and slightly heavier than usual, I entered one of the largest international bikini competitions in the world, ’cause, you know,...
View Article“Sprints” and a Very Bad Cheat Meal
If you are training for a bodybuilding competition (or trying to eat clean as part of your lifestyle, for that matter) then you know the magnitude and power of the cheat meal. Cheat meal(s)!!! If you...
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