Hey guys! I love Subway. I really do. When Chris and I first started our weight-loss/health-gain journey, we were both working at the same company which had a Subway franchise below. Since we would plan our meals together from breakfast to dinner and snacks in between, we made it easy on ourselves and made Subway [...]

It’s a typical Tuesday night. My boyfriend and I are settling down with dinner and a movie; my menu includes broccoli soup I make myself with fruit as a side and his includes brown rice with Tofurkey Italian sausage, sauteed in sesame oil (I also added some Fakin’ Bacon for good measure since I had [...]

The new Arby’s slogan: “Good mood food.” The recently released item meant to harbor in all this joy? Arby’s Angus Three Cheese & Bacon Toasted Sub [source] April Fools? 660 calories, 33g fat (13 saturated), 0.5g trans fat, 1810mg sodium, 2g fiber, 3g sugars, 47g protein Highlights of Joy: A load of calories and fat [...]

Hey guys! Have you ever met someone and felt an instantaneous connection, like you were kindred spirits? That’s exactly how I felt on Saturday when I met the gorgeous blogger behind “Eat, Move, Write,” Jasmine. Check out her re-cap of our meeting! Her talent with writing makes me disinclined to write my own re-cap lol [...]

Happy Monday to you all, and especially to Ashleigh, Jenn, Chrissy and Jessica — the winners of the book give-away! The three copies of The Three Day Cleanse by Zoe Sakoutis and Erica Huss go to Ashleigh, Erika & Jessica The winners of This is Why You’re Fat by Jackie Warner are Jessica, Chrissy & [...]

While McDonald’s has made significant strides towards providing healthier options and sourcing better food for its menu items, I wouldn’t call it a purveyor of health foods. Would you? Eat this, lose weight? [Photo cred] According to an article called “Anger over Weight Watchers’ endorsement of McDonald’s” in UK’s The Guardian two weeks ago (read [...]

Hey guys! Call us sick, but my twin Chris and I *love* to stroll down candy memory lane and reminisce about our poor eating habits. Weird, right? It’s just an interesting experiment in behavior modification and lifestyle change to look at the past and see how what passed for “normal” back then is completely outrageous [...]

Hi guys!  How was your weekend?  My weekend was pretty typical — took my niece to the beach and had a very long, but super productive, band practice! In terms of my slumptitude — it’s waning.  I took the weekend off from running and am now feeling more inspired to get back on track this [...]

I saw Food Inc.: and am now coming out with my own independently financed and released sequel called, “Whom Do I Trust With What Goes In My Mouth?!” Top 5 Things I Learned that Piss Me Off I now even have to worry about the fruits and vegetables I buy.  How will I know if [...]

Life is like a fast food Candy Land.  Every where you turn there’s a fast food vendor, a  land of mystery where the menus are riddles and you need to phone a friend to look up the stats online. Anyhow,  I’ve recently spotted two new fast food items being heavily promoted and I call attention [...]