If we adjust our thinking, we’ll adjust our waistlines.

I’ve been working with a nutritionist to lose 15 pounds (I’m a size 10 trying to get to a size 6 for, ahem, professional reasons). Yesterday, she laid it on me: my full nutritional plan. Here are the guidelines.

Has your life shifted lately? I’ve found with the recession that I’m spending a lot more time at home, meeting with friends in parks and living rooms, and foregoing fancy restaurants and theater shows.

My pace of life isn’t slower, though; if anything it seems faster than it’s ever been. Looming to-do lists, family obligations, the busy-ness of daily life can easily overwhelm any downtime I’m hoping to find.

What are the best steps for addressing adult obesity? How the government, friends, and businesses can help us all.

A recent study that looks at nine different dietary supplements has declared all of them ineffective.

I’ve been a runner since college. Not a great one, I’ll do it for a while then switch to something else, then come back to it again. I used to do 7 minute miles but those day are distant at the moment. I’ve been around running circles for a while now. I was even once a member (very briefly) of the Boston Athletic Association. The venerable institution that puts on the Boston Marathon every year.

One of the New Year’s Resolutions that I was able to keep was eliminating products containing petroleum or PABA from touching my skin. There was a bit of trial and error as I tried out shampoos, conditioners and makeup but I came up with a combination that works for me. Did you know that the average woman leaves the house after applying up to 100 different chemicals to her skin? After I read that statistic I had to change my ways and I’m glad I did.

I have been wearing two pairs of the Five Fingers shoes for the last 3 weeks now and I’m falling in love with them. The company sent me a pair each of their Performa and Performa Janes to test out in my studi