Refuse To Regain

A Rare Recipe from RTR: A Taste of Pizza

by Barbara Berkeley, MD I know I should share more maintenance recipes, and I do hear about them all the time from my patients...yet they never seem to make their way into these posts. Today, though, I was talking to someone who passed along a good one so I thought I'd share. This recipe, which uses low fat cheese, was suggested by my patient's sister as a pizza substitute and has become a favorite. Here it is: Paula's Taste of... Read more →

Shawna’s Savin’ All Her Carbs For You!

By Lynn Haraldson-Bering I don’t remember this, but apparently sometime last week I changed my name to Shawna, moved to Austin, Texas, and became a spokesmodel for a resveratrol weight-loss product. No wonder I’ve been so tired. This is the third time (that I’m aware of) that a “weight-loss company” has stolen a photo from my website and used my image to sell their crazy products. The first time, a “lose belly fat by obeying one rule” scam cropped a... Read more →

The Problem with Eating Clean

B Barbara Berkeley Virtually all maintainers practice some form of “clean” eating. Whether they are Primarian, Vegetarian, Vegan, Mediterranean or just careful omnivores, POWs have found that they need to keep “modern” foods to a minimum and eat closer to their original human nutritional needs. Here’s the rub. The edible substances which pass for food these days are a far cry from the complex plant matter and healthful animal sources we once knew. Eating closer to the original human diet... Read more →

Emerging From a Food Rut

By Lynn Haraldson-Bering About a year ago, I wrote about how bored I was with my strength training routine (“Kicking It Up A Notch”). So I bought a barbell and got refocused. I don’t know what it is about this time of the year, but now I’m bored with my food choices. Every morning I make a smoothie. Every afternoon I make a salad. Every night I eat a veggie, a protein and maybe a starch. I use different fruits... Read more →

Savoring Food

By Lynn Haraldson-Bering After an emergency root canal yesterday, I’m rediscovering how much fun it is to eat. So much of the time, eating is rote. While I plan and prepare meals, and mostly when I’m eating, my mind wanders in all different directions except to the food at hand. What emails do I need to write? When’s the last time I called my mother? Did I feed the birds? Don’t forget to vacuum. Stuff like that. But when you... Read more →

Kooky?

I want to welcome all of you who’ve never visited our site before. I know we have many new readers that are coming to us as a result of Jennette’s guest blog and I want to thank Jennette Fulda for her excellent post. For those of you who are new to us, we hope you’ll stick around! After all, maintenance is where we’re all headed and it’s never too early to start learning about how other people are managing it.... Read more →

Gird Your Loins! The Assault is Coming

By Barbara Berkeley Along with the snow, along with the cold and wet, along with the flu, along with the desire to bundle up and eat nothing but mashed potatoes for three months….along with all of that comes the food assault. Food assault is the term I use to describe the feeling of being pressed in on all sides by food. This happens often enough at other times of the year, but it reaches epic proportions around the holidays. The... Read more →

Mom Cooks!!! (Occasionally)

By Barbara Berkeley As you all know by now, I maintain my weight by following a Primarian (or ancient) diet. That works really well for me when coupled with one other trick I’ve learned during five years of maintenance: the less involvement I have with food the better. Science has a name for this approach. It’s called “stimulus narrowing.” Many researchers have noted that too much choice and exposure is overstimulating and can even cause us to become anxious. I’d... Read more →

Introducing Our New "Recipes" Page

By Lynn Haraldson-Bering As a fairly new vegetarian and so I don’t get bored in maintenance, I’ve made it my goal to try one new recipe a week. Some weeks are better than others, but at least I’m expanding my food repertoire. In that vein, Barbara and I have added a Recipes page to the site for us to share some of our favorite recipes and for you to share yours. Simply leave your recipe in the comment section and... Read more →

On the Road in Food World (written Memorial Day weekend)

By Barbara Berkeley It’s a gloriously sunny day and my husband Don and I are on the road for three days. We’re driving to the wedding of a friend’s daughter on the east coast. There’s nothing like a little travel to take you out of your maintenance comfort zone. Travelling makes me appreciate the steps I’ve taken to structure my personal food world. Now that I’m out the comfort zone, 7½ hours from home, the protections I’ve come to rely... Read more →