While the number of calories you consume each day certainly plays a role in your ability to drop a few extra pounds, the battle to lose weight is actually much more complex than a simple calories-in vs. calories-out approach. Your hormones, stress levels, sleep, physical activity and food allergies are important factors, too — and…
As summer approaches, new diet fads are yet again circulating in the Jewish community. My Facebook and Instagram feed are filled with diet posts promising to help me become “Happy and Healthy for your Beach Body.” These posts are often connected to multi-level marketing pyramid schemes designed to rob you of your time and money….
Feeling like you’ve hit a plateau with your weight loss? There are few things more frustrating than a scale that won’t budge regardless of how many salads you eat or the number of gym sessions that you cram in. While following a healthy diet and exercising regularly can help to burn off stubborn fat, including…
Editor’s Note: In this series, What the Forward?, we attempt to shed light on confusing Jewish customs, questions and observances. A version of this article originally appeared in the Texas Jewish Post. Q: I know rabbis that are quite obese, and I just don’t get it. I mean, doesn’t the Torah command us to be…
In Roxane Gay’s new book “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” she explains that she’s “super morbidly obese,” distinguishing herself from the merely fat. But it’s not necessary. You don’t need to be super morbidly obese to get dirty looks on airplanes. To have losers shout mean shit at you on the street. To get…
Lena Dunham says it’s not an exercise regimen or the paleo diet that’s helped her lose weight. Instead the actress blames the trauma of President Trump for stopping her from eating. “Everyone’s been asking like, ‘What have you been doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Try soul-crushing pain and devastation and hopelessness and you, too, will lose…
Thinkstock One Sunday morning a few weeks ago, after we had returned from our Passover getaway in Orlando, we had a family weigh-in in the master bedroom of our rented ranch. After all the matzos and steak and gooey potato starch and almond meal based cookies we consumed, the digital scale was guaranteed to be…
This past summer was the first time I can remember — maybe since childhood — where I didn’t have to wear spandex, shorts, Spanx, tights or some other thigh-chaff-resistant garment. I’ve naturally lost weight since winter, about a pant size or two. Now, each time I wear a dress or skirt, I leave my apartment…
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