I’M THE FIRST TO ADMIT IT: I’m a high-energy person. But for years, I lived in a state of per- petual drain. My life was one have-to after another, and I couldn’t even brush my teeth without mentally running through my list. Sleep? Forget it. I spent my pillow time com- pletely in my head,[…]
Most of us approach dieting as if jumping into an unheated pool: with gritted teeth and grim determination. It doesn’t really matter if we “know” it’s the right thing to do. All we know is that it doesn’t feel very good, and the bigger the dieting change we make, the less good it feels. Author[…]
For starters, I was five-foot-three, small-boned, curvy. (Even at 98 pounds, I knew Voguemagazine was never going to come looking for me.) I liked action. I liked control. I liked leading projects, running with my own ideas. (So why was I working as a secretary?) I was Italian. I loved food. I ate for holidays,[…]