Weight Loss Tips

How Jason Lost 39 Pounds

The people who inspire you the most are usually your friends or family. You can relate to their challenges because you know them....

A Perfect Storm of Factors That Makes The Holidays Difficult

Here is my "Holiday Card" for all my loyal readers and fans! Thanks for coming here and being part of the Snack Girl community....

Want To Lose Weight AND Avoid Cancer? Research Says This Dietary Change Does Both

We hear it all the time - eat more fruits and vegetables! And, if we could follow that advice, we would lose weight...

A Culinary Creation That Baffles The Human Mind

The taco salad is a relatively new invention which is Mexican inspired, but, in my opinion, has nothing to do with the great cuisine of Mexico. How could we go so wrong?....

The Right To Remember Your Bare Arms

See that beautiful woman up there? She is on a beach in a tank top. You remember those days?....

Using Pregnancy Hormones To Lose Weight: A Queasy Strategy

When I look at the photo above, I get pangs. No, not pangs of love - pangs of sudden illness....

5 Ways To Stop Stress Eating

Snack Girl is stressed out. That is not me in the photo above, but I feel this woman's pain....

How To Jump Start A Healthy Eating Program

Snack Girl is all about collecting as many ideas as she can to support her healthy habits. I read a TON of different books about healthy living....

How Frani Lost Over 74 Pounds

Above is a photo of Frani now, she has lost over 74 pounds in 16 months and graciously submitted to an interview with Snack Girl....

Is Snacking Good For You?

Snack Girl loves the photo above because it typifies how we abuse snacking. Mindless eating in front of the TV!...

Evidence That Junk Food Snacking Will Shorten Your Life

The guy above is DOOMED! Eating chips in front of the TV (at least he measured out a bowl of them - but look at the size of it). Yikes!...

How Important Is It To Buy Organic?

Snack Girl finally watched "Food, Inc." - and it made her think. She immediately wanted to go out and buy all her food at Whole Foods (where almost all of the produce is organic)....

Weight Watchers PointsPlus and Snack Girl - Success?

Snack Girl has had a free subscription to Weight Watchers for a couple of months now, and she is ready to tell her story...

The Secret Of Building A Healthy Body (For People With Little Time or Money)

Obviously, the women above got great bodies by going to the gym. Look at how fit they look!...

The First Step To Eating Healthier

There are forces around us that conspire against our good intentions. Eating healthier should be easy since it is so OBVIOUSLY a smart thing to do....

Weight Watchers Friendly Recipes on Snack Girl

One of the biggest complaints about the new Weight Watchers PointsPlus program is that it is harder to figure out the Points value than it used to be....

How Courtney Lost 44 Pounds

Snack Girl gets to meet many awesome people as part of her job. Courtney is the latest....

Weight Watchers PointsPlus Versus Momentum

A few weeks ago, I posted Why Did Weight Watchers Change Its Points Program? and this article has received 70 comments. Why?...

Why Did Weight Watchers Change Its Points Program?

You probably all know by now that Weight Watchers revamped its famous "Points" program into "PointsPlus"....

Holiday Weight Gain: Fact or Fiction?

Are your pants feeling a wee bit snug right now? Are you wishing you had quit drinking your mother's rum egg nog at just one glass?...