Wow, and I thought picking winners for our Holiday Sweepstakes diabetes wisdom contest was difficult!  But for the NEW YEAR, NEW YOU Diabetes Makeover competition, what we ended up judging were people’s life stories — their hard luck and their struggles with diabetes and related health conditio...

All three provide good and useful services, but is any one of them clearly better than the other two?  The reviews are based on the features most of us would expect from a fitness tool/advice site.  For each category/feature I will rate Traineo, Gyminee, and Sparkpeople.  The format is simple, fi...

A group of us are doing a "Biggest Loser" at work -- comparing our percentages of weight loss. Monday is our first weigh in and then we'll end on June 2. Each of us has put in $20, winner takes all. I am taking in my scale and a co-worker has vol... Read and post comments | Send to a f...

I got stuck behind a school bus this morning on the drive into work. Normally it’s not all that annoying, but this bus was picking up kids that lived in an apartment complex. The complex only spanned a few blocks, but the bus had to stop at Every. Single. Block. to pick up kids. Can’t th...

One of my readers sent me a link to today’s New York Times article on blogging titled “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Til They Drop.” I find it touching that someone would think of me while reading the article. Actually, I read a sneak peak of the article in yesterday...

I started a diet a week and two days ago, and since then I've been spending a lot of time at SparkPeople.com. ~_~ Sorry about that. Part of the problem is that I care about so much of the news--not the fluffy stuff like whatever Paris Hilton's or Brittany Spears's latest stuff is (unless I'm talking...