YES - you can travel and not gain weight. Just be smart about your food choices and weight gain won't be an issue. Here are some ideas: 

Dieters lose about 60% less weight when they drink wine on ZReduction. Is it worth it?

Remember, the average American gains at least 7 pounds over the holidays. You don’t have to follow the crowd.

Many people think the Thanksgiving turkey dinner is the most intimidating meal to make. It's not. Here's some rules to follow.

Traditionally, my menu for Thanksgiving gets set this week. Here’s a little bit of the history of Thanksgiving in my family.

Some helpful low carb hints for eating mashed potatoes.

Here are some recommendations for healthy Halloween treats the whole family can enjoy.

Have your guests play a small part in helping to clean up after the big meal. They will not do everything; but when every person tackles a small cleanup task and works at it for ten minutes, it helps tremendously!

If you’re going to do Plan Z this year, I’m guessing you’ll want to be well into ZReboot for Thanksgiving. Let’s run the numbers to see where you can be on Thanksgiving Day:

What I am going to do here is give you ideas for breakfast, lunch and after-school snacks. Your kids deserve tasty, healthy food.

How do you keep cutting boards clean? Should you wash raw chicken before cooking? Which is more sanitary, a sponge or a dishrag? Zola weighs in. Sometimes I can be a little extreme.

There are so many vegetable options offered up by Mother Nature that I thought I could go my whole life skipping the ones I didn’t like. Now, I’m reconsidering some of them.

The smell of basil, mint and lemon balm growing in the garden are my absolute favorites. For me, that’s the smell of summer.

I have discovered a new way to stay regular. It’s not fiber. It’s a mineral. Magnesium. Magnesium has so many other benefits beyond keeping you regular. It’s really vital for your health.

Here are the kinds of milk I drink now and the one I’m trying.

The tradition of tapas in Spain goes back a long way, but today, extends well beyond Spanish cuisine. The whole idea is to have lots of things on the menu that are enticingly priced and draw you in to the variety. In most places you’d be tempted to…

Like seared meats and veggies? You'll love cast iron. Here are some of the benefits of cooking with cast iron and a few hints for use and maintenance.

My chives were the first thing to come up in my herb garden every year. As soon as the snow melted I could see their little heads popping up through the soil. By the time it was warm enough to actually get out in my garden and clean with a rake, the…

Enjoy potatoes in moderation and use these hints to make healthier choices.

Now that we’re in the peak of the grilling season I hope these things give you the incentive to take good care of your grill. I know I’m going to do a better job with mine.

I’m one of those lucky people who can read a recipe and taste it in my head. I hope you are one too, but if you’re not, with a few guiding steps you can learn how to do it...

If someone close to you is struggling with managing their Type 2 diabetes, please tell them to have hope. They are not as powerless as the pharmaceutical industry would have them believe.

Want to eat chocolate and stay healthy? Dark chocolate is your best choice.

Over 50% of Americans make some kind of resolution and for many, the promise made is to lose weight, and for most, it’s a failed attempt before Super Bowl Sunday hits in early February. Need help keeping your New Year's Resolution to lose weight?…

New studies have been published to show that obesity harms most organs in your body, and your brain is no exception. The researchers have also found that getting rid of excess fat actually improves brain function. 

If your waist to height ratio shows your waistline equals 80% of your height, studies show you will live (on average) 17 years less than someone whose waist to height ratio falls at the 50% number.

This makes quick work out of feeding a crowd of people who arrive at different times.

This isn’t a recipe for food you can eat. This is a recipe for making your house smell wonderful for the holidays. 

What I thought I’d do today is lay out how I organize myself to keep my shopping stress down during the holidays. Maybe some of what I do will help you too.

Gone are the days when I would regularly pull out my big food processor, or my massive mixer, or my mondo blender that could mix up 12 cups of liquid in an instant. Even my bread maker is gone. I’ve kept my food processor and massive mixer but I…

What's antipasti? An appetizer usually consisting of an assortment of foods, such as smoked meats, cheese, fish, and vegetables. Sounds like a low-carb platter of perfection, doesn’t it?

My mother would have turned 101 this year. I still miss her although she’s been gone for decades. At parties, people often asked my mother if she taught me to cook. “Not like this”, she’d say. What she meant was she never taught me to be a gourmet…

From the fine folks at the History Channel comes the history of the Jack O’ Lantern. I didn't know the origin of carving vegetables with creepy faces is an Irish thing.

I recently received this article from Bon Appetit outlining why you should NEVER even heat food in plastic in a microwave. If you work through this article you’ll clearly see this article should scare you more than any feature at a Halloween haunted…

Even though the countdown to this year’s anniversary is on, we will be happy just being together.

Have you heard about the spotless giraffe? She was born a couple of months ago in Limestone, TN. She’s already 6’ tall of gorgeous. I was on my North Carolina mountain vacation when we heard about her and decided to pay her a visit.

Think about the implications and the power of this idea in taking charge of your own weight and health.

“A sharp knife is a safe knife.” That seemed counter-intuitive to me when I was young. Sharp knives cut more easily than dull knives. Right? Sharp knives seem dangerous...Not really.

This time of year, is the first anniversary of my husband learning his kidney cancer was gone. Every six months we have to travel to Nashville to visit his kidney surgeon...

It has come to my attention that a drug used to treat diabetes is now flying off the shelves as a weight loss drug.If you (or someone you know) are thinking about using that kind of drug to lose weight let me ask you to think twice.

There is only one ice rink in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The last open weekend they hold a “Skillet Curling Contest” on the ice. If you know curling, you know it’s not usually played with cast iron skillets.

When people call me to let me know they are accepting an invitation to dinner at our house, they often follow the “yes, we’d love to come” with “what can we bring?” Easy question. Often a difficult one to answer.

The information I’m about to share comes from the National Institutes of Health. They designed a little computer program. It’s called the Body Weight Planner. What you do is enter your vitals, (height, weight etc.). Input the kind of exercise you…

I have worked hard to find unique ways to celebrate holidays and special occasions. Today I’m offering you a way to make your celebration special.

I don’t want to go all “Debbie Downer” on you at the beginning of a New Year but I thought a good theme to start off the year would be to talk about not getting manipulated in the grocery store. Plan Z Dieters know to read labels and avoid the…

This holiday has nothing to do with a boxing ring or leather gloves. It has everything to do with celebrating.