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Mary MacVean
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Goal Weight: My Only Two-Piece Bathing Suit Was a Disaster

By Mary MacVean It’s pre-summer in the diet world; that’s the season that comes after the New Year’s diet has failed and before the late-summer pre-holiday diet commences. …

Diet

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Goal Weight: My Only Two-Piece Bathing Suit Was a Disaster
Goal Weight: My Only Two-Piece Bathing Suit Was a Disaster
Diet

4 min read


Apr 1, 2022

Goal Weight: Enough Already With the Fat Jokes, Even About Yourself

By Mary MacVean Did you laugh at Chris Rock’s “GI Jane” joke? Did you find it mean or in poor taste because it made fun of Jada Pinkett’s Smith’s medical condition? …

Body Shaming

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Goal Weight: Enough Already With the Fat Jokes, Even About Yourself
Goal Weight: Enough Already With the Fat Jokes, Even About Yourself
Body Shaming

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Feb 1, 2022

Goal Weight: Don’t Count on an Alcohol-Free Month for Drastic Changes on the Scale

Dry January Has Its Ups but Find Reasons Other Than Your Diet to Join In By Mary MacVean Dry January is coming to a close. …

Dry January

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Goal Weight: Don’t Count on an Alcohol-Free Month for Drastic Changes on the Scale
Goal Weight: Don’t Count on an Alcohol-Free Month for Drastic Changes on the Scale
Dry January

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Jan 24, 2022

From ‘Children Are Starving in China’ to Just Taste These Spinach Brownies

Like Oprah, have your cake, and trash it too By Mary MacVean Did you happen to watch Oprah Winfrey dump the sizeable leftovers from a bananas Foster birthday cake into the trash? …

Oprah

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From ‘Children Are Starving in China’ to Just Taste These Spinach Brownies
From ‘Children Are Starving in China’ to Just Taste These Spinach Brownies
Oprah

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Jan 12, 2022

I’m a Noomer Who Is at Least Not Gaining Much Weight

By Mary MacVean Today I heard a commercial for Noom, among the best-known of the dieting apps, saying it provides “the knowledge and the wisdom” to lose weight and lead a healthy life. Count me among the skeptics. My reasons? For starters, have you heard about it on National Public…

Noom

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I’m a Noomer Who Is at Least Not Gaining Much Weight
I’m a Noomer Who Is at Least Not Gaining Much Weight
Noom

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Jan 6, 2022

It’s green season, and I don’t mean repairing the planet

“It’s the most dieting time of the year.” By Mary MacVean I just couldn’t help myself. Even though my family doesn’t celebrate Christmas, I love the songs, and today — five days into the annual dieting season, I couldn’t get out of my head “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of…

Diet

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It’s green season, and I don’t mean repairing the planet
It’s green season, and I don’t mean repairing the planet
Diet

3 min read


Dec 8, 2021

Just eat the cookie. And the ham. Cheers to eggnog.

By Mary MacVean Pick your poison: latkes, Christmas cookies, eggnog? Maybe the whole damn buffet? For anyone who weighs more than svelte, or who lives in fear of gaining a pound, every bit of edible joy can be so easily sucked out of the last two months of the year. …

Diet

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Just eat the cookie. And the ham. Cheers to eggnog.
Just eat the cookie. And the ham. Cheers to eggnog.
Diet

4 min read


Nov 17, 2021

How far would you go to lose fat?

By Mary MacVean A billboard just a block from my house advertised CoolSculpting for a while. I passed it all the time, and every time I thought about how “cool” it would be if someone could freeze and disappear a whole big bunch of my fat cells in no time. …

Body Image

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How far would you go to lose fat?
How far would you go to lose fat?
Body Image

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Jun 30, 2021

Just close your mouth to lose weight

A jaw-dropping idea to restrict what you eat By Mary MacVean Dieting is onerous and eventually makes you feel like a failure in most cases. But here’s a simple truth: If you cannot eat, you will lose weight. That idea has been taken to jaw-dropping extremes with a new product…

Dieting

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Just close your mouth to lose weight
Just close your mouth to lose weight
Dieting

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Apr 11, 2021

An urban farm to feed a neighborhood

By Mary MacVean Assante Microfarm in L.A. (Photo by Mary MacVean) As people gathered along the sidewalk outside the corner house at Angeles Vista Boulevard and Olympiad Drive, motorists slowed to check out the fuss. The fuss, on a hot Saturday morning, was Asante Microfarm, which not so long ago…

Urban Farming

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An urban farm to feed a neighborhood
An urban farm to feed a neighborhood
Urban Farming

3 min read

Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean

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Longtime food writer, now food grower. Journalist, reader, traveler

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