How Your Family and Friends Sabotage Your Weight Loss Journey

With alarming statistics such as “About four out of five African American women are overweight or obese” and “African American women are nearly 40 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than white women,” there is no wonder why some of us choose to lose weight. It doesn’t really matter what your catalytic moment was, […]

Dear Coworkers, We Can’t Be Facebook Friends

Fresh out of undergrad, I was naive. I thought it’d be a good idea to add my coworkers as friends on Facebook. I felt like it gave me a chance to see them outside of the 9-to-5 and vice versa. Maybe, I initially thought, they could see the other side of me that I don’t display in […]