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...Chef. On his lunch break he scours New York City for ingredients like the smoked paprika needed for a chickpea dish he recently made. Stoloff's strategy is to stock a great pantry--with items like homemade salsas and tomato sauce put up from his own garden, plus 100 lbs. of organic free-range beef, which anchors the basement freezer. He then "cooks ahead" on Sunday afternoons and has meals partly ready for those hectic weeknights when he comes home at 5:30, followed by his wife Ilena Silverman, a magazine editor, at 6. The kids--Anya, 7, Katya...
John Brumbach, a part-time video editor and stay-at-home dad in Omaha, Neb., found himself going overboard soon after he took over the home kitchen for his family of five. He and his wife, a cable-company marketing director, promptly gained 10 lbs. each. The culprit: butter. Brumbach now sees his job as keeping the family healthy and happy. He flips through cooking magazines and watches the Food Network, then adapts recipes or "change[s] them drastically" to suit the family's palates. "I work with my kids to find out what their taste will tolerate," he says...
...most measures, Kelly Bliss, 50, surely seems to have let herself go. The Lansdowne, Pa., resident stands 5 ft. 2 in. in her stockings but tips the scales at nearly 200 lbs. Run those numbers through the body mass index (BMI)--the statistical measure that factors height and weight to diagnose obesity--and Bliss scores higher than 35. Anything above 25 is overweight; anything above 30 is obese. In the nation's ongoing war with obesity-related health problems, Bliss is one more casualty, right...
...fast, say other experts. For one thing, it's possible that unacknowledged weight loss is responsible for the improving health numbers. People who are very overweight often pick up or drop 10 or 20 lbs. at a time, fluctuations that get lost in the statistical noise of their overall battle with the scale. If you become physically active, it's hard not to lose at least a little more than you gained, and that little can mean a lot. Normally the greatest weight-loss benefit comes from the first few pounds you shed. A 240-lb. man who drops...
...partway there. It certainly appears to have worked for Sandy Schaffer, 47. The 5-ft. 5-in., 280-lb. Schaffer began attending the In Fitness & In Health Wellness Center in New York City more than eight years ago, when she weighed an even more prodigious 350 lbs. She credits her workouts there not only with getting her weight down but also with some other impressive numbers. Her total cholesterol has dropped from 220 to 180, her blood pressure is good, and a recent cardiac-stress test showed that her heart is healthy. She now takes four or five fitness classes...