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Barb Crews contributes to the DietsInReview.com blog, sharing her experiences with the Biggest Loser Meal Plan and other diet-related findings. As a diabetic, she doesn't take her health for granted and enjoys sharing the healthy lifestyle lessons she finds with others.

Barb is more notably recognized for her position as the About.com Collectibles expert, where she has been a contributor for more than ten years. Barb's experience is broad and she has been featured on A&E's Incurable Collector and many trade publications like Antique Trader. She is also the founder of the American Cookie Jar Association and was invited by eBay to participate in their four Collectible Summits.

Fun Facts About Barb

I Never Leave Home Without my phone and money

Where I'd Rather Be near the ocean

My Bragging Rights I'm thinking...

Personal Fun Fact hmmm, used to autocross (time trial racing) cars

Refrigerator Staple Red Diamond unsweetened ice tea

My Favorite Healthy Food spinach salad from Sam's w/o the dressing

My Guiltiest Pleasure black & white cookie from NYC

Song That Gets Me Going in the Gym Beatles Revolution

Favorite Gym Activity leaving to go home

Movie Seen Too Many Times to Count Cars and I'd watch it again!

The Book I'd Read Again almost any, I read at least two books a week, so everything is good

First Paid Gig sold Italian Ices in Brooklyn for a few weeks

Accomplishment Most Proud of my kids are all happy, healthy and self-sufficient (sort of)

Recent Posts

The Conclusion of my Biggest Loser Meal Plan Experience

The Biggest Loser Meal Plan, from Bistro MD, was a good choice for us. We followed it for five weeks and I lost almost ten pounds and have kept it off in the three months since ending the plan. My husband didn’t do quite as well, but he didn’t follow it all three meals a [...]

The Biggest Loser Meal Plan — Still Slowly Losing!

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve blogged about The Biggest Loser Meal plan — but I do have great excuses! Okay, I won’t bore you with my sad tales, except to say that I’ve more or less stayed with the plan since I last wrote. If we’re at home, we eat The Biggest Loser [...]

First Week’s Biggest Loser Loss = 3.5 Lbs

It’s been one week since I started The Biggest Loser Diet. I’m a bit hungry, but 3.5 lbs lighter. As hungry as I was at times, I was hoping for a little more loss, but I’m satisfied! Looking back over the week, it wasn’t hard to stick to the plan. As with any meals on [...]

Finally Starting on the Biggest Loser Meals!

It seems like I’ve written a lot of posts before we’ve eaten a single meal, finally we started the plan on Monday morning! It looks like a week heavy on chicken — six out of ten meals. It’s only two full days on the program, but so far so good. The food doesn’t taste like [...]

Two Minor Problems, Quickly Resolved

While waiting for the first Biggest Loser Meals shipment a few problems surfaced. Before ordering, I asked about combining the shipping to save $24.95, also since the delivery is perishable, I needed to know when food would be delivered. Our area is scheduled for Wednesday shipping/Friday delivery. When the first shipment was sent out I [...]

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