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Emotional eating is eating that is a response to our feelings and needs-eating that is not related to a physical need for fuel but to a hunger that we feel when we are feeling something else. It might be eating because we are bored, stressed, worried, angry or feeling helpless. Some of us even ... Views: 1455
This is an example of how one person was living with a health problem that was undetectable on the surface. I once had a problem with my weight and it affected my cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Although not overweight by most estimates - either by eye or by scale - there was an underlying ... Views: 1451
Are you tired of eating everything in sight from Friday to Sunday waking up feeling fat, bloated and hating yourself on Monday? Well, welcome to the human race. I was at a birthday party recently and watched everyone pick at food constantly, then complain about feeling stuffed. It took me back ... Views: 1182
Frustrated by your weight loss efforts? Or maybe you’ve reached a plateau? When trying to lose weight we tend to pay better attention to what we eat. But have you thought about what you drink? The Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina examined dietary records of U.S. adults ... Views: 766
I love it when people tell me, "You're so lucky. You've never had a weight problem."
Ha! Little do they know!
I struggled with diets and weight gain for YEARS! I've been on Weight Watchers, Nutri-system, Jenny Craig, the Hotdog diet, the Grapefruit diet, the Cabbage diet...to name a FEW! ... Views: 918
Losing weight is a struggle that many of us face. When it comes to searching for the best diet program, in our minds, we could only think of supplements and diet pills. These “fat-burners” are gaining popularity but the question is, does supplement diets really work?
While some ... Views: 595
Fighting Cravings for Sweets
So I've always wondered why I crave sugar so much especially after I eat a meal. I have not gone one day without finding something with sugar in it to satisfy my urge. Some days I get a little carried away.
Why does this happen?
Sweet cravings come about for a ... Views: 635
Have you ever gone on a diet, lost weight, gone off the diet, and then gained all the weight back? Sadly this often happens. A great tool to help you keep the weight off is a fitness journal! Some trainers provide structured journals for clients to use, but a journal can be as simple as a small ... Views: 862
What’s the number one reason people give for not working out? No time! Sometimes finding an hour to go to the gym can seem an insurmountable task for busy people. But working out doesn’t need to take up that much of your time, or be intimidating. Change your attitude and look for ... Views: 744
With so many different ideas about dieting currently on the market, it can be very confusing and difficult for people who are trying to find a diet plan that will work for them and meet their specific needs. If they keep trying over and over with diets that work for other people, but that don't ... Views: 751
Try cycling your calories once every 3-to-5 days: If you've been eating less calories to lose weight then eventually... Your body will get smart and slow down your metabolism to keep up with the lower amount of calories you're eating causing you to hit a weight loss plateau so...
You need to ... Views: 2523
The Ego Diet
By
Bill Cottringer
“Learning that just increases self-importance and autonomy, isn’t really learning at that point, it is over-nourishment of the ego, just like too much food causes the body to become obese.” ~The author.
We pretty well understand the importance of ... Views: 1683
Diet delivery services are exploding in popularity, thanks in part to their convenience, affordability and ability to delivery fast results. In a recent study done by Brown University, people trying to lose weight by eating prepared meals lost an average of 31% more weight than those who ... Views: 1538
Diet Sabotage - it's far too common these days. If you find yourself asking - Why can't I lose weight? - chances are you may be suffering from one of these common diet sabotage traps:
1) Embarrassment - Admitting that you're trying to lose weight is an embarrassing thing for many people. They ... Views: 1329
Do you need to drop those surplus pounds of yours and enhance your health? Dieting in addition to exercise may be the option for you. But the stress in most of today's diets is placed on lowering carbs and fat intake, by preferring sub-optimal supplies of protein, which is an important nutrient. ... Views: 1160
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Diet and Weight Loss. Dieting and Weight Loss is the regulation and limitation of food in order to improve physical condition and health. Tricia Greaves is the Official Guide to Diet and Weight Loss.
Eat This Not That: Thousands of ... Views: 597
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Diet and Weight Loss. Dieting and Weight Loss is the regulation and limitation of food in order to improve physical condition and health. Tricia Greaves is the Official Guide to Diet and Weight Loss.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan: ... Views: 646
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Diet and Weight Loss. Dieting and Weight Loss is the regulation and limitation of food in order to improve physical condition and health. Tricia Greaves is the Official Guide to Diet and Weight Loss.
You: On A Diet: The Owner's ... Views: 629
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Diet and Weight Loss. Dieting and Weight Loss is the regulation and limitation of food in order to improve physical condition and health. Tricia Greaves is the Official Guide to Diet and Weight Loss.
Tricia has identified The South ... Views: 571
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Diet and Weight Loss. Dieting and Weight Loss is the regulation and limitation of food in order to improve physical condition and health. Tricia Greaves is the Official Guide to Diet and Weight Loss.
The Ultimate Calorie Counter, by ... Views: 631
Tired of searching high and low for the best weight loss product ever? Well, here, we have found a list of world best weight loss products for you! With a plethora or weight loss products and diet pills available almost everywhere, it gets harder for you to choose which of those really works! ... Views: 688
It would blow you away if you really knew just how simple it was to lose weight.
In fact...
if I laid the 100% proven method in front of your face you probably would laugh just because it is so strait forward!
But isn't that funny (Ha Ha) how the true solution to any problem is almost, in ... Views: 534
I feel for you!
You long for fast weight loss, but you don't want to negatively effect your health.
You are caught in a catch 22 and you're certainly not alone?
It seems these days that the only way to experience fast weight loss is by taking diet pills or medications. At least, that is ... Views: 1252
I believe that I can read your mind!
You're burned out, unhappy with those extra pounds you've accumulated and pretty confused as to just how to go about losing them.
And you're not alone...
the truth is that their are thousands of people just as confused as you. I know, because I have met ... Views: 548
Studies show that childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming rate, so how do you keep your kids from becoming statistics? The data cannot be ignored. Each family needs to be aware of the factors contributing to this growing problem and address them as a team. Each day family members head ... Views: 495
Do you feel stressed and unhappy because you cannot lose weight? Have you tried multiples diets and nothing has worked so far? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then you better read some of the diet tips presented below and discover for yourself the easy road to weight loss. One ... Views: 787
Chinese medicine existed 5,000 years ago. During our emperor’s time, various herbs have been used and tested to bring about the benefit of weight loss. To this day, Chinese herbs or Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) have been popular among those who wish to get remedies, without facing ... Views: 1106
In the quest for weight loss, the diet industry puts a lot of attention on what we eat but focusing on why we eat may be more important.
After losing over 70 lbs. permanently and becoming a weight loss coach for others, I've found most people have a pretty good idea of what they should eat. We ... Views: 4443
Whether it’s because of a doctor’s warning, an important birthday, or just because you’re fed up, at some point you vow to lose weight. But by the time the rosy blush of good intentions wears off, your promise gets pushed aside. Not because you don’t still long to lose ... Views: 870
Losing weight and getting rid off that “excess baggage” can be really tough. More often than not, when you start dieting, you would want to get quick results and you can exactly get that with the Cabbage Soup Diet.
This Diet is highly recommended by Dieticians in order to get a head start on ... Views: 745
Ninety percent of all people who sweat their butts off exercising in an effort to lose unwanted fat, do not see any results.
These are the people who are perplexed... wondering why they work "so hard" and yet are not experiencing the noticeable slim-down that they desire.
So what's the ... Views: 613
1. Rise & Dine. Eat something within the first hour of waking to get your metabolism to begin burning calories. This “something” can be as simple as a couple of crackers or ½ of a banana. For those of you who are not hungry in the morning, you need to eat anyway. You will be missing the ... Views: 1489
It is hard to ignore the fact that Americans are getting bigger. It has been a growing problem for the past few decades. Did you know two thirds of adults in the United States are overweight? Studies have shown that 80% of people diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes are overweight and 70% of people ... Views: 1970
Do you know that approximately 4,000 people die a day from cancer and heart disease? Of the people with heart disease, 70% of them are overweight. 42% of people diagnosed with breast or colon cancer are overweight.
I bring up these statistics to emphasize the importance of maintaining a ... Views: 747
Have you ever noticed that the #1 exercise of choice among those trying to lose weight is walking?
So here's the question...
Why are there so many overweight walkers?
And I'm not talking about the people who have just recently laced up the Nikes and started walking to try and shed a few ... Views: 567
A huge mistake that people make as they work to lose weight and/or maintain weight loss after weight loss surgery involves getting stuck in self-blame. Self-blame and self-criticism can seriously undermine weight loss efforts. Here are some of the reasons why they can create a trap that you want ... Views: 1205
The master cleanse diet also known as the Lemonade Diet is a program that was invented to cleanse the body of years of built up toxins in the body. As a result of the cleanse people often significantly lose weight and lose bodily addictions that they may not even have known they had. Another ... Views: 701
Weight loss, in the context of medicine or health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue.
Weight Loss Techniques
Weight loss ... Views: 1355
A low calorie diet is also known as calorie restriction, or caloric restriction, (CR) is the practice of limiting dietary energy intake in the hope that it will improve health and slow the aging process. Calorie restriction is a common measure, found in several dietary regimen, including the ... Views: 1534
Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve a particular objective. In many cases the goal is weight loss, but some athletes aspire to gain weight (usually in the form of muscle) and diets can also be used to maintain a stable body weight.
Proper nutrition
Food ... Views: 808
Low-carbohydrate foods or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption primarily for weight control. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats.
Scientific research
Medical research ... Views: 746
Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion. The values for food energy are expressed in kilocalories (kcal) and kilojoules (kJ).
One food Calorie (1 kcal or 1,000 calories) is the amount of digestively available food energy (heat) that will raise the ... Views: 6744
Why all the talk about these "amazing" Hollywood diets?
The Atkins
The South Beach
The Zone
If only all the stars new that the most explosive results could be experienced with the simplest - most fundamental principles.
After all, Blair Warren once said...
"The most magnificent things in ... Views: 544
Fact: There are entire societies living on this planet that have next to zero instance of obesity!
Fact: The bodies of these people remain lean, fit and beautiful right up to the point that they leave this earth... which, by the way, is at a much older age than most others!
So everyone who is ... Views: 619
Obesity or over weight badly affects the health of a person. To retain the health, it is important to reduce the over weight. A weight loss diet program is the best solution to being overweight. A person can make a research on these programs through the Internet, books or friends. The choice, to ... Views: 1602
Let's face it, not everyone enjoys breakfast. While most early-to-rise types are ready for food early in the a.m., many who consider themselves night owls cannot stomach the thought. Unfortunately for the night owls, skipping breakfast has many negative consequences, especially when you are ... Views: 742
We have all heard it and most of us have ignored it; if you want to lose weight you need to drink more water. Eight 8-oz. glasses of water per day is the recommendation from health professionals for optimal health. For many people, that just seems like too much, especially because exchanging the ... Views: 685
You've heard all the weight loss "experts" tell you that the extra flab hanging off of your waste is because...
"You eat too much."
These self-proclaimed "experts" tell us these things all of the time and why...? Because they are like parrots; they simply repeat the things they hear everyone ... Views: 612
When you eat properly and provide your body with proper nutrition, your body stops thinking that it needs to hold onto every ounce of fat you consume to keep you from starving. It no longer believes that you’re in danger of dying and it begins to utilize the nutrients that you consume instead ... Views: 850
Awareness.
Simple as that. I think that one word sums up what we need in order to start our weight loss journey, as we can not solve the problem if we are not aware of what the real problem is!
Looking back at my own personal journey of losing 130 pounds, it is very easy to see how one ... Views: 1324