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Link Time! Healthy Summer Road Trips and More

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Berry picking is one of my favorite summer activities, and according to FitSugar you can burn 600 calories an hour doing it . Packing up for a summer road trip? Skip the drive-thru and vacation weight gain by following the Daily Spark’s four tips for a healthier road trip. Veggie burgers are a staple at summer BBQs, especially if you’ve got vegetarians on the guest list . But are they good for you? The “healthy foodie” at That’s Fit Canada says no. Continue reading…

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Psychology of Weight Loss – The 6 steps to Lasting Weight Loss [Forum]

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:26:37 +0000

I have been through 5 years of diets, weight and food obsesssion which have led me to low self esteem, insecurity in the romatic area and Body Dysmorphic disorder. I have tried everything in order to loose weight: from cabbage soup to apple vinegar pills and from meal relacements to eating nothing. I always went back on binge eating after a diet. The only thing that worked for me were these 6 steps: 1. discover the events and the beliefs created by the events which caused your weight gain; 2. understand that those past events may have nothing to do neither with you, nor with your worth, hence your disempowering beliefs may not be true; 3. know yourself; 4. create optimistic future expectations; 5. eliminate all your disempowering beliefs and your weight gain feeders. Empowering beliefs will follow naturally; 6. make a realistic, but inspiring plan of life goals which will keep you passionate about your daily life – build Weight Loss Feeders. I have lost 9 pounds and I have maintained my weight for the past 3 years. I have got back my a healthy self esteem. I know how hard it is to go on a diet. I remember vividly how helpless I was feeling. My plan is a non-diet weight loss programme, which focuses on your mind, not on food. I would be pleased to provide you with my free e-book: ‘Changing your beliefs – The 6 steps to Lasting Weight Loss’, where you can find out detailed steps on overcoming the weight-gain mindset. This is my e-mail address: rebella86@hotmail.co.uk. Just let me know!

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10 Reasons to Quit Soda for Good

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:02:21 +0000

I gave up soda at the start of my first pregnancy seven years ago, a habit that — unlike sweets — was easy to kick. Aside from the occasional urge for a sip, I’m happy with plain water 99 percent of the time. But, I know how hard it is to give up a habit, especially when there’s sugar involved (see above!) However, like sugary snacks, soda adds an excess of empty calories to your daily intake, an excess that can actually harm your health. Continue reading…

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Can Chocolate Cut Heart Attack Risk?

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:00:10 +0000

It’s the sort of news we all love – especially at Easter. Newspapers claim that chocolate has been shown to cut the risk of heart attacks. But is it true? With the Daily Telegraph newspaper reporting (a little over-eagerly) that ” a chocolate bar a day can cut the risk of heart disease and stroke “, many dieters may have found an easy excuse to dig into an Easter Egg. Continue reading…

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Link Time! Urban Workouts, Dealing with Sweat, and More

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:00:03 +0000

City dwellers — getting tired of hitting the gym or taking a run through the park? Get creative and enjoy your “natural” surroundings with urban workouts from Mark’s Daily Apple. Workouts mean sweat, but sweat isn’t always socially acceptable. If you’re squeezing in a workout during lunch, Starling Fitness has some tips for not driving your friends and co-workers away. Remember the study that said sitting down too much can kill you? If you need a little help giving up your Internet time, FitSugar has some tips to help you step away from the computer, and outside for a walk. Want to start living a healthier life today, but you’re not sure how to start? Miz Fit has six small changes toward a healthier lifestyle. Yoga in the Olympics ? It could happen…. Did you know you can increase muscle mass just by getting a good night’s sleep? That’s Fit has four more ways to build growth hormone (and muscles) naturally . Still storing your vitamins or supplements in the bathroom medicine cabinet? Time to find a new place to keep them — just make sure it’s not in the kitchen . Have you seen a great blog post or piece of fitness advice on the Web? Leave it in comments section, so that we can check it out too…

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[Forum] Weight Loss: Starting Again

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:47:57 +0000

So the other day it was almost 50 degrees out. I’ve been hiding in my sweatshirts and sweaters all winter like I always do, but I don’t want spring to blindside me this time. I don’t want to have to go shopping for all new clothes that I feel comfortable in because I’ve let myself gain weight again. I have tried to start a healthy lifestyle over and over and over again. In the past it has never been so important though. For some reason in college I could drink every day and live off of handy snacks, dunkin donuts, pasta, and lean pockets and only gain 5 pounds here and there. Those 5 pounds were easy to lose too. Now it feels like they are nearly impossible to shed. Maybe if I blog my daily meals, snacks, exercise, etc. then I will feel more obligated to stick to my guns. I like instant results and have little patience when it comes to weight loss, but I know that it is a slow process and I need to get motivated. So, here it goes.

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The Top 10 Diets That Work

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:38:05 +0000

The folks at The Daily Beast have had a go at ranking commercial diets. They’ve searched through clinical studies and attempted to rank the diets according to amount of weight lost over 6-12 months, and retention rate. This is a difficult exercise to do as cherry-picked trials never give a whole picture, and is it really possible to rank diets? Well… it doesn’t stop us trying. Here are the top 10: Continue reading…

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The five CRITICAL things to do for your health and weight loss

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:57:28 +0000

I’m often asked what is the best diet, or the best food program, best exercise program and which single best book to recommend to improve your health, fitness or weight loss. The answer is that there is no best way to do it. There is no best book, and there is no right way or wrong way to do it. The 5 Critical things you must do to achieve your health are these 1. Continue to learn about health, fitness, nutrition and weight loss from a wide variety of sources The single most important thing to do right from the start is to take action and begin learning about health, followed very closely by putting what you learn into practice. We are a very diversified bunch of people and what works for you may not work for the next person. You have to find what works for you from a wide variety of sources, expand your knowledge and accept no one thing as being the best for your health. Keep reading, keep learning and keep what works for you and discard what doesn’t. Knowledge isn’t power, but “knowledge in action is power!” Some very simple things to keep in mind is that the body runs on food and if you give it the best quality food, in whatever manor that happens to be, then you’ll probably get some good results in general. Keep the nutrition to a maximum by eating as close to nature as possible, organic where possible and eliminating processed foods and trans fats. 2. Find a mentor. Someone who’s been there, done that and that you can model . I realized at quite an early age that if we can model someone who’s been there and done that and gotten results, then you can “cut to the chase” as it were to find out what works for your health and weight loss – what doesn’t and in doing so get results faster. Find a mentor, a role model for the things that you’re looking for. If it’s weight loss or to improve your health, find someone who’s walked in your footsteps and knows what you’re going through. Model them. Do what they did, repeat their process and contact them to ask what worked and what didn’t. You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by doing what works and skipping what doesn’t. 3. Apply the knowledge you learn about health on a daily basis This is where the taking action part comes in. You must begin to apply the knowledge you’ve gained from what you’ve read about health or watched and by talking with people who’ve been there before you. If you do not put it into practice then you’ve become an information junkie and not someone who follows through on their knowledge. You must begin to work the principles you’ve learned on a daily basis and keep at it. Without the trial and error, you get nowhere fast and won’t truly know what works and what doesn’t. 4. Repeat steps one, two and three Remember, there is no right way or wrong way to lose weight, improve your health or get what you want. You must continue to learn and challenge what you’ve read. I’m told that what I teach is wrong and I ask what were your results when you tried it? Well, they didn’t try it and so I then ask “what right do you have to tell me what I teach is wrong”. It may have worked for me or for many people I coach including yourself, but without trying it and challenging it, you won’t ever know. Keep learning about health, keep reading, keep applying what you’ve read and this new knowledge. Begin the process of filtering for yourself what will and won’t work for you. Remember this is about you, not me or the other guy, but what will help you achieve your weight loss goals or your health. This may very well be about applying certain fitness principles that sound so controversy that you figure they can’t possibly work. One of my favorite sayings is “believe nothing I say, but I challenge you to prove me wrong”. My intent is to have you try it. When I first begun my journey to lose 300 pounds, I read one book and I preached the principles like they were the gospel. I was finally told to “shut up” and read something else, so I took it upon myself to learn whatever I could about health and weight loss. I began to apply my new knowledge daily, found people who had used the info before and what they believed about it, what worked for them for their health and then discovered for myself what worked. Finally, I discovered the ultimate secret to health and weight loss. 5. Never give up. It never ends. In the large scope of your life, the next 30, 40, 50 or more years, what is a few days if you happen to get off track. Get right back on doing what you were doing, keep learning, keep trying new things, go back to what worked when it was working and keep up with your daily fitness routine. Probably the single most important fact about exercise or fitness is that our body is designed to move and we’ve gotten away from that. We must do something on a daily basis to exercise our body. Never give up. Never lose sight of the health you want and keep working towards your goal.

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The Health and Wealth Connection

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:53:19 +0000

I don’t believe that anybody can have a true abundance in ANY area of their life without first feeling immensely confident in themselves. And the main determining factor in any person’s confidence is how they feel about their physical being (or their body); and the shape and health of a person’s body is determined, to a large extent, by certain universal laws that absolutely must be followed each and every day. Here’s an example of just one of those laws…I once heard it said that nearly 70% of all the energy a person uses during the course of a single day (70%) is used simply to digest the foods they eat. Therefore, if it takes 100 grams of energy (bear with me for using such basic terminology here) to digest each and every meal you eat during the day, but by improving the efficiency of your metabolism, we can get your body to digest each meal using only 50 grams of energy, then you could have nearly double the energy to put toward all your normal daily activities. So if one of your main life goals is to make more money, would it beneficial to you if you had more physical energy to do the daily tasks necessary to build your financial streams? What about all the added mental energy that you would have to put towardcreatively designing new ways to handle all the daily challenges that every entrepreneur faces today? Personally, I never had success in my life until I took control of my body. I remember feeling like a failure in everything I did. I remember not even wanting to go out of the house because I didn’t like the way I looked, in fact, I specifically remember not wanting to leave the house even to go to the store to buy food because I hated the way I looked in all of my clothes. Today, I rarely think about the clothes I’m going to put on each day because I feel confident that, no matter what I wear, my body will make those clothes look good. All clothes just hang better on a body that’s in shape. That means that guys who wear their shirts ‘untucked’ no longer HAVE to do that (unless they truly like that style) – and women who wear black because it’s ’slimming’ can now wear any color they like – because their BODY will make that color look good on them. This is the way everyone should feel! When I finally took charge of my physique, everything in my life got better – my social life improved, my health improved, my family life improved, my spiritual life improved, and my financial life skyrocketed. I went from feeling like nobody noticed me to being picked out in a crowd of people (the right people). Here’s a horrible fact that I regularly speak about in my teleseminars and live events; in today’s society, without a nice body, people subconsciously make life a bit harder for you. You see it all the time. People who are in good shape almost always get treated differently by others. Now I’m not saying that’s fair it’s absolutely not – but it’s a fact of life, so why not take advantage of it? You see, you can’t change the fact that most everybody else in the world seems to treat good-looking people better, but you can change the one person who really matters, and that’s you. You can make yourself as strong and healthy-looking as possible, making life easier for you and setting a good example for your family so that they can also live a more successful and healthy life. Good looking people climb the corporate ladder faster, they portray more authority when they stand in front of their staff, they get more preferential treatment, and they have far more stamina to take on all the work that’s necessary in order to build a powerful company or business. There are eight people in my inner circle of friends, all of which own businesses which gross from $5 million to $700 million annually – the bigger the business, the more focus that owner puts on staying in top shape. These people aren’t stupid, they don’t want to grow a huge company then not be in good enough health to enjoy the rewards — and the secret that all of these folks have is that being in good shape didn’t start when they became successful – it started way before that – and probably had a lot to do with their success.

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How to Minimize the Cellulite in Your Body

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:50:38 +0000

by Eleanor Candy The majority of women are said to have cellulite. Many people usually ask what cellulite is. This is the condition where the skin appears dimpled and uneven and is usually found on the thighs and buttocks. The cause of cellulite may be from poor circulation, weak tissues in the skin, thick skin, the foods you eat and lack of exercises. Today these fat dimple-like deposits may be treated and reduced naturally. It is important to look at the type of foods you eat. Eating far too many fatty foods will not help you reduce the cellulite you may have on your body. Try changing your diet by making some small changes such as healthier food options. By eating fresh fruits and vegetables daily will help minimize cellulite on the body. Shopping regularly in healthy food stores instead of the regular super market will ensure that you incorporate a healthy variety of food in your diet. You will also get more healthy food options for your daily snacks. To help reduce cellulite, exercise is recommended, a half hour walk daily will be a great way to start your day and you will experience weight loss and still have lots of energy. One of the most popular treatments for cellulite is Cellulite wraps offered mostly in Beauty spas. The wraps involve a coating with seaweed, aloe vera and mud which is then massaged and wrapped in a plastic material. This is left for 30 minutes then finally the cellulite problem area is massaged. This cellulite wraps help with circulation which also prevents fatty deposits in your skin. You may have 2 or 3 treatments depending on the severity of your cellulite. Topical creams can also be effective in reducing cellulite.Their are many products on the market today such as Revitol Cellulite Treatment which help reduce the dimples of the skin associated with cellulite and also help with the circulation of the skin. By following these important steps you will be on your way to cellulite free skin. About the Author: Are you searching for treatments to remove your cellulite? Check out my blog Losing Weight Tips to read more. Also read some Healthy Diet Plans which will assist you remove the effects of cellulite on your skin.

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