From the monthly archives:

June 2007

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Eat Stop Eat: the "no diet" way to lose weight for good -- and keep it off

Realistic weight loss: what’s achievable for you?

by angela.booth on June 29, 2007

If you’re overweight, you want to lose weight. That’s a given. But how much weight do you want to lose? If you set an unrealistic goal weight, you’re setting yourself up for failure.
Unfortunately, the media and the weight loss industry mess with our minds. Most of us have no idea what our goal weight might [...]

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Weight loss wonder – add fiber to your diet

by angela.booth on June 29, 2007

When you’re eating less, it’s vital that you add more fiber to your diet: this helps everything to move along smoothly. It also helps your metabolism to work better, which is essential for health.
Fiber is a very healthy addition to a good diet. By improving the solidity and bulk of solid waste it also helps [...]

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The “cabbage soup” diet is often touted as a quick fix, a way to lose a few pounds quickly. If you’re overweight and want to get into a dress for a special event, the diet can certainly help you shed a few pounds. However, the idea of a quick fix can also be dangerous.
The cabbage [...]

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Three Special Dieting Tips

by angela.booth on June 27, 2007

Looking for special dieting tips? The three tips in this article will make a huge difference to your weight loss. In fact, if you follow these tips, you’ll lose weight without doing anything else.
Water is your friend: it improves your metabolism
Regardless of which kind of weight loss plan appeals to you; they all are unanimous [...]

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Unhealthy Dieting: Beware fad diets

by angela.booth on June 25, 2007

Most of us are looking for a quick dieting fix. This invariably leads us into unhealthy dieting. Yes, we lose weight. But because we’re starving ourselves, our bodies demand that we eat to try to get all the nutrients that we’re missing. So we start to eat again, exactly the same way we did before.
Whenever [...]

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Weight Loss: managing your weight

by angela.booth on June 24, 2007

Proper weight management is about much more than simply focusing on a single number, your weight. There are other, very important, objective measurements to add to your intellectual toolkit – BMI, waist circumference, body fat percentage, muscle-to-fat ratio and others – in order to achieve a physical result.
That physical result, too, should be more than [...]

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Are you overweight or obese? With all the hype in the media, weight loss is an obsession.
Diets and dieting are an obsession
Nearly everyone today worries about being overweight. We’re constantly inundated with messages from TV and the Internet about widespread obesity and the risks of being obese. Whether it’s health issues or social acceptance, no [...]

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Weight Loss: Considering Nutritional Supplements?

by angela.booth on June 22, 2007

No matter how much care you take over your diet, it’s inevitable that you’ll miss out on some nutrients, so taking a nutritional supplement makes sense.
A supplement, by definition, is something that accompanies something essential. But, in some cases, nutritional supplements can themselves be an essential part of a healthy nutrition regimen.
Whether because of a [...]

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Lose the flab fast with the 48 hour panic diet

by angela.booth on June 22, 2007

If you’ve got a special even coming up, and you’re desperate to lose a few pounds fast, “The 48 hour panic diet” may be just what you need:
DAY ONE
7:30am On waking, have a glass of hot water with lemon and a chunk of ginger, which will raise your metabolism for the rest of the day.
8:00am [...]

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Weight Loss – Basic Nutrition

by angela.booth on June 21, 2007

The food you eat determines whether you’ll be ill or healthy. It also determines whether you’ll be fat or thin. It’s possible to create an optimal diet, tailor made for you, when you discover nutrition.
A healthy diet requires not just items from the four basic food groups, but in the proper proportion. The average [...]

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