Heading back in the right direction… A solid 3.4 pounds lost this week. I am expecting to be able to keep this up… I made a goal of another 15 pounds by Christmas (4 weeks) and to be at 100 pounds or more by my 1 year mark (40 more pounds from [...]

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When you’re first starting out with your exercise plan, it is all too easy to get discouraged. Working out is not always easy and if you don’t take the right approach, quitting can be all too simple. However there are some techniques that you can use to make sure that you actually start to [...]

Continue reading → 7 Ways to Keep From Getting Discouraged at the Gym

Montel Williams is a pretty popular talk show host with a rabid following, and given his journey with his own personal health, it is not surprising to see a book from him. This was actually a fascinating read that will provoke a lot of thought and we were not prepared to like it as much [...]

Continue reading → Living Well: 21 Days to Transform Your Life By Montel Williams

If you’ve ever tried reading a food label, chances are it’s tough to get through all of the different amounts, crazy names and percentages. However, there is an easy way to read those labels to get exactly the information that you need to know in a lot less time. By targeting those labels you’ll know [...]

Continue reading → What You Really Need to Know About Food Labels

Welcome to the November 20, 2008 edition of carnival of weight loss.
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Kara-Leah presents Squeeze yoga and meditation into a jam-packed day? posted at Prana Flow NZ, saying, “Family, work, & household commitments often make finding a 90-minute slot to practice yoga during the [...]

Continue reading → Carnival of Weight Loss - Thanksgiving Edition

Trying to map out a new health plan can be difficult, especially when you are used to overeating on a regular basis. Many of us don’t even realize just how much we eat and how this can affect our bodies. The key to weight loss is the simple formula of calories in - calories burned. [...]

Continue reading → 4 Ways to Stop Overeating

If you want to get the most out of a running regimen for weight loss, setting crazy weight loss goals and then running like crazy may not be the most advantageous way to get things done. Here are some tips for running for optimum weight loss.
- Running often has numerous other impacts besides just your [...]

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Today marks day 6 in my medically assisted weightloss journey. Sunday evening I had my first craving and I made it through…
We were having dinner at my wife’s parents house… It was a bit of an event… Needless to say I was expecting temptation…
Here is how I prepared… (Water, Water, Water)
Pre-exercise snack… [...]

Continue reading → Getting Past Your First Craving

I may have accidentally stumbled onto the perfect sugar substitute: Agave Nectar.
Agave Nectar (or Agave Syrup) is made from the heart of several agave species… It is made from the same starting point as tequila, the heart of the plant known as the piña. It is 3 times sweeter than sugar, but what really [...]

Continue reading → Agave Nectar Complex Carbohydrate Sugar Substitute

The process of starting a diet is probably one of the most difficult steps you can take when you’re getting started on the road to fitness. It’s not easy to commit to making changes in your life, especially if they are big changes, and it is all too easy to keep putting them off. Years [...]

Continue reading → Figuring Out When to Start a Diet

If you are ready to make that commitment towards getting healthy and losing weight, you’ll need to come up with a fitness plan that works for you. While it’s great to set really high goals, it’s all too easy to become discouraged and give up if you can’t reach them. In order to build [...]

Continue reading → 5 Ways on How To Start a Fitness Plan and Keep It

The Martha’s Vineyard Diet rocketed to success and the author, Dr. Roni Deluz is already well known for her other diet book, 21 Pounds in 21 Days. This book is an extension (more of a second edition) of the first book (the title is even very similar). While the book is well written and [...]

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It is common knowledge that making lifestyle changes can have a big impact on how much weight you lose and your chances of keeping it off over the long term. What isn’t as clear is how to effect those changes, especially if you are trying to lose weight on your own. Lifestyle changes are vital, [...]

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Many of you that watch The Biggest Loser are already familiar with the author of this book, Bob Harper. He’s one of the trainers on the show and has already provided millions of dieters with inspiration and advice on getting fit and losing weight. Let’s see how well his book stacks up against the competition [...]

Continue reading → Review of Are You Ready?

Summer is almost here and if you’re trying to get healthy and start exercising more, there are plenty of reasons to get discouraged and stop. If you’re not used to exercising in hot weather, it’s also very easy to get sick. Let’s look at some ways that you can keep exercising, even if the [...]

Continue reading → How to Exercise When It’s Hot

Most of look at dieting as a drudgery, as something that should be dreaded, and as such, many of us either fail at getting started, or can’t stick to it. What if you could change that mindset and look at dieting as being fun? How would that impact how you feel about losing weight? Chances [...]

Continue reading → Dieting Fun? Don’t Laugh It Can Be!

I can’t stay and write for long. My wife brought my dad out (from all the way across the country) as a surprise on Friday. We’re having Father’s Day brunch today. What are your plans for Father’s Day? Be sure to tell your Dads how much you love them. Wives too.
This week from the Fitness [...]

Continue reading → Father’s Day Edition of Weekly Roundup

Pinhole glasses, otherwise known as stenopeic eyeglasses, are a unique form of visionary aid that have a series of pinhole sized holes in a sheet of plastic for a lens. Pinhole eyeglasses work by allowing a narrow beam of light to enter the eye through these small perforations. This helps to reduce the size of [...]

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Welcome to another edition of WL’s Sunday Roundup. WL extends its gratitude to our nation’s Veterans. Thank you for all you’ve done for us! Below are links to many articles of interest. Search for some weekend reading under the FHN, reader, web, and carnival sections. Enjoy!
The Fitness Health Network presents:

Get [...]

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One of the best ways to ensure healthy weight loss is to find the right balance for your meals. Proteins, fats and carbs are all essential, but you need to have the right amount of each to make sure that your diet will work. It can be a little difficult at first, but once [...]

Continue reading → Finding the Balance Between Carbs, Fats and Proteins

Our elbows go through hell on a regular basis, and we may not even realize how much stress we put on this poor joint every day. Whether you are playing tennis, basketball, baseball, golf or pretty much any sport that requires arm movements, you are running the risk of injuring that elbow. Let’s look [...]

Continue reading → 5 Tips to Prevent Elbow Injuries

Dieting can be very stressful in many ways. It’s never easy to start depriving yourself of food, and you’ll undoubtedly experience not only physical stress but some emotional stress too. While it’s hard to completely avoid all stress in your life, there are ways that you can make your diet less stressful. By using [...]

Continue reading → 3 Tips on How to Avoid Diet Stress

After -9.7 week last week I was almost expecting this… My meal last night in celebration of seeing a friend from college did not help. While I didn’t cheat of the type of food, I did drink and eat too much. Never conducive to a successful next morning weigh in… I [...]

Continue reading → +2.4 This Week

Asparagus frittata and bacon with water for breakfast.
Cobb salad with Diet Coke for lunch.
2 eggs over medium with a Diet Pepsi for dinner.
I had several additional Diet sodas throughout the day.
I also drank 118.3 oz (7 16.9 oz bottles) of water today.  The last with a serving of fiber.

Continue reading → Food for July 12, 2007

Even though carbs get a bad rap, it’s commonly accepted that if you do have to eat them, whole grains are the way to go. There are many benefits to having a diet rich in whole grains, and this book from Drs. Lisa Hark and Darwin Deen offers a plan that is based almost entirely [...]

Continue reading → Book Review: The Whole Grain Diet Miracle By Dr. Lisa Hark and Dr. Darwin Deen

By far, the most common reason that diets fail is due to the fact that people simply feel too deprived and they lose sight of their goals. While we all want to lose weight and feel better, the siren call of our favorite foods can be so powerful that we abandon these dreams and cave [...]

Continue reading → How to Eat Healthy Without Feeling Deprived

So I made it. The red eye was brutal. I havn’t had a chance to exercise, but here are my meals on day 1.
Steak and eggs for breakfast.
Couple of slices of peperoni for lunch.
Alice Springs Chicken, broccoli, house salad, and a lobster tail for dinner at Outback Steakhouse.

Continue reading → I Am Here

Sometimes it is too easy to make excuses about eating the right foods. Whether it’s simply inconvenient, we feel that eating healthy deprives us, or the lure of unhealthy food is too strong, we end up putting off eating right until it may be too late. Here are five easy ways that you can start [...]

Continue reading → Five Ways to Start Eating Better Right Now

As our lives become more focused around online activities, it was only natural that diets would make the move towards becoming more online based. There are literally thousands of different sites that purport to help you lose weight, but do these plans really work? For many dieters, they do, and it’s due to the fact [...]

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There has been a lot of buzz lately about calorie cycling and whether or not it is an effective means of losing weight. For some, it has enabled them to lose massive amounts of weight. For others, it may just not work. Let’s take a look at the theories behind calorie cycling and go further [...]

Continue reading → Calorie Cycling – Is It a Sound Idea?

The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar machine that keeps churning out new diets, new hope and new hype every single year. If diets were so effective, there would be no need to keep coming up with new methods and new diet plans, but the sad truth is, the vast majority of diets fail. Why [...]

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Welcome to another edition of WL’s Sunday roundup. Election is over, we hope you went out and voted. Our congratulations to President-Elect Obama on a great campaign. We’ll see you in the oval office!
The Fitness Health Network presents:

Get Fit Slowly asks How Fat Smart Are You?
Fat [...]

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Welcome to the November 8, 2008 edition of carnival of weight loss and a new American President: Barack Obama.
fitnchic presents 4 Effective Ways to Avoid Weight Gain During The Holidays :: FitNChic.com - Get in Shape Fashionably :: posted at FitNChic.com - Get in Shape, Fashionably!.
Big Cajun Man presents Debt is like Fat posted at [...]

Continue reading → Carnival of Weight Loss — Barack Obama Edition #3

Keeping this one short a sweet. I need to keep exercising and eating right… I would not expect such a large loss next week. I am almost back to were I started to slip…

Continue reading → 9.7 Pounds This Week

With a title this long, the book is bound to be either very interesting or full of hype. We found it was somewhere in between. While there is some good information in there, it didn’t quite make it to the level it could have. Despite all of the proven evidence to back up the author’s [...]

Continue reading → Review: From Belly Fat to Belly Flat: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waist and Subtracting Years from Your Life — the Medically Proven Way to Reset Your Metabolism and Reshape Your Body by C.W. Randolph M.D. and Genie James

If you are finding it difficult to stay focused on your exercise plan, there may be a few problems. First, you may not be doing the exercise that is best suited to your natural inclinations and second, you may be exercising for the wrong reasons. When it comes to getting healthy and sticking to an [...]

Continue reading → Why Do You Exercise?

For many dieters, the biggest problem they face isn’t necessarily their own lifestyle change, but rather the fact that the people around them refuse to go along with the idea. It can be nearly impossible to focus on eating the right way when you eat out or are sitting across from other people that are [...]

Continue reading → How to Eat Right When No One Else Will

I highly recommend Jumpstart. In fact, I have a special offer for anyone in wanting to try Jumpstart in Redwood City or Mountain View: $25 off your first visit (just print it and bring it to your appointment).
With four locations in California, Jump Start Medicine provides its patients with a weight loss program that, on [...]

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Can exercise really be fun? The answer is yes – if you go about it the right way. There are many different motivational books about exercise and the main component is usually that group exercise is the most effective. If you have been thinking about getting fit, why not help other people join you on [...]

Continue reading → An Exercise Plan Everyone Can Enjoy

Did you have a spooky Halloween? I know I did. I hope you’ve sorted your candy and tossed the cavity inducing ones away. More importantly I hoped you checked the candy for the biggest health reason: safety. With stories in years past about candy scares it’s important to check the wrappers on all candy given [...]

Continue reading → Roundup: Candy and Cavities

Welcome to the November 1, 2008 edition of carnival of weight loss. The Day after Halloween edition.

diet

NickIrons presents Top 5 weight loss myths posted at Get Results! Fitness Blog, saying, “These days you can’t go anywhere without hearing about a new weight loss breakthrough. A pill, a cream, or a new fad diet - [...]

Continue reading → Carnival of Weight Loss #2 — Halloween Edition

I have been slipping… I hadn’t been going to Jumpstart Medicine since my last weigh in. I rationalized this for a lot of reasons, but the bottom line is that I let down my guard and allowed myself to slip into some old habits. Worse I maintained this blog as if it [...]

Continue reading → Confessional and Recommitment

As summer winds to a close, it’s time to start thinking about what you plan to do to keep fit over the winter. If your current exercise plan requires you to be outdoors, or if you live in an area where extreme temperatures or weather events make it hard to travel to a gym, it’s [...]

Continue reading → Making Winter Fitness Plans

When you first start on a weight management plan, it’s easy to look at calories as your enemy. In fact, many people fall into the trap of actually consuming too few calories, which can make it harder to lose weight, especially over time. Your body needs to have fuel in order to run properly and [...]

Continue reading → Do You Eat Enough to Fuel Your Body?

When it comes to finding the right workout plan, it may be a good idea to consider giving swimming a try. As the nation watched Mark Phelps make history in 8 swimming events, more people started getting interested in just how good swimming can be for your body. As you can see from the shape [...]

Continue reading → Is Swimming The Ultimate Exercise?

It is a common practice, and many of us are guilty of it. We forgo eating all day long, because we know we’ll be eating out that night, or that there is a special event coming later in the day and we want to be able to eat whatever we want. However, is this type [...]

Continue reading → Is Saving Up For Dinner Ruining Your Diet?

Happy Sunday to all my readers! Today’s all about the roundup. As usual we have the Fitness Health Network of which I am a part of so go ahead and browse through the posts. You’ll find they have a lot of great things to say. A little further down are some posts from reader blogs. [...]

Continue reading → Wickedly Spooky Halloween Roundup

The holidays are coming…. The goose is getting fat… Please takes some pounds of my fat. This holiday season we are going to lose weight not gain.
I am excited and proud to announce the first ever Carnival of Weight Loss… Next week’s Halloween edition will be hosted here, but if you are interested in hosting [...]

Continue reading → Carnival of Weight Loss #1 - Let’s Make a Commitment Edition

Anytime it takes five people to write one book, you’ve got to wonder whether the subject matter is really difficult, or if there was a shortage of available projects on the market. The New Glucose Revolution tackles a pretty complex subject, but we failed to see how five people were really necessary to write one [...]

Continue reading → The New Glucose Revolution By Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller, Thomas M.S. Wolever, Kaye Foster-Powell, Stephen Colagiuri, Thomas Wolever

If you are focusing on losing weight and making lifestyle changes, the first two weeks are undoubtedly the hardest. Your body and your mind need time to adjust to your diet, and this initial period requires a lot of motivation and a desire to stick to your new plan. Anytime you make lifestyle changes, it [...]

Continue reading → Tips For Picking the Right Foods