Are you tired of hard, complicated diets that simply do not produce the results that you are looking for? You are absolutely not alone, because there are people all over the world that are yearning for simple solutions to weight loss that will drive results. Research has shown that 98 percent of all people who [...]
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5 Simple Solutions to Weight Loss
January 9th, 2009 — Meals, blood sugar, brain, burning calories, carbohydrates, circumstances, diet, diets, fats, food choices, healthy snack, healthy weight loss, hunger, metabolism, moderation, nutrition, poor food, portion control, proteins, simple solutions, single day, skipping meals, storage mode, vitamins, weight loss, weight loss solutions, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Tennis for Weight Loss
January 8th, 2009 — Weight Loss Journal, abdominals, activities, aerobics, alternative ideas, benefits of tennis, diet, different sports, enjoyable game, exercise, exercise plan, good shape, how many calories, legs, likeminded individuals, mile after mile, muscles, physical activity, strong arms, tennis game, tennis stars, virtue, ways to lose weight, weight loss from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When most people think of weight loss, they immediately start to think about running mile after mile, sweating to outdated aerobics videos, or otherwise engaging in activities that they simply do not enjoy. This is not necessarily the case anymore, however, as people are beginning to see the virtue in a wide variety of different [...]
Easy Diet Changes
January 6th, 2009 — being overweight, black coffee, calories, diet, diet changes, diet soda, drastic change, failure, goals, healthy eating, lifestyle change, mindset, odds, radical changes, splenda, sugary drinks, target weight from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When we need to lose weight, it’s really common to get swept up into the mindset that we need to make radical changes. While this may be true, it may not be healthy to make such a drastic change in the way you eat. In fact, you may be increasing your odds of failure by [...]
Your Guide to Summer Parties and Staying in Shape
January 6th, 2009 — Meals, Weight Loss Journal, alcoholic beverages, barbeques, calories, diet, downer, drinker, endurance, fast food, goals, having fun, healthy eating, inhibitions, late night, little fizz, margarita, party time, sparkling water, staying in shape, summer fun, summer parties, teaspoons, truth of the matter, white wine spritzer from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Summertime is party time for many people and there will be plenty of barbeques and nights out that may test your dieting endurance. However, this doesn’t mean that you have to become a hermit just to keep your body in beach ready condition. Here are some tips on how to enjoy your summer fun and [...]
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Is a Vegan Detox Right For You?
January 5th, 2009 — alternative ideas, animal fats, appearance, chemicals, detox, detoxing, diet, diet plan, fats and proteins, food stores, good health, health condition, health food, name of the game, oprah, processed foods, proteins, reading labels, s market, self control, stock, vegan diet, vegan foods, weight loss goals from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
After Oprah tried her vegan detox, suddenly, this became a very popular way to lose weight and start feeling better. However, it is definitely not for everyone. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons why this detox can be very beneficial and why it may not be the best avenue you need to [...]
Are You Skinny Fat?
January 1st, 2009 — Weight Loss Journal, advertisements, body fat, diet, diet pills, eating a healthy diet, exercise, fast food, fitness and health, good shape, health and fitness, healthy heart, ideal weight, losing weight, midsection, motivation, poor health, thighs, thin person, truth, weight loss, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
(ie: if thin people don’t exercise they aren’t healthy)
Do you know what it means to be skinny fat? Just because you are not obviously visually overweight, that does not mean that you are healthy by any means. There are many people that appear to be thin and healthy, but the truth is, unless they are [...]
The 5 Most Common Diet Myths
December 31st, 2008 — 100 years, advice books, balanced diet, carbohydrates, carbs, consciousness, dangerous conditions, diet, diet myths, diets, effective weight loss, factoid, healthy eating, high starch foods, ketosis, medical conditions, oats, organ damage, problem areas, starvation, weight loss tool, wellness, white rice, whole grains from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When it comes to dieting over the past 100 years, there have been so many new techniques and advice books that they could literally fill a library all on their own. With these new techniques have come a lot of myths that have been ingrained in our consciousness. We may not even know where we [...]
Review: If I’m So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight? - Tools to Get it Done
December 31st, 2008 — Book Review, Weight Loss Journal, demanding careers, diet, emotion, emotional connection, emotional intelligence, emotions, exercise regimens, healthy weight loss, level education, losing weight, men and women, necessary steps, necessary tools, outlooks, overeating, risk, self awareness, stress, taking steps, vital processes, weight loss from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
According to Brooke Castillo, author of this book, intelligent and accomplished men and women often have intense difficulty losing weight and getting healthy. One of the main reasons that it is believed that this happens is because these people have not spent enough time developing their level of emotional intelligence. Overeating has a lot to [...]
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Review: Never Say Diet: Make Five Decisions and Break the Fat Habit for Good
December 26th, 2008 — Book Review, chantel hobbs, commitments, diet, fad diets, full time, habit, lifestyle makeover, losing weight, naysayers, negative thoughts, obstacles, personal decisions, pharmaceuticals, surgery systems, weight loss, workouts from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When it comes to weight loss, there are a number of different routes that individuals take. Diets, surgery, systems, pharmaceuticals; all of these life changing methods to lose weight are not needed to lose weight. The author of “Never Say Diet: Make Five Decisions and Break the Fat Habit for Good,” Chantel Hobbs, was able [...]
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4 Ways to Measure Your Success
December 25th, 2008 — Weight Loss Journal, better your chances, bloodstream, diet, endorphins, first few days, fishing, flight of stairs, healthy foods, junk foods, little victories, many things, metabolism, motivation, nutrition, palate, several steps, sugary foods, taste buds, tastes, veggies, weight loss success, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When we think of weight loss success, we tend to think in inches and pounds, but there are actually many ways that you can measure success. When you make that commitment to get healthy, many things in your life and in your body will be changing. Don’t get hung up on inches or pounds, as [...]
Snacking Without Ruining Your Diet
December 24th, 2008 — amazon, burst, calories, candy bar, chips, daily intake, diet, diets, healthy eating, how many calories, main meals, rcm, snack, snacking, snacks, target, urge from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
One of the major reasons that people have difficulty keeping on their diets is the urge to snack. For many of us, it’s hard to get through the day without having at least one snack. However, that one snack can easily turn into ten and before you know it you’re grazing all day long, adding [...]
Can Superfoods Help You Lose Weight?
December 24th, 2008 — Food, Meals, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, anti oxidants, black tea, broccoli, brown rice, delicious snack, diet, different foods, folate, green tea, hard boiled egg, healthy eating, lemon juice, metabolism booster, nutrition, omega 3, raw spinach, scallions, snack 2, stir fry, vinegar dressing, vitamin b, vitamin k, walnuts, weight loss from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
One of the biggest questions that is arising often ever since Superfoods became a popular concept is whether or not these superfoods can actually help you lose weight. The truth? Yes, they really can. There are a lot of different foods that can significantly boost your weight loss program by being really healthy for you. [...]
How to Make Lifestyle Changes
December 23rd, 2008 — Choices, bad day, calories, detox, detox programs, diet, exercise, fad diets, fast food, food diary, food pizza, goal weight, goals, habit, health, healthy eating, healthy food, lifestyle changes, losing weight, massage, recipes, shopping, waist lines, weight gain from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When it comes to losing weight, chances are if you’re trying fad diets and special detox programs, you’re pretty fed up that the results never seem to last. Why is this? Well, most of us can only keep up with an extreme diet for so long. Once we’ve reached our goal weight, we can’t wait [...]
How to Eat Out Without Feeling Guilty
December 22nd, 2008 — alcohol, alcoholic drinks, alternative ideas, best choice, caloric intake, camaraderie, desert, deserts, diet, empty calories, entrees, fast food, glasses, grilled chicken, guilt, healthy choices, healthy eating, lean steak, moderation, nutrition information, plain water, restaurant food, sea bass, soda, trying to find a way from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
If you are having trouble finding ways to eat out with your friends or family while you are on a diet, you don’t have to resort to becoming a hermit. Eating out is not something that you want to do every day, but occasionally, it can serve as an important way of treating yourself for [...]
How to Retrain Your Cravings
December 20th, 2008 — best bet, brain, caffeine, calories, cold turkey, cup of coffee, cup of tea, diet, diets, healthy eating, mistake, punch, signals, soda, sodas, sugar, sugar cravings, teaspoons, trigger food, trigger foods from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Whenever you start a new diet, cravings are pretty much inevitable. It can get to the point where you feel as though you’ll literally stop existing unless you cave in. Countless diets are broken due to cravings, but there are a few techniques that you can use to retrain your cravings and keep your [...]
Fads Every Dieter Should Ignore
October 15th, 2008 — bad idea, dehydration, desperate measures, diet, extreme temperatures, fad diet, fad diets, fads, heart attack, hook line and sinker, internal organs, line and sinker, outrageous claims, parasite, recoil, religious practice, smart idea, starvation diets, stomachs, tapeworm diet, water levels from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Even the most sensible dieter can be lured into a fad diet by outrageous claims and seemingly easy results. However, there are a few fads out there that can be incredibly dangerous, especially if you are not in good physical condition. While some fad diets are harmless and are designed to make only your wallet [...]
How to Find the Diet That Works For You
October 14th, 2008 — about, calories, carbohydrate, chocolate, diet, diets, genetic makeup, losing weight, metabolism, myriad, promises, protein, rigors, traditional diet, trigger food, vegetables, weight loss, whole grain foods, willpower from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Once you’re ready to take that step and go on a diet, there will literally be thousands of options available to you. There are a myriad of different diets out there and most claim that they have the secret to fast weight loss. It can be very frustrating to keep trying these different diets, only [...]
Banish Cheat Days for Diet Success
October 13th, 2008 — 2c, Meals, banana cream pie, calories, chocolate cake, diet, diet tomorrow, diets, failure, healthy eating, lunch, mistake, monster, motivation, nutrition, piece of cake, pizza, rest of the day, retraining, scarf, snacking from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Have you ever fallen off the diet wagon and then said, well, I may as well enjoy myself today, since I’ve already messed up. I’ll get back on my diet tomorrow. If this sounds familiar, you’re dealing with one of the biggest reasons that diets fail. Cheat days are fine, within reason, but if you’re [...]
5 Ways to Dramatically Decrease Your Calorie Intake the Easy Way
October 9th, 2008 — Food, Meals, Weight Loss Journal, alternative ideas, calorie count, celery, diet, dressings, drink, feeling the pinch, fewer calories, goals, hard time, headway, healthy eating, how many calories, lettuce, losing weight, nutrition, portion control, potato chips, replacements, salads, salty snacks, size bags, sodium, spray oil, sugar, switches, temptation, vinaigrette from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
For many of us, trying to consume fewer calories can be very difficult. If you are someone that has a hard time feeling satisfied on little meals, or you just can’t seem to make any headway with your calorie count, there are a few ways that you can dramatically reduce how many calories you are [...]
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When Diet Food Is Actually Bad For You
October 7th, 2008 — Food, Weight Loss Journal, adult, allotment, calories, chemicals, convenience, diet, diet food, excess water retention, food choices, food labels, healthy eating, high blood pressure, labels, migraines, preservatives, sodium content, suggestion, vegetables, vital functions, warning signs, weight gain from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When you first get on a diet, especially one that is calorie restricted, you’ll find that you are pretty limited when it comes to food choices. For many, it’s simply easier to take advantage of prepackaged meals. While these are expensive, there is a lot to be said for convenience, and for having everything spelled [...]
Review: Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
October 3rd, 2008 — Book Review, assertion, assertions, burning calories, calories, carbohydrates, controversy, diet, dieters, exercise, insulin levels, premise, science, truth, weight loss, workout plan from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Good Calories, Bad Calories took the author five years to write, and it contains some groundbreaking information that will undoubtedly be the cause of much controversy. Whether or not you agree with Taubes assertions, the book is certainly well worth the read and it is obvious that he did put a lot of research into [...]
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How to Pick the Right Diet Plan For You
October 2nd, 2008 — Weight Loss Journal, calorie snack, chocolate cake, culprit, diet, diet food, diet plan, dietitian, exercise, finding the balance, fondness, food choices, food plans, fried chicken, goals, healthy eating, lemon chicken, losing weight, low carb diet, moderation, motivation, protein bars, real food, snack choices, sweet tooth, weight loss, willpower, workout routines from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
If you’re trying to lose weight but finding it nearly impossible, it may not be that you are to blame. Is your diet really the culprit? In many cases, failing on a diet doesn’t mean that you have no willpower or that you are incapable of losing weight. It just means that you may not [...]
How to Diet Without Feeling Like It’s a Diet
September 29th, 2008 — alternative ideas, calorie snack, calories, coffee shop, creamer, dessert, diet, healthy habits, high calorie foods, how many calories, latte, single day, soda, start writing from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
For many of us, dieting is a form of deprivation that is extremely difficult to handle. It’s tough to get through the day when you are literally starving yourself. Before you even start a diet, you’re going to need to make sure that you are getting enough calories to get through the day while still [...]
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Sunday Roundup - Corn Syrup and Happy Cows
September 28th, 2008 — Asparagus, Roundup, Weight Loss Journal, blogs, breast milk, corn syrup, cows, diabetes, diet, exercise, fast food, fitness health, grains, health network, healthy eating, hoot, nutrition, nuts, peta, reading material, weekend reading, weight loss foods, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Sunday Roundup - Corn Syrup and Happy Cows. In addition to the weekend reading material listed below don’t miss the PETA and breast milk blog post from Get Fit Slowly. That post plus one from Fast Food Confessional comprise the title of this post. Hopefully you’ll get a [...]
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Is Grazing a Good Idea?
September 25th, 2008 — Meals, better luck, blood sugar, brain work, calories, candy bar, chips, cravings, crunchy vegetables, diet, diets, fats and proteins, food choices, grazing, healthy eating, how many calories, losing weight, moderation, peanut butter cups, protein, proteins, second nature, snacking, string cheese from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
For many of us, it’s just too hard to get through the day without nibbling on something. If you have issues with your blood sugar being too low, or you are simply hungry during the day, snacking can be second nature. While snacking generally gets frowned upon, grazing is typically recommended for many diets. The [...]
What is a Macrobiotic Diet?
September 24th, 2008 — Fish, band wagon, calories, caregiver, diet, food groups, fresh foods, hardest thing, healthy eating, hype, macrobiotic diet, macrobiotic diets, natural immunity, nutrition, preservatives, protein, shock, smart decisions, sun, temperate climates, vegetables, vegetarian, vegetarian diet, whole grain flour from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
As more stars jump on the macrobiotic band wagon, many of us wonder what this diet is and why it is so beneficial. A macrobiotic diet is not an easy diet, and it is not for everyone. However, it does contain some interesting principles that can be applied for any type of diet. Let’s take [...]
How Much Should You Really Weigh
September 16th, 2008 — bmi, body fat percentage, bones, clue, curves, diet, ectomorph, endomorph, facial features, fingers, frame size, gaining weight, guess, ideal weight, mesomorph, moderate frame, muscle mass, muscles, optimum weight, sole guide, waistline, weight loss, wellness, whole life from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
While many of us would like to believe that we were meant to be naturally heavy, the fact is that each one of us does have an ideal weight. Finding it is never easy, and you can spend your whole life trying to beat the scale. Before you beat yourself up for one more day, [...]
How to Stay Healthy When You Are Dieting
September 11th, 2008 — 15 minutes, Sleep, diet, drinking too much water, endurance, exercise, exercise plan, fad diets, health, healthy choice, healthy eating, metabolism, multi vitamin, nutrition, nutritionist, promises, supplements, vitamins and minerals, water from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
So many of us get caught up in the push to lose weight that we let our health slide. There are a few ways that you can make sure that you are staying healthy when you’re loosing weight, and they’re not hard to do at all. You will need to see a doctor or a [...]
What is a Fatty Liver?
September 9th, 2008 — adult onset diabetes, alcohol, body health, calories, cardio, cardiovascular, diabetes, diagnosis, diet, diseases, exercise, fats, fatty liver, fatty liver disease, health problems, lifestyle, lifetime, livers, losing weight, sugar foods, unhealthy eating from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Many of us go to a doctor for our annual exam only to be told that we have a fatty liver. For the vast majority this is a pretty confusing diagnosis and it’s hard to know what we can do to fix it. First, let’s find out what a fatty liver is and then find [...]
3.3 Pounds Lost Last Week — Good week Bad Month
September 6th, 2008 — Weight Loss Journal, diet, graph, ins, month of august, must be doing something right, staying fit, weigh in, weight loss from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
I am quite pleased with my 3.3 pounds lost for the last week. However, over vacation and the following week I managed to put on 0.6 pounds to go with the 2.4 pounds from the previous week and all and all I had a month of August with 0.3 pounds lost. I am [...]
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How I Saved $500 While Losing 52 Pounds in 136 Days
September 1st, 2008 — diet, exercise, save money, weight loss, weight loss goal from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Health
A Baby Boomer Says Enough
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I am 57 years old. I am 6 feet tall. In high school and college, my weight fluctuated between 165 and 170 pounds. I am careful with my money.
But……
On January 16, 2008 [...]
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