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Achieve Your Health Goals This Year

I know I’ve been a little quiet around here lately. I’ve been working on hard on redefining my life and my goals for the new year. Along those lines, I’ve penned a couple of articles for Lazy Man and Money that are about general productivity - not about personal finance. I think [...]

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4 Ways to Avoid Hitting the Exercise Wall

Have you ever hit the wall when you’re exercising? We’re not talking about an actual wall here, we’re talking about that point of no return when your body says “Enough” and refuses to do anything else. Most of us have hit it once or twice, but during the summer months, it is all too easy [...]

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Easy Diet Changes

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 [...]

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Your Guide to Summer Parties and Staying in Shape

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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Methionine, Inositol, and Choline (MIC) Injection

As part of the medically assisted weightloss program I receive a weekly injection of Methionine, Inositol, and Choline (MIC). Here is what the packet my doctor gave me has to say about them…
These lipotropic agents belong to a class of substances that play important roles in the body’s use of fat. Of these [...]

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How to Make Lifestyle Changes

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 [...]

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Trim Your Waist By Avoiding These Pitfalls

Nearly everyone wants to lose inches off their waist and there are many schools of thought on how to accomplish this. Many people believe that the best way to trim your waist is to do hundreds if not thousands of sit-ups or crunches, but in reality, this method will not do much good. In [...]

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Tips For Picking the Right Foods

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 [...]

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5 Ways to Dramatically Decrease Your Calorie Intake the Easy Way

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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How to Pick the Right Diet Plan For You

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 [...]

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Is Your Brain Keeping You From Losing Weight?

We all know that the mind is our most powerful muscle, but what do you do if your mind is working against your diet plan? Few of us realize just how much we beat ourselves up mentally, setting ourselves up for failure before we even try. If you’re ready to get healthy and lose weight, [...]

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Back At Full Strength

After being sick (and swamped with work), I’m back and ready to resume my weight loss.
This week, I want to be consistent.

I want to focus on getting enough sleep, getting enough exercise, and eating (just) enough calories.
I also plan to get back to my blogging, daily.  I’ve really missed writing.
This week’s goals -
Go to gym [...]

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3 Ways to Blast Past Your Plateau

Every year, millions of dieters experience the same problem. You’re going along great, losing weight steadily and then boom - nothing. No matter what you try or how you limit your diet, you can’t lose any more weight. There are a few easy answers to this and a few easy solutions that you can use [...]

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Roundup: First Sunday of August

For weekend reading from the Fitness Health Network this week checkout these posts:

How do you know if you’re properly hydrated? Journal of Healthy Living posts for Proper Hydration: Clear Urine Is Best.
Fat Man Unleashed asks Why Are We Fatter Than the Animals at the Zoo?
A Little Help - Best Way To Cook Chicken by NCN [...]

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Post 4th of July Roundup

How was everybody’s 4th of July? Did you enjoy your fireworks, BBQs, and family time? Better still did you all keep on your diets and stay focused on your health goals during the celebration?
From the Fitness Health Network this week were quite a few good articles in my opinion. Check them out:

Did [...]

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One Hundred Pushups - Harsh Reality

As always, I like to be brutally honest.  After watching this video from over at Get Fit Slowly, I’m convinced that I’ve been doing my pushups ‘wrong’.  So, I retested myself, and I’m not ready to move to ‘level 3′.  In fact, I’ve decided that I need to be doing ‘level 1′ training.  Why?  Because, [...]

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100 Push Ups Week 1 Day 1 - 42 Push Ups!!!

A few days ago, I decided to join several of my fellow bloggers and attempt to do 100 Push Ups.  During my initial test, I was able to do 13 good, ‘regulation’ push ups.  Today, I officially started the program.
Here’s a chart detailing my Week 1 routine (chart comes directly from the HundredPushUps site.)

The first [...]

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100 Push Ups Challenge

I’ve decided to jump on the one hundred push ups bandwagon. Following JD over at Get Fit Slowly, Nickel over at Fit36, and Jim over at Journal of Healthy Living, I’ve decided to try to do one hundred push ups - in just six weeks!
I just finished my initial test and I managed to [...]

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4 Tips on How to Get Active Right Now

If you’re trying to turn your life around and start getting more exercise, that first step you take will be the hardest. It’s always hard to make a change and stop taking the easy way out, but you’re going to have to stay committed if you want to achieve your goals. Whether you’re trying [...]

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Weight Lost: 46 Pounds in 6 Weeks aka Over 7lbs this Week!

After 6 weeks on the medically assisted weightless program JumpStart medicine with Dr. Sean Bourke, I have lost 46 pounds in 45 days (just over a pound a day… Wow!) This week I lost 7.1 pounds and I am ecstatic to have achieved 109.2% of my goal.  I have been feeling great, but the larger dose of Phentermine caused me [...]

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Weigh In #4 — One Month and 34 Pounds Lost

After 1 month on the Jumpstart Medicine medically assisted weightless program I have lost 34 pounds… This week I lost 3.5 pounds with was 70% of my weekly goal of 5 pounds per week. I attribute missing the goal to a later than normal and larger than normal (for a 1200 calorie diet) dinner last [...]

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