Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

In order for the weight loss battle to be something we can win, it mustn’t be a complete chore – thus why I often see it advised that people “reward themselves” in a way or another. If it’s to become a permanent hassle, it would be impossible to maintain it for one’s whole life, right?
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Every forum, specialized website and blog about weight loss was sooner or later announcing that logging one’s daily food intake was a good way of monitoring whether we eat more than we think or not. Indeed, it has proven an efficient way of keeping food intake into check – who would feel proud of logging [...]

I’m a firm believer in “healthy eating and regular exercise do more good than miracle-diet pills”, so I’m always intent on finding good sources of exercise. Hence why I cheered upon seeing this article by Kristin Reisinger, nicely titled Train Like A Woman!. While it doesn’t teach me anything that I didn’t already know, I [...]

My feeds aggregator picked this today from iVillage: the Snack Swapper, a small generator that will give you healthier substitutions (or at least, not as caloric as the original ones) for these nasty, bothering cravings.
One might argue that much of it is just common sense; however, lots of us probably know that a craving doesn’t [...]

Quite often now, after months of researching all these diet-related matters, I’ve seen the topic of “setting goals” come back. An interesting and very fragile thing, it is: not setting any will sooner or later allow relapses, while being too strict with one’s goals may lead to failure just as well. Where is the middle-ground? [...]

How did the French know what our FDA was thinking 15 years ago?

If your teen is taunted by refrains of “Fatty, Fatty, fo-fatty” and the like, you might want to consider using the new weight-loss drug orlistat, manufactured by Hoffmann-La Roche. A year-long study at Schneider Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park showed that obese adolescents taking the drug (trade name, Xenical) succeeded in controlling their [...]

Between 20 to 50 percent of your daily caloric needs are determined by physical activity.

The theme is based on behavior, nutrition and physical activity

Kids can be taught to cut down on unhealthy food