Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

Improvement of physical health
The obvious benefit from learning karate is the improvement of physical health. The student learns to exercise regularly several times a week, which is one of the most useful lifetime habits. This results in balancing blood pressure and circulation, lowering the cholesterol level, and reducing the number of visits to the doctor [...]

I checked out the “testimonials” section for the Aromatherapy Diet website mentioned in the last post, and it’s really pathetic:
“I am delighted with the aromatherapy diet. After I use the inhaler and then go to eat I don’t feel like gorging, I can just eat a little without going over board. The scents are [...]

At first glance, it seems to be just another fad. Not another silly, nonsense claim just to cash in on an overweight person’s insecurity and gullibility?
But then I thought - hey, I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to eat a bite if I’d just smelled something gross (come on, it makes sense!) - so [...]

It had been a few days already that I had read this article on the Washingtonpost.com, when it got published, but I just couldn’t get it out of my head. While I’d indeed prefer blog about how to put more healthy foods into our diets, how to exercise properly and how things are perfect when [...]

I never have any idea when these articles get written; all I know is that my RSS reader picks one every day, since I’ve subscribed, and today, iVillage’s daily feed item is about ballroom dancing.
Which immediately made me think of what a friend told me, two weeks ago, or rather shown me, while we were [...]

Portion Distortion: How Much Is Too Much?, by Susan Burke: here’s the article I picked today, since it’s a problem lots of us have to face when trying to lose weight. Even people who’ve gone through WLS may find themselves “seeing bigger than what they can chew”, so this says it all about us who [...]

The only way to lose weight is exercise and taking in less food. However, you can use aromatherapy to “assist” you in your weight loss, Thyme, Lime, Lemongrass, Basil, Sage, Lavender, Pettigraine, Grapefruit, and Rosemary.
Aromatherapist Valerie Ann Worwood suggests the following recipe as a massage oil (or bath oil) to help attack fats:
Blend [...]

For those who like me want to eat low GI meals but don’t necessary know what to start with (well, alright, after a while, I now know what I can eat, but in the very beginning, it was indeed confusing!), eDiets.com publishes a list of Top 10 GI breakfasts:

Steel cut oats and raisins with nonfat [...]

I found this article while browsing the news today. This is from TheDenverChannel.com, and identifies a list of “triggers” than can make us eat more. It’s all logics and common sense, in a way—when you’re here, reading it on a screen from your computer desk. When deeply in the problematic situations themselves, don’t we tend [...]

No excuses anymore: thanks to their The Best (Wost) Foods article, Forbes.com hands out a nice guide about what to eat when dinging out—or rather, what not to eat, given how these delicious-looking foods seem to however be packed with fat and calories (yes, I know, I know—they’re “the” foods that look the most appealing [...]