Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

You can get active the simple way to increase the number of calories that you burn.  For example, don’t park up close to the building you are going to enter for errands or shopping.  Park at the far corner of the parking lot and briskly walk to and from the building.  This is a great [...]

The very word “exercise” makes many cringe. It reeks…work!. Add exercise to an already busy schedule and it seems like yet, another task to include.
Our body needs exercise in order to be healthy. So why do so many people procrastinate or start an exercise program and then lose interest quickly? Interest is the key. Exercise [...]

Pilates is one of the best ways to burn fat from all of the hard to reach places.  Not only is it effective, but you don’t have to do it for a long time every day.  A good 15-30 minute work out for starters will get you on the right track and will burn off [...]

So It’s Boxing Day, and although it’s still a holiday in my area of the country, I know it’s not the same for everyone. It might mark the end of family visits and of the cooking craze, or getting back to work, or simply enjoying a quiet day. But whatever it is, now is the [...]

I’ve finally got around to look for a link and a few more explanations about this plan so many dieters in the blogosphere seem to be crazy about (well, many of the dieters whose blogs I read, that is). I’m probably panting far, far behind the bandwagon with that, yet I also don’t think anything [...]

Beginning an exercise program out of the blue is never easy. Most of us are not born-athletes, and to be honest, most of us are even persuaded (or want to be?) that they’re not cut for exercising at all. Alas, it’s not like we really have many options in that regard: if we want to [...]

Once again, this entry was inspired by a question recently asked on my favourite weight loss forum–the question being “should I exercise from the start, or wait until I’ve lost some weight?”
My answer is: yes, exercise from the start. Which kind of exercise doesn’t matter, as long as it is a form of physical activity [...]

60 in 3 had that interesting post last week about how having an active life is really a key step in one’s journey to health and weight loss, and I couldn’t agree more with what the author had to say about the matter. Because, when we think of it, when we turn a keen eye [...]

At first when you see the title Run Fat Boy it takes away from the site at first as you stare at this not so PC title. But as you continue to scroll this site you catch their slogan “A workout plan that doesn’t seem like home work” and see the help things that you [...]

“Diet” is such a loaded word. That’s probably why registered dietitian Vanessa Miles boiled the dieting process down to 3 simple steps:
1. Breakfast
“Breakfast really is an essential start to your day.”
I love suggestions like this (”in order to lose weight, eat something!”). But it makes sense — so long as your breakfast of choice [...]