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 [...]

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• How to Diet Without Feeling Like It's a Diet 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......
• Book Review: Eating on the Run by Evelyn Tribole Is your job making you fat? Our current society puts so many demands on our time that eating healthy is one of the first things to fly out the window. It’s just easier and more efficient to grab something quickly, but before you know it, you’ve packed on the pounds......
• Can Superfoods Help You Lose Weight? 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......
• 3 Ways to Easily Add More Fruits and Vegetables to Your Diet All of us know that we need to start eating healthier and get more fruits and vegetables into our diets. The hard part is actually doing it. For many people, it's just hard to get past the taste. However, there are ways that you can easily add more servings......
• A Healthy Halloween (Tips for Sticking to a Diet) Halloween is not one of the holidays that people regard as a diet breaking holiday, but that is because most people do not anticipate eating as much candy as they end up doing by the time the season is over. There are ways to have a completely healthy Halloween holiday,......

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I started the day with a large breakfast after going to the dentist. Starting the program yesterday was a bit of chance… There was a lunchtime opening so I went. I know it sounds like I am doing this on a whim, but I am not… I have been planning (counting [...]

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• 4 Tips to Prevent Ankle Injuries During Exercise Our ankles are actually pretty fragile little joints and you may not realize just how fragile until you sprain one. Nobody likes walking around on crutches, but there are a few ways that you can make sure that your ankles stay strong and that you avoid this common injury. Let's......
• Don’t Wait to Get Fit Have you ever gone to the doctor’s office, dreading the results? If you have a lifetime of bad eating habits and a lack of exercise, you are at risk for many different diseases, including diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. Yet, many of us wait for that dreadful news......
• 4 Pounds One Week; aka 66 pounds in 15 weeks Ok! I am back on track... I lost 4.1 pounds this week without being able to exercise very much (torn peroneus longus tendon)... I stuck to my diet religiously. I get to start rehab next week (3 days a week) starting Monday. I am very much looking forward to working......
• How to Lose Weight And Keep Eating Normally For most of us, eating normally means eating whatever we want. The key to eating the way we want to eat and not gaining weight is portion control and extra exercise. It is possible to lose weight while not depriving yourself of the food you love, but you will need......
• Role of Exercise in a Diet Sometimes people wonder about the role of exercise in a diet. They ask if it is really necessary, and they wonder if using an extreme diet alone can lead to weight loss without the need for exercising. There may be a few who question to role of exercise in a......

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With summer coming, many of us are focusing on how we’re going to look at the beach or the pool. There is a lot of money to be made off of spring diet books and every year, we are besieged with the latest plans that will help us get that bikini body we’ve always wanted.  [...]

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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......
• A Healthy Halloween (Tips for Sticking to a Diet) Halloween is not one of the holidays that people regard as a diet breaking holiday, but that is because most people do not anticipate eating as much candy as they end up doing by the time the season is over. There are ways to have a completely healthy Halloween holiday,......
• Do You Need to Lose Weight on the Inside? So many of us focus on losing weight externally that we forget that there is an entire mentality that goes with being overweight. This is perhaps one of the biggest reasons that permanent weight loss is so elusive for many people, and it may be keeping you from success. Before......
• How to Go About Losing Weight the Healthy Way The healthiest way for you to lose weight has nothing to do with crash dieting and it has nothing to do with bursts of sudden exercise. Your body likes changes that are slow when it comes to how you eat and how you exercise. For example, if you have not......
• Figuring Out When to Start a Diet The process of starting a diet is probably one of the most difficult steps you can take when you’re getting started on the road to fitness. It’s not easy to commit to making changes in your life, especially if they are big changes, and it is all too easy to......

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This week from Fitness Health Network:
Below are a couple of great posts from my fitness blogger friends – check them out!

To Stretch, Or Not To Stretch-Who Knows? Get Fit Slowly examines the research.
Journal of Healthy Living writes about Myths About Coffee: America’s #1 Drink.
NCN tries out workout programs this week. Here’s one NCN Goes To [...]

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• Sunday Roundup - New US President Welcome to another edition of WL's Sunday roundup. Election is over, we hope you went out and voted. Our congratulations to President-Elect Obama on a great campaign. We'll see you in the oval office! The Fitness Health Network presents: Get Fit Slowly asks How Fat Smart Are You? Fat Man......
• My Biggest Health or Fitness Vice -- Portion Control I was tagged by Deflabbify (great human name for a blog btw) who claims beer as his biggest vice. My vice is portion control...  I eat/drink too much unless I am paying very close attention... One of the best things about the diet I am on is that it is......
• Add Weight Loss and Fitness Bloggers to your Website Apparently this has ability has been built into wordpress for quite some time but a friend of mine recently pointed up that it can be done (pfblogs popular posts added to sidebar.)  Here is the wordpress codex for this feature: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_rss. To add the latest weight loss health and fitness......
• Roundup August 10th This week from Fitness Health Network: Prevent Lung Disease With These Four Super Foods by Lazy Man and Health says not only are these four foods great for lung diseases but some of the items are extremely helpful when dealing with other diseases as well. 8 Reasons Why Size Matters:......
• Sunday Roundup - Edition: Ike Good morning readers, thanks for joining me. I’ve pulled together some posts for your weekend reading pleasure. Tell me what you think. The Fitness Health Network Presents: Get Fit Slowly posts early morning exercise with a list of pros and cons. Do you do early morning exercise? Don’t snack on......

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This being the first weigh-in in two weeks I was a little nervous… Especially since we had spent the 4th on a mini vacation Sonoma and I consumed just a little too much wine. In addition there was a celebratory birthday dinner for a family member thrown in after Sonoma. I have continued my regular exercise including [...]

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• Weigh in #3 -- 5 Pounds in 7 days, 30 pounds in 3 weeks After 3 weeks on the Jumpstart Medicine medically assisted weightless program I have lost 30 pounds... Which is above my expectations... I highly recommed Jumpstart. I have a special offer for anyone in wanting to try Jumpstart in Redwood City or Mountain View: $25 off your first visit (just print......
• 3.3 Pounds Lost Last Week -- Good week Bad Month 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......
• The Dangers of Weight Loss Shortcuts The problem with weight loss shortcuts is that they attempt to go against the real science behind weight loss, health and nutrition. There is only one real way to diet, and that is to burn more calories than you take in. A single pound of weight is equivalent to 3,500......
• Weight Lost: 48 pounds in 8 weeks... 1.8 Pounds This Week So I am very pleased with my weight loss this week...  With my ruptured tendon I was unable to exercise much, but I still managed 1.8 pounds of weight loss...  In addition to my ankle, I was finding myself stress eating (the injury and the prospect of surgery was stressing me out),......
• 53 Pounds in 9 weeks... 4.5 Pounds this Week Wow... back on track!  After 2 weeks of relatively small amounts of weight loss (0.6 pounds and 1.8 pounds) I got back on track with a solid 4.5 pounds this week.  Between my ruptured tendon with the resulting inability to exercise in many of my normal ways and my Dad......

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In all honesty I had expected to lose just a touch more weight this week.  I was pretty good on the eating front…  I know I didn’t get as much exercise as I had anticipated (there are fires causing very smoky conditions and a health warning all around the San Francisco Bay area right now).  Don’t [...]

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• 22lbs in 10 Days -- 1st Weigh In On New Diet All I can say is wow! I didn't want to believe that my newly purchased bathroom scale was reading the proper weight, but my weigh in with Dr Sean Bourke at Jumpstart Medicine proved it to be slightly high. Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are......
• How much Exercise is Necessary? You need to have a good working understanding of exercise and how it affects your body in order to get the most out of it. If you exercise too little or too much, you may not be getting the intended benefits from the effort, which would make it a pointless......
• 62 Pounds in 100 Days… 1.9 Pounds in 2 Weeks For those of you that go straight for the graph... I didn't cheat last week, but I was quite down on myself until I figured out what on earth had happened that caused me to gain 9 pounds in a week... (I bet the women already know) WATER. My blood......
• One Hundred Pushup Challenge -- Knee Push ups, 1 Handed Knee Pushups, and Full Push ups Well if you haven't heard by now then you aren't paying attention to the Health and Fitness blogosphere... Everyone is doing the 100 push up challenge at 100 push ups.   It is a 6 week training program geared toward a final test where 100 consecutive pushups are completed.  (My first......
• 4 Pounds One Week; aka 66 pounds in 15 weeks Ok! I am back on track... I lost 4.1 pounds this week without being able to exercise very much (torn peroneus longus tendon)... I stuck to my diet religiously. I get to start rehab next week (3 days a week) starting Monday. I am very much looking forward to working......

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When I first started I mentioned that I bought the Health o meter 844KL High Capacity Digital Bathroom Weight Scale with 1.5 in. LCD, 440 lb x 0.1 lb. So far I really like the scale, but you may have noticed that I hadn’t posted an update on my progress. The lack of information [...]

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• 3 lbs in 7 days -- Weigh In #2 After an incredible 22lbs in the first 10 days, my progress this week seems pedestrian. My weigh in was not with with Dr Sean Bourke as he was on vacation... Instead I meet another of the doctors of Jumpstart Medicine Dr Sooji Rugh. I highly recommed Jumpstart. I have a......
• Resurrecting Weight Loss Blog Well... after making it through vacation last summer still on track I preceded to mail it in... I fell off the weight loss wagon. I am now starting weightloss attempt #778. What went wrong? Commitment? Desire? Not really sure, but it is time to try again. I expect to reset......
• 22lbs in 10 Days -- 1st Weigh In On New Diet All I can say is wow! I didn't want to believe that my newly purchased bathroom scale was reading the proper weight, but my weigh in with Dr Sean Bourke at Jumpstart Medicine proved it to be slightly high. Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are......
• Yoga For Weight Loss Are you looking for an easy and efficient way to lose weight? One of the perfect solutions to weight loss is to implement yoga into your daily exercise routine. No, you do not need to overwhelm yourself with crazy pretzel-like positions to make it happen. Many yoga students offer special......
• The Right Kind of Foods Your Body Needs When you're trying to lose weight, it is all so easy to fall into the trap of thinking that deprivation is the only way to go. There are some foods that your body really needs, even if you are on a diet. In addition, there are foods that your......

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