Welcome to the official home of The Lose Weight Diet!The idea behind this completely free weight loss diet plan is quite simple... it's the ANTI-fad diet. It is the complete opposite of every borderline idiotic and completely unnecessary diet program in existence. It is based strictly on common sense and the simplest and healthiest way the human body was meant to lose weight. It is not based on fancy gimmicks and making sales. The Lose Weight Diet is free. There is nothing to buy or sign up for ever. Every single piece of weight loss information you will need is here (free) for you to read, understand and put into effect. Is The Lose Weight Diet for everyone?It's mainly for people who, ya know, want to lose weight. That's pretty much the only requirement here. Oh, and it's also for people who don't want to waste money. If you fit that description, The Lose Weight Diet is definitely for you. In the shortest form I can explain it, The Lose Weight Diet is four things: 1. Simple If that sounds ideal to you, then sit back and relax. You've found the right place. What makes it so simple?The Lose Weight Diet is simple because it isn't based on a gimmick or a fad. Like I said, it is the anti-fad diet plan. It cuts right to the chase and eliminates all of the unnecessary tasks most commercial weight loss diet plans require you to do. After all, it's those unnecessary tasks that are supposed to make their diet program stand out and appeal to you in the first place. Why? So they can make money. On the other hand, The Lose Weight Diet is all about fact and common sense. It's simply about what works and what doesn't. To sum it all up in one simple sentence, this weight loss plan revolves around reducing your total calorie intake by a small amount, and then just making sure the calories you do consume come in the form of a well-balanced diet consisting of good sources of protein, carbs and fat. Basically, it's the practical type of diet most often recommended by doctors and experts who aren't trying to sell you something. Why is The Lose Weight Diet free?It's free because I am just like you. I'm not a personal trainer, or a nutritionist, or a doctor, or a fitness celebrity. I'm just a regular guy who's been into diet and exercise since 1999 and wants free truthful information about the things I'm interested in. That's why you're here, isn't it? Because you're interested in weight loss. Because you want to lose weight without handing over "3 easy payments of $19.95." Because you don't enjoy being sent from page to page of a web site only to end up at a paragraph telling you to "get your credit card ready" so you can "learn all of this and MORE in my weight loss book!" Because being constantly bombarded by hundreds of gimmicky fad diets and commercial weight loss plans gives you a headache. Yeah, I figured so. I feel exactly the same way. That's why The Lose Weight Diet is free. Who created The Lose Weight Diet?Your body did. Like I said, this weight loss plan is based solely on how the human body loses weight. It has always been around. It's as simple, safe and effective as any weight loss diet could possibly be. I know what you're thinking. If what I'm saying is true, why haven't you heard of it before? Simple... because it's never been sold to you. It's never even had a name! It's just how the human body was naturally designed to lose weight, and it's hard to sell a weight loss diet based on that alone. Not to mention, it's pretty hard to sell something that is free. And me... I have nothing to do with it. All I did was finally give it a catchy name. A phrase people can refer to it as. Something they can respond to their friends with when they ask how they lost weight. "I'm on The Lose Weight Diet." Before that we'd just have to describe what this diet plan is. Now it has a four word title. It just makes it sound more real and official in an industry where every other weight loss program has it's own fancy name to identify it by. The only other thing I did was give it this web site. The information about the type of diet The Lose Weight Diet is based on is already around. It's not new. I just wanted to give it sort of an official home. A place where people know to go to learn everything they need to know about it, for free. A place people can refer their friends to rather than giving them a name of a book to buy or a program to join. "Everything you need to know is at www.TheLoseWeightDiet.com." It only helps add to the simplicity of this weight loss plan. What's the deal with the name anyway?I came up with the name "The Lose Weight Diet" sort of as a joke. It's so damn literal. Weight loss diet plans like The "Atkins" Diet and The "Zone" Diet and The "South Beach" Diet make me laugh. Who cares about some Dr. Atkins guy or some zone or some beach? Cut through all of the useless marketing junk. Your goal is to lose weight, plain and simple. Thus... The "Lose Weight" Diet was born. Slightly funny and very literal. It's the anti-fad. Start NOW!Enough already. You've read more than enough information about The Lose Weight Diet to decide if it's right for you. If you don't think it is, fine. I don't mind. Feel free to try any of the hundreds of other weight loss plans around. Go buy their books and their products and their memberships. I honestly don't mind at all. In fact, I wish you the best of luck. However, if you feel The Lose Weight Diet is indeed right for you... let's get started. I have broken it all down into 3 phases. In order to fully understand and fully follow this weight loss plan effectively, you MUST read through each phase in order. Do not skip anything or jump ahead. Just sit back and relax. You're only 3 steps away from losing weight... for free. Start here: | |
Saturday, June 16, 2007
DIETS WEIGHT LOSS - WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM - FAST WEIGHT LOSS DIET PROGRAM
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250.
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Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches
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April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See more at
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Losing the Gut NATURAL HERBS
TTT is a 27 year old guy who has lost over 35 pounds in less than four months. He used to weigh 206 and now weighs 169. He feels he is still ten pounds away from his ideal weight.
Of the above before and after photos he says;
The old me had a gut that hung over my belt. That 42 inch waist was a miserable traveling companion. It popped numerous button from the front of some great khaki pants. Now, when I put on my fat clothes they hang on me like a trash bag, and my old, old, old clothes fit perfectly.
See his inspirational story and more
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June 10, 2007
Exercises for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago Mike Thornton had a beer belly. He shared this feature with two-thirds of American men. But after a friend said he looked like 'a before picture' he swore off fast food, started exercising and was able to lose 30 pounds and two waist sizes in about three months. Today he is a personal trainer in Dallas.
He says exercises such as 'the plank' help to tighten the transverse abdominis. He calls it "the beach muscle because it's the one that we all draw in at the beach when the girls walk by".
See his exercise tips for a flatter stomach here.
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June 07, 2007
Michael Moore Loses Thirty Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months. natural Miracle Herbs has changed his breakfast to oatmeal each morning. He has switched from white bread and pasta to whole grains. He's walking 10,000 steps a day with his pedometer and has hired a trainer. He also says he has forced himself to sleep seven or eight hours a day; that it is harder to lose weight if you are getting less sleep.
His blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar have returned to normal levels.
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June 01, 2007
Before and After Weight Training Pics
Adam shows us some pretty impressive pictures of how his body has changed over 100 days with an intensive fitness and weight lifting program. It seems hard to believe this kind of transformation would be possible in less than four months but if it's true, it's very inspiring. See his three minute video here.
May 30, 2007
The Ideal BMI Varies Each Decade
The Diet Blog has an interesting post about how BMI (body mass index measurements) have varied over the last century. They note that the mean BMI for U.S. females keeps going up. It was 28.1 in the 1990's and 24.9 in the 1960's. Yet in the modeling and celebrity world, the average BMI just keeps going down. Here's Kate Moss, who is said to have a BMI of 16. See their other examples of famous stars in each decade and their body types.
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Losing 20 Pounds by Getting Off the Couch
Sally has lost 20 pounds by starting a modest running program and watching her diet Aand adding natural herbs to her diet. When she started jogging ten weeks ago, she could only run for about 90 seconds at a stretch. She's now surprised she can do half an hour. Her abs are starting to show, just based on the the regular jogging exercise.
She's been following the Couch to 5k (or 'couch to three miles') program. This shows you how to ease into running gradually. It recommends walking and jogging at first for 20 to 30 minutes three times a week. The objective of the program is to enable you to run three miles at a stretch in just two months.
As far as her food intake goes, she's made no strict rules, she is just trying to eat lots of vegetables and to deal with the cravings.
The above poster is a woman running through the desert landscape by Dugald Bremner.
May 24, 2007
The Natural Cure for Type 2 Diabetes
There's a good article today at NPR about the causes and cures for Type 2 diabetes. A large study has found that exercise and diet are more effective than drugs in preventing and reversing diabetes. The people in the study exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
They say that the high incidence of younger people getting diabetes is very alarming. It used to be only older people who were at risk.
See more about the benefits of exercise and diet in reversing diabetes here.
Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds a year ago. At that time she was on the cover of US Weekly and that magazine cover sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine's history.
So now, one year later, US Weekly has Jackson on the cover again. This time the feat is no less newsworthy. Jackson has managed to keep the weight off for the year and she looks even fitter than last year. Jackson, age 41 says she now weighs 120 pounds. 
Jackson's weight loss in 2006 was probably the most dramatic celebrity makeover of the year.
Janet credits Natural Miracle Herbs with helping her lose the weight.
May 21, 2007
Losing 125 Pounds with Weight Watchers
Karen Ebbesmeyer weighed 275 pounds two years ago. That's when she got started on the Weight Watchers program as well as walking on a treadmill at least three miles a day.
She says she eats a lot more vegetables now. Before starting the diet, she says that if she opened one can of vegetables a week she was doing good.
Karen now weighs just under 150 pounds. She's gone from a size 24 to a size 6 and is flying to New York this week to do a photoshoot for Good Housekeeping magazine. She'll be featured in their August issue.
See the full story here.
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The Detox Diet: Swiss Style
Epicurious recently interviewed Susan Wyler. Wyler has helped Dr. Rau write The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health: Dr. Rau's Diet for Whole Body Healing.
SW: I went on [the detox diet] in preparation for meeting with Dr. Rau. Beforehand, I had the usual allergies and common problems associated with postmenopausal women. I was the queen of "eat as much as you can get away with of everything that tastes good." I wanted to see if, as a "foodie," I could recommend anyone eat like a chipmunk for three weeks and not get depressed. The difference I felt on the diet was dramatic it had to be for me to become convinced.
Epi: What sort of changes have you seen in your body?
SW: I was never able to get out of bed in the morning. Morning was excruciating. No more. I wake up bright and energetic. I've lost 12 pounds, a lot for a woman of my small height. Bouts of depression, which occasionally visited me on and off for years, have disappeared. What thrilled me the most was the improvement in my thyroid condition. I had been on Synthroid for an unsightly neck goiter, but after eight months on the diet, it just melted away. When tested, my thyroid function had improved 25 percent.
May 17, 2007
A Healthy Heart Lifestyle NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Most people don't see themselves as potential heart attack or stroke victims. But it happens to many of us after age 40 and especially after age 55.
If one of the following risk factors applies to you, then it could be very helpful to look into heart health tips sooner rather than later;
* High blood pressure
* High blood cholesterol
* Diabetes
* Smoking
* Being overweight
* Being physically inactive
* Having a family history of early heart disease
* Age (55 or older for women)
The National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute has a 122 page handbook about heart health that you can download for free, or get a copy sent to you for $3.75. It's The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women '07.
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May 16, 2007
Reducing Cellulite with Exercise
MSNBC has an encouraging article about reducing cellulite with exercise. They interviewed Wayne Westcott, a fitness research director. He has found that women who are not exercising and begin a program of exercise three times a week, together with a reduced-calorie diet can lose on average about 9 pounds of fat and gain two pounds of muscle in about eight weeks. Most of these women also said they thought the cellulite on their thighs and hips showed improvement.
Cellulite is more likely to appear if you don't have good muscle tone.
Cellulite is a drag. And even celebrities get cellulite.
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Eat Chick Peas for Weight Loss
Chick peas, also known as garbanzo beans, are together with the whole legume family, one of the best foods you can eat for weight loss.
One cup of garbanzo beans will provide you with 50% of the fiber amount recommended for daily consumption. The high fiber prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal, this being especially good for anyone with diabetes, insulin resistance or hypoglycemia.
Garbanzo beans are an excellent source of the trace mineral molybdenum which helps detoxify sulfites. Sulfites are a preservative that is often added to prepared foods such as deli salads and salad bars.
The insoluble fiber found in garbanzo beans helps to make your stools bigger and to prevent constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.
A cup of garbanzo beans has amazing nutritional benefits. Of the daily recommended values of key nutrients, it provides 70% of folate, 50% of fiber, 29% of protein, 26% of iron, 84% of magnamese and 164% of molybdenum. All for 269 calories.
See the excellent overview of chick pea health benefits here.
See the recipe for the Garbanzo bean salad above here.
May 11, 2007
The Alli Diet Pill Marketing Blitz
You'll be hearing all about Alli everywhere soon. This diet pill is going to be advertised heavily this year. Over 150 million dollars will be spent in just one year to promote this drug. That would buy quite a few celebrity endorsements. It's the first diet pill drug to be approved for sale over the counter, without needing a prescription.
See the New York Times article about the Alli advertising promotion by GlaxoSmithKline.
Alli works by preventing the body from absorbing some of the fat one eats. This could have some very uncomfortable side effects if one eats too many fats.
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The Best Diet: Volumetrics
Consumer Reports has just released the results of their research on diets and diet books. They have awarded Volumetrics the prize for being the best diet plan.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
The main point behind the Volumetrics Eating Plan is to focus your eating on foods that have fewer calories per bite, or low 'energy density' foods. The idea is to eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetables.
It's been shown that people who eat a low energy diet end up consuming several hundred fewer calories per day than those with a high density diet. Yet they eat a much greater amount of food in total. It's all about feeling full on fewer calories.
In the picture here, the first small dish of macaroni and cheese has more calories than the second much larger portion. The second dish replaces regular pasta with whole-wheat pasta, uses less cheese and butter and piles on the vegetables.
Ricki Lake Loses 125 Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Ricki Lake has lost over 125 pounds. She was on "The View" last week and was offered the cover of US Weekly Magazine within 48 hours of being on the show.
She's lost the weight without any help from any kind of weight loss surgery. She was partially motivated to lose the weight in order to make her documentary about home birth in the tub. She's outspoken about the negative aspects of hospital births and the pressure for women to have cesareans. Cesarean births make up about 40% of births in many hospitals.
She'll be making a cameo appearance in John Travolta's "Hairspray" remake this summer.
Story Source: Ricki Lake Wows the Glossies
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Gluten Free Diets are Trendy
Gluten-free diets are becoming increasingly popular.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. A lot of people consider it a culprit in all sorts of ailments ranging from upset stomachs, arthritis, depresion, acne, infertility and gas. Avoiding all foods with flour products is becoming an increasingly popular dieting trend.
See a good article about this in the New York Times today.
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Kate Moss Clothing on eBay
The Kate Moss for Topshop clothing collection was just launched last week in the U.K. and Paris and quickly sold out. It looks like a lot of people who bought the items were thinking of profiting by reselling them on eBay. There are now over 3,500 items on auction at eBay.
The Kate Moss collection is available in British sizes 6 to 16. This converts to US sizes 2 to 12. Notice thee is no size zero available, which is a good sign for not encouraging sickly skinniness. On the other hand, anyone who is American size 14 or higher is out of luck if they want to wear the Kate Moss label.
See the very few size 16's, (American size 12's) being auctioned at eBay today.
See a video of the launch of the Kate Moss Topshop clothing collection here. It's a very skinny Kate Moss in a long red dress briefly flipping her hair in the Topshop storefront window.
May 03, 2007
Eggs are Better for a Smaller Waist Size
Eating eggs for breakfast instead of bagels is a good idea if you are overweight and want to lose weight. One bagel has about the same number of calories as two eggs but a recent study found that women who ate eggs lost significantly more weight than the women who chose bagels instead.
The study also found that waist size dropped 83 percent faster for women on the egg diet. And there were no significant changes in the levels of cholesterol or triglycerides.
This is an interesting finding but keep in mind that the study was funded by the American Egg Board.
The beautiful image above is by independentman
April 27, 2007
Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal
Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here.
Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise regime and she plans to do a few "a year in review" posts to compare how her diet has changed over the time and to talk about health issues. She is also going to record her measurements for the first time since she posted them one year ago.
Check out her Incredible Shrinking Ladies site and help her celebrate her success tomorrow.
An Emotional Eater Breaks the Cycle
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250. See her story here.
April 25, 2007
Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches.
April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does NATURAL HERBS
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See her weight loss story here.
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DIETS WEIGHT LOSS - WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM - FAST WEIGHT LOSS DIET PROGRAM
Weight loss is a tricky topic. Lots of people are unhappy with their present weight, but most aren't sure how to change it and many would be better off staying where they are. You may want to look like the models or actors in magazines and on TV, but those goals might not be healthy or realistic for you. Besides, no magical diet or pill will make you look like someone else.
So what should you do about weight control?
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The Most Popular Celebrity Diet
Celebrities and diets are a perennial hot topic. Much of the magazine industry thrives on speculating as to who is eating what. It's no surprise really - celebrities seem to look different at every photo opportunity - it's hard not be curious about the so-called "diet secrets".
So what is the most popular celebrity diet?
Jennifer Aniston
The most famous zone dieter
I can almost hear your comments; "But the Zone diet is some aging fad that's past its due date". Not so. Dr. Barry Sears book was published over 10 years ago - but its popularity has remained consistent.
Why the Zone?
- Even on Amazon the book still sits around the top 1500 mark.
- On the Internet, the Zone Diet has consistently remained one of the most popular diet search terms over the last 4 or 5 years.
What About the Celebrities?
Here's the clincher: Rich busy people use diet food delivery services.
Of these services, I believe the Zone-style meals are the most popular choice for home delivery. I continue to be amazed at the number of companies offering this service and the growth in this area. Most of these home delivery services have a long list of high-profile customers.
If you could easily afford $1000-1200 per month for delicious fresh food delivered daily to your door - why bother messing around with shopping and cooking?
UPDATE: See a complete list of 25 diet delivery services that will deliver food to your home.
Jessica Biel: 10 Workout Tips
Us magazine recently talked to Jessica Biel's personal trainer Jason Walsh to garner some workout tips.
I list these here not so you can try and be Jessica Biel - but because the advice is very interesting.
Note: points 6-10 are from Jerry Owens (personal trainer of Rachel McAdams). Emphasis added.
- Mix it up
"I'm a big advocate of recreational sports and stuff. If someone can get out there, even if it's a hike or something like that, just to break up the monotony of going to the gym...I really like that." - Full body exercises
"We do full body movements. You are pretty much using as many muscles at once, which in turn will jack that heart rate up." - Food choices
"really organic and clean foods, all natural, like nuts." Also, "an amino acid drink, so that you're not burning up a lot of your muscle, or protein." - Medicine ball
"Get a medicine ball and do a lunge with a twist while you are holding the ball. Those are great. You are activating so many muscles at once, and you are using those muscles over so many different plains." - Diet
"Breakfast would be whole grain bread French toast with egg whites and cinnamon. For a mid-morning snack, they'd do a mixed-berry protein shake. Lunch might be sweet potato tuna melt. An afternoon snack might be hummus with celery sticks. Dinner would be spaghetti and meatballs with spaghetti squash and meatballs made of turkey or chicken breast." - On Yoga and Pilates
"Those are great forms of exercise for stability and balance, but neither one of those is going to change your body dramatically like training with weights does." - Fats
"The biggest problem is that people are fat phobic. It's clinically proven that we need healthy fat in our diets. You need to eat a balanced diet but not be afraid of fat, like Omega 3 fatty acids like walnuts, olive oil and even coconut oil." - Weight loss and "toning up"
"blend nutrition, exercise, and physical therapy. The body responds better. People get too wrapped up in doing isolated movement, like being very body part specific." - On Cardio
"People get too cardio-crazy and need to do more weight lifting," says Owens. He explains that for many people on elliptical machines, "their heart Rate is about the same as if they were shopping around a mall." - Rest and recovery
"take one to two days off a week: have a massage, make sure you get plenty of rest. The muscles actually change when they're recovering."
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie: Fat Camp Counselors?
We truly live in the age of the airhead.
The next season of 'reality' show The Simple Life will have Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie as camp counselors.
"The girls[...] will be guiding the children through a week of weight loss and fitness exercises."
Celebrity Size Obsession
Over the last year there has been an increasing number of websites and magazines that focus exclusively on celebrity weight and size. I've always been interested in this kind of thing since many female actresses have the "perfect" bodies any imperfection is worth noting.
However - there are times when the scrutiny can go a little too far. I've noticed that the "skinniest" person - i.e. most skeletal - is often complimented by authors and posters as looking good, or "not too skinny." Sometimes articles are dedicated to celebrities' recent weight gain - even as minor as 5 pounds.
Once, when reading some of the posters' comments, one referring to a celebrity who wore a size six as "huge" - I began to feel that something was just not right.
The obsession with celebrities' weight is everywhere - all you have to do is go to any grocery store or gas station to find headlines plastered on tabloids - "Has (some actress) Put On Weight?"
Even Us magazine's most recent cover featured "Hollywood Revenge Diets" showing pictures of female celebrities who'd lost weight after breaking up with their significant others.
And who could forget this quote from the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" - "(Size) four is the new six; zero is the new two; six is the new sixteen."
I believe America's focus has become skewed as we all get heavier, we continue to be obsessed with unrealistic bodies setting ourselves up for failure.
What do you think?
Any right-thinking human being can judge that The Simple Life is nothing more than fatuous entertainment. Sadly there are an enormous number of girls who (for reasons beyond my imagination) actually view these celebrities as some sort of role model.
So what will the weight loss advice be? Starvation? Vomiting? Snorting cocaine?
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250.
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Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches
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April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See more at
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Losing the Gut NATURAL HERBS
TTT is a 27 year old guy who has lost over 35 pounds in less than four months. He used to weigh 206 and now weighs 169. He feels he is still ten pounds away from his ideal weight.
Of the above before and after photos he says;
The old me had a gut that hung over my belt. That 42 inch waist was a miserable traveling companion. It popped numerous button from the front of some great khaki pants. Now, when I put on my fat clothes they hang on me like a trash bag, and my old, old, old clothes fit perfectly.
See his inspirational story and more
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June 10, 2007
Exercises for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago Mike Thornton had a beer belly. He shared this feature with two-thirds of American men. But after a friend said he looked like 'a before picture' he swore off fast food, started exercising and was able to lose 30 pounds and two waist sizes in about three months. Today he is a personal trainer in Dallas.
He says exercises such as 'the plank' help to tighten the transverse abdominis. He calls it "the beach muscle because it's the one that we all draw in at the beach when the girls walk by".
See his exercise tips for a flatter stomach here.
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June 07, 2007
Michael Moore Loses Thirty Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months. natural Miracle Herbs has changed his breakfast to oatmeal each morning. He has switched from white bread and pasta to whole grains. He's walking 10,000 steps a day with his pedometer and has hired a trainer. He also says he has forced himself to sleep seven or eight hours a day; that it is harder to lose weight if you are getting less sleep.
His blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar have returned to normal levels.
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June 01, 2007
Before and After Weight Training Pics
Adam shows us some pretty impressive pictures of how his body has changed over 100 days with an intensive fitness and weight lifting program. It seems hard to believe this kind of transformation would be possible in less than four months but if it's true, it's very inspiring. See his three minute video here.
May 30, 2007
The Ideal BMI Varies Each Decade
The Diet Blog has an interesting post about how BMI (body mass index measurements) have varied over the last century. They note that the mean BMI for U.S. females keeps going up. It was 28.1 in the 1990's and 24.9 in the 1960's. Yet in the modeling and celebrity world, the average BMI just keeps going down. Here's Kate Moss, who is said to have a BMI of 16. See their other examples of famous stars in each decade and their body types.
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Losing 20 Pounds by Getting Off the Couch
Sally has lost 20 pounds by starting a modest running program and watching her diet Aand adding natural herbs to her diet. When she started jogging ten weeks ago, she could only run for about 90 seconds at a stretch. She's now surprised she can do half an hour. Her abs are starting to show, just based on the the regular jogging exercise.
She's been following the Couch to 5k (or 'couch to three miles') program. This shows you how to ease into running gradually. It recommends walking and jogging at first for 20 to 30 minutes three times a week. The objective of the program is to enable you to run three miles at a stretch in just two months.
As far as her food intake goes, she's made no strict rules, she is just trying to eat lots of vegetables and to deal with the cravings.
The above poster is a woman running through the desert landscape by Dugald Bremner.
May 24, 2007
The Natural Cure for Type 2 Diabetes
There's a good article today at NPR about the causes and cures for Type 2 diabetes. A large study has found that exercise and diet are more effective than drugs in preventing and reversing diabetes. The people in the study exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
They say that the high incidence of younger people getting diabetes is very alarming. It used to be only older people who were at risk.
See more about the benefits of exercise and diet in reversing diabetes here.
Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds a year ago. At that time she was on the cover of US Weekly and that magazine cover sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine's history.
So now, one year later, US Weekly has Jackson on the cover again. This time the feat is no less newsworthy. Jackson has managed to keep the weight off for the year and she looks even fitter than last year. Jackson, age 41 says she now weighs 120 pounds. Jackson's weight loss in 2006 was probably the most dramatic celebrity makeover of the year.
Janet credits Natural Miracle Herbs with helping her lose the weight.
May 21, 2007
Losing 125 Pounds with Weight Watchers
Karen Ebbesmeyer weighed 275 pounds two years ago. That's when she got started on the Weight Watchers program as well as walking on a treadmill at least three miles a day.
She says she eats a lot more vegetables now. Before starting the diet, she says that if she opened one can of vegetables a week she was doing good.
Karen now weighs just under 150 pounds. She's gone from a size 24 to a size 6 and is flying to New York this week to do a photoshoot for Good Housekeeping magazine. She'll be featured in their August issue.
See the full story here.
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The Detox Diet: Swiss Style
Epicurious recently interviewed Susan Wyler. Wyler has helped Dr. Rau write The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health: Dr. Rau's Diet for Whole Body Healing.
SW: I went on [the detox diet] in preparation for meeting with Dr. Rau. Beforehand, I had the usual allergies and common problems associated with postmenopausal women. I was the queen of "eat as much as you can get away with of everything that tastes good." I wanted to see if, as a "foodie," I could recommend anyone eat like a chipmunk for three weeks and not get depressed. The difference I felt on the diet was dramatic it had to be for me to become convinced.
Epi: What sort of changes have you seen in your body?
SW: I was never able to get out of bed in the morning. Morning was excruciating. No more. I wake up bright and energetic. I've lost 12 pounds, a lot for a woman of my small height. Bouts of depression, which occasionally visited me on and off for years, have disappeared. What thrilled me the most was the improvement in my thyroid condition. I had been on Synthroid for an unsightly neck goiter, but after eight months on the diet, it just melted away. When tested, my thyroid function had improved 25 percent.
May 17, 2007
A Healthy Heart Lifestyle NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Most people don't see themselves as potential heart attack or stroke victims. But it happens to many of us after age 40 and especially after age 55.
If one of the following risk factors applies to you, then it could be very helpful to look into heart health tips sooner rather than later;
* High blood pressure
* High blood cholesterol
* Diabetes
* Smoking
* Being overweight
* Being physically inactive
* Having a family history of early heart disease
* Age (55 or older for women)
The National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute has a 122 page handbook about heart health that you can download for free, or get a copy sent to you for $3.75. It's The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women '07.
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May 16, 2007
Reducing Cellulite with Exercise
MSNBC has an encouraging article about reducing cellulite with exercise. They interviewed Wayne Westcott, a fitness research director. He has found that women who are not exercising and begin a program of exercise three times a week, together with a reduced-calorie diet can lose on average about 9 pounds of fat and gain two pounds of muscle in about eight weeks. Most of these women also said they thought the cellulite on their thighs and hips showed improvement.
Cellulite is more likely to appear if you don't have good muscle tone.
Cellulite is a drag. And even celebrities get cellulite.
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Eat Chick Peas for Weight Loss
Chick peas, also known as garbanzo beans, are together with the whole legume family, one of the best foods you can eat for weight loss.
One cup of garbanzo beans will provide you with 50% of the fiber amount recommended for daily consumption. The high fiber prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal, this being especially good for anyone with diabetes, insulin resistance or hypoglycemia.
Garbanzo beans are an excellent source of the trace mineral molybdenum which helps detoxify sulfites. Sulfites are a preservative that is often added to prepared foods such as deli salads and salad bars.
The insoluble fiber found in garbanzo beans helps to make your stools bigger and to prevent constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.
A cup of garbanzo beans has amazing nutritional benefits. Of the daily recommended values of key nutrients, it provides 70% of folate, 50% of fiber, 29% of protein, 26% of iron, 84% of magnamese and 164% of molybdenum. All for 269 calories.
See the excellent overview of chick pea health benefits here.
See the recipe for the Garbanzo bean salad above here.
May 11, 2007
The Alli Diet Pill Marketing Blitz
You'll be hearing all about Alli everywhere soon. This diet pill is going to be advertised heavily this year. Over 150 million dollars will be spent in just one year to promote this drug. That would buy quite a few celebrity endorsements. It's the first diet pill drug to be approved for sale over the counter, without needing a prescription.
See the New York Times article about the Alli advertising promotion by GlaxoSmithKline.
Alli works by preventing the body from absorbing some of the fat one eats. This could have some very uncomfortable side effects if one eats too many fats.
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The Best Diet: Volumetrics
Consumer Reports has just released the results of their research on diets and diet books. They have awarded Volumetrics the prize for being the best diet plan.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
The main point behind the Volumetrics Eating Plan is to focus your eating on foods that have fewer calories per bite, or low 'energy density' foods. The idea is to eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetables.
It's been shown that people who eat a low energy diet end up consuming several hundred fewer calories per day than those with a high density diet. Yet they eat a much greater amount of food in total. It's all about feeling full on fewer calories.
In the picture here, the first small dish of macaroni and cheese has more calories than the second much larger portion. The second dish replaces regular pasta with whole-wheat pasta, uses less cheese and butter and piles on the vegetables.
Ricki Lake Loses 125 Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Ricki Lake has lost over 125 pounds. She was on "The View" last week and was offered the cover of US Weekly Magazine within 48 hours of being on the show.
She's lost the weight without any help from any kind of weight loss surgery. She was partially motivated to lose the weight in order to make her documentary about home birth in the tub. She's outspoken about the negative aspects of hospital births and the pressure for women to have cesareans. Cesarean births make up about 40% of births in many hospitals.
She'll be making a cameo appearance in John Travolta's "Hairspray" remake this summer.
Story Source: Ricki Lake Wows the Glossies
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Gluten Free Diets are Trendy
Gluten-free diets are becoming increasingly popular.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. A lot of people consider it a culprit in all sorts of ailments ranging from upset stomachs, arthritis, depresion, acne, infertility and gas. Avoiding all foods with flour products is becoming an increasingly popular dieting trend.
See a good article about this in the New York Times today.
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Kate Moss Clothing on eBay
The Kate Moss for Topshop clothing collection was just launched last week in the U.K. and Paris and quickly sold out. It looks like a lot of people who bought the items were thinking of profiting by reselling them on eBay. There are now over 3,500 items on auction at eBay.
The Kate Moss collection is available in British sizes 6 to 16. This converts to US sizes 2 to 12. Notice thee is no size zero available, which is a good sign for not encouraging sickly skinniness. On the other hand, anyone who is American size 14 or higher is out of luck if they want to wear the Kate Moss label.
See the very few size 16's, (American size 12's) being auctioned at eBay today.
See a video of the launch of the Kate Moss Topshop clothing collection here. It's a very skinny Kate Moss in a long red dress briefly flipping her hair in the Topshop storefront window.
May 03, 2007
Eggs are Better for a Smaller Waist Size
Eating eggs for breakfast instead of bagels is a good idea if you are overweight and want to lose weight. One bagel has about the same number of calories as two eggs but a recent study found that women who ate eggs lost significantly more weight than the women who chose bagels instead.
The study also found that waist size dropped 83 percent faster for women on the egg diet. And there were no significant changes in the levels of cholesterol or triglycerides.
This is an interesting finding but keep in mind that the study was funded by the American Egg Board.
The beautiful image above is by independentman
April 27, 2007
Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal
Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here.
Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise regime and she plans to do a few "a year in review" posts to compare how her diet has changed over the time and to talk about health issues. She is also going to record her measurements for the first time since she posted them one year ago.
Check out her Incredible Shrinking Ladies site and help her celebrate her success tomorrow.
An Emotional Eater Breaks the Cycle
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250. See her story here.
April 25, 2007
Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches.
April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does NATURAL HERBS
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See her weight loss story here.
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DIETS WEIGHT LOSS - WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM - FAST WEIGHT LOSS DIET PROGRAM
Weight loss is a tricky topic. Lots of people are unhappy with their present weight, but most aren't sure how to change it and many would be better off staying where they are. You may want to look like the models or actors in magazines and on TV, but those goals might not be healthy or realistic for you. Besides, no magical diet or pill will make you look like someone else.
So what should you do about weight control?
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How to lose weight the healthy way |
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| The healthiest way to lose weight is neither crash diets nor bursts of exercise. The body likes slow changes in terms of food and exercise. For example, someone who has not exercised for years should not rush into running miles a day or pounding the treadmill. Not only will the struggle to do so leave you feeling disheartened and demotivated, you're also far more likely to injure yourself and set your fitness levels back further. The same goes for people who suddenly start starving themselves. Diets that severely restrict calories or the types of food 'allowed' can lead you to be deficient in the nutrients and vitamins that your body needs. So if you need to lose weight, what should you do? Energy needs and weight loss Your body uses food for energy. It stores any excess energy as fat. This means if you eat more food than your body needs for daily activities and cell maintenance, you will gain weight. To lose weight, you need to get your body to use up these stores of fat. The most effective way to do this is to:
Introduce changes gradually Small changes can make a big difference. One extra biscuit a week can lead you to gain 5lb a year cut that biscuit out of your diet and you'll lose the same amount. You are also more likely to stick to, say, swapping full-fat milk for semi-skimmed or making time for breakfast each morning than a diet that sets rules for all foods. You should think of weight loss in terms of permanently changing your eating habits. While weight-loss goals are usually set in term of weeks, the end game is to sustain these changes over months and years. Increase your activity levels Someone who increases the amount they exercise, but maintains the same diet and calorie intake, will almost certainly lose weight. No matter if you hate gyms - even light exercise such as a short 20 minute walk will be beneficial if done most days of the week. Every single time you exercise more than usual, you burn calories and fat. There are lots of ways to increase the amount of activity you do. Team sports, racket sports, aerobics classes, running, walking, swimming and cycling will all improve your fitness levels. Find something you enjoy that's easy for you to do in terms of location and cost. You are then more likely to build it into your routine and continue to exercise, despite inevitably missing the odd session through holidays, family commitments, etc.
It's not possible to reduce body fat while eating lots of food, cakes and sweets. This doesn't mean you can never have any treats, but you need to learn how to limit these foods to small quantities - say, for special occasions. In terms of weight-loss, you can get your body to use up existing stores of fat by eating less and making healthier choices. This doesn't mean crash diet (anything less than 1500 calories), which usually ends up with you either getting weaker or giving up in desperation. Quick-fix diets can lead to a yo-yoing effect of drastic weight loss followed by weight gain, resulting in a vicious cycle. There are no shortcuts to losing weight in a healthy and reasonable way. Eating 300 to 500 calories less per day should lead to a loss of between one and two pounds per week. This is a realistic target. It may seem slow, but would add up to a weight loss of more than three stone in a year. Fat contains the most amount of calories out of all the food types (protein, carbohydrates), so a good way to achieve this is to cut down on fatty foods and eat more wholegrain bread, fruit and vegetables. Below are ways to reduce calorie intake without having to alter your diet significantly.
Finally, don't be tempted to skip breakfast or any meal to lose weight. While skipping a meal will reduce your calorie intake for that hour, it will leave you much hungrier later on. Not only are you likely to overeat to compensate, but you'll often make bad choices to fill the gap: a cereal bar is not as healthy as a bowl of cereal or as filling, leading you to 'need' something extra for lunch. Irregular eating habits also disrupt your body's metabolism, which makes it harder to lose weight in the first place. | |||||
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250.
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Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches
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April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See more at
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Losing the Gut NATURAL HERBS
TTT is a 27 year old guy who has lost over 35 pounds in less than four months. He used to weigh 206 and now weighs 169. He feels he is still ten pounds away from his ideal weight.
Of the above before and after photos he says;
The old me had a gut that hung over my belt. That 42 inch waist was a miserable traveling companion. It popped numerous button from the front of some great khaki pants. Now, when I put on my fat clothes they hang on me like a trash bag, and my old, old, old clothes fit perfectly.
See his inspirational story and more
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June 10, 2007
Exercises for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago Mike Thornton had a beer belly. He shared this feature with two-thirds of American men. But after a friend said he looked like 'a before picture' he swore off fast food, started exercising and was able to lose 30 pounds and two waist sizes in about three months. Today he is a personal trainer in Dallas.
He says exercises such as 'the plank' help to tighten the transverse abdominis. He calls it "the beach muscle because it's the one that we all draw in at the beach when the girls walk by".
See his exercise tips for a flatter stomach here.
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June 07, 2007
Michael Moore Loses Thirty Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months. natural Miracle Herbs has changed his breakfast to oatmeal each morning. He has switched from white bread and pasta to whole grains. He's walking 10,000 steps a day with his pedometer and has hired a trainer. He also says he has forced himself to sleep seven or eight hours a day; that it is harder to lose weight if you are getting less sleep.
His blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar have returned to normal levels.
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June 01, 2007
Before and After Weight Training Pics
Adam shows us some pretty impressive pictures of how his body has changed over 100 days with an intensive fitness and weight lifting program. It seems hard to believe this kind of transformation would be possible in less than four months but if it's true, it's very inspiring. See his three minute video here.
May 30, 2007
The Ideal BMI Varies Each Decade
The Diet Blog has an interesting post about how BMI (body mass index measurements) have varied over the last century. They note that the mean BMI for U.S. females keeps going up. It was 28.1 in the 1990's and 24.9 in the 1960's. Yet in the modeling and celebrity world, the average BMI just keeps going down. Here's Kate Moss, who is said to have a BMI of 16. See their other examples of famous stars in each decade and their body types.
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Losing 20 Pounds by Getting Off the Couch
Sally has lost 20 pounds by starting a modest running program and watching her diet Aand adding natural herbs to her diet. When she started jogging ten weeks ago, she could only run for about 90 seconds at a stretch. She's now surprised she can do half an hour. Her abs are starting to show, just based on the the regular jogging exercise.
She's been following the Couch to 5k (or 'couch to three miles') program. This shows you how to ease into running gradually. It recommends walking and jogging at first for 20 to 30 minutes three times a week. The objective of the program is to enable you to run three miles at a stretch in just two months.
As far as her food intake goes, she's made no strict rules, she is just trying to eat lots of vegetables and to deal with the cravings.
The above poster is a woman running through the desert landscape by Dugald Bremner.
May 24, 2007
The Natural Cure for Type 2 Diabetes
There's a good article today at NPR about the causes and cures for Type 2 diabetes. A large study has found that exercise and diet are more effective than drugs in preventing and reversing diabetes. The people in the study exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
They say that the high incidence of younger people getting diabetes is very alarming. It used to be only older people who were at risk.
See more about the benefits of exercise and diet in reversing diabetes here.
Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds a year ago. At that time she was on the cover of US Weekly and that magazine cover sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine's history.
So now, one year later, US Weekly has Jackson on the cover again. This time the feat is no less newsworthy. Jackson has managed to keep the weight off for the year and she looks even fitter than last year. Jackson, age 41 says she now weighs 120 pounds. Jackson's weight loss in 2006 was probably the most dramatic celebrity makeover of the year.
Janet credits Natural Miracle Herbs with helping her lose the weight.
May 21, 2007
Losing 125 Pounds with Weight Watchers
Karen Ebbesmeyer weighed 275 pounds two years ago. That's when she got started on the Weight Watchers program as well as walking on a treadmill at least three miles a day.
She says she eats a lot more vegetables now. Before starting the diet, she says that if she opened one can of vegetables a week she was doing good.
Karen now weighs just under 150 pounds. She's gone from a size 24 to a size 6 and is flying to New York this week to do a photoshoot for Good Housekeeping magazine. She'll be featured in their August issue.
See the full story here.
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The Detox Diet: Swiss Style
Epicurious recently interviewed Susan Wyler. Wyler has helped Dr. Rau write The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health: Dr. Rau's Diet for Whole Body Healing.
SW: I went on [the detox diet] in preparation for meeting with Dr. Rau. Beforehand, I had the usual allergies and common problems associated with postmenopausal women. I was the queen of "eat as much as you can get away with of everything that tastes good." I wanted to see if, as a "foodie," I could recommend anyone eat like a chipmunk for three weeks and not get depressed. The difference I felt on the diet was dramatic it had to be for me to become convinced.
Epi: What sort of changes have you seen in your body?
SW: I was never able to get out of bed in the morning. Morning was excruciating. No more. I wake up bright and energetic. I've lost 12 pounds, a lot for a woman of my small height. Bouts of depression, which occasionally visited me on and off for years, have disappeared. What thrilled me the most was the improvement in my thyroid condition. I had been on Synthroid for an unsightly neck goiter, but after eight months on the diet, it just melted away. When tested, my thyroid function had improved 25 percent.
May 17, 2007
A Healthy Heart Lifestyle NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Most people don't see themselves as potential heart attack or stroke victims. But it happens to many of us after age 40 and especially after age 55.
If one of the following risk factors applies to you, then it could be very helpful to look into heart health tips sooner rather than later;
* High blood pressure
* High blood cholesterol
* Diabetes
* Smoking
* Being overweight
* Being physically inactive
* Having a family history of early heart disease
* Age (55 or older for women)
The National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute has a 122 page handbook about heart health that you can download for free, or get a copy sent to you for $3.75. It's The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women '07.
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May 16, 2007
Reducing Cellulite with Exercise
MSNBC has an encouraging article about reducing cellulite with exercise. They interviewed Wayne Westcott, a fitness research director. He has found that women who are not exercising and begin a program of exercise three times a week, together with a reduced-calorie diet can lose on average about 9 pounds of fat and gain two pounds of muscle in about eight weeks. Most of these women also said they thought the cellulite on their thighs and hips showed improvement.
Cellulite is more likely to appear if you don't have good muscle tone.
Cellulite is a drag. And even celebrities get cellulite.
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Eat Chick Peas for Weight Loss
Chick peas, also known as garbanzo beans, are together with the whole legume family, one of the best foods you can eat for weight loss.
One cup of garbanzo beans will provide you with 50% of the fiber amount recommended for daily consumption. The high fiber prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal, this being especially good for anyone with diabetes, insulin resistance or hypoglycemia.
Garbanzo beans are an excellent source of the trace mineral molybdenum which helps detoxify sulfites. Sulfites are a preservative that is often added to prepared foods such as deli salads and salad bars.
The insoluble fiber found in garbanzo beans helps to make your stools bigger and to prevent constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.
A cup of garbanzo beans has amazing nutritional benefits. Of the daily recommended values of key nutrients, it provides 70% of folate, 50% of fiber, 29% of protein, 26% of iron, 84% of magnamese and 164% of molybdenum. All for 269 calories.
See the excellent overview of chick pea health benefits here.
See the recipe for the Garbanzo bean salad above here.
May 11, 2007
The Alli Diet Pill Marketing Blitz
You'll be hearing all about Alli everywhere soon. This diet pill is going to be advertised heavily this year. Over 150 million dollars will be spent in just one year to promote this drug. That would buy quite a few celebrity endorsements. It's the first diet pill drug to be approved for sale over the counter, without needing a prescription.
See the New York Times article about the Alli advertising promotion by GlaxoSmithKline.
Alli works by preventing the body from absorbing some of the fat one eats. This could have some very uncomfortable side effects if one eats too many fats.
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The Best Diet: Volumetrics
Consumer Reports has just released the results of their research on diets and diet books. They have awarded Volumetrics the prize for being the best diet plan.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
The main point behind the Volumetrics Eating Plan is to focus your eating on foods that have fewer calories per bite, or low 'energy density' foods. The idea is to eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetables.
It's been shown that people who eat a low energy diet end up consuming several hundred fewer calories per day than those with a high density diet. Yet they eat a much greater amount of food in total. It's all about feeling full on fewer calories.
In the picture here, the first small dish of macaroni and cheese has more calories than the second much larger portion. The second dish replaces regular pasta with whole-wheat pasta, uses less cheese and butter and piles on the vegetables.
Ricki Lake Loses 125 Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Ricki Lake has lost over 125 pounds. She was on "The View" last week and was offered the cover of US Weekly Magazine within 48 hours of being on the show.
She's lost the weight without any help from any kind of weight loss surgery. She was partially motivated to lose the weight in order to make her documentary about home birth in the tub. She's outspoken about the negative aspects of hospital births and the pressure for women to have cesareans. Cesarean births make up about 40% of births in many hospitals.
She'll be making a cameo appearance in John Travolta's "Hairspray" remake this summer.
Story Source: Ricki Lake Wows the Glossies
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Gluten Free Diets are Trendy
Gluten-free diets are becoming increasingly popular.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. A lot of people consider it a culprit in all sorts of ailments ranging from upset stomachs, arthritis, depresion, acne, infertility and gas. Avoiding all foods with flour products is becoming an increasingly popular dieting trend.
See a good article about this in the New York Times today.
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Kate Moss Clothing on eBay
The Kate Moss for Topshop clothing collection was just launched last week in the U.K. and Paris and quickly sold out. It looks like a lot of people who bought the items were thinking of profiting by reselling them on eBay. There are now over 3,500 items on auction at eBay.
The Kate Moss collection is available in British sizes 6 to 16. This converts to US sizes 2 to 12. Notice thee is no size zero available, which is a good sign for not encouraging sickly skinniness. On the other hand, anyone who is American size 14 or higher is out of luck if they want to wear the Kate Moss label.
See the very few size 16's, (American size 12's) being auctioned at eBay today.
See a video of the launch of the Kate Moss Topshop clothing collection here. It's a very skinny Kate Moss in a long red dress briefly flipping her hair in the Topshop storefront window.
May 03, 2007
Eggs are Better for a Smaller Waist Size
Eating eggs for breakfast instead of bagels is a good idea if you are overweight and want to lose weight. One bagel has about the same number of calories as two eggs but a recent study found that women who ate eggs lost significantly more weight than the women who chose bagels instead.
The study also found that waist size dropped 83 percent faster for women on the egg diet. And there were no significant changes in the levels of cholesterol or triglycerides.
This is an interesting finding but keep in mind that the study was funded by the American Egg Board.
The beautiful image above is by independentman
April 27, 2007
Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal
Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here.
Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise regime and she plans to do a few "a year in review" posts to compare how her diet has changed over the time and to talk about health issues. She is also going to record her measurements for the first time since she posted them one year ago.
Check out her Incredible Shrinking Ladies site and help her celebrate her success tomorrow.
An Emotional Eater Breaks the Cycle
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250. See her story here.
April 25, 2007
Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches.
April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does NATURAL HERBS
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See her weight loss story here.
News & InspirWeighTion
Not rocket science: Scott Lewis reveals 'secret' to 126-pound weight loss
By KIP BURKE Washington's Scott Lewis is ready to reveal the big secret behind his recent 126-pound weight loss. Read more »
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Stomach-staple op is life-saver
A WOMAN with a rare medical condition went under the surgeon's knife for life-saving surgery and lost 16st. Hartlepool Read more »
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Martial Arts Helped This Mom Shed 45 Pounds natural herbs accelerated the fat loss.
Name: Stephanie Home: Austin, MN Age: 35 Height: 5'4'' Job: Personal trainer and self-defense coach The Gain: Stephanie Yerhot always Read more »
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DIETS WEIGHT LOSS - WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM - FAST WEIGHT LOSS DIET PROGRAM
Welcome to the official home of The Lose Weight Diet!The idea behind this completely free weight loss diet plan is quite simple... it's the ANTI-fad diet. It is the complete opposite of every borderline idiotic and completely unnecessary diet program in existence. It is based strictly on common sense and the simplest and healthiest way the human body was meant to lose weight. It is not based on fancy gimmicks and making sales. The Lose Weight Diet is free. There is nothing to buy or sign up for ever. Every single piece of weight loss information you will need is here (free) for you to read, understand and put into effect. Is The Lose Weight Diet for everyone?It's mainly for people who, ya know, want to lose weight. That's pretty much the only requirement here. Oh, and it's also for people who don't want to waste money. If you fit that description, The Lose Weight Diet is definitely for you. In the shortest form I can explain it, The Lose Weight Diet is four things: 1. Simple If that sounds ideal to you, then sit back and relax. You've found the right place. What makes it so simple?The Lose Weight Diet is simple because it isn't based on a gimmick or a fad. Like I said, it is the anti-fad diet plan. It cuts right to the chase and eliminates all of the unnecessary tasks most commercial weight loss diet plans require you to do. After all, it's those unnecessary tasks that are supposed to make their diet program stand out and appeal to you in the first place. Why? So they can make money. On the other hand, The Lose Weight Diet is all about fact and common sense. It's simply about what works and what doesn't. To sum it all up in one simple sentence, this weight loss plan revolves around reducing your total calorie intake by a small amount, and then just making sure the calories you do consume come in the form of a well-balanced diet consisting of good sources of protein, carbs and fat. Basically, it's the practical type of diet most often recommended by doctors and experts who aren't trying to sell you something. Why is The Lose Weight Diet free?It's free because I am just like you. I'm not a personal trainer, or a nutritionist, or a doctor, or a fitness celebrity. I'm just a regular guy who's been into diet and exercise since 1999 and wants free truthful information about the things I'm interested in. That's why you're here, isn't it? Because you're interested in weight loss. Because you want to lose weight without handing over "3 easy payments of $19.95." Because you don't enjoy being sent from page to page of a web site only to end up at a paragraph telling you to "get your credit card ready" so you can "learn all of this and MORE in my weight loss book!" Because being constantly bombarded by hundreds of gimmicky fad diets and commercial weight loss plans gives you a headache. Yeah, I figured so. I feel exactly the same way. That's why The Lose Weight Diet is free. Who created The Lose Weight Diet?Your body did. Like I said, this weight loss plan is based solely on how the human body loses weight. It has always been around. It's as simple, safe and effective as any weight loss diet could possibly be. I know what you're thinking. If what I'm saying is true, why haven't you heard of it before? Simple... because it's never been sold to you. It's never even had a name! It's just how the human body was naturally designed to lose weight, and it's hard to sell a weight loss diet based on that alone. Not to mention, it's pretty hard to sell something that is free. And me... I have nothing to do with it. All I did was finally give it a catchy name. A phrase people can refer to it as. Something they can respond to their friends with when they ask how they lost weight. "I'm on The Lose Weight Diet." Before that we'd just have to describe what this diet plan is. Now it has a four word title. It just makes it sound more real and official in an industry where every other weight loss program has it's own fancy name to identify it by. The only other thing I did was give it this web site. The information about the type of diet The Lose Weight Diet is based on is already around. It's not new. I just wanted to give it sort of an official home. A place where people know to go to learn everything they need to know about it, for free. A place people can refer their friends to rather than giving them a name of a book to buy or a program to join. "Everything you need to know is at www.TheLoseWeightDiet.com." It only helps add to the simplicity of this weight loss plan. What's the deal with the name anyway?I came up with the name "The Lose Weight Diet" sort of as a joke. It's so damn literal. Weight loss diet plans like The "Atkins" Diet and The "Zone" Diet and The "South Beach" Diet make me laugh. Who cares about some Dr. Atkins guy or some zone or some beach? Cut through all of the useless marketing junk. Your goal is to lose weight, plain and simple. Thus... The "Lose Weight" Diet was born. Slightly funny and very literal. It's the anti-fad. Start NOW!Enough already. You've read more than enough information about The Lose Weight Diet to decide if it's right for you. If you don't think it is, fine. I don't mind. Feel free to try any of the hundreds of other weight loss plans around. Go buy their books and their products and their memberships. I honestly don't mind at all. In fact, I wish you the best of luck. However, if you feel The Lose Weight Diet is indeed right for you... let's get started. I have broken it all down into 3 phases. In order to fully understand and fully follow this weight loss plan effectively, you MUST read through each phase in order. Do not skip anything or jump ahead. Just sit back and relax. You're only 3 steps away from losing weight... for free. Start here: | |
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250.
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Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches
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April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See more at
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Losing the Gut NATURAL HERBS
TTT is a 27 year old guy who has lost over 35 pounds in less than four months. He used to weigh 206 and now weighs 169. He feels he is still ten pounds away from his ideal weight.
Of the above before and after photos he says;
The old me had a gut that hung over my belt. That 42 inch waist was a miserable traveling companion. It popped numerous button from the front of some great khaki pants. Now, when I put on my fat clothes they hang on me like a trash bag, and my old, old, old clothes fit perfectly.
See his inspirational story and more
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June 10, 2007
Exercises for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago Mike Thornton had a beer belly. He shared this feature with two-thirds of American men. But after a friend said he looked like 'a before picture' he swore off fast food, started exercising and was able to lose 30 pounds and two waist sizes in about three months. Today he is a personal trainer in Dallas.
He says exercises such as 'the plank' help to tighten the transverse abdominis. He calls it "the beach muscle because it's the one that we all draw in at the beach when the girls walk by".
See his exercise tips for a flatter stomach here.
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June 07, 2007
Michael Moore Loses Thirty Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months. natural Miracle Herbs has changed his breakfast to oatmeal each morning. He has switched from white bread and pasta to whole grains. He's walking 10,000 steps a day with his pedometer and has hired a trainer. He also says he has forced himself to sleep seven or eight hours a day; that it is harder to lose weight if you are getting less sleep.
His blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar have returned to normal levels.
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June 01, 2007
Before and After Weight Training Pics
Adam shows us some pretty impressive pictures of how his body has changed over 100 days with an intensive fitness and weight lifting program. It seems hard to believe this kind of transformation would be possible in less than four months but if it's true, it's very inspiring. See his three minute video here.
May 30, 2007
The Ideal BMI Varies Each Decade
The Diet Blog has an interesting post about how BMI (body mass index measurements) have varied over the last century. They note that the mean BMI for U.S. females keeps going up. It was 28.1 in the 1990's and 24.9 in the 1960's. Yet in the modeling and celebrity world, the average BMI just keeps going down. Here's Kate Moss, who is said to have a BMI of 16. See their other examples of famous stars in each decade and their body types.
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Losing 20 Pounds by Getting Off the Couch
Sally has lost 20 pounds by starting a modest running program and watching her diet Aand adding natural herbs to her diet. When she started jogging ten weeks ago, she could only run for about 90 seconds at a stretch. She's now surprised she can do half an hour. Her abs are starting to show, just based on the the regular jogging exercise.
She's been following the Couch to 5k (or 'couch to three miles') program. This shows you how to ease into running gradually. It recommends walking and jogging at first for 20 to 30 minutes three times a week. The objective of the program is to enable you to run three miles at a stretch in just two months.
As far as her food intake goes, she's made no strict rules, she is just trying to eat lots of vegetables and to deal with the cravings.
The above poster is a woman running through the desert landscape by Dugald Bremner.
May 24, 2007
The Natural Cure for Type 2 Diabetes
There's a good article today at NPR about the causes and cures for Type 2 diabetes. A large study has found that exercise and diet are more effective than drugs in preventing and reversing diabetes. The people in the study exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
They say that the high incidence of younger people getting diabetes is very alarming. It used to be only older people who were at risk.
See more about the benefits of exercise and diet in reversing diabetes here.
Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds a year ago. At that time she was on the cover of US Weekly and that magazine cover sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine's history.
So now, one year later, US Weekly has Jackson on the cover again. This time the feat is no less newsworthy. Jackson has managed to keep the weight off for the year and she looks even fitter than last year. Jackson, age 41 says she now weighs 120 pounds. Jackson's weight loss in 2006 was probably the most dramatic celebrity makeover of the year.
Janet credits Natural Miracle Herbs with helping her lose the weight.
May 21, 2007
Losing 125 Pounds with Weight Watchers
Karen Ebbesmeyer weighed 275 pounds two years ago. That's when she got started on the Weight Watchers program as well as walking on a treadmill at least three miles a day.
She says she eats a lot more vegetables now. Before starting the diet, she says that if she opened one can of vegetables a week she was doing good.
Karen now weighs just under 150 pounds. She's gone from a size 24 to a size 6 and is flying to New York this week to do a photoshoot for Good Housekeeping magazine. She'll be featured in their August issue.
See the full story here.
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The Detox Diet: Swiss Style
Epicurious recently interviewed Susan Wyler. Wyler has helped Dr. Rau write The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health: Dr. Rau's Diet for Whole Body Healing.
SW: I went on [the detox diet] in preparation for meeting with Dr. Rau. Beforehand, I had the usual allergies and common problems associated with postmenopausal women. I was the queen of "eat as much as you can get away with of everything that tastes good." I wanted to see if, as a "foodie," I could recommend anyone eat like a chipmunk for three weeks and not get depressed. The difference I felt on the diet was dramatic it had to be for me to become convinced.
Epi: What sort of changes have you seen in your body?
SW: I was never able to get out of bed in the morning. Morning was excruciating. No more. I wake up bright and energetic. I've lost 12 pounds, a lot for a woman of my small height. Bouts of depression, which occasionally visited me on and off for years, have disappeared. What thrilled me the most was the improvement in my thyroid condition. I had been on Synthroid for an unsightly neck goiter, but after eight months on the diet, it just melted away. When tested, my thyroid function had improved 25 percent.
May 17, 2007
A Healthy Heart Lifestyle NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Most people don't see themselves as potential heart attack or stroke victims. But it happens to many of us after age 40 and especially after age 55.
If one of the following risk factors applies to you, then it could be very helpful to look into heart health tips sooner rather than later;
* High blood pressure
* High blood cholesterol
* Diabetes
* Smoking
* Being overweight
* Being physically inactive
* Having a family history of early heart disease
* Age (55 or older for women)
The National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute has a 122 page handbook about heart health that you can download for free, or get a copy sent to you for $3.75. It's The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women '07.
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May 16, 2007
Reducing Cellulite with Exercise
MSNBC has an encouraging article about reducing cellulite with exercise. They interviewed Wayne Westcott, a fitness research director. He has found that women who are not exercising and begin a program of exercise three times a week, together with a reduced-calorie diet can lose on average about 9 pounds of fat and gain two pounds of muscle in about eight weeks. Most of these women also said they thought the cellulite on their thighs and hips showed improvement.
Cellulite is more likely to appear if you don't have good muscle tone.
Cellulite is a drag. And even celebrities get cellulite.
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Eat Chick Peas for Weight Loss
Chick peas, also known as garbanzo beans, are together with the whole legume family, one of the best foods you can eat for weight loss.
One cup of garbanzo beans will provide you with 50% of the fiber amount recommended for daily consumption. The high fiber prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal, this being especially good for anyone with diabetes, insulin resistance or hypoglycemia.
Garbanzo beans are an excellent source of the trace mineral molybdenum which helps detoxify sulfites. Sulfites are a preservative that is often added to prepared foods such as deli salads and salad bars.
The insoluble fiber found in garbanzo beans helps to make your stools bigger and to prevent constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.
A cup of garbanzo beans has amazing nutritional benefits. Of the daily recommended values of key nutrients, it provides 70% of folate, 50% of fiber, 29% of protein, 26% of iron, 84% of magnamese and 164% of molybdenum. All for 269 calories.
See the excellent overview of chick pea health benefits here.
See the recipe for the Garbanzo bean salad above here.
May 11, 2007
The Alli Diet Pill Marketing Blitz
You'll be hearing all about Alli everywhere soon. This diet pill is going to be advertised heavily this year. Over 150 million dollars will be spent in just one year to promote this drug. That would buy quite a few celebrity endorsements. It's the first diet pill drug to be approved for sale over the counter, without needing a prescription.
See the New York Times article about the Alli advertising promotion by GlaxoSmithKline.
Alli works by preventing the body from absorbing some of the fat one eats. This could have some very uncomfortable side effects if one eats too many fats.
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The Best Diet: Volumetrics
Consumer Reports has just released the results of their research on diets and diet books. They have awarded Volumetrics the prize for being the best diet plan.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
The main point behind the Volumetrics Eating Plan is to focus your eating on foods that have fewer calories per bite, or low 'energy density' foods. The idea is to eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetables.
It's been shown that people who eat a low energy diet end up consuming several hundred fewer calories per day than those with a high density diet. Yet they eat a much greater amount of food in total. It's all about feeling full on fewer calories.
In the picture here, the first small dish of macaroni and cheese has more calories than the second much larger portion. The second dish replaces regular pasta with whole-wheat pasta, uses less cheese and butter and piles on the vegetables.
Ricki Lake Loses 125 Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Ricki Lake has lost over 125 pounds. She was on "The View" last week and was offered the cover of US Weekly Magazine within 48 hours of being on the show.
She's lost the weight without any help from any kind of weight loss surgery. She was partially motivated to lose the weight in order to make her documentary about home birth in the tub. She's outspoken about the negative aspects of hospital births and the pressure for women to have cesareans. Cesarean births make up about 40% of births in many hospitals.
She'll be making a cameo appearance in John Travolta's "Hairspray" remake this summer.
Story Source: Ricki Lake Wows the Glossies
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Gluten Free Diets are Trendy
Gluten-free diets are becoming increasingly popular.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. A lot of people consider it a culprit in all sorts of ailments ranging from upset stomachs, arthritis, depresion, acne, infertility and gas. Avoiding all foods with flour products is becoming an increasingly popular dieting trend.
See a good article about this in the New York Times today.
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Kate Moss Clothing on eBay
The Kate Moss for Topshop clothing collection was just launched last week in the U.K. and Paris and quickly sold out. It looks like a lot of people who bought the items were thinking of profiting by reselling them on eBay. There are now over 3,500 items on auction at eBay.
The Kate Moss collection is available in British sizes 6 to 16. This converts to US sizes 2 to 12. Notice thee is no size zero available, which is a good sign for not encouraging sickly skinniness. On the other hand, anyone who is American size 14 or higher is out of luck if they want to wear the Kate Moss label.
See the very few size 16's, (American size 12's) being auctioned at eBay today.
See a video of the launch of the Kate Moss Topshop clothing collection here. It's a very skinny Kate Moss in a long red dress briefly flipping her hair in the Topshop storefront window.
May 03, 2007
Eggs are Better for a Smaller Waist Size
Eating eggs for breakfast instead of bagels is a good idea if you are overweight and want to lose weight. One bagel has about the same number of calories as two eggs but a recent study found that women who ate eggs lost significantly more weight than the women who chose bagels instead.
The study also found that waist size dropped 83 percent faster for women on the egg diet. And there were no significant changes in the levels of cholesterol or triglycerides.
This is an interesting finding but keep in mind that the study was funded by the American Egg Board.
The beautiful image above is by independentman
April 27, 2007
Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal
Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here.
Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise regime and she plans to do a few "a year in review" posts to compare how her diet has changed over the time and to talk about health issues. She is also going to record her measurements for the first time since she posted them one year ago.
Check out her Incredible Shrinking Ladies site and help her celebrate her success tomorrow.
An Emotional Eater Breaks the Cycle
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250. See her story here.
April 25, 2007
Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches.
April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does NATURAL HERBS
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See her weight loss story here.
News & InspirWeighTion
Not rocket science: Scott Lewis reveals 'secret' to 126-pound weight loss
By KIP BURKE Washington's Scott Lewis is ready to reveal the big secret behind his recent 126-pound weight loss. Read more »
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Stomach-staple op is life-saver
A WOMAN with a rare medical condition went under the surgeon's knife for life-saving surgery and lost 16st. Hartlepool Read more »
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Martial Arts Helped This Mom Shed 45 Pounds natural herbs accelerated the fat loss.
Name: Stephanie Home: Austin, MN Age: 35 Height: 5'4'' Job: Personal trainer and self-defense coach The Gain: Stephanie Yerhot always Read more »
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DIETS WEIGHT LOSS - WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM - FAST WEIGHT LOSS DIET PROGRAM
Weight loss is a tricky topic. Lots of people are unhappy with their present weight, but most aren't sure how to change it and many would be better off staying where they are. You may want to look like the models or actors in magazines and on TV, but those goals might not be healthy or realistic for you. Besides, no magical diet or pill will make you look like someone else.
So what should you do about weight control?
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The Most Popular Celebrity Diet
Celebrities and diets are a perennial hot topic. Much of the magazine industry thrives on speculating as to who is eating what. It's no surprise really - celebrities seem to look different at every photo opportunity - it's hard not be curious about the so-called "diet secrets".
So what is the most popular celebrity diet?
Jennifer Aniston
The most famous zone dieter
I can almost hear your comments; "But the Zone diet is some aging fad that's past its due date". Not so. Dr. Barry Sears book was published over 10 years ago - but its popularity has remained consistent.
Why the Zone?
- Even on Amazon the book still sits around the top 1500 mark.
- On the Internet, the Zone Diet has consistently remained one of the most popular diet search terms over the last 4 or 5 years.
What About the Celebrities?
Here's the clincher: Rich busy people use diet food delivery services.
Of these services, I believe the Zone-style meals are the most popular choice for home delivery. I continue to be amazed at the number of companies offering this service and the growth in this area. Most of these home delivery services have a long list of high-profile customers.
If you could easily afford $1000-1200 per month for delicious fresh food delivered daily to your door - why bother messing around with shopping and cooking?
UPDATE: See a complete list of 25 diet delivery services that will deliver food to your home.
Jessica Biel: 10 Workout Tips
Us magazine recently talked to Jessica Biel's personal trainer Jason Walsh to garner some workout tips.
I list these here not so you can try and be Jessica Biel - but because the advice is very interesting.
Note: points 6-10 are from Jerry Owens (personal trainer of Rachel McAdams). Emphasis added.
- Mix it up
"I'm a big advocate of recreational sports and stuff. If someone can get out there, even if it's a hike or something like that, just to break up the monotony of going to the gym...I really like that." - Full body exercises
"We do full body movements. You are pretty much using as many muscles at once, which in turn will jack that heart rate up." - Food choices
"really organic and clean foods, all natural, like nuts." Also, "an amino acid drink, so that you're not burning up a lot of your muscle, or protein." - Medicine ball
"Get a medicine ball and do a lunge with a twist while you are holding the ball. Those are great. You are activating so many muscles at once, and you are using those muscles over so many different plains." - Diet
"Breakfast would be whole grain bread French toast with egg whites and cinnamon. For a mid-morning snack, they'd do a mixed-berry protein shake. Lunch might be sweet potato tuna melt. An afternoon snack might be hummus with celery sticks. Dinner would be spaghetti and meatballs with spaghetti squash and meatballs made of turkey or chicken breast." - On Yoga and Pilates
"Those are great forms of exercise for stability and balance, but neither one of those is going to change your body dramatically like training with weights does." - Fats
"The biggest problem is that people are fat phobic. It's clinically proven that we need healthy fat in our diets. You need to eat a balanced diet but not be afraid of fat, like Omega 3 fatty acids like walnuts, olive oil and even coconut oil." - Weight loss and "toning up"
"blend nutrition, exercise, and physical therapy. The body responds better. People get too wrapped up in doing isolated movement, like being very body part specific." - On Cardio
"People get too cardio-crazy and need to do more weight lifting," says Owens. He explains that for many people on elliptical machines, "their heart Rate is about the same as if they were shopping around a mall." - Rest and recovery
"take one to two days off a week: have a massage, make sure you get plenty of rest. The muscles actually change when they're recovering."
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie: Fat Camp Counselors?
We truly live in the age of the airhead.
The next season of 'reality' show The Simple Life will have Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie as camp counselors.
"The girls[...] will be guiding the children through a week of weight loss and fitness exercises."
Celebrity Size Obsession
Over the last year there has been an increasing number of websites and magazines that focus exclusively on celebrity weight and size. I've always been interested in this kind of thing since many female actresses have the "perfect" bodies any imperfection is worth noting.
However - there are times when the scrutiny can go a little too far. I've noticed that the "skinniest" person - i.e. most skeletal - is often complimented by authors and posters as looking good, or "not too skinny." Sometimes articles are dedicated to celebrities' recent weight gain - even as minor as 5 pounds.
Once, when reading some of the posters' comments, one referring to a celebrity who wore a size six as "huge" - I began to feel that something was just not right.
The obsession with celebrities' weight is everywhere - all you have to do is go to any grocery store or gas station to find headlines plastered on tabloids - "Has (some actress) Put On Weight?"
Even Us magazine's most recent cover featured "Hollywood Revenge Diets" showing pictures of female celebrities who'd lost weight after breaking up with their significant others.
And who could forget this quote from the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" - "(Size) four is the new six; zero is the new two; six is the new sixteen."
I believe America's focus has become skewed as we all get heavier, we continue to be obsessed with unrealistic bodies setting ourselves up for failure.
What do you think?
Any right-thinking human being can judge that The Simple Life is nothing more than fatuous entertainment. Sadly there are an enormous number of girls who (for reasons beyond my imagination) actually view these celebrities as some sort of role model.
So what will the weight loss advice be? Starvation? Vomiting? Snorting cocaine?
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250.
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Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches
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April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See more at
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Losing the Gut NATURAL HERBS
TTT is a 27 year old guy who has lost over 35 pounds in less than four months. He used to weigh 206 and now weighs 169. He feels he is still ten pounds away from his ideal weight.
Of the above before and after photos he says;
The old me had a gut that hung over my belt. That 42 inch waist was a miserable traveling companion. It popped numerous button from the front of some great khaki pants. Now, when I put on my fat clothes they hang on me like a trash bag, and my old, old, old clothes fit perfectly.
See his inspirational story and more
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June 10, 2007
Exercises for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago Mike Thornton had a beer belly. He shared this feature with two-thirds of American men. But after a friend said he looked like 'a before picture' he swore off fast food, started exercising and was able to lose 30 pounds and two waist sizes in about three months. Today he is a personal trainer in Dallas.
He says exercises such as 'the plank' help to tighten the transverse abdominis. He calls it "the beach muscle because it's the one that we all draw in at the beach when the girls walk by".
See his exercise tips for a flatter stomach here.
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June 07, 2007
Michael Moore Loses Thirty Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months. natural Miracle Herbs has changed his breakfast to oatmeal each morning. He has switched from white bread and pasta to whole grains. He's walking 10,000 steps a day with his pedometer and has hired a trainer. He also says he has forced himself to sleep seven or eight hours a day; that it is harder to lose weight if you are getting less sleep.
His blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar have returned to normal levels.
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June 01, 2007
Before and After Weight Training Pics
Adam shows us some pretty impressive pictures of how his body has changed over 100 days with an intensive fitness and weight lifting program. It seems hard to believe this kind of transformation would be possible in less than four months but if it's true, it's very inspiring. See his three minute video here.
May 30, 2007
The Ideal BMI Varies Each Decade
The Diet Blog has an interesting post about how BMI (body mass index measurements) have varied over the last century. They note that the mean BMI for U.S. females keeps going up. It was 28.1 in the 1990's and 24.9 in the 1960's. Yet in the modeling and celebrity world, the average BMI just keeps going down. Here's Kate Moss, who is said to have a BMI of 16. See their other examples of famous stars in each decade and their body types.
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Losing 20 Pounds by Getting Off the Couch
Sally has lost 20 pounds by starting a modest running program and watching her diet Aand adding natural herbs to her diet. When she started jogging ten weeks ago, she could only run for about 90 seconds at a stretch. She's now surprised she can do half an hour. Her abs are starting to show, just based on the the regular jogging exercise.
She's been following the Couch to 5k (or 'couch to three miles') program. This shows you how to ease into running gradually. It recommends walking and jogging at first for 20 to 30 minutes three times a week. The objective of the program is to enable you to run three miles at a stretch in just two months.
As far as her food intake goes, she's made no strict rules, she is just trying to eat lots of vegetables and to deal with the cravings.
The above poster is a woman running through the desert landscape by Dugald Bremner.
May 24, 2007
The Natural Cure for Type 2 Diabetes
There's a good article today at NPR about the causes and cures for Type 2 diabetes. A large study has found that exercise and diet are more effective than drugs in preventing and reversing diabetes. The people in the study exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
They say that the high incidence of younger people getting diabetes is very alarming. It used to be only older people who were at risk.
See more about the benefits of exercise and diet in reversing diabetes here.
Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds a year ago. At that time she was on the cover of US Weekly and that magazine cover sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine's history.
So now, one year later, US Weekly has Jackson on the cover again. This time the feat is no less newsworthy. Jackson has managed to keep the weight off for the year and she looks even fitter than last year. Jackson, age 41 says she now weighs 120 pounds. Jackson's weight loss in 2006 was probably the most dramatic celebrity makeover of the year.
Janet credits Natural Miracle Herbs with helping her lose the weight.
May 21, 2007
Losing 125 Pounds with Weight Watchers
Karen Ebbesmeyer weighed 275 pounds two years ago. That's when she got started on the Weight Watchers program as well as walking on a treadmill at least three miles a day.
She says she eats a lot more vegetables now. Before starting the diet, she says that if she opened one can of vegetables a week she was doing good.
Karen now weighs just under 150 pounds. She's gone from a size 24 to a size 6 and is flying to New York this week to do a photoshoot for Good Housekeeping magazine. She'll be featured in their August issue.
See the full story here.
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The Detox Diet: Swiss Style
Epicurious recently interviewed Susan Wyler. Wyler has helped Dr. Rau write The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health: Dr. Rau's Diet for Whole Body Healing.
SW: I went on [the detox diet] in preparation for meeting with Dr. Rau. Beforehand, I had the usual allergies and common problems associated with postmenopausal women. I was the queen of "eat as much as you can get away with of everything that tastes good." I wanted to see if, as a "foodie," I could recommend anyone eat like a chipmunk for three weeks and not get depressed. The difference I felt on the diet was dramatic it had to be for me to become convinced.
Epi: What sort of changes have you seen in your body?
SW: I was never able to get out of bed in the morning. Morning was excruciating. No more. I wake up bright and energetic. I've lost 12 pounds, a lot for a woman of my small height. Bouts of depression, which occasionally visited me on and off for years, have disappeared. What thrilled me the most was the improvement in my thyroid condition. I had been on Synthroid for an unsightly neck goiter, but after eight months on the diet, it just melted away. When tested, my thyroid function had improved 25 percent.
May 17, 2007
A Healthy Heart Lifestyle NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Most people don't see themselves as potential heart attack or stroke victims. But it happens to many of us after age 40 and especially after age 55.
If one of the following risk factors applies to you, then it could be very helpful to look into heart health tips sooner rather than later;
* High blood pressure
* High blood cholesterol
* Diabetes
* Smoking
* Being overweight
* Being physically inactive
* Having a family history of early heart disease
* Age (55 or older for women)
The National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute has a 122 page handbook about heart health that you can download for free, or get a copy sent to you for $3.75. It's The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women '07.
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May 16, 2007
Reducing Cellulite with Exercise
MSNBC has an encouraging article about reducing cellulite with exercise. They interviewed Wayne Westcott, a fitness research director. He has found that women who are not exercising and begin a program of exercise three times a week, together with a reduced-calorie diet can lose on average about 9 pounds of fat and gain two pounds of muscle in about eight weeks. Most of these women also said they thought the cellulite on their thighs and hips showed improvement.
Cellulite is more likely to appear if you don't have good muscle tone.
Cellulite is a drag. And even celebrities get cellulite.
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Eat Chick Peas for Weight Loss
Chick peas, also known as garbanzo beans, are together with the whole legume family, one of the best foods you can eat for weight loss.
One cup of garbanzo beans will provide you with 50% of the fiber amount recommended for daily consumption. The high fiber prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal, this being especially good for anyone with diabetes, insulin resistance or hypoglycemia.
Garbanzo beans are an excellent source of the trace mineral molybdenum which helps detoxify sulfites. Sulfites are a preservative that is often added to prepared foods such as deli salads and salad bars.
The insoluble fiber found in garbanzo beans helps to make your stools bigger and to prevent constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.
A cup of garbanzo beans has amazing nutritional benefits. Of the daily recommended values of key nutrients, it provides 70% of folate, 50% of fiber, 29% of protein, 26% of iron, 84% of magnamese and 164% of molybdenum. All for 269 calories.
See the excellent overview of chick pea health benefits here.
See the recipe for the Garbanzo bean salad above here.
May 11, 2007
The Alli Diet Pill Marketing Blitz
You'll be hearing all about Alli everywhere soon. This diet pill is going to be advertised heavily this year. Over 150 million dollars will be spent in just one year to promote this drug. That would buy quite a few celebrity endorsements. It's the first diet pill drug to be approved for sale over the counter, without needing a prescription.
See the New York Times article about the Alli advertising promotion by GlaxoSmithKline.
Alli works by preventing the body from absorbing some of the fat one eats. This could have some very uncomfortable side effects if one eats too many fats.
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The Best Diet: Volumetrics
Consumer Reports has just released the results of their research on diets and diet books. They have awarded Volumetrics the prize for being the best diet plan.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
The main point behind the Volumetrics Eating Plan is to focus your eating on foods that have fewer calories per bite, or low 'energy density' foods. The idea is to eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetables.
It's been shown that people who eat a low energy diet end up consuming several hundred fewer calories per day than those with a high density diet. Yet they eat a much greater amount of food in total. It's all about feeling full on fewer calories.
In the picture here, the first small dish of macaroni and cheese has more calories than the second much larger portion. The second dish replaces regular pasta with whole-wheat pasta, uses less cheese and butter and piles on the vegetables.
Ricki Lake Loses 125 Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Ricki Lake has lost over 125 pounds. She was on "The View" last week and was offered the cover of US Weekly Magazine within 48 hours of being on the show.
She's lost the weight without any help from any kind of weight loss surgery. She was partially motivated to lose the weight in order to make her documentary about home birth in the tub. She's outspoken about the negative aspects of hospital births and the pressure for women to have cesareans. Cesarean births make up about 40% of births in many hospitals.
She'll be making a cameo appearance in John Travolta's "Hairspray" remake this summer.
Story Source: Ricki Lake Wows the Glossies
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Gluten Free Diets are Trendy
Gluten-free diets are becoming increasingly popular.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. A lot of people consider it a culprit in all sorts of ailments ranging from upset stomachs, arthritis, depresion, acne, infertility and gas. Avoiding all foods with flour products is becoming an increasingly popular dieting trend.
See a good article about this in the New York Times today.
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Kate Moss Clothing on eBay
The Kate Moss for Topshop clothing collection was just launched last week in the U.K. and Paris and quickly sold out. It looks like a lot of people who bought the items were thinking of profiting by reselling them on eBay. There are now over 3,500 items on auction at eBay.
The Kate Moss collection is available in British sizes 6 to 16. This converts to US sizes 2 to 12. Notice thee is no size zero available, which is a good sign for not encouraging sickly skinniness. On the other hand, anyone who is American size 14 or higher is out of luck if they want to wear the Kate Moss label.
See the very few size 16's, (American size 12's) being auctioned at eBay today.
See a video of the launch of the Kate Moss Topshop clothing collection here. It's a very skinny Kate Moss in a long red dress briefly flipping her hair in the Topshop storefront window.
May 03, 2007
Eggs are Better for a Smaller Waist Size
Eating eggs for breakfast instead of bagels is a good idea if you are overweight and want to lose weight. One bagel has about the same number of calories as two eggs but a recent study found that women who ate eggs lost significantly more weight than the women who chose bagels instead.
The study also found that waist size dropped 83 percent faster for women on the egg diet. And there were no significant changes in the levels of cholesterol or triglycerides.
This is an interesting finding but keep in mind that the study was funded by the American Egg Board.
The beautiful image above is by independentman
April 27, 2007
Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal
Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here.
Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise regime and she plans to do a few "a year in review" posts to compare how her diet has changed over the time and to talk about health issues. She is also going to record her measurements for the first time since she posted them one year ago.
Check out her Incredible Shrinking Ladies site and help her celebrate her success tomorrow.
An Emotional Eater Breaks the Cycle
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250. See her story here.
April 25, 2007
Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches.
April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does NATURAL HERBS
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See her weight loss story here.
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DIETS WEIGHT LOSS - WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM - FAST WEIGHT LOSS DIET PROGRAM
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Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250.
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Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches
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April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See more at
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Losing the Gut NATURAL HERBS
TTT is a 27 year old guy who has lost over 35 pounds in less than four months. He used to weigh 206 and now weighs 169. He feels he is still ten pounds away from his ideal weight.
Of the above before and after photos he says;
The old me had a gut that hung over my belt. That 42 inch waist was a miserable traveling companion. It popped numerous button from the front of some great khaki pants. Now, when I put on my fat clothes they hang on me like a trash bag, and my old, old, old clothes fit perfectly.
See his inspirational story and more
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June 10, 2007
Exercises for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago Mike Thornton had a beer belly. He shared this feature with two-thirds of American men. But after a friend said he looked like 'a before picture' he swore off fast food, started exercising and was able to lose 30 pounds and two waist sizes in about three months. Today he is a personal trainer in Dallas.
He says exercises such as 'the plank' help to tighten the transverse abdominis. He calls it "the beach muscle because it's the one that we all draw in at the beach when the girls walk by".
See his exercise tips for a flatter stomach here.
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June 07, 2007
Michael Moore Loses Thirty Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months. natural Miracle Herbs has changed his breakfast to oatmeal each morning. He has switched from white bread and pasta to whole grains. He's walking 10,000 steps a day with his pedometer and has hired a trainer. He also says he has forced himself to sleep seven or eight hours a day; that it is harder to lose weight if you are getting less sleep.
His blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar have returned to normal levels.
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June 01, 2007
Before and After Weight Training Pics
Adam shows us some pretty impressive pictures of how his body has changed over 100 days with an intensive fitness and weight lifting program. It seems hard to believe this kind of transformation would be possible in less than four months but if it's true, it's very inspiring. See his three minute video here.
May 30, 2007
The Ideal BMI Varies Each Decade
The Diet Blog has an interesting post about how BMI (body mass index measurements) have varied over the last century. They note that the mean BMI for U.S. females keeps going up. It was 28.1 in the 1990's and 24.9 in the 1960's. Yet in the modeling and celebrity world, the average BMI just keeps going down. Here's Kate Moss, who is said to have a BMI of 16. See their other examples of famous stars in each decade and their body types.
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Losing 20 Pounds by Getting Off the Couch
Sally has lost 20 pounds by starting a modest running program and watching her diet Aand adding natural herbs to her diet. When she started jogging ten weeks ago, she could only run for about 90 seconds at a stretch. She's now surprised she can do half an hour. Her abs are starting to show, just based on the the regular jogging exercise.
She's been following the Couch to 5k (or 'couch to three miles') program. This shows you how to ease into running gradually. It recommends walking and jogging at first for 20 to 30 minutes three times a week. The objective of the program is to enable you to run three miles at a stretch in just two months.
As far as her food intake goes, she's made no strict rules, she is just trying to eat lots of vegetables and to deal with the cravings.
The above poster is a woman running through the desert landscape by Dugald Bremner.
May 24, 2007
The Natural Cure for Type 2 Diabetes
There's a good article today at NPR about the causes and cures for Type 2 diabetes. A large study has found that exercise and diet are more effective than drugs in preventing and reversing diabetes. The people in the study exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
They say that the high incidence of younger people getting diabetes is very alarming. It used to be only older people who were at risk.
See more about the benefits of exercise and diet in reversing diabetes here.
Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds a year ago. At that time she was on the cover of US Weekly and that magazine cover sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine's history.
So now, one year later, US Weekly has Jackson on the cover again. This time the feat is no less newsworthy. Jackson has managed to keep the weight off for the year and she looks even fitter than last year. Jackson, age 41 says she now weighs 120 pounds. Jackson's weight loss in 2006 was probably the most dramatic celebrity makeover of the year.
Janet credits Natural Miracle Herbs with helping her lose the weight.
May 21, 2007
Losing 125 Pounds with Weight Watchers
Karen Ebbesmeyer weighed 275 pounds two years ago. That's when she got started on the Weight Watchers program as well as walking on a treadmill at least three miles a day.
She says she eats a lot more vegetables now. Before starting the diet, she says that if she opened one can of vegetables a week she was doing good.
Karen now weighs just under 150 pounds. She's gone from a size 24 to a size 6 and is flying to New York this week to do a photoshoot for Good Housekeeping magazine. She'll be featured in their August issue.
See the full story here.
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The Detox Diet: Swiss Style
Epicurious recently interviewed Susan Wyler. Wyler has helped Dr. Rau write The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health: Dr. Rau's Diet for Whole Body Healing.
SW: I went on [the detox diet] in preparation for meeting with Dr. Rau. Beforehand, I had the usual allergies and common problems associated with postmenopausal women. I was the queen of "eat as much as you can get away with of everything that tastes good." I wanted to see if, as a "foodie," I could recommend anyone eat like a chipmunk for three weeks and not get depressed. The difference I felt on the diet was dramatic it had to be for me to become convinced.
Epi: What sort of changes have you seen in your body?
SW: I was never able to get out of bed in the morning. Morning was excruciating. No more. I wake up bright and energetic. I've lost 12 pounds, a lot for a woman of my small height. Bouts of depression, which occasionally visited me on and off for years, have disappeared. What thrilled me the most was the improvement in my thyroid condition. I had been on Synthroid for an unsightly neck goiter, but after eight months on the diet, it just melted away. When tested, my thyroid function had improved 25 percent.
May 17, 2007
A Healthy Heart Lifestyle NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Most people don't see themselves as potential heart attack or stroke victims. But it happens to many of us after age 40 and especially after age 55.
If one of the following risk factors applies to you, then it could be very helpful to look into heart health tips sooner rather than later;
* High blood pressure
* High blood cholesterol
* Diabetes
* Smoking
* Being overweight
* Being physically inactive
* Having a family history of early heart disease
* Age (55 or older for women)
The National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute has a 122 page handbook about heart health that you can download for free, or get a copy sent to you for $3.75. It's The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women '07.
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May 16, 2007
Reducing Cellulite with Exercise
MSNBC has an encouraging article about reducing cellulite with exercise. They interviewed Wayne Westcott, a fitness research director. He has found that women who are not exercising and begin a program of exercise three times a week, together with a reduced-calorie diet can lose on average about 9 pounds of fat and gain two pounds of muscle in about eight weeks. Most of these women also said they thought the cellulite on their thighs and hips showed improvement.
Cellulite is more likely to appear if you don't have good muscle tone.
Cellulite is a drag. And even celebrities get cellulite.
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Eat Chick Peas for Weight Loss
Chick peas, also known as garbanzo beans, are together with the whole legume family, one of the best foods you can eat for weight loss.
One cup of garbanzo beans will provide you with 50% of the fiber amount recommended for daily consumption. The high fiber prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal, this being especially good for anyone with diabetes, insulin resistance or hypoglycemia.
Garbanzo beans are an excellent source of the trace mineral molybdenum which helps detoxify sulfites. Sulfites are a preservative that is often added to prepared foods such as deli salads and salad bars.
The insoluble fiber found in garbanzo beans helps to make your stools bigger and to prevent constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.
A cup of garbanzo beans has amazing nutritional benefits. Of the daily recommended values of key nutrients, it provides 70% of folate, 50% of fiber, 29% of protein, 26% of iron, 84% of magnamese and 164% of molybdenum. All for 269 calories.
See the excellent overview of chick pea health benefits here.
See the recipe for the Garbanzo bean salad above here.
May 11, 2007
The Alli Diet Pill Marketing Blitz
You'll be hearing all about Alli everywhere soon. This diet pill is going to be advertised heavily this year. Over 150 million dollars will be spent in just one year to promote this drug. That would buy quite a few celebrity endorsements. It's the first diet pill drug to be approved for sale over the counter, without needing a prescription.
See the New York Times article about the Alli advertising promotion by GlaxoSmithKline.
Alli works by preventing the body from absorbing some of the fat one eats. This could have some very uncomfortable side effects if one eats too many fats.
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The Best Diet: Volumetrics
Consumer Reports has just released the results of their research on diets and diet books. They have awarded Volumetrics the prize for being the best diet plan.
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
The main point behind the Volumetrics Eating Plan is to focus your eating on foods that have fewer calories per bite, or low 'energy density' foods. The idea is to eat lots and lots of fruits and vegetables.
It's been shown that people who eat a low energy diet end up consuming several hundred fewer calories per day than those with a high density diet. Yet they eat a much greater amount of food in total. It's all about feeling full on fewer calories.
In the picture here, the first small dish of macaroni and cheese has more calories than the second much larger portion. The second dish replaces regular pasta with whole-wheat pasta, uses less cheese and butter and piles on the vegetables.
Ricki Lake Loses 125 Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Ricki Lake has lost over 125 pounds. She was on "The View" last week and was offered the cover of US Weekly Magazine within 48 hours of being on the show.
She's lost the weight without any help from any kind of weight loss surgery. She was partially motivated to lose the weight in order to make her documentary about home birth in the tub. She's outspoken about the negative aspects of hospital births and the pressure for women to have cesareans. Cesarean births make up about 40% of births in many hospitals.
She'll be making a cameo appearance in John Travolta's "Hairspray" remake this summer.
Story Source: Ricki Lake Wows the Glossies
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Gluten Free Diets are Trendy
Gluten-free diets are becoming increasingly popular.
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. A lot of people consider it a culprit in all sorts of ailments ranging from upset stomachs, arthritis, depresion, acne, infertility and gas. Avoiding all foods with flour products is becoming an increasingly popular dieting trend.
See a good article about this in the New York Times today.
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Kate Moss Clothing on eBay
The Kate Moss for Topshop clothing collection was just launched last week in the U.K. and Paris and quickly sold out. It looks like a lot of people who bought the items were thinking of profiting by reselling them on eBay. There are now over 3,500 items on auction at eBay.
The Kate Moss collection is available in British sizes 6 to 16. This converts to US sizes 2 to 12. Notice thee is no size zero available, which is a good sign for not encouraging sickly skinniness. On the other hand, anyone who is American size 14 or higher is out of luck if they want to wear the Kate Moss label.
See the very few size 16's, (American size 12's) being auctioned at eBay today.
See a video of the launch of the Kate Moss Topshop clothing collection here. It's a very skinny Kate Moss in a long red dress briefly flipping her hair in the Topshop storefront window.
May 03, 2007
Eggs are Better for a Smaller Waist Size
Eating eggs for breakfast instead of bagels is a good idea if you are overweight and want to lose weight. One bagel has about the same number of calories as two eggs but a recent study found that women who ate eggs lost significantly more weight than the women who chose bagels instead.
The study also found that waist size dropped 83 percent faster for women on the egg diet. And there were no significant changes in the levels of cholesterol or triglycerides.
This is an interesting finding but keep in mind that the study was funded by the American Egg Board.
The beautiful image above is by independentman
April 27, 2007
Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal
Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here.
Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise regime and she plans to do a few "a year in review" posts to compare how her diet has changed over the time and to talk about health issues. She is also going to record her measurements for the first time since she posted them one year ago.
Check out her Incredible Shrinking Ladies site and help her celebrate her success tomorrow.
An Emotional Eater Breaks the Cycle
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250. See her story here.
April 25, 2007
Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches.
April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does NATURAL HERBS
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See her weight loss story here.
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DIETS WEIGHT LOSS - WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM - FAST WEIGHT LOSS DIET PROGRAM
Weight loss is a tricky topic. Lots of people are unhappy with their present weight, but most aren't sure how to change it and many would be better off staying where they are. You may want to look like the models or actors in magazines and on TV, but those goals might not be healthy or realistic for you. Besides, no magical diet or pill will make you look like someone else.
So what should you do about weight control?
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| The healthiest way to lose weight is neither crash diets nor bursts of exercise. The body likes slow changes in terms of food and exercise. For example, someone who has not exercised for years should not rush into running miles a day or pounding the treadmill. Not only will the struggle to do so leave you feeling disheartened and demotivated, you're also far more likely to injure yourself and set your fitness levels back further. The same goes for people who suddenly start starving themselves. Diets that severely restrict calories or the types of food 'allowed' can lead you to be deficient in the nutrients and vitamins that your body needs. So if you need to lose weight, what should you do? Energy needs and weight loss Your body uses food for energy. It stores any excess energy as fat. This means if you eat more food than your body needs for daily activities and cell maintenance, you will gain weight. To lose weight, you need to get your body to use up these stores of fat. The most effective way to do this is to:
Introduce changes gradually Small changes can make a big difference. One extra biscuit a week can lead you to gain 5lb a year cut that biscuit out of your diet and you'll lose the same amount. You are also more likely to stick to, say, swapping full-fat milk for semi-skimmed or making time for breakfast each morning than a diet that sets rules for all foods. You should think of weight loss in terms of permanently changing your eating habits. While weight-loss goals are usually set in term of weeks, the end game is to sustain these changes over months and years. Increase your activity levels Someone who increases the amount they exercise, but maintains the same diet and calorie intake, will almost certainly lose weight. No matter if you hate gyms - even light exercise such as a short 20 minute walk will be beneficial if done most days of the week. Every single time you exercise more than usual, you burn calories and fat. There are lots of ways to increase the amount of activity you do. Team sports, racket sports, aerobics classes, running, walking, swimming and cycling will all improve your fitness levels. Find something you enjoy that's easy for you to do in terms of location and cost. You are then more likely to build it into your routine and continue to exercise, despite inevitably missing the odd session through holidays, family commitments, etc.
It's not possible to reduce body fat while eating lots of food, cakes and sweets. This doesn't mean you can never have any treats, but you need to learn how to limit these foods to small quantities - say, for special occasions. In terms of weight-loss, you can get your body to use up existing stores of fat by eating less and making healthier choices. This doesn't mean crash diet (anything less than 1500 calories), which usually ends up with you either getting weaker or giving up in desperation. Quick-fix diets can lead to a yo-yoing effect of drastic weight loss followed by weight gain, resulting in a vicious cycle. There are no shortcuts to losing weight in a healthy and reasonable way. Eating 300 to 500 calories less per day should lead to a loss of between one and two pounds per week. This is a realistic target. It may seem slow, but would add up to a weight loss of more than three stone in a year. Fat contains the most amount of calories out of all the food types (protein, carbohydrates), so a good way to achieve this is to cut down on fatty foods and eat more wholegrain bread, fruit and vegetables. Below are ways to reduce calorie intake without having to alter your diet significantly.
Finally, don't be tempted to skip breakfast or any meal to lose weight. While skipping a meal will reduce your calorie intake for that hour, it will leave you much hungrier later on. Not only are you likely to overeat to compensate, but you'll often make bad choices to fill the gap: a cereal bar is not as healthy as a bowl of cereal or as filling, leading you to 'need' something extra for lunch. Irregular eating habits also disrupt your body's metabolism, which makes it harder to lose weight in the first place. | |||||
Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.
Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250.
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Losing 160 Pounds by Walking
Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches
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April 23, 2007
Whoopi Goldberg Does WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.
April 20, 2007
Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight
Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.
Source: Hollywood Backwash
April 19, 2007
On the Edge of Overweight
One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See more at
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Losing the Gut NATURAL HERBS
TTT is a 27 year old guy who has lost over 35 pounds in less than four months. He used to weigh 206 and now weighs 169. He feels he is still ten pounds away from his ideal weight.
Of the above before and after photos he says;
The old me had a gut that hung over my belt. That 42 inch waist was a miserable traveling companion. It popped numerous button from the front of some great khaki pants. Now, when I put on my fat clothes they hang on me like a trash bag, and my old, old, old clothes fit perfectly.
See his inspirational story and more
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June 10, 2007
Exercises for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago Mike Thornton had a beer belly. He shared this feature with two-thirds of American men. But after a friend said he looked like 'a before picture' he swore off fast food, started exercising and was able to lose 30 pounds and two waist sizes in about three months. Today he is a personal trainer in Dallas.
He says exercises such as 'the plank' help to tighten the transverse abdominis. He calls it "the beach muscle because it's the one that we all draw in at the beach when the girls walk by".
See his exercise tips for a flatter stomach here.
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June 07, 2007
Michael Moore Loses Thirty Pounds NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months. natural Miracle Herbs has changed his breakfast to oatmeal each morning. He has switched from white bread and pasta to whole grains. He's walking 10,000 steps a day with his pedometer and has hired a trainer. He also says he has forced himself to sleep seven or eight hours a day; that it is harder to lose weight if you are getting less sleep.
His blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar have returned to normal levels.
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June 01, 2007
Before and After Weight Training Pics
Adam shows us some pretty impressive pictures of how his body has changed over 100 days with an intensive fitness and weight lifting program. It seems hard to believe this kind of transformation would be possible in less than four months but if it's true, it's very inspiring. See his three minute video here.
May 30, 2007
The Ideal BMI Varies Each Decade
The Diet Blog has an interesting post about how BMI (body mass index measurements) have varied over the last century. They note that the mean BMI for U.S. females keeps going up. It was 28.1 in the 1990's and 24.9 in the 1960's. Yet in the modeling and celebrity world, the average BMI just keeps going down. Here's Kate Moss, who is said to have a BMI of 16. See their other examples of famous stars in each decade and their body types.
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Losing 20 Pounds by Getting Off the Couch
Sally has lost 20 pounds by starting a modest running program and watching her diet Aand adding natural herbs to her diet. When she started jogging ten weeks ago, she could only run for about 90 seconds at a stretch. She's now surprised she can do half an hour. Her abs are starting to show, just based on the the regular jogging exercise.
She's been following the Couch to 5k (or 'couch to three miles') program. This shows you how to ease into running gradually. It recommends walking and jogging at first for 20 to 30 minutes three times a week. The objective of the program is to enable you to run three miles at a stretch in just two months.
As far as her food intake goes, she's made no strict rules, she is just trying to eat lots of vegetables and to deal with the cravings.
The above poster is a woman running through the desert landscape by Dugald Bremner.
May 24, 2007
The Natural Cure for Type 2 Diabetes
There's a good article today at NPR about the causes and cures for Type 2 diabetes. A large study has found that exercise and diet are more effective than drugs in preventing and reversing diabetes. The people in the study exercised for 2.5 hours a week.
They say that the high incidence of younger people getting diabetes is very alarming. It used to be only older people who were at risk.
See more about the benefits of exercise and diet in reversing diabetes here.
Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off NATURAL MIRACLE HERBS
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds a year ago. At that time she was on the cover of US Weekly and that magazine cover sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine's history.
So now, one year later, US Weekly has Jackson on the cover again. This time the feat is no less newsworthy. Jackson has managed to keep the weight off for the year and she looks even fitter than last year. Jackson, age 41 says she now weighs 120 pounds. Jackson's weight loss in 2006 was probably the most dramatic celebrity makeover of the year.
Janet credits Natural Miracle Herbs with helping her lose the weight.
May 21, 2007
Losing 125 Pounds with Weight Watchers
Karen Ebbesmeyer weighed 275 pounds two years ago. That's when she got started on the Weight Watchers program as well as walking on a treadmill at least three miles a day.
She says she eats a lot more vegetables now. Before starting the diet, she says that if she opened one can of vegetables a week she was doing good.
Karen now weighs just under 150 pounds. She's gone from a size 24 to a size 6 and is flying to New York this week to do a photoshoot for Good Housekeeping magazine. She'll be featured in their August issue.
See the full story here.
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The Detox Diet: Swiss Style
Epicurious recently interviewed Susan Wyler. Wyler has helped Dr. Rau write The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health: Dr. Rau's Diet for Whole Body Healing.
SW: I went on [the detox diet] in preparation for meeting with Dr. Rau. Beforehand, I had the usual allergies and common problems associated with postmenopausal women. I was the queen of "eat as much as you can get away with of everything that tastes good." I wanted to see if, as a "foodie," I could recommend anyone eat like a chipmunk for three weeks and not get depressed. The difference I felt on the diet was dramatic it had to be for me to become convinced.
Epi: What sort of changes have you seen in your body?
SW: I was never able to get out of bed in the morning. Morning was excruciating. No more. I wake up bright and energetic. I've lost 12 pounds, a lot for a woman of my small height. Bouts of depression, which occasionally visited me on and off for years, have disappeared. What thrilled me the most was the improvement in my thyroid condition. I had been on Synthroid for an unsightly neck goiter, but after eight months on the diet, it just melted away. When tested, my thyroid function had improved 25 percent.
May 17, 2007