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.
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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 LA WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the LA 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
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
Michael Moore says he has lost thirty pounds over the past three months.
He 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.
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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. 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.
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Janet Jackson Keeps the Fat Off
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 Fresh Dining 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
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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May 14, 2007
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
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 LA WeightLoss
As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the LA 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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