Archive for June, 2010

One of the biggest excuses people use for avoiding regular exercise is that they don’t have time for it. In our busy, fast-paced world, who can spare 30 to 60 minutes a day for working out? You may be surprised by just how much of your day is “wasted” on non-essential activities that you could use for exercise – for most people it will be way more than 30 minutes.

Examples: You spend 2 hours getting ready for work in the morning, taking more than 30 minutes to iron your outfit, make and pack your lunch, and other … read more

When it comes to weight loss, not all calories are equal. You can eat 1200 calories of pure sugar and fat, or 1200 calories of nutritionally dense, quality foods and get very different results. Both for weight loss and general health, your goal is to eat higher-quality foods that fuel your body and activate your natural fat burning process – and there are many foods that can help you do that better than others.

Below are a few foods that make you feel full:

1) Avacado

This unassuming green fruit packs a great nutritional wallop with healthy monounsaturated … read more

We all know that regular exercise is an important part of every weight loss plan, but sometimes it’s hard to feel motivated to actually do it. Even if you genuinely enjoy working out, finding the motivation to get up and get started can be a major challenge, especially when you’re tired, busy, or just plain uninspired.

Today we’re going to share a few easy methods for boosting your motivation to exercise, and you may be surprised by how quickly they work:

- The Mental Workout

When you feel uninspired about something, it’s usually because you are under the spell of … read more

Most of us don’t think about it much, but food portion sizes have grown way out of control. When you eat out at a restaurant, have you noticed the heaping plateful of food they deliver to your table? It’s enough to feed three or four people, not just one.

This may not sound like a bad thing to you, because most of us love to eat. Give us lots and lots of food and we feel secure and comforted. It’s an emotional thing.

The problem is that our bodies are NOT comforted by all this food – they … read more

Practically every one of us is an expert when it comes to losing weight. We know how to cut calories. We know how to reduce carbohydrate, fat and sugar intake. We know that we need to increase physical activity and reduce our total caloric count to create a calorie “deficit”.

When you consider the amount of people who know this stuff, and the number of those same people who are still overweight, it makes you wonder why more of us aren’t skinny, doesn’t it?

Part of the reason is that it’s easy to “know” this stuff – and much … read more

Are you one of those people who gobbles down your food so quickly that you barely taste it? If so, you may want to rethink that habit if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Eating too fast is one of the major causes for overeating, for two reasons. First, if you eat so fast that you barely taste the food, you won’t feel satisfied and you will keep craving more. Secondly, eating too quickly doesn’t allow time for your body to signal that it has had enough food, so you … read more

It’s no secret that stress can create big problems when you’re trying to lose weight. Stress is known to contribute to chronic levels of anxiety and depression, depress the immune system, increase your odds of developing heart disease and stroke – and as if that weren’t enough, stress causes your body to release a hormone called cortisol, which contributes to excessive abdominal fat. Even if you weren’t stressed to begin with, just being overweight can be stressful as you battle feelings of fatigue, embarrassment, and frustration about your body, which can trigger bouts of emotional … read more

Losing weight and keeping it off can be challenging on a purely physical level, but the process gets even more complicated when you take into account all the mental and emotional baggage that comes along with weight issues. For one thing, self-image. Your self-image is your mental representation of yourself – in other words, how you see yourself overall.

It’s probably no surprise that most overweight people have terrible self-images. They see themselves in a very negative light, believing themselves to be weak, unattractive, and untrustworthy. This creates a problem when they start trying … read more

Fat. The very word makes most dieters cringe, due to overzealous “experts” who made us believe that ingesting a single fat molecule would keep us fat forever. Luckily, we know better now. The truth is that certain fats are crucial in maintaining good health. They contain fatty acids to help keep skin healthy, they help lower “bad” cholesterol (LDL) and raise “good” cholesterol (HDL) contributing to better heart health, and it helps keep you satisfied so you eat less overall.

When it comes to health and weight loss, there are “bad” fats and “good” … read more

Do you need some weight loss motivation? Sticking to a weight loss plan can be hard because the transition between your current weight and your goal weight can seem a long way off. How can you stay motivated and committed when it seems like the payoff for your hard work and sacrifice will take forever to get here?

One good way is to keep your mind focused on the positive outcome you’re working toward, and how great it will be when you finally achieve it! That great outcome, of course, is your slender, … read more

I have these same pictures in a slide show located here. The weight loss photos below are from Flickr.com. There are only 20 pictures here. If you go to the slide show located here then you will see the whole collection of my favourite weight loss photos from Flickr.com. I hope these images will motivate you like it motivated me! Good luck!

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I went to Flickr.com and took some time to find these weight loss before and after pictures. Once I found them I added them to my favourites and now you can view them as a slide show. I know that these weight loss photos really inspired me. This is the whole collection of my weight loss favourites. If you would rather see a page of  just static images then click here, but there are only 20 pictures there. Below is the whole collection of my favourites from Flickr.com. Enjoy!