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By Janice Elizabeth Small Wanting to lose weight in December is the pits, isn't it? While you may struggle the rest of the year with not eating too much and choosing healthy foods it's that bit more difficult when all around you are wolfing down goodies of every kind with seemingly total abandon. Everyone you visit offers you tempting treats and no doubt you have more than enough food at home

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This is a great refresher artcile on shopping healthy. If we learn to put healthy things in the grocery cart we will then put healthy things in our bodies! Healthy Eating Shopping List By Kathryn Whittaker Healthy eating starts with careful planning and organization. Since fresh produce has a very limited shelf life, regular grocery shopping is a must. Creating a menu for the week and writing

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By Tracie Johanson For those of us who are looking for quick weight loss, Halloween can be a scary experience! While just one night of indulgence in Halloween candy might not be enough to break your belt, dipping into the leftover stockpile for weeks on end will surely derail your diet or weight loss program. In 1921, in Anoka, MN, the United States enjoyed our first recorded instance of a

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I came across a quality blog that is worth clicking. Man In The Kitchen is written by a working husband and father who does most of the family meal preparation. Start with his first post, We Lost That Meal and read your way through family friendly healthy recipes intermixed with ideas and thoughts of living well and eating well as a family. Keep up the good work, Man In The Kitchen. What time

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I visit many health/diet websites each day and one thing is consistently recommended, keep a journal. Even though I fancy myself a writer the thought of writing a daily journal seems daunting and burdensome. But what if it were a short-term assignment? Say 30 days? I could keep a journal for 30 days. Doreene Clement, author of the 5-Year-Journal has some great ideas for 30-day journal

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This is the best explanation I've found for water weight gain and weight loss. It comes to us from Meri Raffetto, owner of Real Living Nutrition. Meri holds a bachelors degree in nutrition and psychology - what a perfect combination for coaching us to live healthier lives. Be sure and give her site a visit. Are You Losing Body Fat or Water? By Meri Raffetto “I tried that diet and lost 8

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Hello Everyone! Sorry I've been a sloth about posting - chalk it up to the lazy dog days of summer and much preferring to be outdoors rather than in front of the computer! I hope you are all healthy and well. I found this fascinating article about couple relationships. It is my experience that the best health is achieved when one is enjoying a healthy respectful relationships. The rules

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I came across this blog today – “The Bearable Lightness of Being” by “Librarian on the Loose.” She’s chronicling her weight loss journey – Down to 200 from 225 and heading for 175! Her writing is heartfelt, sincere and so familiar. Take a look at two of her quotes: Simply sticking to a rigorous food plan and tallying up the calories and the portions does not help me stop using food as a

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by Barbara Toomer One thing I’ve learned about dieting, weight loss and healthy lifestyle is the most successful people are the ones who find inspiration in others. It really doesn’t matter what program a person follows as long as they find inspiration and motivation. Weight Watchers is a tremendously successful program because of their success stories. We find someone with whom to identify and

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By Nancy Hill I think if you asked any child about the adults around them, they'd probably say we're a little wacky and seem to be stressed out a lot of the time. Here are a few simple things they can teach us… 1. Nap when you're tired. 2. Eat when you're hungry. 3. Don't starve yourself, it makes you tired and cranky. Eat little bits often to keep fueled up. 4. Stubbornly refuse to eat even

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Kathryn Martyn from over at OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com presents a great look at eating food to get rid of it. I see myself doing this many times. Eating Food Just to Be Rid of It By Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP What to Do with the Leftovers? Okay, tell me if you've ever done this: It's Monday late afternoon. You decided yesterday that starting today you were going to 1) eat right, and 2) start to get

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Want to laugh, cry and be inspired by some of the best diet writing on the blogsphere? Hop over to crackin' the deuce and prepare to enjoy your stay. Jenwa, the talented author writes "This might be about my life, my loves, my weight loss, my politics, my raising teenagers, or it might be about something else about me. Or not." Don't miss it - she's fabulous.

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Greg Ryan presents a good overview on how we use "resentment, fear of failure, comparisons are barriers you build up only to at some point sabotaging your desire to feel good and get in better shape." I fall in to some of these categories, do you? By Greg Rryan Getting started on an exercise program is one thing. Staying on it is the bigger challenge. We have all been there. New Years Eve

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I read this article and it was uncomfortably familiar. Take a look: Sneak Eating By Annette Colby Finally — you are alone. No one else is around. Maybe you’ve waited until they are all soundly asleep. You find yourself in the kitchen sneaking food. Sometimes it’s cake, sometimes it’s ice cream. Other times you’re standing in front of the refrigerator eating leftovers without a plate. Once

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by: Ryan FYfe Every where you look you see articles or news or stories on how America is overweight. This probably doesn’t surprise anyone, as you only have to take a quick look around to see that our lifestyles don’t promote good health. We drive in cars. We eat fast food. We sit in offices. We simply don’t care enough about our health. Eating healthy is a simple step that you can take to

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By Stuart Glasure During the 1990s, a physician voiced on a national TV show that drinking red wine reduces heart disease. It made all the headlines. He cited the relatively lower levels of the disease in France despite their ever so famously high fat diets. Since that program, it seems that red wine health effects have been on the forefront of the wine consumer´s mind. Good for the Heart

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I tried the Skinny juice from 4 pm Friday until 6 pm Saturday. My net weight loss was 3.5 lbs, which I feel great about. I found the juice to be light, refreshing and appetite quenching. Remarkably I didn’t feel weak, light-headed or grumpy from not eating – I even managed a rigorous treadmill workout Saturday morning. In addition, I was not ravenous when it was time to eat dinner Saturday night

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Slayers: We have spoken before about vitamins and minerals. Presented now is a succinct, accurate and informative article by David Saunders about the need to supplement our nutrition intake with dietary supplements. The Need For Supplementation By David Saunders When I began to study nutrition, I too believed that it was possible and even easy to get all the nutrition I needed from diet alone.

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Take a look at some good common sense: No One Ever Got Fat Eating Broccoli!By Andrew Cavanagh Diet tips for losing weight abound. Some are good, some questionable and some are just plain crazy. At the risk of joining the ever growing list of diet tips here is probably the most important diet key both to weight loss and and excellent health. “No one ever got fat eating broccoli.” When you eat

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Hello Slayers! As you know, part of the Slaying lifestyle is personal stewardship for overall health. Recently, my overall health has been compromised by a pain in the neck. This pain has prevented me from doing exercise and caused me to seek comfort in food. Not conducive to the Slayer lifestyle. Yesterday I finally went to the doctor, fearing the worst - - pinched nerve. Well, to my extreme

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Dr. Stephen Gullo, best selling author of The Thin Commandments Diet, lays diet success on strategy, not willpower. Clients willingly pay $1,500 for a single office visit with the doctor who has a 25-year track record of successfully treating patients who lose as much as 100 pounds - - AND KEEP IT OFF. I highly recommend Dr. Gullo’s book. In 318 pages he details how to accomplish his 10 Tenets

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Too good to be true? Probably. I found this recipe and instructions in the May 2, 2005 First magazine. The claim is by forgoing solid foods and drinking one 8-ounce glass of this Skinny Juice an hour for every waking hour over a 24-hour span a person will detox and lose "up to eight pounds of trapped fluids and fat in one day". The recipe is from Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman's book "The Fast Track

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Hi Slayers: I came across an interesting blog today: one man's battle against the Fat Monster. Be sure to blogroll, it looks to be an insiteful and useful journey. Experiment Fatso

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Several years ago my husband introduced me to weight lifting or strength training. “You will love it,” he said with the confidence of someone who has lifted weights all his life. The first argument I made against strength training was, “Oh, I don’t want to lift weights and look like a body builder.” Trust me: several years and thousands of repetitions later I can confidently assure you this is

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This is a wonderful time of year for enjoying strawberries! The markets are loaded with plump ripe strawberries on sale for reasonable prices. Strawberry Facts: -One-cup sliced berries has 50 calories, 3.8 grams protein, 157% the RDA of Vitamin C and 24% RDA of Manganese -In the USDA’s assessment of the antioxidant power of various fruits, strawberries placed second, after blueberries for their

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