In a culture of blame-shifting we often look for someone to blame for our predicament. Being overweight is no different - who is to blame for obesity? 'It's the fast food outlets - supplying us with fatty foods' 'Our thin-obsessed society is putting all sorts of pressure on even slightly overweight folks' 'The weight loss industry is to blame - after all if everyone was slim - they would go out of business' Some will simply blame the overweight person - making generalizations and attaching unhelpful labels to the person.
With summer completed and school back in session, it'll be time to settle back into another fall routine. And, even though the flexible schedules of summer have gone, this is actually a very good thing for your weight and health.
With this key, I GUARANTEE YOU WILL LOSE ALL THE WEIGHT YOUR EVER WANTED TOO! Imagine yourself at your ideal weight. After all those years of trying to lose weight, you finally did it! You lost the weight! How would losing the weight change your life? Imagine it? How would you feel? Would you have more energy? Would you be healthier? Would you live longer? Would you act differently? How would it affect your job? Would you make more money? What would your family think? How would you look? What would your social life be like? Would you feel better about yourself? Would you be happier? Bottom line, how would losing weight change your life? Believe me you can do it if you use this secret key.
Contrary to common belief, your weight is not really the indicator of a weight problem - the actual percentage of body fat is the true indicator. You need to know what percent of you is actually FAT.
5 Easy Steps to A Healthier Weight Although different people have weight problems for different reason, these 5 tips address fundamental lifestyle habits that affect virtually everyone. The really good news is that these 5 powerful tips are easy to implement and can bring about great changes in your life and health once in place.
Are you a hopeless carbohydrate addict? Let's conquer these cravings once and for all?.. I drove over to my parents home the a few weeks ago for dinner.
There have been many diets and weight loss plans that have come and gone over the years. Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets were popular decades ago.
New studies suggested once again that citric fruits including oranges, tangerines, and grapefruits help fight cancer, high cholesterol, and obesity. Studies both at Texas A&M University and Kanazawa Medical University in Japan showed that compounds in citric fruits can help reduce the risk of colon cancer.
I am embarrassed to admit how many different commercial weight loss programs I've tried. I don't know about you, but after a while I grow tired of talking heads touting empty promises.
Weight Loss: Weight Loss is All in Your Mind!
'The kind of thoughts that you plant in your mind, determine what you produce in life.' Letting negative thoughts rule your mind can never make you achieve your goal.
Obesity ? The Underlying Historic Causes
The scourge of obesity has reached such gigantic proportions across the world that it is now termed as globesity. The obesity is now accepted as a global epidemic and governments are pouring in money and resources to fight this menace, which is quietly swallowing the economic gains of a country.
Savoring Moments Through Mindful Eating
We all eat. But how mindful are we of every bite we take? Your mother always told you to slow down and taste your food.
The Secret of Weight Loss
In the medical community, 'obesity' is generally said to be present in women with more than 30% body fat and men with more than 25% body fat. 'Morbid obesity,' a more serious condition still, occurs when a person is 50-100% or 100 pounds above his or her ideal body weight or has more than 39% body fat.
From Fat to Fit: Read One Womans Amazing Weight Loss Story
An Interview with Success Story, Caitlin Johnson If you don't know who Caitlin is, you will soon. She appears in the June, 2005 Issue of Ironman Magazine.
Some Straight Talk About Low-Carbohydrates and Your Health
There have been many diets and weight loss plans that have come and gone over the years. Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets were popular decades ago.
Diets May Have Long Term Side Effects...Do You Know What They Are?
To see the "low carb" diets on the way out is a somewhat reflective process, not that I was an advocate of ketogenic diets at all unless you have Adolescent Epilepsy, but bringing the "low carb or ketogenic diet" into the forefront of our American Society meant that more people were being educated about obesity, food and eating. This acknowledgment about food was astounding and became overwhelming , causing restaurant chains and some farmers to really suffer from these trendy diets, people have lost farms that have been in their families for years , businesses that lend job and economic stability to an area, have gone out of business or lost business, all on a dietary whim, with no research done on the side-effects of "not eating" what these diets restrict.
Why Do You Say You Want To Lose Weight?
How many of your New Year's resolution start out with 'I want to lose x amount of pounds' as if just saying it were some kind of magic mantra. As if the weight would just fall off, in response to the spoken words! Why do we not want to pay the price for anything? Gaining weight is not an overnight effect and it will NOT be reversed overnight.
Hoodia ? Its Basic Nature Part 3
Hoodia Gordonii a cactus plant found thousands of miles away in the Cape Town of South Africa, has become incredibly beneficial for people all over the world. Centuries ago, the simple tribal folk of South Africa cultivated the plant so that they could chew it and satiate hunger and thirst for three to four days.
