tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137328442008-01-22T06:28:44.644-10:00LisaBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732844.post-1138909611839424552006-02-02T09:46:00.000-10:002006-02-02T09:46:51.856-10:00

Getting the Calorie Intake Right for Weight Loss - this article has a very interesting take on the way that most of us attempt to lose weight. She says cutting calories won't work because your body will eventually compensate and only burn the smaller amount of calories, effectively stopping any weight loss and limiting you to the new, lower calories if you don't want to gain more weight. In

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Lose Weight, Gain Fat on Low-Fat Diets? this story says that the government recommended low fat, high carb diets don't work. I tend to believe it. "What works in the long-run is a diet that is moderate in low glycemic-load carbohydrates (primarily fruits and non-starchy vegetables), moderate in protein, and moderate in fat. The only dietary program that meets those criteria is The Zone Diet.

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How to Exercise and Lose Weight on a Busy Schedule - this is a decent article advising to make workouts a priority, commit to a schedule, and use your weekends.

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I'm reading this book Super Health and it states an eating goal of getting protein, healthy fats, fiber, and low glycemic carbs at every meal. This is an interesting goal to think about - and one that could really help weight loss efforts. This morning, for breakfast I had one egg (protein and fat), half of a sprouted-wheat bagel (carbs and fiber), and an orange (carbs and fiber). I ate around

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Remember that quitting sugar thing I did a few days ago? Man, have I seen some immediate results. I'm not real big on weighing myself, especially lately, mostly because my weight has been going up in the last few months. This morning, however, I looked in the mirror and noticed I looked thinner so I had to weigh myself. 6 pounds. Gone. wow. It could be mostly "water weight" - but if it is,

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Yep, as of yesterday, I have quit sugar. I quit smoking when I found out I was pregnant with my son (easy then, hard to impossible the previous 6 or 7 times I had tried to quit) and now I am quitting sugar. I am obviously just not one of those people who can handle sugar in moderation. I have found my recent months full of nothing but compulsions for food, almost solely sugarry food, so I am

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Cinnamon and Spice Article moved: article here

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Read this excerpt from The 3-Apple-a-Day Plan by Tammi Flynn, M.S., R.D. - it has inspired me to go back on this plan or at least some version of it. Maybe it will inspire you to.

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The Daily Telegraph | Snooze and lose weight - I think this article is about useless for most of us. I get between 7 1/2 and 8 1/2 hours of sleep every night. I lost weight after my boy was born even though I wasn't sleeping then -- what those moms need to do is breast-feed.

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Weight Loss Insurance: A Surefire Way To Lose -- when I read this headline I thought maybe a company had come up with the motivation idea of providing actual insurance for an attempt at weight loss. You pay them a certain amount of money and they get to keep it if you don't lose the weight. Well that's not what this article is about. This article says that a surefire way he to lose weight is

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This article: Fill Up Your Plate And Lose Weight makes it seem like volumetrics - the concept and the book - are new. This isn't a new concept, it was around when my mother was trying to lose weight. I think underlying thinking behind volumetrics is similar to the three apple a day diet. Personally, I haven't found that I can trick my body into being full with lots of fruits and vegetables.

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Well I have given up on the three Apple a day diet. I just get sick of the apples. I really like apples they're probably my favorite fruit but I can only eat so many of them, for so long. It's like my two year old and the way he eats -- if I give him too much of any one food for an extended period of time, he'll eventually refuse to eat it at all. If I then don't offer it to him for a month

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Heed the body's signals - So I just read this article - and it makes soooo much sense. Especially to someone (me) who has practically given up listening to her body's hunger signals, because it seems she is always hungry! Maybe the eating dinner while catching up on Internet forum threads or studying and then discovering I'm stuffed, only to crash from low blood-sugar 2 hours later is not the

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How It All Began by Angela Crout-Mitchell As the bright March sunlight streamed in the conference room windows, I stared in disbelief at my father’s doctor. I wasn’t Dad’s only option, but the disappointment and sense of failure was overwhelming. My father has diabetes, had been on dialysis, and needed a healthy kidney. What was upsetting at that moment was the doctor’s statement that both

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In Tips for Successful Weight Loss, a study details the success habits of people who have lost at least 30 lbs. and kept it off for one year. The most surprising factor to me was the average caloric intake of 1,400 calories. That seems like very few calories to me. I also founded notable that the participants did not participate in diets like the Atkins Diet or South Beach diet.

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How To Eat More and Lose Weight! No, Really - This is an interesting article about what the author calls the metabolic adjustment phase. What she says is that after six weeks or so of dieting, the body attempts to lower its metabolism to only need the amount of calories that are being taken in. This would effectively make the dieter stop losing weight. What the author says can be done to avoid

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Winston Ng | Health & Fitness Article |Friends and Weight Loss - I really like this common sense approach to weight loss, plus the explanation of why we are not skinny even though we know what got us here and what we need to do to change it. The article also has some good cultural discussions and a simple plan.

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This article again espouses the two tablespoons of vinegar before a high carbohydrate meal as a way to even out blood sugar and thereby control appetite, but they also advise high protein meals and volumetrics (eating foods high in water and fiber content - fruits, veggies, cooked grains, lean meats).

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This is a fantastic website for anyone trying to make sense of the various diets out there. The Diet Channel has information about online diet programs and diets by food, like the popcorn diet and the cabbage soup diet. It talks about recent diet news and trends. It makes recommendations.

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In Calories in, calories out, the Concord Monitor says that the Atkins company is $300 million in debt and that no one is on the Atkins diet plan anymore. Wow. That was a short couple of years. I guess a diet that you can't stay on for life is not sustainable.

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The more I read from this guy, the more I like. I don't think every overweight person got that way from emotional eating, but I think a majority of them did. I mean, who wants to be fat, right? In this article: Weight Loss: The Missing Link, he talks about how we sabotage our own healthy eating plans because of the emotional turmoil inside of us.

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Vinegar Can Fight Diabetes and Promote Weight Loss 1/22/05 - this article reports a study that found vinegar has blood-sugar stabilizing effects, and promotes weight loss. In the followup study, participants took two tablespoons of vinegar before two meals a day and lost a pound or two a week without changing anything else. Since this study did not exclusively involve apple cider vinegar,

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Palm of the hand test helps control weight -- this article is for kids, but I like the idea - Adults could use this or some variation of this for easy portion-control testing too. Obviously it wouldn't always work, for example, a salad that would only fit in your hand would not be very filling at all. But, for full-calorie dishes it makes sense to have some sort of a constant, always-with-you

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Kitchen supplies, cooking, dieting, home organizing, or basically anything - leave me a comment, post a review, share a tip, or ask a question. -- Lisa

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This Weight-Loss and Weight Lifting - New York Times article may not be accessible unless you register, so I'll paraphrase as much as possible. It's a little disheartening, but not as much as I originally thought. The article says that almost every weight loss book available says something about lifting weights/strength training as a way to lose weight easier and faster because lifting weights

Lisa