Weight loss news 2008

2008-07-11 MomLogic :: Moms Weight-Loss Miracles

As a working mom, Erin Borkowski, 32, didnt have time to focus on healthy eating and exercising. A self-described "workaholic," she spent all her downtime with her family and thought dieting was too time-consuming. But at 185 pounds, she knew she was setting a bad example for her 4-year-old daughter, so she decided to take action. Since she was always at her computer, she found low-fat recipes online to cook for her family, and read articles on nutrition and tracked her weight loss using online tools. She also began taking mother-daughter yoga classes offered by her daughters preschool, jumped on the trampoline during playtime, and put an exercise bike in front of her TV so she could cycle while being with her family. Her health habits have been infectious--her daughter now prefers carrots to cookies, and asks for fruit every day.

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2008-05-08 Adds On-The-Fly Analysis, Segmentation and Reporting with Coremetrics Explore(TM)

About is built on the powerful idea that harnessing the wisdom of the crowd will help individual members more successfully lose weight and get healthier. The online community is free and impartial, and is the first online resource to help dieters achieve weight loss goals on any popular diet and exercise program. By aggregating the knowledge and insights of its members, can better help individual members reach their goals. This free, new and improved approach is integrated with key insights from experts, live support and technologically innovative tracking tools. Ken Seiff, Internet veteran and former CEO and founder of the successful online retailer, Bluefly, founded in 2006.

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2008-07-21

We do lose weight quickly on high protein diets because we lose lots of water weight first. This can translate into a 3-7 pound loss in one week depending upon our total body weight. Another reason research has shown that high protein diets result in a higher weight loss is boredom. Yes, after weeks and months of eating mostly meats and high protein foods (most of us dont realize it), we start to reduce our portions because we desire less and less of the very limited foods we are eating. This, combined with the fact that we are not eating the foods that we tend to overeat (bread) leads to an overall reduced amount of food. Reduced food, reduced portions means, you guessed it, less calories hence weight loss. But how long can we keep up any one specific diet Even a once new fast food diet outlined how to stay within 1500

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2008-01-17 Dr. Kent Sasse :: Rebound Weight Gain Blamed For Diets Failing

Rebound Weight Gain Blamed For Diets Failing

More than 50 pct. of adults are significantly overweight, and many are dieting to lose those extra pounds. Medical weight loss centers like iMetabolic believe Rebound Weight Gain can be avoided with the right weight loss program. They note that diets alone dont work because they dont involve creating the right kind of calorie intake that can result in weight loss, appetite suppression, and maintenance of the muscle or protein mass. Nearly all diets result in depletion of muscle mass to an equal or greater degree than burning of the fat mass. When the diet comes to an end, the Rebound Weight Gain occurs as a result of the hunger and nutrient deprivation experienced by the muscles. Diets fail over time because they feel like deprivation to the dieter, and they require an unrealistic level of motivation to keep cutting calories.

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Successful weight loss does not happen by magic, according to weight loss expert Dr. Kent Sasse (http:// ). Rebound Weight Gain commonly occurs after a diet, and the pounds are put back on faster than they ever came off. And yet, some weight loss programs succeed while others fail.

2008-04-17 Los Angeles Chronicle Diet Schedules For Weight Loss

Now let us understand the third component of our schedule, skipping a diet I strongly oppose dieting and regular skipping of diets. Research now clearly indicates that there is a negative link between dieting and weight loss. But a planned and moderate skipping is always helpful for two main reasons. Firstly, when. you skip a single diet in a week, your body tends to consume the same level of energy and as it does not have an intake it uses the energy stored in the body. Secondly, when you skip a meal, you give your digestive system a break, which enables it to carry out overhauling. I always suggest my clients skip a dinner, rather than a breakfast or lunch, because the sleeping body requires less energy, so one doesnt feel drained.

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2008-04-24 Five reasons why overweight people cannot lose weight - Pravda. Ru

There are quite a number of limitations. Most people associateweight losswith an outright ban on eating. Doctors do agree on limiting a quantity of food, but they also insist on certain foods (but not on the total banishment of them) and a balanced diet. Dieticians know from their experience that it is very difficult to reduce the usual quantity of food, which is the reason of most failures. You should take a more realistic attitude to the problem and change your diet incrementally: keeping the same quantity and controlling calories. Extreme transition to a mono-diet (based on water-melons, grapefruits or any other fruit) may cause lower concentration of attention and inability to think clearly in three days after you start it.

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2008-08-10 Homefront Fi= Ona Gibson (from Sunday Herald)

Meanwhile, the August issue of Marie Claire suggests that we "kick-start a detox with colonic irrigation" because "clearing out the colon will help decrease toxic load on the body". Clearing out They put it so casually, as if the colon were a cupboard stuffed with dusty old DVDs, which can be easily sorted with a quick jaunt to the charity shop. Preparing for a holiday is hectic enough. The last thing you want, when youre frantically trying to unearth passports and pack for several children, is to fit in a bum-hoovering appointment. As for diets: by 43 I should know that they simply dont work, and that the only factors which have ever made me thinner have been the demise of a nine-year relationship (not recommended as a weight loss tactic) and learning to actually enjoy running (less painful, but only just). Eating domino-sized

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2008-07-06 Diets Dont bother - Times Online

Take a stroll into any bookshop and you won and rsquo;t suspect a thing: the shelves are heaving with summer-diet tomes, from Crash Diet - Lose 7lbs in 7 Days to Bikini Bootcamp: Two Weeks to Your Ultimate Beach Body and, perhaps most optimistic of all, The Revenge Diet: Make Him Sorry He Dumped You. Lose 15lbs in a Month. Yet, despite appearances, the diet industry is in the throes of a backlash. It started with The Diet Delusion and Rethinking Thin, both of which challenged conventional wisdom about weight loss. Now comes something even more revolutionary, the splendidly titled Dieting Makes You Fat. Its author, Geoffrey Cannon, is unequivocal in his belief that dieting causes the very condition it is meant to cure.

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Take a stroll into any bookshop and you won and rsquo;t suspect a thing: the shelves are heaving with summer-diet tomes, from Crash Diet and mdash; Lose 7lbs in 7 Days to Bikini Bootcamp: Two Weeks to Your Ultimate Beach Body and, perhaps most

2008-01-23 American Chronicle Celebrity Diets: Battle of the Bulge goes Hollywood

In , Jenny Craig Inc. announced that it had signed on Kirstie Alley to be their spokesperson. At the time, Kirstie was at her heaviest weight of 220 pounds. She was gracing the covers of numerous magazines showcasing her weight problem. Her weight issues were being talked about on almost every entertainment talk show and celebrity gossip magazine. She had also burst back into showbiz with her new television show "Fat Actress", which focused on the weight problem of the main character. Kirstie was once again in the public eye, and a critical eye it was. Jenny Craig saw the potential financial gain for her company in contracting Kirstie to promote a celebrity diet. Not only was Kirstie constant magazine fodder, thus virtually guaranteeing substantial exposure, but she was also well-known and loved for her role on the

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2008-03-21 Weighing Up Benefits Of Web Online Weight Management

The takeaway message of this study for people wanting to keep weight off long-term is: adopt a healthy diet; focus on lifestyle changes you can sustain; reduce calorie intake; keep notes daily on how much you eat and exercise; set specific, realistic goals you can meet; seek encouragement from family, friends and co-workers to support your healthy choices; and remind yourself again and again of your original motivation and the health benefits of weight loss, said lead author Laura P. Svetkey, MD, a professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N. C. People need to remember that even a few pounds of weight loss can have a big impact on health.

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