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Weight Watchers Takes A New Turn

Has Weight Watchers Taken A New Turn For many years I was a on and off member of Weight Watchers. While I thought the program made sense, I was not a very big fan of it’s maintenance program. I had lost well over two hundred pounds with Weight Watchers and was never happier. As I [...]

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Diets + Depression = Weight Gain

A while back, I found out that I was suffering from bouts of depression. I started on the typical SSRI’s and ended up gaining a significant amount of weight. Due to reversing my progress, I wanted to get off of them. How could I diet if these pills were not giving me a fair chance? [...]

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Isn’t It Too Hot To Exercise?

As part of my workout routine-specifically for cardio-I have started walking. But lately, the temperature has been boiling hot. Walking outside is my favorite activity for keeping up with my healthy lifestyle and losing weight, but I am at a loss. It’s way too hot to even get in the car and drive to a [...]

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Emotional Overeating

Emotional Eating

This is a guest post by Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., author of “The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person” and President of Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research. Chronic dieters often have beliefs about emotional distress and eating that interfere with losing weight or keeping it off. They express [...]

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I Found The Secret To The Perfect Diet!

I can’t recall how many new diets every month that have come out promising losing twenty pounds in twenty days. Even magazine articles from the supermarket shelves carried the same claims and more. And I’ve tried them all. Needless to say, I would lose weight very quickly that I could keep off for a couple [...]

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The iPod Saved My Life

When I was four hundred and fifty pounds, I couldn’t even walk ten feet without getting out of breath. I tried exercising by walking outside but just couldn’thandle it. I just couldn’t have it in me. One day I bought myself perhaps the greatest materialistic possession ever. It was the legendary iPod. Suddenly I was [...]

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The Great Excuses

I never like to speak ill of my mother but she did teach me some of the best excuses to use when it came to food.   First she claimed that she was too big to walk up the stairs to her bedroom in her home and needed to have an electronic chair to get [...]

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To Wii or Not to Wii

Tonight, I will be picking up a belated birthday gift with my closest friend. It’s been getting colder lately, so I have been thinking about a better way to get my exercise done without suffering from frostbite. I was told that a Wii Fit would be perfect for me. I heard great things about it. [...]

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