Year: 2011

The #1 Reason for Weight Loss Failure

There are a lot of reasons why people fail to lose weight, but one of them stands out among the others: failure to make lasting lifestyle changes.

Should You Hire a Personal Trainer for Weight Loss?

If you’ve ever wondered whether a personal fitness trainer might be able to help you reach your fitness goals, the answer is usually yes.  They are trained to know which workouts are most effective, and many of them have credentials relating to nutrition so they can make dietary suggestions.

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Common Sense Healthy Diet Tips

Nowadays you can find hundreds of different fad diets and diet programs on the market, along with equal numbers of supplements and diet “aids” that claim to help with weight loss. From diet shakes to cookies, candy bars, patches and pills – the diet and weight loss industry has evolved to include many different types […]

Healthy Eating on Vacation: How to Stay on Track

When you go on vacation, you may find that it’s extremely tempting to abandon your healthy eating habits and start eating everything in sight.  Despite your best intentions to stick to a healthy eating plan, you may be lured in by the sights and scents of delicious restaurant meals, fast food, and rich, home-cooked meals […]

3 Weight Loss Goal Setting Tips

Goal setting for weight loss is an important activity if you want to reach your goal weight quickly and easily.  But setting a general goal to “lose 25 pounds” is too vague to be effective.  Below are three important tips that you should incorporate into your weight loss goal setting plans:  

Live, Laugh, Love: How I Beat Cancer Three Times

My intention in writing this book was to offer the reader a unique and informative understanding of one person’s journey. While offering a full range of emotions, I believe the book will present hope, humor, and a humble appreciation of daily life.  

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Fat-Burning Strategies for Easy Weight Loss

If you want to lose weight, you need to do one important thing: burn stored fat! But how? Below are some of the simplest, yet most effective things you can do to burn more fat each day and lose weight easily.

How to Thin Your Thighs Fast

Excess fat on the thighs is a common complaint among women, although occasionally men may struggle with it too. If you’re looking for a way to “thin your thighs,” it’s important to keep in mind that fat does not accumulate in just one area of the body. If you’ve got fat on your thighs, you’ve […]

World Breastfeeding Week August 1st – August 7th

Since the World Breastfeeding Week falls in August let’s take a look at some of the benefits of breastfeeding.

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Shingles 101

Shingles is caused by the same virus that leads to chickenpox. It usually strikes adults, and it is more painful than chickenpox. Here are some facts to help you get familiar with shingles.