The Losing Weight Tips Blog

Want to lose weight? Use your head

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:02:18 +0000

When beginning a weight loss program, you need to determine with your physician what a healthy weight is for your height. Body Mass Index (BMI), a measurement calculated from a person’s weight and height, is a good indicator of body fat. BMI is used as a screening tool to identify possible weight problems and identify risk for people with conditions like heart disease and diabetes.

BMI can be calculated by multiplying your weight (in pounds) by 705, then dividing by your height (in inches) twice. Generally speaking, an adult with a BMI of 25 or higher is considered overweight, and a BMI of 30 and higher is considered obese. You can check your BMI number at rushcopley.com/BMI.

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suburbanchicagonews.com

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Lose weight, rediscover your mojo

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:48:12 +0000

A man’s secret to maintaining a healthy sex life well into old age could be as simple as shedding a few kilograms, says an Australian obesity expert.

“For men, the penis is the window to the heart,” says Wittert, speaking at the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress in Brisbane. “The blood vessels in the penis are exactly the same as the blood vessels in the heart.”

“If they have some erectile dysfunction then they’ve probably got subclinical coronary artery disease.”

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abc.net.au

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Don’t Eat Breakfast First - Drink Water

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:36:32 +0000

SACRAMENTO, CA - The first thing you ought to do when you get up in the morning is drink 8 to 16 ounces of waters, according to fitness expert Linda Moeller of Completely Fit For Life in Folsom.

She said drinking water before breakfast will help cleanse your body’s toxins and lower your blood pressure.

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news10.net

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Snack tips to help you get through the day

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:25:09 +0000

I feel like I’ve been losing and gaining the same 2-3 pounds for a while now. It’s frustrating, but I’m trying to take it in stride and I’m hoping that my loss this week is the first of a streak!

A few months ago, I did a story on tips for great breakfasts to get your day going. Today, I’m going to focus on snacking.

I’m definitely a grazer and snacker, so I was pretty excited when I started trying to lose weight and learned that the prevailing opinion these days is that snacking is an important part of weight loss.

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kxxv.com

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Nutritionists: Eat wise this Thanksgiving

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:18:13 +0000

Everything from waistbands to heart attacks increase during the holidays. So what can you do to prevent those unwanted tips of the scale or visits to the doctor?

Try concentrating more on friends and family, rather than food and drinks, say local nutritionists.

It starts with Thanksgiving Day and doesn’t end until New Years — an influx of meals high in carbohydrates, treats rich in sugar and drinks full of tasty seasonal mixtures and alcohol.

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tigardtimes.com

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Weight loss can cause excess, flabby skin

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:47:44 +0000

Dear Dr. Gott: Over the past 18 months, my 28-year-old granddaughter has been on your no-flour, no-sugar diet. She has lost 170 pounds and uses a treadmill for one hour every day. Her only problem now is getting rid of the extra skin on her arms and belly.

Do you know what sort of exercises she can do that will make this skin shrink?

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tulsaworld.com

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Christmas Weight Loss: Grapefruit Diet

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:41:31 +0000

Continuing with our countdown to a credit-crunch Christmas, this week we are focusing on diets in a bid to help you win the battle of the bulge. Yesterday we had a look at the The South Beach Diet and today we’re looking at a slightly controversial one- The Grapefruit Diet.

This was a popular 1980s diet that almost guaranteed weight loss, if you could stick to the extremely punishing diet of around 800 calories a day. The diet consists of eating lots of grapefruit to kick-start your metabolism, and then combining this will lots of black coffee, some boiled eggs and the odd bit of dry toast.

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femalefirst.co.uk

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America’s Best and Worst Burgers

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:21:22 +0000

The burger industry in America is looking more and more like an arms race these days. Every few months, we watch in horror as another bacon-enhanced, cheese-embalmed, ranch-riddled weapon of mass inflation hits menu boards at the country’s largest restaurant chains.

The Baconator, the Monster Thickburger, the FlameThrower — they sound like weapons, not something you’d order for dinner.

What makes our hamburger habit particularly scary is the Super Size Phenomenon, which for years has been mutating our burgers into double burgers and our double burgers into 1,250-calorie Triple Whoppers with Cheese.

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health.yahoo.com

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Body After Baby: The Simple 30-Day Plan to Lose Baby Weight by Jackie Keller

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:00:59 +0000

Getting back into shape can help mothers of newborns feel good about themselves after pregnancy-and give them the energy they need to get through their busy days. In Body After Baby, Jackie Keller, a celebrity nutrition and health coach and the founder of NutriFit, offers a simple eating and workout program guaranteed to help every mom lose the extra weight after her baby is born. With meal plans and more than one hundred delicious recipes high in vitamin-rich “superfuel foods,” Keller provides: easy and safe daily workouts to do in 10 minutes or less helpful weekly shopping lists and label-reading tips fun and simple movements that mother and baby can do together Easy-to-use for even the busiest mothers, Body After Baby will not only help moms get back into those favorite jeans, but it will also reduce their stress and give them more time and energy to spend with their new baby.

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Phone coaching can come handy in weight loss

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:33:25 +0000

The researchers at Brigham Young University found that, both men and women, who undertook 11 session of personalized weight-loss phone coaching over a 17-week period, shed an average of seven pounds in contrast to an average of four pounds in un-coached adults.

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thaindian.com

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