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Don’t Let Fear of Others’ Judgment Keep You from Being Active

January 30, 2012 Read the full article →

Do you have a sincere desire to become more fit and healthy in 2012, but the idea of exercising outdoors or in a public gym brings you to a dead stop? Many people who are self-conscious about their size or fitness level find it uncomfortable or even distressing to exercise in public. Maybe they believe [...]

For Fat Loss, Don’t Eat too Many Calories or too Few

October 27, 2011 Read the full article →

The greatest myth about calories and losing weight is this: The less you eat, the more you lose. The human body is not so simple. It’s built for the complicated work of survival. It kills foreign invaders, digests all kinds of things that we throw into it, it tries to make sure that we have [...]

Diet Book Junkies

June 23, 2011 Read the full article →

Do you know a diet book junkie?  That’s a person who seems always to read the latest diet books while making no apparent changes with respect to weight, activity, eating, or other behaviors. They seem to get a kind of high from espousing the wonders of their latest discovery — “Well, in Dr. Skinny’s book, [...]

Starting an Exercise Program that Will Stick

May 30, 2011 Read the full article →

Starting an exercise program — and sticking with it — is all about knowing yourself. Especially with beach season upon us, plenty of people are thinking about picking up yet another shape-up routine. Others don’t need to start exercising, because they’ve never stopped moving, but you probably don’t hear from them so much. Why? They [...]

Starting a Diet for the Summer

May 12, 2011 Read the full article →

It’s so frustrating to go on a diet and lose weight, only to regain it. Frustrating, but common — studies show 90 percent of dieting attempts fail. What can we do to improve our chances? Despite overwhelming evidence that most diets fail, ever more people are vulnerable to quick weight loss promises that won’t work [...]

Portion Control and Stress

March 16, 2011 Read the full article →

Stress is everywhere, and chronic stress is known to be harmful not only to our emotional health, but also to our physical health. It can affect the immune system (making us sick more often), the heart (causing high blood pressure and other heart problems), and muscles (causing problems with neck, shoulder, and low-back pain), to [...]

Top 10 Dieting Mistakes

January 25, 2011 Read the full article →

It’s good to learn from our mistakes.  The more we pay attention to what we’ve done wrong in the past the more successful we’ll be in the future. This is certainly true when it comes to weight loss and fitness.  And, for some reason, when it comes to dealing with weight, many people put their [...]

New Year’s Resolutions and Weight Loss: This year, change behaviors that lead to weight gain

January 5, 2011 Read the full article →

If the commercials, the talk show hosts, and the annual crop of new diets are to be believed, making a resolution to lose weight during the new year is not only a good idea, it’s mandatory. Resolutions imply sincere intent and motivation to make it happen this time. But if there’s ever a time to [...]

Addressing the Holidays’ Weighty Concerns

December 21, 2010 Read the full article →

I received so many good questions from readers about weight and exercise during the holidays, I’m devoting another column to the subject. Next time we’ll tackle the thorny issue of New Year’s resolutions. Determine what’s behind urge to binge I have problems with binging and the holidays make it worse. What can I do about [...]

The Weight Loss Secrets of Thin People: The Best Way to Know How to Lose Weight

November 23, 2010 Read the full article →

Chronic dieters are always looking for advice on ways to be thin, but often look in the wrong places. What can thin people teach us about how to lose weight? With over 60% of Americans overweight or obese and 90% of dieting attempts ending in regaining of the lost weight plus more, it’s obvious that [...]

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