If you’re living a stressful life and wondering why those pounds keep creeping on, there is scientific evidence that has proven that stress can actually make you fat. The good news is that there are many ways you can combat stress and start getting healthy. But first, let’s look at why stress can cause you [...]
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Is Stress Making You Fat?
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How to Retrain Your Cravings
August 19th, 2008 — , Diets, best bet, brain, caffeine, calories, cold turkey, cup of coffee, cup of tea, diet, healthy eating, mistake, punch, signals, soda, sodas, sugar, sugar cravings, teaspoons, trigger food, trigger foods from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Whenever you start a new diet, cravings are pretty much inevitable. It can get to the point where you feel as though you’ll literally stop existing unless you cave in. Countless diets are broken due to cravings, but there are a few techniques that you can use to retrain your cravings and keep your [...]
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When you first start a diet, it’s easy to get all excited about the amount of weight you’re losing and how great you look. Unfortunately, most of us reach our goals and then go off of our diets. Within a few months, we may be back where we started, or in many cases, worse off. [...]
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Trying to map out a new health plan can be difficult, especially when you are used to overeating on a regular basis. Many of us don’t even realize just how much we eat and how this can affect our bodies. The key to weight loss is the simple formula of calories in - calories burned. [...]
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For many of us, it is a natural reaction to turn to food when we are upset, happy, sad or depressed. Over time, this reaction becomes a learned activity that we resort to without even realizing it. Whether your parents used food rewards when you were growing up or you learned the behavior on [...]
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One of the hardest parts of dealing with a diet is the feeling that you are depriving yourself. Everyone needs a boost and for many people, food is the natural reward. Whether this started in childhood or became an acquired habit later in life, you’ll need to find new ways to reward yourself and [...]
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Reward Systems Work - The Key to Successful Weight Loss
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One of the hardest parts of dealing with a diet is the feeling that you are depriving yourself. Everyone needs a boost and for many people, food is the natural reward. Whether this started in childhood or became an acquired habit later in life, you’ll need to find new ways to reward yourself and [...]
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Is a Diet Detox Right For You?
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One of the most talked about concepts in the diet world right now is the process of detoxing your body from certain foods. There is a lot of hype surrounding this technique, so let’s take a hard look at it to help you determine whether or not it’s right for you. Like any diet, [...]
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One of the main things that keeps people from trying low fat foods is the fact that a lot of them taste, well, pretty bad. It’s all too easy to brush it off as “rabbit food,” and convince yourself that you need real food. However, there are many low fat foods that are actually [...]
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May 22nd, 2008 — , Motivation, healthy eating, trigger food from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Starting a diet can be a momentous event and most of us going into it with the best intentions. We want to lose weight and we want to look and feel better, at least for the first few days. Three days in however, and you may be ready to completely chuck your diet so [...]
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Starting a diet can be a momentous event and most of us going into it with the best intentions. We want to lose weight and we want to look and feel better, at least for the first few days. Three days in however, and you may be ready to completely chuck your diet so [...]
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May 14th, 2008 — , Exercise, Motivation, goals, healthy eating, trigger food from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
How many times have you gone on a diet, only to gain back the weight, plus a little dividend? For many people, dieting is a vicious cycle full of ups and downs, and plenty of discouragement. If you want to keep your weight off permanently, you are going to need to implement a few [...]
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