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Tweightloss

Audrey at Mom Generations™ has come up with a creative plan for anyone that is interested in shedding some pounds or maybe just being part of the team. It is called Tweightloss, all individuals participating will be divided into teams..Everyone will email their weights (or just how much weight you lost that week, [...]

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The fun, the shocking truth, & the philosophy

[By Merry]Okay, so I had this brief, possibly profound moment of illumination, right?Merry gets a brilliant idea … for some reason it’s in black-and-white…And I was going to start off the post with the brilliant insight. But then it occurred to me …

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A Dish to Pass

Now and again you’ve got a family function, sports banquet or reception after the graveside service and they ask you to bring a “dish to pass.” Normally I make a cheesy rice casserole or a cheesy potatoes that tastes great, everyone likes, and forces even the skinny girls undo the top button of their jeans. Greta makes apple [...]

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Salmonella Salad

“Salmonella, Salmonella, night and day it’s Salmonella.”
To the tune of Cinderella
The latest warning by the U.S. government is to avoid jalapeno peppers. They could be the source of the salmonella outbreak that previously had everyone avoiding tomotoes.  This news comes at the same time the jalepeno peppers I grew my own self are ready to pick. 
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2kidsandapup, you’ve been robbed.

2kidsandapup, you’ve been robbed. Heidi Diaz lifted one of your pictures for her blog, where she promotes the allegedly fraudulently marketed Kimkins diet. Very nice photo! Is the recipe yours, too? Looks delicious, though not something allowed on the Kimkins diet.

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Running. Love it or leave it?

One thing I used to just hate doing was running.  I would rather die than go running.  Running is hard, it makes you sweat and it always leaves you as a heaving sweaty lump on the floor.
Well that’s how I used to think about it at least.
Since I’ve been working out and trying to lose [...]

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The Laundry Workout

Household chores can be a great work out!

Carrying the hamper down the stairs is good for your stems. And a soaked beach towel can weigh a hundred pounds or more!

Who need’s the clean and jerk dead lift? Put your back into it ladies. And do you want to know the secret for toned arms that the body [...]

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Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!

Special Announcement!
The Cause of All Cancers Found?

Now, ask yourself…
…do you know at least one person that has cancer right now, or has had cancer?
…or is someone dear to you, family, or friend, currently suffering with any ty…

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Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!

Special Announcement!
The Cause of All Cancers Found?

Now, ask yourself…
…do you know at least one person that has cancer right now, or has had cancer?
…or is someone dear to you, family, or friend, currently suffering with any ty…

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Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!

Special Announcement!
The Cause of All Cancers Found?

Now, ask yourself…
…do you know at least one person that has cancer right now, or has had cancer?
…or is someone dear to you, family, or friend, currently suffering with any ty…

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Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!

Special Announcement!

The Cause of All Cancers Found?
Now, ask yourself…
…do you know at least one person that has cancer right now, or has had cancer?
…or is someone dear to you, family, or friend, currently suffering with any typ…

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Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!

Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!
By The Inner Biochemist - :Kristine:Earl:

Special Announcement!

…do you know at least one person that has cancer right now, or has had cancer?…or…

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Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!

Cancer Information Service - The New Cancer Science - Podcast & Radio Show!
By The Inner Biochemist - :Kristine:Earl:

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…do you know at least one person that has cancer right now, or has had cancer?…or…

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Atkins Wins New Losing Study

In the on-going low carb versus low fat diet war the latest round goes to Atkins or Meditteranean style eating. That’s a link to the Wall Street Journal article on this big diet news. But here, look at this Googliciousness if you want further evidence of this diet news.
Still if you tell someone you’re low [...]

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My preferred indoor workout routine - “The Biggest Loser Workout”

Indoor workout routines
During the winter, and when the weather is nasty outside I have to find a way to exercise indoors. Usually for me that means one of a couple of choices. My first choice is usually running on our new fuel treadmill. It has a high intensity interval training (HIIT) setting [...]

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The Most Weight You’ve Ever Lost

What is the most weight you’ve ever lost on a diet? Other people’s success stories inspire me. I always flip to that section first in the Weight Watcher magazine.
I’ll go first. I’ve lost 16 pounds three times in my life. (gained it back of course) Those other times 16 pounds put me near my goal so [...]

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Oh Hell No, Jennifer Hudson

Premise 1: Jennifer Hudson is hot. I think we can all agree that Jennifer Hudson is a beautiful girl. No matter what you thought of her acting or her role in Sex and the City: The Movie, she did look awesome. And curvy. And normal. Here she is at the premiere. Smoking, right?
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4 Ways to Stop Overeating

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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Weekly Roundup

Welcome to the Sunday roundup. I hope everybody has had a good weekend so far and that you are all staying healthy and fit.
Check out my Trophy Jack Crevalle.  Sf Boater is paying for fish stories with pictographic evidence.  Tell everyone you know about my trophy catch.  If it gets the most unique visitors out [...]

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6 Ways to Beat Fatigue as you Battle your Weight

This post was contributed by Heather Johnson, who writes on the subject of online nursing school. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot com. If you are interested in contributing a guest post please send me an email at kevin [at] weightladder (dot) com
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Hypnosis CD Give-Away

[By Crabby](Stare at the center… C’mon, we dare ya!)(Flickr photo credit)So, you wanna get hypnotized?We’ve got another Friday give-away, and this one’s pretty cool: your choice of one of 3 hypnosis CD’s by the folks at Performance Hypnosis.(And we …

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Welcome Sympatico

The generous editor of Sympatico Health and Fitness page, Lisa Felepchuk, directed many readers to our little home. Hello and Welcome! And we gotta say you look very thin in this blog. If you’ve been here before and came back we’re just in love with you and are stunned everyday by our fabulous commenters.
We’re so glad you’re [...]

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Old Time Wok and Rolls

Recently the legendary Billy Joel’s lovely wife Katie Lee Joel came out with a cook book called The Comfort Table. A while back comic giant Jerry Seinfeld’s also lovely wife, Jessica, put together a best seller called Deceptively Delicious. Before that Ted Nugent’s wife Shemane (she’s lovely) penned a how-to cook book for preparing wild game.
That’s pretty [...]

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Best Fruit Drinks for You

My wife used to drink a lot of apple juice as a child. She absolutely loved the stuff. Me? The only juice I ever drank was orange juice. Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice, usually with as much of that juicy fiberous pump as humanly possible. I always thought apple juice was like sugar water and [...]

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Garden Mutant Scares the Virgin Garden(er)

Well what in the flip is this thing? Things are going pretty well in my very first vegetable garden. I’ve even made a healthy-lifestyle-choice salad out of a normal socially acceptable cucumber that I grew.
Then today I was out inspecting my cucumber plants. I felt an uncomfortable nudge against my ankle and looked down to see this freak [...]

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The Context of Calories

200 Calories is 200 Calories. Right?
“What’s that in the road ahead?”
vs.
“What’s that in the road!? A head!?”
Context is important.
Many people think weight loss is simply about cutting calories. But context counts here, too. Calories do have context and that’s what I want to explore today. Is a calorie from fat the same as a calorie [...]

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The Airbrushipation Of Mimi

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At this point we’re used to magazines airbrushing or misrepresenting cover photos with ironically juxtaposed headlines. But that doesn’t mean we should stop pointing it out! This week’s victim is Mariah Carey, on the cover of Elle next to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Airbrushipation Of Mimi”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/07/09/the-airbrushipation-of-mimi/” });

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Want to be Skinny

I’ve been noticing an amount of search queries on my site that contain the phrases “get skinny,” “skinny models,” “what exercise can I do to get skinny.” I want to sincerely welcome all of you who typed such queries.
So, why do you want to be “skinny*“?
Will it make you beautiful, popular, safe, in control, happy? [...]

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Name It Claim It for Diet Delusions

There’s a self help saying that rhymes like this, “name it, claim it.”  The theory being how can you get better if you don’t first admit you’re sick? Well I have some long held diet delusions and I’m naming them. I’d like you to take a lighter and burn them okay? Maybe then they can stop [...]

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So, how’s that dietary part of your weight loss plan going?

FAIL!
It’s been a rough few days on the dietary front of my weight loss plan. I had planned on eating healthy, eating smaller portions, and eating six times a day instead of three mega-sized meals.
Over the 4th of July weekened I managed to eat unhealthy, eat mondo-sized portions and eat 2-3 huge meals every day.  [...]

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Weekends: Whoops!

[By Crabby](Image courtesy of someecards.com)So a new weight loss study came to this not-so-shocking conclusion: Dieters tend to eat a lot more over the weekends, often without even realizing it.This was just one finding from a study with a bigger goa…

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Are you a pig if you eat more than 3 meals a day? Or smart?

I apologize if the title for this post is a bit crass, but the question I think is a valid one.  How many times should you eat every day if you’re trying to lose weight?

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One thing I’ve done since embarking on my weight loss journey is changing the way that I eat. [...]

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Day Two of the Perfect Week?

On Monday when I wrote that I was going to go after a perfect week of health I had major doubts as to whether it was the right thing to do. One day at a time is surely a better approach, particularly when I have been off the wagon for so long. Yet [...]

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Going After The Perfect Week

After being bad for so long I don’t know what makes me think I can make it past a day, let alone a week, but my goal for this week is to have that perfect week. Stay on my diet. Get the exercise in. No binging. With July 4th parties it’s [...]

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One Pound of Fat = 3500 Calories

One pound of fat equals three thousand, five hundred calories.
If you want to lose weight, your body needs to run at a deficit. If you eat 3500 fewer calories a week, you can expect to drop a pound of fat. If eating 3500 fewer calories seems unreasonable, especially if the typical diet is 2000 calories [...]

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Me and Exercise? Yeah we go Way Back

When it came to running, things were particularly frustrating. While I found it was beneficial mentally to get out, I saw ZERO results in weight loss. Why?

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Welcome to Quick to Fit!

Hello everyone, this is the inaugural post for QuicktoFit.com!  I started this blog as a way to keep myself accountable for my fitness life, in a similar way that my other blog, BibleMoneyMatters.com has helped me to remain accountable in my personal financial life.  Blogging about the subject means that I have to think about [...]

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Fat is Not Fair

[by Crabby]It is not a scientific secret that genetics play a role in weight gain and obesity.People have different metabolisms. There are people who eat tons of food and never exercise, yet they are skinny. There are other people who eat healthy foo…

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53 Pounds in 9 weeks… 4.5 Pounds this Week

Wow… back on track!  After 2 weeks of relatively small amounts of weight loss (0.6 pounds and 1.8 pounds) I got back on track with a solid 4.5 pounds this week.  Between my ruptured tendon with the resulting inability to exercise in many of my normal ways and my Dad visiting for Father’s day with [...]

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Pass The Sweet Or Salty Flavor Crystals

Or “tastants,” as they are being called in the world of science. We all know that the senses of smell and taste are linked; what I didn’t know was that the olfactory nerve is in part what governs our feeling of satiety. (Also, according to this article, people who lose their senses of smell [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Pass The Sweet Or Salty Flavor Crystals”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/06/19/pass-the-sweet-or-salty-flavor-crystals/” });

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Weightloss Struggles Continue

The last month I have been extra busy at work with a lot of writing that caused me to have no interest in writing in my personal life. And I’ve strayed significantly from my diet and exercise plan. I’ve updated the charts today and they are not pretty. I am particularly disappointed [...]

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More Wacky Celebrity Diets

Now you too can diet like a celebrity, using everything from cayenne pepper to colonics in order to “detox” your body and lose weight. Yummy!
Martha’s Vineyard Detox Diet: Followers include ridiculously skin-and-bones supe Gisele Bundchen, weight loss master Robin Quivers and the muscular Madonna. The 21-day detox promises devotees to shed 21 pounds in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “More Wacky Celebrity Diets”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/06/13/more-wacky-celebrity-diets/” });

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10 Things to Consider When Choosing a Gym

If you are a beginner like myself or a seasoned gym rat, choosing a gym is an important decision to be made and there are lots of things to consider. As the saying goes, “location, location, location”, but it’s more than just that. …

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190

Today marks the first time since starting this project that I’ve reached 190 pounds. On New Years Day, I weighed 207. In the past 23 weeks I’ve lost 17 pounds. In the grand scheme of things, I am meeting my goal: I am getting fit slowly.
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Week Roundup Week of June 08

This week from the Health and Fitness Network I present to you more of my favorite posts:

Taking soda out of your diet? NCN chronicles the journey this week with a wrap up in 6 Days Without Soda And Life Is [...]

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Weight Lost: 47 pounds in 7 weeks… Under 1 Pound Weight Loss This Week

After 7 weeks on the medically assisted weightless program JumpStart medicine with Dr. Sean Bourke, I have lost 47 pounds in 52 days. This week I lost 0.6 pounds and achieved only 11.1% of my weekly goal.
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Which Exercise Type Fits Your Body Best?

There are literally hundreds of different ways that you can get exercise, but not all of them are suited for you. Each one of us has different likes, dislikes and capabilities. The problem facing most people who try to adopt an exercise plan is choosing one that does not fit their body’s needs. By [...]

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3 Weight Loss Techniques You Need to Avoid

We all know that fad diets are a bad idea and rarely work, but it is so easy to get swept away by their claims that many forget this. Who doesn’t want to lose ten pounds in a few days? The problem is, these diets not only are not effective over the long term, [...]

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Stress, me, and a blog make three

“Look, Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.” [2001: A Space Odyssey] - Sir Arthur C. Clarke [photo courtesy of FilmReference.com]

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Trim Your Waist By Avoiding These Pitfalls

Nearly everyone wants to lose inches off their waist and there are many schools of thought on how to accomplish this. Many people believe that the best way to trim your waist is to do hundreds if not thousands of sit-ups or crunches, but in reality, this method will not do much good. In [...]

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