Weight Loss Desperation: Using Unhealthy Weight Loss Methods

Losing weight is something that some fight with for most of their lives and they can fail over and over again. When this happens, some people will resort to weight loss methods that are drastic and exceptionally unhealthy. This is never a good thing or a long term fix for weight problems.

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5 Ways to Naturally Increase Metabolism

What we ingest and how much we eat, as well as how much we rest and exercise has a dramatic affect on our bodies and will impact both our health and our metabolisms negatively or positively depending on what we do. To make sure you are doing everything you can to help your body lose weight, here are 5 ways to naturally increase metabolism you should make sure you are doing every day.

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Kitchen Makeover for Weight Loss

If you haven’t given your kitchen a proper makeover since you decided to lose weight, then you might find that this one room in your home is actually sabotaging all of your well designed plans to eat in a proper, healthy way. The following are some great tips that you can use to remake your current kitchen so that it will work with your efforts to lose weight, instead of against them.

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Using Weight Loss to Treat Knee Arthritis

For people who are already living with knee arthritis, losing weight may relieve some of the stress on placed on the knees and may help to alleviate some pain. There are also medications and supplements, such as glucosamine, that help knee arthritis and in some cases cortisone injections may bring some temporary relief, but also using weight loss to treat knee arthritis may be helpful.

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Top Reasons Why You Cannot Lose Weight

One of the top reasons you can’t lose weight is that you don’t have a weight management plan for when you are finished dieting. You can not simply change the way that you eat, lose weight, and then go back to your old eating and lifestyle choices.

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Big Fat Excuses

Making “Big Fat Excuses” is something that all of us who have wanted to lose weight have made at some point. In fact, over the almost 20 years that I have been either overweight or obese I have probably made a hundred different excuses for why I couldn’t start a diet, or stick to a diet, or get more exercise, or stop eating junk food, and so on. What I hope everyone who reads this post will do today is take a moment to reflect on what excuses they may have been making that are preventing them from reaching their weight loss goals.

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The Risks Obesity Poses To Pregnancy

There are some specific problems that can come about for an obese mom-to-be of which she needs to pay special attention. Dads should also know about these so they too can look for signs of a potential problem.

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Weight Loss Blogging: The Best Dieting Tips I’ve Learned

Now that I’m calming down from my excitement from this morning’s weigh in I can begin to reflect on what I have learned over the past year of blogging. As I’m searching through my old posts and reading through some of my favorites, I feel that today would be perfect for pointing out the best dieting tips I’ve learned over the past year.

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Hypothyroidism Diet and Weight Loss

The greatest concern for most people with hypothyroidism is weight gain. Some of the recommended solutions for hypothyroid weight gain include drug therapy, physical exercise and a healthy diet.

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Leptin and Weight loss: How the Fat Hormone Affects Hunger and Metabolism

Leptin is a hormone produced by fat cells and found in the blood plasma. One area of growing interest lately has been in determining the exact role that the hormone leptin plays in regulating metabolism and hunger.

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