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Start Your Day Right–With Breakfast!

by Atlanta MD Weight Loss

in Diet, Nutrition

If you’re like many dieters and weight loss clinic patients, you may be tempted to skip breakfast. If you don’t eat those calories now, you can afford a bigger lunch, right? Wrong. Most breakfast skippers find themselves so hungry by mid-morning that they raid the fridge, the junk food drawer or the office vending machine [...]

Activities that Sabotage Weight Loss

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When you first begin a weight loss program, motivation is at an all-time high. It’s easy to envision the positive changes losing weight will bring to your life, from fewer aches and pains, to a healthier heart, to an improved appearance. And there’s nothing like the feeling you have when the numbers on the scale [...]

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Stay Full and Lose Weight

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If you’ve been reading our blog for long, you already know that exercise is an important component of any maintainable weight loss program. While one could create the calorie deficit necessary for weight loss by drastically reducing calorie consumption, it would be done at the risk of proper nutrition and weight loss sustainability. Exercise reduces [...]

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Lose Weight to Reduce Back Pain

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Here at Atlanta MD Weight Loss medical weight loss clinic, our patients often ask us if losing weight will alleviate their back pain. The simple answer is yes. Excess weight can put undue stress on your spine (particularly the lumbar region) and back muscles. However, there’s a bit more to it than that. In addition [...]

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Eating Out While Dieting

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Being on a diet can be a lonely experience. Many engaged in weight loss programs avoid dining out with friends, fearing the difficulty of sticking to their weight loss plan when presented with a menu of off-limits options. If you’ve traditionally been among them, spending quiet evenings at home counting calories instead of social dining [...]

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How to Practice Mindful Eating

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How often do you eat while doing something else, whether working on the computer, driving, watching television or otherwise occupying your mind? If you’re like most busy Americans, you probably multitask pretty frequently –even at mealtimes. Unfortunately, this practice often leads to the consumption of too large portions, too many calories, and purely convenient –rather [...]

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Your Weight and Your Bank Balance

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If you lose weight, will you ultimately become wealthier?  Research by Ohio State University scientists suggests the answer to this question may be yes. After studying 15 years of data collected by the government, they determined that major weight loss adds up to thousands of dollars in the bank.
According to their findings, men and women [...]

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If You Have Ten Minutes, You Can Exercise

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The most commonly uttered excuse when it comes to exercise is, “I just don’t have time.” It’s easy to understand why. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey, employed women work an average of 7.5 hours each day along with spending 2.6 hours on household activities.  Employed men spent an average [...]

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The Basics of Burning Fat and Building Muscle

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Exercise is an essential part of any weight maintenance or weight loss program. Unfortunately, If you are new to exercise, you may get a bit of a shock the first time you step on a scale to track your progress. The needle may actually move up (at least for a short time) because muscle weighs [...]

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