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Diet

Easy Ways to Sneak More Fruits and Vegetables Into Your Diet

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The best diet is one that does not leave you hungry, and fruits and vegetables are a great way to satisfy your appetite without consuming empty calories. Packed with essential vitamins and nutrients your body needs, fruits and vegetables are also healthy.  In fact, the USDA recommends that adults consume nine to thirteen servings of [...]

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Combating Comfort Eating

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When you’re having a bad day, feeling lonely or dealing with a disappointment, what foods do you crave? If you’re like most people, your “comfort foods” are probably dishes loaded with fats and sugary carbs –foods like macaroni and cheese, biscuits and gravy, double bacon cheeseburgers, chocolate cake and pecan pie. Unless raw veggies are [...]

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You Can Do It! How to Stick to Your Weight Loss Plan

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It’s Sunday night and you’ve decided to begin your new diet and exercise plan bright and early tomorrow. There’s a high school class reunion coming up and you are determined to look smoking hot. You have three months to drop ten pounds. That shouldn’t be difficult right? But there’s one teeny-tiny problem: the odds are [...]

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Avoid These Five Things to Achieve Permanent Weight Loss

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Every year, millions of Americans go on diets, investing billions of dollars in diet foods, diet pills, gym memberships and weight loss plans. Some give up before they really even get started. Others succeed in reaching their weight loss goals only to regain the weight a few months or a few years later. Short-term weight [...]

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Nobody is Perfect – Ditching Diet Perfectionism

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Do you have an all or nothing mentality? Do you prefer to engage in activities at which you excel, and avoid those at which you’re less than perfect? Does this attitude extend to your diet plan? If so, you could be setting yourself up for failure and disappointment.
Real life does not allow for perfection –in [...]

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Ten Atlanta Weight Loss Tips

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Are you looking for Atlanta weight loss assistance? If so, you are not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 33.8 percent of U.S. adults are obese. As of 2010, the state of Georgia had an obesity rate of 29.6 percent. This means that Atlanta, with a population of more than 420,003 [...]

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Start Your Day Right–With Breakfast!

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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 [...]

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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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Calories: Friends or Enemies?

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Sun-tzu once said, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” He was a Chinese general and military strategist, not a dietician, so we can assume he wasn’t talking about calories. However, for the millions of Americans looking for weight loss help, the saying may still apply.
Calories should be our friends. Each one is a [...]

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