A Summary of Free Online Diet and Fitness Journals

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Have you started tracking your meals, snacks, beverages and exercise yet? If not, what are you waiting for? As we mentioned earlier in the week, studies show that dieters who keep a food journal will lose twice as much as those who do not. To make it easier for you to get started, we’re providing [...]

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Use an Online Journal to Reach Your Weight Loss Goals

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Last week we wrote a blog post about little things you can do that will help you stick with your weight loss plan. One of our suggestions was to track your calorie consumption and calories burned each day in a notebook, or journal, to create a numerical record of your progress. Yes, this sounds like [...]

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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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Weight Loss in Your Thirties

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Many women in their thirties fondly remember the good old days. The days when they could eat whatever they wanted without gaining an ounce. The days when losing ten pounds seemed easy with a little increase in exercise or fewer snacks. You remember those days – when you were in your twenties. While it’s too [...]

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How to Beat the Crowded Gym

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It has happened to all of us at one time or another. You arrive at the gym, psyched for your workout, only to find the treadmill, elliptical and circuit machines packed to the gills and with waiting lists longer than Le Bernardin on a Saturday night. Suddenly you hear the siren song of a double [...]

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Ten Tricks to Boost Your Energy

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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: exercise should be an integral part of any weight loss program, and it’s absolutely essential to achieving permanent weight loss. But we all have down days –those days when just dragging yourself out of bed seems like too much work. The next time you find yourself [...]

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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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Five Tips for a Healthier Heart

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Think about the last time you exercised. Sweaty and out of breath, your heart thumped furiously within your chest, slowly returning to its normal rate a few minutes after the end of your workout. You improve the health of your heart each time you put it through this routine. Aerobic exercise strengthens your cardiovascular system, [...]

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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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Are You the Parent of an Overweight Child?

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According to the Centers for Disease Control, 33 percent of U.S. children and adolescents are overweight or obese. The obesity rate has tripled since the 1960s, and many parents are unknowingly contributing to the epidemic. If you’re the mother or father of an overweight child, consider the following behaviors that may be making your child [...]

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