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Losing weight is more than a diet plan. Motivation, consistency, and other factors are critical. (171 posts)

5 Dieting Excuses You Can Beat Today

Are you putting off getting started on a healthy diet? Are you forever waiting until Monday, until all the stars are aligned, or until there are five weekends in the month?

It's always easy to come up with reasons to avoid getting going with a healthy eating or weight-loss plan. But all too often, these reasons are really just excuses. Take these five, for example...

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16 comments · June 12, 2009

Is Behavioural Intervention the Key to Weight Loss?

No doubt the hallmark study of the European Congress on Obesity was that involving eating vs. inactivity as a cause of obesity.

However, when perusing the other studies from this conference, a recurring theme on the importance of behaviour modification strategies for weight maintenance was evident. Here are the details of the findings:

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11 comments · May 20, 2009

Consumers Can't Tell Pâté from Dog Food!

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Pâté is a popular French food, which is basically mashed meat, liver, fat, wine and spices. It looks like fancy meatloaf, but the kind you don't squirt ketchup on.

It's thought to be for the refined palate, but a recent taste-test may have proved otherwise!

Wine experts now claim most people can't taste the difference between pâté and dog food made with meat "not fit" for human consumption. Even the sophisticated Stephen Colbert is all mixed up.

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8 comments · May 18, 2009

People Prefer Traffic Light-Colored Nutrition Labels

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Nutrition facts look like the backs of baseball cards, with stats, facts and figures. I collected baseball cards as a kid and I never read the stats.

And if you look at how fat we are. I doubt many people are paying much attention to the nutrition facts on the back of cookie dough ice cream, either.

That's why a new study claims consumers respond better to traffic light-colored nutrition labels.

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11 comments · May 12, 2009

Conquering Emotional Eating: Lessons from Monica Seles

Monica Seles is without a doubt one of the best female tennis players of all time. Known for her relentless power and loud, multi-syllable grunts, Seles vaulted to the top ranked spot in women's tennis at the tender age of 17.

Even the casual sports fan knows how this story unfolds. A bizarre stabbing attack by a deranged fan would indelibly de-rail Seles' playing career and worse still, her emotional stability. The stabbing incident - compounded by the death of her father to cancer would spark an addiction to food.

Here are some quotes from Monica's story in an ESPN interview on how she kicked emotional eating. Seles has written a book on her experiences called "Getting a Grip".

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7 comments · April 29, 2009

How To Break Down Barriers and Obstacles

Making a conscious and constant effort to live healthfully takes a mindset change - a certain outlook if you will. While attending a conference about 10 years ago, a fitness professional named Susan Cantwell introduced me to the distinction between barriers and obstacles. This can be very useful when trying to justify eating well and exercising. Let's look at some examples of each.

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9 comments · April 22, 2009

Trainer Gets Fat to Inspire Fat Clients

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Geez, some people will go a long way for their craft. A 32-year old personal trainer and underwear model from Australia is purposely gaining weight to empathize with his overweight cliental.

And Paul "PJ" James is not screwing around. He plans to pack on a total of 85 pounds! His "goal" weight is 265. To do it, PJ stopped exercising and started eating deep-fried candy bars and Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

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26 comments · March 19, 2009

Men-Only Strategies for Weight Loss

A Newsweek piece hit recently explaining how men and women use different strategies to diet and that some tactics that work for guys don't work for gals and vice versa. Here are some of the salient points;

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17 comments · March 9, 2009

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