I hate the word diet, or rather I hate the way most people use the word. Diet simply means what you eat. When I hear someone say “I’m on a diet,” I immediately know they are destined to fail (at least in the long term). Being “on a diet”, by definition means that you are trying some short term plan to quickly lose weight and then, once you lose the weight, you will stop following the diet and gain back the weight. What you really need to do is make a permanent change to your diet instead of being “on a diet.” That is what I hope you will learn from the articles listed here.
Get off the scale and stop weighing yourself every five minutes. Weight is essentially a meaningless number. It means very little when considered on its own and even less if you are comparing yours to someone else’s. Weight is influenced by many things that are out of our control like height, bone density, breast size, [...]
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It would be much easier to eat healthy foods if you didn’t have to go to work or watch the kids everyday. You could take all the time you wanted to prepare healthy meals for yourself. Most of us have obligations though, so we are stuck eating what is quick or convenient. When you are [...]
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Lincoln University has recently been tangled up in a little controversy over a weight loss requirement for their students. It’s actually a Body Mass Index (BMI) requirement, and they ended up doing away with it because of an uproar amongst the students.
I found this story very intriguing. The requirement was that all students had to [...]
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