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Drinking too many calories. Fancy coffees, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks can pack in the calories.  High calorie drinks do not curb hunger either.
Drink lots of water.  Metabolism drags if you are dehydrated.  Try water flavored with fresh lemons. Also try to drink a cup of water with each meal and snack..
Don’t ditch dairy.  But [...]

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If you are like most of the adult population you probably want to lose a few pounds to look your best.  And, like most of the American population you may be committing these common dieting mistakes and thus sabotaging your ability to lose weight.
 

Cutting too many calories.  Eating too few calories slows your metabolism causing [...]

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While it does not seem fair it is a fact that as we age our metabolism slows down. With every passing decade we lose 5-6 pounds of muscle.  We are burning perhaps 100 calories less per day at 40 than we did at 30.  But don’t worry, there are ways to boost burning fat at [...]

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If you Google latest diets all kinds of diets crazes pop-up including:
 

HCG diet
Flat belly Diet
Cookie Diet
Low Carb Diets
The Blood Type Diet

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Really dieting is simply math.  Burn more calories than you take in.  That’s why watching calories and exercising daily should theoretically bring about results. Some people need the extra push to help depress appetite and [...]

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65%     of calories you eat daily are spent keeping you alive and providing basic energy for life support.  Â
25%     of your calories go to movement and physical activity.
10%     of calories are spent processing the food you eat, simply eating and digesting your food.
Total 100%
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Maintaining your weight is simply a function of taking in the [...]

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