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We have been taught to believe that carbs are BAD and if you eat too many carbs you will gain weight.  Therefore I went on a high protein low carb diet.  Except for fruits and vegetables I did not eat any other carbs. Guess what – I didn’t lose ANY weight???  I went to research [...]

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The USDA Food Pyramid  is updated every few years as we learn more about nutrition, the guidelines are refined and improved slightly. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of the food pyramid, for most advantageous nutrition.  When you are allowing for a weight loss plan, it is best to operate [...]

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Some of you may have taken Fat Tuesday and the Mardis Gras period before Lent a bit to heart.  All that gluttonous eating has left you with a few extra pounds! How to lose the weight? Here are some foods that will boost your metabolism and get you on your way to losing weight:
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15 Metabolism [...]

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We are used to receiving super-size portions when we go out to eat, which is a large factor in the obesity of Americans. Over the years serving sizes have become bigger and bigger.  Think of the size of a bagel. Our grandparents ate a three-inch bagel for a total of 150 calories. Today, most bagels [...]

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The Mayo Clinic actually reviews 70 popular fad diets.  Isn’t that unbelievable?  And these are just the 70 most popular diets…imagine how many more there are floating around out there.
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Dieting is simply a function of burning more calories than you take in.  In order to burn more you can do one of two things:
 

Exercise more
Increase [...]

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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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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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In order to lose weight we always think we need to slash or reduce calories…but what if there was another way? By cutting calories we deprive the body of fuel and thus the body slows down.  On the other hand food fuels the system and stimulates energy metabolism.  Reducing calories slows the metabolic rate.  The [...]

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