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Weight Loss and Sleeping: A Winning Combination

Not only do our bodies crave a certain amount of sleep to feel alert, energetic, and more in tune, but there is also a connection to weight loss. This is good news! Sleep is more important than you think. More and more people are sleep deprived as they struggle to keep up with their day-to-day activities. Having to create a balancing act between our job, our families, and keeping up our house has left many people very stressed. Getting it all done requires more hours in the day, which is of course impossible. So what do we do? We have … Continue reading →

Are You an Overweight Mom? Get Some Sleep!

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Do you crave starchy foods all day? Are you hungry all the time? Is your diet failing because you just can’t stop eating? It could be that you simply aren’t getting enough sleep. According to Dr. Joseph Ojile of the Clayton Sleep Institute, there is a direct connection between poor sleep and obesity. In fact, the National Sleep Foundation has found poor sleep habits to be such a part of obesity that they want obesity therapists to consider this issue in the fight against obesity with as much importance as diet and exercise. The proof came in 2004 when a … Continue reading →

Stay Motivated!

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Motivation is a primary element of a successful weight loss program. When your alarm clock goes off in the morning and you’re torn between an extra hour of sleep or a workout, motivation is what gets you out of bed. When the girls at the office get together during Happy Hour for drinks and fried finger foods, motivation to lose weight is what makes you say “No, thanks”. Following are a few links to some great blogs about staying motivated on your weight loss journey. For a full list of blogs on staying motivated click here. Guilt is something I’ve … Continue reading →

Yo-Yo Dieting Isn’t That Bad for You

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Really, honestly, and truly I read this today. I had always heard that going on a diet, to lose weight, and then to regain it was just a bad proposition. I’ve heard that it makes losing weight for the long haul much harder to do and I’ve heard that it isn’t that healthy for you either, increasing your risk of heart disease, and cancer. But apparently, losing weight and then regaining has no ill health effects on your heart or your waistline in and of itself. In a research study, following several men and women, statistics showed that yo-yo dieting, … Continue reading →

E is for Energy

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Calories are a unit of energy that provides fuel for your body and that we consume in our food. Calories are things we count and things we burn – but what we need them for is pure and simple: energy. The human body gets energy from two major sources: food and sleep. If you don’t eat properly, chances are you sleep a great deal. You can generate a false sense of energy from drinking caffeine or eating sugary products – but that energy is often short-lived and the crash is considerable afterwards. Outside of eating and sleeping, exercise is the … Continue reading →

Is a Detox Diet Right for You? Part 2

In the first part of this blog, we talked about detox diets and the fact that one of the things detox diets do is ‘cleanse’ your body. To be clear, cleansing your body in this case is a euphemism for moderate to severe diarrhea. That Whole Cleansing Thing I have yet to read literature from a detoxification diet that talks about the environment of the gut. Well, that’s not true. Lots of these so called diets talk about how you can lose pounds by cleansing your colon, how there’s all sorts of bad stuff in there, how it’s the land … Continue reading →

Journaling Your Way to Weight Loss–Setting Up Your Journal

Yesterday, I talked about setting up a journal to help motivate you and keep you on track for reaching your weight loss goals. Today I’m going to give you some specific directions on how to set one up. I need to point out though that the journal must be useful for you. Perhaps what was useful for me, my methodologies, and the way I set mine up is not what’s going to be useful for you. So please take whatever ideas you find helpful. Please disregard whatever is going to hinder you in your progress. A journal is all about … Continue reading →

Tips for Journaling Your Way to Weight Loss

Many people seriously lack motivation to lose the weight they need. They are unable to set realistic goals or they just cannot see their own bad habits long enough to break them. Journaling your weight loss journey really helps you to see where you’ve been and where you’re going. Why Journaling? There are several reasons to keep a chronicle of your weight loss endeavors. First of all, it helps you to realistically see where you’re at. Writing down your weight means you have to acknowledge it. Keeping track of what you eat means that you have to see on paper … Continue reading →

How to Improve Your Computer Fitness

We talked about Your Computer versus Your Fitness yesterday. Today, we’re going to talk about how to improve your computer fitness, but we’re not talking about the health of your actual machine, for tips on your computer and computing, check out our computing blog. In the meanwhile, it’s important to remember when you are sitting at your desk, hour after hour; that there is something you can do to improve your own fitness in those hours. So How Can You Do It? Take a good look at your nutrition. What do you eat and drink when you are sitting at … Continue reading →

Weight Loss Week in Review: May 28 to June 2

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You have likely figured this out by now, but I am covering the weight loss blog for awhile. I hope that you’ll join me, I have some exciting things planned, and of course I’ll always bring you good tips and ideas on reaching your weight loss goals. If you’ve missed any reading, here is our week in review. Saturday, June 2 Dad’s Losing It: The Best 8lbs. I’ve Ever Gained A big congratulations to our fun blogger Jeff Bogle, and his wife who welcomed a new baby into their house on Memorial Day. Read all about his ‘weight gain’ and … Continue reading →