Articles tagged with Diet
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How To Practice Balance And Moderation In Your Diet
More than 50 percent of the exercise required to stay fit and firm as you age, involves a fork and knife. No amount of exercise can compensate for poor dietary habits. I believe in finding a healthy eating plan that works for you, that you can live with for the long-term. One [...]
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Can You Learn Self Control As You Try To Lose Some Weight?
Compulsive eating, without any doubt, comes under the heading of lack of self-control. So, if you’re a compulsive eater—can’t stop yourself from eating so much and just have to have that food treat, then you’re not exercising self-control. Having enough control over yourself is complicated. It is not something that you either have or don’t have—but [...]
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Has Permanent Weight Loss Been Beyond Your Control? Here’s a Way to Change That.
People who live with high job demands and little control over their jobs have twice the risk of death from cardiovascular disease than people who do not suffer this stress Providing people with greater control where there are high job demands improves their level of stress and also their health. Can we take a page from this [...]
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Do You Put Off Long Term Weight Loss.
We all know that you shouldn’t let your emotions rule your financial decisions. Does the same principle hold true for losing some weight? Yes, it does. Impulse spending and impulse eating have one thing in common. They are done impulsively. Sometimes they are done to celebrate when you’re feeling positive. You don’t actually get out the [...]
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What Does Being an Entrepreneur Have To Do With Women’s Weight Loss?
Are you an entrepreneur? Well, it’s best that you are when it comes to losing excess weight. Entrepreneur? Isn’t she a person who assumes responsibility for the inherent risks and the outcome of an enterprise or venture? Another way of putting it: she is a person who is self-employed. The premise here is that when you [...]
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You Want to Lose Weight? You Gotta Be Competent Enough To Do It
Image via Wikipedi Isn’t everyone competent to lose unwanted weight—if they just put their minds to it? NO. Being competent enough to reach your weight-loss goal entails mastery of what it takes to get to the goal. If you start the weight-loss process without all the competence you need (and everyone starts this way), you can still [...]
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Are You Dying to Lose Some Weight? Here’s One Way You Can Do It
So, you are just dying to lose some large, excess weight. You believe that this time, you’re really ready to do it. You're feeling ready and energised. It sounds like a plan. But it’s not a plan. It’s still—well, it’s still a wish. A big wish. A worthwhile wish, nonetheless. It may be the kind [...]
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Christmas is Over and I Need Help Losing Weight, Starting a Diet, Doing What It Takes
Christmas is over, there is snow everywhere, I am stuck inside with the wind howling out there, Christmas cakes and cookies covered and put away— but still dancing around like sugarplums in my mind. I promised myself that after Christmas I’d start a diet regimen, but now I feel it is impossible until the New [...]
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Benefits of a Calorie Controlled Diet
Calorie is a measurement of energy. In other words, ‘unit of energy’. When we eat food, the amount of energy contained in them will be used by our body to conduct various body functions. This energy is called ‘food energy’ and can be measured in calories. Our body needs energy to function properly. The source [...]
