Articles tagged with Holidays
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Weight Loss Tips for Travelling
Eating for weight loss, whilst travelling, is not as difficult as people make it out to be. Don’t use travel as an excuse to eat junk food, and reverse all the hard work you’ve been putting in. More than likely it’s not your fault that you’ve struggled to eat healthy while on the road. Most people just [...]
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Cucumbers: Cooling & Healthy
Summer is fast approaching and we will soon find ourselves enjoying activities in the baking, hot sun. Who amongst us doesn’t look forward to good old DIY, gardening, jogging on outdoor trails and swimming? When our bodies begin to overheat, we need to look for foods that are cooling, and replenish lost moisture. There is nothing better [...]
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Healthify Your Celebrations: Cinco De Mayo
There is no reason to purchase deep fried corn chips, when homemade ones are super easy and fast to make. While I prefer the taste of the homemade tortilla made into a baked chip, when you’re short on time, slicing and baking your corn chips work just just as well. Whether you are celebrating Cinco De [...]
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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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How to Lose Weight over the Holidays
Holiday weight gain can leave us in a post-holiday funk. Armed with info and choices, it doesn’t have to be that way. Last post we covered Healthier Holiday Bevvies and today, Shirley Simpson shares a few holiday weight-loss tips. Weight loss is a problem for many people. The thought of shedding those extra pounds [...]
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How to Exercise with your family at Christmas
It’s Christmas, the UK is decorated in flurries of snow, and all that seems possible is staying inside with a good bout of BBC drama and lots of hot, therapy food. There are many ways that you can exercise and stay fit whilst having fun with your family this Christmas. 1.) Get creative in the Snow. [...]
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Don’t Make Holiday Food Such a Weight Loss Challenge
Do you do this? You decide to go on a diet, and you will start the next day. So on this day before, you eat everything in sight; fill yourself. It feels like a last fling, because you are telling yourself you’re in for a long period of deprivation, so live it up while [...]
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Control your Christmas Cravings
Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast approaching, and what are our dieters afraid of? Losing control? According to a particular view of self-control called the "limited resource model", you have a limited amount of self-control. If you have used a lot of self-control -- otherwise known as willpower -- in a situation, then you may not have [...]
