Considering Weight-Loss Surgery: The Facts You Need to Know for a Healthy Recovery

2010-08-28 / Weight Loss Books / 1 Comments

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Review the risks associated with weight-loss surgery and what you should expect from the surgery and during recovery. Understand the benefits you will gain from loosing weight, improving your health and increasing your abilities.

Considering Weight-Loss Surgery: The Facts You Need to Know for a Healthy Recovery

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Eat Well, Lose Weight While Breastfeeding: The Complete Nutrition Book for Nursing Mothers, Including a Healthy Guide to the Weight Loss Your Doctor Promised

2010-08-12 / Weight Loss Books / 5 Comments

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Behan shows the nursing mom how to shed pounds and work on getting her figure back while keeping her child properly nourished and happy, with the revolutionary program she devised for herself in order to lose 52 pounds while nursing.

Eat Well, Lose Weight While Breastfeeding: The Complete Nutrition Book for Nursing Mothers, Including a Healthy Guide to the Weight Loss Your Doctor Promised

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Alternative Medicine Magazine’s Definitive Guide to Weight Loss: 10 Healthy Ways to Permanently Shed Unwanted Pounds

2010-07-10 / Weight Loss Books / 0 Comments

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Dr. Ellen Kamhi outlines a complete weight-loss and weight-management program that features detoxification, eating a whole-foods diet, choosing the right fats, kicking food addictions, and getting and staying motivated. In the face of fad diets, this authoritative and commonsense guide helps each dieter create a healthier lifestyle and a slimmer figure in the process.

Alternative Medicine Magazine’s Definitive Guide to Weight Loss: 10 Healthy Ways to Permanently Shed Unwanted Pounds

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5 Ways to Break a Healthy Weight Loss Plateau!

2010-07-02 / Weight Loss Articles / 0 Comments

Even though everyone loses weight in a different way, it is common and perfectly normal for any dieter to reach a plateau.  Instead of allowing it to frustrate you, use it as an opportunity to double up your efforts and reconnect with your strategy to carry you through to the finish line. Listed below are 5 of the best ways to re-ignite the healthy weight loss process when you feel challenged. Choose the tips that work best for you or simply go for them all!

Healthy Weight Loss Plateau Breaker #1: Start ExercisingAlthough you can lose weight without exercise, it will always accellerate your efforts. If you are not injured or do not suffer from severe asthma, be thankful that you can get outside and move your body. Take advantage of your ability to be active because many people do not have that luxury. The more you exercise, the better you will get at it, and the less it will feel like work.

If you are already exercising, add something different to the mix to make your body working harder. Add intensity, in the form of extra weight, run faster or for a longer distance, or more duration. Going until you fail is the easiest way to ensure you’re pushing hard enough. Add extra sit-ups and push-ups before you go to sleep and when you wake up. Done in the AM on an empty stomach, this can kick-start your metabolism by teaching your body to more efficiently mobilize its fat stores for energy.

Healthy Weight Loss Plateau Breaker #2: Make Healthier Eating ChoicesWhen you are trying to lose weight, there is nothing more important than proper nutrition. Your body can perform miracles with choices like soy protein shakes, fruits and vegetables. You’ll not only bust past your plateau, but you’ll do it in a healthy way. Eliminate refined sugar grains (most pre-packaged snack foods) so carbohydrates can not get their way unnoticed into your diet.

Cutting back on how often you eat can have a negative impact on your diet plateau as well. Small, frequent meals are more satisfying and produce better weight-loss results than the same number of calories consumed in three large meals. Take advantage of healthys nacks like protein bars, soy nuts and fresh vegetable and fruit slices. Eating more of the right kinds of food is a much smarter plan of action to break a healthy weight loss plateau than starving yourself.

Healthy Weight Loss Plateau Breaker #3: Drink Green TeaWhenever I want to lose 5 or 10 pounds of stubborn belly fat, I drink more green tea. Packed with more vitamins and antioxidants than any other drink, green tea is an all-natural way to give yourself energy to compliment your enthusiasm for losing weight. The best part, however, is that green tea ahas the amazing ability to actually speed up your metabolism! You will notice results right away with just one cup, but the more you drink it, the more you will want it!

Healthy Weight Loss Plateau Breaker #4: Keep Your Incentive Strongthe body achieves what the mind believes. If you don’t believe you can make it past the hurdle of a weight loss plateau, you probably won’t. You’ll give up before you have a chance to even try. Focus on re-capturing the determination you felt when you first began your weight-loss program. The excitement of watching the pounds drop one by one should be the focus of your motivation. If it was something that has come and gone, like a high school reunion or a wedding, choose a new goal.

Start keeping a diet journal of everything you eat and drink. You may quickly discover that hidden carbohydrates and sugars are keeping your healthy weight-loss progress stuck at the plateau. Eliminate trigger foods or anything that you think may be contributing to your inability to lose more weight. If you are eating pretzels every day at 2pm, don’t starve yourself by not eating if you are hungry at that time…just replace the pretzels with something healthier like fruit or chicken.

Healthy Weight Loss Plateau Breaker #5: Drink More WaterIt is extremely important to replenish your fluids by drinking plenty of water on any weight loss program, especially if you are incorporating exercise on a daily basis. An inadequate supply of water can slow down your weight-loss, so carry a water bottle with you wherever you go throughout the day. Keeping well hydrated not only helps you burn fat efficiently, it also helps control hunger.

Follow these 5 steps and you will have a better chance of breaking your healthy weight loss plateau than if youcontinue stressing over the obstacle. Each time you sit down to eat or have a snack, take a moment to become mindful that the food you are about to eat is either taking you one step closer to your goal, or one step away. As you make this mental connection, and dedicate each serving of food or drink to your weight loss, you will naturally be inclined to enjoy the foods and drinks that pushed you past your plateau.

Bill Winch is a Personal Wellness Coach whose mission is teaching and coaching others who are struggling with getting healthy, losing weight safely and keeping it off for good. He is also a Certified Business Growth Specialist, former High School and College Business Educator and Counselor, and mentors from his home office in Rochester, NY. If you are interested in receiving his Free Report “9 Weight Loss Myths Exposed” visit his website by clicking on FREE REPORT or by calling him directly at (585) 271-3767 for a free wellness consultation.

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Fighting Weight: How I Achieved Healthy Weight Loss with “Banding,” a New Procedure That Eliminates Hunger–Forever

2010-07-01 / Weight Loss Books / 5 Comments

  • ISBN13: 9780061170966
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Khaliah Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali, shares her success at overcoming obesity through banding surgery—a minimally invasive, reversible, and extremely effective choice for drastically overweight people

When Muhammad Ali’s daughter Khaliah hit 325 pounds, she didn’t need to be told again that she was morbidly obese. A lifetime of dieting, of starving, had not helped. Miserable, depressed, and unable to walk up a flight of stairs without losing her breath, she did not know which way to turn—until a friend pointed her toward a new type of surgery called gastric banding. It is just as effective as gastric bypass but with a fraction of potential complications. With the band placed around her stomach and completely taking away her hunger, Khaliah slimmed down to half her former size.

Khaliah wraps her story of weight loss in this memoir of what it was like to grow up the daughter of one of the world’s most famous men, and teams up with her surgeons at the New York University Medical Center to detail the lifetime of misery suffered by an obese girl; the ins and outs of the banding operation; and the joy, serenity, and health resulting from a solution that until now had eluded her.

Fighting Weight: How I Achieved Healthy Weight Loss with “Banding,” a New Procedure That Eliminates Hunger–Forever

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Goodman staying healthy after weight loss

2010-06-20 / Weight Loss News / 0 Comments

Goodman staying healthy after weight loss
John Goodman says he is committed to keeping his weight down because he was tired of “breaking the furniture” as a 400 pound big guy. Goodman blamed years of heavy drinking and overindulgence for packing on the pounds.

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Weight Loss the Healthy Way

2010-06-12 / Weight Loss Articles / 0 Comments

Healthy weight loss is not some magical, mysterious plan that is available to a certain few.  Many of us know that weight loss is a process which requires a lot of work and discipline and you need to be really serious about getting it done, still it seem to be the major focus of the many people nowadays.  Weight loss is also challenging but is not impossible at all, and little encouragement and motivation can do wonders.  But remember that maintaining weight loss is much harder than losing weight because your body has made metabolic adjustments and all the brain does is think about food. There has to be change in this area too, but if you stick to your plan, old habits will be replaced with new ones and the body and its chemistry will follow suit.

Exercise

Exercise is one of the best things you can do for weight loss, keeping in mind that exercise program must be suitable to one’s body, as others are not able to exercise as rigorously as others can.  Exercise alone, without concomitant dietary caloric restriction and behavior modification, tends to produce only modest weight loss of 3-5 lbs.  But as we know, it’s never bad or too late to exercise, and it plays a more vital function than to just help you achieve “Weight Loss”.

Health

People lose weight because they want to feel healthier, look better or have more energy.  A description of a healthy person is the one who eat right type and right quantity of food and who consumes it too with physical activity.  Sound easy… but the habits we have developed and the incorrect emphasis on career over health in the modern world produce opposite and negative results. But this a battle of willpower and in fact, losing even 5 to 10 percent of your weight can help greatly improve your health and from there it is much easier to continue.  Whatever your goals, successful weight loss and healthy weight management CAN be yours.  However, you have to bear in mind that you cannot lose too much otherwise you are just trying to risk your own health and even life in some cases.

Healthy eating is not the same as weight-loss eating: “Weight loss is about being calorie and portion conscious.

Foods

Foods such as fruits and vegetables have low “energy density”.  Recognize what is causing the weight gain: usually overeating or eating a poor combination of foods.  Eating out too much: If your busy schedule or desire for convenience has you eating out most of the time, you have very little control over the foods you consume.  My advice is to eat lots of proper meals and healthy foods and exercise: then you’ll feel good and look good.  Prof Ben Fletcher and Dr Karen Pine say that dieting leads women into a vicious circle of negative emotions which provokes cravings for the very foods they are trying to avoid, with chocolate one of the most powerful. 

Weight maintenance is much like weight loss, because the principles are the same: Eat healthy foods, control your portion sizes and exercise regularly.   Self-prepared foods emphasizing fruits, vegetables, grains and low-fat proteins accompanied by guidelines governing selection and preparation analysis of food labeling, has to become your daily routine.  Keep away from fried foods especially deep-fried as this contains a great amount of fat.  While most diets focus on foods you shouldn’t eat, those that emphasize adding low-calorie foods, like fruits and vegetables, can promote healthy weight loss.

Programs

There are so many weight loss programs now available that one has so many choices that it can be difficult to decide which one will actually work.  Good weight loss programs allow one to shed excess weight safely and healthily over a long period of time.  Weight loss programs are also offered by various fitness companies which also provide the health fitness diets and the workout for a limited period of time.  Prescription weight loss drugs are intended for individuals with medically significant weight problems, and are intended to be used in conjunction with dietary, behavioral, and exercise programs.  Each and everyone’s body metabolism reacts differently to different fast weight loss programs and plans.  Lifestyle changes including exercise programs, such as walking, tai chi, aqua aerobics and circuit training, coupled with behavior modification, can help with weigh management.

Success

While there are no hard-and-fast rules that work for everyone, there are ways to maximize your success.  A strategy for success begins with getting realistic: “Cause number-one for failure is setting too unrealistic of goals, losing too much too fast.  While trimming that waistline may seem a solo job, the truth is that friends can have an enormous influence on the success or failure of attempt at weight loss.  To be successful it seems that you need a good program, supporting friends and have to know what the latest research studies have uncovered and be able to apply this information to your daily routine.

Kevin White has studied overweight problems for two decades, his methods and psychology have helped countless people to success.


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Collins Gem 48-Hour Detox: Quick-Fix Plans for Healthy Weight Loss

2010-06-04 / Weight Loss Books / 2 Comments

  • ISBN13: 9780007266586
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Whether detoxing for the first time or adopting it as an approach to life, this is the perfect portable guide to finding a detox plan that works for you and ridding your body and lifestyle of toxins. In just 48 hours, it is possible to kick-start a sluggish system, lose weight, and improve the look of your skin. With a variety of 48-hour detox plans to choose from, it becomes easy to pick a regime that fits into your life. Each plan includes delicious recipes and menus. Shopping lists and must-have items for the kitchen are also included, making this the ideal book to slip into your handbag for quick and speedy reference. Up-to-date information on detox aids and therapies as well as useful addresses and a section on taking your detox beyond the 48-hours makes this book a great one-stop guide to safe and easy detoxing.

Collins Gem 48-Hour Detox: Quick-Fix Plans for Healthy Weight Loss

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The Essential Healthy Weight Loss Tips for All Dieters

2010-05-23 / Weight Loss Articles / 0 Comments

Every weight loss program has its minor differences here and there so it is easy for people to find one that works the best for them. But with all of these different programs, there are some principles that should be present as the foundation for all of these weight loss programs, especially since the majority, if not all, of the weight loss programs available keep advertising that you can lose weight super quick.
My personal belief is based in natural health so I believe that any changes you make, weight loss or anything else, should be done safely, no matter how fast or slow you go about it. So here are the core fast weight loss principles that I believe every weight loss program out there should believe:
Fast Weight Loss Principle #1: Goals are extremely important. Without goals, you will not know where you’re going with your weight loss program. Take the time to plan out on paper (or at least jot down a general idea) the goals you have for losing weight: number of pounds you want to lose, number of inches you want to shed, number of months you feel you can achieve it in.
By doing this and looking at your goals everyday, you will be able to focus so well on your end goal, that your weight loss program will speed by with fantastic results. During any down moments, by focusing daily on your weight loss goal, you will be able to motivate yourself into success!
Fast Weight Loss Principle #2: Monitor your progress. Keep a weight loss journal (or call it what you want) with you everyday. Don’t think of it as a tedious task but instead, focus on the improvements you will be able to see yourself making. Think of it as you are currently writing your weight loss success story that you can look back on and say, “Yes, I did it!”
The things you will want to monitor are the types of foods you eat as well as a rough estimate of the daily calorie intake, which is important for weight loss but not in a “You need to count calories” idea. By making yourself familiar with your daily calorie intake as well as the types of foods you eat, weight loss will become easier as you go on because you will learn what you need to do to lose weight (the specifics can change day by day).
Fast Weight Loss Principle #3: Picture your progress. It may seem silly but simple things like taking note of how your pants fit on day 1 versus day 20 or even taking a picture of yourself at regular intervals can really do wonders to motivate you and keep you going with your weight loss.
If you opt for the picture idea, your weight loss will be very clear to you in those pictures each week or month (go with week instead). So to keep yourself going, ham it up for the camera!
Fast Weight Loss Principle #4: Bottom line, cardio plus strength training are key. Beyond that, just find exercises in both cardio and strength training that fit your liking. If you’re not much for running, then go for swimming or bicycling.
For strength training, it is best to consult a personal trainer to find out the best exercises as well as a variety of exercises for you to use to achieve your weight loss and sculpting goals. With both cardio and strength training, it is important to consult your physician before beginning the physical portion of your weight loss program.
Fast Weight Loss Principle #5: Eat right. Yes, you’ve probably heard that phrase everywhere and there’s a reason why it’s absolutely essential that you make sure you eat right.
Now, each weight loss program will tell you certain things to avoid and certain things to “highlight” but make sure that the weight loss program you choose definitely includes plenty of meats and vegetables. (I can’t imagine that any program would advise you against eating meat and vegetables but you never know.)
The quantities and types of each will, as I said, differ depending on the specific weight loss program you choose but make sure the one you choose does include those two food groups.
As there are many people with different likings, there are also very different weight loss programs that will fit each person’s individual preferences. But it’s wise to make sure that the weight loss program you choose has a balanced foundation with principles that will really help you lose weight quickly and safely.

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Betty Crocker Win at Weight Loss Cookbook : A Healthy Guide for the Whole Family

2010-05-19 / Weight Loss Books / 4 Comments

  • ISBN13: 9780764596100
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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“This book provides simple, achievable tips for how families can take small steps towards improving eating and physical activity patterns for the whole family.”
–Dr. Don Hensrud, Mayo Clinic

Make weight loss a family affair with a healthy lifestyle and dishes the whole family will love!

Team up with Betty Crocker and start winning at weight loss! This comprehensive resource is packed with great ways to help your family eat well and get fit together. You’ll learn to build the foundations of a healthy lifestyle and spend time in action instead of in the kitchen with easy, convenient recipes that use everyday ingredients. From breakfast through dinner, you’ll discover delicious dishes that are ideal for busy families.

You’ll find:
* 140 great recipes, including kid-pleasers like Crunchy Oven French Toast, Nachos in a Bag, Cheeseburger Calzones and Double Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cupcakes–all with 10 grams or less of fat and 20 percent fewer calories than regular recipes
* Practical nutrition information and guidance on the basics of healthy eating, plus a detailed nutritional breakdown for every recipe
* Real-life advice from people who have lost weight and kept it off, plus tips from a dietician and suggestions from weight-loss expert Dr. Jim Hill

For more great ideas visit BettyCrocker.com

Betty Crocker Win at Weight Loss Cookbook : A Healthy Guide for the Whole Family

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