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Chronic Dieting…has constant dieting become a part of your life?
Has Dieting Become Part of Who You Are? Are you Addicted to Chronic Dieting? Are you addicted to chronic dieting? Has dieting become part of who you are? Everywhere you turn, you see advice on how to lose weight. You see tried and true diets touted from the front covers of magazines. Fad diets are heralded as the next new weight loss miracle. You see these things because we live in a diet culture. If you put twenty people together in a room, the majority of them will have been on a diet or are currently on a diet. Dieting has become the new normal. As a result, it has…
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Portion Size
Size does matter. How can you make impressive changes in your weight simply by reducing your portion size? I went out for ice cream yesterday. Yes, I went off the rails for a day and had a hot fudge sundae with raspberry chocolate chip ice cream and whipped cream! It was delicious… It was my first (and last) ice cream sundae of the season, and I had a junior size which was plenty big enough. When you’re eating a clean, healthy diet, ice cream sundaes are not on the list, but my point in sharing this is two-fold. First, you can have something you used to love once in a…
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Back Pain and Exercise
Back Pain Can Make You Really Miserable! I am completely out of shape… I haven’t been to the gym in 9 months, and I did it on purpose! I went back to the gym this morning and did a really wimpy workout. I’ve been working with a new chiropractor, and she advised me to stop working out. The reason made sense to me. She was working on my muscles in an attempt to help my ever worsening scoliosis, and she needed to isolate the state of my back relative only to what she was doing. If I had a problem during the week or did well, it needed to be…
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Hunger Hormones…and Weight Loss…
Hunger Hormones and Weight Loss Leptin Hormone and Weight Loss Have you tried a lot of restrictive diets in order to lose weight but still can’t seem to make the scale move downwards? You’re probably aware that an effective weight loss plan is more than just knowing about what calories are being taken in minus the amount of calories being used. Certainly exercise is a component, but there is one more thing in the weight loss equation you need to understand: that one more thing is your Leptin hormone. How Does Leptin Help With Weight Loss? Many people believe that not being able to lose weight is caused by…
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Hunger Hormones – How do they affect your metabolism?
Hunger Hormones and Your Metabolism This post contains basic information on your metabolism. It’s a complex subject, and not everything can be included here. I highly recommend the book The Hormone Reset Diet by Sara Gottfried, M.D. if you want to explore this subject more fully. Leptin and ghrelin are our hunger hormones, and we know they affect our metabolism. If your hormone levels are out of whack, so is your metabolism. It’s pretty simple: as your leptin levels increase, so does your metabolic rate. Leptin is the hunger hormone responsible for making us feel full while ghrelin is the hormone that tells us we are hungry, and it’s time to…
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Hunger Hormones – What are some appetite suppressing foods?
Fight Hunger Hormones with Appetite Suppressing Foods It has been determined that it’s actually our hunger hormones that are responsible for our food cravings. Hormones are the messengers of the body, and they all play different roles. There are some that influence how quickly fat is stored in our body, others determine what we want to eat (or crave) and still others determine how we feel (how up or down or level our mood is). Ghrelin is one of our hunger hormones and is produced when the stomach is empty. Its main purpose is to make us feel hunger so we feed our body fuel. The only way to satisfy…
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How to Find Motivation to Lose Weight
How to Find Motivation to Lose Weight It can be difficult to maintain motivation when you’re trying to lose weight. It’s easy to start off with enthusiasm and be excited about your goals. However, at a certain point the motivation and enthusiasm can wane especially once your weight loss begins to slow down or plateau. There are essentially three steps to finding your motivation and keeping it as you strive to live a healthier life. What is Your Reason for Losing Weight? There are many reasons why someone may want to lose weight. You may have had a health scare. You might have an event like a wedding, a reunion…
