Over the past week I’ve read two very interesting blog posts about burning additional calories. The first one was from Cherrie of “I’m a Hot Mom”, in which she motivates us to be active because not only do we burn more calories during activity than at rest, but also because there is an after-burn affect, [...]

Sleep doesn’t cause you to lose weight, but lack of it certainly plays a role in preventing weightloss. Here’s what you should know.

I’ve been running and running and training and eating healthy and skipping junk food for 10 wks now.  I’ve lost 8lbs – slowly.  It has seemed painfully slow at times.  Working out, eating healthy etc seems like so much work for such little return.  Stepping on the scale each week after running 30k or more [...]

How many times have you seen articles titled like that? Articles that have crazy diets and “fat-burning” exercises with the promise you WILL get SKINNY in 3 short weeks. Have you tried them? Do they work? I bet you think they don’t, so you quickly dismiss them and don’t try them. I’m going to be [...]

Create a spreadsheet tool using Google Docs, that tracks your weight loss that allows your blog readers to visualize your progress.

This week’s Guest Post is from: Yuri Elkaim who is one of the world’s leading fitness and sports conditioning experts. You can take his Treadmill Trainer interval training running programs for a free test spin by visiting myTreadmillTrainer.com and learn more about the best running workouts to get you fitter and running faster than ever [...]

Tweeting what food choices I’ve made has made me so much more accountable for what I pop into my mouth and getting online encouragement has helped too. I’ve been making much better food choices due to the “peer pressure” and have been tyring to exercise more too. It’s nice to feel connected to others struggling with losing weight, being healthy and active too.

A wise man once said, “You can either have excuses or fitness, but not both”, but how can I (and you) overcome those excuses to become fitter and healthier?

A Quick, Easy AND Cheap Way to Curb Your Appetite! A Quick, Easy AND Cheap Way to Lose Your Muffin-Top! So how often do you see headlines like that?  Pills, drinks and foods that PROMISE (or your money back) that you WILL lose weight by trying their product…  Well guess what?  I’m going to jump [...]

It’s wonderful to know what you’re eating, but writing and recording all of the foods you’re eating doesn’t make you lose weight if the foods you’re eating have too many or too few calories.

When it comes to losing weight there’s a magic number of calories you need to consume. Eat too many and you gain weight, eat too few and you gain weight.

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