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healthy weight loss

Can You Lose Weight with Mindful Eating?

February 22, 2010

The subject of weight loss is hotly debated among advocates of mindful eating or intuitive eating.  The core issue revolves around the fact that a focus on weight loss tends to take us away from listening to our internal cues.  We worry about what and how much we eat, rather than letting our bodies guide [...]

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Keeping Lost Weight Off: 168 Pounds for Three Years

February 12, 2010

Here at A Weight Lifted, we aren’t always on top of blog statistics and the like.  Our usual pattern is more just writing what we’re thinking about and hoping someone will find it interesting/useful.  But we have noticed that for a long while, we’ve gotten readers from a blog called Lynn’s Weigh.  Just who is [...]

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All Or Nothing – The Truth About Motivation

December 29, 2009

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” ~ Mark Victor [...]

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Getting Back on Track after the Holidays

December 28, 2009

Now for the last question from the Mompreneurs Twitter party I was a guest expert on a couple weeks ago.  Before Christmas.  Time does fly…. Q5:  If I do put on a few extra pounds over the holidays, what’s the best way to get back on track without feeling deprived? First realize that it’s normal [...]

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Good Bacteria: A Legitimate Obesity Buster?

November 17, 2009

Who hasn’t seen the fabulous looking Jamie Lee Curtis espousing the virtues of Activia on their TV set in the last year? Does anyone else wonder just what all the bifidus regularis is about? Well, bifidus regularis is one of several helpful cultures found in the gut. Because our digestive system performs two vital functions: [...]

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Do Diet Foods Lead to Weight Gain?

September 28, 2009

As I was casting about for a subject to write about this morning, I ran across an article published in Time magazine that asked this question a couple years ago.  It grabbed my attention because it reminded me of a brief piece I wrote almost 20 years ago titled Will the Real Diet Food Please [...]

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Healthy Recipe: Cherry Vanilla Smoothie

July 30, 2009

Ellie Krieger was singing my song as she set the blender to whirring.  Well, she wasn’t actually singing, but she was making one of my favorite foods — a smoothie.  This one was featuring frozen tart cherries, with the added goodness of yogurt and milk.  I’m a sucker for both, not only because I love [...]

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Rethinking Carbohydrates…Again

July 29, 2009

If you’re as old as I am, you’ve been around the block with the carbohydrate question too many times to count.  Even if you’re younger, you’re still likely a veteran of the carbohydrate wars.  Has any nutrient gotten as much negative attention over the last 50 years of weight worrying in America as carbohydrates? Yet [...]

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How Eating as Much as You Want Can Help You Lose Weight

June 24, 2009

When I encourage people to eat as much as they want in their quest for healthy weight loss, the response is incredulous, to say the least.  “You’ve got to be kidding. If I took the brakes off, I’d eat anything and everything and lots of it.” The light begins to dawn when I ask, “Is [...]

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Does Eat This, Not That Work for Weight Loss?

May 13, 2009

It may seem like I’m hung up on calories these days given the number of times I’ve written about them in the past weeks.  But I read a research article this weekend that brings the subject up again.  It questions whether the energy balance equation (you know, calories in vs. calories out = your weight) [...]

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