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Biggest Loser at Home: Changing Behaviors That Matter
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I am dedicating my blogs this week to tips for how you can get The Biggest Loser experience at home. As the experts behind the show explain, one of the reasons the people lose so much weight consistently is because of their new environment. But you can change your environment at home, too. Biggest Loser success is within everyone’s reach. Earlier this week, I blogged about how you can change your nutrition and exercise environments, today I’m going to review a series of important behavior changes that will help you lose weight with the contestants. Since the first season, experts behind the scenes of the show found the contestants shared many characteristics, which I listed below along with tips for changes you can make along with the contestants: No idea of the number of calories they...
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Sugar as Brain Food
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This isn’t great news for dieters, but sometimes sugar can be a good thing. Roy Baumeister, a psychologist at Florida State University, had subjects perform a mentally taxing task – watching a video while being careful to ignore random words scrolling across the bottom of the screen. (Apparently, it takes quite a bit of concentration to NOT look at the scrolling words.) Then, the subjects were given a drink of lemonade and asked to perform another cognitively demanding task, choose an apartment based on descriptions of various options.
The catch was that some subjects drank lemonade made with real sugar, and others had lemonade made with Splenda, a sugar substitute without nutritional value. The performance differences on the apartment task were surprising. (more…)
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Biggest Loser Exercises At Home
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I am dedicating my blogs this week to tips for how you can get The Biggest Loser experience at home. As the experts behind the show explain, one of the reasons the people lose so much weight consistently is because of their new environment. Biggest Loser success is within everyone’s reach. Earlier this week, I blogged about how you can change your nutrition environment by following the Biggest Loser diet. Today I’m going to review the exercise changes that happen on the ranch and give you tips for how you can make similar changes at home and lose weight with the contestants. Biggest Loser Exercise Program Clearly, exercise is an important part of The Biggest Loser success. Most of the content on the show is dedicated to the contestants sweating it out to what looks like hours a day....
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Some Kind of Normal-Full
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.I’ve been patting myself on the back a lot lately. A whole lot. I’m losing weight, I’ve reduced the volume of the food I’m eating, I’ve cut back the carbs, and the little averages my smarty-pants meter is calculating is dipping. Heck, I even got my mail-order HbA1c test back and am in the normal range, so my pancreas may be limping but it’s not busted (yet, if ever ... I’m just hoping the genetic dice roll good for me, too).I’m doing the research, I’m eating better, and everything is perfect. This is easy! Except for the stabbing pain where my gallbladder used to be. Oh, yeah, that.Did I ever mention that I had my gall bladder out? About four years ago. And the first few months I couldn’t eat anything “good”. I just stuck to carbs and tried to keep the protein up with lean meat...
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Are we really becoming steadily more sedentary?
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Body weight, and specifically fatness, is determined by a complex interplay of factors including diet, exercise and sleep habits. In some posts, I have highlighted the effect that one hormone – insulin – has in this piece. In short, insulin stimulates the manufacture of fat in the body, while impairing it’s breakdown. It also facilitates [...]
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More evidence comes to light that fat is not fattening
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We all know that fat is fattening right? (It is called fat, after all.) But not so fast, because as I detail here, for fat to get ‘fixed’ in the fat cells, a substance known as glycerol is required. Glycerol itself is supplied from a substance known as alpha glycerol phosphate .......
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Do overweight people eat less than thin people (or do they just think they do)?
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A lot of people are excited about Gary Taubes' book Good Calories, Bad Calories, which claims that weight loss or gain has nothing to do with how many calories you eat but how much refined carbohydrate you eat. I heard Taubes present his ideas at a conference last year and he makes some great points. Ultimately, I agree with his conclusion--over-consumption of refined carbohydrates is a primary cause in today's epidemic of "diabesity." .............
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Help Needed: How do we Change our Eating Habits?
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My husband and I had an xl pizza from papa john's last night for dinner. We both work late most nights. We've talked about wanting to do something about our weight/eating habits but it never sticks. We've started yoga, then stopped after just a few days. We can't seem to get motivated enough, mainly because we are unsure of where and how to start. I'm writing this in hopes that someone who can relate to us may be able to help us figure out what the best starting point is....
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Exercise associated with reduced levels of fat in the liver and abdomen
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A couple of months ago I wrote a blog which reviewed the evidence which suggests that exercise is not particularly effective for weight loss, and why this might be. That is not to say, however, that exercise is a fruitless endeavour. It is linked, for instance, with improved measures of health as well as reduced....
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