I used to be in great shape, but once I hit 30, it became increasingly difficult to maintain a nice body without hitting the gym several times a week. When I first started going, I mainly focused on cardio in order to drop the extra pounds that I had been gaining. I spent an hour [...]

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Whether or not you succeed in your weight loss endeavor can depend on quite a few different things. You could have chosen the wrong diet program for you, neglected to add enough exercise to your plan, or perhaps you have no type of will power what-so-ever. What you may not know is that having the [...]

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As our population has become more overweight, exercise and physical fitness have become sort of a national obsession. People do all kinds of extreme things to become physically fit. They go to health training boot camps, use various fad diets, fast, train for hours a day, and even run marathons. In reality, there are many [...]

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I have had weight problems my whole life. Back when I was a kid, no one said obesity. Basically, they said that I was fat or, if they were feeling polite, that I was big boned. Nonetheless, all the obesity studies in this culture combined with the epidemic in health problems related to excessive weight [...]

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For the past couple of years, I’ve had a desk job that kept me pretty much sedentary for eight to ten hours per day. One of the adverse effects of sitting for so long is that I steadily started gaining weight, and at one point was 15 pounds heavier than when I first started the [...]

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There are many things that people talk about when trying to lose weight. One is how to raise your metabolism. This is something that many think about, but they really have no idea how this works or what it would mean. They just know it is important. Understanding what this means, and finding good ways [...]

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For a lot of people, getting to ideal body weight is somewhat of an obsession. I actually have friends who post their ideal weight on the wall just so they can torture themselves day after day, obsessing about  endlessly. Don’t get me wrong – I recognize the importance of health. I used to be que [...]

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Over and over, we’re inundated with healthy diet plan lectures, from doctors, in magazine articles, nutritionists, diet coaches and the personal trainers. It reaches the point where you hope to never hear another word about a healthy diet plan, whether it makes sense or not. With so much unrelenting outside pressure, this good and well [...]

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It’s probably safe to say that half of all Americans need to, or want to, lose weight. Maybe you want to drop just 10 pounds, mainly so your current wardrobe still fits attractively. Other people have significant weight problems and need to lose 50 pounds or more. Besides your physical appearance, your motivation includes health [...]

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For me, part of the joy of fitness exercises is simply taking my time and enjoying getting into shape. I’m not a slacker, but I rarely need to do my exercises to lose weight quickly. For me, it is a lot more fun if I have the time to really give it my all and [...]

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