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I received a telephone call from a lady
last week. Her first word was “heeeelp”!
She was on a weight loss program and
only losing about one half pound per week.
She wanted to speed things up but didn’t
want to do anything that was unhealthy.
Here’s what I told her:
If you’re interested in losing fat, you’re
objective is to create a [...]

Exercise Physiologists who study the effects of
exercise on weight loss, have determined that
the “jiggling” or shaking of excess body fat
when someone walks fast or jogs, in combination
with the muscle contractions invlovled in that
activity, causes weight loss. I call it the
“jiggle effect”.
This effect is caused by chemical messengers in
the body - in [...]

Have You Given Up on Weight Loss?
by Greg Landry, M.S
I receive several email messages every day
from people who have given up on weight loss.
They are at wits end and they don’t know
what to do. They’ve “tried it all” and they
believe it’s impossible for them to lose
weight.
Many of them have lost weight and gained it
all [...]

On the road to weight loss, fitness,
and health, you can easily become
discouraged. In fact, discouragement
is what leads many people to give-up
when they may have been near a point
of significant progress and encouragement
in their program.
I’ve put together my “top 10″ points of
encouragement to help keep your spirits
high on your road to [...]

Low carb (carbohydrate), high protein diets are the latest
dieting craze. However, before you jump on the band wagon,
you may want to consider a few things:
1. Low carb (ketogenic) diets deplete the healthy glycogen
(the storage form of glucose) stores in your muscles and
liver. When you deplete glycogen stores, you also dehydrate,
often [...]

WARNING: Don’t weight train until after
you’ve lost weight!
No, no, no, no, pleeeeease don’t believe
that headline! That’s one of the many
myths associated with weight loss and
fitness. If you’re interested in losing
weight and getting fit as quickly as
possible, don’t let these myths throw
you off track;
Myth #1 - Some fancy exercise
machine-of-the-month burns more calories
than any other [...]

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forward it to friends and relatives.
There are many physical, mental, and physiological
benefits to regular exercise. One category of
benefits is the impact that exercise has on many
of your body’s hormones. Hormones are chemical
messengers within your body that affect almost
all aspects of human function:
1. Growth Hormone
- [...]