27 hot weight loss secrets, tips, and strategies

February 16, 2013

Are you sick and tired of disappointing diets and ready for a weight loss quick start? Prepared to give up on “miracle” cures and instant fixes (that never work)? If the answer is yes, my brand new program, Take Off 20 Pounds, was created with you in mind! In it, I deliver 27 of [...]

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Why it’s so damned easy to gain 20 pounds

January 29, 2013
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I often talk to women who are slightly mystified by weight gain—and these are usually women with pretty good nutrition habits. They’re not obese, they don’t eat fried food three times a day, and often they even skip meals because they’re busy running around after their kids or too rushed to have breakfast [...]

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Dieting? Why a food journal helps

January 23, 2013
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Are you dieting and looking for a really hot success tip? Here goes: to lose fat, focus on the caloric deficit. Maybe that’s not what you were expecting. But the point is, calories do count, despite all kinds of chicanery that attempts to persuade us otherwise. The very human part of us that [...]

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Thinking about the hCG diet?

January 19, 2013
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I’m continually amazed at the number of women I speak with who have done the hCG diet at one point during their weight-loss journey. I guess I shouldn’t be. I mean, it’s advertised vigorously, Dr. Oz has promoted it (don’t get me started on that guy), and it promises something plenty of people [...]

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Are you tired of losing the same 20, 30, or 50 pounds over and over?

January 8, 2013
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Odds are about 100 percent that right now either you or someone close to you is dieting. Here’s the question that matters: Is the food plan you (or she) is following going to help you achieve your fat-loss goals, or is failure built into it? That’s what I talked about in the webinar [...]

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Is your trainer treating you like a wimp?

January 5, 2013
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Rowing on an ergometer can get boring—that is, when I’m not doing intervals—so yesterday at the gym I had a chance to get in 30 solid minutes of people watching while I completed my erg session. Right before my eyes were one of the gym’s staff trainers and a big fellow who is [...]

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The best supplement you’ve never heard of

January 4, 2013
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As my friends and clients know, I am not a raving fan of most supplements, shakes, pills, and powders. I err on the side of caution and typically recommend trying to get most of your nutrients from whole food and throwing in a multivitamin and perhaps some fish oil just for insurance. But [...]

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The virtue of tiny, unglamorous goals

January 1, 2013
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Should you set grand, audacious goals or tiny unglamorous ones? It’s Jan. 1, and on such auspicious days we tend to think big. Nothing wrong with that, and I encourage my clients to come up with short-, medium-, and long-term goals. I’m a goal-setting kind of gal and always have been, so I’m [...]

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When is a calorie not just a calorie?

December 23, 2012
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We’re only human, so we love solutions that sound simple. Like “Carbohydrates make you fat, so just stop eating them and you’ll shed your fat effortlessly.” That’s been a popular myth for years now. Before the carbohydrate myth came the fat myth: “If you eat fat, you’ll get fat—so just slash all the [...]

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What’s going to be different about 2013?

December 22, 2012
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How do you want your life to be different in 2013? And how do you plan to make it happen? If we want to achieve more, we have to become more. We have to become different people in order to create a different life. I’ve been thinking a lot about my goals for [...]

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