Who are the best raters of weight-loss products? -

Men s Health magazine, Men s Fitness magazine, Consumer Reports magazine, a diet and fitness type magazine or someone else?

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What is a good name for our team? -

Starting weight loss program at work with 3 co-workers and we need a team name. Suggestions have been as follows: Fried Potato Queens, Ta Da Girls, 4 Chicks on a Mission, Desperate Walkers. Not that crazy about any of them. Like 4 Chicks the most but would like it to to be shorter. Come on people I know you can come up with some fun names. Remember this is at work and can not be to outrageous. Thanks for the help.

Our team completed the same thing. Called our selves: Weight to go!! You can use it we will not use it again.

Thelma s and LouisePounds -N- PursesHeels -N-Sweats

What do I need to change to lose weight? -

I am 51 year old male who began weight loss program after Xmas however I am finding it difficult to lose any more weight. Whst can I do

Good for you and it s good your asking advice! It sounds like you re off to a good start and you have kinda plateaued. That s rather natural actually. Even with weight lifting or running or whatever you kinda hit that imaginary barrier and it s hard to break through to the next phase of your personal weight loss mission. I went to a wedding on hoodia and lost weight so you should have no problems. The best way to lose weight is to control your appetite and the best way to do that that I know of is with hoodia. When I was dieting (and believe me I still watch my weight even though I have achieved my weight loss goals for the most part) I realized right off that the most important thing is to control your appetite. If your stomach s not always growling and your not always craving food it is sooo much easier to stick to your guns and stay on your diet. With hoodia I would literally go a whole day sometimes and simply forget to eat and I didn t get tired and run down like diets can sometimes make you feel. Once my appetite was under control and I wasn t always thinking about eating then and only then could the weight start coming off consistently and steadily because the hoodia kept my mind off of food and I would go longer on my diet and as I did that naturally I lost weight. You have to remember that consistency is very important when losing weight. If you cut back a little on your food consumption everyday your body will change (stomach will shrink and you won t be eating as much) and with that consistency over a few days, weeks and months you will lose weight just like I did. Hoodia was my saving grace for all of these factors. Hope this helps!!! GOOGLE: online health desert burn hoodia :to read all the good info. you need to accomplish your goals.

A DIET IS WHAT YOU EAT....there for we are all on a diet....THINK LIFESTYLE CHANGEYou got the change the way you think and feel about foodTRY THIS, and stick to it.The first 3-4 weeks are the hardest until your body adjusts to the change.Results will be in about the same timeFruits and VeggiesEat more plants and keep away from stuff that was made in plants.Don t eat anything that comes in a can, box or package.........THEY HAVE ADDITIVES IN THEM THAT MAKE YOU ADDICTED TO THE FOOD.....If man made it, don t eat itNO white BREAD or SUGARNO FRIED FOOD...Stay away from FAST FOODWalk your dog, or walk a friends dogDon t think of it as a diet, but think of it as a lifestyle changeI have lost 25.5 pounds in 2 months, drink lots of water. I usually eat a meal of what ever I want once a week....controlled portion....this really works.........Write down every thing you eatTake a multi vitamin at night

1) Eat real food -- No more junk or sodas.2) Burn more calories3) Set goals that work for you4) Get running shoes, a bicycle, or swim trunks and get moving.5) Fill out a race entry form.6) Get a subscription to a Swimming, Biking, Running or triathlon magazine.It takes too long to write out training plans for people so I ll leave that to you.

Weight loss is all about balance. That s the simple part. If you consume more calories than you expend, you gain weight. If you expend more than you consume, you lose. Whatever weight you find yourself at, that s the product of your whole lifestyle. It s also not just today s weight, but tomorrow s... are you gradually gaining weight, or stable? Either way, the only way make a change is to make a PERMANENT change in your lifestyle. A special diet can have you losing weight, but if you leave it and go back to the old diet, you ll wind up just where you were, over time. There are two variables: input and output. If you can cut your daily caloric intake and leave your physical output alone, you CAN push the balance away from gaining and toward losing, without any change in exercise. But this can be tricky... your body works against you. Basically, your body tries to stay where it is. If you suddenly drop caloric intake, your body can respond with a drop in your resting metabolism. So while you may think that cutting 500 calories from your diet will be effectively the same as an hour s hard workout (which is what the math tells you), you probably see something less in practice. If you can add exercise, without changing your caloric intake, you can also push the equation in your favor. The hard part is this... you have to do lots of exercise to balance out relatively few calories. So to make up for a small (5-7oz) bag of chips, you have to do 1-2 hours of very intensive exercise. There s about 500-1000 calories in a small bag of regular chips... pretty crazy, eh? But you get a boon from exercise.. you expend the energy while doing the thing, but over time, your resting metabolic rate increases.. a fit person burns more calories just sitting there than a sedentary person. Ultimately, do a little of both... watch what you eat, get more exercise. It s a synergy. I did this myself.. despite the fact I understand this all, I did let myself get about 25-30 pounds beyond my ideal weight. That was a problem for a backpacking trip I was doing in 2007, so I started using this knowledge, and dropped 30 pounds in 9 months, both via diet and exercise. The usual diet you take on never does this long-term, simply because it s a thing with a limit -- you change, you hit your target weight... great! Celebrate, diet s over, and you go right back to the lifestyle that had you 30lbs heavier. Before you know it, you re back at that old weight -- the weight is a function of your lifestyle. As well... I m younger than you, but not dramatically so. As we age, there s a tendency for a slowing of the metabolism independent of everything else. So what used to keep you at a specific weight might, over time, get you heavier, as that resting metabolism slows down. It s critical to establish an exercise program. I suggest every day, commit yourself to some form of exercise. That s the easy transformative formula -- if you want a change of any kind, so that thing every single day. I actually came up with this learning, then teaching guitar. If you plan for a 3-day exercise or practice schedule, it s easy to find yourself, months down the road, pushing off those three days until it s always tomorrow . If you lock in that this is something that must happen every day, you can feel a little guilt on those days that it doesn t happen... that s not important. When you get to be ok with it not happening today, you get to be ok with blowing it off indefinitely. So I work out every day, usually an hour in the morning before work. And I play my guitar an hour or two or more a day, usually after 10PM. I haven t entirely kept to my Philmont weight, but I m doing ok.

im guessing you hit the infamous plateau haha. you could try switching to different methods of cardio or adding more time on the ones you do. mixing it up with all new methods of cardio,weights, and a different diet could also help to break through the barrier and start losing again. your body gets used to your routine after about 4 weeks, so if you get your body into new workouts every few weeks, it has less chance to adapt.

Has anyone tried the P90X program? Is it motivating enough to continue using it for at least 90 days?? -

I am not looking for any miracle weight loss program because I know enough to know they dont exist. What I am looking for is motivation to stick with a program. I used to work out heavily while in my 30 s but now that I am in my 40 s I have lost the motivation to just work out, especially on my own. I play a lot of sports and for the most part eat right but I know that I need to work more on my cardio and on my core strength to avoid injuries (quiet common these days....). The infomercial seems motivating but was curious to hear real life cases before investing.Thanks.

Haven t tried P90X (yet), but I m just finishing up the P90 program. I have seen some good results with it, but it gets kind of boring since there is basically only two routines (each has two levels to it, so I guess that makes for 4 different workouts) - a strength circuit routine and a cardio routine w/ an abs set at the end of cardio. Haven t gotten down to my ideal BMI / weight range and still can t quite see the sculpted results advertised, but I haven t been as strict on diet as I should either.Am also curious about P90X. From the research I ve done, it is a very challenging program and the average workout session is 45 min. to an hour. Each DVD advertised offers a different kind of workout (and I will bet the program sets a schedule on how to work through them all).However, if your cardio level isn t up there, you might want to consider going P90 first. (It only costs 3 pmts. of $19.95 vs. P90X s $39.95 pmts.)If you re not interested in shelling out that kind of money right away, I ll also tell you articles in Men s Health have been advocating an interval training regime. Lace up you running shoes, climb on a bike or do a boxing kind of workout where you alternate high intensity cardio with low intensity for a somewhat shorter workout and your suppose to get the same benefits. Here s a link to one article that might help:http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do��Good luck.

This is a serious workout video. There is a one hour timer at the bottom of the screen that lets you know how much time is left during a workout. So there is a motivation factor and a sense of accomplishment in finishing an exercise regimen. But its not for everyone. Like I said, this is a SERIOUS workout program- you are winded and worn out at the end of every hour. You need to be able to dedicate a full hour for each workout and be ready for some serious sweating. My roommate has this and used it everyday for about a month. If you see results (you WILL see results) that alone may be enough to motivate you to keep going. However, at 40 and not a serious workout person, I question whether or not you still have the motivation to complete one workout. If you are indeed motivated to work out and get in better shape than this is a good workout regimen. If yo can get by the first couple weeks I think the results would be enough to keep yo going, but ONLY if you have the dedication and are serious about getting in good shape. This video WILL do that if you stick to it. It serious. I planned on making a copy of te DVDs for myself so I could use, but after seeing one of the workouts I knew that I would only be fooling myself by wasting money on the blank DVDS.Good luck, I hope you find the motivation to try and stick with this. Like I said, the results should be motivation to keep going but only if you can last the first couple weeks

Hey Babolat,I m finishing up my 90 days next week. I ve documented my results at my blog listed below. I ll be writing a FULL p90x review when my FIRST 90 days is complete. I say first because P90X is now so much more than just a workout to me...it s a way of life.A year ago I was 240 pounds and a 40 inch waist. Today I m 175 pounds and a RIPPED 31 inch waist. I m absolutely in the best shape of my life.Feel free to email or yahoo message me with any P90X related questions.Best Wishes,Dennis HardyIndependent Million Dollar Body Fitness Coach

Short term, healthy weight loss suggestions? -

I am gettting back in shape and plan on formulating a healthy / diet lifestyle. However, I am looking for a short term, healthy way, to drop pounds quickly to get me off to a fast start. any suggestions for a short term diet plan (I am already excerising a decent amount)?

For all of the quick and easy weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to How do I lose weight, or more specifically, How do I lose abdominal fat? I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get It works! emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.Don t target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into starvation mode and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn t true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the moderate fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, swimming calories you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn t overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about How to get a six-pack? The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the core is active which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.Aloha

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Weight gain with Splenda? -

I have been hearing rumors that splenda can actually cause a person to gain weight. Has anyone heard this, if so where can I find the medical report ? I gave up refined sugar 3 years ago and thought I was doing the right thing by using splenda as a way to help in weight loss program, but now this. Thank you

These articles may help:http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2��http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame��http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=arti��One explanation is that your body anticipates something sweet and high-calorie, causing the brain to prepare the digestive system for that high-calorie food. When the body doesn t get the high-calorie food it s expecting, it compensates by making you eat more of other foods.Another explanation is plain old rationalization. I ll have a diet soda with my meal, so I can save calories and have that chocolate cake. Better to have water or tea with your meal and have half a piece of chocolate cake!Giving up refined sugar is supposed to be good for you. You re probably healthier for it. If using artificial sweeteners helps you lose weight, and if you don t have the headaches, muscle pain, body aches, and other symptoms that some people get from it, you shouldn t return to refined sugar.If you re losing weight by using Splenda, you shouldn t worry about it. If you re using Splenda and still struggling, you may want to consider stopping.

The way artificial sweeteners can cause a person to gain weight is by tricking your body into thinking that you re feeding it sugar, but you don t, so it starts to crave it and some people give in, thus causing weight gain.Personally, I don t think that splenda is the best idea because it s artificial. It s only calorie free because your body can t metabolize it. Does it do anything else to your body while your body tries to digest it? Artificial sweeteners don t really have a lot of research behind them.Giving up refined sugar, including white flour, is a great thing...just don t convince yourself to replace it with artificial ingredients.

Just like soda turns into carbonic acid. You really have to take things like this at face value. There is so much misinformation out there. I personally try to avoid artifical sweetners. It is like trading one evil for another. There are lots of things you can do to enhance flavor without using them and honestly once you really get off the sweet train you will be surprised how little you need sugar and or an artificial sweetner.Also you can by sugar that has not been as processed. That may be an alternative. It has a different texture but....

Yes it is true. Read this article: http://www.truthaboutabs.com/artificial-��Splenda is chemically altered sugar, so the body doesn t process it as sugar because it can t recognize it. It is very unhealthy.A good alternative to sweetners is stevia, it is an herb that is 200x sweeter than sugar but contains no sugars or sugar alcohols.

I ve heard of this, too. But I don t really agree. The only thing to be careful for is that each little packet has 4 calories, and that can add up fast!