Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal

Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here.

Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise regime and she plans to do a few "a year in review" posts to compare how her diet has changed over the time and to talk about health issues. She is also going to record her measurements for the first time since she posted them one year ago.

Check out her Incredible Shrinking Ladies site and help her celebrate her success tomorrow.

An Emotional Eater Breaks the Cycle

Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight.

Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese to obese. She used to weigh 325 pounds and she is now down to 250. See her story here.

Losing 160 Pounds by Walking

Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour. Eventually she lost all the weight and her 48" inch waist is now down to 27 inches.

Whoopi Goldberg Does LA WeightLoss

As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the LA WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient equivalent. She says she has lost enough weight to fit into a size 8.

Liv Tyler Loses the Baby Weight

Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy the special time with her baby. She continued to breastfeed for a year and has taken the first two years off work. But now, a couple of months before her 30th birthday, Liv Tyler is back to her acting career. And she has dropped the excess weight and looks better than ever. She says she has been working with a personal trainer and watching what she eats.

Source: Hollywood Backwash

On the Edge of Overweight

One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it. She wants to lose 25 pounds but she will be happy with fifteen. She just went out and bought a Weight Watchers cookbook and has started to count points. See her weight loss story here.

Losing Muscle Mass While Dieting

Losing muscle mass is one of the problems of aging. Our bodies start losing muscle when we get to about thirty years old. By 50 years, the typical person has lost about 10% of their muscle mass. By age 80 we are shrivelled up and have lost 40% of our muscle mass.

Tom Valeo explains that if we lose 20 pounds while dieting but not exercising, about 8 of those pounds will be muscle. If we then gain the weight back and then diet again we will lose more muscle. See how to avoid this muscle loss while dieting here.

A Virtual Model for Weight Loss

Would you like to see what you might look like if you achieved your goal weight? Jacqueline has discovered another neat virtual model online where you can plug in your current weight and goal weight. This virtual model shown here was created by NutriSystem.

Also check out the free weight loss virtual model at Cosmetic Makeovers as well as the version called My Virtual Model that is used used by retailers such as Lands End for visualizing what clothes may look like on you at your current size and goal weight.

The Not So Macho Diet

Battlerocker has been successful in losing thirty pounds over the last three or four months. He is losing weight the 'non-masculine' way. Here's a funny passage from his blog;

As part of a general lifestyle change I began earlier this year, I’ve been counting calories. It sucks. Not because it isn’t working, or because I’m having a hard time with it; between dieting and working out I’ve lost about thirty pounds in three months while putting on a lot of muscle mass in the process. What I hate about it is that it’s so boring. It doesn’t have a name, for example. Atkins, South Beach, The Zone; they all seem so modern. “Hi, I’m Science and I’m here to help,” that sort of thing. Not counting calories. It’s the stone wheel of the diet world.

It’s also not very masculine. The great thing about the low-carb type diets is that when you go out with friends, you can be macho and order the 48 ounce T-bone if you want to. No one suspects its part of your “diet.” Not so with calorie counting. Any time you start asking whether or not the “dressing” is fat free, you just know the guys are going to be impressed. So impressed, in fact, that they’ll probably keep bringing it up the rest of the night, with some congratulatory arm punches thrown in for good measure.

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Pregnant and Gaining Lots of Weight

Here's a photo of the beautiful Salma Hayek. She is pregnant and expecting her first child at the age of forty. It looks like she will be gaining more than the recommended 35 pounds during this pregnancy. Hayek has never been overweight in her life but she is known for her big boobs. She is a famous actress and the executive producer of the TV hit Ugly Betty. Here's a short video clip of her from just a few months ago on Ugly Betty where she shows off her bra and her very fit 40 year old figure to the world.

Down with the Pepperoni Sticks

DANIGIRL is doing well on her diet but she writes an entertaining story about how she fell off the wagon last week with pepperoni sticks. She notes that a single ten inch pepperoni stick has 187% of the daily recommended amount of sodium and 202% of recommended daily saturated fat intake.

I was doing so well on watching what I was eating, until the week I ate FOUR ENTIRE PEPPERONI STICKS. And not just those little ones, either, but the ones as long as your forearm. What the hell causes a normal person to eat FOUR pepperoni sticks in a week (cough cough four days cough), you ask? My brother has this totally amazing butcher near his house, and he makes spicy pepperoni to die for. My folks visited one weekend and brought no less than six pepperoni sticks home for me.

I'm telling you, that stuff is meat mixed with crack. I'd cut myself a small piece and put it back in the fridge, intentionally hiding it behind other stuff so I couldn't see it. I'd finish the bite I'd cut and start smacking my lips, salivating for more. Okay, I'd think, just another little piece, just a tiny bite. I'll eat less at dinner. And after cutting off some more, I'd put the pepperoni away and the knife in the dishwasher and I'd still be back in the fridge five minutes later looking for more. And once it was half gone, well, there's no sense in leaving it around for me to agonize over all night, right? Might as well polish it off. And at about the 3/4 mark, with my mouth tingling from the spiciness, I'd start to think that maybe I should stop now, but I wouldn't be able to stop and so I'd just eat the whole damn thing. And then I'd have a righteous bellyache, because that's really a disgusting amount of meat and fat(*) to consume as a snack. And yet, the next day I'd be right back at it, cutting myself just the tiniest sliver of the next one, just for a taste.

Watch Valerie Go from Size 14 to a Size 8

Valerie Bertinelli wants to lose thirty pounds. She's not telling anyone how much she weighs (she is 5'2" tall) but she says she is a size 14 and wants to be a size 8 by September.

Bertinelli is featured on the cover of People Magazine this week. The other photo here is Bertinelli when she was at least 20 years younger and very slim.

Bertinelli is 47 years old and says that by becoming the new spokesperson for Jenny Craig (together with Kirstie Alley), she will be very motivated to lose the weight especially as millions of people will be watching.

Before and After Pictures: Losing 65 Pounds

Here are some very inspiring before and after pictures taken by a successful ex fat man. He has lost 65 pounds since November and took three different front, back and profile photos every few weeks since then. He is 28 years old and started out at 238 pounds. His secret to success has been a very extensive workout regime.

See the larger photos and his progress at Heavy Weight: One Man's Journey into Fat Loss.

Fat Kids Shape Up on Reality TV

A new reality show started last night. It's about an obese family who is being given nutritional and lifestyle guidance by Felicia Stoler (shown in the photo here). Stoler is a registered dietitian and exercise physiologist.

The parents are warned about what lies ahead for their fat kids. The show uses computer imaging to show them what their kids might look like at forty years old if they keep the same eating and lifestyle habits they have now. Then Stoler proceeds to give them new guidelines about how to reverse the course they or on now.

See the series on the Learning Channel on Monday nights and more info here and here.

Biggest Baby Weighs 15.7 Pounds

Kacper has set the record for the biggest baby born in Poland. He weighed 15.7 pounds at birth and was delivered via ceasarian. His mother is 45 years old and this is her fourth birth. All of her previous babies were much larger than average but her fourth child breaks the record. See more about Kacper here.

Losing 30 Pounds with Weight Watchers

Michelle was already a little heavier than she wanted to be when she quit smoking in mid 2006. The pounds continued to pile on. On January 4th this year she joined Weight Watchers and has been enormously successful. She started out at 180 pounds and is now down to 149 in just over three months. She is 5'8" tall. The picture here was taken before she started her diet in December 2006.

Her goal is to weigh between 135 to 140 pounds. She's almost there! See her weight loss success story here.

A Chef Loses 200 Pounds

Luis Bruno is a chef who was told by his doctor that he had five years to live if he didn't lose weight. His love of food started in childhood, he already weighed 200 pounds when he was just 12 years old. A couple of years ago when he was 35 years old his weight peaked at 400 pounds. He had developed diabetes, had to take six shots of insulin each day and could barely walk from his house to his parked car.

That's when he started a medically supervised liquid diet along with a regular exercise schedule. Within less than six months he had lost 160 pounds. Since then he has lost another 40 pounds and his waist size has gone from 60 inches to 36 inches. He has also reversed his diabetes and no longer needs insulin shots.

See his weight loss success story here.

Also see more about natural cures for diabetes here.

Nicole is 25 Pounds Slimmer Today

Nicole is 25 pounds slimmer than she was in early January. She started the NutriSystem diet and has been sticking to it more or less. Today she weighs 210 pounds and she started out in January at her heaviest weight of 235 pounds. Nicole is a mother of a two-year old toddler.

She also just started Tae Bo a few days ago and she says working out to the video is really good for her even though it is so intense. See more on Tae Bo for weight loss here.

See Nicole's weight loss progress here.

Seeking 10 Weight Loss Tips that Help Save Our Climate

I find the latest updates about global warming and climate catastrophes quite alarming. But, this is a site about weight loss, not climate change. However the two topics can easily be tied in together. If we adopt simpler more natural lifestyles, it can only be good for the future of a healthy planet.

So here are some tips for weight loss that help the earth too. I'm looking for more ideas from people, please add your suggestion below.

1. Walk there instead of driving if at all possible.

Walking is a great way to lose weight. Walking burns as many calories as jogging per mile though it takes longer to burn them. One mile burns up about 100 calories. But the benefits are much greater as it tones the whole body, helps flatten the stomach, is a great help to the digestive system and has been shown to help reduce depression. It also increases a person's metabolism for the rest of the day, meaning more calories burned per hour long after you've stopped walking. (The image here of people walking on a city street is by wili_hybrid.)

2. Eat less meats and processed foods and more local fruits and vegetables.

Meat is a very energy intensive food to produce. Fruits and vegetables use up much less of the earth's resources per calorie and eating more fruits and vegetables and eliminating processed foods and limiting meats is one of the easiest ways to lose weight.

3. Drink filtered tap water instead of sodas, pop and juice.

Save on all those cans and bottles and sugary calorie goo factory production.



Please add your suggestions below. Let's build this list to at least ten great tips!