Weight Loss Versus Spiritual Retreats

Many people who want to lose weight will go (or dream about going) to a weight loss retreat for a week or two. These retreats are typically quite pricy and the emphasis is on low calorie meals, physical activities and nutritional counseling.But another option that is often much cheaper and can be much more successful in the long run is to attend a spiritual retreat instead. I attended a Buddhist retreat...

Marathon Training for Extreme Fitness

Steve Bezner is a recent convert to marathon training. He used to make fun of people who ran. Two and a half years ago he weighed 330 pounds. He lost most of his weight by changing his diet and didn't start exercising till he weighed 200 pounds. At that point he joined a gym for the first time in his life and started walking on their treadmill each morning for about 20 minutes. Once this was too easy...

Smoking Adds Fat to Your Belly

Smoking cigarettes creates countless health risks and we all know that. But how many people are aware that smoking can change your body shape?We do know that a lot of women continue to smoke because they think they would gain weight if they stopped. And in reality, most smokers do gain a bit of weight when they quit. The average weight gain in the short term is about five pounds. What most people...

Do Celebrities Lie about their Weight?

Do celebrities lie about their weight? The short answer is a resounding yes. We can't really prove it without forcefully getting them on a weight scale but there is no doubt that many celebrities lie about their weight.Someone made a comment here about Kirstie Alley where we wondered if she was telling the truth about losing 75 pounds and weighing less than 150 pounds. If Kirstie was five feet tall,...

Fat and Seeking Love

Online dating is incredibly popular these days. And many people are much happier for it. Apparently for every seven couples who get married today, at least one met via online dating. I personally know several couples who met online so I don't doubt these numbers.There are a lot of people who visit online dating sites who don't know what BBW stands for. Some people, especially men, think it stands...

How to Become a Supermodel

In this one minute video we see an average woman being transformed into a supermodel. What's her secret? A ton of digital retouching and airbrushing.Note how her neck is slimmed and elongated, her eyes are made much bigger, her eyebrows lifted and her face slimmed.This ad was created by the Dove Self Esteem Fund to show young women that what they see on TV and billboards is not the true reality. See more examples here and he...

Orange Prices Soar: Some Vitamin C Alternatives

A severe frost has destroyed seventy percent of the current crop of fruits and vegetables in California. Prices of oranges and lemons will be very high this year. If you're wondering how to get enough vitamin C from alternative foods, here are some ideas. A typical orange provides 116% of the recommended daily intake of Vitamin C. Red bell peppers are still probably even pricier but for less than...

The Google Cafeteria Diet

One of the many extraordinary perks of working at Google are the free meals. The daily menu choices are astounding. There is no company cafeteria per say. Rather there are eleven 'cafes' for people to choose from. Most of the cafes serve breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes.The purpose of the cafes is to serve the most nutritious and delicious meals possible. Google doesn't appear to spare any expense in meeting this goal. Most of the food is organic...

Beer Belly Photos

Do you need more incentive to get out there and exercise today? Here's three beer belly pictures via Flickr. There are many more great photos by people who don't allow republishing, so check them out at Most Interesting Beer Belly photos.The photos here are by Malingering,Malias and LovingSh...

Alcohol Cravings and Weight Loss

For people who are addicted to alcohol and need more than the moderate one drink per day, this can certainly lead to weight gain and make it almost impossible to achieve dieting goals.If the typical beer or glass of wine is about 150 calories and a person develops a habit of drinking three drinks per day this can theoretically result in gaining 47 pounds each year!So if you suspect your reason for...

How Jenny McCarthy Lost 60 Pounds

Jenny McCarthy gained a lot of weight when she was pregnant with her only child back in 2002. Soon after she gave birth she needed to lose 60 pounds. She tried some fad diets for a while but this didn't work. She then took the advice of her mom and joined Weight Watchers. It took her just over six months to lose sixty pounds. Weight Watchers approached her some time ago to be a spokesperson for them. She went ahead and signed a contract last year...

I'm Fat, You Watch Your Tongue

Skinny people should be a little more sensitive when they complain about their little fat deposits in front of fat people. Here's what karaokekitty17 has to say about this; I hate it when really skinny people complain about being fat. I especially love it when they complain right next to me. I often wonder what they think of me when they think of themselves as so fat. I must be like a continent to...

A Sure Way to Lose Your Appetite

I wasn't sure whether to talk about the horrible thing I just read, but in the interests of those who want to lose their appetite or want more incentive to eat more vegetarian foods, here we go.There's an artist who recently served his guests spaghetti with meatballs and then told them that the fat he used to cook it with was his own body fat. He said it was fat that was recently extracted from his...

Finding the Time to Exercise

I don't have enough time in the day to exercise regularly. At least that's my excuse. With a toddler around most of the time, and with my part time work and household chores, how am I supposed to find the time to work out?It's a feeble excuse and I know it. I could probably find that one hour in a day if I was more motivated.It seems that some of the most motivated people do their workouts while most...

Tummy Tuck Jeans - Do they Work?

I find my jeans don't look so hot on me as they did just a few years ago. No doubt this would change if I would only get out there and exercise more. But based on my track-record the last couple of years, life might pass me by before that happens.I recently heard about Tummy Tuck Jeans for the first time. A woman who is fortunate to have a father who owns a clothing business got the idea to make jeans...

Treadmill Dance Motivation - OK GO

Have you been working out on a treadmill as a New Year's resolution for the last few days? Here's some very fun motivation to get you going faster and longer.It's a video of the OK GO band singing Here It Goes Again while dancing on six treadmills.This has been a huge surprise hit on You Tube. It's been viewed over ten million times! Their sudden popularity has completely stunned the band members. They wanted to do something wacky that would get...

Getting Rid of Baby Flab After Age 40

Mariska Hargitay was overjoyed to be pregnant with her first child at the age of 42. She went on to gain 54 pounds during her pregnancy and developed gestational diabetes. Her baby was born weighing almost 11 pounds via c-section six months ago. But now, half a year later, Mariska has already lost all her excess post baby weight. She did this by working out three times a week with a personal trainer,...

Weight Loss Pills Get Spanked

The FTC has just issued fines to four marketers of weight loss pills. The fines total $25 million and are for making false claims about how effective these pills are for weight loss.The four pills include Xenadrine EFX, One A Day Weight Smart, CortiSlim and Trim Spa. The pills will continue to be sold but the companies have been fined for making false claims about them and they have to stop that.People...

200 Calories in Pictures

There's a fun page that lists about eighty different foods and shows pictures of what they look like on a plate. The only thing these foods have in common is they have all been limited to 200 calorie portions.See What does 200 Calories Look Li...

Weight Loss Surgery is Scary

There's a young woman who went ahead with a gastric bypass operation seven weeks ago. She is also one of the best writers I've encountered anywhere online.She has been blogging about her weight loss struggles for over two years.She made the decision to go ahead with weight loss surgery after much thought. And before she went through with it she had horrible second thoughts. But she went ahead with...

Losing Weight by Looking Outward

I made a strange New Year's resolution this year. Of course I want to lose weight, but that is a daily mind struggle; I know what I need to do. So I didn't make any specific New Year's resolutions around that this year.Lately I've been having apocalyptic thoughts about the future of the earth. I really think that due to global warming we may be in danger of living in an almost unbearable environment...