Category Archives: General Tips

Weight Loss Website Profile: SparkPeople

One of the ways that many people rely on to help out with their weight loss program is an online community. Since the dawn of the Internet, there have been communities dedicated to weight loss. In those early days, it was newsgroups; today, it’s sites like SparkPeople. For many people, a community weight loss website […]

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Exercising When You’re Too Big

The plain and simple fact of the matter is that it takes hard work to achieve your weight loss goals. Regardless of what you might see on television ads or what you might read in a magazine, the bottom line is that losing weight is something that’s hard to do. There are no shortcuts. There […]

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How Your Friends Hurt Your Weight Loss

Believe it or not, the people that you spend your time with may have a huge impact on your weight loss whether or not they know it. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, having friends that are obese will increase your chances of becoming obese. Specifically, the study suggests […]

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Potential Problems of Weight Loss Surgery

Weight loss surgery has become exceedingly popular in the past couple of decades. As the population continues to weigh in heavier and heavier each year, obesity is becoming a major health concern. From children to senior citizens, people across all age and gender categories are growing in size. Weight loss is quickly becoming more than […]

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Top 5 Weight Loss Tips For Holiday Eating

Turkey Genocide day has come and gone. Your weight loss goals took a break as you took a glorious turkey induced nap. Now the real weight loss test begins. This test is the test of wills and a battle against the cookie hordes. This does not mean your weight loss lifestyle needs to fall by […]

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Tips For Holiday Cooking

You are prepped and ready for days upon days of holiday cooking, yet you are worried about your weight loss goals. Have no fear; there are a few things you can do in the kitchen to keep those goals in sight. Your weight loss goals will thank you if you only do just a few […]

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Judging Weight Loss Product Claims

One of the most difficult things about losing weight can be deciding whether a particular product, diet plan or food is really any good for weight loss. We all want to meet our weight loss goals, but we’d prefer to do it in rapid fashion and with as little work and self-denial as possible. Weight […]

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Three Important Weight Loss Foods

If you’re serious about your weight loss, you know you need to change your habits. It isn’t just learning how to exercise or dieting, in many ways it’s more about actually bringing habits into your life that are more healthy, and that just so happen to also be good for weight loss. Part of that […]

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Thanksgiving Weight Loss Tips

If you’re in the middle of a weight loss program, you probably know that you’re about to face the most difficult time of the year. The period from Thanksgiving through Christmas can be rough for many people in terms of their weight loss goals. In particular, Thanksgiving is known for its tendency to encourage gluttony, […]

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Weight Loss during the Holidays

It starts every year with the kids’ Halloween candy calling out to you from the pantry. You have a few candy bars or caramel apples, and you can almost feel the weight loss achievements you’ve made over the course of the year slipping into oblivion. Weight loss during the holidays is tough, but you need […]

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