From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Myth of Women Building Big Muscles with Weight Training

I must admit that when i first encountered weight resistance training as a must in weight loss for women, I had the mental picture of women with bulging muscles. I was totally… and I really mean totally, put off!! I mean, this was my emotional side talking. Then my brain kicked in and told me…”hey! You can’t develop muscles like that. You’re a woman.”

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Aim to Achieve Totality Not Perfection

You do not have to be a Tyra Banks or a Beyonce. You do not have to be perfect. You just have to be all that you can totally be in your own unique way.

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What Motivates Some People to Exercise and Not Others

The Stephen R.Covey classic book “First Things First” introduced the four quadrants concept of how our life’s activities can be categorized and prioritized. These quadrants could shed a lot of light as to why some people are able to find motivation to exercise where others cannot.
Lets first review the 4 quadrants as described by Steven [...]

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The Difference Between Multi Grain and Whole Grain Bread

Bread is a favourite with most people.
With the increased awareness in health nowadays, you definitely may have come across multi-grain breads or whole grain breads. The fact that it has “grain” in its name, seems to imply that it is healthy. Well there is a difference.
A multi-grain bread is made from at least two different [...]

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Imelda's Journey to Weight Loss

I got a very interesting mail from a reader recently who has taken the first step of weight loss. A wise man once said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Imelda’s single significant step is to make the decision to lose weight so that she could be healthy for [...]

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The Effects of Extreme Dieting – Super Skinny Me Part 5

In this shocking documentary about the extreme lengths some women will go to lose weight, two average-sized journalists accept a challenge to slim themselves down to a size zero within 5 weeks. Trying all forms of starvation diets  the effects of the rapid weight loss and extreme dieting on these two women has to be [...]

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The Effects of Extreme Dieting – Super Skinny Me Part 4

In this shocking documentary about the extreme lengths some women will go to lose weight, two average-sized journalists accept a challenge to slim themselves down to a size zero within 5 weeks. Trying all forms of starvation diets  the effects of the rapid weight loss and extreme dieting on these two women has to be [...]

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The Effects of Extreme Dieting – Super Skinny Me Part 3

In this shocking documentary about the extreme lengths some women will go to lose weight, two average-sized journalists accept a challenge to whittle themselves down to a size zero within 5 weeks. With everything short of surgery and drugs at their disposal, the effects of the rapid weight loss and extreme dieting on these two [...]

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The Effects of Extreme Dieting – Super Skinny Me Part 2

In this shocking documentary about the extreme lengths some women will go to lose weight, two average-sized journalists accept a challenge to whittle themselves down to a size zero within 5 weeks. With everything short of surgery and drugs at their disposal, the effects of the rapid weight loss and extreme dieting on these two [...]

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The Effects of Extreme Dieting – Super Skinny Me Part 1

In this shocking documentary about the extreme lengths some women will go to lose weight, two average-sized journalists accept a challenge to whittle themselves down to a size zero within 5 weeks. With everything short of surgery and drugs at their disposal, the effects of the rapid weight loss and extreme dieting on these two [...]

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