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Being motivated with your plans sometimes does all the work for you. How do you keep your mood up when dieting?

What makes you go on when you feel you cannot do it anymore?

With a friend doing self assurance therapy and another shopping for clothes just to make sure she fits in anything she might like, I can say my motivational barometer is blocked.

Here’s how I decided to keep myself motivated every day:

1. Weight yourself

First thing in the morning, I weight myself. There is nothing more (more…)

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Do you remember those high-school Sundays when you had your best friends over for a movie night?

I bet it also ended with a lot of pizza leftovers and soda cans all around the house. Yet, you looked so happy and fit in your pixie jeans, right?

I read in some magazine that having a gym membership and a solid determination are not sufficient conditions to start rethinking your lifestyle and your health. What is really important is to have the “fun factor” as an integral part of your life. It’s vital to be optimistic (more…)

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You know you are lazy when you choose yoga sessions to lose weight, when you leave your shopping cart next to your parking place or order deliver food from a greasy fast food place next-door.

All these make your life easier, but it doesn’t mean they make you healthier as well.

If you want to keep your energy for some other activities rather than going to the gym, then I have few tips on how you can lose weight without too much effort:

1. Never skip breakfast! Lazy dieters should never miss out on (more…)

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Sometimes eating habits work in mysterious ways for me. For example whenever I’m sad, or tired or I’m just having a bad day I feel like barging in the fridge and engorging everything that comes to my way. Other times I feel like eating all the sugar in the world. This is me and probably others like me.

There is also the other side of the coin, people who forget about eating whenever they’re sad. Now I must confess that I do not understand them, but there is a psychological explanation for (more…)

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I’ve tried several diets these past few years. I could say there haven’t been any breaks between them; I just passed from one diet to another. And I’m really not that fat, just a few pounds more than average. However, each time I tried not to be on any diet, I found myself unable to eat what I wanted whenever I wanted. I still felt guilty, cautious and very self conscious. It seemed that my mind was more powerful than any diet.

Recently, I came across some books which focused exactly on this matter: the power of the mind over our bodies and how much thought influences (more…)

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Are you a smoker? I’m not. I hate the smell and I don’t particularly like having yellow teeth and yellow fingers. However, I have a tip for those of you who are smokers and are nonetheless trying to quit: what you eat may help you quit smoking or, on the contrary, it might make you crave even more for those cigarettes.

Professor Joseph McClernon, PhD, who is the Director of the Tobacco Neuroscience Research Lab at Duke Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research, found that (more…)

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Last weekend I went to the mountains. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this by now, but I love rock climbing. Although I’m not a pro, I can enjoy easy climbing routes. It’s a great way to keep fit and I wish I could do this more out in the open.

Nevertheless, when I don’t have the time or the means to go to the mountains, I can train in special indoor climbing gyms.

Why do I like this fitness exercise so much? Several reasons come to mind when thinking about it:

1. It’s a complex activity, which puts strain on my entire body. From (more…)

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This is a question many of us ask ourselves. I mean I did everything I was supposed to do and still I haven’t lost a pound! Or if I lost a few, I immediately gain them back after stopping the diet.

The causes seem to be various:

1. Most diets are just a short-time plan

They imply starving yourself and immediately after finishing the week or weeks of dieting you just go back to your bad habits. Your body that has (more…)

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Are you a runner? I mean, do you love running more than any other fitness exercise? Or you wish you were able to run more, but you lack the motivation? Let’s prepare for running a marathon! I think that would definitely inspire and determine me to run religiously every day.

So, if you do decide to follow me in this attempt to train for the marathon, then let’s have a look at some tips offered by the Women’s Sports Foundation:

1. first of all, you should be able to run some 15-25 miles a week; if you run daily, then this is something which will not take you very long to (more…)

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As much as I plan in advance I always end up tricking the diet and treating myself with lots of goodies on Halloween. But not this year! I promised myself I wouldn’t give up to the cravings.

So I designed a plan to avoid eating unhealthy foods around Halloween that I recommend all of you. I am sure it will work this time.

• Don’t buy sweets in the first place.
• If you go visiting your parents, and there are a lot of temptations (more…)

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