Weight Loss Motivation: If You Can Put It On, You Can Take It Off!

motivation.jpgIf you’re totally overweight, don’t fret because you can surely take off those unwanted pounds which you had put on over the years.

I had a friend who years ago was a skinny man who weighed less than 110 pounds (or 50 kg) while standing at 5 ft 11 in (or 180cm).  In fact, he was so frail that his girlfriend actually wrote him a letter telling him how skinny he was and how he could be blown away like a bamboo stick by a gush of wind!

How mean that bitch was!

But unknowingly, her words cut through him like a sword and remembering the pain that those words caused him, he spent two years in the gym, working out 3 times a week, all by himself, just to put on those pounds that he so badly wanted.

And yes, he succeeded after that two years through commitment and sheer determination.  He became tall, dark and handsome and had many female friends who adored him.

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Will listing calories alongside McDonald’s menu help fight weight loss?

burger.jpgNew York City’s new rules for menu labels at chain restaurants — by listing calories alongside McDonald’s menu, for example — have set off a food fight among the nation’s obesity experts.

Set to implement at the end of March 2008, it had balloon into a conflict which is interesting to watch. Which way will the decision go is anybody’s guess. Read more about this in New York Times at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/business/16obese.html?ref=business

One side supports the theory that – flagging that a Double Whopper With Cheese has 990 calories, for example — will make patrons think twice about ordering one.

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Walking or running for weight loss - which is better?

running.jpgIt’s probably counter-intuitive here - walking beats the heck out of running for weight loss!

Besides the scientific explanation that I shall explain in a moment, as someone who went about losing weight on two separate occasions in the last few years, I can vouch for walking…

*** FIRST OCCASION ***

Seven years ago, I woke up one day to realize that I put on around 20 kg after working mindlessly in running my business for a decade. Imagine the shock when the scale told me that I was 89 kg!

It took a few more scales to convince me that they were right and I was wrong.

That made me decide to run the marathon again. Immediately I put a running plan together and started on my journey. Half a year later, I wish I could say I did it with a straight face - yeah almost that is - but I had to call it quits after 25 km. Not too bad you would say, won’t you?

All in all, I lost about 5 kg after running for miles preparing for the marathon.

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Water and weight loss

water-glass.jpgThe importance of drinking water and weight loss is often underestimated.

More often than not, we focus so much on the diet or the quantity of food intake, making sure that we don’t eat the wrong food or over-eat at each meal. However, we might overlook drinking plenty of water.

We recommend that you drink 8 glasses of water per day, but that may take you some time to work up to. Your body needs a whole lot of water. Water doesn’t just flush all the toxins out of your body, but it makes you feel better and healthier. Read more »