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[9 Feb 2012 | No Comment | ]
Food Labels do a Great Job of Misleading Consumers

Maintaining a healthy weight or even beginning a weight loss program starts with examining your daily nutritional intake. It’s all about balance; too much of “this” and not enough of “that” could be detrimental to your success. Reading and understanding food labels and how manufacturers can manipulate them is one of the first steps on your journey.
Read the Label Carefully
Manufacturers in the U.S. have to adhere to strict guidelines when placing food facts on their labels, but that doesn’t mean that what you see is actually what you get. Take …

Fitness, Hot Topics, Motivation »

[8 Feb 2012 | No Comment | ]

Last week the announcement from Susan G. Komen that they would cut off funding to Planned Parenthood (a $93 million decision) put the world on notice and the Internet on fire. Tweets, Facebook posts, blog posts and other social media postings topped the trending topics daily. And don’t discount traditional media and other advocacy groups, they all had a say.
Luckily for them, the founder, Nancy G. Brinker, came to her senses, admitted the organization’s mistake and retracted their decision. You could hear the sigh of relief being uttered. I am …

Motivation, Nutrition »

[26 Jan 2012 | 2 Comments | ]

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If you don’t read the labels you won’t know what you are putting in your body. But what does all that mean? Learn about portion size, calorie counts and nutrients from Lee and Carol.
Plus you’ll learn why it’s important to read the labels ahd how companies fool you with those big words and hide ingredients you are trying to stay away from. Tune in and you will become a label expert.

Motivation, My Rants »

[25 Jan 2012 | No Comment | ]

Life Coach Lisa Nichols wrote an article in the January issue of Essence magazine titled From Stressed to Blessed. The article outlined 10 steps you can take to get control of the stress in your life and use that control to change your life for the better. I thought “What a great idea!” So, I tool that initial outline, with those same subject headers and created a 10-step plan to help you stop stressing about your weight loss plan and start losing, for real.
I’ve also taken Nichols’ 10-step formula to …

Health Info, Motivation »

[25 Jan 2012 | No Comment | ]

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Don’t stop now, you are doing so good! You made that resolution with every intent of keeping it, but now its getting harder and harder to keep it because guess what? Life always gets in the way. Today we are taking steps (5 of them actually) to keep your weight loss resolution in take and your goal straight in front of you. You CAN do this, so tune in and learn how.
5 Steps to Keeping Your Resolution
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[23 Jan 2012 | One Comment | ]

“Eating Season” is almost over. It started with Halloween and ends with huge Super Bowl parties everywhere. After the last super bowl party is over, most people take a serious look at their waistline and make plans to start dieting. But for those of you who have already started paying closer attention to what you put in your mouth, here are 3 websites that are providing healthy super bowl snack recipes and ways to make your party more nutritious. Don’t worry, you can still have fun celebrating the game of …