Never, that’s right, never ever try to fix a diet mistake. Fixing a mistake is the best way to continue making mistakes. Diet mistakes happen. People want to lose weight, but sometimes they slip and do things counterproductive to weight loss. Common diet mistakes people make eat too much at one meal eat too much for […]
It sort of stinks that friends, family and strangers feel they have a right or responsibility to help an overweight woman lose weight who hasn’t specifically asked for their help or even indicated weight loss is a consideration. The justification is, “I’m doing it for her own good.” The reality is we don’t know what is […]
There is commercial advertising placed in this blog and every BDN blog I write. It is approximately placed between the third and fourth paragraph. Sometimes it’s between the third and fourth line break, but that’s not consistent either. Let’s just say somewhere around the third and fourth paragraph there will be a tile ad with […]
In my late teens I agonized over my weight. I’d been varying degrees of chubby right from my birth weight of 9lbs. 7oz. Around 16 I discovered that I could lose a lot of weight by not eating much. Meanwhile I’d reached my adult height of 5’7″ so my body weight had spread out which […]
If it becomes unbearable to gain another pound or live another day at your current weight, it’s time to do something about it. What are you willing to give up to get and stay thin? Some call it a “lifestyle change” some call it a “diet” but whatever you call it, you can’t reduce your weight […]
We are aware that some diets are extremely dangerous. Some diets have been proven to put our health in danger. It’s not just fad diets and crash diets that have been linked with health risks. Over the years there’s been both over-the-counter and medically prescribed weight loss pills that have been removed from the market […]
Are you an emotional eater and you don’t know it? I was. Well, to be perfectly clear I was an emotional eater and I didn’t know it. I am still an emotional eater, but now I’m aware of it and managing it. I thought that emotional eaters turned to food when they were upset, angry, […]
Leslie rarely had problems with flatulence, but she did struggle with her weight. When she wasn’t dieting, she and her husband could drive with the car windows shut. As soon as she’d start a diet she would become unbearably gassy, It was so bad she couldn’t even stand herself. Desperate to lose weight and drive […]
Reducing calories is a crucial strategy. Although some fad diets would have you believe weight loss isn’t about calories, make no mistake. Creating a calorie deficit is of great importance to successful weight loss. Without it, there is no weight loss. There is another factor, however, that is a crucial success factor and is extremely […]
When the calendar flipped from 2016 to 217 there were a lot of people who were eager to start losing weight. The gyms filled up. The Weight Watchers meetings were jumping with new members. Jenny Craig’s phone lines were tied up with callers. USPS, UPS and FedEx trucks were crammed with exercise machines, videos, and magic […]
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