Tag — Weight Loss Tips

The World Champion athlete and boxer Laila Ali is dedicated to ‘knocking out’ childhood obesity. Most recently she has worked with the Live Like A Champion Tour which is an award-winning initiative based out of California.   The tour encourages kids to get active by teaching them interactive games and sports-themed activities.  Ali is one of the newest council members and she was at Kentwood elementary last week showing the kids conditioning exercises.  She said, [Read more →]

Lucy Danziger, editor of Self magazine, is practicing what she preaches to her readers every month. She’s turned down the car service her publishers provide for her every morning, and has instead decided to ride her bicycle to work every day.

The New York Times recently ran a piece on the editor, saying that after Condé Naste closed down 4 of its titles and heavily clamped down on budgets on all the others, Lucy decided to give up the town car service and hop on her bike.

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With the nation now fully focused on its alarming obesity crisis, more and more studies are being conducted in an attempt to find ways that help and encourage overweight individuals to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. One such study looks at the influence of weight-loss and exercise-related podcasts.

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The week may be nearly over, but you can still do your part during Fat Talk Free Week.

The Reflections: Body Image Program is running a week-long campaign to get women to stop “fat talking” and help change the perception of what is fat and what is healthy. The organization, together with Delta Delta Delta and other partners, are raising awareness across the nation of the dangers of “fat talk” and the effects it has on a woman’s self-esteem and confidence.

“10 million women are dealing with eating disorders in this country, which is more than are suffering from breast cancer. It’s time we take control over our own destinies, our own bodies, and our own inner dialogues,” the program says on its website. “We’re changing the conversation to create a more positive body image for ourselves, our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, and our friends.”

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Tanya Zuckerhost, nutritionist, author of The F-Factor Diet: Discover the Secret of Permanent Weight Loss, and creator of Skinny and the City website, says the secret to losing weight without hunger pangs and cutting back on the amount of food you eat is fiber.

Tanya told Examiner.com that fiber makes you feel fuller and because you feel fuller you’re less likely to snack on meals or overeat.

“The optimum amount of fiber for weight loss is 25-30 grams of fiber per day for women and 38 grams of fiber per day for men,” Tanya was quoted as saying. “The good news is that it’s almost impossible to get too much fiber. In fact, many of my patients consume 50-60 grams of fiber per day.”

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If you’ve just come back from a run, you’re going to need to rebuild the electrolytes lost when you worked up a sweat. Leslie Bonci, a nutrition and fitness consultant to Runner’s World magazine, shares 3 simple ideas for what you should eat after your run.

“Sooner is better than later,” Leslie says in her video for the fitness magazine. “Ideally if you can consume something within 15 minutes after you run, you’re going to be on your way to a quicker recovery, which means you’ll be better when you go out there to run the next day.”

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Seven Japanese researchers have found that too much optimism when beginning a new weight loss program could actually be bad, negatively affecting your rate of success.

The study, published in BioPsychoSocial Medical journal, closely examined the psychological characteristics of 147 obese individuals who participated in 6-month weight-loss program, which included exercise and dieting as well as psychological counseling.

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First Lady Michelle Obama is on the cover of the November issue of Prevention Magazine.  As always, she looks fit and fabulous.  In the interview she reveals a little more about her diet and exercise that has already been broadcasted the world over by various magazines and television shows, but it’s great to know that someone in such a well-respected position can be such a positive influence.

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The two lovely ladies, Eliza Dushku and Dichen Lachman from the Fox drama, Dollhouse, are getting all the attention in the October issue of Self Magazine. First, we learned a nifty partner workout that the two stars have practiced and now we get the inside scoop on some diet tips that Eliza has for Self readers.

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Last week talk show host and stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres featured new workout equipment on her show – the Shake Weight. DeGeneres, who is a notorious infomercial addict on the lookout for new hot products for her talk show, demoed the tool and even asked her guest, Queen Latifah, for her thoughts.

The Shake Weight uses a technology called Dynamic Inertia. The shaking movement of the dumbbell fires up your arm, shoulder and chest muscles, and apparently you only need to use it for 6 minutes every day to feel results.

“An independent scientific study shows that the Shake Weight causes over 300% more EMG activity than the traditional dumbbells of the same weight,” a statement on the Shake Weight’s website says. “This is a result of the unique motion of the exercise, isometric contraction of the entire upper body required during use of the Shake Weight and the rapid pace of the muscle fatigue caused by one unique movement.”

Celeb Diet Doc
Interesting contraption. My advice is to stick to walking to lose weight.