Tag — Weight Loss

While America is facing the very real problem of childhood obesity, across the pond the British are dealing with another problem. Apparently half of the country’s six-year-old girls want to be thinner.

When I was six I was more concerned with Barbie than my weight, but a recent study conducted at Cambridge University has revealed that the nation’s young girls are scarily preoccupied with their weight, and actually think they’re overweight when they’re not. The experiment will be aired on Tuesday 2 March on the Channel 4 program Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance, and reveals that most of the girls involved in the study think they will be too fat by the time they turn 12. [Read more →]

Exercising by taking your dog out for a walk is not only fun, it is also 600% more effective than going to the gym. But a new invention could change all that, making Americans lazy in the process. The Dog Powered Scooter is a gadget into which your dog is harnessed and then pulls the scooter or bike which you steer.

It sounds like a great idea, but if you’re just going along for the ride while your poor pooch does all the work, where’s the fat-burning fun in that?! Sure you still get some fresh air, but you won’t be using the muscles half as much as you would even if you went for a slow walk with your pet, let alone playing catch with him or her.

This form of dog mushing is said on its website to be perfectly safe for your dog, but your animal must be healthy and want to pull the scooter or bike. This seems all pretty pointless to me, but maybe some dog owners would welcome this invention.

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If you’re having difficulty shifting your baby weight after trying diet after diet and workout trend after trend, why not become a Wii Mommy. Many mothers have joined an online community where they swop stories about how the Nintendo Wii Fit has helped them drop their post-baby weight.

Essentially a video game, the Wii Fit helps individuals lose weight with a series of fun exercises based on games. Julie Maloney lost 60 pounds over the course of a year using her Wii Fit Plus [Read more →]

Beyoncé is on the cover of the Vogue ‘Shape’ issue this month.  The mega-star talked about everything from romance, the music biz, her acting career and even weight.  When Beyoncé starred in Cadillac Records she revealed she had to put on 20 pounds, and for the movie Dreamgirls she had to loose loads of weight.  Some critics criticized her work on Dreamgirls claiming that she wasn’t very convincing but in Cadillac Records she stole the show.  She said,

“Darnell (the director) brought something out in me, and I think it was because she’s a woman, and once again, kind of like with my band, we just had a connection, and we understood each other. She knew how to talk to me, and I knew what she meant.”

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Backstreet Boys heartthrob, Nick Carter, has done a 180-degree turn when it comes to lifestyle choices. During the Backstreet Boys European tour last year, Nick started to feel the physical pains of an unhealthy lifestyle and overweight body and began to suffer from chest discomfort. He went to a cardiologist to discover he suffers from cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart. Being only 28 at the time, he knew he had to act fast and leave behind the booze and drugs and drop a considerable amount of weight. He did not want to end up like two other stars that died from cardiomyopathy, singer Andy Gibb at 30 years of age, and actor Chris Penn at 40. [Read more →]

Lily Allen has recently slimmed down as she has now learned how to juggle the life of an international music star. It’s only been a couple of years since Lily’s name has hit the international music charts and since we’ve known her she has always been on the chubby side. But here recently she has opened up about her weight loss and explained that as she climbed to reach to the top of the music industry she found herself binge eating in hotel rooms after shows and drinking too much alcohol. [Read more →]

At the Hollywood premiere of, “He’s Just Not That Into You,” the always elegant and healthy Jennifer Connelly looked very frail. Since then, the media has pushed her small frame in to the lime light wondering if is she is in poor health or if she has joined the ranks of the Hollywood ladies who simply don’t eat. [Read more →]

The new Google Diet? This was served in the Google cafeteria in NYC. apparently to celebrate a googler’s birthday. And I heard so many good things about the free and healthy food at Google… well I guess they have good health insurance at least.

Pop singer, Lily Allen slimmed downed from a size 12 to size eight with the help of $600 dollar hypnosis sessions with hypnotist, Susan Hepburn. Says Lily,

“After the hypnotism, I want to go to the gym every day, otherwise I feel really bad. I just want to get more toned and healthy.”

Lily Allen,22, joins fellow celebs, Geri Halliwell, Sarah Ferguson and Sophie Dahl, who have all been treated by hypnotists in an effort to lose weight. [Read more →]

Have you counted calories, engaged in daily exercise and still could not lose weight? There are overweight individuals who repeatedly fail at losing weight despite reporting a daily caloric intake of 1200 calories a day. There are a number of explanations that could account for this including: low metabolism, under-reporting of calories eaten and over-reporting of calories burned during exercise. [Read more →]