What is Your Healthy Body Weight by Kim Beardsmore
... your risk of other health related problems - improve self confidence and self esteem - make it easier to be physically active. If you are obese or overweight…try not to gain additional weight. This will help you in years to come as people tend to increase weight with age. Better still look after your body and follow a healthy lifestyle incorporating a nutritious, delicious, health enhancing weight loss program. Just by losing 10 pounds you can significantly improve your overall health.

Goal Setting for Weight Loss by Chyna Dolores
... Setting Realistic DeadlinesWhen setting deadlines for your weight loss goals, you need to remember that you did not put the weight on overnight. You cannot expect to lose weight quickly and maintain it. Just look at the fad diets you may have followed in the past. Fad diets, such as the Cabbage Soup diet, do allow people to lose weight quickly but as the ‘new lifestyle’ is not something you can maintain for a long period of time, once you stop the weight piles back on.

How to Get Past the Boredom of Exercise by Francine Larson
... Did you know that gardening lowers blood pressure, reduces stress and muscle tension. In fact, according to this article, just looking at a picture of a garden reduces stresses, heartache and losses in our life. This article, Grow Better, Feel Better, Garden Longer is by Karen York. She is the author of Holistic Garden: Creating Spaces for Health and Healing. Draw your own conclusions when you read: I realize I need to go out and pull up some more roots.

Make A Weight-Loss New Year's Resolution And Stick With It All Year Long by Susanne Myers
... The next important tip to being able to stick to your weight-loss goal is to set a sensible goal to begin with. You shouldn’t expect yourself to loose more than 1 to 2 pounds per week. Look for a Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator online to help you determine whether you are underweight, normal, overweight, or obese. The higher your BMI, the more weight you can expect to lose in the long run. If you are in the normal range, but feel that you should lose weight, you may not want to aim for ...

Is Body Mass Index or BMI a Real Measure of Obesity or is It Flawed? by Armand Dupuis
... Secondly , it allows weight loss clinics to sell a lot of memberships, and allows even non professionals to sell a lot of weight loss products. So bmi charts make it real easy to fool a lot of people, so it’s important you understand how it works. What is Body Mass Index (bmi)? Quite simply body mass index, is an index of your body mass relative to your height. The bmi is calculated by taking your weight (in Kilograms) divided by your Height (in meters) squared.

Eating Disorders and the Internet by Dr. Angela Lewis
... Weight Loss Tools: Such BMI(Body mass index) calculators, homeopathic remedies and pharmaceutical pills. However, a search of Google on any given day will reveal similar information on many sites unrelated to Pro-Ana. Food and Beverage Hints: Glycemic counters, calorie counters, lists of foods that are of negative calorie value, recipes for drinks and foods. In fact, all the things you can buy in the average women’s or girls’ magazine at your local newsagent.

Aren't You Tired Of Being Fat? by Dan Curtis
... Particularly when it comes to weight loss, knowledge is power. 2. Make a plan. Once you know something about nutrition, you have to make a plan. It doesn't have to be complicated, but you have to have some idea of where you are going. You just take the basics you learned from reading your food labels and from your other reading, and figure out how you are going to use them. You make a simple plan that will fit with your life and your schedule. For example, you start by really finding out ...

Using Calories For Weight Loss by Gary Matthews
... The first step in counting calories for your personal weight loss is to calculate how many calories you burn in a day (your total daily energy expenditure), this is the total number of calories that your body expends in 24 hours, including all activities. This is known as your maintenance level and will be the reference point (number of calories) from which to start your dieting. The average calorie maintenance level for women in the United States is approx 2000 per day and the average for ...