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Weight, Hold It Right There (My 2 top tips for keeping the tale of the scale from creeping onward and upward)

May 24, 2019

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your weight is maintain the current number. For some people that means not gaining weight. For others, the goal is not to lose weight. For the last few years of her life, my mother fell into the second category. Every time we saw her doctor, he begged Mom to […]

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Filed Under: Health, Physical Health Tagged: diet, dieting, food diary, how to lose weight, how to maintain your weight, intermittent fasting, weight, weight loss

Exercise Is NOT the Key to Losing Weight (And here’s a ton of research and quotes to prove it.)

January 18, 2019

Exercise: Image of group of aerobics instructors

For years I felt guilty for not exercising on a regular basis. I’m talking, I felt really guilty. Because I believed exercise was the way to stay fit and trim. But recently I remembered that not one, but two gym-owners, have told me: “90% of the way your body looks is not due to exercise. It’s due […]

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How to Lose Weight–Say, 110 Pounds: Do “Whatever It Takes for as Long as It Takes”

August 24, 2018

How to lose weight: Image of "No Feeding" sign.

by Linda Burklin Three years ago, I ended up in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. As I was going through the admission process, the nurse asked me, “Did you know you are diabetic? And that you have sky-high blood pressure?” Well, I didn’t know—but I wasn’t surprised, either. I’ve been morbidly obese for my entire […]

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Filed Under: Health, Physical Health Tagged: diet, how to lose weight, how to treat diabetes, intermittent fasting, ketogenic lifestyle, low carb, morbidly obese, weight loss

How I Finally Lost 25 Pounds (with Intermittent Fasting) After 32 Years of Trying Everything Else: Guest Post

June 22, 2018

How I Finally Lost 25 Pounds (with Intermittent Fasting) Image of a scale with an apple and measuring tape

by Cindy McKee My weight-loss story goes back three decades to the birth of my first child. For 32 years, I tried to lose the baby fat using various weight-loss plans and supplements. I rode the roller coaster of weight gain and loss. As soon as I stopped dieting, the pounds would come back with […]

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Breaking (Up with) Bread: Why I Go Against the Grain

July 7, 2017

Image of a loaf of bread.

It was my friend Pascha’s picture that stopped my scrolling finger, that eventually led me to the vida low carb. Not only was she toned and trim, she possessed a sleek felinity. I want that, I thought. Beneath Pascha’s photo, she’d written, “This is what I used to look like and now I know why—because […]

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