Monthly Archives: September 2011

Get Fit and Lose Weight After Pregnancy

Recovering after pregnancy and childbirth is a gradual process, and the best skill you can learn to is patience. Your body has been growing and storing and getting ready to birth and then sustain a baby for the last nine months, so you need to give it the time and respect it deserves. 

Your body has also been accumulating brown fat and storing it for breastfeeding reserves during the later months of your pregnancy so you can’t be too hasty ...

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The Low Down On Low Fat Snacks: Why You Should Help Yourself

Whether you are looking to lose weight, maintain your weight or have special dietary needs, eating low fat snacks is the best way to keep your body and mind feeling great…
Living a busy lifestyle can wreak havoc on your diet and eating choices, and many people resort to fast foods and unhealthy snacks to refuel.  Research has shown that snacking can have a number of benefits for the overall health of the body and that, rather than eating ...

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Maintain Weight Loss and Stay Healthy

So you’ve lost a lot of weight and you have reached your goal, but you seem to have done this countless times before in your life- only to fall of the wagon a little while later. How do you ensure that you stay on track and maintain weight loss after a few months? With some simple steps and a lot of self-discipline, you can keep the weight off- your shoulders and your waistline…

Take Charge

Planning and prioritizing is an ...

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Whats Best? A Cleansing Diet or a Traditional Diet

There has been a lot of publicity recently about Cleansing Diets recently, but how do they differ from a traditional calorie controlled diet and do they really work? We decided to take a closer look…

What do we mean by ‘traditional diet’?

Most traditional diets focus on calorie counting or portion control, some popular examples would include Weight Watchers or MediFast.

What is a cleansing diet?

Firstly it’s important to understand what isn’t part of a cleansing diet.

Although easily ...

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