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 Was one of your New Year’s resolutions  to lose
weight and get in shape? 

You may have hit the gym hard that first week, but now that we
a month into the year many are no longer on fire for their
goal. 

Truth is life happens. Job stress, family demands, caring for
parents and cold weather are just some of the obstacles we all
face in achieving our fitness goals and sometimes we just need
a little extra nudge.

You’ve seen the group encouragement work if you’ve ever watched
the Biggest Loser on NBC Bay Area.  

Now hundreds of people in the Bay Area are working toward their
own weight loss goals with the help of friendly
competition. 

It’s called “Your Best Body Challenge 2012.” Fitness guru Audra
Baker is offering an 8 week transformation guide which includes
online workout programs, nutrition tips and recipes.

In addition, you have a weekly accountability checklist. You
also benefit from group hikes and lectures from fitness
experts.  

“When you are doing this in a community of like-minded people
the likelihood of changing your behaviors is very high and you
are much more likely to stick with those healthy changes for
life” said Audra Baker who runs the program. 

At the end of 8 weeks the winner of the challenge, who has the
best weight loss story and success, will win a full makeover at
a salon, a med spa treatment and other gift certificates.

 The cost of the program is 20 dollars and all of the
money goes directly to the local Boys and Girls Clubs of
America.

Emily Fowler, 38 of San Jose, was one of the winners from last
year’s challenge. She lost ten pounds in eight weeks and
dramatically improved her strength and energy level.

She says the challenge helped her immensely to gain emotional
and physical strength so she could help her husband battle
cancer.

One year later she has kept the weight off.

“The challenge doesn’t just help you get your best body, it
really helps you be your best self,” said Fowler. 

“The trainers believe in you even if you don’t believe in
yourself” said Fowler. If you want more information just
log onto yourbestbodychallenge2011.com.

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The weight loss arena is confusing to people because of
outright lies and/or information overload. You are responsible
for the health of your body. Do the research to see if the
claims on the weight loss product label are true.

If it sounds too good to be true ...

A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report, “Weight-Loss
Advertising: An Analysis of Current Trends,” gives us the
following information found in 300 weight loss advertisements:

Consumer testimonials – “These testimonials and photos
rarely portrayed realistic weight loss. The average for the
largest amount of weight loss reported in each of the 195
advertisements was 71 pounds.”

Rapid Weight Loss – “Rapid weight-loss claims were made
in 57% of the
advertisements in the sample. In some cases, the falsity of
such claims is obvious, as in the ad that claimed that users
could lose up to 8 to 10 pounds per week while using the
advertised product.”

Diet and Exercise – “Despite the well-accepted
prescription of diet and
exercise for successful weight management, 42% of all of the
ads reviewed promote an array of quick-fix pills, patches,
potions, and programs for effortless weight loss and 64% of
those ads also promised fast results. The ads claim that
results can be achieved without reducing caloric intake or
increasing physical activity.”

The FTC concludes: “The use of false or misleading claims in
weight-loss advertising is rampant. Nearly 40% of the ads in
our sample made at least one representation that almost
certainly is false and 55% of the ads made at least one
representation that is very likely to be false or, at the very
least, lacks adequate substantiation.”

As I always say, companies keep getting richer and the
population continues to gain weight. Stop buying the products
and the companies will go broke!

People don’t know what to believe when it comes to fat loss and
weight loss. And, too many people look for quick solutions to
weight problems that developed over months and even years.

Permanent fat loss and weight loss takes time. In fact, you
never stop sculpting your body.

Here is how to put the fat loss and weight loss puzzle
together:

1. Don’t gauge your weight loss success solely by the weigh
scale. After three weeks on a strength and cardio exercise
program, you could weigh the same (or even a little more) and
have significantly less body fat.

You can build muscle mass and shrink your body (be leaner) as
your body fat decreases. Muscle is metabolically active tissue
and fat tissue is not. So, fat tissue contributes nothing to
help you burn calories.

"Muscle is our largest metabolically active organ, and that's
the backdrop that people usually forget," said Kent Adams,
director of the exercise physiology lab at Cal State Monterey
Bay. Strengthening the muscles "has a ripple effect throughout
the body on things like metabolic syndrome and obesity."

Exercise regularly with strength training and short interval
cardio sessions. Too many long, slow cardio sessions will eat
away at your muscles.

It is safe to lose about 2 pounds per week (on average). At the
beginning of a new exercise program, you will probably lose 6-8
pounds the first week (especially if you are obese). The weight
loss will even out over time.

Don't become frustrated when one week you lose 5 pounds and the
next week you lose no pounds. Growing your muscles increases
lean body weight.

More lean body weight increases your metabolism which helps you
burn fat! It's important to check your body fat every week to
see if your body is shrinking.

You must continue to build and maintain your muscles or they
will atrophy (use it or lose it). Muscle does not ever change
into fat. Fat cells will shrink but they will fill up again
when you are inactive for a long period of time.

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2. You will gain weight and fat if you maintain a daily caloric
surplus. A caloric surplus happens when you eat more calories
than you burn. It doesn’t matter how hard you work out.

So, eat enough to build muscle and burn fat. That usually means
maintaining a moderate daily caloric deficit of about 300 to
600 calories.

If you have one cheat day a week and have a small caloric
surplus, that should not derail your fat loss efforts. Just
continue to do your regular workouts and get back on track the
next day.

3. Start a healthy meal plan that you can maintain. Severe
calorie restriction diets cannot be maintained.

When you have rapid weight loss through severe calorie
restriction, much of that weight loss will be water weight, and
some muscle mass. Too much calorie restriction will damage your
metabolism.

You will regain this weight quickly when you begin to eat the
carbohydrates, proteins and fats that your body needs. Why?
Because you will also replenish water stores in your body's
cells.

Eat small meals of whole, natural foods every three to four
hours. This helps maintain your energy and metabolism
throughout the day.

Also, eat protein with every meal. Protein will help you feel
full for a longer period and help repair and rebuild your
muscles.

If you have a meal plan, you are more likely to follow it or at
least eat similar foods. And, record what you eat in a food
journal until you know what, when and how much to eat.

The weight loss lies will continue but you don’t have to
believe and follow the advice.

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Research already demonstrates that physicians are sometimes
uncomfortable talking about weight with their obese patients.
Now, a new study shows that the doctors' weight makes a
difference too.

Physicians who pack on the pounds discuss weight loss less
frequently with obese patients than doctors who have normal
body mass indexes (18 percent versus 30 percent), according to
the report published
this week^[1] in the
medical journal Obesity.

And they're significantly less confident of their ability to
provide effective counseling about diet (37 percent vs. 53
percent) or exercise (38 percent vs. 56 percent).

The findings come from an Internet survey of 498 family
doctors, internists and general practitioners conducted early
last year by researchers at Johns Hopkins. Two-thirds of the
physicians were male, almost three-quarters were 40 years old
and 53 percent were overweight or obese.

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The results matter. More than two-thirds of American adults are
overweight or
obese^[3] and their
medical costs total $147 billion. If heavy doctors won't
acknowledge that patients have a problem and offer help, that
can be a barrier to effective care, says Sara
Bleich^[4], lead
author of the new study and an assistant professor of health
policy at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A notable finding in the study speaks to the problem: 93
percent of physicians of normal weight said they would be more
likely to identify an obese patient when that person was as
large or larger than they were. By contrast, this was true of
only 7 percent of obese or overweight physicians.

"It seems to be the case that doctors are less likely to
diagnose the patient until the patient's weight meets or
exceeds their own," Bleich says. This could be because
physicians' sense of what's normal changes as they put on
pounds and see more excessively heavy patients in their
practices, she speculates.

Asked what might explain heavier doctors' reluctance to discuss
weight loss, Bleich says, "It could be that they feel that
their advice will not hold a lot of weight with their patients,
because they themselves are heavy."

Overweight and obese physicians expressed greater confidence in
prescribing weight-loss drugs than other doctors, perhaps
because they've had personal experience with the medications or
with the difficulty of behavior change, she observes.

This isn't the first time that research has shown a link
between physicians' personal characteristics and their
willingness to advise patients on lifestyle issues. "We know
that physicians who follow healthy dietary practices themselves
are more likely to spend time counseling patients about diet,"
says Dr. Robert
Kushner^[5], a
professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine and clinical director of Northwestern's
Comprehensive Center on Obesity.

Other research has shown that physicians who smoke are less
likely to help patients quit.

Bleich and her co-authors close their study by suggesting that
doctors, who also report high levels of stress, substance abuse
and depression, need to be encouraged to take better care of
their health, both for their own sake and patients.

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