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You may have seen the television commercials for the prescription weight-loss pill Contrave. Contrave is the combination of two older drugs - the antidepressant bupropion and the addiction-treatment drug naltrexone. Its ads say the drug works on the brain to reduce hunger and control cravings. The FDA approved Contrave is for obese people or who are overweight with a body mass index of 27 or higher AND who also suffer from serious conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or type 2 diabetes.
The commercial cites studies in which patients who took Contrave along with diet and exercise lost approximately 2 to 4 times more weight than those who did diet and exercise alone. However, a Consumer Reports analysis of the 3 clinical trials used to gain FDA approval of the drug, shows the drug works but the amount of additional weight loss is small and could pose serious health risks.
Contrave can cause anxiety, insomnia and headaches. But also serious health problems, such as liver damage, seizures, increased blood pressure and possible heart risks. The people who took it up to 56 weeks lost only five to nine pounds more on average than those who took a placebo.
Consumer Reports advises to speak with your doctor about the risks and different weight-loss options. Consumer Reports health experts say its best to lose weight the safer, proven way, by eating less and exercising.
If you've been unable to lose weight on your own, ask your doctor about intensive behavioral programs that have at least 12 sessions a year and include multiple strategies to help you switch to a healthier diet and increase physical activity.
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A newlywed woman is practically unrecognizable after she managed to shed an incredible 70 pounds in just one year.
Danielle French, 28, weighed in at around 186 pounds when she realized she barely fit into any of her clothes.
After getting engaged, French dreaded the idea of shopping for her wedding dress.
French, a mortgage advisor from Barnsley, said,
After getting engaged, I continued to put on lots of weight until March 2015 when I got to my biggest and could barely fit in any of my clothes.
I really didnt want to be a big bride and look at my wedding photos and hate what I saw.
I wanted to lose weight a year before I got married so I could go and try wedding dresses on without hating everything I tried on.
After French and her now-husband booked their wedding for November 2016, the 28-year-old joined Slimming World,a UK-based weight loss organization, and began following inspirational weight-loss accounts on Instagram.
She said,
I had been unhappy for so long about my weight and tried so many diets that I could never stick to.
I started looking on Instagram at weight-loss accounts, and there were so many inspiring girls that had lost weight.
I decided I would give it a go, as it was one of the only diets I hadnt tried.
French then decided to start documenting her own weight-loss journey on Instagram to keep herself motivated.
It took the newlywed a full year to reach her goal weight.
On the day of her wedding, French walked down the aisle at Wentworth Castle in a stunning dress. Shed dropped a total of 70 pounds, and she was able tofit into a size six.
French said losing the weight has changed her life in countless ways. Shes gotten her confidence back, and no longer feels the need to hide beneath layers of baggy clothes.
She added,
Before losing the weight I hated going out with my friends because I felt so self-conscious and awful in everything I wore.
I was also really unfit and got out of breath really easily whenever I walked more than half a mile.
Plus, as a woman who suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, French said her healthier lifestyle has helped her cope with the symptoms of her condition.
She accredited her weight loss success to both Slimming Worlds program and her social media followers:
But on top of following Slimming World, I dont think I could have done it without my Instagram food blogging page and the support I get from all my lovely followers.
Congrats girl, and keep on slaying the weight-loss game!
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Dena Shahani, 29, from San Diego, California, grew up being allowed to eat whatever snacks she wanted and ate unhealthily when finances were tight.
She said she has been conscious about her weight for as long as she can remember and developed an unhealthy relationship with diet and weight loss.
The optometrist gained most of her weight whist living a sedentary lifestyle at university - but she has now gone from 18.5stone to a trim 10.5stone. Student Christopher Feenan also piled on the pounds at university - and shared his incredible transformation recently.
Dena said: I have been on my health and wellness journey for as long as I can remember, I recall being eight years old, getting on the scales and weighing 77lbs and wishing I weighed 70 instead.
That is when my unhealthy relationship with diet, weight loss and the scales started, at my heaviest I was over 260lbs, as of today I have lost over 110lbs.
I gained most of my weight in college due to the sedentary lifestyle of sitting all day and eating junk food to get by.
I am proud of my accomplishments and know that I have done amazing things but I am also aware that I am an ever-changing work in progress.
Dena said that while she was overweight she felt happy inside, but realised deep down she wanted to look different on the outside.
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I restricted my calories and made sure to do cardio as often as I could, I got a little portable elliptical and used it whilst watching TV at home
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So she began monitoring her calorie count and doing cardio whenever she could, even getting a machine to use at home.
She said: When I would see pictures of myself I knew that's not how I wanted to look, in my head I was a beautiful soul and a kind spirit but others didn't see that, they saw a slob, judged me, and treated me differently.
I restricted my calories and made sure to do cardio as often as I could, I got a little portable elliptical and used it whilst watching TV at home.
I was too embarrassed to go to the gym and I didn't focus on nutrition or fitness as much in the beginning but now I pay attention to where my calories come from.
Dena has now shifted her focus to nutrition, and has started lifting weights to tone up.
She said: As of the last year, I've shifted my focus from weight loss to fitness, I've stopped obsessing over the calories burned on the treadmill and starting focussing on the weights on the squat bar.
The scale had always been my saviour yet it was also my tormentor, if it said I gained half a pound it ruined my day.
However, now, the number on the scale doesn't define me, my progress or my goals.
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Despite her impressive weight loss - which saw her go from a size 20 (UK 24) to size four (UK eight), Dena says her life hasnt changed much except for the fact she now wears smaller clothes.
She said: When I see my before and after pictures it's an out of body experience, as if I'm looking at someone else's journey.
Im still the same person and I think people have a hard time understanding that because people who transform looks so different, but my mind is still the same.
I still have the same dark sense of humour, I still love arts and crafts and I still love having pretty nails, I just wear smaller clothes.
Revealing the most difficult thing about losing weight, Dena said: Staying motivated is so hard, people ask me all the time, "how do you stay motivated?" the answer is, I don't, I have bad days, I lose motivation all the time but at the end of the day I keep trying.
Even while losing weight I would have weeks and even months where I gave up and would gain weight back but I would always re-group and start over.
Perseverance is more important than motivation. The most important thing is being able to hit the restart button, wake up the next day and give it another shot.
You don't have to turn your life upside down every Monday and succumb to defeat every Tuesday. Start by making small changes and before you know it it's a habit and lifestyle.
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Posted: March 27, 2017 at 5:44 am
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Finally the time of year when we shed layers of clothes. Having lived in turtlenecks since September, Im glad to see it.
The weather, that is. Im not as pleased to see the swimsuit months just around the corner though. Im not ready.Still need to drop a few or more pounds of my winter weight. I didnt say which winter.
One of my biggest obstacles to getting more fit is comparing myself to my younger self. Used to run races at a sloths pace, yes, but I did them. Used to hoist heavy things, be as limber as a rag and charge around like a tiger. However, as my mom said, used-to bees dont fly anymore. Bodies age, couches feel softer and television shows are better. Ergo, winter weight.
One of my ultra-fit friends joined a rigorous, ranger-guided hike on a glacier in Alaska. Amid the (mostly) young adults in the group was a 70-something man keeping pace with the young bucks, looking as if hed discovered the Fountain of Youth. Impressed, my friend asked the older man how hed stayed in such good shape. Eat less, move more. Thats it. All he said. Evidently had discovered the Fountain of Brevity too.
A billion-dollar weight-loss industry summed up nicely there. Wish it were so easy, though. I have customized his advice for myself.
Eat only the stuff experts agree on. Ha. Only kidding. Youll be dead in a month. From starvation. Experts dont agree on anything. From celery to cereal, somebody says its good for you and somebody else says no way. Theres also the one magic food diet or one best supplement. I happen to know whats best for you is the antioxidant omega fish oil vitamin D non-GMO grass-fed protein-building inflammation-fighters.
Eat only organic foods. Not because they are better for you, but because they cost so much more, you cant afford as much food and will thereforeeat less. Maybe organic is better for you too, Im ambivalent. Seems added preservatives could be good since the point is to preserve ourselves.
Go outside.Literally walk out the door and stand there. Youll probably bend over and pick up a stick or something. Which is more than youll do inside on the couch.
When College Son was about 10 years old, he was a voracious reader, not a biker or ball player, and struggled with being overweight. I made him go outside for a minimum 15 minutes a day. Eager to please, he said OK, but was a little confused and asked what he was supposed to do while outside.Just stand there, I said. Which hed do compliantly stand in the driveway. After a bit, hed knock on the door and ask if he could come back in.
Once I asked him and his visiting friend to go out and pull some weeds in the mulch around the shrubs. I looked out and they were lying on their sides pulling weeds at roughly the same pace the weeds were growing back. However barely, it was bodies in motion, I suppose.
Stand on a treadmill. If you arent ready to go outside to stand for fitness, you can stand on some indoor equipment. Even if the equipment isnt plugged in, at least you arent on the couch. And most of us arent going to eat desserts while on the treadmill.
When I am in actual motion on a treadmill, I despise the calories burned display. Im working hard (to me) for so long and look down to see Ive used calories equivalent to three crackers. May as well just stand on it. I taped a tag over the "calories burned" number with different motivational messages like Naps are for wimps.
Try on bathing suits. Some women choose suits with the little skirts on them, discreetly covering some of the winter weight. When you cant find a bathing suit with a skirt long enough (3 feet instead of 6 inches), it can motivate you. As does the thought of trying to swim in a full-body modesty skirt. Since styles cycle and trends come back, the Victorian bathing suit bloomers are due back any day. Cant wait.
Curb snacking with incompatible activities. I read about a woman who lost weight by painting her nails every night because she couldnt reach into a bag of chips while her nails dried. You also cant easily snack while you use teeth whitening strips. Ive stumbled on natural appetite suppressants, like scooping the cat litter or cleaning the oven and wiping out the spray-on chemical foam that turns to nasty brown sludge.
Unclogging a bathroom sink will keep me snack-free for several days. As a bonus, Im guessing I burn a few extra calories by literally shuddering and saying "Gross" to the wads of bleck that come from a stopped-up sink.
Spring is here and lots of us are working on dropping those pesky winter pounds. For me it means saying no to sugar and yes to standing on the treadmill.
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For those hoping to shed some winter weight gain, research suggests that switching to a plant-based diet can help.
When scientists looked at the body mass index of more than 37,000 Britons of all ages in 2003, they found that while the average male meat-eater had a BMI of about 24.4, just shy of being overweight, the average vegan had BMI of 22.4. Among women, the patterns were similar. A 2009 study of Seventh-day Adventist church members across North America showed an even more striking difference in BMI: more than five points between those on an omnivorous diet (28.8) and those eating only plant-based foods (23.6).
You could easily explain such findings by citing general differences in lifestyle choices between vegans and meat-lovers. Scientists have found that people on plant-based diets tend to be more health-oriented than the rest of the society: Vegans drink less, smoke less and tend to exercise more.
Yet experiments in which people are randomly assigned to different diets suggest that vegetarianism can be helpful in dropping extra pounds, no matter your life philosophy or your attitude toward treadmills.
However, most such studies were done on rather small samples -- some on as few as 16 people. "The randomized controlled trials were not very conclusive. But when you do a meta-analysis you can look at the evidence base as a whole and really understand what's going on," says Wendy Bennett, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A meta-analysis that took into account 12 trials involving more than 1,000 adults found last year that people on vegetarian diets lost, on average, 4.4 pounds more than those following other nutritional plans. Those who ate exclusively plant-based foods and eschewed all dairy and eggs -- a vegan diet -- slimmed down the most, on average, 5.5 pounds.
Research also suggests that following vegetarian diets lowers the risk of diabetes, heart disease, even cancer.
The question, of course, is: Why would plant-based diets be better at keeping us slender than other weight-loss regimens, including well-known ones such as the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet?
"Nothing is as important, in my opinion, as energy density and the fiber content of such diets," says Jim Mann, a professor of nutrition at the University of Otago in New Zealand. "A strict vegetarian has to eat a mountain of food in order to have enough calories."
Experiments that focused specifically on fiber have pointed at that nutrient's propensity for keeping unwanted pounds away.
"There are two different types of fiber -- insoluble fiber and soluble fiber," says University of South Carolina nutritionist Brie Turner-McGrievy. "Insoluble fiber is just bulk, so it physically fills you up, whereas soluble fiber has low glycemic index, so it doesn't spike your blood sugar really high. It's digested slowly, and so you don't have this 'I feel full' and then all of the sudden 30 minutes later, 'I'm hungry again.' It keeps you satiated."
On the other hand, while vegan diets can offer sufficient protein, when compared with what many American typically eat (think burgers, steak, chicken) they aren't protein heavy, which is often touted as an aid in weight loss because it can help you feel full longer.
Yet according to Mann, protein has "little long-term significance" in shedding extra pounds and keeping them off. In experiments, high-protein diets do help with faster weight loss and with keeping appetite under control, but these effects tend to disappear after a year.
"In high-protein diets," Turner-McGrievy says, "you are depleting your glycogen stores and the water that goes along with them, so you are going to lose a lot of weight. For some, that's very motivating -- but that's not really body fat you are losing, that's water." That's not the case with vegetarian diets, which always "contain adequate carbohydrate so they wouldn't produce the glycogen and water loss."
Some small studies have suggested that proteins derived from such plant foods as fava beans and split peas may provide a longer feeling of fullness than animal proteins; another suggested that those on a vegetarian diet could burn more calories during a post-exercise rest. But Mann cautions against obsessing with mechanisms by which vegetarian and vegan diets facilitate weight loss.
"It's very important not to try to identify just one factor," he says. "Because then people say, 'Oh, I will just have that one factor.' They will just take a fiber pill. It's a great risk to oversimplify nutrition."
Sometimes the most important thing in a diet is being able to stick with it, and the idea of going meatless may be off-putting or scary to those who have never tried it. "We usually tell people to try the vegetarian diet for three weeks. It's less scary that way. But that gives you a chance to try it out and get your taste buds adjusted," Turner-McGrievy says.
New, familiar-looking products can substitute for animal-based versions. There is already a plethora of vegan cheeses, mayonnaise, coconut- or nut-based "ice cream" and even imitation fish, bacon, sausage and more. Fast food restaurants offer vegetarian burgers in some locations.
On the other hand, as the extent of vegan offerings increases, it's worth remembering to read labels. "There is a fine line between having enough choices versus making food that was once an unhealthy animal-based food into an unhealthy plant-based version," Turner-McGrievy says.
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I used to pound the treadmill every morning and feel absolutely miserable. Not only was I slaving away the hamster way, but I still couldnt get rid of the last few pounds I carried around my hips and stomach.
Then one day, I just thought, Fuck it. I canceled my membership and made my own exercise routine using these simple tricks to lose the last few pounds without going to the gym.
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The thing is, you need to stop thinking about exercise as a chore and start enjoying it.
I like to run sometimes, but doing it six days a week on a machine felt like torture. Plus, the least amount of weekly exercise you need to be healthy is far less than six days.
My obsession with the gym caused my joints to hurt and my knees were making this creepy, cracking sound. So I thought, what is it that I would actually enjoy doing?
I remembered how I used to love jumping rope as a kid, so I picked up a cheap one and began the new routine. Now my cardio includes 20 or so minutes of listening to The Weeknd (and imagine us dating) while jumping in whatever patterns my brain can come up with.
I still go running, but I do it outside and in places that have some sort of scenic nature. Im telling you, I run for a half hour up a steep bridge and enjoy it because Im surrounded by trees and the sea.
Hiking is an excellent way to be in shape if you really dont want to run. Being in nature is not only super relaxing and will clear your mind, but it will also tone your entire body.
Jumping through branches and rocks while propelling yourself up is no easy business. Hiking will encourage healthy appetite, too. Im talking about fresh juice and quinoa craving, not Ben & Jerrys.
Once you lose the idea that the gym is the Holy Grail of wellness, youll find this fun world of movement that actually feels good.
When was the last time you went to the park and hit up the swing?
Doing just 20 minutes of this every other day will give you rock hard abs. Im not kidding, one night I woke up in pain after a particularly intense 60-minute swing session.
Staying in shape and losing weight is not only a physical reaction. A lot of what is standing in between you and your results is in your head. This is why I picked up yoga.
What yoga will do for you is make you aware of your mood, so youll stop binge-eating for good.
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Yoga will also tone you up super quickly. The most important thing is to find the best yoga mat for yourself.
Poses like triangle, warrior one and downward dog will have you walking around with tight buns and thighs in no time. Plus, you can take your mat anywhere and its a one-time investment.
Pilates is a great option if yoga isnt intense enough for you. You can find a ton of videos on YouTube and do it right in your bedroom.
The final step of my wellness strategy is meditation.
I was absolutely shocked to discover how just 10 minutes a day made the knot in my back from the office chair disappear. After you meditate, you will be more aware of your posture and of the dozens of ways you tense up during the day.
Recognizing your emotions will also prevent you from emotional eating, so youll lose pounds for good. This is a lifestyle change and a great investment in yourself.
Finding what you enjoy will make exercise more pleasant, and coupling it with meditation and yoga for self-awareness will forever end your weight loss struggles yes, without a gym or a diet.
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