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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:22 pm
07-06-2012 11:56 (704) 412-8013 -- Call for more info or to attend our free workshop. Do you need to lose weight? Have you tried diets, and they don't work? Are you exercising and not seeing any results? Have you tried the same diets as your friends, but they didn't work for you? Have you had weight loss,...
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:22 pm
07-06-2012 11:56 (704) 412-8013 -- Call for more info or to attend our free workshop. Do you need to lose weight? Have you tried diets, and they don't work? Are you exercising and not seeing any results? Have you tried the same diets as your friends, but they didn't work for you? Have you had weight loss,...
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Alternative to Lemonade Diet That Works-- Free Workshop|704-412-8013|Charlotte|28213|28262|28269|NC - Video
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This Cabbage Soup Diet Alternative Works-- Free Workshop|704-412-8013|Charlotte|28213|28262|28269|NC - Video
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:22 pm
If making healthy eating choices was easy, our fridges would be covered with gold stars. But even the best eating intentions get derailed on a daily basis. Why? According to a new poll of more than 1,000 women by ShopSmart magazine, four obstacles in particular make eating well harder than it needs to be. Lucky for you, ladies, weve rounded up the best ways to combat each diet-busting excuse:
1. Excuse: Healthy foods are too expensive. More than half of the women polled said cost was the reason they dont eat healthy foods.
Busted! Popular to contrary belief, eating fresh produce and other healthy foods actually costs less than foods high in fat, sugar, and salt, finds a new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Comparing the cost of foods by weight or portion size shows that grains, vegetables, fruit, and dairy foods are less expensive than junk foods. Add in the countless benefits of eating healthy foods, and youve got a price than cant be beat. Check out our advice on how to slash your grocery bill the healthy way.
2. Excuse: Lunch just isnt a healthy meal to eat. Seventy-two percent of women said lunch was their least healthy meal of the day.
Busted! Acing your lunchtime meal is all about thinking ahead; its making decisions on the flywhen youre hungry and likely stressedthat gets you into trouble. "Have your go-to thing, said Keri Glassman, author of Slim Calm Sexy Diet. For people in an office, have your three go-to restaurants, and have two meals at each place you know are healthythat way, your healthy choices are already mapped out," she said. Another smart option is bringing your lunch from home. Make it after dinner, said Glassman, so you're not hungry and it's not an impulse decision." For more ways to guarantee healthy lunch success, check out our lunchtime meal planner.
3. Excuse: My friends made me do it. Forty-seven percent of women say social temptations are a barrier to eating healthy, and 44% say theyre more likely to eat poorly when theyre with people compared to eating alone.
Busted! No question, it can be hard to stick to your healthy eating plan when your buddies are downing dinner rolls by the half-dozen. But with a little pre-dinner planning, you can save a girls night out from being a diet disaster. Start by having a snack beforehand (so you wont dive headfirst into the first appetizer you see), and check out the menu online to make your selection before peer pressure can take hold. Find more advice with this guide to dining out wisely.
4. Excuse: I cant curb my cravings. If the bakery aisle of the grocery store calls your name a little too loudly, youre in good company: 63% of women admit to having regular cravingswith the number one culprit being chocolate.
Busted! What should you do the next time a craving hits? I always tell people, don't eat around a craving," said Glassman. Instead, find a healthy way to enjoy it. For example, if chocolate is what youre jonesing for, have a green tea latte with an ounce of dark chocolate, she says. Or try a couple squares of dark chocolate in your Greek yogurt, so you're getting calcium and protein, too." Follow these six other tips for keeping cravings in check.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
GRAND RAPIDS, MI Just when you'd become familiar with your now-detoured drive to work around the construction on Fulton Street and U.S. 131, this happens.
Plainfield Avenue is slated to close for three months this coming Monday, June 11, between Leonard and Ann streets for $1.7 million worth of storm sewer work and resurfacing, as well as installation of a one-of-a-kind storm water filtration system. The work is expected to conclude in early September.
The project also makes Plainfield Avenue the latest major city thoroughfare to undergo a "road diet," reducing the avenue's number of drivable lanes. City leaders have argued the diets slow traffic and create safer conditions for motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists and other users.
(Other streets to be put on a diet include Division Avenue and Burton Street, the latter being a controversial choice for local businesses.)
The Plainfield diet, once finished, will create one lane in each direction between Leonard and Ann streets, with a center turn lane broken only by the seven bioretention islands.
The lengthy project will detour through traffic throughout its duration, although local access is expected to be maintained for businesses and residents.
The project's first phase will close Plainfield between Lafayette and Ann streets, with a second phase expected to close Plainfield between Leonard and Quimby. Construction will resurface Plainfield and upgrade Creston Neighborhood sanitary and storm sewer systems. Water main work also is scheduled, as is work on sidewalks.
Its centerpiece, though, will be construction of seven bioretention islands, a unique storm water filtration system that will be the first of its kind in Grand Rapids. The islands vary in size and will be situated down the middle of Plainfield Avenue once complete.
The islands will contain special flora, trees and soil designed to filter out pollutants from storm water before it hits the Grand River.
They largely are being paid for by $152,000 in donations drummed up by Creston Neighborhood residents and local community foundations.
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More traffic: Plainfield Avenue closes next week to go on 'diet,' get unique green technology under $1.7 million project
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
7 June 2012 Last updated at 12:18
A team of Japanese scientists have come up with a new invention that could be the answer to our greedy appetites.
If you put on a pair of their 'diet goggles', your food looks a lot bigger than it actually is in real life.
The goggles trick the person wearing them into thinking they can't manage to eat food that's so massive!
During experiments, the scientists found that when the goggles made the biscuit look twice as big, the users ate a tenth less.
They also tried it the other way, making food look about a third smaller with the goggles - and people ate more!
The scientists at the University of Toyko say the idea does seem to work.
It's early days for the research and the goggles won't be going on sale just yet.
But Professor Michitaka Hirose, whose team invented the goggles, says he hopes people wanting to lose weight could use them in the future.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
Tokyo University professor Michitaka Hirose and his team developed goggles that make cookies appear bigger to help users' diet. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP/GettyImages / June 6, 2012)
June 7, 2012, 7:40 a.m.
You've tried Atkins. You've tried South Beach. Now try the goggle diet.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have invented a pair of goggles that may help people lose weight by making it look like what they are eating is bigger than it is.
Put on the goggles and suddenly a normal-size Oreo looks like it's the size of a doughnut, and a doughnut looks the size of a personal pizza.
"There is this idea that depending on whether the size or portions are big and small, the amount of food people consume changes," said Michitaka Hirose in a YouTube video. "So we thought it would be interesting to try out the concept using computers."
The computerized goggles use an algorithm that lets them magnify the size of the food while keeping the hand holding it the actual size. That's what makes the food appear to be so much bigger. And the wearer of the goggles only sees the altered image.
The goggles look pretty clunky, but apparently they work. In experiments at Hirose's lab, volunteers ate nearly 10% fewer cookies when the cookies appeared to be 50% bigger, according to a report by AFP.
The goggles can also work for those who need to put on a few pounds. When the size of the cookies appeared to be two-thirds of their real size, volunteers ate 15% more.
Hirose has no plans to start selling his diet glasses, and they do seem a bit cumbersome and impractical for real-life use. However, we're wondering if down the road a similar product might be available for Google Glasses, and whether there might be other uses for this size-altering technology.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
Where other shows feature teams of experts, here the focus is just two people. The trainer, Chris Powell, and his client. Chris Powell vaulted to fame when he helped out David Smith, who at the time was 630 pounds. He lost 401 pounds over 26 months to end up at 229 pounds. After the rounds of media, Chris was soon offered his own TV show to do the same with other morbidly obese people.
As a sad side note, David Smith has since gained 300 of those pounds back. So it was not a permanent weight loss.
So, on to his current projects. In each case Chris sets out a year goal, helps the person get started, and then stays in contact with them while they do the rest on their own.
The episode we watched featured Tony Mims, a 49 year old man who weighed 398 pounds. He was planning to get married and wanted to start his new life with a healthier body.
Tony certainly had a lot to shoulder. He had left his two alcoholic parents at age 14. One of his children has cerebral palsy and passed away during the year of effort. He broke up with his girlfriend, too, which left him homeless. He was unemployed.
I watched this with my boyfriend. We've both seen Biggest Loser for many years as well as numerous other documentaries on weight loss. So we are quite familiar with the style of show.
Our first impression was that Chris was not as comfortable as other hosts with the supportive language. There were several times that we cringed at the way he phrased something. He would say "don't listen to your body" which goes against much of what we believe in. We would say you should always listen to your body - and then objectively evaluate its message.
Also, I was not enthusiastic about the idea that Chris would pummel him for 90 days then abandon him. Chris didn't even know where the guy was half the time. Tony absolutely gets a lot of credit for plowing through the project on his own - but I'm not comfortable with that idea. I think ongoing support is important.
It also felt that the show turned into a soap opera, not about the weight loss, but about traumas and troubles. We got barely a minute about how to eat healthy foods which mostly seemed a promotion for the resort center. There was a glimpse of Chris telling Tony to run on the treadmill. But really that was it.
As an example, Tony's fiance clearly had some weight issues of her own. And Chris knew it was important to include her - but he never did. Instead, she ended up feeling alienated. It wasn't fair to expect Tony to know how to include her - he was in serious trouble himself. He was just keeping his own head out of the water. So Tony's fiance was imperfect of her handling of the stress, certainly - but the end result is that Tony left her and promptly started seeing someone else. Judging by comments at the funeral there wasn't much time between the two. If I was the fiance I'd be pretty disappointed watching this episode, how they are fairly snarky about her and she has no way to respond or present her side.
