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Double Your Weight Loss with this One Strategy
When I worked one-on-one with clients, I had one rule: Write everything down or you’re fired. Harsh though it sounds, tracking everything from food intake to body measurements ensured fat loss success, created accountability, and eliminated potential weight loss resistance barriers. Researchers validate my rule. One study from The Center for Health Research (CHR) involving nearly 1,700 participants...
June 15, 2015
10 Fast & Immediate Strategies For A Hot Summer Body
"I need to step it up about five notches, -stat-," my friend texted, obviously frustrated about trying on bikinis for an upcoming two-week Maui vacation. She wanted fat loss -fast- without deprivation, hunger, a ridiculous fad diet, or other extreme measures. Over my nearly three decades working with celebrities and other A-listers who must become lean quickly for a movie role or other career opportunity,...
June 8, 2015
Why Snacking Can Stall Weight Loss
“I wasn’t even hungry,” my friend confessed recently. “I had a stressful morning, my coworker brought in hot cinnamon buns, and their waft become too hard to resist.” - Hunger rarely provides motivation to snack. Like my friend, you’re stressed, bored, emotionally unfulfilled, or otherwise want to drown your feelings in a bag of chips or a blondie brownie. While some experts argue snacking or “mini-meals”...
May 31, 2015
How Moderation Sets Us Up for Failure
“Everything in moderation” might be the most overused phrase in weight loss, yet I continually hear experts espouse this tired cliché. Based on my three decades working with clients for fat loss and weight loss resistance, I’ve learned moderation makes people overweight. It gives them license to eat things they shouldn’t eat. Simply put, moderation becomes our enemy for fast, lasting fat loss. Look...
May 26, 2015
Weight Loss Resistant? 5 Unconventional Strategies to Overcome It
You've probably been there. You're doing everything correctly, yet you can't ditch that refuse-to-vacate excess weight, and it's driving you crazy. I coined the term "weight loss resistance" for folks who do everything correctly yet can't consistently lose two to three pounds every week. Numerous obstacles underlie weight loss resistance, from sleep deprivation to chronic stress to hormonal imbalances. I'll...
May 11, 2015
My Big Needle Mover for Fast, Lasting Fat Loss
Want to know my big needle mover for fast, lasting fat loss? It has nothing - and -everything - to do with the foods you eat and exercise you do. The best thing you can do to stay lean and healthy involves a good night's sleep. I'm talking quantity -and- quality here. If you sleep eight hours, but wake up three times during the night to go to the bathroom, you're not getting high-quality sleep, and...
April 13, 2015
3 Hormones That Interfere With Your Weight Loss
Can you relate to any of the following? - I follow all the rules, but I still can't lose the weight. I'm just getting old and my metabolism is slow. It's genetic. There's nothing I can do. Maybe I need to accept that I'm fat, and give up my skinny clothes. Nutrition strategies that work for others don't seem to apply to me. I lose five pounds, and then I regain seven! - I hear these comments frequently...
March 26, 2015
America’s Number One Addiction Might Shock You
She spoke in hushed tones about a second and then third eclair she devoured alone, hiding all evidence from her husband. “You’re addicted,” I said matter-of-factly. Sugar had become my friend’s drug of choice, and constantly grazing on even so-called healthy hidden-sugar foods had trained her body to demand it constantly. If you can relate to my friend’s predicament, I’ve got hopeful news: sugar addiction...
March 24, 2015
10 Foods that Eliminate Belly Fat
It seems like even the fittest people around are trying to find ways to combat belly fat. Even people who sport washboard abs are in a never-ending battle with potential flab, and if they miss a beat in the kitchen, they soon start to see how vulnerable they are to belly fat. So, take heart, mortals. Everyone needs to mind their middle. Of course, the reasons for eliminating belly fat include fitting...
February 18, 2015
Change Your Mind - Change Your Life
“Eat this, but not that, and you will lose weight." “Do this exercise, and your body will transform." “Follow this meal plan to reach your goal." Anyone who is unhappy with their body, and has ever gone to a class at the gym, picked up a magazine, or had a conversation with friends, has at some point heard someone say something like one of these statements. In this diet obsessed culture we live in,...
December 28, 2014