Ahhh, Avatar. Have you seen it? What if it could be for real? Our friends over at Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat? are all for it. Yep, they’ve got their own ideas on how fabulous this avatar thing would make us look. Check it out, and while you’re there, check it their new [...]

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Don’t let the title deceive you – this is not a diet book. It’s actually an anti-diet book. And since I don’t believe in diets, it caught [...]

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As obesity rates in children have been rising, we’ve heard how lack of exercise and a bad diet are to blame. Now, a surprising new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says the amount of physical activity among U.S. teens has not changed that much over the past 20 years, but teens [...]

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The answer, from a new study – it depends. Researchers stress not all weight-loss podcasts are equal, and caution that the programs should be engaging and offer sound diet and exercise advice or they won’t have much benefit. More on the most effective types of podcasts for weight loss here.

Tags: diet, Exercise, podcasts, weight, weight [...]

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What is it about city and state rankings that we all love so much? Maybe just a good healthy competition between our hometowns? Some FFTV favorites have been Obesity Per State, America’s Fittest Cities, and the Best and Worst Walking Cities. Now, SELF magazine has released the Healthiest Places For Women. In at number one… [...]

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(Lose It! app, Photo Credit: Apple)
Health and fitness applications for Blackberries, iPhones, and other mobile phones keep popping up, but I have yet to use one. I’m pretty boring with my apps, still fascinated by the ones that let me know the weather and time in different cities and countries! But after seeing Apple’s [...]

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Meet: Lori (Finding Radiance)
Age: 41
Occupation: Medical Transcriptionist
Where she lives: Upstate New York
Height: 5′2″
Weight: 145 pounds
Pounds Lost: 105 pounds
How long it took to lose the weight: About 4 years
How long she has kept it off: 1 year 3 months
This is one person who not only lost a lot of weight and kept it off for [...]

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[Full Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Propel® for the You.Propelled Program]
If I wasn’t in good enough shape to be able to hike and explore places like the one in this picture – Silver Creek Falls, Oregon – I don’t know what I would do. My vacation earlier this month to the Pacific Northwest reminded [...]

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I know, I know. Just in time for those weekend indulgences, a new study finds eating fatty food seems to take its toll – almost immediately – on our short-term memory and exercise performance.  Of course, we already know that eating a high-fat diet can eventually lead to weight gain, heart disease and hurt [...]

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Ah, Bumpits – You know, those little things you put in your hair to make it go “from flat to fabulous”… brilliant, really. But how on earth can they make you look thinner? The gals over at Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat? have it all figured out right here!

Tags: Bumpits, diet, Does This [...]

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