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Trying to lose weight got you down Sparky?
Are you feeling that trying to live a healthy lifestyle is just too hard? Thinking maybe you can’t do it? Well, if you think you can’t, you’ll be right about that.
But you know what? You can.
Just heard from a friend that someone we knew died in his sleep last night.
I knew Gary from high school, and while I had seen him a few times over the years, I wasn’t real close friends with him. But Bill, who told me about it, has been very good friends with him for over 20 years, hanging out with him a few times per month every month for those 20 years. I can’t begin to imagine how he feels now. He said he’s stunned.
Can Jamie Oliver change the world? I hope so, and we all need to help him do it.
Jamie is the first TED Prize Winner of 2010, and this is his “One Wish to Change the World”: Read the rest of this entry
A lot of people think you have to do “cardio” to lose weight, and by “cardio” they usually mean riding the bike, walking or jogging on the treadmill, or using an elliptical machine. And, a lot of people find that mind-numbingly boring. And by “a lot of people” I mean at least I do.
Cardio is just a generic term applied to any sort of exercise that places a demand on your cardiorespiratory system (your heart and lungs). Sure, the ones listed above do that, but so do plenty of other things. Things you might like to do more than the bike, treadmill, or elliptical.
I just love when I find another winner of the coveted DEPOT’d (Dumb Exercise Product of the Day) Award. And on days like today when I’ve got a couple of prize winners, well, I’m practically giddy.
The first one is an exercise product called the “Bosom Buddy”. Nope, not making that up. Apparently this product is targeting women so disappointed with their breasts that they’ll throw every last ounce of logic and reason out the window and turn over their credit card info for a cheesy aqua-colored piece of plastic with a hinge that you ‘exercise’ with.
A lot of people never start an exercise program because they have it in their heads that, no matter what, exercise sucks.
It’s going to hurt. They’re going to be sore. They don’t like going to gyms. They don’t know how to lift weights. They think walking or jogging on the treadmill is mind-numbingly boring.
Let me start this off by being honest right up front. I think what passes for traditional dieting as a means to lose weight, i.e. simple calorie restriction, sucks. Big surprise, I know.
Sure, it can be effective in the short term. Don’t eat as much and yes, you will lose weight. In the long term though, you won’t keep it off. You’ll gain the fat back, often more than you lost.
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