Let’s Form A Virtual Community
It has been proved that people diet more effectively when they have a support system in place. If you can’t find a group that can meet together on a regular basis to help each other lose weight, then let’s form a virtual support here at Diet Warfare!
Think Of Food As The Enemy
Foods ads are designed to GET to you, make you want to run out and buy the food being advertised. Why don’t we think of this food, and the food companies that deliver these ads as the enemy! Think about how the company just wants your money, and because you give in to that, you [...]
Walk Your Children To School
There is a movement afoot in Massachusetts. In most communities, if children live too close to school to qualify to be picked up by the school bus, they have to walk, which REALLY means the parents drive them. So how about parents WALKING their kids to school? You get some exercise in your day, your [...]
Build Muscle To Help Lose Weight
Did you know that muscle burns more calories all day long than other kinds of body tissue? Yup! Older people who are trying to lose weight complain that if they ate 3 carrot sticks per day, they still would not lose any weight. Well, okay, that is an exaggeration, but as we age, we are [...]
Positive Eating In Place Of Dieting
An article in the New York Times today claims many people are tired of dieting and counting every fat calorie, and are turning to positive eating instead. Apparently this does not mean going back to snarfing a lot of yummy and fattening snacks and treats, but instead means eating delicious healthy foods, such as berries, [...]
The Urge To Snack
I am sitting at my desk working in my home office, and suddenly I really want to go in the kitchen and get a snack. I finished the candy my husband brought home, but the urge to snack is gnawing at me! I ate a late breakfast, so I am not hungry at all, in [...]
Your Stash Of Food At Work
Did you know that if you are right-handed and keep your office stash of food in a drawer on the right side of your desk, you are much more likely to keep reaching in and taking a handful to eat? The same is true for lefties with food in the left side drawers, of course. [...]
Concentrate On Superfoods, Not Junk
Perhaps we overeat because our bodies know we are lacking in some specific vitamin, mineral, protein or something, but we reach for chips or cake or chocolate. We think we are satisfying our urge to eat, but are not because we are not solving the reason we first had an urge to eat. Let’s concentrate [...]
Handling Food Cravings
I just heard this on the radio. It turns out, if you have a craving for some food, if you wait for 10 -15 minutes, the intensity of the craving will lessen, or it may go away completely, so you skip eating whatever it is that you are craving. This is a really EXCELLENT tip, [...]
Mayo Clinic Study On Metabolism And Weight
A few years ago, Mayo Clinic researchers under the leadership of Dr. James Levine, coined a term – NEAT, which stands for non-exercise activity thermogenesis. In non medical terms, this means the amount of moving around people do aside from exercising on purpose. It turns out it is an important factor in who is thin [...]
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