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How Can I Lose Weight and Keep it Off?

Hi, I have been someone who has struggled with my weight my entire life. I am 40 years old now and it is harder then ever to get fit. In High school I was a wrestler, football player, and baseball player. I knew how to work out, however even then I could not control my weight. As I got older the worst it got. By the time I got to 30 I knew I had to do something about it. I went on a very strict diet with no carbs and boy did I loose weight. I thought I found the answer to my prayers. But like anything else I fell off the diet and boy did I pack on the pounds, as a matter of fact I lost 45 pounds during the diet and gained 75 pounds after I fell off the diet. By this time in my life I was 38 years old and was starting to notice health issues because of my weight gain. I stood up and said that this was it I am going to be dead soon if I do not get control now. So I started doing some internet investigating and fit tv investigating and found that if you exercise and eat a well rounded diet you will succeed. The first thing I realized is that if you want to loose weight to live you need to watch what you eat. Now I know everyone says I don't want to count calories, fat, sodium, cholesterol and so on, but you know what no one wants to be obese either. The first thing you should always do is look at what you eat everyday and that is what you are going to be looking like. If you eat French fries, mayonnaise, greasy foods your going to be a greasy looking french fry. Also find the foods that you like as well. If you like oranges eat oranges.

The first thing you have to do to start a exercise program

Anyone who has read my articles or personally knows me has learned that I have lost a lot of weight through dieting and exercise. In fact I work so hard at it that my wife sent me these jokes to lighten my mood up. Some times a person just gets tired and looks for excuses to not work out. That is why this topic for this article is training your mind and your will. I’ll get to that shortly. But first I want you to enjoy these jokes my wife sent me and then when your brain is warmed up we will start on the serious topic. Enjoy:

Punish Or Protect - Fat's Emotional Job

Your weight problem is not an accident. All of your diet and exercise attempts fail as soon as you stop working them precisely because neither diet nor exercise programs address the underlying cause, and that cause is based in how you feel about yourself. Either you want to punish yourself or protect yourself, so let us look at each.

How to build a home gym and why

Building a home gym might not be as hard as you thought. Fitness equipment and home gyms are not bulky and room filling as they once were. Sure you can purchase a gigantic home gym if you want to but then you spend a lot of money and probably wont use it as much. People tend to look at something large and associate that with a lot of work and loose interest. Now days you can by weight benches, dumbbells, and exercise balls and do a variety of different routines. A lot of fitness equipment folds up or lays down flat for easy storage. Some people say “ I need a trainer to show me how.” well if your one of those people then you should have a TV and DVD player and there are many fitness trainers out there that have their own DVD’s to show you how.

Food Poisoning - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Food poisoning comes from eating foods that contain germs like bad bacteria or toxins, which are poisonous substances. Bacteria are all around us, so mild cases of food poisoning are common. You may have had mild food poisoning — with diarrhea and an upset stomach — but your mom or dad just called it a stomach bug or stomach virus.