Category: Weight Loss
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Food Choices at the Grocery Store
A friend of mine (Ali) just got back from the grocery store and told me a great story that illustrates how our external environment influences our food choices. It also shines a bit of a light on how guilty and ashamed many of us are with our food choices. So at the check out counter…
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Post Thanksgiving Weight Loss
It is wednesday morning approximately 55 hours or so since thanksgiving dinner (Canadian thanksgiving dinner…I know it’s weird) By the end of sunday’s dinner I was up about 5.5 pounds of weight although my waist measurement stayed the same. As of this morning I am back down to my pre-thanksgiving dinner weight. How did I…
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Weight Maintenance – Every Up needs a Down
After thanksgiving dinner I started to think about how many calories you or I would need to eat to gain weight. As you can see in my previous post I would need to eat 5300 calories in one day to gain 1 pound of fat. That is a lot of food and I doubt I…
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The Results Are In – Muffin vs Pasta
In the previous post I asked you all to guess at the calorie count on a banana nut muffing and a bowl of home made pasta with a light sauce. The real calorie count of each are as follows: Muffin = 390 calories Pasta Bowl = 407 If you guessed they were the same you…
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How Many Calories Would You Guess?
Many people who are trying to lose weight underestimate how many calories are in the food that they eat. This adds to the frustration and confusion of the battle to lose weight. The following two pictures are of a banana muffin and a bowl of homemade pasta with a light garlic and basil sauce. Take…