My husband is on a very active email list with several other men who carry on (sometimes heated) debates about all kinds of issues. Their latest discussion, which has resulted in over 100 postings, has been on the subject of weight loss. Dave has forwarded some of these postings to me. It’s quite interesting to see these men arguing passionately about a topic that used to be a "woman’s" issue. I’m going to go out on a limb with a greatly generalized observation about the difference in the way women talk about dieting and the way these men were talking about it.
In my experience, women usually blame themselves for their lack of “success” at dieting. They bemoan their weakness and their lack of willpower. The consensus is that any diet would work if they just had the intestinal fortitude to stick with it.
On the other hand, these men blame the diet. They were quite sure that losing weight would be no problem if they could just figure out which diet is the one that works! They even bragged about their own strength in the face of temptation, one man offering up as evidence his ability to stop smoking cold turkey […]
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If you’re thinking of having weight loss surgery or you already have, the work isn’t over after the surgery. It has actually only begun. Many people think it is the “easy way out” which is untrue. It is one way to lose weight but it is hardly the easy way out.When having weight loss surgery, you commit yourself to certain nutrition and dietary requirements. You become dedicated to a healthy lifestyle with habits that support your weight loss. Weight loss surgery is a tool to use but you must choose to use that tool.After the early post-operative stage, you can regain weight or stall at a weight before your desired goal. Some of the reasons are familiar to many of us. To maximize your weight loss surgery success, here are some unhealthy behaviors to avoid:* Testing old habits. After we’ve had surgery and lost excess weight, we feel great and look great. We think that maybe, just maybe, we can return to some of our old habits. We test once, twice, and before you know it, that old habit has crept into our lives again. The result can be […]
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If you smoke, drink, are prone to recreational drugs, drink coffee, or participate in any other recreational or hobby activities that lead to toxins in the body. These body wraps can be sold in boutiques and administered in spas, and they are a great way to lose weight and remove nasty toxins from the body that you never thought you would be able to flush out. Even salt and sugar can work against the fluid processes of the body and need detoxification. Everyday life can be a bit of a poison if you really think about it; even the air that you breathe can bring contaminants into your body that you want out.You may not think that you care much about detoxifying your body. Salt and sugar are going to be present in the body anyway, right? That is the truth, but the difference is that you can do something about it. Salt and sugar can prevent you from losing weight the way that you want to by causing you to retain water, and body wraps can extract those nasties from your system and make things run more efficiently.Toxins prevent the body from being able to work as efficiently as […]
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