How Fit Are You?? Top 10 Ways to Measure Your Health and Fitness Progress…No Scale Needed! Weight and body mass index (BMI) are common ways to get a snapshot of a person’s overall health because they are easy to measure and track. But what are other measures of weight loss or fitness that can be used […]
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10 Facts about the Ketogenic Diet and Nutritional Ketosis
Ketogenic Diet: The Basics A ketogenic diet produces nutritional ketosis. This is where your body is efficiently burning fat as its main fuel source instead of glucose (sugar). With a ketogenic diet, you become primarily a ‘fat-burner’ rather than a ‘sugar-burner’. This is accomplished by eating a high-fat, moderate (adequate) protein, and low-carbohydrate diet. 10 […]
Day 1: First day complete! (Just 99 to go. But who’s counting…)
Current weight: 302.0 lbs, Total weight loss: 3.8 lbs. A 3.8 pound loss! Of course, it’s all mainly water…that’s 3.8 pounds of fluid lost since yesterday. But – I’ll take it! And even though I know it’s just water loss, seeing the lower number on the scale motivates me to keep going. Many of you […]
A Super Simple Hack to Help You Lose Weight.
A Simple Trick How can you use the scale to improve weight loss? Weigh yourself at least three times a week and chart your results in a graph. Self-weighing is a component of many different weight loss programs. Although few studies have proven that this strategy can help with weight loss, a recent analysis found […]
Weight loss and better health in 100 days: the start.
This morning I weighed in at 305.8 pounds. Yes, you read that correctly. Written down, that number is so high – it’s almost not believable. Like play Monopoly money only with pounds. Unfortunately, this is no surprise to me. I am 5 feet and 6 inches tall, and have been hovering around this weight for the […]