A Guide to Losing Weight – Best of the Week


If you are human then at some point in your life you have struggled with weight gain/loss. We would be lying if we said otherwise. In a perfect world, we could eat whatever we want, whenever we want and still be our ideal size. Unfortunately, we are just ordinary folk who start developing love handles when we eat a dozen donuts for breakfast everyday. But fear not, we have some help. First have a look at our newest Intent.com 101 – How to Lose Weight. It has expert advice, product suggestions and directions on how we can begin our weight loss journey.

And then we have our intent voices and their wisdom:

» 5 Key Components to Weight Loss by Caroline Sutherland

I believe that successful weight loss is a code – a formula which when followed will yield results without the usual starvation and misery. These are the five key components of effective weight loss.

» A Diet for the Whole Self by Deborah Kesten

Are you a food fretter? A task snacker? An emotional eater? Or do you typically “flavor” food with all—or none—of the overeating styles? The seven overeating styles researchers discovered during their research on weight loss revealed new insights into why so many of us overeat and gain weight—and  then, what we can do about it. As you’ll see, the reasons you overeat and gain weight include not only what you eat, but also how, why, when, with whom—even where.

» 5 Keys to Fat Loss Success by Wendy Chant

When it comes to losing fat, success doesn’t happen overnight. Sometimes it doesn’t even happen over a few weeks, a few months or a few years. Don’t rush it, don’t crash and don’t expect too much of yourself too soon. Life is for the living; for the making of mistakes and learning from them. Below I have outlined my 5 Keys to Fat Loss Success so that you can not only lose fat but keep it off — forever:

» Eat "Healthy" For Weight-Loss by Brett Sanders

When you are looking to change your body shape, lower your body fat percentage, and lose weight if you need to, there is no better tool than changing your nutritional habits. Your nutritional habits can be broken down into a few areas:

» 6 Steps to Get Over Your Weight Loss Plateau by Linda LaRue

All in all, your daily calorie expenditure is now pretty close to what you’re taking in. You’ve hit a new—and probably very annoying—equilibrium.  Once you’ve hit a weight loss plateau, how can you get past it?  Here are 6 steps to help get the needle on the scale moving again in the right direction—that is downward.

» How to Lose Weight: Five Healthy Lifestyle Make-Overs to Start Doing Now by Yumi Sakugawa

Go on a healthy lifestyle make-over instead. It will benefit you for the rest of your life and it will make you stay at a healthy weight. Plus, unlike most diet fads, healthy lifestyle make-overs actually operate on common sense. There are no leaps of faith involved when it comes to healthy lifestyle changes.

» Wholesome and Healthy Weight Loss: It’s not about your fat, it’s about your life by Janice Taylor

If you want to be victorious at the game of Permanent Fat Removal, then you need to have a compelling future. You need to know where you are going; what you want; what removing those pounds means. The diet and exercise plans do not live alone. This is a holistic event. It’s about your life, not your fat.

» Why Diets Dont Work and Love Does by Dr. Eva Selhub

This is the deal. Food is good for you. Food has been demonized to a point where you cannot look at something without wondering if you will gain weight and without asking yourself whether you ‘should’ or you ‘shouldn’t.”

» Love Yourself at Your Current Weight….then start losing!!!! by Carole Lynne

Carrying around extra pounds puts more stress on our knees, feet, back and our hearts.  Each one of us is a spirit living in a physical body, and we have an obligation to take care of our these temples of the soul: our physical bodies.

» Stop Dieting, Start Living by Wendy Chant

Why? The reason is simple: diets don’t work. They are short-term fixes to long-term problems. After all, you didn’t gain the weight overnight, why should we think we can get rid of it that quickly. Instead of resolving to diet this year, resolve to live; live a healthy, hopeful, happy life that isn’t restricted by calories, carbs or crash diets.

» Getting Rid of Excess Belly Fat by Dr. Gabe Mirkin

Sit-ups will not get rid of belly fat because you cannot get rid of fat in a certain area just by exercising the muscles underneath that fat.  You will lose the most belly fat by exercising intensely in any sport (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, November 2008).

» The Skinny on Weight Release by Renay Matthews

Foods that can be stored in your garage for a year or two are not going to provide you with optimal nutrition. Your new lifestyle change includes eating real, organic if possible food. Not foods in a box, or bag.

» Diets Work by Irene Rubaum Keller

Diets work! Any diet you go on that causes you to take in less calories than you burn will result in weight loss. Therefore, that diet will work for that reason. The only reason any diet works is because of the calorie content and not because of the carb/fat/protein content. This is where the confusion comes in and the diet book Gods make billions of dollars.

» Why Gaining Weight is SO Easy, and Losing Weight is SO Difficult by Sheer Balance

Whether it is rapid or slow weight gain that you have experienced, losing the extra weight can be tackled through two avenues (and should be): calorie reduction and exercise. Choosing to lose weight through both calorie reduction and exercise will accelerate the process

» 5 Tips to Lose Weight and Eat Better by Kreg Weiss

Part of an overall health and wellness program is managing body weight and maintaining a healthy percentage of total lean body mass. To optimize your healthy body weight composition, we have some simple, yet effective eating tips that will enhance your wellness strategies.

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