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Like many women in their later years, I have battled weight ups and downs throughout my life! I have tried many diets, and read lots of books about healthy eating, to varied results.
Below, I share a few products and services that have helped me, or others, along the way. |
Products and Services for Diet and Fitness
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 Diet & Fitness Tracking
Join the thousands of others who've met their fitness goals with the ultimate personal food, exercise, and weight management website. Join for free, and use the handy nutrition, fitness, and weight trackers; or benefit from many articles, features, and community support.
Click on the logo to go directly to their site.
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Online Food Diary
A "New and Effective Approach to Weight Loss" is how this company promotes its programs. They provide several useful tools: an online food diary, sophisticated exercise logs, motivational charts and reports, and a discussion forum for companionship and support.
Click on the logo to go directly to their site. |
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Customized Diet & Fitness Plan
Very popular TV program that uses Bob Harper to help you to lose weight. With a customized diet and fitness program, your daily meal plans, and a personal progress journal, this is an inspiring site. Watch the progress of the "losers" and you'll be inspired to do the same!
Click on the logo to go directly to their site.
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Healthy, Low Carb Diet Solution
A healthy approach to dieting, you will be encouraged to choose the right carbs, such as whole grains and certain fruits and vegetables; the right fats, such as olive and canola oil; and lean sources of protein. So easy to follow, you won't think that you're dieting!
Click on the logo to go directly to their site. |
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Tried & True Diet Plan One of most popular diet programs, they use points to help you keep track of what you're eating. My friend who was very diet-averse easily lost 85 lbs on this program. Several flexible plans and lots of hands-on support.
Click on the logo to go directly to their site. |
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Emotional Freedom Technique
Alternative healing that often works where nothing else will, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a type of acupuncture without needles. Instead, you stimulate well-established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. It applies to just about every emotional, health, and performance issue you can name.
For an in-depth explanations of this incredible technique, click on the logo. |
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Conquering overeating with Emotional Freedom Technique
Do any of the following statements ring true for you?
"When I'm anxious, I consume CARBS by the carload"; "When I watch TV, I munch continuously"; "When I've done something difficult, I deserve a reward!", etc.
If you see yourself in any of these statements, it may be that unrecognized emotional factors may be causing you to overeat... and unless you change this, any diet you undertake will fail.
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In Case you Missed these Articles...
About Your Diet and Fitness
Beating Hormonal Weight Gain, by Louann Brizendine, MD
You're not imagining it: Your hormones are making you hungrier. Here are the facts on hormonal weight gain and how to prevent it.
As you enter perimenopause, your brain becomes less sensitive to estrogen. This, of course, can trigger a cascade of familiar symptoms: hot flashes, fatigue, depression, changing libido. But in many women, it can also cause raging hunger. Estrogen affects your brain's levels of serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and acetylcholine -- neurotransmitters that control eating, mood, and memory -- so changes in estrogen wreak havoc on your appetite control.
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Women Over 50: Your Personal Checklist, by Jeanie Lerche Davis
Get in touch with mind and body -- and they'll take you anywhere you want to go. These tips get you started.
For women, turning 50 is a milestone. Society tells you it's a crossroads. Your body underscores the point. Every woman over 50 feels it.
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Women Over 50: Fitness Tips, reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
If you've exercised regularly before hitting 50, you're at an advantage: You probably already follow these fitness tips. But if you didn't exercise regularly, it's not too late to start.
For women over 50, regular physical activity may help tame some of the symptoms of menopause -- hot flashes, joint pain, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Exercise also reduces heart disease risk, osteoporosis and diabetes risk, helps control weight -- and even melts belly fat.
That's why, if exercise could be bottled, everyone would take it!
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Women Over 50: Tips for Good Nutrition, reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD
It's a simple recipe for optimal aging: Good nutrition plus regular exercise.
As a woman ages, her body naturally loses muscle -- and body fat accrues more easily. Triggering these changes are alterations in a woman's hormonal balance, says Kathleen M. Zelman, LD, RD, MPH, WebMD's director of nutrition.
Good nutrition and exercise don't just slow down muscle loss and aid with weight control, they also help a woman guard against heart disease, stroke, a broken hip because of osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes, cancer, even the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Those risks increase with family history, inactive lifestyle, and eating a poor diet.
Further read the article for 3 Good Nutrition and Antiaging Secrets and 9 Healthy Eating Basics.
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Women Over 50: Tips to Reduce Stress, reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD Navigating the changes of midlife causes stress, there's no doubt about it, and we'd all like to reduce stress in our lives.
But stress can be positive, keeping us on our toes. Stress becomes negative when we continually face challenges without relief. Tension builds in the body, causing an assortment of physical problems -- headaches, upset stomach, high blood pressure, chest pain, and sleep problems.
For women over 50, the effects of chronic stress are compounded. Your body isn't as resilient as it once was, so it needs better maintenance -- a healthier lifestyle -- to repair itself. Face it: It's time to reduce stress.
The keys to less stress and greater happiness?
Click here to learn How to Reduce Stress and Achieve Emotional Balance.
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The Power of the Mind
It's All in Your Head, by Carol Mithers.
How are you at sticking to a diet? Getting to the gym? Keeping doctors' appointments? A potentially groundbreaking study says that how well you take care of yourself depends on which corner of your brain tends to be more active. The good news: You can retrain your mind.
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The Importance of Friendship
Books about the Raw/Living Food Diet
Eating raw, live cuisine has become my latest passion. I lost twenty pounds in less than two months eating in this healthy lifestyle, but more importantly, I feel really great. Here, in no special order, are some of my favorite books. If you know of others, please send me their names and your comments about them, and I'll add them to the list. |
Simply click on the image of a book, and you will be taken to Amazon.com where you will find further information about the book, its price, reviews, and a link so you can buy it directly from this site. |
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