weight loss

Inspirational and healthy ways to lose weight.

What Affects Weight Loss Other than Diet and Exercise
Aside from diet and exercise, there are two major factors which will influence the process of your weight loss or the way you hold on to body fat.
By Ash May7 years ago in Longevity
My Weight Loss Journey
Hi, my name is Naima. For the past four years, my weight has changed drastically. I've always been the average size for my height and I worked out three times a week during my teen years to stay in shape. Something happened in college where I completely lost myself. I lost interest in everything that I loved, I didn't know who I was and who I wanted to be. I guess some people will say that I was depressed and maybe I was? IDK. But I was definitely in a "funk" that lasted for a while. I didn't know who I wanted to talk to or what to even talk to them about. So I went on with my life being in a funk. I gained weight and I fell out of love with myself. For some people, weight gain is something that is easy to change by going on a diet and working out. But for some of us, working out and eating healthy is easier said than done. I would go grocery shopping where I bought healthy food, but that didn't matter. My mind wanted something else. I remember crying to my mom last year about how I wanted to lose weight and I didn't know where to start. My mother decided that she wanted to help me by getting me a personal trainer and a nutritionist. She held me accountable for whenever I wanted to go back to my old eating habits and pushed me to see my trainer twice every week. Weight loss isn't complicated, but unfortunately, our brain makes it out to be. Is it hard eating healthy? Kind of. Is it hard working out? Kind of. I'm only saying kind of because once you get used to it, it becomes easier. Once you start experimenting with healthier food options, then eating healthy isn't that bad. Once you start working out regularly and find your own rhythm, fitness becomes enjoyable, therapeutic even.
By Naima7 years ago in Longevity
Exercise Challenge (Pt. 11)
I began working at the beginning of March, and this part of the challenge story reflects the difficulties I have had trying to balance my new job (Home Care for Maine, doing in home care for the elderly), and exercise. Later in the story I find my balance, with the help of my job scheduler. Anyway, here is the next portion of the daily challenge:
By Michelle Frank7 years ago in Longevity
From 150lbs to 115lbs
You need this to start with: 1. You have to actually care. Caring is the hardest step when it comes to weight-loss, really.
By Layla Elkassih7 years ago in Longevity
Body Image
What is your first memory of yourself? Let's go back in time for a moment, to the first time you remember, for whatever reason, disliking something about your body? For me, my very first memory of body image issues began as a preteen after my father abruptly moved our family from saucy Arizona to corn-fed Alabama. In Arizona, most people I knew were thin. I recall very few children who were overweight. Alabama was a culture shock for me. The accents were different, the food was different, and most children my age were healthy looking—not obese—but so much taller and bigger than I was. Unlike myself, most girls here were developing already. I felt invisible.
By Valerie Furr-Collins7 years ago in Longevity
My Inner Thick Chick Chronicles
Hi, my name is Kendra Cody. I am 30 years old. I have four beautiful children, who I love and a wonderful husband. We've been happily married for seven years. I'm a certified medical assistant, and I've been working in doctors offices for about 10 years. I had to choose, and sacrifice that particular career, to be a stay at home mom, due to one of my daughters medical condition.
By Kendra Cody7 years ago in Longevity
"Why Am I Not Losing Weight?"
First of all, if you are not seeing the results you were hoping for at first, DO NOT PANIC! I suggest using both the scale and a measuring tape to see exactly how much progress you're making. Sometimes, even though the scale shows nothing, the tape may reveal that you've made more progress than you could've imagined!
By Mary-France Mimeault7 years ago in Longevity
The Key to Weight Loss
Weight loss is a funny thing. Everyone wants to do it, yet only a small proportion know how to do it, and even more, how to do it without unreasonable struggle. Hey, in this day and age where fast food is at every corner, who blames you? It's no secret that trimming down is possibly as hard as ever. Anyway, enough rambling, you came here to learn how to lose weight, so here it is...
By Tim Smith7 years ago in Longevity
Exercise Challenge (Pt. 10)
During this stretch of days, you will notice that there was almost a week of no exercise. This was due to coming down sick with the cold bug that has been running rampant in my area. For me, it started off with a sore throat, then became a serious case of the chills. I went through a two hour stretch of sweating. This went on for a few days and my throat hurt so bad at times I could barely talk. I lived on chicken noodle soup, ginger ale, jello and pudding as I could not eat anything else. I also had to deal with a very sore mouth, which was strange. I had a distinct lack of strength and energy so, I spent each day in bed resting. As soon as I was feeling better, I began working out again, but had to start slow and build myself back up.
By Michelle Frank7 years ago in Longevity
What I Learnt from Losing 12kg of Body Weight in Six Weeks
To give you guys a little bit of perspective, the picture above was me, but about five or 6kg heavier than the final weight I would be. Now this story of weight loss occurred about two and a half years ago and is actually a fairly obscure one. Not because I was a weight-cutting female athlete, or even a combat athlete but because I was a female MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) cage-fighter in England, which is pretty rare. This rarity is actually what lead to the series of events that caused me to lose about 12kg in the space of 6 weeks. Why? Because unsurprisingly, not that many women have the dream of becoming a professional cage fighter. Shocker.
By Nessy Writer7 years ago in Longevity
Exercise Challenge (Pt. 9)
Instead of posting a weeks worth of daily updates, I stretched it out a little bit this time by doing 15 days worth. My exercises have become pretty consistent, however, I will be trying to switch them up in the very near future. With that being said, here are the next 15 days worth of exercises...
By Michelle Frank7 years ago in Longevity
Why I'm Not on a Diet!
Some of us have very complex relationships with food but many of us do not talk about it enough. We never talk about why someone is either under or over the recommended weight for their height. I would describe myself as an emotional eater, meaning my food intake would increase if my emotions were imbalanced. Only recently have I tried to control this habit. I have been distracting myself by reading, go for walks, or simply having more healthier options at home. It was not so much what I was eating rather the action of eating, so when I lost control of my emotions, a way to calm myself was eating.
By N.M.E7 years ago in Longevity