Diet Magic | The Fit Shack

Ok, here are some fit links and a couple of other worthy notes for your reading enjoyment. The extra notes at the bottom are not related to health and fitness but if you’re a blogger I would be remiss if I didn’t pass along this valuable info to you. Enjoy!
Another Take on The Sprinkle Diet?
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Since you’re a smart reader of The Fit Shack (yes, you! ) you already know that there is no shortcut to weight loss. You know that there’s no magic pill and that it takes a change in lifestyle to get the weight off and keep it off.
If you do opt for a fad or [...]

There are always all sorts of new claims and products coming out that promise to get you what you want: slim, trim, and skinny as fast as possible. But let me ask you this: how many times have you tried the route of the quick fix? Can you even remember all of those times?
It doesn’t [...]

Last month I watched The Shrinking Woman on Discovery Health. I taped it so I watched it again tonight and I find it very insightful regarding the topic of emotional eating.
The show is about a woman, Connie Jackson, who used to weigh 630 pounds. She had most of her stomach removed in order to get [...]

If you’re a regular reader of The Fit Shack, I know you don’t expect that I’m going to give you a new, magical cure for your overweight, an easy solution for weight loss However, it might surprise you that I do actually have the magic solution for weight loss, it just might not be [...]

Do the ads for diet supplements that promise to help you “lose weight fast and look fabulous!” lure you in every time? They use pictures of shiny, happy people (models or athletes), having fun and loving life; they can really hook you in and make you want to believe oh so much that their [...]

Here’s something both fun and informative that I came across while doing some online research. It’s a site run by the FTC that lists links to 2 separate sites they have set up in order to illustrate what to look for in a bogus diet or health cure site.
The diet site is titled Fat Foe. [...]

Even though there truly isn’t a magic pill or supplement that can give you quick, healthy, easy weight loss, so many of us still don’t want to give up the hope. We still want to believe that “maybe there is a cure for overweight, a cure that won’t require that I look at my emotions, [...]