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Sensa, a.k.a. The Sprinkle Diet - 5 Reasons it Won’t Work

 

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 [...]

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The Price to Fly - A Motivation to Lose Weight?

 

Ok, so we talk about how to get motivated to lose weight and how not to lose your motivation to lose weight, then how to regain your motivation to lose weight and finally, what to do when you feel absolutely no motivation to lose weight. Well today I have a new one ya:
Your motivation to [...]

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How Yahoo! Shine is Keeping Me Accountable to Lose Weight

 

Did you know that Yahoo! has a new network called Shine? It’s geared towards the 40 million women between the ages of 25 and 54 who already frequent Yahoo! each month and is expected to become their regular entry point to the Yahoo! network (full press release here).
I’ve been a Yahoo! user for years ever [...]

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Fit News & FitLinking at The Fit Shack

 

Fit News
6-Week Body Makeover Success Stories: I can’t tell you the last time I bought a women’s magazine but here’s a really cool story that I want to pass along to you - in the April 7th issue of First Magazine, they will be featuring a handful of successful 6-Week Body Makeover losers! I don’t [...]

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Cut 100 Calories a Day and Solve The Obesity Epidemic?

 

Today on Oprah Dr. Oz, an author of one of my favorite books, YOU On A Diet, stated that based on research, the entire obesity epidemic came down to taking in an excess of just 100 calories per day. His solution (and homework for the audience) is for you to eliminate soft drinks from your [...]

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Super Bowl Sunday - A Day of Gluttony 2nd Only To Thanksgiving

 

Have you heard that Super Bowl Sunday ranks as the second highest day for overeating in America, second only to Thanksgiving? Maybe I’m really out of it, but this is something that I hadn’t thought about much before, which I’m sure is mainly because I’m not a huge fan of football. However, even the [...]

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Would You Buy And Eat Cloned Meat?

 

Have you already heard about the FDA giving the OK to sell cloned meat to consumers in America? You might think at first that this shouldn’t be a big deal because you would have the choice of whether or not you buy cloned meat, right? Doesn’t that make perfect sense, that cloned meat would be [...]

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If You’re A Reality TV Junkie and A Sugar Addict, Read This Now!

 

Here’s something really neat that I’m very excited about. No, I won’t be auditioning for it because I’m not in the L.A. area, but I think that it will really help to raise the awareness of the rampant human problem of sugar addiction, a problem that is more common that many people might think!
Here’s the [...]

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