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See if you can get a hold of a dog. Maybe a neighbour who has one, and offer to do walks. Just one walk a day, but obviously you'll have to go do it once you've given your word and you know they're relying on you. Most people who work would love to know someone is checking on the dog and letting it out while they're at…

I spent a ton of money on a new gym and having a trainer assess me and her most fervent advice was for me to hit the floor and do pushups, sit ups, lunges, squats and all of those sorts of exercises. I hated it because I really wanted to use the machines and weights at the gym. But in the end I eventually dropped the gym,…

You can buy these fibre additives from the drug store that dissolve entirely in liquid so you can't tell they're there. You can stir a teaspoon into your morning coffee, or late night low-suger hot chocolate or whatever beverage you drink and you'll never know it's there, but you'll get all the fibre you need. One is…

I've always found it's a four day thing to break sugar. On the fourth day your body is going nuts telling you to eat whatever you've got. But on the fifth day - it's totally easy. That's the thing - people cut out sugar and get through three days thinking they've licked it, and the fourth day kills you. So PLAN on the…

My sis uses water bottles and figured out the weight per bottle. Started with those little ones and moved up to 1 litre bottles pretty quickly. This is why those old encyclopedia books cannot really be replaced by Wikipedia - a couple of those would be a few pounds. I also know people who fill containers with sand - or…

2 beers - because I mused aloud that I would like a beer and two different people popped one open for me. Now I have to drink two - but I have confirmed that two people love me enough to share their beer with me.

I think the big lesson from ALL the studies is that no one can really know what any one person's metabolism is doing. They can look at overall average numbers from large groups of people to try to predict the outcome - but when it's you on your own diet/fitness plan, you don't know whether you're exactly average, or…

I've heard a lot about Genetically Modified food. Even four and wheat has been altered to be higher yield which means less nutritious than it was in the 70. GM foods really took off in the 80s. Another point is the use of Plastic. It only was figured out in the 90s that the plastic can mimic hormones and cause weight gain…

This is what I've been wondering: does witnessing someone else lose weight through diet and exercise: a) make people be critical because they're competitive by nature and want to "win" even though they're not actually playing. b) make people feel jealous because they secretly want to as well, but can't/won't do the hard…

If your husband or other family keeps buying you bad food, like Pepsi or Cannoli or whatever - throw it out in front of them. Or do something similar that lets them know they just wasted a bunch of money on those items. You only have to do it once and they know it won't tempt you and it's a waste of food and money and they…

This is what I've been wondering: does witnessing someone else lose weight through diet and exercise: a) make people be critical because they're competitive by nature and want to "win" even though they're not actually playing. b) make people feel jealous because they secretly want to as well, but can't/won't do the hard…

Is it the ball of your foot? I get a pain in the ball of my foot on one side. So I started to pay attention and asked someone to look at my foot while I did the stairclimber. That's when we noticed that I tend to turn one foot inward. So now I make an effort to place both feet straight in one line and it totally erased the…

Doesn't the elliptical come with a beer holder on it just so we can burn the extra calories while we consume them? ;)