March 2009

I hate the scale Body For Life, week 11

March 30, 2009

I hate the scale! Argh. It seems the more I try to lose weight the more stubborn the scale gets! I hate the scale! No really. ok, not really. Scale weight is just one factor, and certainly not the most important one, but our society is very focused on that factor. How many ads do [...]

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Update on the Acai Berry Weight Loss Ad

March 26, 2009

I posted last week (March 18) about the acai berry advertising that used iStockphoto.com images that were photoshopped and presented as real weight loss to sell this product. On Monday, March 23, Good Morning America ran a story about the product (see link below to the video): http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7148408 Apparently there’s a huge scam involved.  People [...]

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Week Ten Update On the Body for Life Challenge

March 24, 2009

One of the toughest things about losing weight and/or getting in shape is the “last ten pounds.” This is especially difficult when you get down to a lower percentage of body fat. Now I know that this is a problem that most people would love to have. I can hear it, “Oh geeze, you’re complaining [...]

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Weight Loss Advertising Deception

March 18, 2009

As a graphic designer, I use stock photos quite frequently.  To my surprise (not really), I uncovered something that I have to say really disturbs me. We all know that there’s a LOT of hype in advertising.  It’s just what’s “done.”  But when it comes to weight loss, aren’t there enough REAL LIFE success stories [...]

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good run

March 17, 2009

Had a  good run this morning. didn’t think I would make it. Had to exercise my will to get outta bed this morning. Then missed the last step on the stairs while trying my night vision. um, I’m not the Night Owl. Main point today. I wanted to post my video from yesterday. I am [...]

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Achieving More Than You Thought You Could

March 16, 2009

You know, today I decided I wasn’t going to weigh myself or measure myself, but just sit back and relax on the progress that I have made in the past eight weeks. Amazing to think that I have been on the Body For Life fitness plan for 8 weeks already. To be honest in some [...]

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Prevention Beats a Cure

March 12, 2009

Curing disease should be the main focus of the pharmaceutical companies, but preventing disease should be the focus of the consumer. How many people go to their doctor for any reason except illness or injury? We are supposed to go for physicals on a regular basis, but that is something that is easily pushed off. [...]

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Wasting my Time at the gym

March 11, 2009

I was talking to a guy the other day and we were briefly discussing ‘the gym’ and ‘working out.’ I put them in quotes because we weren’t really talking about those subjects but more about what people are doing there. How much time do you have to spare in your life? I don’t have any [...]

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Vitamin D

March 5, 2009

One of the most overlooked vitamins is vitamin D. If you take a daily supplement (and you should) it probably has vitamin D in it, but how much is in there and did you even know it was in there? The RDA, determined by the government, is 400 IU. Now you probably know that I [...]

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Body for Life Week 7 Update

March 2, 2009

Well, I have to say I am a bit disappointed with the results this week. No lie. My weight went down a half a pound, which at this point is still OK, but with last week being a zero, I thought this one might be big. I was predicting 4 pounds. ah, well. The tale [...]

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