December 11th, 2009
That time of the year is approaching again when we attend holiday parties and family gatherings. Even though we walk into the situation thinking we have it under control, the temptations of treats and our favorite foods often overwhelm us.
I am a fitness trainer and a professional athlete. I, like everyone else, want…
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December 3rd, 2009
Visibility allows flexibility – do it your way
To reiterate, nowhere in Part 1 did we tell you what to eat or do to lose weight. All we have said is “know how many calories you burn, what you want to weigh and when, and then you’ll know how many calories you get to eat.” And…
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December 1st, 2009
If you know what to do, then why CAN’T you control your weight?
The simple answer to the question is motivation, because everyone knows how to lower their weight – everyone. Yes, ALL adults know (albeit many are in denial) that their undesirable or oversized fat stores are a result of eating or drinking…
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November 25th, 2009
If you think you can control your waistline without trying, I want you to take a look around and keep these two things in mind: 1) nobody gets fat on purpose and 2) everybody gets fat at some point in their life. Yes, even if you aren’t now, you have a greater than 90% chance…
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November 18th, 2009
I spend a lot of time showing fitness professionals how to use all of the features on the dotFIT Me program; there are a lot of them. When we designed this program, we really did try to be everything to everyone. Now I know they say (whoever the heck they are) that that cannot be…
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November 13th, 2009

If you’d asked me – before I took this class last week that totally kicked my butt – how much core strength I thought I had, I would have given you the so-so hand gesture while praying you weren’t going to ask me to prove it.
I…
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Tags: avoid injuries, core strength, nasm, national academy of sports medicine, sculptworks, yogaworks
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November 6th, 2009

When you read or hear the word “diet,” what comes to mind? How about pain, suffering, deprivation and misery? Does failure come to mind? Maybe “weight rebound?” So why in the world would anyone want to go on a diet? Simple – to get the results…
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Tags: calories, diet, dieting, fat, food deprivation, healthy, weight rebound
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November 2nd, 2009
Lately not a day goes that you don’t hear a heated discussion about the state of health care in America. Health care costs have been rising for years. Expenditures in the United States on health care surpassed $2.2 trillion in 2007, more than three times the $714 billion spent in 1990, and over eight times the $253 billion spent in 1980. So…
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Tags: eat less, eating better, fruit, health care, physically active, stop smoking, vegetables
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October 14th, 2009
One common weight loss myth that drives us crazy here at dotFIT is the starvation mode myth. It goes something like this: Eating a diet that is too low in calories will cause the body to go into starvation mode and not burn any calories.
People love this myth. You know why? Because people, including me…
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September 23rd, 2009
A recently publicized study by Northwestern University claims that their research sheds new light on obesity. In this study, mice fed a high fat diet during normal sleeping time led to a greater increase in weight gain than the same diet given during normal waking hours. This, they assert, proves that obesity is more than…
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Tags: calories, eating at night, late shift work, meal timing, northwestern university, obesity, weight gain
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