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Lower The Bar: 20+ Big Picture Lessons From The Road To Weight-Loss And Gaining Back Lost Muscle

Filed Under: Thinking Out Loud

Lower The Bar: 20+ Big Picture Lessons From The Road To Weight-Loss And Gaining Back Lost Muscle
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What’s Really Holding Back Your Results?:
Every once in awhile I get asked how to achieve weight-loss results.

Unfortunately, I get the feeling that many people are held up by something almost invisible.

Whether it’s bad habits, a lack of experience, or even just good-ole’ fear of the unknown.

When I get a chance to talk to them, I share whatever I can. (sometimes it feels like a bit too much)

But one of the ideas I keep coming back to parallels the whole range of Q&A.

Because I’m usually reminded of some part or another of my own journey.

So: Once upon a time, I got a little too chubby…

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Nordic Diet Benefits: Berries, Fish, + Oils May Make This “Mediterranean Of The North” Eating Plan A Life-Saver

Filed Under: Nutrition

Nordic Diet Benefits: Berries, Fish, + Oils May Make This “Mediterranean Of The North” Eating Plan A Life-Saver
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Nordic Diet Benefits. Quality Ingredients, Fish, Berries, & Oils FTW:
There are several ways to improve your health through diet.

This is a popular route because 1) People hate math, so they won’t count calories even though it works,

2) They like to eat according to themes, because the idea is easier and the possibility that a notion or picture can overcome strict details is appealing.

An endless stream of diets became popular because of this like Keto, MIND, DASH, Mediterranean, South Beach, Carnivore, Bananavore, you name it.

Well there is another diet that westerners are trying in increasing numbers, and if the non-fad-based studies are correct, it may present another alternative to the endless parade of wacky plans for the math-averse…

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Weight-Loss Innovation Continues. Increased Fat Metabolism & Stamina Possible Through “Diet In A Bottle” Alchemy

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Weight-Loss Innovation Continues. Increased Fat Metabolism & Stamina Possible Through “Diet In A Bottle” Alchemy
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Exercise Holy Grail Is Close At Hand:
Weight-loss via exercise is a concern for many of us at one time or another.

And the shocking thing is that it’s surprisingly difficult.

You may also find that fat is unexpectedly-hard to burn off with exercise alone,

-That you really need nutrition on your side too.

Millions of people have gone still further and turned to supplements to see if the process could become even one small bit easier.

Well, SCIENCE! has come to the rescue, and research doctors are creating the next wave of exercise-in-a-bottle that make workouts almost obsolete…

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Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future

Filed Under: Aging, Exercise, Mind/Brain

Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future
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The Best Time To Plant A Tree…:
So we hear a lot about the benefits of exercise & nutrition.

And though people are slowly finding that nutrition is actually the weight-loss king,

Exercise all by itself turns out to be the king of many other things.

But we never really seem to learn about When we should do it.

So for this reason, researchers got together and found out another really interesting thing about its many undiscovered benefits…

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Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat
boredpanda smiley girl before and after exercise program


The Struggle Is Real:
Anyone who’s ever had a little extra fat can relate to the struggle to lose it.

-Including all the different choices you have to make in both nutrition and exercise.

Because, the more factors you can stack in your favor, the better.

Well, BoredPanda’s Šarūnė Mac compiled a huge gallery of Weight-Loss Winners.

It’s worth a look, paying special attention to some of the claimed-timeframes for several of the results.

And so, we’ve picked-out a few of the more realistic examples for you…

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Happy Accident: Mission To Mars Discovers Trick To Help You Control Appetite & Lose Weight

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Happy Accident: Mission To Mars Discovers Trick To Help You Control Appetite & Lose Weight
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Weight-Loss Is Only 140 Million Miles Away:
So science usually has set ideas about the way things work. And every once in awhile, those assumptions will be proved wrong.

Most of the time it happens out of a very weird discovery or coincidence. -And this time is no different.

This diet-revelation started with the “Oh crap, we have to rescue Matt Damon again,”-level idea of actually sending people to Mars.

And on that mission, one of the strangest things the rocket-scientists had to do was manage Water…

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Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight
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A Light At The End Of The Tunnel:
So for a long time now, we’ve all been told a few conflicting things.

1) Fast-carbs are bad for you and make you fat.

2) Eat whole-grains because they’re good for you.

But studies have thus-far been less than entirely-conclusive.

Especially since the whole-grainiest people also have the healthiest habits.

But that’s all changed, because a recent study went the extra methodology mile and found something very interesting about the parts we’ve been missing…

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Video: Mental Floss’s John Green Busts Out 25 Reps Of Fitness Facts! + BONUS 10!

Filed Under: Exercise, Video, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Video: Mental Floss’s John Green Busts Out 25 Reps Of Fitness Facts! + BONUS 10!


Pump-Up Your Chances Of Success With Fitness Knowledge!:
Prepping-up to get back in-shape after some yearly-reflection? Well you’re in luck.

Earlier, John Green put out a video on the why of High US Healthcare-Costs that is absolutely Must-See.

Now he’s back over at Mental Floss with another great list-show.

And checking out this list of facts about exercise just might give you that extra information-push to better reach your goals…

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