Consistent Diet is a Must to Maintain Your Ideal Weight

August 3, 2009
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Diets usually work on the first few days since you noticed you’ve shed off some weight.  Suddenly, it becomes frustrating when you notice that the numbers on your digital weighing scale go up again as each day passes by.  The truth hurts indeed, but the long-term success rate of diets is shockingly low.  Only 10% of dieters manage to maintain their new, slimmer figure.

Good news is, there’s hope.  You can actually do something about this problem and finally belong to that 10% of dieters we were just talking about.  How?

* Go slowly: The longer it takes you to lose weight, the more likely you are to maintain.

* Change your habits:…

How Athletes Benefit More from Yoga

July 29, 2009
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If you are not an athlete or some gym buff, but know you how to do yoga properly and are regularly practicing it, then you are well aware of its many benefits already.  However, athletes who stick to their routine exercise and training are deprived of this knowledge.  So here, we will be discussing the general benefits of yoga, as well as its many advantages to the more sporty ones.

It is important to note that yoga has short-term and long-term benefits.  It’s up to you if you want to reap them all.  It depends on how often you practice and on how serious you are in achieving these beneficial outcomes:

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Stop Food Cravings with this Easy 5-Step Solution

July 27, 2009
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Just when you’re already getting the hang of your new healthy diet complemented by regular exercise, suddenly you crave for your old feel-good treats, which happen to be not so healthful at all.  Well, this is a normal delayed reaction to being restricted from eating what used to be your favorites.  Dr. Elizabeth Markley, assistant professor at the University of Connecticut said that this tendency to binge could be psychological, meaning you just want what you can’t have.

Either way, whatever the reason might be, you just want to know how to stop this enslaving food craving.  Here’s how:

1. Hydrate your body – Oftentimes, feeling hungry is confused with feeling thirsty. …