Healthy Habits - Fitness and Weightloss

I was cleaning out my dresser and found my work out clothes that had become my daily wardrobe when the gym was open where I live.
They immediately brought back “feel good” memories, and memories of how ingrained they had become into my routine.
I set them out every night, or put them in my gym bag, [...]

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It has become obvious to me as I continue along with a healthy lifestyle and weight loss as a focus that there are a few main pieces to the puzzle, omit even one and it becomes almost impossible to have success.
It’s quite fascinating. Have you ever heard of 212°. It’s the temperature that boils water.
It [...]

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You might wonder why the act of detaching sensory satisfaction from a food will make it easier to resist.
Apart from the obvious, we want it for the sensory pleasure that it gives us, even if we don’t even pay attention half the time to what we are eating (that’s a whole other story!), there is [...]

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is still a butter tart. Or is it?
My daughter wanted me to buy butter tarts, which I just happen to love warmed in the microwave with ice cream.
That’s not diet food! (like I have to tell you)
By some miracle, there where two lonely butter tarts sitting in the package for 3 or 4 days and [...]

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Easter can be a challenge for us chocoholics, I’m sure about 5lbs of the extra that I am carrying around is all easter bunny of Easter’s past.
This year I don’t feel the desire to pig out on chocolate or candy. Not that I won’t have “some”, but it won’t be a week long treat fest [...]

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During my weight loss challenge, I found that no matter how well I behaved in cutting out junk and controlling my eating habits, even if I kept up my exercise, I had problems loosing weight if I didn’t drink my water.
Even one water bottle per day, mine is 3 cups, made the difference.
So drink up!

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Today is a good day to illustrate how our own habits can effect the way we feel and look at ourselves.
Last Feb I went on a Spring Challenge at our local gym. In the process I changed a lot of bad habits and replaced them with healthy ones, that’s what Sizzlin’ is all about.
And [...]

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