If you're making the same deadly diet mistakes as most other people,
you might lose some weight temporarily, but you'll actually get fatter
in the long run. Your body is just way too smart for these "ordinary"
diets to ever work - you can't fool a metabolic and hormonal system

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Making It Over the Weight-Loss Plateau

Hi all, I'm Tara and I'm new here.  I'm 40, 5'6" and I weighed 268 this
morning.  That is 10 pounds less than my highest weight ever.   I lost some
last year watching calories and fat, but was always starving.  I gained back
20 of the 30 I lost.

I'm looking at magazine that has an article entitled, "Activate your
skinny gene" with the caption, "Try the underground diet scientists
are raving about!". Underground?
James B. Johnson, M.D., researcher at the Louisianna State University

Connie will kill me when she finds out I posted here. But I'm
supportive, and  I've gotten  a lot of help on various subjects from
newsgroups (and made some epals in many countries), so maybe she can
get a few tips or support  here. I'm posting, because she never saw a

Richard Schultz wrote in
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.life-extension/msg/ab9c99d4e0d834a5?hl=en&

I drink a lot of tea and need to sweeten with sugar.
I am looking to eliminate sugar from my diet but am not interested in an
artificial sweetener.  Anyone else found a fully safe sweetener to use.

This study contradicts what some of us thought - that exercise builds
muscle mass which increases metabolism. It still says that exercise is
healthy and useful. But as far as weight loss goes, that a calorie is
a calorie is a calorie:

Boosting Metabolism: 10 Tips That Work
by Susan Woodward for MSN Health & Fitness
Freelance
Metabolism. Simply put, it’s the process by which the body makes and uses

I thought banana had an alcalin effect. I took a banana a few minutes
ago, and I have pain in the throat and belly. I noticed the same
effect with celery? Can someone explain?

Well I've been dieting 8 complete days now.
Lost 7 lbs.
I was really hungry one day and it was awful.
I think maybe the grapefruit juice made me extra hungry.

I am getting a big kick out of the noticeable results of my diet and
exercise routine, as are my somewhat envious sports orientated sons and
brother.  I've never been a big exercise guy ... more of a weekend warrior
at the softball field or basketball court, so the progress I am ...

Folks,
        can an argument be settled.My friend reckons that you'll put on
more weight eating a Quarter pounder Big Mac than a quuarter pound of
Lard,because there's more calories in the Burger.True or false?

My friend just lost 10lb in 2 weeks, and that is just the start - she said.
The key to her success was to lose body fat without reducing her lean muscle mass.  This is achievable by eating enough protein as this keeps your metabolism revved up.  Every pound of lean tissue burns 14 ...