Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way and Vein of Gold, books about the process of writing through morning pages and journaling, has tackled dieting in her new book The Writing Diet.
A big fan of her previous two book on writing, I was interested on seeing how she incorporates writing into weight loss. Turns out she does it quite easily. Julia suggests that by using writing as a primary tool, you can figure out what’s causing your weight problem and then fix it.
Full of assignments and creative exercises, the book really makes you stop and think about the choices you …read more

Losing weight is not just about reducing and watching what you eat. There’s a myriad of other issues that also need to be addressed, ranging from lack of sleep, your environment,relationships with others and your personal history.
And that’s just what ‘You Can Think Yourself Thin’ focuses on.
Written by trained hypnotherapist Ursula James, You Can Think Yourself Thin offers clear and simple techniques that get you examining your  subconscious and changing  negative thought patterns into positive ones. 
The ultimate goal might be to lose weight, but according to James there’s a few things that you need to do first. You need to …read more

Need a new weight-loss ally? Something that could help you not only lose the pounds but improve your general health and wellbeing.
Then head for the nearest lemon tree. That’s what Theresa Cheung, author of The Lemon Juice Diet, recommends. Having done detailed and extensive research, she believes that lemons and lemon juice is is all you need to kickstart a new healthier and slimmer you.
Lemons have natural detoxifying powers which stimulates the digestive system in a healthy and effective way.
And a healthy digestive system is very important if you have any hope at all of losing weight.
So I thought I’d …read more

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Fat relocation – I love that phrase. It says so much more that ‘being on a diet’ or ‘dieting’.
It’s a loud, in your face type of statement, and it’s what exactly what opera singer Cindy Salder has been doing for the last year or so. In September 2007, Cindy decided that enough was enough and it was time to remove the weight. A woman on a mission, within nine months, she managed to shed 100 pounds.
Want to find out how?
Take a look at this June 2008 New York Times video…

Tara Parker-Pope at the NYT’s Well Blog caught …read more

Talking about dieting and hunger in the same sentence somehow doesn’t seem right.
But what if you could lose weight and help feed the hungry at the same time?
That’s the idea behind a new campaign created by General Mills, NBC’s The Biggest Loser and the non-profit organization Feeding America.
It’s called the Pound for Pound Challenge because, for ever pound you lose, General Mills will donate 10 cents to Feeding America. That’s enough, apparently, to provide one pound of groceries to a local food bank.
Imagine all those 10 cents added together – just think of how many pounds of groceries Feeding America could provide for those without …read more

Want to know exactly how many calories that handful of nuts or second latte is going to add to you diet?
Now you can simply and easily with the Coheso’s CaloriesSmart Mini CSNL-100.
No more guessing or search – CaloriesSmart offers ‘facts at your fingertips.’
It might look similar to a blackberry but this nutrition calculator does something that the blackberry can’t – it lets you manage your diet on the go.
Want one?
Then you might be in luck. Healthbolt has one to giveaway. All you have to do is leave a comment by 5th Jan telling us why you think this CaloriesSmart nutrition calculator …read more

Pat Ballard’s book ‘10 Steps to Loving Your Body’  offers readers a way to come to terms and accept their body the way it is rather than always aiming for the ‘perfect body’ that apparently society seems to think we should have.

 
 
The lucky winner of this book is….
Sagan

Congratulations Sagan. You’ll be receiving an email shortly explaining how to claim your prize.
 
As for everyone else, head on over to Pat’s website to find out what she considers the ‘10 Steps to Loving Your Body’ .
Don’t forget that ‘every day is a give away’ this month at Healthbolt.

I know. No one want to count calories during the holiday season, not when you’ve got all that food sitting at the table, just waiting for you to dig into.
But just in case you do, here’s your chance to win a copy of not only The 2009 CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter but also the companion CalorieKing Food & Exercise Journal.
This edition of the Calorie Counter has been completely reformatted and revised to reflect current popular food trends and products. The pocket-sized 2009 Counter not only contains food data and over 11,000 meals found at 200 …read more

Is anyone ever really happy with their body image? 
Probably not.
After all, how can we be when we are constantly bombarded with images that fuel our discontent with our bodies.
As a result, we often put ourselves at risk to obtain a perfect body in the hopes of having a perfect life.
Enter Pat Ballard, the Queen of the Rubenesque Romances. She writes writes romance novels and short stories with Big Beautiful Heroines to show that plus-size women are just as sexy, romantic, and exciting as their slim sisters.
But Pat wasn’t always this comfortable with the large body. As …read more

If you love eating out but are worried about sticking to your diet, then check out what Bernie Salazar has to say.
This ‘Biggest Loser’ reduced his body weight by 50% in six months through diet and exercise, so he can definitely ‘talk the talk’.
A Chicago Tribune reporter caught up with Bernie recently to discover how he manages to eat out once or twice a week and still manage to keep the weight off. After all, as every dieter knows, frequent restaurant visits can play havoc on your weight loss goals.
The trick, Bernie says, is to follow these tips…
- Pick the restaurant carefully.
- …read more