But if you plan on following his action plan, be ready to sweat.

Huizenga’s weight loss program focuses on large quantities of jogging daily and a strict balanced eating plan. According to him, the body has to work at 120%  7 days a week in order to lose the fat. To do this, anyone looking to lose weight needs to exercise at least 2 hours a day.

There is no time to rest.

As for the type of exercise, the book focuses primarily on walking and jogging as the two best ways to lose the fat.

It’s a program that has merits but be advised, it’s not suitable for everyone.  Those who seldom exercise or who are morbidly obese will struggle with this program and before commencing it, should check with their own doctor.

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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 up with Cindy recently to find out how things were going with this incredible shrinking opera singer and found Cindy still on target and blogging about her weight loss battles at The Next 100 Pounds.

Definitely inspiring…

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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 food.

 

All you have to do is take the pledge, start dieting (and of course exercising) and watch your lost pounds convert into pounds of groceries for those who desperately need them.

 

 

Of course, if you are one of those lucky people who don’t need to lose any weight, you can still become involved with the Pound for Pound Challenge  by…

• Mailing-in the Pound For Pound lids and seals from specially-marked General Mills products. For every lid or seal mailed in, General Mills will donate 10 cents to Feeding America.
• Donate directly to Feeding America, a network of more than 200 member food banks. As the nation’s leading charitable hunger-relief organization, Feeding America serves all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

All in all, the Pound for Pound Challenge sounds like a truly win-win situation.

What do you say?

Are you up for it?

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Image details: Portrait of a young woman sleeping fully dressed on a white bed served by picapp.com

Well, you don’t have to tell me twice to follow this advice:

Get more sleep!

So the deal here is that we can go about our business, scraping for anything remotely resembling rest, or we can make sleep a priority and lose weight. Boy, I’m just not sure on that one. Lemme think a sec…

Okay, yeah, I’ll play. I am officially on board with the findings that too-little sleep ends with a 40% increase in cortisol in the blood (cortisol is a stress hormone that’s been proven to slow down metabolism). Not only that, but you might also experience a whopping 33% increase in hunger pangs and cravings, which you know you’re bound to give in to. No thanks.

Sounds like a much better plan to work at getting those elusive seven blissful hours of snooze time, don’tcha think? Me too.

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