Growing up heavy (okay, fat), I quickly learned the best way to pose for pictures. After all, I knew I was very large, but on some weird level, I must have thought I could hide it (or at the very least minimize it) by positioning myself behind people, furniture or walls whenever a camera was aimed at me.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Is Your Weight Coming Back?
The diet industry's before and after pictures are a sales technique, not reality, and often an individual's weight loss is not about aesthetics, it's about health.
Honey: Healthier Sweetener or Just Another Form of Sugar?
Honey goes way, way back. Researchers found bees made this staple sugar in the country Georgia some 5,500 years ago, about 2,000 years earlier than explorers originally thought with Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb.
Humans are genetically hardwired to want food that's sweet, and from an evolutionary perspective valuing honey makes sense. Our Paleolithic ancestors gorged on ripe summer fruit and very rarely honey to "winter up" for the cold months ahead.
3 Key Practices To Break Free From Emotional Eating
Hannah, 24, says she has been overweight for as long as she can remember. Emotional eating is her crutch: the memories from things like her parent's divorce and her childhood bullies cause her to turn to food. Hannah says she feels like she's finally prepared to address her excess weight, but something is holding her back.
9 Great Foods For Weight Loss
SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com
Forget counting calories or fat grams, or filling your pantry with “diet” foods or drinks. If you want to control your weight, try eating these.Cody Burgess Lost 177 Pounds And Was Finally Able To Ride A Roller Coaster Again
Name: Cody Burgess
Age: 29
Height: 6'1"
Before Weight: 412 pounds
How I Gained It: My whole life I have been overweight. My earliest memory of looking at a scale was when I tried out for wrestling at age 13 and saw 260 pounds. I was so heavy that they wouldn't let me wrestle, so I quit.
Age: 29
Height: 6'1"
Before Weight: 412 pounds
How I Gained It: My whole life I have been overweight. My earliest memory of looking at a scale was when I tried out for wrestling at age 13 and saw 260 pounds. I was so heavy that they wouldn't let me wrestle, so I quit.
How A Breakup Led To A 136-Pound Weight Loss For Lisa Jarrett
Name: Lisa Jarrett
Age: 31
Height: 5'8"
Before Weight: 336 pounds
How I Gained It: I grew up in a single-income, blue collar family outside of Chicago. My parents, while at normal weights in their youth, were both obese, and I picked up on many of their bad behaviors. Growing up, dinners consisted of lots of greasy meat, canned vegetables and boxed potatoes.
Age: 31
Height: 5'8"
Before Weight: 336 pounds
How I Gained It: I grew up in a single-income, blue collar family outside of Chicago. My parents, while at normal weights in their youth, were both obese, and I picked up on many of their bad behaviors. Growing up, dinners consisted of lots of greasy meat, canned vegetables and boxed potatoes.
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