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When it comes to major weight loss, it’s no surprise that in many cases, losing it is the easy part. Maintaining that weight loss, however, is a whole different story. A recent study from the Penn State College of Medicine found that only about 1 in every 6 Americans who has ever been overweight or obese loses weight and then somehow manages to keep the pounds off. Difficult, yes, but impossible, no. These 10 women have bucked the trend and share their tips and secrets to slimming down for good.

Joanne Giannini, 44

Total weight loss: 60 lbs. Has kept it off for: 4 years

How I did it: I finally realized that I had to make a permanent lifestyle change, not just go on a temporary diet. I started looking at eating as a way to nourish my body to maximize performance and prevent illness. I eat every few hours and focus on consuming plenty of lean protein, vegetables, fruit and complex carbs. I try to plan all meals/snacks at least one day in advance whenever possible so that I always have good food on hand and no excuse to grab something unhealthy. I use exercise DVDs and try to get between 30 and 60 minutes of exercise a day, alternating between cardio and resistance-training workouts with plenty of core training. Adding lean muscle to my frame was absolutely essential to changing the shape of my body from pear to hourglass, and the muscle really helps speed up my metabolism.

Top Tip: Focus on health rather than vanity. Make these lasting lifestyle changes to safeguard your own health and well-being.

Carlotta Marie Turner, 30

Total weight loss: 74 lbs. Has kept it off for: Almost 2 years

How I did it: I followed the Jenny Craig program to change my eating habits. I also began jogging (slowly at first) and gradually increased my time and distance. I incorporated more natural activity into my daily life by taking the stairs, walking more, etc.

Top Tip: Pitch your “big” clothes. Once you lose the weight, you need to lose the clothes you once felt so bad in, even if they’re just one size bigger! If you keep the old clothes around, you have something to slip in to be comfortable. There should be nothing comfortable about gaining weight.

Carla Birnberg, 41, blogger at MizFitOnline.com

Total weight loss: 35 lbs. Has kept it off for: 16 years

How I did it: I did about 30 minutes of cardio six days a week and lifted weights for 20 minutes or so four times a week. It may have taken me a bit longer to lose the weight (eight months), but it paid off in the end because it’s stayed off! The approach I use in regards to food is referred to as Intuitive or Mindful Eating. All that really means is I took the time to figure out what worked for me. Through some trial and error, I discovered what I could eat to keep myself satiated, energized, healthy and content. A few of my favorite meals that accomplish this are oatmeal with peanut butter mixed in, scrambled egg whites with veggies, grilled salmon on a green salad and chicken with brown rice. I eat small meals six times a day and grew to love how clean eating (i.e., no processed foods) made me feel.

Top Tip: Consistency. The secret is to move a little, day in and day out, week in and week out, year in and year out. The same goes for eating. No matter what approach to food you take, simply aim to be as consistent as you can with your plan. Deviating from our healthy paths every now and then isn’t what packs the pounds back on. It's when we lose sight of our path entirely.

Dana McKeen, 27

Total weight loss: 110 lbs. Has kept it off for: 2½ years

How I did it: Tracking my caloric intake with SparkPeople.com and exercising. I started by walking for just 30 minutes three times a week, and then gradually increased to running. Then I trained for and completed a marathon!

Top Tip: Choose goals that you can sustain over time. If you choose a goal that is unrealistic, you set yourself up for failure, and this includes day-to-day goals as well. For example, if you know you will have a super-busy week and little free time, commit to working out just 15 minutes per day, rather than one hour, because there’s a good chance that won’t happen.

Lisa Eirene, 30, blogger at 110Pounds.com

Total weigh loss: 110 lbs. Has kept it off for: 2 years

How I did it: Once my brother announced he was getting married in a year, I knew I wanted to lose weight. I started swimming because that was an exercise I'd always loved and I knew I'd stick with it. Counting calories was a logical method for me. That first day I counted calories, I did not change my eating habits at all. I wrote down everything I ate and by lunchtime I'd already consumed over 2,000 calories. I knew in order to lose weight I had to eat less than 2,000 calories a day. So that became my goal. I saw immediate results with the combination of swimming and calorie counting. I lost 11 pounds in that first month. I stuck with it.

Top Tip: Pick an activity you love and can stick with. For me, it’s swimming (and now running, which I started doing after losing 80 pounds). The more I worked out, the more I enjoyed it and now it’s a part of my everyday life.

Leeda Bacon, 58

Total weight loss: 75 lbs. Has kept it off for: 6 years

How I did it: As a funeral arranger, I saw obesity listed on far too many death certificates as an underlying cause of death, so when I saw that on my medical chart, I knew I had to take action fast. I started by cutting out most sugar, white flour, greasy fried foods and processed foods. I also reduced portion sizes. I started eating small meals of fresh fruit, veggies, lean meats, whole grains and good fats. I incorporated some easy, low- to moderate-impact exercise like walking, biking on my at-home recumbent bike and strength training exercises with 3-lb dumbbells.

Top Tip: Accept that there will be challenges, but realize that you can, and will, overcome them. If you mess up along the way, just start again without guilt and keep moving forward. If you’re not moving forward you are either stuck or going backward.

Suzanne Pantazis, 47

Total weight loss: 100 lbs. Has kept it off for: 3 years

How I did it: I made slow and steady changes to my attitude, diet and activity levels. I educated myself about emotional eating through Internet research and a little bit of soul-searching. I learned about sugar addiction by reading about the glycemic index in books such as The Zone Diet and The G.I. Diet. I worked on getting happy and putting more of my focus on living life to its fullest, rather than looking to food to fulfill me.

Top Tip: Put food in its proper place in your life. Food is for nutrition. Many of us eat when we are stressed, anxious, depressed, angry, lonely or bored. We need to deal with these emotions and our stress in a healthy manner, so that we don't need to use food for this purpose.

Dayna Pierce, 36

Total weight loss: 90 lbs. Has kept it off for: 6 years

How I did it: After many years of yo-yoing with fad diets, I finally decided to follow Weight Watchers online. I also began doing Pilates in the office with coworkers during our lunch break, three days a week, and walked the other two days. I started to love how exercise made me feel in addition to the results I was seeing, and began self-taught strength training at home with the Bowflex. The combo of smarter eating with Weight Watchers, Pilates, walking and weight training took me from a size 22 to a size 8.

Top Tip: Find an eating plan that works with your daily life. Make changes that you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life.

Shelley Johnson, 40

Total weight loss: 85 lbs. Has kept it off for: 3 years

How I did it: I started limiting portions and read Tosca Reno’s story (a mother of three who lost a significant amount of weight, got healthy and went on to write a book called The Eat-Clean Diet), which inspired me to also eat cleanly. I began exercising at home by literally just turning on the stereo in my basement and jumping around. I would do whatever I felt like: dance around, jog in place, squats, jumping jacks, weight lifting. I just made sure to break a sweat and have fun for 30 to 40 minutes.

Top Tip: Be a little crazy! Do fun things that put you out of your comfort zone on a regular basis and help you stay in shape—like belly dancing, which I just started!

Roberta Ricks, 57

Total weight loss: 46 lbs. Has kept it off for: 3 years

How I did it: To lose the weight I adopted a change that I could do for the rest of my life and feel comfortable with. I eliminated refined sugar from my diet and replaced it with whole grains and fruit. After three weeks I no longer craved sugary treats, which made it a lot easier for me to lose the weight and keep it off. I never skip breakfast and eat small healthy meals and snacks throughout the day as well as drink plenty of water. When I eat something every 2½ to 3 hours, I'm always satisfied and hardly ever tempted to overeat. I also had some help from Jackie Keller, certified wellness coach and the founder of NutriFit, who gave me great nutritional tips and coaching in regards to living a healthy life.

Top Tip: Don’t underestimate the power of exercise! Exercise is a crucial part of my weight-loss and weight-maintenance regimen. I lost 15 pounds by changing my eating habits, then I hit a plateau. Once I incorporated exercise, I easily dropped the other 31 pounds. My exercise of choice is dance, which I do for an hour three to four times a week. I feel great after each workout!

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By Denise Austin


Lots of people want to lose weight and get into shape, but they hate going to the gym. They don’t like paying for a gym membership and prefer exercising in private.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that! In fact, there are easy ways to work out and get healthy without going to a health club. Here’s what I recommend.

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Invest in inexpensive equipment. Treat yourself to fitness gear you can use in the comfort of your own home. It doesn’t have to be costly. Purchase a set of free weights, weighing either two or three pounds. A lot of my exercises use dumbbells because they’re one of the best tools out there to help you tone and strengthen. As I always say, they’re worth their weight in gold!

For less than $20, an exercise ball also is a great investment. You can use it to work your abs and core. You can do many different exercises with it. Bring it to work and sit on it to engage your core muscles all day long.

Eat smart. A healthy diet isn’t just about the number of calories you’re eating; it’s about what you’re eating. Making smart choices is the key to diet success — the right foods can keep your metabolism revved up and your stomach feeling satisfied. Eat more legumes, like beans and lentils, which are naturally low in calories and fat but packed with filling fiber and protein. The best fruit to choose is grapefruit. It’s packed with galacturonic acid, which may help eliminate fat and cholesterol.

Eat plenty of protein — it’s the best way to keep feeling satisfied. Eat more lean protein-rich foods like fish, eggs, and chicken to help you control cravings.

Give exercise DVDs a chance. You don’t need to leave your house to get a good workout — just grab your favorite fitness DVD! Give my latest DVD, Burn Fat Fast Latin Dance, a try. It’s an exhilarating, 30-minute workout consisting of four mini routines designed to torch calories. You can borrow DVDs from your local library and always have a fresh workout to keep things challenging. Switch it up!

Keep a food log. Food journals are a great way to hold yourself accountable for what you’re eating. Studies show that people who keep food journals lose more weight than those who don’t. Plus, knowing that you will have to jot down every single thing you put in your mouth can help stop you from mindless snacking and encourage you to make smarter food choices.

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Fitness legend Denise Austin, who wrote this article exclusively for Newsmax Health,has been helping people lose weight and get into better shape for more than 30 years. A pioneer in the fitness industry, she has sold more than 24 million exercise videos. For more information, go to deniseaustin.com.



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Eat Your Heart Out With This 45-Second Trick

Eat Your Heart Out With This 45-Second Trick

By Joel Marion, CISSN

You've probably heard that carbohydrates are perhaps the WORST thing you can eat when trying to lose fat or transform your body, and for most people, that's 100% true.

You see, due to years of consuming a diet full of processed carbs, most people have grown VERY insensitive to one of the most important hormones in our body—a hormone that can either be a huge asset to your body transformation goals, or a total fat loss and health-derailing nightmare.

The name of this hormone is insulin.

And it's function is to help your body keep blood sugar at bay, clear it quickly from your bloodstream after a carbohydrate meal, and (hopefully) shuttle those carbs to be stored in muscle tissue for energy instead of info fat cells, driving up your weight.

I say "hopefully" because that's actually the exact opposite of what occurs when most people eat carbs.

Going back to insulin sensitivity and carbohydrate tolerance, due to a diet full of processed, insulin- and blood-sugar-spiking carbohydrates, most folks are suffering from some level of insulin resistance, a condition in which insulin is no longer able to efficiently remove blood sugar from the blood stream.
The result? Dramatically reduced fat burning, increased blood sugar levels and increased fat storage.

Even worse, insulin resistance can (and often does) lead to type II diabetes and an array of other health problems over time, such as an increased risk for Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders, premature aging, heart disease, and even stroke…and it all leads back to insulin sensitivity.
Ideally, when you consume carbohydrates, here is what you want to happen:

1. Minimum insulin release. This occurs when your body is highly sensitive to insulin. When it is, only a small amount of insulin is necessary to effectively and efficiently clear sugar from your blood to its storage sites. This is great news because your body has an incredibly difficult time burning fat in the presence of insulin. The less insulin you have floating around, the better.

2. Quick and efficient blood sugar clearance. Again, this will occur when your body is highly sensitive to insulin.

3. Maximum glycogen uptake. Glycogen is the term used for stored carbohydrate in muscle tissue and the liver. When these tissues are highly sensitive to insulin, the vast majority of blood sugar will be stored within them as an energy reserve, instead of being converted to fat.

4. Minimum fat storage. When you increase insulin sensitivity, your body will choose to store your carbohydrate intake as energy, again in lean muscle tissue and the liver, instead of body fat.

Again, your body's ability to tolerate carbohydrates all comes down to your insulin sensitivity and your body's ability to quickly and efficiently shuttle carbohydrates to lean tissue and not fat.
So how can you increase insulin sensitivity?

Well, you could go completely low-carb for an extended period of time in an attempt to repair your insulin receptors and increase insulin sensitivity. But for most, that's a rather dreadful option and even then you'd need to very slowly reintroduce carbohydrates back in to your diet to avoid massive fat gain.

No thanks.

Fortunately, you DON'T need to go low-carb or no-carb… at all.

In fact, many times you can enjoy even MORE carbohydrates than you currently are while losing even more fat when you utilize this one simple trick:

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    #2. Berberine. This rare plant alkaloid has been used for centuries in Ayurvedic medicine in India. Berberine works slightly different by improving the signaling between insulin and its associated receptors while also increasing carb uptake by lean muscle for energy, not fat.
    #3. Pterocarpus Marsupium is another all-natural herbal remedy used by Ayurvedic physicians in India.  In fact, Pterocarpus Marsupium is so effective that it was shown in a recent Indian Journal of Medical Research study to reduce blood sugar levels 2 hours after a meal by a whopping 21%.
    #4. 4-hydroxyisoleucine, a natural phytochemical extracted from the Fenugreek herb harvested in the remote regions of Eastern India, has been scientifically shown to increase carbohydrate storage in muscle cells while decreasing carbohydrate fat storage through the sensitizing of insulin receptors in muscle tissue.

    4-hydroxyisoleucine has also been shown to interfere with the process by which the body converts muscle protein to sugar for energy. This encourages fat loss (instead of muscle break down) and aids in the retention of calorie-burning lean muscle as you lose fat.  This is great news because the more lean muscle you hold on to as you diet, the more calories your body naturally burns without any extra effort on your part
    #5 - R-Alpha Lipoic Acid (R-ALA). Alpha Lipoic Acid is a naturally occuring fatty acid made up of two isomers, S-ALA and R-ALA, of which the R isomer has been shown to be significantly more effective and bioavailable. In fact, R-ALA is clinically proven to increase insulin sensitivity by an impressive 25% in just 4 weeks and is so powerful at managing blood sugar that it's even used by German doctors for the treatment of various nervous system conditions caused by high blood sugar.

Now, while you could try to locate all of the above ingredients individually, research the actual extracts of each that yield the positive carbohydrate tolerance effects mentioned above, purchase them all separately and pay shipping on each, then sort through study after study to determine the scientific dose of those extracts, the good news is that we already did ALL that for you at BioTrust Nutrition and put it in to one scientifically-backed, lab-tested, ultra-convenient product called IC-5™.

Just take 2 capsules prior to any carb-containing meal and let SCIENCE do the rest.

Simply put, IC-5™ is the most advanced insulin sensitivity and carbohydrate management formula available anywhere.

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New Research: Chelation Therapy Heals Hearts

 New Research: Chelation Therapy Heals Hearts

By Charlotte Libov


Chelation is an accepted method for treating metal poisoning, but when it comes to using it for heart disease, cardiologists have often dismissed it as quackery. This is changing thanks to some new research.

“For years I didn’t believe that chelation worked for heart disease, but I’m now reconsidering,” says Chauncey Crandall, M.D., head of the preventive cardiology department at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Palm Beach, Fla. “We’ve had patients who have been asking for this for years and years and years, and we’ve recommended against it, but the tide is turning.”

New Acceptance      
A recent major clinical study shows that chelation affords a modest, but significant benefit for heart attack survivors. Based on these findings, Dr. Crandall said the treatment could be a valuable tool to fight circulatory disorders in patients who are difficult to treat with regular therapies. These include those with diabetes, who often develop cardiac small vessel disease, a condition in which the small vessels of the heart become narrowed.

In addition, Dr. Crandall noted that chelation “could be good therapy for people also who have recently been diagnosed with heart disease and want to make sure they are doing all they can to fight it.”

What is Chelation?
The word “chelation” comes from the Greek word “to claw.” The therapy uses a medication called ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), which binds to toxic metals and minerals in the bloodstream, allowing a patient to excrete them.

Chelation treatment dates back to World War I, when it was used as an antidote against arsenic-based poisonous gases used in combat. It was also used to help sailors who suffered from lead poisoning during World War II after being exposed to lead-based paints used on navy vessels. Nowadays, chelation continues to be an FDA-approved method to treat lead and other toxic metal poisoning.

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Get the Lead Out
Chelation has become popular with alternative doctors as a means of treating many conditions, including heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, macular degeneration, and autism, among others. The theory is that heavy metal contamination causes, or at least contributes, to these conditions.

Chelation’s use is growing, with more than 100,000 Americans now undergoing the treatment each year, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The treatment remains popular even though it is time-consuming and expensive – $5,000 is the average cost – and it is not generally covered by insurance.

In the case of heart disease, chelation may help rid the body of excess mineral deposits, which lead to atherosclerosis, the disease process that causes coronary arteries to become narrow, leading to heart attacks.

How It Works          
Chelation is administered in different ways, depending on its goal. For heart disease, it is done intravenously, in a process known as “infusion.” In most cases, a needle is inserted in the arm, and a fluid containing the EDTA drips slowly into the vein over the three and-a-half hour session.

Two or three infusions are administered weekly over a course that can range from 20 to 30 sessions or more. A number of side effects have been reported, including headache, nausea, diarrhea, extreme fatigue, lightheadedness, cramps, fever, and joint pain.

The Evidence
In a major, government-funded study, 1,708 heart attack survivors were divided into two groups – one that received chelation, the other a placebo treatment. The course of treatment lasted two years.
The findings show that those getting chelation had a 4 percent lower risk of recurrent heart problems. Diabetic heart patients, however, were dramatically helped, getting a 39 percent reduction in risk. 

Critics of chelation have raised concern that the procedure may leach vital minerals from the body, but no safety issues occurred during the study.

The findings have elicited much controversy among cardiologists. They say they are concerned that some patients who are afraid of coronary bypass surgery will opt for chelation instead, depriving them of a time-tested procedure.

Yale University School of Medicine Professor Harlan Krumholz, M.D., says the size of the study and the fact it was government funded means it should not be dismissed by mainstream heart doctors. “If a drug manufacturer had gotten this result, they would have celebrated,” he said.

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