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6 Steps to Change Your Limiting Beliefs to Lose Weight

By Shari Broder May 03, 2022

Are you stuck in the same pattern of dieting, losing a few pounds, and gaining the weight back? What’s getting in your way? It’s probably your beliefs about food and eating. We tend to hang onto a lot of beliefs about ourselves and the world…

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4 Hormones to Tame if You Want to Lose Weight After 60

By Julie Dargan April 23, 2022

Do you find yourself unable to lose weight like you used to when you were younger? As another candle is added to the birthday cake, another pound or two is added to our waistlines! Here are the top four pesky hormones that may be sabotaging your weight loss success and how you can tame them…

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Weight Training for Seniors Shocker: I Hated Weight Lifting, Until I Discovered This!

By Jacqui Hook March 21, 2022

I used to detest lifting weights. I thought it was boring, pointless, and, well, hard. I’d much rather run or do yoga or go surfing. Then, last year, my son Chris, a fitness expert and record-holding powerlifter, asked me if I’d like to compete…

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Using Your Values to Help You Lose Weight

By Jane Thurnell-Read March 20, 2022

If you want to lose weight, you are urged to set precise goals. Goals can help us get up in the morning and tackle the day with zest and enthusiasm. The extremely successful industrialist Henry Ford said, “Obstacles are those frightful things…

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Truth or Myth: Boosting Metabolism for Weight Loss

By Shari Broder February 26, 2022

Any promise of miraculous weight loss is not true. There is no magic way to lose weight. You cannot eat all the food you want whenever you want it and still lose weight. Any products promising unbelievably fast weight loss are a scam, and are very likely dangerous…

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There’s Real Hope for Intermittent Fasting as a Weight Loss Technique for Older Women

By Peg Doyle February 12, 2022

By now, if you are a foodie or dieter, the term „ Intermittent fasting” has likely crossed your path. It’s a term that describes several types of fasting, but first, a word or two about this practice…

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Why You Shouldn’t Do a Weight Loss Challenge or Quick Start Program

By Robin Ola January 08, 2022

I see a lot of ads offering things like a ‘14-day weight loss challenge’ or ‘21-day health restart’ this time of year. Do you? Many people will sign up for them. I have done them myself in years past. I have also created and offered them…

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Weight-Loss Surgery for Seniors — Is It Advised or Is It Too Late?

By Kent Sasse December 30, 2021

At one point, weight-loss surgery was considered almost a cosmetic procedure despite its origins aiming to resolve or correct diabetes. For decades, health insurance plans wouldn’t cover weight-loss surgery, and few medical doctors…

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Weight! I Don’t Want to Carry This Around Anymore

By Terri Edmund December 27, 2021

From the time I quit smoking on Super Bowl Sunday of my 40th year until I broke up with my ex 20-some years later, my five-foot frame lugged around an extra 25 pounds. The Body Mass Index pegged me squarely as obese. Looking back at old photos…

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3 Cardio Myths That Sabotage Our Weight Loss Results After 60

By Linda Melone December 19, 2021

Many moons ago, long before the existence of the Internet, no one thought much about cardio. We were too busy fetching water down by the stream, hunting down our next meal, and worrying about whether the pony express…

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