28
November
2008
Nutrition Not Another Resolution: Nutrition for You launches its New Year’s Weight Loss Challenge
Advanced online weight management service Nutrition for You and Nu4You.net announces its New Year’s Weight Loss Challenge. The event is a healthy, structured and goal-oriented alternative to unsuccessful New Year’s resolutions to lose weight. Participants in the Challenge can lose weight and win prizes using the science-based service created by registered dietitian Manuel Villacorta, MS, RD, CSSD and his team.
San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) November 28, 2008 — Nutrition for You, the advanced online weight-management service founded by nutrition expert Manuel Villacorta MS, RD, CSSD has announced the launch of its New Year’s Weight Loss Challenge. “The New Year is upon us and many of us make the same old resolution to lose weight but fail to keep the promises,” says Villacorta. “We are offering an alternative and effective way to achieve weight loss goals successfully. It’s not another diet or not another gym membership. It’s proper nutrition and not another resolution.”
Nutrition for You provides a comprehensive weight management plan and powerful online toolkit created by nutrition experts that is free of fads, gimmicks, advertisements and product endorsements. Dennis Allio, co-founder of Nutrition for You, who lost over 55 pounds two years ago, had this to say about the effectiveness of the program,
“Members that follow our nutrition program have great success. In a recent Challenge 100% of the participants who finished lost weight. The typical weight loss was between 1.5 and 3 pounds per week. This is healthy sustainable weight loss. The Weight Loss Challenge adds additional community support to the participants reinforcing the website tools and expert phone-based nutrition coaching.”
Manuel Villacorta, a registered dietitian with years of clinical expertise in the weight-loss field points out that the Weight Loss Challenge is about more than just losing weight.
“Percent weight loss is only a portion of the total challenge requirements that include eating breakfast daily, keeping a food diary, meeting regularly with a trained nutrition coach, exercise and eating a low fat diet.
“Many weight loss programs wrongly try to convince people that losing weight and learning about nutrition is as easy as counting calories. For optimal health losing weight is a lifestyle change that requires a long-term commitment to eating well.
Our Weight Loss Challenge gives you expert nutrition advice, coaching, realistic goals, and eating habits that are sustainable long-term.”
The New Year’s Weight Loss Challenge will run from January 4th to March 29th. During this 12-week period, participants will have access to Nutrition for You’s safe, reliable, science-based weight loss program, which will be customized to the participant’s needs with an initial goal of losing a safe 1.5 pounds per week.
The Weight Loss Challenge registration fee is a onetime charge for 12 weeks of nutrition membership to Nutrition for You and a chance to win prizes that include a Polar heart rate monitor and additional three months of Nutrition for You membership.
The deadline to enter the Weight Loss Challenge is December 31st. For the complete set of rules or to register for the challenge please visit the Nutrition for You website at http://www.nu4you.net/nutrition-for-you/learnmore/weight-loss-challenge.aspx
About Nutrition for You
Nutrition for You, based in San Francisco, California, is an advanced online weight management program developed by a premiere weight-loss and weight management specialist to help clients take control of their weight through flexible, individualized eating plans, online success tracking, and phone-based counseling from trained nutrition experts. For more information visit http://www.nu4you.net or call 866-881-1006.
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Posted: Nutrition and weight loss
26
November
2008
When it comes to weight loss, the biggest hurdle that people face is that of getting started. They just don’t have any idea of where to start from! If you are one of these people then this article is for you! It doesn’t really matter whether you want to lose ten or hundred pounds, the tips I am going to share with you in this article are going to help you anyway!
The first step to successful weight loss is to set some goals. Goals should be used in the same way as milestones are used on highways. Just as without any milestone, you will have no idea of where you are going, without a goal, you will have no idea of how much work you need to do to shed all the extra pounds!
First you should ask yourself some questions:
1. How much weight you want to lose?
2. By when you expect to lose all the weight?
Then write answers to these questions on a sheet of paper. Oh yeah, before I forget, let me tell you that writing your goals is one of the surefire ways of making sure that you never forget them! Write your weight loss goals on a piece of paper, make copies of that paper, and stick each paper on every place you can.
Make sure you don’t forget to stick this paper on your refrigerator and kitchen, since it is in these places that the demon called temptation tries to ruin your weight loss efforts!
Setting goals is just not enough; in order to make the goals achievable, you must set REALISTIC goals. If you have a goal of losing sixty pounds within a couple of weeks or a month, that is not going to happen. Setting such unrealistic goals for yourself will nullify the very effect of goal setting.
When you set unrealistic goals and fail to achieve the same, you will be disappointed and frustrated with yourself and your weight loss efforts.
Ideally, no matter what you do, you would be able to lose no more than 1-2 pounds per week. So create your goals accordingly. If you want to lose sixty pounds, it will take you at least six-seven months to achieve the same!
Set small and achievable goals for yourself so that when you achieve them, you will feel more confident to move forward. This is the biggest secret of successful weight loss!
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23
November
2008
New York - Researchers have found that weight-loss surgery bodes well for pregnancy. They found that women who had weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant are less likely to have problems in their pregnancy than women who were obese and did not have any type of weight loss surgery. Usually pregnant women who are overweight have gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.
The number of bariatric surgeries being done every year from 1998 to 2005 has increased by eight hundred percent. This is a shocking statistic. It shows that many people prefer to have weight loss surgery instead of trying to find a natural way to lose weight.
Surgery can be dangerous and life threatening. Doctors always explain that the risks associated with weight loss surgery can be serious because it is an abdominal and stomach surgery. You could have an allergic reaction to the anesthesia that they administer to you and if this happens you will face a life threatening situation.
It is important to have healthy eating habits before and during your pregnancy. You want to try and maintain a healthy weight in order to help prevent pregnancy complications.
Researchers found that weight loss surgery and tradition weight loss can help to improve a woman’s fertility rate. Doctors always tell you to try and lose weight if you are trying to conceive because it is better for your body and reproductive system.
This research shows women that if they are overweight or obese and want to conceive a child then losing weight either through traditional weight loss methods or through weight loss surgery might be very helpful. Women want to be able to conceive a baby and losing weight can boost your chances of being able to become pregnant. You can also reduce your chances of facing health complications due to your weight.
It is important that people are healthy during pregnancy. In today’s society many people are overweight or obese. Obesity has become a huge epidemic in the United States of America. It has huge health implications because your body has to work harder to do every day activities.
When you are pregnant you gain weight and if you are overweight or obese to start with then gaining weight can become a huge medical problem. Usually pregnant women who are overweight or obese have poor eating habits. These eating habits affect the unborn babies because they rely on their mothers’ placentas for food and nutrients. If those mothers are not eating well and exercising daily then those children could face health complications after birth. Everything that you do while you are pregnant has a huge impact on the overall health of your unborn baby. Most pregnant women just think that taking a prenatal vitamin and not smoking, drinking, or doing drugs will ensure that your baby is born happy and healthy but that is not the case. If you are not healthy then how can you expect your unborn baby to be healthy?
If you are thinking about trying to become pregnant in the near future and you are overweight or obese, you should talk to your doctor about losing weight and how you might go about it. You need to lose weight in a healthy and safe manner. Do not try any crash diets that might make you ill. You need to be happy and healthy to have a great life.
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Posted: Weight loss and pregnancy