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By Hayley Gurriell, Skinny Gene Intern In search of a holiday gift that will have its recipient tearing the box open to try it out right away? No, it’s not the iPhone 6 plus, although it can be used in conjunction with one! This nifty gadget takes living a healthier lifestyle to a whole new […]
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By Barbara Gesell- Skinny Gene Accountability Ally We’ve had the opportunity to work with an inspiring mother-daughter duo. The mother, Rosalvina, was on a mission to not only create a healthy home for her family, but to also bring back one thing her daughter seemed to have lost – hope for a healthy future. When
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For many of us, springtime is our favorite time of year. The flowers are in bloom, the sun is shining; it’s like Mother Nature herself is begging us to come out and play. But then on the other hand, some of us think springtime means one thing – 90 days until bathing suit season. Aaagh!!!
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It seems like every day there is another “miracle” weight loss food, product, or program that promises to help you shed those unwanted pounds with little to no effort on your part. We usually gravitate to the old saying, “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” But, we occasionally come across
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We want to help you kick off the New Year to a healthy start! When we got together to talk about what we could do to help you this New Year, we came across these interesting statistics. It turns out that exercising more and losing weight are the top 2 and 3 most popular New
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We receive several comments and questions on our nutrition blog regarding working out and reducing body fat. There is nothing more frustrating than working out, but not seeing the results you deserve. Since this seems to be such a common concern, we’d like to share our answer to this frequently asked question. You may
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With bathing suit season just around the corner, it is becoming more and more tempting to avoid the warnings and turn to quick weight loss, yo-yo dieting as a last ditch attempt to lose the extra weight before summer. The problem is yo-yo, fad diets that promise quick results can create short-term weight loss, followed
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Fad diets make a lot of promises, but usually fail to deliver long-term success. Although they do a lot wrong, like promise rapid weight loss, limit food groups, and are too strict, there is a lot we can learn from fad diets that will allow us to live a healthy lifestyle.
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“Is a calorie a calorie? A calorie may be a calorie when people talk about weight loss and nothing else, there are other factors involved. And once you get past my perhaps lame “Is a calorie a calorie” question, you can begin to see something approaching the truth.
For one thing, says Nestle: “There are dozens of factors involved in weight regulation. It’s hard to lose weight, because the body is set up to defend fat, so you don’t starve to death; the body doesn’t work as well to tell people to stop eating as when to tell them when to start.”
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Giveaway to begin 1/24 3 PRIZES, 5 CHANCES TO WIN A FREE FOOD JOURNAL I have to admit….it’s only the third week in January and I already find myself backsliding. Thankfully, I have inspirational reasons for keeping my new year’s goals and so I am sticking to them. How about you? Have you kept all
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