Denise Lee Porter

Do you realize that New Year’s Resolutions are the number one way to consistently set yourself up for failure? It probably starts with the fact that we can never have just one (resolution that is), there’s always two or three things that we feel need to be done or done better in the New Year.
Why is that do you think? Did you (your life, your clothes, your health, whatever) really suck that bad in the old year that you need to make a list of ten things to change right …

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My oldest child is 30, and I don’t think there has been one moment in his lifetime whe I wasn’t on a weight loss diet or doing some fitness routine or both. I remember back in cave man days when we didn’t have VCRs and one had to exercise with Jack Lalanne or do exercises from a book; I would wake up at 4 am to get a workout in (yes seriously, from a book!) before heading to work.
I had my two oldest while I was in the …

1. Follow your plan to the best of your ability. Weight loss is like network marketing - being persistent and consistent (aka small actions compounded daily) will get you to your goal a lot faster than sporadic fad dieting.
2. Speaking of sporadic fad dieting,  people who have trouble losing weight are sometimes the same people who cannot finish what they start.  So if you’re going to lose weight, then you have to stop being a quitter.
3. If you cannot exercise  (though honestly, unless you are bedridden, why can’t you move …

Diet has become such a dirty word, but let’s remember that diet simply means the “the foods eaten, as by a particular person or group”. Over the years we have redefined the term to the where it now means that if I am “on a diet” I have restricted my food intake or improved the quality of my food products in some way.

Online weight loss programs are a pretty good deal actually. I have tried eDiets and I still like and would recommend them to my friends and readers. I think they are probably one of the best programs.

Are you trying to figure out how to lose weight fast?

Perhaps you want to look good naked for your honeymoon, or get back into your skinny jeans, or just be flirty fine at forty! The holidays ruined the diet that I was on, and frankly I am not a long haul kind of girl. So I got to thinking about the diets that I have been on that actually helped me to lose weight fast. They had a few things in common:

1. They were 2 weeks or less in lenght
2. The food was inexpensive and stuff I was buying for the family anyway
3. They were flexible
4. You can see results quickly