August 2006

How does Eva Herzigova Stay Slim?

Eva Herzigova reportedly weighs about 132 pounds. She is 5'10" (179 cm) tall and has been modeling since she was discovered at sixteen. This month, just shy of her 33rd birthday, she is featured on the cover of the Italian GC Magazine.Herziogova's secret, as far as dieting goes, is that she doesn't...

The BBC has some good before and after pictures of people who lost weight in Britian recently. Here's Lisa. She lost six and a half stone in six months. How many pounds are in a stone, you ask? The British have a strange way of stating their weight. There are 14 pounds to a stone. So Lisa lost 90 pounds...

This little old lady is 86 years old! She started weight-lifting when she was 72. At that time she was upset she couldn't carry her kitty litter shopping bags home. (We're talking about fifty pound bags of kitty litter.) So she joined the gym, started weight-lifting, and has been doing it regularly...

Reducing our salt intake and trying to keep it significantly below 2,300 mg per day (for adults) is one of the easiest plans for losing weight. The recommended maximum daily sodium intake is 2,300mg but most people consume more than twice as much.When we consume too much sodium the kidneys retain a...

Sara Evans lost her baby weight quickly after her second pregnancy. She lost 70 pounds in less than nine months. This was back in 2003 and Evans was featured in Women's World magazine for this feat. Here she said her diet secret was very simple and involved only two rules. She didn't eat unless her...

Carmen Electra has signed on to help sell a new diet pill - NV. You'll soon see Electra on TV promoting this pill.NV is probably the only diet pill that also claims to be a beauty pill. The marketing people at NxCare, are really pushing it. They say NV is 'the supermodel of diet pills'. They say this...

Ab Lounge 2 Review

Here's a video clip of a guy reviewing the ab lounge 2. He says he does about 180 crunches a day and hasn't noticed any results yet. He thinks if you can find it at a bargain price than go for it, but he doesn't think it's worth paying the full price for. He gives it five stars out of ten.I'd be very curious about other people's experience with the ab lounge. They are promoting it heavily on TV infomercials and I get the sense that a lot of people are buying it. But is anyone actively using it...

Wedding Weight

Katie Holmes: In Perfect Shape by January?

Katie Holmes, 27, plans on being back in perfect shape by January. January is when she needs to start filming the new Batman movie sequel. This gives her lots of time to get back in shape given she didn't gain that much weight during her pregnancy. But she has apparently already started with a strict...

Anita is one person who experienced extreme weight loss success with the help of Weight Watchers. Just before giving birth to her first child she weighed 397 pounds. In the two photos here, she weighs 328 pounds in the before photo. Her height is 5'9". In the after photo she weighs about 180 pounds....

Amanda, 29, has lost 25 pounds on Weight Watchers. She started her weight loss program in mid May. And she wants to lose a lot more. Here is her before photo at her starting weight of 317 pounds in May. (She's 5'7" tall.)Amanda has a beautiful one year old baby boy and a wonderful husband. She's moved...

Cheryl Tiegs seems to have had no problems retaining her beautiful figure over the years. Tiegs was the first real supermodel in America. Here we see a picture of her in her heyday, and a second photo of her from the upcoming September issue of W Magazine. Would you believe she is 58 years old in the...

It's so easy to lose weight. Change your diet and exercise more. Right? The problem with this reasoning is it doesn't get to the root of most people's battle with weight loss. We all have a good idea of what we need to do to lose weight. The real problem is -- how to get motivated to go out and actually...

Fat Guy Does Shakira

This is the most popular clip on Google Video at the moment. It's a fat guy and his friends mimicking Shakira's Hips Don't Lie video. See the four minute Skakira spoof video clip above.See the original vide clip here:How much does Shakira weigh? There are reports on the web that she weighs 106 pounds. She is very petite, at five feet and two inches. Apparently she doesn't eat candy, doesn't smoke or drink alcohol. She also doesn't drink coffee. The name Skakira is Arabic for 'woman full of grace".Here's...

Thomas Parr was not an overweight man. His diet consisted largely of green cheese, onions, coarse bread, buttermilk or mild ale. He was an agricultural laborer and didn't marry until he was eighty. But then he went on to live a further 72 years! Apparently his advice was as follows; "Keep your head...