April 2007

Lady Rose is 75 Pounds Closer to her Goal

Lady Rose is about to celebrate one full year of very successful weight loss. She's lost 75 pounds and now weighs 220. She feels so much healthier than she did one year ago. See her weekly progress numbers here. Tomorrow is a big day on her website. It's the one year anniversary of her diet and exercise...

Roberta Perry says she used to be an emotional eater who ate whenever she felt angry or depressed. But she has managed to get off that cycle. She has changed her lifestyle and has decided to focus on her cholesterol level rather than her weight. Perry has lost 75 pounds. She has gone from morbidly obese...

Mandy Muniz lost 167 pounds by walking. Mandy, age 29, is featured in the current issue of First Magazine. She's a teacher who was wearing size 24 pants not too long ago and one morning she couldn't zip them up. That's when she decided to start walking. She walked five days a week during her lunch hour....

As guest host on The View, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she's lost 43 pounds on the LA WeightLoss program in 23 weeks. The private weight loss counselling has helped her. She confessed that she cannot stand vegetables so the compromise was to drink low sodium V8 juice to get her vegetable nutrient...

Liv Tyler is a famous movie star who was in no rush to lose her excess baby fat. She gave birth to her first child in December 2004. The before photo you see here was taken nine months after he was born. She says she didn't let anyone pressure her to get in top shape after birth. She wanted to enjoy...

One young woman is on the border of being normal weight and overweight as far as the BMI measurement is concerned. She says she has lost a lot of muscle mass and replaced it with fat and that her weight has been creeping up over the last couple of years and she is determined to do something about it....

Losing muscle mass is one of the problems of aging. Our bodies start losing muscle when we get to about thirty years old. By 50 years, the typical person has lost about 10% of their muscle mass. By age 80 we are shrivelled up and have lost 40% of our muscle mass.Tom Valeo explains that if we lose 20...

Would you like to see what you might look like if you achieved your goal weight? Jacqueline has discovered another neat virtual model online where you can plug in your current weight and goal weight. This virtual model shown here was created by NutriSystem. Also check out the free weight loss virtual...

Battlerocker has been successful in losing thirty pounds over the last three or four months. He is losing weight the 'non-masculine' way. Here's a funny passage from his blog;As part of a general lifestyle change I began earlier this year, I’ve been counting calories. It sucks. Not because it isn’t...

Here's a photo of the beautiful Salma Hayek. She is pregnant and expecting her first child at the age of forty. It looks like she will be gaining more than the recommended 35 pounds during this pregnancy. Hayek has never been overweight in her life but she is known for her big boobs. She is a famous...

Down with the Pepperoni Sticks

DANIGIRL is doing well on her diet but she writes an entertaining story about how she fell off the wagon last week with pepperoni sticks. She notes that a single ten inch pepperoni stick has 187% of the daily recommended amount of sodium and 202% of recommended daily saturated fat intake. I was doing so well on watching what I was eating, until the week I ate FOUR ENTIRE PEPPERONI STICKS. And not just those little ones, either, but the ones as long as your forearm. What the hell causes a normal...

Valerie Bertinelli wants to lose thirty pounds. She's not telling anyone how much she weighs (she is 5'2" tall) but she says she is a size 14 and wants to be a size 8 by September. Bertinelli is featured on the cover of People Magazine this week. The other photo here is Bertinelli when she was at least...

Here are some very inspiring before and after pictures taken by a successful ex fat man. He has lost 65 pounds since November and took three different front, back and profile photos every few weeks since then. He is 28 years old and started out at 238 pounds. His secret to success has been a very extensive...

A new reality show started last night. It's about an obese family who is being given nutritional and lifestyle guidance by Felicia Stoler (shown in the photo here). Stoler is a registered dietitian and exercise physiologist. The parents are warned about what lies ahead for their fat kids. The show uses...

Kacper has set the record for the biggest baby born in Poland. He weighed 15.7 pounds at birth and was delivered via ceasarian. His mother is 45 years old and this is her fourth birth. All of her previous babies were much larger than average but her fourth child breaks the record. See more about Kacper...

Michelle was already a little heavier than she wanted to be when she quit smoking in mid 2006. The pounds continued to pile on. On January 4th this year she joined Weight Watchers and has been enormously successful. She started out at 180 pounds and is now down to 149 in just over three months. She...

Luis Bruno is a chef who was told by his doctor that he had five years to live if he didn't lose weight. His love of food started in childhood, he already weighed 200 pounds when he was just 12 years old. A couple of years ago when he was 35 years old his weight peaked at 400 pounds. He had developed...

Nicole is 25 pounds slimmer than she was in early January. She started the NutriSystem diet and has been sticking to it more or less. Today she weighs 210 pounds and she started out in January at her heaviest weight of 235 pounds. Nicole is a mother of a two-year old toddler.She also just started Tae...

I find the latest updates about global warming and climate catastrophes quite alarming. But, this is a site about weight loss, not climate change. However the two topics can easily be tied in together. If we adopt simpler more natural lifestyles, it can only be good for the future of a healthy planet....