October 2007

Advice for a Sagging Stomach?

A reader asks for advice about getting rid of sagging skin around her stomach. She says; I am a 42 year old female who had a heart attack at 39 because of my weight and family history. Since the heart attack, I have lost a tremendous amount of weight which has caused a lot of sagging skin in the stomach...

Dr. Flum specializes in surgical management of gastrointestinal disorders and surgical treatment of morbid obesity.What is his advice for people who want to lose weight? He says if most people changed two things in their lives they would lose weight. One is to avoid fast-food, the other is to walk on...

Here's a great list of some of the top Health and Wellness sites. It includes the ten best sites for each of the categories of weight loss blogs, diet blogs, walking and other exercises, as well as a few other key health categories. The list was put together by people at the Nursing Online Education...

Actress Mila Jojovich has gained seventy five pounds so far in her pregnancy. This photo was taken about three or four weeks before her due date. Most doctors tell women that the ideal weight gain for women of normal weight during pregnancy is between 25 and 35 pounds. But Milla was probably underweight...

We carve pumpkins for Halloween each year and usually I throw away the pumpkin seeds. But this year I'm going to roast them in the oven. It's really easy, you just need some salt and butter. (See the recipe for roasted pumpkin seeds).Pumpkin seeds have a lot of nutritional health benefits. A quarter...

Kent used to weigh over 400 pounds. He's lost 200 pounds by adhering to the Atkins diet. The weight loss was fast for him, though it was not easy initially to give up all his comfort foods such as pizza and a 4 liter per day Diet Mountain Dew habit.He has maintained the weight loss for over two years...

Jennette has lost almost 200 pounds. She has one of the best personal weight loss blogs out there and a few months ago she was approached by publishers about writing a book about her story.I'm excited the book will be available soon. But I was disappointed to read that the publisher didn't accept Jenette's...

Claire Barnes was engaged to be married a year ago but she really wanted to lose lots of weight before the wedding. She started her diet and exercise in August 2006. A year later, when the wedding took place, she had reached her goal and had lost a whopping 84 pounds.See her story as well as the larger...

Leelee wants to weigh 140 pounds. She now weighs 184 pounds and her highest weight was 220. She'd like to lose 15 pounds before Christmas. She's started her own weight loss blog for motivation and inspiration.Cheer her on at Losing Leel...

Jodi Davis has lost 162 pounds. She did this five years ago and has kept the weight off. It took her 16 months to lose that much weight.She succeeded in her weight loss with the help of a daily walking routine. She's the mother of three children and could never find the time to walk before, but somehow...

Tori Spelling gained 40 pounds during her pregnancy and now seven months later she is back to her prepregnancy weight of about 115 pounds. She says she achieved this with the help of the NutriSystem diet which is delivered to her door every day. She's also spent a lot of time working out.Tori is the...

Melissa was a size 14 for much of her adult life but gradually moved up to size 22 by the time she was 28 years old.Now, two years older, she is wearing size 8 clothes. She's gone from being a couch potato to an active person and she speaks very highly of the Curves program which helped her lose the...

On her blog, Losing Leelee points out what everyone should know;When people tell you to lose weightFirst of all, overweight/obese people do think about it or at least attempted to lose once in their life. It is not that they don't want to, it's deeper than those words, 'lose weight'. Being overweight...

Marie Osmond, 47, signed up with Dancing with the Stars in the hope that all the dancing would help her lose weight. She's succeeded in losing 20 pounds so far. Her mother died early of heart disease and Marie wants to improve her own health. See her story at OK! Magazi...

Cathy Baughman works out at the YMCA for about an hour five or six days a week. She used to weigh 310 pounds, and has succeeded in losing 142 pounds. She pedals up and down on an ARC trainer, a machine designed to take pressure off the knees while exercising the legs and arms. See her inspirational...

Huey had a heart attack when he was 58 years old and had to undergo two surgeries to clear his blocked arteries. It was at that point that he decided to lose weight. He's gone on to lose 135 pounds. He used to eat a lot of meat and that was the most drastic thing he changed about his diet. Now he eats...