Today’s featured weight loss story: Beatrice lost 84 pounds by working out and eating right. She was inspired by her brother’s weight loss and decided to lose the weight after a wakeup call from her doctor. Here is what she shared with us: “Hi, I would like to share my story. My name is Beatrice. […]
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5 Reasons You Should Start a Food Journal for Weight Loss
Many experts and nutritionists encourage people to keep a food journal when they are trying to lose weight. There are so many tools out there like FitBit, My Fitness Pal and the Lose It app to use as mobile or online food journals. Unfortunately, most people understand this to mean keeping obsessive count of calories […]
5 Simple Ways to Help Your Body Release the Weight
With all the fad diets out there, weight loss seems like a complicated formula that requires multiple factors in order to be efficient. In reality, weight loss is simple since it occurs when less calories are consumed than taken in causing a calorie deficit. Sure there are other factors like body mass, illness, overall health, […]
Action Steps: What Can I Do to Stop Emotional Eating?
Mindless munching when when tense, sad or nervous. Finding comfort from a frosted brownie. Bored and wandering through the kitchen over and over again. Does this sound familiar? These are all examples of emotional eating. Emotional eating happens when we are bored, depressed, nervous, happy, tense or sad, instead of when we are physically hungry. […]
Patricia lost 100 pounds
Today’s weight loss success story: Patricia lost 100 pounds. She says that she used to live to eat and now she eats to live by keeping a food and exercise journal, choosing to clean up her diet (she is now Vegan) and exercise. Another Zumba lover! “For so many years I’ve struggled with my weight. […]
February Challenge – Clean Eating / Food Diary Challenge
For the month of February the Black Women Losing Weight sisterhood will focus on and commit to 3 main GOALS: We will commit to “Eating Clean”. We will keep a food diary of EVERYTHING we eat for 3 WEEKS – Feb 4 – 24, 2013 We will commit to exercising 5 days per week for […]
