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Eat with Control This Holiday Season

Thanksgiving mealYou wake up feeling sick: Head hurting, stomach squirrely, very tired, and thirsty. You know you shouldn’t have done it but you did anyway. You pop some pain killers, drink a gallon of water, eat some carrots and swear you won’t ever do it again. But you will – in less than a month. And once more you will feel awful. What did you do? Overindulge with food – and suffering the proverbial “binge hangover.”

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Will Exercise Help You Get Thin?

The answer is no, at least according to a Time Magazine article published last week, Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin. In fact, it is their thought that exercise might even make it harder for you to lose that excess weight.

Could this possibly be true?

As someone who has lost 80 pounds and gone from a size 20 to a size 4 by exercising and making moderate changes to her diet, I can confidently state “not very likely.”

Why would Time Magazine makes those claims if they are not accurate? Because study results are always open to interpretation – and because we are talking about that very article right now. Buzz is good for business. That’s why.

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Free Fitness E-Book

Fit LifeThe electronic version of my “Living the Fit Life” is here. >Download your copy now. It’s free! (Courtesy of LA’s the Place.com.)

Post any comments you might have about it. I’d love to hear your feedback.

Lose Weight Without Losing Yourself

{Hi, I’m Helen M. Ryan – aka Spinchick, the blog mistress. Why am I here? Because I want to help you discover how to lose weight using methods I learned while on my own weight loss journey.

Five years ago I was so overweight I could not fit into a ride at Legoland. I had a bad back, sore feet, constant fatigue and no dreams. Since then I have LOST 80 POUNDS, become a certified personal trainer, Spinning® instructor and writer.

Helen RyanSo…how did I do it? By taking simple, consistent (and free – yes, free) steps to improve myself. Follow the blog, sign up for my free e-zine. And I’d love to hear your comments about posts, or questions you might have (chat through my Facebook page, too). Carry on – today really is the first day in the rest of your life.}