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How I Saved $500 While Losing 52 Pounds in 136 Days
A Baby Boomer Says Enough The following is a guest post from ToughMoneyLove.com. You can subscribe to his RSS feed here. I am 57 years old. I am 6 feet tall. In high school and college, my weight fluctuated between 165 and 170 pounds. I am careful with my money. But…… On January 16, 2008 [...]
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End of Week Two of One Hundred Pushups (and some links)
Yesterday, I finished week two of my 100 pushup program (official site). I was able to the finish the last set until exhaustion with 25 strong pushups. I have been pretty pumped by my progress. Today, I did the end of week two exhaustion test. I was hoping to pull off a 42. I figured [...]
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Diet vs. Exercise
There has been a constant debate in the world of health sciences. Which is better… diet or exercise? Both are very crucial to a healthy lifestyle, but which yields best results? When I am dieting, I focus on the limiting the unnecessary calories that cross my lips. Sometimes I wonder what is and what isn’t [...]
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Baked Goods Can Be Part of Your Diet
Many people trying to lose weight think that they must cut baked goods out of their daily diets. They think that because baked goods like cookies, bread, and cake contain carbohydrates and fats, that there is no way at all to fit them into a healthy meal plan. I’d like to dispel that myth. Baked [...]
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Are All Diets Doomed?
This post was submitted by an anonymous guest author. I thought the strong viewpoint might draw up some interesting discussion. Perhaps cheat days should be incorporated so that cheating is part of the plan? Pretty much every diet fails at some point or other. Yes, it’s true – diets are doomed. No matter how well-designed [...]
