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Are All Diets a Money-Pit?

Published on March 3, 2010 in Nutrition, health and weight loss. Closed Tags: , , , , .
Photo Close-up of the waist-line of a woman wearing jeans

Are all diets a dollar pit?

Are all diets a dollar pit?

Swimsuit-season is coming soon.

Ever dream that you could loose those extra pounds before it get’s here?

As the dream plays on you can clearly see yourself having fun at the beach or at that outdoor barbecue.  You feel so good about yourself because you know that achieving your goal weight guarantees you’ll be getting the  complements you worked so hard for.

You not only look good but you feel good too.

Then the alarm clock come’s on and the dream is over. As you struggle to do up that top button on your pants you decide “This is the day I start doing something about it”.

Congratulations. You’ve just become a candidate for a weight loss program. You’ll now no doubt be joining the many millions in Canada and the US who spend billions of dollars every year attending to this very personal problem.

But will whatever you have to spend be the best value for the money?

According to a new report broadcast by CBC’s Marketplace Friday February 26th there’s at least one place you should avoid.

Check out the segment here and form your own opinions.

MUSCLE WEIGHS MORE THAN FAT

Published on May 2, 2009 in health and exercise. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

Myth#2 Muscle Weighs More Than Fat

When concerned with about what the scale is showing you trainers will often tell their clients the reason they’re not losing a lot of weight overall is because muscle weighs more than fat.

This isn’t true because a pound of muscle weighs exactly the same as a pound of fat.  So does a pound of anything,

The confusion lies not in the weight of the substance, but in its density.  Muscle is much denser than fat, meaning that a pound of muscle takes up less room than a pound of fat .

If your weight remains the same you will look sleeker and smaller.

So keep exercising.