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Avoid the diet traps

Avoid the diet traps

The path to good dieting intention is paved with dangerous temptation. It seems that for every garden salad you fix yourself, there is a doughnut waiting for you around the corner. When you’re turning the page of your eating habits and trying to change your lifestyle, the default option at a cafe or restaurant will […]
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How to lose 50kg in 50 steps

How to lose 50kg in 50 steps

We all know it's as simple as "eat more fresh fruit and vegies and start exercising" when it comes to losing weight. But the truth is it can be very difficult to take that first step in the long road of lifestyle change.
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How to lose 50kg in 50 steps

How to lose 50kg in 50 steps

We all know it’s as simple as “eat more fresh fruit and vegies and start exercising” when it comes to losing weight. But the truth is it can be very difficult to take that first step in the long road of lifestyle change. But Sally Symonds has proved it can be done — at home […]
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Easy weight-loss tip: drink water before every meal

Easy weight-loss tip: drink water before every meal

While chemists’ shelves bulge with expensive weight-loss treatments, researchers have discovered that something as simple and cheap as drinking two glasses of water before every meal could be just as effective when trying to slim down. Instead of messing with your hormones or playing with your body’s chemistry, this weight-loss technique is childishly straightforward: the […]
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Binge eat now, pay later

Binge eat now, pay later

The cliché of a moment on the lips meaning a lifetime on the hips has been given credence by a new Swedish study that shows that even short periods of binge eating can leave the body more susceptible to weight gain for years to come. Previous studies have linked weight-gain to the ageing process, but […]
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Realistic expectations for weight loss

With a new celebrity diet on the front of every second magazine and a seemingly endless line of new weight loss supplements promising unbelievable results, it’s hard to escape stories of amazing weight loss. There are many parts that play a role in successful, long-term weight loss and finetuning these components in our lives is […]
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Celebrity diets: Do they work?

Celebrity diets: Do they work?

Despite their genetic blessings most celebrities turn to their own quick-fix diet to get their body red-carpet ready. But do these celebrity detoxes actually work and are they safe? Naomi Campbell recently confessed that she puts her body through three lemon-and-maple syrup detox sessions a year, each lasting 18 days, the New York Times reported. […]
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Obesity rate in Aussie women is rising fast

When compared to the UK, USA and China, the levels of obesity in Australian women is rising faster than in other countries, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported. Research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the top five percent of obese women in Australia at age 30 have an average BMI of 37.7. […]
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What’s weighing us down?

An astounding 77 per cent of Australian women think they are overweight – so we are launching Australia’s Greatest Weight Loss Challenge. The standard greeting to a friend was once, “Hi, how are you?” Now, the universal cry of welcome is “Wow … are you on a diet?” coupled with a furtive glance. We are […]
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Magda: my battle to stay thin

All of Australia watched and cheered as funny lady Magda Szubanski lost a massive 36 kilos. While ecstatic with the results, Magda tells Wendy Squires that she is also acutely aware that now is the time she’s most likely to slip up – and it terrifies her. It’s sundown at one of Sydney’s trendiest eating […]
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