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I’ve said this before…we are here to help in all forms of health and fitness and we got such a strong response to our first post about bulimia and eating disorders that we are continuing with a few more inspired posts concerning the disorder.

Reprinted with permission of Erika Conover, the true subject of these articles. Here’s the second…..

5 Ways to Prevent Bingeing and Purging

This is my specialty, truly! I have struggled with this for years, Bulimia that is. I have been down the road to recovery only to relapse again and again and again. But here I am many years later living a purge free life and my hope is that you will be living one too.

Here are 5 tips I learned along the way to prevent myself from bingeing and purging. Read the rest of this entry »

My good friend, Jon Benson ( world-known trainer and fitness expert), has some really good info about what we should be eating before we work out. It will open your eyes to fallacies and fact….read his article…..

Eat THIS Before Your Workouts

One of the most common questions I get asked is:

“What should I eat before my workouts if I want to get rid of body fat?”

The answer? Read the rest of this entry »

Are you trying to be rail-thin? Have you contemplated restricting or bingeing and purging to accomplish this? If so, then please read on. Anorexia and Bulimia are the most prevalent of all eating disorders out there today. Anorexia is centered on starving your body of the proper nutrition it needs on a daily basis and whittling away one pound at a time.

On the other hand, bulimia is based on consuming extremely large amounts of food in one sitting ( known as a binge) and then purging the food immediately. Purging can be physically throwing up the food, exercising for hours ( also known as exercise bulimia), or even by taking laxatives.

In any case, those that are struggling with either eating disorder generally have many of the same underlying issues in common. Eating disorders play a role in a persons life much like a temporary pain killer. They act as a temporary fix in that they numb the individual at first allowing them to function daily without feeling their true feelings. Read the rest of this entry »

You were so excited to get that shiny new piece of exercise equipment and vowed to use it regularly. Now, you are tired of walking or pedaling to nowhere and dread the thought of exercising. Use the following tips to make your workouts more interesting.

Music can help raise your energy and enthusiasm. Pick upbeat tunes for the main part of your workout, and use slower tunes to start off and end your routine. Or, you could just listen to your favorite radio station or CD. Audio books can be a great way to pass the time. If you are interested in the book, you may even look forward to your workouts so that you can find out what happens next. Read the rest of this entry »

Aromatherapy is a type of alternative medicine involving the use of essential oils that has been around for about 6000 years. It is a holistic therapy which means that aromatherapy practitioners consider not just your physical symptoms, but also mental, spiritual and emotional factors. Holistic therapy recognizes that these factors are essential to take into account as they all have a great influence over your health.

There are three main ways that the essential oils used in aromatherapy enter your body: Read the rest of this entry »

Yoga is a 6000-year-old form of exercise which not only disciplines the body but conditions the mind as well.

While the various asanas or exercises are the basic building blocks of the practice of yoga, the breath is its very essence of it. Some go so far as to say, “If you can breathe, you can do yoga.” One of the main reasons for this is that one of the main goals of yoga is to teach you to still and quiet your mind through the use of your breath. Read the rest of this entry »

Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle has been around a little while now and it is still a very hot topic. Is it a scam? For real? Let’s take a look at Tom Venuto’s book and course, and find out. This will be a little long in regards to a common post…but we need to look at the whole package. Okay…. Read the rest of this entry »

Seated oblique twists with medicine ball, sometimes called a Russian Twist, is a very effective exercise for strengthening the abdominal muscles, particularly the rectus abdominis, the external obliques and internal obliques.

How to do it right:

* Sit on the floor with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
* Contract your abs and sit at about a 45 degrees angle.
* Hold a medicine with both hands directly in front of you
* Contracting your abs, twist slowly from your torso to your right and touch the medicine ball to the floor beside you.
* Quickly, but smoothly, contract your abs and twist your torso and touch the medicine ball to the other side.
* Repeat for the desired number of reps.

Thanks to Elizabeth Quinn, About.com Guide and sportsmedicine.about.com

If you are one of the many people on the planet who would want to lose weight and keep your body free from fat, then you may well give up on ways to manage your possible choices to get you on the track to great weight loss. Thanks to technology and scientific discovery, you have many different choices to pick from when you start thinking weight loss. Read the rest of this entry »