http://www.live4fitness.com Weight Loss Stories | Weight Loss Blog Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My mother for years had tried to get me to eat real almond butter, which is basically almonds grounded up to a paste, but I just wasn't interested in it at the time. I finally gave in and tried it but in all honesty I didn't like the way it ... http://www.live4fitness.com/natural-amond-and-peanut-butter.htm A short while after I started the diet I got really sick. I kept getting sick and I am not just talking about the cold and flu thing, I am talking headaches, joint pain, canker sores so bad in my mouth where I couldn't eat, yeast infections and list goes ... http://www.live4fitness.com/threelac-candida-defense.htm Lately I have discovered that eating canned vegetables has not helped at all with my hunger. As an experiment I recently started eating raw vegetables like crooked yellow squash, zucchini and red and yellow onions.  I simply just cut up and mixed the vegetables in a large bag with my own homemade dressing.  The ingredients are: Grape Seed Oil Olive ... http://www.live4fitness.com/eating-vegetables.htm The one thing I have learned from helping people and being a member of a few weight loss forums is that a lot of people do not know how to figure their calorie intake. Sometimes their caloric intake will be a little too high or too low but I see some cases where the ... http://www.live4fitness.com/calculating-calories.htm Hello everyone, I am back, not fully recovered, but I am back in the gym 3-4 days a week, well sort of.  Over the holidays things were kind of crazy for me with my knee surgery and both of my children's birthdays also being in December. There were things that kept coming ... http://www.live4fitness.com/back-on-track.htm Lately I have been reading a few health related web forums and it appears that most people are looking for the same thing.  I think that a lot of us are searching for the magic solution to get rid of the fat and permanently become thin. There are so many ... http://www.live4fitness.com/magic-diet-pill.htm Since changing my diet this past year I have learned so much about the American diet. I now read the ingredients of everything that I buy and have discovered that most of the foods we eat are REALLY bad for us.  Take for example enriched flour; do you know what that ... http://www.live4fitness.com/american-diet.htm It is pretty common knowledge that you are suppose to drink 8 to 10 glasses (size 8 oz) of water a day but if you are working out hard each day your body will require more. I personally drink 1 1/2 gallons of water a day but I do have a very active ... http://www.live4fitness.com/drink-water-to-lose-weight.htm Looks like I am heading for another big challenge in my life, I am having knee surgery on Monday (December 4th). I tore my ACL a couple of years ago and have never done anything about it till now. I am nervous and scared, however the funny thing is that I ... http://www.live4fitness.com/acl-knee-surgery.htm Today I was looking on the net at a few weight loss stories to help motivate me (yes sometimes I need a little motivation too). I was very saddened that a lot of these people lost weight but still did not look very healthy. They didn't talk much about weight training and ... http://www.live4fitness.com/cheat-meal.htm