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Workouts and tempting desserts

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I subscribe to a few magazines – mostly Canadian magazines like Chatelaine and Flare (and hello Canada) and it seems they’re all full of articles about how to get in shape for summer or Bikini ready body workouts and so on.

Of course, in these same magazines, the ones trying to give you ideas like getting rid of belly fat or simple yoga routines that will get you in shape in four weeks, they also have recipes for delicious summer meals and desserts.

It seems like a contradiction doesn’t it. They have drool worth pictures of food and a few pages later they’re showing you how to lose weight. LOL Well I guess it’s nice that they show us how to stay fit if they’re going to tempt us with delicious sounding recipes.

Do you read magazines that tempt and taunt you too?

Workout at work

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Wow my husband just found out that our workplace (a hospital) put in a new gym for the employees and if he wants to use it he can sign up to have just $3.00 taken off his pay each month.

That’s not bad for full 24 hour a day use of a fully equipped fitness facility. Pretty cool. I’m on medical leave and don’t get a paycheck so I don’t know if I can sign up to use it or not, but I guess I could go as a guest.

We only live about two blocks from the hospital so we could easily get there any time if we wanted to work out. I’m sure we’d bump into a few employees who are in to using testosterone boosters and body building, but that’s ok .. we know pretty much everyone who works at the hospital so it would be a very comfortable environment.

Chris, my husband, could also work out before or after work if he wanted too. Hmmm … it would be nice to see him in better shape. He’s not in terrible shape or overweight, but when we first met he used to bike everywhere and wow he had some nice muscles.

Does your workplace have a fitness area that you can use?

Ways to lose weight …

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In my last post I asked how do you lose weight?

I asked if you increase your activity by doing more workouts, going to the gym or taking long walks. Or if you try diets?

when you try to lose a few extra pounds, perhaps when you have an upcoming event or simple because it won’t be all that long before summer will be here … do you try to eat a little bit healthier? Do you eat more vegetables and fruit substituting them for carbs or sugar heavy snacks?

What about weight loss supplements ? Have you ever used them? If so did they work?

When I was a teen I tried some diet pills and they didn’t do much for me … but then, now that I think back I really didn’t need to lose any weight back then, I was a fairly skinny teenager. I think I just tried them mainly because that’s what my friends were doing.

So .. specifically … what do you do to lose weight when you need to lose maybe five pounds fast?

How do you loose weight?

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I’m on a search for the best diet products. I’ve been helping a friend try to find some good weight loss products as she wants to lose several pounds within the next month.

Now she tells me that her boyfriends on the bandwagon so she wants me to try to find out something about the best fat burner for men. I have no idea!

I’m kind of a non-dieter. When I need to loss weight I eat a little less or add more veggies and fruit to my diet and I try to up my activity level. Sometimes the extra pounds don’t come off quite as fast as I’d like, but it always works if I keep at it.

How do you lose weight? Do you eat healthier? work out more often? use diets or diet products?

The weight loss business must be booming

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It seems every time I go into a drug store or a general sales type store they have tons of weight loss products at the end of the aisles and right at eye level in various places.

Even the magazines I like to read seem to have more advertisements for these types of products than they used too. It must be a good business to be in … especially in North America where they say a high percentage of people are morbidly obese.

Have you noticed an increase in these products in your favorite stores and in ads in magazines too?

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