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How Many of My Top 10 New Year's Resolutions Involve Weightlosswars? Hint it's not all 10!

Thu, 29 Dec 2011

Let's face it, New Year's reminds us of 2 things...last year and the coming year. It's important to look into the future, coming year. Ponder on things that you need to change and also to commit to following through with your resolutions.

So read on and consider for yourself how many of my Top 10 New Year's Resolutions you think should involve Weightlosswars? Hint it's not all 10!

1. Spend More Quality Time with Family and Friends

Polls and surveys conducted by major polling groups such as Gallup conclude that 50% of people in America vow that their loved ones, but also their friends deserve a larger portion of their time. Family first! Remember that at the end of your life, the relationships with family are some of the only things that transcend the grave. Set up plans to regularly spend quality time with family, get active with friends, and remember that it is simply unheard of for someone to say on their deathbed that they wish they'd spent more time working on that pro...

Orangutans Research Sheds Light on Human Obesity

Thu, 15 Dec 2011

In times of plenty, orangutans found on Borneo (an island in Indonesia) feast on forest fruits, quickly putting on extra weight in advance of future, potentially scantier years, at which times they proceed to live only off as little as leaves, bark and you guessed it—their stored body fat.

The behavior resulting in overeating for a time has been found to be a common occurrence in humans of course, but until now has been rarely found in nonhuman primates such as monkeys, baboons, and chimpanzees. However, it has been highly sought after and the study may offer clues into obesity as well as eating disorders among humans, said U.S. researchers this week.

"Orangutans [are fascinating] models for [researching adult obesity in people in that they appear to be the only nonhuman species of primates such as apes who store fat deposits.]” remarked Erin Vogel, who is an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University, her study was published in the journal entitled Biology Letters...

Academic Research for Weight Loss Competitions

Fri, 09 Dec 2011

Academic Research

Weightlosswars was founded on the principles of weight loss motivation and recent research has continued to confirm the effectiveness of the methods. Recently, University of Pennsylvania as well as Harvard University performed related studies.

University of Pennsylvania professor, Dr. Kevin Volpp concluded that participants who received financial incentives for weight loss were far more successful than those who did not receive these financial incentives.

Over a 16 week period, the participants of the experimental group dropped an 13.1-14 lbs on average as opposed to approximately 4 lbs for participants in the control group.

This conclusion shows the remarkable nature of financial incentive for weight loss. Additional studies on “diet bets," "Biggest Loser Challenges" and "Losing weight for money" have led to some municipalities, states, and corporations and nonprofits to introduce financial incentives to encourage their people...

Is 'Diet' a Four-letter Word? D*#$!

Tue, 06 Dec 2011

Does “Diet” really strike us a 4-letter word? D#@*! Well according to a large number of pundits, when the letters spelled “diet” are pointed toward vulnerable and impressionable young minds in the way it’s used in a controversial new book for children titled “Maggie Goes on a Diet.” But not all the experts in the realm of childhood obesity feel the same about this issue. Some of these experts believe it is urgently important to deal with this issue that this out roar over the word’s use is ill advised.

Here’s a breakdown of “Maggie Goes on a Diet,” fourteen year old Maggie is overweight and to tackle the lack self-worth that accompanies her issue, Maggie begins a diet and as a result goes through a dramatic change from being heavy and insecure to being the teen soccer star of her school. Through diet and exercise and dedication, Maggie develops new found confidence that builds and grows overtime and helps her become the person she didn’t even know she wanted to become.

This d...

Biggest Loser Competition Rules - Some Suggestions for a Good Competition

Fri, 02 Dec 2011

Want a handful of rules that have been helpful for many of the thousands of successful weight loss wars challenges?

Here is a handy handful of biggest loser competition rules for you to consider. And if you want to get started with your own biggest loser challenge here on the site for the dirt cheap $10 that it takes to create the competition, here you go, too, click here: Start a Competition & Apply some <a href="http://www.weightlosswars.com/biggest-loser-competition-rules"> Biggest Loser Competition Rules</a> right now!

Weight loss challenges are not just a popular TV series about weight loss, they're a real movement that your office, family, or friend group can tap into. Here on weightlosswars.com we were founded in January of 2004--a full 9 months previous to when the biggest loser show went live in October of 2004.

So now with the perpetual new year looming once again right up ahead. Why not hit up your HR department to start your own offic...

Calorie Counting Tips

Wed, 30 Nov 2011

First, Let's Start with: What is a Calorie?

A calorie is a unit of energy that your chemistry professor would call a Kilo-Calorie. It's the amount of energy to raise 1000 grams of water 1 degree Celsius.

In these scientific terms, it may have to do with raising the temp of water, but in nutritional terms, a calorie really means the amount of energy in a specific amount of food which could be in the form of a carbohydrate, a protein or fat.

Technically, the unit we call calories in nutrition is actually kilocalories, so a single calorie is technically 1/1000'th of the amount of kilo-calories on the food labels. So go tell your friends that the yogurt they're eating contains 8,000 calories and I'm sure you'll get a good laugh, but then you'll have to explain it to them, too!

For convenience, food labels doesn't state ‘kilocalories’ but instead they simply write ‘Calories’ with a capitalized “C” in front which represents ‘Kilocalories.’

Counting Calories for Weight Lo...

Some of the Latest Weight Loss Success Stories on Weightlosswars

Tue, 29 Nov 2011

"Being part of a Team on weightlosswars has been the most amazing and supportive experience I've had in ages. But possibly even more important was that it finally made something that I have dreaded become something I am excited to participate in! I had been unable to motivate myself on a weight loss program, and weightlosswars was the perfect spark that launched me into a competition and into losing weight. I feel much better about myself now because I have stuck with it. Weight loss wars has several things that I have used to increase my accountability factor. For example, I have requested my trainer at the gym to be a motivator for me in which she gets reminders to check up on me. That was extremely helpful, but also the daily support from other team members in the weight loss challenge I've been participating in have been completely invaluable. We were doing it together, (we were losing together and not gaining alone as weightlosswars' slogan says!) not alone—and it WORKED F...

Weight Loss Motivation to Overcome Emotional Eating

Fri, 25 Nov 2011

Weight-loss Motivation to Get Control of Emotional Eating

Discover how you can get motivation to curb emotional eating. Avoid sabotaging your weight loss progress and get tips to take back control of your consumption habits.

By Vivian Sumpter

Sometimes the most powerful cravings for food occur when you're right at your weakest point mentally and emotionally. Maybe you turn to food for comfort when you're faced with a difficult problem, stress or boredom. This can happen both consciously or subconsciously.

Of course emotional eating will sabotage your weight-loss efforts if you don't take steps to overcome it. Emotional munching often also progresses to eating far more than you need, and unfortunately this is typically too much of fatty, sweet, or just plain high-cal foods. But don't worry, there is also help to overcome this kind of emotional eating, because if you take the right measures to regain hold of your food habits, you can get back on the train with your healthy...

Tips for a Great Diet Competition at Work

Wed, 23 Nov 2011

The office can definitely a place where people end up putting on a few pounds. And that's no surprise, right? With all the sitting at desks, munching at your desk, December office parties, ordering lunch as a group, and don't forget the baked goodies co-workers bring in especially in December. We all know what desks to visit if you have a craving for something sweet because they have a jar of goodies sitting prominently there for you to grab. And so it goes that it's no wonder extra weight starts to creep onto our own personal scale. So that said, instead of getting bigger and bigger at our job, consider losing some weight together by starting a Biggest Loser-style challenge at your office.

To learn how read more.
There are several things to consider when you wonder <a href="http://www.weightlosswars.com/biggest-loser-contest">how to start a biggest loser at work</a>.

1. Choose a starting date on which everyone gets weighed that day at the office or at...

Get Ripped -- For all those boys who wanna go from over weight to getting ripped...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011

Who wants to <a href="http://www.mikegetsripped.com">Get Ripped</a> in 4 Weeks? My boyfriend was getting ready to do a weight loss wars competition and he came across this blog which showed him the Exact 2 Step Secret that Hollywood Actors and Ultimate Fighters Use for getting Shredded Fast!

If you're interested, check Out How my boyfriend used this Mike guy's system and Got Ripped In Less Than 30 Days… Anyone Can Do it, and it's based on a couple simple ingredients which he shares on his site...

"Forget protein shakes, forget $300 workout DVDs. Don't blow your cash on ANY of that stuff...you don't wanna have to live 24/7 in the gym, either! It all starts with RISK-FREE products that Hollywood Actors and UFC Fighters use.... and they cost my boyfriend under $5! because he used this Mike guy's site.

His name is Mike Jamieson, he's 24 years old, he looked alright before, slightly overweight, and then after he did this program he looks ripped as ...