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St. Mary’s Wellness Center is conducting weight management classes for Athens-area residents.

The class, Healthy Weight Management, provides information on choosing to eat a nutritionally dense diet; finding an enjoyable exercise activity and finding ways to keep weight off.

Classes meet from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and cost $60. For more information, contact St. Mary’s Wellness Center at (706) 389-3355 or visit the center’s Web site at www.stmarysathens.org.source

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During my teen years, I tried controlling my obesity using the very popular method, at least to us teenagers back then, known as liquid therapy. It’s a diet merely composed lots and lots of water and some fruits. No not the liquid diet therapy for Crohn’s disease patients.

I know that it’s actually for people who has recently undergone surgery but my reliance on my research ability and my understanding of the human body - I have a BS Biology degree, made me resort to this drastic dieting technique allowing myself to be my own guinea pig.

How did I fare with this water diet?

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The Medifast weight loss program is a simple enough to undertake method to purportedly lose a lot of weight. This program will cost at least five hundred US dollars, as it requires clearance from a physician, which, in turn, will require blood tests and medical exams to be done. Counseling is done online or through call centers. The program itself consists of low-calorie meal plans, where the company provides replacements for meals that can be paired with ordinary foods.

But how reliable is the Medifast diet, and does it work for a lot of people? Although a lot of positive reviews are available at http://www.medifastdiet.com, the diet still has to be scrutinized and the facts have to be balanced. Medifast itself has been around since the early 1980’s, where it was classified as a simple meal replacement program that was characteristically low in calories. It was also popular in the medical community, as most low calorie diets were also geared toward lowering cholesterol, easing the symptoms of heart disease, and even preparing people for delicate operations.

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Ashtanga Yoga might seem like an easy alternative for those who are looking to get into a weight management program. And it can be attractive for people who want to go for an old, time-tested fitness technique.

However, Ashtanga Yoga is not centuries or thousands of years old: it was developed in the early years of the twentieth century, and is now being taught in many countries as a way to not only lose weight, but to cleanse the mind and the body.

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Atkins diet, Atkins Nutritional Approach or just Atkins is a low-carbohydrate diet and was formulated by Dr. Robert Atkins to solve his very own problems of being overweight. Dr. Atkins conceptualized this diet plan based on a theory that overweight people tend to ingest more carbohydrates. Since the body uses fat and carbohydrates for energy, eating lesser carbohydrates would mean that fats are burned more.

As some people claimed to have lost their weight on Atkins, some doctors and nutritionists criticize it. You should decide for yourself by weighing in the pros and cons of the Atkins diet plan before embarking on it.

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Now more than ever, Americans need to lose weight. More than half of the population is reportedly obese or overweight, thanks to calorie-laden food and a lack of a good nutrition plan. If you’ve decided it’s time to make a change on your lifestyle and diet, it may be time to start choosing the best diet plan. If only it were that easy.

The problem with too many diet plan choices
When weight control and diets are easily two of the most common topics around, you’d think that it would be a breeze to find the best diet plan for you. Unfortunately, that is not often the case. From Atkins to South Beach to the Zone, there’s plenty of diet plans to go around to make everyone look like a supermodel. Continue reading →

People on the Zone Diet are simply striking a delicate balance amongst all the foods that they eat. In a nutshell, the Zone Diet advocates that eating a highly balanced diet, with just the right amounts of protein, carbohydrates, and fats will allow you to lose weight faster. This is because your blood sugar levels are kept within a tightly controlled zone, thus keeping your body healthy while you lose weight. In other weight loss programs, the body can be deprived of essential nutrients that may cause fluctuations in the levels of important molecules.

The Zone Weight Loss Program works by a strictly controlled diet. If you are on the Zone Diet, you will have to divide your food plate into three sections, all of them of the same size. In one section, place low-fat protein foods. In the last two thirds of the plate, add fresh fruits and vegetables. You can then sprinkle fat over the meal. This plan is often called a 40-30-30 strategy, in that forty percent of your meal gives you protein, thirty percent provides you with carbohydrates, and you get only about thirty percent total fat in the entire meal.

The Zone diet also demands that you eat within an hour of waking up, keep to three complete meals along with two snacks each day, lower your consumption of processed grains such as bread and pasta, and drink at least eight glasses of water each day. Many celebrities have since taken to the Zone Diet, as it can allow for weight loss without damaging organ systems. In Seattle, Washington, Zone diet foots delivered straight to your doorstep are also gaining popularity amongst busy professionals who want to lose weight and stay healthy.

The Zone Diet, authored by Dr. Barry Sears, is actually a “lifelong hormonal control strategy.” Because you maintain your insulin levels, you can keep your weight at a desirable minimum. You can also protect yourself from damaging diseases such as diabetes.

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Ask any health or fitness expert for the essential principles of a safe but effective diet plan, and all of them will tell you to lower intake of the bad stuff like foods high in calories, fats, and sugar while increasing intake of the good stuff like fruits and vegetables. Repackage that into a mathematical formula which allows you to eat more and you’ll get the Volumetrics Eating Plan.

The Beginnings of a New Diet
Volumetrics is a concept spawned from mostly laboratory research conducted by Dr. Barbara Rolls, director of Pennsylvania State University’s Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior and a professor on nutrition.

She first introduced the theory of Volumetrics in her 2000 The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan together with her co-writer Robert A. Barnett. A more detailed explanation followed in 2005 when she came up with The Volumetrics Eating Plan, a book that not only included background explanations for the theory but practical home recipes as well to help users adhere to the rules of Volumetrics.

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The Slim-Fast weight loss program has long been around, and consists of using a series of shakes, each with their own specific nutritional composition, to replace meals. These meal-replacement beverages, known as MRs to people interested in weight loss programs, have long been shown by various scientific studies to truly induce weight loss.

The Slim-Fast program works best for men, who do not have the time to count calories in the food that they eat. Reducing the number of calories can indeed shave off a few extra pounds, but keeping track of calories can be tiring. Slim-Fast has long been shown to be foolproof, as the calorie count of each shake is well-quantified, and all that Slim-Fast program members have to do is drink a specific shake at a specific time.

Slim-Fast products can be bought over the counter, and contain about two hundred calories for each serving. These products are also fortified with vitamins and minerals. Each shake can replace about a meal or two each day, and need only to be mixed with milk or water to be consumed.

In a recent study of Slim-Fast products, doctors compared patients using the Slim-Fast diet with patients using ordinary low-calorie diets. Doctors found that people on the Slim-Fast diet could lose as much as seven to eight percent of their total body weight after about twelve months – roughly the same amount you would lose if you were taking a weight-loss drug, but without the side effects. On the other hand, people who ate low calorie diets lost around three percent of their total body weight in the same amount of time.

Slim-Fast also works well in the long term. According to a decade-long study, people who replaced two meals with Slim-Fast shakes each day, and then replaced one meal with the shake when they reached goal weight, lost as much as seven pounds in the ten years even while on high fat diets. Moreover, they kept the seven pounds off through the entire study.

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Weight Watchers has proven throughout the years that this is a weight loss diet which actually works. It helped millions of Americans lose the unwanted points. Be it their first diet or they have already tried other plans prior to this, Weight Watchers provide the excellent results possible to anyone.

The secret to Weight Watchers’ success is the fact that it is instilled in the lifestyle of the individual. By teaching him or her healthy diet, then losing those excess pounds will be a cinch. Of course, the clients are given the option to choose which diet they prefer. They have the liberty to choose which one works best for them.

For 2007, Weight Watchers reached a turn around. Management has enhanced the plan in order to meet more needs of their clients. They’ve also included new options that are appropriate for the program, therefore making it fresh and upbeat.

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