Fat 2 Fit #139 – Breaking Those Nasty Weight Loss Plateaus

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

First off, the 1 Million Kilo Challenge that we talked about in episode #138 is open to those outside of Australia.  You just have to choose the correct field when signing up. Email and comments are awesome this show.  Laura posted a link to the top 10 reasons women want to ...

Fat 2 Fit #118 – The Evils of Starvation Diets

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

We've answered a lot of questions recently about these starvation diets.  Last time it was Dr. Bernstein and this time it' s the HCG diet.  This beaut of a diet has you getting injections with hormones found in a pregnant woman.  Oh, and you also eat only 500 calories a ...

Fat 2 Fit #114 – Fitness Products That Can Make A Difference

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

We did a show a few months back about how to confront a loved one about their out of control weight.  But, we received an email from a listener that was just the opposite.  Robyn's mother is out of control pestering her about her weight.  She even goes as far ...

Fat 2 Fit #113 – Achieving Your Goals in the New Year

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Are you planning to fail on your New Years resolutions? Well, if you're like most, you've failed to plan, so that old adage will come to fruition. Without planning out your goals with specificity and deliberateness your resolution will fall by the wayside part way through the year. ...

Fat 2 Fit #110 – All Hail the Twinkie Diet

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

The Twinkie diet has gotten a lot of press recently.  A professor at Kansas State University lost 27 lbs. on a diet consisting of snack cakes of all kinds.  He did that in 10 weeks.  While that seems like an awesome way to lose weight, there was some damage done ...

Fat 2 Fit #105 – Reversing Osteopenia

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Rachel wrote in asking about losing muscle and losing bone.  You've all heard, probably from us, that as we get older we lose muscle.   But did you also know that we use bone? It's called osteopenia.  It's a natural part of aging, but it doesn't have to be.  You can ...

Fat 2 Fit #102 – Curing Disease with Weight Loss

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Every once in a while we get these great emails from listeners. They're success stories that show what good old exercise and eating healthy and moderately can do. Today's show is one such show. Listener Jeff wrote a great email that recounted his weight loss journey including ...

Fat 2 Fit #101 – Losing Weight Too Quickly

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

What do you say to someone that tells you you're losing weight too slowly?  You are in fact losing weight, just not at the pace that they would like.  Listener Robin has just such a problem.  Even her doctor wants her to use very low calorie  diet and her ...

Fat 2 Fit #97 – Orthorexia

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

If the term orthorexia is new to you, you're not alone. Orthorexia is an eating disorder characterized by excessive focus on eating healthy foods. That doesn't sound so bad, does it. But, orthorexics takes the idea to an extreme.  They have such a fixation on eating perfectly ...

Fat 2 Fit #84 – Declarations of Purposeful Objectives

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

It’s another New Year and so it’s time for another opportunity to learn how to set goals and achieve those goals. You may call them resolutions, but so often we use that term with huge lofty goals in mind.  Instead of making that unachievable resolution that will just leave you ...