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Belly Dance for College

When I was in college about 4 years ago, I found out that I needed a gym credit in order to graduate. I looked at my options and saw that belly dance was

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Stressful on South Beach

South Beach diet has the ability to be a successful diet if you have the time to plan, shop and stay organized with your foods. It also has the ability

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Weight Watchers- good for NORMAL people!

I first tried WEIGHT wATCHERS AFTER THE BIRTH OF MY YOUNGEST CHILD. I DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF WEIGHT TO LOSE AT THAT STAGE (8KG). I BOUGHT THE POINTS COUNTER

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Great results from atkins for 2 years...then down hill!

I was on Atkins for about 2 years. I lost 80 pounds, felt great, looked great and was even healthier when it came to checking my blood work. After I

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Slim-Fast Failure

I tried the Slim-Fast diet for about a month. I had a shake for breakfast and lunch, and a bar for a snack. It was fairly easy in theory as I liked the

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Nutrisystem fail...

I guess I'll start with how I found out about Nutrisystem. I saw the commercial on TV and thought it has to be to good to be true, but I fell for it anyways,

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Experience with yoga

This happened a year ago when I was 20, pursuing my 3rd year in engineering. I had put on a lot of weight whereby I looked clumsy. Then I came across

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Spinning is tough!

The toughest workout that I have ever done would have to be spinning. My girlfriend talked me into a spinning class last month and it was very demanding.

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Struggling to Start Back Up After Bariatric Surgery

I had bariatric surgery and knew I needed to start my exercise routine. I had gotten to 325 pounds and had not really walked or exercised in years.

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After I quit smoking

I quit smoking a little over 6 months ago, and my toughest month was the first month following. That month I started biking on a daily basis. For someone

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Tai Chi for the first time.

Hello, my name is Gretchen and I would like to share my story about learning Tai Chi and how it has changed my life. First off, I would like to start

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Tae Bo advanced cardio and strength training.

Billy Banks is a seven-time world martial arts champion. He has his own training center in Los Angeles. He has put together several workouts. I have

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Cabbage soup diet is not recommended

I heard about the cabbage soup diet online. Some people were claiming that they lost a few pounds in as many days. I wanted to lose weight quickly as there

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Body-For-Life working and wonderful!

I tried the Body-For-Life diet after my uncle used it to get back into shape after he quit the military. He realized excellent results, and as I had always

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Pulldowns -- 50 kilos is not easy!

The toughest workout I have ever done was when I was working as an expat in Thailand. I was never very serious about working out but one of my friends

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Spinning Almost Killed Me - But it was good!

I was only about 17 and I had just joined the gym for the first time. The buzzword at the time was spinning. I thought how tough can it be? All you

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Special K diet = hunger

So, I was at home when I saw a commercial for the Special K diet. The lady on the commercial seemed happy, and it promised weight loss. All you had to

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I hate The Skinny Bitch Diet

I read the book Skinny Bitch, because i liked the title, and because i had looked for the book for so long i decided i was going to go through with giving

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Slim Fast worked for me

Slim fast seemed to work for me – I like milkshakes and beverages though – so I guess any diet that consisted of just milkshakes would have worked for

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Best results from Eat Clean Diet

I am not a yo-yo dieter by any means, and I don't rush out or jump into the newest diet fads out there. However, during my pregnancy with my second son,

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Weight Watchers The "real life diet"

Since I was about 12 I struggled with the up's and downs of weight gain. During my later teen years, and early 20's I had my weight pretty well under control.

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The Special K Diet works wonders!

I had heard a lot about the Special K Diet from friends and through television commercials. Since I was carrying some holiday weight I thought of giving

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Atkins Food Restrictions Worried Me

I tried the Atkins Diet. All my teacher friends were on it and claiming to be getting amazing results. So, I only needed to lose about ten pounds and

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It was right in front of my face the whole Time!

My hubby and I tried SO many, too many, diets. A dietitian. Cleveland Clinic was disgusting -- much like Atkins. The 48 hour Cleanse. Weight Watchers --

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"The No-Energy Diet", better known as the Atkins Diet.

After gaining the infamous Freshman 15 at college, I decided to jump on the bandwagon and try the Atkins Diet. From the way people were talking about it,

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I failed on Weight watchers, succeeded with my version of Skinny Bitch.

I tried Weight Watchers when I was still in high school. I joined with my stepmother, and started out really excited. I could eat ANYTHING I wanted as

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Special K Diet - hard but worthy

I recently tried the Special K diet. What most people don't realize is that you can eat a lot of different food on this diet. For the first few days I

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First Time Around the South Beach Diet was Great

My husband and I both went on the South Beach Diet. The first few days were difficult from cutting that much sugar out. I have never craved sugar before

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Felt good on the Zone – and even lost weight!

After finally recognizing that I have a low blood sugar problem that made me feel drained and uninspired all the time, I began searching for a diet that

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Sand Dunes in Manhattan Beach

The most difficult workout that I have ever done was probably climbing up sand dunes in Manhattan Beach, California. In that city there is a park with

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