He’d known it for years; he needed to lose weight. But as he sat in the doctor’s office a few weeks ago and listened to his numbers — cholesterol and blood pressure, both too high — he resolved to change. This time, he decided to do something different, something drastic. After 10 years of talking about losing weight without much success, Romig decided to put his health and family first by leaving his high-pressure politics job.
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Beyonce’s Bootylicious Dieting Secrets Revealed
We can’t speak to the puzzling role of exercise here, but based on our expertise in dieting, we think that the explanation may be very simple: The definition of “successful” dieting is flawed. Let’s look closely at the definition of successful dieting. The Institute of Medicine considers a diet successful if people lose just 5 percent of their starting weight and maintain that weight loss for a year. A 200-pound woman, for example, would need to lose only 10 pounds and keep it off for a year to be considered a successful dieter, even though this amount of weight loss won’t make her thin, nor is it even likely to move her down a dress size. This standard is not only remarkably lax but has no medical rationale.
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Is Dieting Worth the Trouble?
In a new article from New York magazines The Cut, Rebecca Harrington chronicles her 10-day experience doing Beyonces dieting regimens. Beyonce Duets with Blind Fan in Australia Harrington lost a whopping 10 pounds in 10 days, starting with the master cleanse, a liquid-only diet made up of drinking lemonade made of cayenne pepper, lemons and grade B maple syrup nine times a day. Beyonce resuscitated that diet to lose 20 pounds for Dreamgirls, Harrington, who followed the strict diet regimen drinking the concoction nine times a day, told ABC News. Day four of the diet is the cheat day. Beyonce has a cheat day every week where she eats a lot of different things, said Harrington. She says her favorite things are pizza and wine. A cheat meal here or there will give you more incentive to be able to eat well for the long haul, personal trainer and best-selling fitness and diet pure garcinia cambogia author Harley Pasternak explained.
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