Fitness

Get Low Carb Diet Help!If you want to learn about low-carb diets (e.g. the Atkins Diet, Protein Power Diet, South Beach Diet, or other low carb plans), this is a great place to start. The most important tip we can give you is this: no one diet works for every "body." In fact, we've come to believe that no one diet works for any one "body" at every stage of life. You'll fine-tune your eating plan as you learn what works for you and what doesn't. We want to help.

The route to success with low carb dieting (or any weightloss program) is to understand that you are making permanent lifestyle changes—not simply going through the motions "until you lose the weight." So stop thinking "diet" and start finding your Low Carb Zen, baby!

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If Not Now...When?

New Year's Hat

LCE is pleased to welcome Guest Author, Kate Street.

Another year has come to a close. How did you do? Did you finally lose that extra weight? Did you estatically go shopping for smaller sizes? Did you actually live up to your promises of keeping the weight off this time?

I’m Exercising – So How Come I’m Still Not Making Progress?

Measuring Up

LCE is pleased to present Guest Author, Kate Street

There’s nothing worse than finally deciding to start an exercise program (after years and years of avoiding it!) and then finding that you’re still not getting the results you want. Unfortunately, this happens all too often. But the good news is that it’s avoidable! There are many reasons that people don’t see the results they want from their exercise program – most of them just need a little tweaking. See if any of the following scenarios pertain to you:

If I Could Only Do Three Exercises...

LCE is pleased to present Guest Author, Graeme Street.

DumbbellsWhat if you only had ten minutes a day to keep yourself healthy and fit? What if you could only workout from home and you couldn't find the time to go to the gym or purchase expensive equipment? What if you were told that you could only do three exercises for the rest of your life to stay healthy, strong, and fit? You know what I would say? Great! The simpler the better!

Is The Low Carb Craze Steering Consumers Wrong? Kate Street, MS

Russell Stover "Net Carb" Candy

LCE is pleased to present Guest Author, Kate Street.   

Walk the Pounds Away!

By denise_nowell

For years now I have been overweight—well actually obese. I tried to diet with no success. I tried to exercise, just to feel like I had beed run over by a Mac truck. I tried high impact, low impact, lifting weights, you name it. It seems that anything I tried either didn't work or it was just to much for my 344 pound body to handle.

Confessions of a Low Carb Convert Kate Street, MS

Kate Street, Personal TrainerI was wrong. I admit it. In the beginning of my fitness career I encouraged my clients to follow a high-carb, low-fat diet for weight-loss and optimal health. That's what I learned in school, in my certification courses, and that's what all the other experts believed, so who was I to doubt it?