Just for curiosities sake - Calorie Calculator

    Ever wonder how many calories you burn during certain activities?  Click on the link below to see what your energy expenditure is when you do anything from sitting to karate!

Physical Activity Calorie Calculator

Diet Fad ALERT!! SENSA...is it worth your money??

I think that we all know that when we're up late watching TV most of the commercials that are on are for some weight loss product that is so amazing and will help you lose all the weight you want without any effort! This is a new one that I saw the other night and found it quite humorous.....




 Now I hope that after watching this clip it brought some questions to mind.  Any time you see any commercial weight loss product please ask yourself some questions before believing in what they're trying to force feed you.  More than likely with commercial weight loss systems, if it sounds too good to be true it more than likely is.  If these weight loss approaches worked everyone would be using them and Americans would no longer have to suffer from the obesity epidemic we are currently dealing with.  Check out this next video of a girl that bought SENSA and see what she has to say about it......




This is a classic diet product.  It seems great...you can eat whatever you want and not add any physical activity to your day and still lose weight, as long as you simply sprinkle some of this magic weight loss dust on all your food.  I hate to burst your bubble but this is not going to be the product to help anyone lose weight and keep it off.  Their main objective is to get you to buy the product..lose some weight...stop taking it...gain some weight back..and then buy their product again.   

They just want your money...don't give it to them!

I must say that the basis for this product does make sense, by tasting and smelling our food it does help us consume less food.  The only thing is...you don't need diet sprinkles to make you practice this technique and from what you saw in the second video the sprinkles change the taste of your food....YUCK!

Be aware and awake at your plate.  Recognize that you are eating, and find pleasure in your food.  These concepts may seem minor but they truly make a huge difference.

High FACT Diets

It is so hard to know who or what to listen to when it comes to weight loss and nutritional advice. One source says one thing, while another is saying the complete opposite...how do we get it straight?

What it really comes down to is we need to listen to OURSELVES. What a scary, confusing concept to actually trust our own body's to tell us when we are full and done eating.

"Animals instinctively know what to eat. So do we. We just don't know that we know this." - Marc David

Inside our gastrointestinal tract we have over one hundred million nerve cells (that's more than in the spinal cord!) that send messages up to the brain informing it of what nutrients it needs to eat and how to metabolize them.

This means that the gut-brain tells the head-brain what it wants...but most of us don't pay attention to this.

Try tuning into your gut-brain and see if you can eat to the point of energy instead of to the point of full. Leave your meal before you are filled with food. You may still feel a little hungry, but use that hunger and desire for more food into the next thing you do after your meal.

Upset stomach, heartburn, stress-induced digestive shutdown, feeling tired, sluggish, unfocused, and heavy are all symptoms that can be associated with eating to the point of full. Feel lighter, more focused, and more energized if you eat to the point of energy instead. In turn, it can lead to a lower caloric intake and weight loss, simply by being more aware of what and how much we are eating.

Stop listening to others and listen to yourself, because no one knows what you need more than you.

*Live, eat, and believe in yourself*