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Jun 5

Wife of super-fit trainer who gained and lost 72lbs in bid to empathise with clients reveals emotional toll of radical …

By Victoria Wellman

PUBLISHED: 13:12 EST, 4 June 2012 | UPDATED: 14:27 EST, 4 June 2012

The personal trainer who gained 72lbs, in a bid to empathise with his clients, has revealed how he and his wife were stunned by the emotional toll it took on their marriage.

Drew Manning, 30, from Eagle Mountain, Utah, went from rippling muscles and a 34in waist to an obese 263lbs six moths ago, to better understand how it would feel to lose it.

In an interview today with Good Morning America to show how quickly he had returned to his former glory, wife Lynn described how radically her husband's personality had changed with his body.

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Still together: Drew Manning's wife told ABC how hard it was to watch her the personal trainer pile on 72lbs in six months and how he became a different person because of the weight gain

Though the experiment was inspired by physical appearance, Mrs Manning admitted that her husband, a usually hands-on father, became lazy.

'I was shocked because I really thought this was only going to be a physical transformation, that Drew was going to pack on the weight and lose it because it was "on purpose",' the mother-of-two said.

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Jun 3

Media All-Stars 2010

Maybe it's just we who are feeling older, but has anyone else noticed how suddenly peach-faced the media industry looks? No accident, that. With most every advertiser and brand marketer clamoring for their nanosecond of fame in the new media universe, it's pretty clear that agencies have turned to the next generation to help unlock that elusive door to digital stardom. Enter the digital nativists -- youngsters who grew up with a mouse instead of a rattle. Would you be surprised to know that this is the youngest class of Media All-Star winners that AdweekMedia has ever honored? You shouldn't be.

Consider that two of this year's honorees aren't out of their 20s. Beth Doyle, our Rising Star at 28, spearheads VivaKi's The Pool project, charged with creating the next generation of ad plays on emerging media. Starcom's Karen Umeki (one year her junior) is working with magazines like Rolling Stone on experimental ad placements that offer more cut-through value than static pages.

Other All Stars are creaking along in their early and (gasp) even mid-30s. Razorfish's Paul Gelb, 30, was actually nominated as a Rising Star, but his creative drive in creating a mobile practice for his agency demonstrated a wisdom beyond his years (especially because mobile, rumored to be on the verge of exploding for years now, finally seems to be doing just that). As one colleague put it, Gelb "was doing mobile before mobile was cool." Even Mindshare's Phil Cowdell, our exec of the year who's snared $2 billion in new client business, is only 46.

But the central fact here is actually not the youth of the winners, but the youth of digital itself, which, as everyone knows, is fast rewriting the media-buying rule book. Keeping atop the changes doesn't require a fresh face so much as a fresh approach -- and the talent to generate innovation, recast agency culture and create breakout work. That's what Targetcast tcm co-founders Steve Farella and Audrey Siegel have done by placing the digital team at the center of the company's new offices. It's why MagnaGlobal president Elizabeth Herbst-Brady has tapped new research and analysis methodologies. And it's why Hill Holliday veteran Karen Agresti has expanded her view on local broadcast to include multiple new platforms.

Which is good news for everyone with a 4 or a 5 in front of his age. Media execs may be looking a lot younger, but adaptation and creativity are still -- and always will be -- what you need to succeed.

MEDIA ALL STARS 2010: EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR: Phil Cowdell, Mindshare

Lauren Barbara, Chrysalis

David Campanelli, Horizon Media

Karen Umeki, Starcom USA

Dave Rosner, Initiative

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May 31

Jessica Simpson confirms Weight Watchers partnership

When a celebrity gives birth the first question asked is: when will the media get a picture of the infant? The second is: how quickly will the new mom lose the baby weight?

After the release of her daughters first pictures to People magazine, Jessica Simpson only has the latter question to answer. She may not be able to give an exact time frame for her weight loss, but she is able to reveal how she will go about dropping the pregnancy pounds.

Simpson, who welcomed daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson four weeks ago, took to Twitter to confirm the news that she will be teaming up with Weight Watchers to get back her pre-baby body.

This is the first confirmation of the news since it was reported in November 2011 that Simpson was negotiating a $4 million deal with the company.

Us Weekly reports that the Fashion Star mentor is currently recovering from a C-section but once she begins her new diet and exercise regimen, she hopes to lose the weight within the year.

As soon as Jessica heals from the C-section, she is extremely determined to get back in the gym and work out, a source told Us. She wants to show the world and is excited to do it.

With a wedding in her future and other celeb moms to look to, it shouldnt be a struggle for the five-foot-three star to stay motivated. In fact, she previously tweeted how inspiring her good friend Jessica Albas body after baby was, after seeing pictures of Alba, 31, sporting a bikini just four months after delivering daughter Haven.

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May 30

Smartphone app can help you lose weight

Smartphone app can help you lose weight

By Tim Johnson

May 28th, 2012 @ 8:22pm

SALT LAKE CITY Being in the graphics business, the subject of weight loss was an easy one for me. Who needs gastric bypass when you've got Photoshop? It worked like a charm for the Christmas cards, but it was a little less impressive in person.

I used to be big. A lot bigger. At the pool, diving boards would scream for mercy. At Sea World, I was often mistaken for Shamu's brother. So how did I lose 40 pounds? I used my phone.

A calorie counting app on my smart phone has a database of around 30,000 foods, so you can find just about anything in there. There are hundreds of apps to choose from. (In this case, I used an app called "Lose It.") Many of them can help you record not only calorie intake, but also exercise and more.

I started exercising and keeping track of what I was eating. Whatever I ate, I recorded. Whatever I did to exercise, I recorded it. It was kind of a pain at first, but you are able to quickly learn why and where the calories are adding up, and what it takes to work it all off. You simply set up a daily "quota" for calories.

Whatever you eat/drink takes away from the total. When you exercise, you add back to that total. A hot dog would set me back 450 calories, but I could "re-deposit" those same 450 calories into my quota by getting in four miles on the treadmill. It's a math game.

Sometimes it takes a little creativity. Instead of using a two-for-one coupon for the big double jumbo burger - 1400 calories - I did a little research and found out that you can get a 12-inch sub sandwich, minus the mayo and cheese, for about 620 calories.

You don't have to necessarily give up all the foods you love, you can just replace them where you can with stuff that tastes just as good. Many times you can discover great-tasting food that you'd never considered before. Before long, your tastes change and you can see the change in the mirror.

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May 29

Five Thoughts on UFC 146: Fan’s Reaction

On Saturday, May 26, Junior Dos Santos beat Frank Mir via technical knockout in the second round to retain his UFC heavyweight title. Dos Santos's victory capped of an exciting main card in which none of the fights went to a decision.

Here are five thoughts on UFC 146:

Stefan Struve armbars Lavar Johnson

I had a feeling that this match would finish with a submission victory for Stefan Struve. I knew that Struve wanted to get this fight to the ground so that he could avoid a striking battle with Lavar Johnson. I also knew that if Struve took Johnson down, it would be over quickly. That's exactly what happened when Struve pulled guard and cinched in an armbar to force Johnson to give up. It happened so fast that Johnson didn't have enough time to react to the submission attempt. Struve deserves credit for using his physical gifts to beat a very dangerous fighter, and I can't wait to see who the UFC matches him up with next.

Stipe Miocic finds Shane Del Rosario's weakness

Stipe Miocic didn't look like he had much of a chance early in his fight against Shane Del Rosario. In fact, there were a couple points in the first round where I thought it was only a matter of time before Del Rosario knocked out him out.

However, the entire fight turned when Miocic scored a takedown on Del Rosario late in the first round. Though he let Del Rosario get up, Miocic appeared to figure out what he needed to do to win the fight. Early in the second round, he took Del Rosario down again and finished the fight with some vicious ground and pound.

Miocic's performance is a shining example of what MMA is. It's not just a fight. Miocic had to figure out how to beat Del Rosario while defending himself against some powerful leg kicks. Fans literally watched Miocic solve a puzzle in the octagon on Saturday night. I love it when I see fights like that because it really brings out what's special about this sport.

Roy Nelson stuck in the middle

This is another matchup that I thought would end early, but I wasn't expecting Roy Nelson to land his overhand right within the first minute of fight. Nelson's quick knockout victory moves him back up the heavyweight ladder, which is bittersweet for me because I'd rather see him lose some weight and drop down to the light heavyweight division. Don't get me wrong, Nelson can hold his own with the big boys of the UFC, but I don't want him to become a gatekeeper. He's too entertaining for that.

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May 29

This Is How, by Augusten Burroughs

Reviewed by Rosemary Counter From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published Monday, May. 28, 2012 5:00PM EDT

By his own admission, Augusten Burroughs is not a self-help writer. In fact, the memoirist best known for his account of ultimate familial dysfunction in Running with Scissors doesnt even like self-help. When a well-meaning stranger in an elevator suggests he might smile, or as he sees it, sprinkle baby powder on top of a turd, Burroughs declares affirmations of positivity as bogus, side-of-the-cereal-box psychology. Unlike his book, I assume.

This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More for the Young and Old Alike (did you get all that?) is equal parts self-help and anti-self-help, with a dash of memoir. Though pegged as humour, and Burroughs can nail a zinger like no one else, 28 how-to chapters quickly move from the flippant How to Ride an Elevator (see above) to a biting How to be a Good Mental Patient to a heartbreaking How to Let a Child Die.

Each chapter, despite massive topical and tonal discrepancies, spits out so-called common sense in reality, most are vague to the point of frustration for the depressed (If you hate life, you havent seen enough of it), the confused (Its hard to find what you dont know youre searching for), the unemployed (When you try to do or be something, you cant do it or be it), the shameful (Shame is a barnacle you have to find, then scrape away).

More tangible advice teeters between snark and sap. To alcoholics: To stop drinking, you stop drinking. To those feeling sorry for themselves, buck up: Even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. If youre overweight, its all mental: If you find you require willpower, you arent ready to lose weight.

And, in the chapter immediately following that, How to be Thin, Burroughs braves anorexia. I dont think the media images matter at all, to anybody, he writes, casually citing one anorexic teenager he spoke to. (Burroughs relies not on research, but on anecdotes his one fat friend, a guy he used to date, etc.) Then, he says what were all thinking: If I were an anorexic girl I would feel so fat and depressed that I would immediately want to diet.

This is the problem: Burroughs is not an anorexic girl. Perhaps its unfair to expect him a fortysomething non-anorexic male with no discernible training or expertise in the field to offer helpful insight. And then a bigger problem: Uh, who is This Is How for? Not self-help junkies (myself included) seeking the comfy self-assurance we know and love; not anorexics or alcoholics or anyone with a legitimate problem to be fixed; and not the anti-self-helpers either, as Burroughs promptly falls prey to the very same formula. And so here, he flounders.

Where Burroughs thrives, however, is when he turns back to memoir writing. How to Finish your Drink, about Burroughss 1995 stint in AA, and How to Hold on to Your Dream or Maybe Not, on Burroughs's wannabe-actor days, both work like hilarious charms. A videotape of himself performing a play written not by a writer but by a happy person who was given a typewriter for Christmas leads Burroughs to rethink his life plans: Except for the nervous twitch of my left eyelid, the motionless figure on the screen appeared to be a JC Penney mannequin, he writes.

Its this first-hand black humour Burroughss bread and butter that makes How to End Your Life, quite ironically, the life of This Is How. Theres always suicide, he casually begins, describing the goals of his 14-year-old suicidal self. Punishment of all those who made me miserable; The infliction of lifelong guilt and remorse in everyone who had ever met me; Idolization by other suicidal teenagers.

Even in this, surely one of his darkest moments, Burroughs finds the same improbable positivity that he claims to abhor. If you believe suicide will bring you peace you are displaying self-caring behaviour. That strikes me as optimistic. For someone who loathes self-help, Burroughs found it in the most obvious of places: himself. Now if only he might stick to what he knows.

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May 29

Beyonce on losing 27kg

"They had me on a treadmill. I ate lettuce" ... Beyonce tells her fans at the concert at Revel in Atlantic City. (AP Photo/Parkwood Entertainment, Robin Harper) Source: AP

Frist concerts since bith of Blue Ivy ... Singer Beyonce at Revel resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Picture: Supplied by Parkwood Entertainment. Source: Supplied

WHEN you're a pop star such as Beyonc Knowles you know you have to lose weight quickly after having a baby.

The 30-year-old wife of rapper Jay-Z gave birth to their daughter Blue Ivy nearly five months ago and knew that she had agreed to a four-concert weekend in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in May.

The weight loss would have to be extreme to squeeze into custom-made Ralph & Russo designs, including a midriff-baring, fringed two-piece adorned with Swarovski crystals.

Pictures: See Beyonc after having her baby

Beyonc and Jay-Z spend $1.5 million on baby after two days

During her second concert at Revel Beach Ovation Hall Beyonc told the audience about her post-pregnancy regime.

"Y'all have no idea how hard I worked," she told her fans.

"I had to lose 60 pounds (27kg). They had me on that treadmill. I ate lettuce!"

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May 27

KTM 200 Duke vs Yamaha R15 v2.0 vs CBR250R

How many times have you discovered a new gadget, a new workflow, a new shop or a new piece of software and thought to yourself, "Well, this changes everything!" It doesn't happen often but when it does, it is usually wonderful. The KTM 200 Duke promises to be like that. But is it? If, like me, you have read all the online reviews then you will know that most people who rode the motorcycle at the Chakan test track preview thought the world of the KTM.

The question we are finding the answer to today is simple - is the KTM as dramatic, as market-changing as the first ride suggests it should be or not?

So we called in the obvious frames of reference for the KTM. In alphabetical order, the Honda CBR250R is first. It makes the same peak power as the KTM but takes a very different route to the enthusiast's heart.

These are different motorcycles in temperament and role; it is important to establish that fundamental distinction.

It's a soft, civil, versatile, comfortable motorcycle which enjoys its sense of being large, spacious and planted. But it also commands a premium of roughly Rs 60,000 for the ABS model and Rs 25,000 for the non-ABS model over the KTM.

The other motorcycle is the Yamaha YZF-R15. The little Yamaha is a bit of a legend and is here because it is, in our eyes, the ultimate enthusiasts ride on the market today. We know from extensive experience that the R15 is friendly, forgiving and fast.

However, it has a displacement, power and consequently, a performance disadvantage here while being just Rs 6,000 cheaper than the Duke 200. Has Yamaha lost its serve in not bringing out its 250cc competitor early enough? So many questions!

Styling, build and finish

The CBR looks like a scaled down VFR. I personally don't like the VFR so I'm not particularly a fan of this design. But the CBR inescapably looks like a big motorcycle and ridden quickly in traffic creates and maintains the illusion that you are on something substantial.

It's well-finished and good looking and the sole clue to its real nature, really, is the rear tyre which looks extremely tall for its width when seen from the back and hence, a bit odd. Finish levels on the CBR are excellent and build quality is pretty good. There used to be a niggle with rusting nuts in the early batches but that has since been fixed.

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May 27

Job, economy fears mix with hope for Class of '12

It's a time when hope collides with economic reality, when the relief of that last class and the thrill of holding that diploma give way to the next big step finding a job.

For the Class of 2012, the optimism of graduation is clouded by the uncertain aftermath of the worst economic slide since the Depression.

Last year, graduates 24 and younger posted a 9.3 percent jobless rate; since then, there have been signs of progress. Unemployment averaged 7.2 percent during the first third of this year, compared with 9.1 percent in the same period in 2011. And one survey estimates that about 7 percent more new college grads will find work this year than a year ago.

But the job market is still tight, millions of people remain unemployed and graduates whether they're embarking on a career from high school, college or in mid-life are entering a work world where salaries have not rebounded since falling during the recession.

The outlook is especially grim for high school graduates: Unemployment has topped 20 percent in all but four months since the start of 2009.

For thousands of new graduates making the big transition this spring, there are pressures to find jobs quickly, pay off loans and, in some cases, start a second career, all against the backdrop of the slow-healing economy.

The speed and strength of the recovery a topic at the heart of the presidential race will help shape their future in different ways. For an aspiring teacher, for instance, it may determine how fast he gets out of debt. For a budding entrepreneur, how much money investors pour into his startup. And for an autoworker-turned-cook, how smoothly he reinvents himself.

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LEAVING THE ASSEMBLY LINE

In 15 years on the Chrysler line, Mike Szlamczynski never had reason to ponder a future with succotash, lobster bisque and fava beans.

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May 25

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