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Posted: Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:00 am | Updated: 12:50 pm, Sun Mar 25, 2012.

Together Kristy and Alvan Duckworth have shed about 140 pounds, gotten high blood pressure and other health issues under control and say they are feeling better and more energized than ever.

But just a couple of years ago, that was not the case. They were overweight and were each facing the health consequences that often come with carrying around those extra pounds.

The focus of the Duckworths lives had quickly turned to caring for their son, Andrew, 5, when he was diagnosed with autism several years ago.

Everything else in our lives pretty well shut down then, Kristy said. We pretty well lost sight of everything else.

In their case, the everything else included their health. The Duckworths weight slowly climbed, and high blood pressure came along with the weight gain.

We were about as unhealthy as you can get, Kristy said. We didnt want to burden our families if something should happen to us, and we wanted to be in good health for our kids.

Regaining control of their own health became a priority so that they could focus on taking care of themselves and their children, Andrew, and his sister, Mackenzie, 8.

We just decided to make a change it was a hard thing to do but we decided we were going do it, she said. They both had full time jobs in addition to family duties Kristy works in the education field while Alvan was an engineer.

The couple joined the Good Shepherd Institute of Healthy Living and set about participating in classes and boot camps.

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Julia Kozerski's photo is called "Vestige" from her series "Half."

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(CNN) -- When Julia Kozerski saw a camera, she would duck and dodge out of the way. She'd hide behind other people or offer to take the picture to avoid being photographed.

"It was an embarrassment, somebody having that photograph," she said, who at her heaviest weighed 338 pounds. "They told the truth. It haunts you."

But when Kozerski got married in 2009, she had to face the camera for obvious reasons, as every bride does.

"I hadn't taken a photo in 10 years," she said.

When she saw her wedding pictures, Kozerski said, "I didn't see that happiness. I saw someone scared of the camera -- that wasn't me."

Her inhibitions about being photographed are upended in her self-portraits chronicling her weight-loss, called "Half."

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In a society where perfection and Photoshop are givens, Kozerski disrobes and photographs herself just the way she is -- no makeup, no clothes, no hairstyles, no computer tricks to nip and tuck.

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A revealing journey as a woman reduces weight by half

Fitness expert Jackie Warner wants you to know you can lose "10 Pounds in 10 Days." She gave "Extra" some great tips from her new book on how to do it!

"The key to fast weight loss is you have to increase your calories each 10-day phase," Warner said.

Warner explained what foods work best when trying to lose weight. "You have to have apples. They contain superstar ingredient pectin, major fat burner. Another one would be grapefruit. Also eat eggs. I suggest two whole eggs a day, which actually lowers cholesterol. Oatmeal for the fiber and chicken, which has tons of amino acids."

The trainer also highlighted the bad foods. "Get rid of all white flours, all white breads, white rice. All cookies, pretzels, crackers, croutons -- these are things to dump."

And of course, you need to exercise, which Warner said you must do every day. "You can make 20 minutes a very effective workout if you combine into supersets."

What's the biggest mistake people do when they start to diet and exercise? "They starve themselves," replied Warner. "When I train morbidly obese clients, the thread of commonality is they were all starving themselves and then they were so starving for dinner. They'd consume mindlessly eating 5,000-7,000 calories, and guess what, folks. It's not hard to do. Don't starve yourself."

Make sure to check out Jackie's new book, "10 Pounds in 10 Days" -- and learn more on her official website!

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FORT WASHINGTON, Pa., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Nutrisystem, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTRI) revealed the findings of a new survey indicating more than half (59%) of Americans, or about 138 million people, don't feel ready for bathing suit season with almost one-quarter (24%) indicating they feel pressure to lose weight.

Nutrisystem/Harris Interactive 2012Spring Dieting Season Poll indicates:

Sixty-seven (67%) of womendon't feel ready for bathing suit season.

Only half of men (50%) feel "ready" for bathing suit season, though they are significantly more confident than women (33%), especially after age 45.

Single U.S. adults indicate a slightly higher level of "readiness" than married U.S. adults (50% vs. 39%).

Those who live in the West (29%) are significantly more likely to feel pressure to lose weight than those who live in the Northeast (20%).

Feeling the HeatAs the weather warms and bathing suit catalogs and in-store displays surface across the country, Americans are feeling theproverbialheat when it comes to getting "bathing suit-ready." Nutrisystem customers who follow the program's low Glycemic Index (GI) meal plan, have -- in the past decade alone -- lost over an estimated70 million pounds. Some "pressure" can serve as incentive, especially if it's the trigger to start a proven, structured program. As opposed to "winging it," which is what 40% of respondents admitted doing as a default diet strategy.

No More Winging It"The problem with winging it is there's no structure," explainsAnthonyFabricatore, Ph. D., a psychologist and Senior Director of Research and Development at Nutrisystem. "Without a clear plan, it's too easy to rationalize choices that are inconsistent with weight control." According to a survey conducted by National Business Research Institute, dieters following a Nutrisystem program reported losing 43% more weight than people dieting on their own.

Additional Nutrisystem/Harris Poll results reveal:

Two out of five (40%) of Americans admit they "wing it" (i.e., don't stick to a formal program) when it comes to dieting.

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In "The Drop 10 Diet," Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of SELF magazine, shares her dietary tips for fast, effective and disciplined weight loss. Here's an excerpt.

What if there were a whole new way of eating that could slim you down, enhance your health, increase your energy, and help you feel full, satisfied, and happy with the food on your plate? Now there isand youre holding the key. By following the diet and advice in this book, you can change your body, your health, and your lifeall without giving up foods you love or ever feeling deprived. Whether you want to lose 10, 20, 50 pounds, or more, these pages contain the easy tools to help you achieve your goal in a way that fits your lifestyle.

Are you in your twenties and establishing your own independent, adult eating habits? In your thirties and struggling to lose baby weight? In your forties and wondering when youll ever find the time to eat well? Or are you fifty-plus and looking to achieve your optimal weight in order to stay healthy? Whatever your age, food preferences, or lifestyle, the simple solution is to add more super foods to your plate and watch the pounds melt off. Thats it. No fads, extreme calorie cutting, or banned foodsin fact, by continuing to eat your favorite treats, you are more likely to win at weight loss. All youll give up is extra, unwanted pounds.

Heres the secret: Weve identified thirty everyday foods that contain specific ingredients scientifically proven to help turn on your bodys fat-burning powers, rev up your metabolism, tame your appetite, and curb overeating. Eat more of these super foods, and your body is primed to drop extra weight. Best of all, you choose how you lose. Add some or all of the superfoods to your current diet (well give you tons of easy tips) or follow our step-by-step meal plan (with recipes or no-cook optionsyou pick) to shed 10 pounds in five weeks. Have more to lose? Keep going until you reach your personal target. When youre done, use our easy tips to tweak the plan so you can easily maintain your healthy new habits and weight loss for good.

Ready to get started? Say hello to the first day of your slimmer, superfoods way of life!

Redefining Diet

On the Drop 10 plan, you can forget everything you think of when you see or hear the word diet. Deprivation? It doesnt apply here. Hunger pangs? Not on the menu. Cravings? We help you indulge them and show you how doing so will improve your odds of meeting your weight loss goals. This plan is like no other: We actually encourage you to eat more in order to weightless. So many diets fail because they ask you to change everything at once and put your favorite foods off-limits; some ask you to drastically reduce calories, cut out entire food groups, or even skip solid food all together. (A cleanse? Thats for the shower!) The Drop 10 diet works because it helps you trim down with every bite you take, not by telling you to stop taking them. From here on, dietand this one in particularis not a four-letter word, and its not something you are on or that you break. Its the total of everything you feed your body, and it offers an incredible opportunity to live life at your healthy best. And that means slimmer and happier, too.

Why This Plan Will Work for You

Studies show that in a depressing 63 to 80 percent of cases, dieters end up gaining back the weight they lose and often more. They typically either cannot sustain restrictive programs or find that menu plans are not practical in the real worldin your world, where you need to grab a fast lunch at work, juggle feeding yourself and your family at night, and fit in fun get-togethers with friends. By not taking into account how you live, most diets set you up to fail at every turn. But the flexible Drop 10 diet creates opportunities for you to succeed with every bite, thanks to three key, groundbreaking elements:

1. The super foods that fight fat. This program hinges on thirty delicious, fat-fighting foods that youll want to add to your diet. Theyre ordinary items, some of which may be in your kitchen right now. But each possesses extraordinary properties that work against fat to help you lose weight. (You can skip ahead if you cant wait for the incredible details on how they do it!) But thats only part of the story. The foods are wholesome and packed with nutrients; by eating more of them, you will automatically begin crowding out the processed snacks and meals that are staple of the American diet and play a huge role in our obesity crisis and related health struggles. Bottom line: These foods give you thirty chances to get ahead in weight loss simply by eating, not by saying no!

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March 15, 2012

A study published in the journal Obesity reveals that parents of obese children can lead by example in regards to a childs weight loss. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota conducted the research and found that when parents lost weight, their children were more likely to follow suit.

We looked at things such as parenting skills and styles, or changing the home food environment, and how they impacted a childs weight, said Kerri N. Boutelle, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at UC San Diego and Rady Childrens Hospital-San Diego. The number one way in which parents can help an obese child lose weight? Lose weight themselves. In this study, it was the most important predictor of child weight loss.

The statistics are somewhat shocking. According to recent data, 31 percent of United States children are overweight or obese. This percentage equates to nearly 4 to 5 million children. Doctors define obesity to be 20% over normal weight. This means if a childs normal weight is 100 pounds, then weighing 120 pounds would put them in the obese category.

Parents looking to encourage healthy eating habits are fighting an uphill battle. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention have conducted studies that show popular fast food restaurants are often located in close proximity to schools. Of the 1,292 schools and 613 fast food restaurants included in the study, 35% of the schools were within a five minute walk of a fast food restaurant. More than 80% of schools had at least one fast food restaurant within a ten minute walk.

In order to combat childhood obesity, doctors recommend treatment programs that include both the parent and the child in order to combine nutrition education with exercise and behavior therapy techniques.

Parents are the most significant people in a childs environment, serving as the first and most important teachers, said Boutelle They play a significant role in any weight-loss program for children, and this study confirms the importance of their example in establishing healthy eating and exercise behaviors for their kids.

While conducting research for this study, the doctors looked at eighty parent-child groups with an obese child between the ages of 8 to 12. These groups participated for 5 months in either parent-only or parent-plus-child treatment programs.

The researchers then focused on evaluating the effectiveness on three types of parenting skills taught during family-based behavioral treatment for childhood obesity and the subsequent impact on the childs weight. Parents either modeled behavior to promote their own weight loss, changed the food environment at home, or changed their parenting style and techniques, limiting when and what the child could eat and encouraging them to exercise and be active.

After looking at the data from these studies, the researchers found that the only consistent predictor of a childs weight loss was the parents weight loss and drop in BMI. This new research confirms previously published research.

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SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Yahoo! and Crisp Media (www.crispmedia.com), a mobile advertising media, technology, and services company, announced today the launch of Singapore Health Promotion Boards (HPB) mobile rich media campaign, Lose to Win. This first of its kind mobile campaign, which is powered by Crisp Media and running on Yahoo! Mobile in Singapore, was created by OMD to amplify mobile video views and Facebook interactivity for HPBs Lose to Win 3 programme.

Since its inception in 2009, Lose to Win (LTW) has been a highly successful holistic weight-loss programme, which has helped over 1,000 Singaporeans lose weight and regain their health in a safe way. This year, the LTW campaign is focusing on social media as its key platform in delivering the exciting weight-loss transformations and personal journeys of participants who are committing themselves to learn and adopt healthy lifestyles, in a personal way. These weekly videos, which also feature nutrition, physical activity and mental wellness tips that are beneficial to viewers; are shared on the Facebook Lose to Win page and HPBs YouTube channel.

To bring the LTW campaign closer to the public and conveniently at their fingertips, OMD tapped Crisp to create a compelling campaign that leveraged Yahoo!s popular properties on mobile and extended the reach of LTW into mobile arena. This effort was designed to increase mobile video views and encourage users to Like the programme on Facebook. The mobile campaign uses three rotating creative executions, which feature 10-second video clips that auto-play in the Crisp Adhesion banner using Crisp Teaser Video technology. Users can tap on the banner to expand the ad to full screen, where they can watch the entire video, Like the Lose to Win Facebook page or watch more videos on Youtube.

The messages that we push out to the public can no longer be static information. We need our messages to be interesting, personal, relevant, sophisticated and most importantly, mobile. In keeping up with this fast-paced world, were making the Lose To Win message viral with dynamic social media tools. Users will be able to view videos of participants, get health tips, cheer participants on and leave comments while they are on the go. We believe that by engaging with our audience and allowing them to interact with participants, they will realise that they play a part in participants success. This way, we hope to inspire them, too, to live healthier lifestyles, said Vernon Vasu, Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications Division, Health Promotion Board.

This campaign marks a major milestone for Crisp as our first rich media campaign to run in Singapore since opening our APAC office last year, stated Rosalind Tan, General Manager of Crisp Media APAC. With the intense interest we are seeing in mobile rich media, this campaign marks the beginning of a groundswell in mobile rich media advertising in APAC.

According to Prajit Prakash, Ad Products Manager for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, A significant trend this year in Singapore is the integration of mobile platform into advertising campaigns. Government bodies are often advocates of long-term social changes and the keen adoption of the mobile platform is a reflection of how powerful such ad tools are in communicating with the mass audience and in shaping peoples opinions.

He added, Yahoo has collaborated with a number of brands across Asia including Subaru, Shu Uemura and Ocean Park to craft mobile marketing strategies that help advertisers reach their targeted audiences and build brands across platforms, devices, and apps.

The campaign will run on Yahoo!s mobile properties until end April.

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Q: When I got married, I was a slim 62, but Ive gained a lot of weight. My wife gained about 20 pounds but recently lost that and more. Ive been as high as 265, but Im now at 238 and losing about a pound a week, which isnt fast enough for my wife. When I contemplate going on a stricter diet, what comes to mind is feeling angry, tired, and hungry at my high-stress job. My wife said that I obviously love food more than her, and that if I wont lose weight for her, maybe Ill do it for our boys. She considers me self-centered and narcissistic because Im not losing enough weight, and I consider her self-centered and narcissistic for framing every argument in terms of what she wants and isnt getting. What do you think? Does being overweight mean you dont love your significant other?

Fatso

A: Some women just cant appreciate their husbands collections: comic books, shot glasses, broken-down cars, chins.

Theres your wife, wagging a carrot stick at you, telling you that if you loved her youd be surviving on iceberg lettuce sandwiches or going on the Drink Your Own Urine Diet whatever it takes to drop flab fast. Probably because weight loss seems easier for her, she assumes youre lazy and self-indulgent. Shes now trying to guilt-ivate you into losing weight (Picture your children fatherlessDoritobreath), which is more helpful than voicing the other thing shes probably thinking: I dont want to have sex with you; I want to harpoon you.

Chances are, the problem isnt that your diet isnt strict enough as in, you should be sniffing celery sticks instead of eating them but that youve been following the obesity-causing dietary science promoted by the government and much of the medical establishment. The weight loss diet they advise high-carb, low-fat is actually a weight-gain diet. Also, as Dr. Mary Dan Eades, co-author of The Protein Power Lifeplan, writes, Study after study has shown the low fat diet to be a failure in treating obesity, in solving diabetes, in reducing blood pressure or in decreasing heart disease risk.

Investigative science journalist Gary Taubes spent more than a decade digging through the body of research on diet. As he writes in Why We Get Fat, the evidence shows that it is carbohydrates from sugar, flour, easily digested starchy vegetables like potatoes, and juice and beer that cause the insulin secretion that puts on fat. So, if you want to drop pounds and not just one a week but like theyre stones falling off a truck eat low-carb/high-fat foods like cheeseburgers. Even bacon cheeseburgers. (Just see that you feed the bun to the pigeons.)

Unfortunately, it seems your love handles have become resentment handles. Some of the ill will between you may melt away as you lose the gut that Ding Dongs and Mountain Dew built, but it points to a bad pattern. You dont win marital arguments by clinging to how right you are and how wrong your spouse is; you win by working together to make things as right as you can for both of you (us first instead of me first). Some problems arent solvable, but youll be more able to shrug off an impasse if youre consistently putting yourselves in each others place. Thats the spirit that keeps you from striking out in revenge for example, by insisting youre on the Zone diet (but not mentioning that its the zone from the outermost wall of Dunkin Donuts to the outermost wall of Cinnabon).

Q: Im trying to start a relationship with a woman, but I cant stop thinking about my last girlfriend. I want a family (eventually), so I couldnt marry her. She already has two children, which is a dealbreaker for me, and has other baggage: debt and baby daddy drama. But, we developed a deep love, and Im having a hard time getting over her.

Stuck

A: It was the best of times, it was the best of times. And its called selective remembering. Your mental projector keeps playing this loop of your ex trying on lingerie. There are never any misty shots of the repo man or your ex emerging from the mist to chase the baby daddy with a big cleaver. And where are the little mind movies of her children? Or as you call them, dealbreakers, not dealbenders. Keeping this woman as your fantasy girlfriend will be a wedge between you and any woman youre with in real life. To move on, harness the power of negative thinking. Sure, go ahead and indulge. Take that walk down memory lane with your ex. Just be sure you ask the cameraman to pull out to reveal the stroller youre pushing with some other guys screaming kids in it.

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(MoneyWatch) Do you have a flexible spending account? Then hurry and check your balance because most plans give you until March 15th to use the money you set aside in the previous year (2011) or lose it forever. Naturally you have all of 2012 to use the money you've saved for this year's expenses.

The good news is there are so many products and services that you can buy with flex-account dollars that the only way you could lose money is if you were unaware of your options or careless with your cash.

These are the things you can buy with your flex dollars:

Dentistry: Everything from your regular teeth cleaning to getting fillings and crowns are covered. But the health account cannot be used to buy a toothbrush or toothpaste.

Orthodontia: Kids need braces? Sign up for the flexible spending account. Most dental insurance plans exclude the bulk of orthodontia costs, but you can pay the bills with a health account which lowers your after-tax cost by 30% to 40%.

Therapy: Holiday debt hang-over getting you down? The cost of a visit (or many visits) to your psychiatrist, psychologist or psychoanalyst is covered.

Babies: Uninsured costs for everything from birth control pills to vasectomies; pregnancy tests to fertility treatments are allowable expenses. (Health care savings accounts won't pay your cost of adoption, but there's a separate tax break for that.)

Vision: Eye glasses, contacts and Lasik surgery can be paid for with health care account dollars.

Braille: You can use your health account to buy books and magazines in Braille. The cost of a guide dog is also an allowable expense.

Alternative treatments: Your health insurance might not pay for a visit to an acupuncturist, chiropractor or Christian Science Practioner, but your flexible spending health account can.

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You don't have to swap hamburgers for salads. Why you may shed more pounds if you focus less on eating healthier and more on simply not eating more

The anti-obesity messages are becoming mind-numbingly familiar: smaller portions. Less fried food. Fewer sodas. Its all true, but it has become mere background noise. Yes, fast-food companies have spectacular ad budgets (even as I write this article about horrifying obesity trends, I want that $10 Pizza Hut dinner box, the one that comes with a medium pizza and no fewer than 16 bread sticks). We livein a nation that can turn a lint-roller into an infomercial juggernaut. So why cant we sell healthy eating?

A study appearing this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests a new idea. Maybe we should stop asking people to change or even limit their diets. Lets admit that no one really wants edamame more than Pizza Hut, and that when the Pizza Hut guy gets to the door, no one wants to see him carrying anything smaller than a Dinner Box. Instead, lets start with a simpler suggestion: just dont eat more than you do now.

This strategy wont solve the obesity problem, but it could help us to keep from getting any bigger. For two years, Gary Bennett of Duke Universitys Psychology & Neuroscience department and eight colleagues followed 365 obese patients who had already developed hypertension. The researchers chose not only a physically unhealthy population but one that was also struggling socioeconomically. Bennett says no participant in his study was earning more than $25,000 a year. The Duke team wanted to work with the poor because those with money can already afford to pick halibut and asparagus over hamburger and fries. For the poor, getting fresh fish and vegetables can mean a long bus ride and a weeks pay making health not only psychologically but also financially difficult.

(MORE: U.S. Obesity Rates Remain Stubbornly High)

The 365 patients were recruited from community-health centers and then randomly divided into two groups. The first group received whatever usual weight-loss care was provided at the center: typically a combination of one-on-one advice and then some take-home material that might include steps to follow on how to exercise more and eat better. Those in the first group also had the opportunity to schedule future appointments to talk about weight loss. Most did not.

The participants in the other group got roughly the same amount of time with a counselor and similar advice on how to lose weight. But they were also given the opportunity to receive monthly counseling calls from educators trained in the principles of motivational interviewing a well-studied method of cognitive therapy. And the participants in the second group were given the option of attending a monthly group session where they could share personal stories. But in order to keep the program inexpensive, the participants werent given specific diets. They didnt have to follow calorie counts or avoid certain foods, although they were repeatedly asked during the phone calls and in the group meetings not to eat more than they already did.

This approach has some advantages: even a cash-poor community clinic can set up a monthly call and occasional group meetings. This approach also has some disadvantages, chiefly that few participants actually lost much weight. After two years, those in the intervention arm of the study had lost only an average of 2.2 lbs (1 kg) compared with those in the control group. The amount wasnt statistically significant.

(MORE: Americas Obesity Crisis: Why We Eat)

But whats important is that most of the participants who got the automated calls and went to the meetings didnt gain weight and they showed significant improvement in their blood-pressure scores compared to those in the control group. People in this population tend to gain weight year after year, typically one to three pounds per year, says Bennett. Its very hard for anyone to lose weight, but we seem to have found a strategy that can help people at least not to put on more weight.

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