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Sweet Potato Pie

Sweet Potato Pie is a practical guide to health and fitness for African-American women. http://sweet-potatopie.blogspot.com
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Why You Just Can't Lose Weight
By: Sweet Potato Pie    3 days 1 hours 23 minutes ago
Channel: Black Life Health & Wellness Face & Style Culture & Lifestyle Scoop & Celebrity   



You step on the scale and groan at the number peeking between your toes. "I'll go on a diet today!" you think. Not so fast. Unless you are mentally ready to lose weight, any diet you try is likely doomed to failure.


In a widely accepted model of behavioral change, there are five stages of motivational readiness. If you're stuck in an early stage, your diet won't work, says registered dietician Karen Collins. Studies suggest that people may feel ready to lose weight, but if they are unprepared to alter their behavior, they'll fail, reports the American Institute for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C. in a column titled "Nutrition Notes."

The five stages of motivational readiness that can be applied to dieting, exercise, or just about anything in your life:

Stage One: Precontemplation


A person has no intention of changing.


Stage Two: Contemplation


A person intends to change--later.


Read the rest of the stages here.
Vivrant Thang blogs about live, love and music over at Songs In The Key Of Life.
Afrobella Celebrates "Beautiful Big Girls Working It Out"
By: Sweet Potato Pie    4 days 0 hours 24 minutes ago
Channel: Health & Wellness   

Afrobella, one of my favorite blogs that hopefully you are reading as well, is celebrating the beauty of the full-figured form, particularly Toccara Jones. As you may remember, Toccara was a contestant on America's Next Top Model and is now featured in the first issue of Vogue Italy to showcase all black models.
She talks about inspirational it is to seeTocarra and other full-figured Bellas like Missy and Queen Latifah slimming down for their health as opposed to trying to fit society's ideal of what a woman should look like.

Watching women like Toccara become fitter while still maintaining their curves
is inspiring to a bella who is trying to improve her health and shed some weight
by way of diet and exercise. For me, looking at photoshopped images of
Mariah, Janet, or insert-hypersexed-scantily-clad-pop star here has never worked as inspiration. Instead, I look to celebs who I can identify with, who I know must work consistently hard and sweat to achieve their goals. Read more...



Here here Bella!

Ironically, as I was losing weight I had a picture of Tocarra and Queen Latifah up as my "ideal." I never wanted to be thin and waifish. I embrace my curves and celebrate those that have them.

Kudos to those bellas working hard to regain their health and truly feel beautiful - whatever that may look like to them.


Vivrant Thang blogs about live, love and music over at Songs In The Key Of Life.
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The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1
By: Sweet Potato Pie    4 days 20 hours 42 minutes ago
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I don't know about you all, but a trip to the grocery store puts me in a major funk these days. The prices on some basic items such as bread and milk are just unreasonable compared to what they were just a year ago. I can't imagine what families with growing children are going through. Forget about shopping much at my favorite store, Whole Foods.

We won't even talk about the cost of meat. I'm a hearty carnivore and fish lover but now it's a treat to have a piece of steak, pork chops or salmon.

In my quest for alternatives, I've started going to farmers markets for fresh produce and fruit and Amish markets for meats and fresh juices. It's been a good thing as I've been rediscovering what fresh food really is.

It's never been cheap to eat healthy, but this is even more true in this economy. I fear that if we continue on this way, the obesity epidemic will get even more out of control. McDonald's Dollar Menu hasn't been affected by the economy.

Tell us about some of your cost-saving solutions for healthy eating in the comments.

Get some ideas from this article, The 20 Healthiest Foods Under $1

1. Oats
High in fiber and complex carbohydrates, oats have also been shown to lower cholesterol. And they sure are cheapa dollar will buy you more than a weeks worth of hearty breakfasts.
Serving suggestions: Sprinkle with nuts and fruit in the morning, make oatmeal cookies for dessert.

2. Eggs
You can get about a half dozen of eggs for a dollar, making them one of the cheapest and most versatile sources of protein. They are also a good source of the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, which may ward off age-related eye problems.

Serving suggestions: Huevos rancheros for breakfast, egg salad sandwiches for lunch, and frittatas for dinner.

3. Kale
This dark, leafy green is loaded with vitamin C, carotenoids, and calcium. Like most greens, it is usually a dollar a bunch.

Serving suggestions: Chop up some kale and add to your favorite stir-fry; try German-Style Kale or traditional Irish Colcannon.
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AMA Apologizes to Black Doctors
By: Sweet Potato Pie    9 days 8 hours 31 minutes ago
Channel: Health & Wellness   
From MSNBC:

CHICAGO - The American Medical Association is issuing a formal apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a group long considered the voice of U.S. doctors.

It comes more than 40 years after AMA delegates denounced policies at state and local medical societies dating to the 1800s that barred blacks. For decades, AMA delegates resisted efforts to get them to speak out forcefully against discrimination or to condemn the smaller medical groups that historically have had a big role in shaping AMA policy.
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Diet Mondays: Personal Diets, an Online Program for Weight Loss
By: Sweet Potato Pie    11 days 21 hours 33 minutes ago
Channel: Health & Wellness   

Personal Diets is an online diet program that tailors your diet regime to your lifestyle. It's cost effective and is perfect for those who want a regime they can follow that they don't have to put together themselves:

Custom Diets

PersonalDiets works by providing custom diets to people based on their lifestyle and natural eating habits. While most diet programs have specific dietary restrictions and often set times that you are supposed to eat, PersonalDiets, basis its diets on your natural way of doing things. If you like to snacke, then PersonalDiets will design a program that allows you to snack. If you dont cook often and eat out a lot, PersonalDiets will create a diet for you that will allow to continue to eat out and still lose weight.

No Exercise Needed
PersonalDiets customizes their diets based on your activity level. If youre a particularly active person than your diet will reflect your activity level and add the necessary calories for you activity level and desired weight loss goals. However, if youre a couch potato PersonalDiets creates a personal diet program that will allow you to lose weight and still maintain your couch potato ways. PersonalDiets recommends exercise, since diet and exercise is the fastest and best way to lose weight, but they recognize everyone doesnt want to or some people cant exercise, so they allow for that fact in planning your diet regime.

Expected Weight Loss With Personal Diets

Average weight loss on PersonalDiets is 1.5 pounds. Some people lose 2 pounds or more on PersonalDiet plans and others lose less. The recommended amount of weight loss per week is 1.5 pounds since slow weight loss is best over the long term and is less likely to result in you gaining the weight back. If you want to lose more weight per week you can do so as long it does healthily and within safety guidelines.

Track Your Weight Online
You can easily keep track of your progresses by using PersonalDiets online tracking tools. You can record your weight, upload food diaries and track other events pertaining to your weight loss goals. PersonalDiets guarantees its weight loss claims because it is able to track the weight of their clients via their Right-On-Track interactive weight program. They have an 85% success rate for those who follow the Right-On-Track program. PersonalDiets allows physicians and researchers to have access to their real time tracking results.

No Pills or Other Products

Unlike many other diet programs PersonalDiets doesnt require you to purchase any pills, special meals or other dietary supplements. All their custom diets are based on foods that can be brought from the grocery store or eaten at restaurants. They do recommend the use of a multi-vitamin but dont offer a special PersonalDiets multi-vitamin that has to be purchased to utilize the program.
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