Overeating tends to be an emotional response to something. You are using eating to mask other issues in your life, just as alcoholics use alcohol, drug addicts use drugs (this includes prescription drugs), sex addicts use sex, compulsive gamblers use gambling, and shoppers shop, shop, shop. That’s why just telling you to eat less would, [...]

Currently there is controversy in health circles about whether weight-training or resistance training (RT) has benefits for fat loss and fat loss maintenance, either independently, or over and above that which may be achieved through aerobic exercise. Resistance training is a standard form of fitness training in most commercial fitness centres. Yet it is a [...]

There is also a range of other less obvious problems associated with obesity, and particularly abdominal obesity. One of these is obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). OSA is an interruption to sleep caused by blockages to the windpipe producing breathing disruption. The problem is often characterised by heavy snoring. Typically, there is a period of snoring [...]

Make no mistake: Debbee Sereduck loves her husband and her three children. But for 3 years, she refused to eat dinner with them. Sacrificing a little family togetherness was tough, but it helped Debbee take off an astounding 234 pounds. Debbee, a 38-year-old resident of Spokane, Washington, doesn’t remember a time when she was thin. [...]