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50 Pounds Lighter in 6 Months: A Real-Life Biggest Loser’s Story
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I’ve been frank in past blogs about the many issues I have with the Biggest Loser franchise, so I’ll spare you my rants in this post. Instead, in the spirit of the wildly popular show, I’ve found a real-life biggest loser…and she’s a friend of mine!
My girlfriend, Kimberly Eberl, asked me for a dietitian referral, so I suggested she see Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, in Chicago. Dawn is a colleague of mine whom I knew would have the personality and professionalism to inspire Kimberly to make some small changes that could add up to big weight-loss rewards.
After
During their initial one-on-one sessions, Dawn provided insights into Kimberly’s current diet, exercise, and overall lifestyle patterns to identify the ways in which Kimberly was sabotaging her diet and health. She also focused on how you can use positive messaging and self-talk—rather than being down on yourself for slipping up—to keep your entire weight-loss journey positive and rewarding, rather than a big bummer.
Armed with meal plans, a daily calorie limit, and healthy shopping lists and tips from Dawn, Kimberly made several changes that have added up to, well, big weight-loss rewards.
She started to follow a balanced, 1,500-calorie-a-day plan filled with healthy fruits, vegetables, and lean protein, and lots and lots of water and other calorie-free fluids. Since she was used to eating about 2,500 calories or more per day and had basically been sustaining her current weight, Dawn calculated that the new plan of 1,000 fewer calories a day should result in a safe, 2-pound-per-week weight loss. And although Kimberly first lost weight in 5- or 6-pound-per-week increments, that slowed to a steady (and healthy) 2 pounds per week after about a month.
At six months, Kimberly is 50 pounds lighter and hasn’t felt this good in years. Here are some of her best tips to lose big.
1. Seek professional help.
A registered dietitian can evaluate your current eating pattern and develop strategies that work as part of your lifestyle, using what you already like to eat.
2. Drink lots of calorie-free beverages.
“I figured out that I was eating when a glass of water was all I needed,” Kimberly tells me. “I find that keeping hydrated helps keep my hunger more manageable.”
3. Stay on schedule.
Stick with eating at regular times during the day, rather than snacking all day or skipping meals.
4. Exercise is not an excuse to pig out!
You still have to watch what you eat, even if you exercise a lot. Kimberly runs marathons and even ultra-distance events, but she realized that she used junk food and treats as rewards for her exercise. Once she started focusing more on her diet than exercise, she found the weight really started to drop off.
5. Do the calorie math.
The real reason why Kimberly had so much success is because she calculated, with the help of a professional, how many calories she needed to consume and burn off every day in order to lose weight at a safe rate. For her, and for many other women carrying around some extra weight, that means downsizing by about 500 calories a day. See what a 1,500-calorie-a-day meal plan looks like, and find other creative ways to consume fewer (or burn extra) calories.
Next page: 5 tips from Kimberly’s dietitian
I also asked Kimberly’s dietitian, Dawn Jackson Blatner, for her own list of advice. Here’s how she helps her clients shed the weight and learn to love a healthier diet.
1. Keep it positive.
Always motivate clients (and friends) with positive, not negative, reinforcement.
2. Explore different foods.
You’ll be less likely to cheat on your diet if your taste buds stay satisfied. Try at least one new and exciting healthy recipe each week so you don’t find yourself eating boring baked chicken and salad every day.
3. Mix up your workout sessions.
Try two to three different workouts per week to keep things fresh. Blend together a variety of activities such as a walk outside, jump rope, bike ride, or a fun exercise dance DVD.
4. Set goals and rewards.
Work on one goal at a time and be sure to give yourself a (diet-friendly) reward for each behavior you successfully change. For example, once you successfully decrease your soda-drinking, treat yourself to a movie or manicure. Then start working on limiting after-dinner snacking, with a reward of buying a new book or earrings.
5. Seek support.
If you are feeling the beginnings of a burnout, enlist the help of your healthy friends to motivate you. Start exercising with them, share workout music, or ask them for some new recipe or snack ideas to pump some excitement into your routine.
9 Easy Ways to Sneak in More Exercise
By Tina Haupert
Over the weekend, my husband and I participated in a 5K road race with our pug, Murphy. Yep, you read that right—our little pug finished 3.1 miles! He's one buff dog!
I enjoyed the event so much, I couldn't help but think about other ways to incorporate fun, easy fitness into my everyday life. Of course, the 5K was a special event, but regular exercise should be enjoyable! I know exercise is essential to maintaining my weight and improving my overall health, but with my busy schedule, it's often tough to fit in fitness. Sometimes hitting the gym feels like an impossible task! I don't want to skip out on my weight loss and fitness goals altogether, so I found a number of easy ways to fit fitness into my everyday life.
Fin24.com | Eskom confirms 13 hours of stage 1 load shedding for Saturday
South Africans will face 13 hours of stage 1 rotational load shedding on Saturday between 09:00 and 22:00, according to Eskom.
Stage 1 load shedding allows for 1 000 megawatts to be shed from the national grid.
Load shedding over weekends is rarer than during the week due to a routine decrease in electricity use on Saturdays and Sundays, especially by industry.
On Friday evening the power utility had warned of a high chance of weekend power cuts. It said some generating units were not working due to planned maintenance, while a “higher than expected” number were offline because of technical faults.
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Senior Front Of House Manager – Cape Town
Fine dining restaurant that specialise in Italian and Mediterranean meals is looking for a senior front of house manager in Cape Town
Requirements:
- Relevant Tertiary Qualification in the Hospitality Industry
- 3 years’ experiences in a management position
- Ability to train and develop Staff
- Financial Acumen
- Excellent Written and Verbal Communication Skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Customer Focused
- Problem Solving Skills
- Valid Driver’s License
Applicants must reside in CAPE TOWN or surrounding area.
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Assistant Manager (midlands, Pietermaritzburg)
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Retail Wholesale - Region : Kwazulu-Natal
- Company : MPRTC Recruitment
RENOWNED FASHION RETAIL COMPANY REQUIRES AN ASSISTANT MANAGER IN MIDLANDS, PIETERMARITZBURG
Please Note:
If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an Assessment or Test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.
Requirements:
- Matric Certificate
- Minimum 2 years retail experience
- Computer Literate (experience on POS systems)
- Managerial skills(Excellent leadership, Apply company SOP; Strong planning; train, develop and motivate staff)
- Excellent customer relations skills
- Customer service orientated
- Financial understanding of retail profit factors
- Understanding stock control to minimize potential stock losses.
Skills / Duties:
- Has to make sure the store is inviting and clean
- Controlling the expenses of the branch
- Responsible for opening and closing of the store
- Deciding and initiating action to improve the branch
Applicants must reside in MIDLANDS, PIETERMARITZBURG or surrounding area.
Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Sport24.co.za | WANTED: New host for 2019 AFCON, SA to step in?
Accra – Cameroon was on Friday stripped of hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations due to delays in preparing for the continental showpiece, organisers the Confederation of African Football announced.
“Today we took the decision to withdraw the 2019 CAN from Cameroon,” CAF president Ahmad Ahmad told a press conference in Accra, seven months before the 2019 opening match.
He was speaking after a 10-hour CAF executive meeting held behind closed doors in the Ghanaian capital.
Ahmad said “a task force” would be set up to launch an appeal for offers “to determine a new organising country between now and the end of the year”.
South Africa and Morocco are two frontline contenders to step in as hosts for the event – expanded to 24 teams for the first time – in place of Cameroon, who won the last edition in 2017 in Gabon.
Morocco, who lost out to a United States/Mexico/Canada bid to host the 2026 World Cup, have regularly been reported as possible replacements.
The North Africans had been set to stage the 2015 Cup of Nations before being stripped of its hosting rights in a row over the Ebola outbreak.
South Africa is the only African country to stage a World Cup, in 2010, and last staged the Cup of Nations in 2013.
“I know that there are countries which are interested, rest assured, candidate countries will come forward,” said Ahmad.
“We know there won’t be many (new candidates) but we will leave the task force to evaluate them and to set up visits in order to select the organisers of the CAN by the end of the year”.
Alarm bells were sounded over the 2019 event at a September executive committee meeting in Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh when CAF noted “a significant delay in the realisation of the infrastructures” necessary for holding the Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
A report of the last two inspection visits to central African state Cameroon were made at Friday’s meeting.
CAF inspectors recently travelled to the country, which last hosted the tournament in 1972, to check security, infrastructure, stadiums and accommodation.
“After numerous discussions and following inspections over the past 18 months CAF has become aware that several conditions of conformity have not been met,” a CAF statement explained.
“There is a gap between what is necessary to organise a CAN and the reality on the ground,” the statement added.
CAF’s decision came as little surprise back in Cameroon.
“We knew what was going to happen, there’s no stadiums, no roads, there’s nothing,” Henri Kelma, a moto-taxi rider in Douala, told AFP.
For journalist Pierre Youte “it’s perhaps a good decision… like this Cameroon will have the time to learn and find the means to host a CAN worthy of the name”.
Cameroon is experiencing a tense security situation with persistent attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in the north and a conflict between the army and separatists in the two English-speaking regions.
That recalls the trauma that preceded the 2010 Cup of Nations in Angola, when the Togo team bus was attacked with three dead two days before the opening match.
Ahmad observed: “Football in Africa depends on our governments. But our priority is to look after the interests of our actors and above all our players.
“I don’t know whether there are statistics but many have been injured during CANs due to the condition of the organisation.”
The Cup of Nations is no stranger to dramatic subplots.
In 1995 Kenya withdrew as hosts, citing financial difficulties, with South Africa stepping in and going on to be crowned champions.
South Africa also took over holding the 2013 tournament after original hosts Libya had pulled out two years earlier because of the armed conflict then raging in the country.
Equatorial Guinea stepped in to the breach in 2015 when original hosts Morocco had appealed in vain for the competition to be delayed because of the Ebola epidemic.
Ahmad meanwhile appeared to hold out an olive branch to Cameroon.
“CAF is committed to supporting Cameroon, to give them time so that they can properly organise a CAN,” he told reporters.
He refused to be drawn on whether that meant Cameroon could replace Ivory Coast as hosts of the 2021 edition, or Guinea as organisers in 2023.
The 2019 event is scheduled for June 15-July 13, a change from its traditional January-February slot.
And it will be the first to feature 24 teams – up from 16 at the 2017 edition in Gabon.
News24.com | City of Johannesburg crackdown uncovers counterfeit goods worth R18m in a day
Law enforcement agencies uncovered counterfeit goods worth R18m in Johannesburg’s inner city on Friday.
The goods were recovered in an operation by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department, the South African Police Service, the provincial commercial crime unit, the Gauteng traffic police saturation Unit and the City’s group forensic investigation services unit.
“It is essential that we bring back the rule of law in our City and take it back from the criminal elements. I want to thank all the stakeholders involved for their commitment to ensuring Johannesburg residents are safe and protected from illegal activities,” City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba said in a statement on Friday.
The counterfeit goods were recovered during an operation on Thursday called Buya Mthetho. The haul included watches, footwear and clothing items branded Adidas, Nike, Puma, All Star, Hubot, Tom Ford, Gucci, La Mitina and Paul and Shark.
Urged to take action
The operation, which has been in place for a week, discovered R64m of counterfeit goods in total, as a well as a manufacturing house distributing illegal goods.
“At this warehouse, undocumented persons were also found – some of whom were believed to be held on the site against their will. Another group of undocumented persons working in a restaurant illegally were also found hiding underneath industrial stoves at the establishment,” Mashaba added.
Mashaba said the operation had found 32 undocumented persons and urged the Department of Home Affairs to intervene.
“It is essential that the national Department of Home Affairs finally takes action and ensures that those entering the country do so legally. Failure to do so indeed puts those persons at risk from exploitation, such as in the present circumstances,” he concluded.
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Health24.com | A topic of heated debate: Should HIV testing be compulsory?
According to UNAIDS, 36.9 million people around the world are living with HIV. South Africa currently has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with 7.2 million of its citizens affected by the virus.
Southern and Eastern Africa is home to 50% of the world’s HIV positive population. It’s no wonder the question of whether or not HIV testing should be compulsory keeps popping up.
Earlier this year two Ugandan ministers were backing the call for compulsory HIV testing. The ministers in question were Sarah Achieng Opendi, the State Minister of Health, and Janat Mukwaya, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Justice.
According to an article in The Guardian, Mukwaya believed that compulsory HIV testing would allow the stigma surrounding the epidemic to diminish and that through the Ugandan government’s test and treat initiative those affected would receive the help that they need.
In August, Zambian President Edgar Lungu announced that HIV testing was now compulsory in his country. According to News24 Lungu said, “I must admit that there were some colleagues who felt that this policy would infringe on human rights but there [is] no one [who] has the right to take away somebody’s life. Just the same way we don’t consult you for consent when we are testing for malaria, we will go ahead and test you for HIV and we will counsel you and if you are positive; we will commence you on treatment.”
Both announcements by these countries were met with stark opposition and the comments and decisions made were quickly retracted. However, the question about whether or not HIV testing should be compulsory still lingers.
Public debate
Researchers investigating the pros and cons of compulsory HIV testing for pregnant women found that women, children and society as a whole would benefit from mandatory testing.
However, they felt that it should not be something used by governments simply for the sake of testing but as a means to stop the spread of infection and to treat those infected.
A debate between Médicins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders, MSF) and the University of Cape Town’s Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation (SHAWCO) highlighted the different viewpoints of those in favour and those against compulsory HIV testing.
According to Dr Gilles van Cutsem from MSF, mandatory testing could slow down the rate of new infections and help those who were unaware of their HIV status.
Professor Leslie London, director of the School of Public Health at UCT argued that compulsory testing was an abuse of human rights and that there were other methods available to encourage people to get tested.
In an interview Health-e news, labour lawyer Marlene Potgieter notes that “HIV/Aids is mired in folklore, suspicion and mistrust and the fact that it is a disease that comes from having sex (mostly). It is something that is not spoken about openly… People simply disappear quietly from the workplace and die in silence.”
Confidential HIV testing is considered as a human right. The UN’s International Covenant on Political and Social Rights states that one’s human rights may be limited if it’s a matter of public interest. This limitation may only be initiated if it serves an objective purpose and there are no other alternatives to solving the problem.
Know your status
Because we live in a country with such high HIV rates, South Africans are regularly encouraged to get themselves tested. Knowing your status can save the lives of those around you, from your partner to your unborn child. Various clinics and health centres around the country offer free, confidential HIV testing. Last year BIOSURE, the HIV self-test, was legally approved, making it that much easier for people to get tested in private.
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