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By Karen Collins, MS, RD, CDN - Q: Ive heard too much time watching TV is linked with weight gain, but how much is too much? Q: Is giving up regular soda really enough to make me lose weight without going on a diet?

A: Going on a diet is not associated with long-term weight loss for most people, whereas working on a permanent change in one particular habit, such as reducing or eliminating sugary drinks, could be a great start for weight management. Controlled studies show that when people consume more calories from drinks, they dont compensate for those calories by eating less of other foods, and total calorie consumption tends to be higher. Changes in drink consumption alone can produce modest weight loss. In some cases, substituting water or diet (zero-calorie) beverages for sugar-sweetened soda is even enough to achieve the 5 percent weight loss linked with significant health improvement. About 25 percent of Americans consume more than 200 calories a day in sugar-sweetened drinks. If you are in this group, you are among those most likely to notice a weight change if you give up sugar-sweetened soda. Of course, this is assuming that you dont replace these drinks with juice or sugar-laden coffee or tea specialties or reward yourself for giving up soda by eating more cookies or other treats. Once your healthier drinking choices are an established habit, if you want to lose more weight, you can then look for other eating habits for which you can substitute lower calorie choices or smaller portions. On the other hand, if sugar-sweetened soda is something that you have only once a week or less, you can still focus on just one change in your eating habits to start losing weight, but youll see more results by changing something other than soft drinks.

Q: Ive heard too much time watching TV is linked with weight gain, but how much is too much?

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HealthTalk: Weight Loss by Dieting; TV and Weight Gain

July 19, 2012 in Features, Health

Anthony L. Komaroff Universal Uclick

DEAR DOCTOR K: Im trying to lose weight. How can I figure out how many calories I should be eating everyday?

DEAR READER: Since your weight is influenced both by the number of calories you eat and by the number of calories you burn during your daily activities, lets assume that your daily activities wontchange.

To figure out how many calories you should consume each day to lose weight, you first need to know how many calories you need to maintain your current weight. The math issimple.

First, multiply your current weight by 15. This calculation tells you the number of calories per day you need to maintain your current weight (weight-maintenancecalories).

Lets say you weigh 155 pounds. If you multiply 155 by 15, you get 2,325, which is your weight-maintenance calorie total. To lose weight, youll need to reduce your daily calories belowthat.

To lose 1 to 2 pounds a week a rate that experts consider safe you should consume 500 to 1,000 fewer calories per day than your total weight-maintenance calories. That means you need to eat between 1,325 calories per day (2,325 less 1,000) to 1,825 calories per day (2,325 less500).

However, dont consume fewer than 1,200 calories per day if youre a woman or fewer than 1,500 calories per day if youre a man, except under the supervision of your doctor. Eating too few calories can endanger your health by depriving you of needednutrients.

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Weight Watchers ambassador Jessica Simpson is ''working very hard'' to lose weight.

Jessica Simpson is ''working very hard'' to lose weight.

The 'Fashion Star' mentor gave birth to her first daughter named Maxwell Drew on May 1 and signed a $4 million contract with weight-loss brand Weight Watchers to become a representative for them.

Now, even though she knows her image change will not be drastic, Jessica is excited about the expected transformation.

A friend told People.com about the star: ''She understands it's a process. [She is] working very hard and she's excited.''

After welcoming her child with Eric Johnson to the world, she said; ''For me, I really want to do something that is a lifestyle. In the past I've been known to yo-yo diet.''

The 31-year-old actress has instead been focused on losing weight gradually.

She has denied that there is a deadline for her to lose her post-baby weight and a representative for the company backed up her claim recently.

A spokesperson previously said: ''Weight Watchers is in it for the long haul. We're with her 100 percent as she develops a whole new relationship with food and activity.''

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Jessica Simpson - Jessica Simpson: Working Hard To Lose Weight

Jessica Simpson is 'working very hard' to lose weight.

The 'Fashion Star' mentor gave birth to her first daughter named Maxwell Drew on May 1 and signed a $4 million contract with weight-loss brand Weight Watchers to become a representative for them.

Now, even though she knows her image change will not be drastic, Jessica is excited about the expected transformation.

A friend told People.com about the star: 'She understands it's a process. working very hard and she's excited.'

After welcoming her child with Eric Johnson to the world, she said; 'For me, I really want to do something that is a lifestyle. In the past I've been known to yo-yo diet.'

The 31-year-old actress has instead been focused on losing weight gradually.

She has denied that there is a deadline for her to lose her post-baby weight and a representative for the company backed up her claim recently.

A spokesperson previously said: 'Weight Watchers is in it for the long haul. We're with her 100 percent as she develops a whole new relationship with food and activity.'

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Jul 19, 2012, 1:01 GMT

Jessica Simpson is a Weight Watchers ambassador

Jessica Simpson is 'working very hard' to lose weight.

The 'Fashion Star' mentor gave birth to her first daughter named Maxwell Drew on May 1 and signed a $4 million contract with weight-loss brand Weight Watchers to become a representative for them.

Now, even though she knows her image change will not be drastic, Jessica is excited about the expected transformation.

A friend told People.com about the star: 'She understands it's a process. [She is] working very hard and she's excited.'

After welcoming her child with Eric Johnson to the world, she said; 'For me, I really want to do something that is a lifestyle. In the past I've been known to yo-yo diet.'

The 31-year-old actress has instead been focused on losing weight gradually.

She has denied that there is a deadline for her to lose her post-baby weight and a representative for the company backed up her claim recently.

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Jessica Simpson: Working hard to lose weight

7:47 AM The pill, called Qsymia, offers hope for those who have failed to lose weight in other ways.

Matthew Perrone / The Associated Press

WASHINGTON A new weight-loss pill that many doctors consider the most effective of a new generation of anti-obesity drugs got the approval of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday.

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This product image provided by Vivus Pharmaceuticals Inc. shows bottles of Qsymia, the company's anti-obesity drug.

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The pill, called Qsymia, was approved for patients who are overweight or obese and also have at least one weight-related condition such as high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol.

The drug offers hope for those who have failed to lose weight in other ways, but its path to approval also underscores how difficult it has been for drugmakers to find obesity treatments that are safe and effective.

The drug's maker, Vivus Inc., said it plans to bring the drug to market in the fourth quarter of this year. It hasn't yet decided what the pills will cost.

In testing, the drug made led patients to lose more weight than two other weight-loss pills recently review by the FDA. Patients taking Qsymia for a year lost 6.7 percent of their body weight in one study and 8.9 percent in another study, the FDA said. The company said patients on the strongest formulation tested lost nearly 11 percent of their weight.

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By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- Although patients do indeed lose weight after bariatric surgery, health-care costs remain about the same as they were before the procedure, according to a new study.

Bariatric surgery reduces the size of the stomach, which results in significant weight loss. Most patients in the new study had undergone a procedure called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

Previous studies had shown that many obese people who have this procedure improve their health and reduce the cost of their care. In this group of patients, however, costs did not go down, the researchers said.

"These three-year findings suggest that the return on investment for bariatric surgery isn't seen," said lead researcher Matthew Maciejewski, from the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center, in North Carolina.

"It is possible, however, that if we could follow these [patients] for another three to five years, cost reduction may be seen," he said.

Bariatric surgery improved these patients' health in the short term, but without further weight loss or other lifestyle modifications, their risk remains high, he added.

Maciejewski said these patients, like most patents who have weight-loss surgery, gain much of the weight back, which may be why costs remain the same as before surgery.

The report was published in the July issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.

For the study, Maciejewski's team looked at health-care spending in nearly 850 U.S. military veterans who had weight-loss surgery, comparing them to a similar number of veterans who didn't. The researchers analyzed expenditures for the three years before and after surgery.

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SEATTLE, July 17 (UPI) -- Women who want to lose weight should faithfully keep a food journal and avoid skipping meals and eating in restaurants, U.S. researchers advise.

Dr. Anne McTiernan and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle said study participants were given the following tips for keeping a food journal:

-- Be honest, record everything you eat.

-- Be accurate, measure portions, read labels.

-- Be complete, include details such as how the food was prepared, and the addition of any toppings or condiments.

-- Be consistent, always carry your food diary with you or use a diet-tracking application on your smartphone.

"While the study provided a printed booklet for the women to record their food and beverage consumption, a food journal doesn't have to be anything fancy," McTiernan said in a statement. "Any notebook, or pad of paper, or online program will do."

The analysis was based on data from 123 overweight-to-obese, sedentary, Seattle-area women, ages 50-75, who were randomly assigned to two arms of a controlled, randomized year-long dietary weight-loss intervention study -- diet only and exercise plus diet.

The study, published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, found women who kept food journals consistently lost about 6 pounds more than those who did not; women who reported skipping meals lost almost 8 fewer pounds than women who did not; and women who ate out for lunch at least weekly lost on average 5 fewer pounds than those who ate out less frequently.

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Here are a few inspirational quotes and how they can help you get moving and lose weight.

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

- Maya Angelou

"Good people are good because theyve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

- William Saroyan

Interpretation: By carefully examining what went wrong when you fail, you learn something that will help to prevent you from failing again.

Application: Ever hear the expression, "You have to be in it to win it"? Well, if you don't keep trying to lose and control your weight, you probably won't get results. Research shows that most people don't maintain their weight loss on the first few attempts -- that's why you need to keep trying and making small, effective changes that will last.

By looking at your failures, you learn what NOT to repeat. Keep an open mind. Think of the strategies that have not worked when you've tried to lose weight in the past. Make sure to ask yourself: Why didn't these strategies work, and what have I learned from them?

But if you lost the weight even if you regained it you succeeded, too. Researchers say that about 30 percent to 40 percent of weight-control success has to do with reviewing and analyzing past dieting success. You can learn something from every diet you've been on, but it's up to you to figure what you gained from all that hard work. When looking at your past, keep in mind that it's not unusual to camouflage certain unpleasant or unflattering details or truths about yourself. An honest and uninhibited look at your history is a courageous and potentially healing act that will ultimately change your future for the better.

Quitting smoking is easy. Ive done it a thousand times.

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Want to lose weight? Write down everything you eat. Dont skip meals. Dont go out for lunch -- at least not very often.

These three tips come from a study comparing the behaviors and eating patterns of a group of women in a yearlong weight-loss study.

The research involved 123 overweight-to-obese women age 50 and older who live sedentary lives. After a year, the women lost an average of 10 percent of their body weight.

Three factors had a big impact on an individuals success, the researchers found:

Those who kept a food journal lost 6 pounds more than those who did not. Those who ate regular meals lost almost 8 pounds more than those who skipped meals. The women who went out for lunch at least once a week lost an average of 5 fewer pounds than those who ate out less often.

"For individuals who are trying to lose weight, the No. 1 piece of advice based on these study results would be to keep a food journal to help meet daily calorie goals, said Anne McTiernan, director of the Hutchinson Center's Prevention Center in Seattle and lead author of the study. It is difficult to make changes to your diet when you are not paying close attention to what you are eating."

The report was published online today in The Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

The study did not find that exercise made a big difference. The participants were divided into two groups one followed a diet plan and the other an exercise-plus-diet approach. Both groups averaged a 10 percent weight loss.

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To track their food intake, the women were given printed booklets. McTiernan said any tracking tool will work from a pad of paper to a smart phone or tablet. She offered the following tips:

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