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If you're walking your way to weight loss on a treadmill, congratulations you've made a good choice! Walking is an effective exercise for weight loss, especially for beginners, said Audra Wilson, MS, RD, LDN, CSCS, a bariatric dietitian at the Northwestern Medicine Metabolic Health & Surgical Weight Loss Center at Delnor Hospital in Geneva, IL. "It's fairly low-impact," she explained. "It's in a controlled environment. . . . It's a good way for beginners to just get started moving."

You have a couple of things to figure out, though: namely, how long you should be walking and the speed you should aim for. Keep reading for those answers and more tips to make treadmill walking for weight loss a breeze.

For a beginner, 15 to 30 minutes of walking on a treadmill will help you lose weight, said Dan Charak, NASM-CES, the fitness manager at the Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Health & Wellness Center in DeKalb, IL. But you can also cut back more than that, Audra said. It all depends on your starting fitness level. "You could start with just 10 to 15 minutes. If that's challenging, you could start with five minutes," she explained.

The key, Audra said, is "to set up a routine that we can stick with." If 20 minutes of treadmill walking feels too intimidating right now, try 10 or 15. If it's convenient, you can even split your workout up throughout the day. Jump on the treadmill for five to 10 minutes at a time, twice or three times a day, to increase your overall workout time without feeling like you have to set aside a big 15- or 20-minute chunk.

For a beginner on the treadmill, a brisk walk is a good place to start, Dan said. It really depends on your individual fitness level, though. Audra recommended paying attention to your rate of perceived exertion (RPE), or how hard it feels like you're working. If one is rest and 10 is an all-out sprint, aim for "anywhere between five and seven," Audra said. "Feeling like you could talk to somebody, but not carry on a steady conversation." Here's a simple RPE scale to help you stay on track with your intensity.

There are two kinds of cardio workouts you can do on a treadmill: steady-state, when you're walking at a constant pace the whole time; or intervals, when you'll go from faster intervals to slower ones in order to pump up your heart rate. Beginners should start with steady-state, Audra said, as that format is the best way to get your feet under you and acclimate to walking for exercise.

Speed intervals burn more calories in a smaller amount of time, but starting with them without the proper fitness baseline can lead to injury or discouragement, Audra said. "You want to start with a level that's going to make you feel good, invigorated, and give you energy, which is what exercise should do if you're doing it at the right level for the right amount of time," she told POPSUGAR. Kick your weight-loss journey off with steady-state walking and set those interval workouts as a goal as you build up your cardio fitness. (Here's a walking-running treadmill interval workout you can work your way up to.)

And since you'll be doing all this walking, Audra said, get a pair of supportive shoes so you can feel your best when you hit the treadmill. It's common to experience foot or knee pain due to inadequate footwear, and you'll fall off your workout and weight-loss goals if you're in pain every time you hop on a treadmill. A healthy diet will also help you reach your weight-loss goals faster, and help you feel better while you're doing it. This two-week healthy eating plan can help you get started.

Between logging steps and eating healthy, nutritious foods, you'll be on your way to your weight-loss goals. Fire up the treadmill and lace up your shoes it's time to hit the ground walking!

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My name is Sandra Ross (@ketokonduct), and I am 37 years old. I live in South Jordan, Utah, and work as a personal trainer. After reaching over 300 pounds and yo-yo dieting without success, I went keto, started weight lifting, and was able to lose 130 pounds.

My struggles with my weight began when I was 9 years old. I started gaining weight, and my dad put me on my first true diet, Slim Fast. Being so young, I developed a bad relationship with food. Food was viewed as bad," and all the diets just perpetuated my issues with food and weight. This pattern continued through my life into my late 20s as I yo-yo dieted to try to find a balance. When I was tipping the scales at over 300 pounds, social anxiety started to play a huge role in my poor relationship with food. I felt uncomfortable eating in public because I worried people would judge me for whatever I put in my mouth. So, I became a recluse and didnt want to leave my house. I lost friendships because I didnt want to engage with my friends. Home was safe and where I could eat what I wanted and do what I wanted without judgement.

The doctor told me if I continued to gain like I was, I would not live past my mid 30s. My labs were not ideal and I knew it was bad, but I didnt really understand the details enough to make changes. On the way home from the doctor I stopped at Carls Jr. At that moment I realized I needed to make a change, but didnt know how to start. So I started yo-yo dieting. I went to another doctor who prescribed the weight loss drug phentermine. I took it until and I maxed out the amount you can take, and it was no longer effective. So I switched to another weight loss drug called phendimetrazine and maxed out of that as well. I felt hopeless and out of options.

I didn't feel like I was being restricted or like I was on a diet. I learned that eating low-carb and higher-fat could help me lose weight and sustain that weight loss. That finally helped me curb my cravings and kept me full for much longer periods of time than when I was eating *a lot* of carbs. I finally felt what it was like to not constantly think about food. Up to that point, I was completely obsessed with food.

Breakfast: Coffee with collagen and half and half at 7 a.m. Eggs with cheese, bacon/sausage at 9 a.m.

Lunch: I will have a salad with protein (chicken or tuna) typically at 3 p.m.

Snack: Pork rinds and egg salad or cheese.

Dinner: Spaghetti with healthy noodles or steak and some sort of veggie like loaded broccoli.

Dessert: Keto cookie or berries with cream.

Typical my week of exercise includes 5 days of weight training. I got into it because I learned that if you have more lean mass you can eat more calories, and I was *all* about that!

Change 1: Incorporating fats helped curb my appetite. Fat also helps convert your body from being a carb-burner to burning fat as fuel (aka ketosis), and this helped me feel less hungry. Lowering my carbohydrate intake also freed me from being a carb addict.

Change 2: Eating fewer carbs helped ease my joint pain. Converting to burning fat as fuel helps to decrease inflammation, which helps reduce water weight and joint pain. This helped me to be able to weight train and be more physically active.

Change 3: Weight training has helped my social anxiety *so much.* In the beginning, I was at my most vulnerable and most uncomfortable. I had to put myself out there and outside of my comfort zone to make myself better and stronger and healthier. In time, I have become much more confident. The strength and the mental acuity that I have developed with weight training has also helped me overcome my anxiety.

My weight loss journey wasnt streamlined or perfect. It takes a lot of lessons and mental changes, which take time. I had to look at food differently and correct my relationship with it. For years, food comforted me. Food can be enjoyed, but it is fuel, and Ive learned to comfort myself in other ways. To make lasting changes, it's so important to be kind to yourself and give yourself time to adjust.

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If you're walking your way to weight loss on a treadmill, congratulations - you've made a good choice! Walking is an effective exercise for weight loss, especially for beginners, said Audra Wilson, MS, RD, LDN, CSCS, a bariatric dietitian at the Northwestern Medicine Metabolic Health & Surgical Weight Loss Center at Delnor Hospital in Geneva, IL. "It's fairly low-impact," she explained. "It's in a controlled environment. . . . It's a good way for beginners to just get started moving."

You have a couple of things to figure out, though: namely, how long you should be walking and the speed you should aim for. Keep reading for those answers and more tips to make treadmill walking for weight loss a breeze.

For a beginner, 15 to 30 minutes of walking on a treadmill will help you lose weight, said Dan Charak, NASM-CES, the fitness manager at the Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Health & Wellness Center in DeKalb, IL. But you can also cut back more than that, Audra said. It all depends on your starting fitness level. "You could start with just 10 to 15 minutes. If that's challenging, you could start with five minutes," she explained.

The key, Audra said, is "to set up a routine that we can stick with." If 20 minutes of treadmill walking feels too intimidating right now, try 10 or 15. If it's convenient, you can even split your workout up throughout the day. Jump on the treadmill for five to 10 minutes at a time, twice or three times a day, to increase your overall workout time without feeling like you have to set aside a big 15- or 20-minute chunk.

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For a beginner on the treadmill, a brisk walk is a good place to start, Dan said. It really depends on your individual fitness level, though. Audra recommended paying attention to your rate of perceived exertion (RPE), or how hard it feels like you're working. If one is rest and 10 is an all-out sprint, aim for "anywhere between five and seven," Audra said. "Feeling like you could talk to somebody, but not carry on a steady conversation." Here's a simple RPE scale to help you stay on track with your intensity.

There are two kinds of cardio workouts you can do on a treadmill: steady-state, when you're walking at a constant pace the whole time; or intervals, when you'll go from faster intervals to slower ones in order to pump up your heart rate. Beginners should start with steady-state, Audra said, as that format is the best way to get your feet under you and acclimate to walking for exercise.

Speed intervals burn more calories in a smaller amount of time, but starting with them without the proper fitness baseline can lead to injury or discouragement, Audra said. "You want to start with a level that's going to make you feel good, invigorated, and give you energy, which is what exercise should do if you're doing it at the right level for the right amount of time," she told POPSUGAR. Kick your weight-loss journey off with steady-state walking and set those interval workouts as a goal as you build up your cardio fitness. (Here's a walking-running treadmill interval workout you can work your way up to.)

And since you'll be doing all this walking, Audra said, get a pair of supportive shoes so you can feel your best when you hit the treadmill. It's common to experience foot or knee pain due to inadequate footwear, and you'll fall off your workout and weight-loss goals if you're in pain every time you hop on a treadmill. A healthy diet will also help you reach your weight-loss goals faster, and help you feel better while you're doing it. This two-week healthy eating plan can help you get started.

Between logging steps and eating healthy, nutritious foods, you'll be on your way to your weight-loss goals. Fire up the treadmill and lace up your shoes - it's time to hit the ground walking!

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Fitness centers and health clubs are packed with new faces whenever a new year begins. Classes and parking lots are full.

Soon after January, that is no longer the case. Most of the people who have resolved to work out, lose weight or improve their health have gone back to their old habits. Some have the discipline and drive to stick to it, but unfortunately most give up.

Shape magazine estimates that 80% of people who resolve to exercise starting on New Years Day, give up by February.

Other gym members may appreciate that youve subsidized their membership, but that wasnt your intention. What can you do to motivate yourself to achieve your fitness and wellness goals?

Adjust your schedule. Recognize that working out regularly requires a commitment of time. You need to make workouts and movement part of your schedule.

If you have a demanding job, young children or other commitments that require your time, you will need to get creative in order to commit to a schedule.

Try scheduling however much time you can for working out. Given todays sedentary lifestyle, its ideal to work out every day, but working out three days a week can produce results, too.

You can also find ways to get more movement into your day that can provide enough variation for your body to still feel great. For example, dont take the first parking spot at the gym or the grocery store, and take the stairs instead of the elevator. That way, even if you do work out every day, you will be making small changes that will have a positive impact.

Finally, if these changes become more than you can handle, dont feel bad about easing back a bit. Listen to your body.

Be consistent. Sometimes youll have other commitments or you may feel like you need a break. Try not to skip a workout until youve consistently been exercising regularly for a few months. After all, it takes time to form a habit.

Its better to ease into a workout schedule you know you can maintain than to overdo it and burn out. New habits can be formed, but if you overdo it, you may decide its not worth the effort and talk yourself out of continuing.

Set realistic goals. Its important to set goals for yourself, but make certain your goals are achievable.

If, for example, losing weight is your goal, dont expect to work out once a week and lose 100 pounds. If you want to succeed, you need your commitment to be aligned with your goals.

Try setting a small goal today and, once youve achieved it, set a bigger goal for yourself tomorrow. It should be a challenge to achieve your goals, but not so much of a challenge that you give up.

Recognize that fitness requires a lifestyle change. Its not enough to work out just when you feel like it. You need to make working out feel almost as essential as eating and sleeping. If you exercise with specific goals in mind and establish a routine, you may be surprised by what you are able to achieve.

Once you achieve your goals, dont fall into the trap of thinking you succeeded, so now you can slack off. Your efforts will be wasted if you go back to your previous lifestyle. You will be vulnerable until exercising and movement become a habit. Wellness and fitness require a lifelong commitment. True change happens over time.

Take one step at a time. While changing your diet and starting to work out are sometimes concurrent resolutions, keep in mind that youll be asking a lot of yourself if you want to change both at once.

Consider working out today, then take a couple of months to become accustomed to working out. As you make progress, consider gradually changing what you eat.

Consider classes. If you work out alone, its difficult to stay motivated. Being in classes with people who have similar goals can help, as you can motivate each other. If your fitness friend is meeting a goal, youre going to want to meet your goal as well.

Do it now, not on New Years Day. Rather than making a New Years resolution youre likely to break, start exercising on a day when youre ready to commit.

Be prepared for obstacles. Success almost always comes with setbacks. Be prepared for them.

You may, for example, be making steady progress toward achieving your goals before suddenly reaching a plateau where your progress seems to stop. You may even regress a bit.

If that happens, try changing up your workout routine. Its best to vary your workout, because your muscles will become accustomed to doing the same exercises repeatedly. Adding more movement in your life will also help overcome repetitiveness.

You may also be slowed down by an injury at some point. Injuries can typically be avoided by using proper form and by not trying to push through your routine and risking further injury. It could benefit you to have a personal trainer who is knowledgeable enough to show you the proper way to exercise. If you are injured, in spite of taking precautions, this will stop you from continuing so be mindful and listen to your body.

Depending on the type and extent of the injury, you may be able to continue exercising with modifications. If you need to give yourself time to heal, try changing things up a bit, but keep moving under supervision until you are prepared to get back into your exercise routine. Dont rush sometimes you need to take a step back to take two steps forward.

Commit. No matter what shape youre in, no matter how old you are, its likely that you can develop an exercise routine that will help you achieve your goals. All you need to do is be committed to moving differently and working out regularly.

Youll be amazed at what you can do if you challenge yourself and make a long-term commitment to wellness.

Rita Matraia is the owner of The Core Connection, a boutique fitness studio in Northborough. She is a Certified Stott Pilates Instructor, a Certified Restorative Exercise Specialist, a Certified Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, and a Healthy Foot Practitioner through the Nutritious Movement Center. She can be reached at rita@thecoreconnection.com.

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Many can relate Chrissy Metzs portrayal of Kate Pearson on NBCs This Is Us. As one of The Big Three siblings, Kates journey is a complex one. Her formative years are marred by tragedy, grief, and her potentially toxic boyfriend, Marc (Austin Abrams). Viewers know Kates weight is a heavy burden in her marriage and life, but whatever number the scale reads, Kates troubles go far beyond that, according to an expert.

[Warning: Spoilers from a recent episode of This Is Us ahead]

This Is Us star, Chrissy Metz, has been an open book in regards to her own weight and self-love journey. She even wrote extensively about the pressure to be a certain size to find success in the industry.

I think, as we evolve as human beings or in our particular life, we realize, Oh, you know, this isnt serving me anymore, she previously told The Wrap.

Or, if we, God forbid, come across medical issues or problems that, Oh, maybe I just wanna be a little more active. And some people knock the girls that lose weight and say like, Why did you guys do that? Youre selling out. And thats not necessarily true.

Metz referenced her character, Kate, saying, Oh, no, shes finally contending with the things that she was eating over. I think its more about the behavior around what youre doing, Metz said.

And it could be social media, gambling, sex, drinking, food it could be anything, fill in the blank how is my behavior around that and how do I want to change that behavior? Because its the stinking thinking of obsessing about something.

The actress said for her, she often wonders if shes eating for health or if its something bigger.

And whether I lose weight or I dont, I dont really hold on to a number. I dont think thats important, cause whos to say what? she said.

She continued: People are like, Wait, what? You got your blood work done and you have like great, perfect cholesterol? Like, it doesnt make sense. Im like, I want you to know its real, she continued. Like, contrary to popular belief or what were told about what looks healthy or what doesnt look healthy.

In an earlier interview with Yahoo, Metz revealed a panic attack put her in the hospital. It was her 30th birthday and shed just lost 100 pounds. She landed a role in American Horror Story with one caveat: don a fat suit.

I was thrilled to find out that I wasnt big enough, she said. It was a first in my life. It was liberating.

She went on to discuss the difficulties wearing the suit in her trailer saying she became stuck in the doorway.

I had to suck it in, squish it, knead it, hold the dress, and slowly pull it through until I stumbled down the stairs. I almost wish someone had been there to see because they would have been laughing their butt off, she said.

She elaborated in another interview with People, comparing the experience to real life.

I thought,What if I become that heavy and cant walk around or get stuck in the doorframe?I was like, I dont want this for me,' she said.

Kari Anderson, a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist in Scottsdale, Arizona, wrote her thoughts about Kate Pearsons story via Psychology Today, suggesting the weight isnt the real issue at all.

She noted a fan group had a lot of questions and concerns about Kates weight and decided to break down Kates journey through an eating disorder case conceptualization model, through a few categories: Vulnerabilities in Childhood, Trauma Triggers, and Current Stressors.

Anderson noted Kates connection to food is through the bond she had with Jack (Milo Ventimiglia). Those times they got ice cream made Kate feel unconditional love which, according to Anderson, is classic emotional eating.

As far as Kates relationship with Rebecca (Mandy Moore), its more complicated. Rebecca served as a protector, hoping to keep Kate from weight bias and judgment from others. But, it manifested into a thin is ideal mantra.

Rebeccas food rules for Kate and not Kevin or Randall only drove Kate to forbidden: foods, creating insecurity and body shame. This only escalated when those girls at the pool made Kate believe boys wont like fat girls. Marc will only reinforce those ideations.

On a deeper level, Anderson said Kates first diet came just before Jacks death. Subconsciously, Kate connects that loss to being thin and protects herself by keeping the weight on. Anderson calls it post-weight-loss trauma, and explained in Kates mind, bad things happened when she lost the weight. It was her survival instinct to binge eat. Add Marc, sex, and body image to this arc and the traumas will come up again.

Current stressors in Kates life include having visually-impaired baby Jack after doctors warned of complications due to weight. That aside, her marital troubles with Toby are only escalating. Kate may return to stress eating to cope.

There are conflicting reports as to whether Metz has a clause in her contract to lose weight on This Is Us. In one interview with TV Line, Metz said she did sign a contract with a weight-loss clause.

That was a win-win for me because its one thing to try to do it on your own. But as human beings, its an ego thing: Were more likely to do something for someone else, she said.

However, in another interview with People, Metz insisted there isnt an explicit notation about weight-loss or surgery of any kind. She did add theres an understanding Kate will lose [at least some] weight.

The point is, Kate may have a long road ahead of her, but Metz is happy at any size as she should be.

There are some days where Im like, Oh, Im definitely eating my feelings. And then some days Im like, Yeah, when my heart is full, Im not hungry.So I want to take care of my body and live a healthy life? Absolutely. But that doesnt mean you cant do it at an unconventional size.

She continued: Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, its purely a choice of mine for health, Not because I think that plus size, curvy voluptuous, big bodies arent attractive because I think theyre awesome and sexy, she said in 2016, adding that shes not selling out the big girls.

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Imagine not being able to fit into the clothes of your choice, owing to your rapidly growing waistline. While battling extra kilos in itself is a difficult task, it becomes even more difficult when it crushes your confidence levels. When 28-year-old Nikhil Kakkar realised that it was time to take control of his life, he decided not to look back. He managed to lose a whopping 32 kilos. Here is how he did it:Name: Nikhil KakkarOccupation: Self-employedAge: 28 yearsHeight: 6 feet 3 inchesHighest weight recorded: 105 kgs

Weight lost: 32 kgs

Duration it took me to lose weight: 9 months The turning point: When you are overweight, there are a lot of things that irritate you. From not being able to wear the clothes of my choice to feeling extremely underconfident, being overweight had begun to dominate the narrative of my life. I knew that I had to do something before it was too late as my growing weight had started to really affect the quality of my life. From the day I decided to lose weight, I have never really looked back.

My breakfast: 4 boiled eggs and a cup of coffeeMy lunch: 100 grams of paneer and 100 grams of curd

My dinner: A bowl of dal with 50 grams of brown rice

Pre-workout meal: 1 cup of black coffee

Post-workout meal: 1 scoop of whey protein

I indulge in: I do not believe in the concept of cheat days. As a result, I did not have any cheat day during my entire weight loss journey.

My workout: I equally balance weight training and cardio sessions

Low-calorie recipes I swear by: I vouch on scrambled eggs, omelette and a portion of salad

Fitness secrets I unveiled: I have realised the importance of calorie deficit when you are aiming to lose weight. You need to strictly count your maintenance calories and eat less than that to lose weight.

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The most recent data on the use of weight loss supplements, from a US study, showed that among people trying to lose weight 16 percent (12 percent of men and 19 percent of women) reported past-year use.

Herbal medicines, or herbal supplements as they are commonly known, are products containing a plant or combinations of plants as the active ingredient. They come in various forms including pills, powders or liquids.

Common herbal supplements used for weight loss include green tea, garcinia cambogia, white kidney bean and African mango.

The authors write that between 1996 and 2006, 1000 dietary supplements for weight loss were listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods without evaluation of efficacy.

These substances can be sold and marketed to the public with sponsors (those who import, export or manufacture goods) only required to hold, but not necessarily produce, evidence substantiating their claims. The authors note that only 20 percent of new listings are audited annually to ensure they meet this requirement.

The growth in the industry and popularity of these products highlights the importance of conducting more robust studies on the effectiveness and safety of these supplements for weight loss, said Dr Fuller.

The review excluded studies where the herbal medicine did not include the whole plant, was comprised of plant oils or combined with other dietary supplements such as fibres and proteins. This analysis will be reported in a future paper.

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An odd contradiction has snuck into public view. Many people feel free to criticize anyone in the public eye (or out) who is seemingly above a certain BMI (even though thats a poor stand-in for health) just look at anything from President Trump publicly fat-shaming one of his own supporters at a rally to Jillian Michaels concern trolling Lizzos health because of her weight. But at the same time, we are all making goo-goo eyes at pictures of obese animals.

Cats, dogs, hamsters, raccoons, penguins and even a small owl so fat that she couldnt fly have hundreds of thousands of followers on social media sites. So what makes us love looking at fat animals but so hostile to bigger humans? And is there a connection between the two?

Psychotherapists have long recognized that one of the reasons that humans derive such comfort from pets is that we attribute to them many of the loving, gentle and kind emotions we long for but dont always receive from other humans. We call dogs our best friends, we see puppies and kittens seen as innocent and loving and we assure ourselves that the love of an animal is both pure and unselfish.

Even when we put an animal on a diet, we feel sympathy for them. Poor thing, one friend said about her dog, who was under a veterinarians order to lose weight. She looks at me with such sad eyes, I feel like Im being cruel when I dont feed her more. She doesnt understand. We identify with a kind of sweet innocence in our pets even when theyre trying to manipulate us into giving them more food.

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When I asked Cynthia Medalie, a fellow psychotherapist and dog-lover in New York City, about the phenomenon, she said, We tend to project our best selves onto our animals. We see in them the love and goodness that we dont always allow ourselves to put out into the world.

And, she added, since we see that in them, we can be our best selves with them in return: We can give them the love and tenderness that we sometimes cant give to other people.

Meanwhile, fatness has been given many external meanings in our culture. Great Barrington, Massachusetts psychotherapist Claire Rosenberg reminded me that, in common vernacular, a fat cat is a wealthy, powerful person with everything going for them a holdover from a time when only the wealthy could afford to be obese, whereas, in the modern age, our food system and tertiary economy increasingly mean that only the well-to-do can truly afford to be thin. So maybe we imagine these overly chubby animals as representing wealth, contentment and self-satisfaction qualities we might long for and, even somewhere deep inside, secretly believe that we, too, feel.

But in our culture, we also have many negative feelings about the causes of peoples weight and obesity, which we project onto fat animals owners. Even on sites intended to allow people to coo at chubby cats, some viewers have expressed outrage at the owners who they believe overfeed their darlings even though the causes of a pets obesity might be as complex as a humans.

And, of course, there are sites specifically dedicated to the effort to help pet owners with weight reduction-plans for their pets, since, as numerous concerned pet owners and vets tell us, fat animals may not be healthy animals.

So theres a conflict between what one writer calls two competing truths: on the one hand, we think fat cats are adorable and, on the other, we worry that their excess weight might be harming them and we look for someone to blame for being insufficiently disciplined in a fat animal's care, just as we tend to make moral judgments about overweight people.

Jean Petrucelli, the director of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions Service of The William Alanson White Institute in New York City, told me that we do attribute (sometimes without thinking about it) a dark side to obese animals. She said that people gawk at things they feel horrified about and often cant look away our society has new rules for what is considered scandalous and what is normative and the ante keeps getting upped. We dont just think fat animals are cute even if they are but part of the attraction to stories about them is that we are scandalized by the humans who allowed them to get that way.

It seems like, in the end, our attraction to stories about fat pets is just another facet of our outrage and public shaming of the people who we consider to be fat, based on our projections about fatness. As fatness has increasingly been attainable by the middle class and then the poor, we have increasingly attached negative qualities to first fatness and then to the people who are fat, eventually criticizing them for being something we either ignore or dont like (or wouldnt like) in ourselves.

And, increasingly, we fat-shame out of so-called concern for another persons health, as fitness guru Michaels did with Lizzo and as people do with fat animals, in part because we feel like were safely discussing our negative feelings about someone elses body rather than projecting bad feelings about ourselves.

But whether youre in love with pictures of fat animals or repelled by them, whether you think its good to celebrate all of our bodies or think its only okay to like thin ones, remember the old maxim that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Its not what you see that causes your feelings; its what the images represent to you.

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Weight loss is one of the toughest tasks for an individual as cutting down on certain foods and beverages can be a challenging chore. The more you try to follow a diet, the more you crave for your favourite food. However, when on a diet it is important to know what to have and what to avoid. Here is a compilation of a few beverages you should avoid when trying to lose weight.

According to Natalie Rizzo (New York dietician),soda is loaded with unnecessary sugar and calories that slow down the process of weight loss. These drinks are not filling too, that is why it is better to avoid these during weight loss journey.

From diet soda to diet iced tea, these drinks instead of helping inweight loss, enhance your calorie intake which is bad for weight loss. According to Rizzo, instead of these, you can drink freshly prepared fruit juices without sugar.

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Sweetened tea can rack up about 100 calories and more than 20 grams of sugar per drink which is not a good thing when you are trying to lose weight. Instead of this, you can have green tea or chamomile tea or any kind of unsweetened tea.

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According to the dietician, when you are out and about to have coffee, try to avoid the tempting options like vanilla lattes or caramel macchiato. She said that the syrup that gives these drinks flavour has more sugar and calories than desserts. Instead of this, you can opt for a regular coffee with some milk.

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Alcohol consumption can hinder your weight loss efforts on a very large scale. Fruity cocktails like Daiquiris, Pina Coladas and Mojitos have a huge amount of sugar that increases the calorie intake and hinders your weight loss.

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Hey Honey, whos that at the door? I asked my husband as we sat at the dining room table.

Im not sure, he said. My x-ray vision isnt working through this cement wall.

Very funny, Superman. Could you look out the window?

Um, it looks like Girl Scouts.

Girl Scouts? Oh-no! We have to pretend were not home!

Why? Theyre about 10-years-old. They dont look dangerous.

Do they have boxes with them?

Boxes? Um, yeah. You think they have some sort of weapons cache in the boxes.

No! Cookies.

Cookies?

Yes, Girl Scout cookies.

Are they explosive Girl Scout cookies?

NO! Theyre FATTENING Girl Scout cookies.

Ah. Im beginning to see the light.

Lets hide.

They already saw me look out the window ... twice.

Rats.

You can just say no.

Its not that easy. When they look at you with those big, pleading eyes and hold out the box of Thin Mints, you cant say no.

So just buy some cookies. Whats the big deal?

The big deal is that I gained seven pounds over the holidays and my New Years resolution was to get back in shape and I CANT LOSE WEIGHT IF THERE ARE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES IN THE HOUSE!

They arent going to jump out of the pantry and yell eat me, you know.

You dont understand. I love Thin Mints. And those Tagalongs are sooo good. Not to mention the Lemon-ups ...

You know them all by name?

... Actually, I think the Do-si-dos were my favorites when I was little.

This is so sad.

... Of course, now I like to have the Toffee-tastics with my coffee.

Maybe you should talk to someone about this ... you know, professionally?

I wonder if they still have those yummy chocolate and caramel ones?

Oh, you mean the Juliettes? Those arent available anymore.

Theyre not? Wait a minute ... how do you know that? Ahhhh! Theyve already been here!

They sold you some cookies! Theyre not here to take orders ... Theyre delivering the cookies you already bought! You traitor!

Er, um ... I got them for the kids!

Fine. But I get the Thin Mints.

This is a repeated Lost in Suburbia column. You can follow Tracy on Facebook and on Twitter.

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