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HOW to lose fat quickly, according to experts.

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You know how it goes.

Your weight loss journey will always begin with the best intentions.

Youll cut out all the excess junk, go to the gym more often and the weight will start to slide off. But restricting yourself is a hard lifestyle to keep up.

Rather than crash dieting, you can make a few small tweaks to your current diet and exercise plan that will help you lose more fat and keep it off.

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1. Eat more regularly

Eating every three to four hours can help prevent fat gain as it will give your body long-lasting energy and stop hunger and cravings that will make you reach for the chocolate.

Make sure your meals are filled with fruit and vegetables, as well as whole grains and lean protein.

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2. Do interval training

High-intensity interval training (HIIT) has been proven to promote fast weight loss.

The exercise which consists of short bursts of exercise with quick rest periods in between lead to a spiked heart rate which burns more calories.

Co-founder of SoHo Strength Lab Albert Matheny told Mens Health that the best kind of interval training to do is a Tabata-style workout which will boost your metabolism.

This kind of workout involves 20 seconds of intense exercise like burpees followed by a 10 second rest. You will do this for 20 minutes with five different exercises lasting four minutes each.

3. Strength train three times per week

Muscle mass will increase the speed of your metabolism and building muscle mass through weight training will increase how many calories you burn, Albert said.

He suggested doing three or four sets of squats, lunges, bench presses, bicep curls and tricep pull downs. Increase your weight when your current weight becomes too easy to lift.

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4. Make sure youre getting enough sleep

A study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found those who sleep for eight and a half hours a night for two weeks lost twice as much weight than those who slept just five an a half hours per night even though both followed the same diet and workout plan.

This is because sleeping helps to keep your hunger hormones like leptin and ghrelin at bay so youre not waking up craving bacon.

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Want to drop the pounds but don't have the time to create the balanced meals your body needs? Now you can just pick up your healthy meals off the shelves in selected supermarkets, courtesy of Complete Nutrition Care (CNC).

CNC seeks to provide Jamaicans with a wholesome, healthy lifestyle through customised meal packages, diet counselling and suggested exercise regimes to improve the quality of life of their clients.

"Our meals are well balanced, nutritious, hence the tag line Meta-Balance 360, and provide the right caloric intake based on a complete assessment of clients' needs," Janet Rankine told Food.

Rankine started customising meal plans for individual clients in 2014 and has now taken her business to the next level, making pre-packaged meals as well as snacks.

Rankine has a genuine desire to improve the lives and welfare of those around her after seeing an increase in non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. She noted that many have resorted to making unwise food choices due to time constraints.

Rankine conducted a market survey to see exactly what was in demand and found that more individuals sought frozen pre-packaged meals that had a shelf life for up to six months once kept frozen. So while they geared their planning towards three main daily meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) with healthy snacks inbetween, she takes her customers' opinions seriously, thus using their input to help fine-tune her products.

Supermarkets will have frozen meals - complete with protein, staples and vegetables, perfect for lunch or dinner. These dishes are prepared without oil, are low in fat, high in fibre, low in cholesterol, use all-natural seasoning, properly portioned, and do not interact with the glycemic level.

Snacks like mixed nuts will also be available. These are best between meals to prevent the body reacting to 'starvation', thus increasing one's metabolic rate, allowing one to lose weight quickly.

CNC has already been lauded for its good work, having received the New Manufacturer of the Year Award for 2015-2016 from the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association. They also will be providing meals for TVJ's new weight-loss programme 'Losing it'. But with all this growth, what means the most to Rankine is the results of her clients.

CNC is always available for consultation at various locations in Kingston, including Endocrinology Diabetes and Associates, Farico Medical, and Constant Spring Medical; and in Portmore - Greater Portmore Medical Centre, Portmore Medical Service and CNC Diet Centre at 1477 Cumberland Boulevard, Cumberland. They also still do deliveries of meals for free at convenient locations in and around the Corporate Area.

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Caption + Comic hypnotist Rich Guzzi will perform Thursday through Sunday at Denver Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater. Courtesy.

"The Rich Guzzi Comedy Hypnosis Show," 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday; "XXXtreme Hypnosis Show," 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Denver Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, The Shops At Northfield Stapleton, 8246 E. 49th Ave, No. 1400, Denver, $18-$20; 1-303-307-1777, denver.improv.com

For all the naysayers who believe hypnotism is fake, comic hypnotist Rich Guzzi has one word for them: vomit.

He laughs as he recounts the time an audience member on stage was in such a deep trance he got sick.

"He thinks the person next to him is farting on him," said Guzzi. "I told him it was getting smellier and smellier. He must have had a weak stomach because he threw up all over this guy's boots. I say it's pretty hard to fake that."

Guzzi will perform Thursday through Sunday at Denver Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, including two "XXXtreme Hypnosis Shows" for a more adult crowd.

The stand-up comedian and certified clinical hypnotherapist was an early convert to the power of hypnotism at 14, when he found a how-to booklet and used it to help a friend catch more footballs during games. Intrigued, he kept at it, even as he worked as an auto mechanic by day and a comic by night.

It was at one of those shows he decided to bring up a couple of audience members and attempt to blend the two worlds together. It worked. Audiences loved to watch Guzzi quickly talk their friends into a trance and have them do goofy things. And while it was certainly good for laughs, Guzzi also saw how beneficial it could be to help people quit smoking, lose weight and become more positive.

"The show is about the power of the mind," Guzzi said. "It's a comedy show but the real benefit is it trains and shows you that you have the power to do anything you want. Once you can control your mind you can control your life. You can go out into the world and make the world a better place."

During a typical show Guzzi will ask for volunteers and bring up about 15 people on stage. It takes him two and a half minutes to knock out the audience members by slowing their brain cycles down through various methods, including finger snapping and physical touch.

"It's a numbers game," he said. "Ten percent are natural subjects. Ten percent are really difficult. Everybody else is pretty much in the middle. Everybody can be hypnotized under the proper circumstance and in a certain amount of time. I have to act fast because the audience is getting bored with the hypnosis stuff."

With everybody safely under his spell, he starts out with easy gags involving the sensory receptors. That includes telling the volunteers they're getting colder and then hotter.

"You can see people start sweating and fanning themselves," he said. "Now I tell them it's cold and to hug the person next to you to keep warm. It could be two big burly biker guys next to each other hugging and the plot thickens."

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A diet designed to imitate the effects of fasting appears to reverse diabetes by reprogramming cells, a new USC-led study shows.

The fasting-like diet promotes the growth of new insulin-producing pancreatic cells that reduce symptoms of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in mice, according to the study on mice and human cells led by Valter Longo, director of the Longevity Institute at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

"Cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet and a normal diet essentially reprogrammed non-insulin-producing cells into insulin-producing cells," said Longo, who is also a professor of biological sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "By activating the regeneration of pancreatic cells, we were able to rescue mice from late-stage type 1 and type 2 diabetes. We also reactivated insulin production in human pancreatic cells from type 1 diabetes patients."

The reprogrammed adult cells and organs prompted a regeneration in which damaged cells were replaced with new functional ones, he said.

The study published on Feb. 23 in the journal Cell, is the latest in a series of studies to demonstrate promising health benefits of a brief, periodic diet that mimics the effects of a water-only fast.

Reversing insulin resistance and depletion

In type 1 and late-stage type 2 diabetes, the pancreas loses insulin-producing beta cells, increasing instability in blood sugar levels. The study showed a remarkable reversal of diabetes in mice placed on the fasting-mimicking diet for four days each week. They regained healthy insulin production, reduced insulin resistance and demonstrated more stable levels of blood glucose. This was the case even for mice in the later stages of the disease.

The diet cycles switched on genes in the adult mice that are normally active only in the developing pancreases of fetal mice. The genes set off production of a protein, neurogenin-3 (Ngn3); thus, generating new, healthy insulin-producing beta cells.

Next steps: clinical study

Longo and his team also examined pancreatic cell cultures from human donors and found that, in cells from type 1 diabetes patients, fasting also increased expression of the Ngn3 protein and accelerated insulin production. The results suggest that a fasting-mimicking diet could alleviate diabetes in humans.

Longo and his research team have amassed evidence indicating several health benefits of the fasting-mimicking diet. Their study published last week in Science Translational Medicine demonstrated that the fasting-mimicking diet reduced risks for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other age-related diseases in human study participants who followed the special diet for five days each month in a three-month span.

Prior studies on the diet have shown potential for alleviating symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease multiple sclerosis, increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy for cancer treatments, and decreasing visceral fat.

"These findings warrant a larger FDA trial on the use of the fasting-mimicking diet to treat human diabetes patients to help them produce normal levels of insulin while improving insulin function," Longo said. "Hopefully, people with diabetes could one day be treated with an FDA-approved fasting-mimicking diet for a few days each month and gain control over their insulin production and blood sugar."

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The pancreas can be triggered to regenerate itself through a type of fasting diet, say US researchers.

A type of fasting diet may reprogramme pancreas cells, promote the growth of new insulin-producing pancreatic cells and reduce symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, a study has showed.

In the study, led by researchers from the University of Southern California, mice were placed on fasting mimicking diet (FMD) for four days each week which showed remarkable reversal of diabetes.

The mice regained healthy insulin production, reduced insulin resistance and demonstrated more stable levels of blood glucose -- even in the later stages of the disease, the researchers said in the paper published in the journal Cell.

The genes normally active in the developing pancreas of embryonic/foetal mice are reactivated in diabetic adult mice when cycling FMD with normal diets.

This increases production of the protein neurogenin-3 (Ngn3) and, as a result, promotes the creation of new, healthy insulin-producing beta cells.

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Researchers also examined pancreatic cell cultures from human donors and found that, in cells from Type 1 diabetes patients, nutrients mimicking fasting also increased expression of the Ngn3 protein and insulin production.

These findings warrant a larger FDA trial on the use of the Fasting Mimicking Diet to treat diabetes patients, said Valter Longo from the University of Southern California.

People with diabetes could one day be treated with an FDA-approved Fasting Mimicking Diet for a few days each month, eat a normal diet for the rest of the month, and see positive results in their ability to control their blood sugar by producing normal levels of insulin and improving insulin function, Longo added.

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"It is now the most popular diet in Hollywood," said Dr. Alessio Fasano, director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital, who has led world-renowned research on gluten.

Nonetheless, "this is a medical intervention," he said. "For those who just brush it off that this is a fad and a fashion lifestyle, be considerate of the people that survive on this diet. For people with celiac disease, the gluten-free diet is like insulin for diabetics."

So how did gluten-free eating shift from a rare treatment approach to a trendy way of living? Here's a look at the rise and fall of gluten and how the gluten-free diet has shaped public health over the years.

World War II wreaked havoc across most of Europe. Children became malnourished, with limited access to fruits, vegetables and especially wheat. While that lack weakened the health of most, it seemed to strengthen those with celiac disease.

"This gentleman during World War II noted that the mortality of celiac disease was zero, and he didn't realize immediately why until when the war was over and the mortality went back to the pre-war era," Fasano said.

"Something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat," he said.

"There's nothing specifically bad about gluten or specifically good about a gluten-free diet, outside of for these specific -- not uncommon but relatively small -- populations of people with celiac disease, which is about 1% of people in the general population," said Dr. Daniel Leffler, director of research at the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Why exactly can gluten make those with celiac sick? Scientists originally viewed it as a food allergy, but that all changed in the decades to come.

Scientists uncovered the first signs that celiac disease could be an autoimmune disorder -- instead of an allergic one -- in the 1970s, Leffler said.

"This was sort of a surprise, because HLA-DQ2 was already known to be linked to type 1 diabetes, which is another classic autoimmune disease, but not to any of the allergic diseases. So the genetics that people with celiac disease have is much more similar to autoimmune diseases," Leffler said.

It was still thought that only people with celiac disease could have such reactions to gluten, but then the idea emerged that gluten could impact the health of some people without celiac disease, too.

"The new kid on the block is gluten sensitivity or the so-called non-celiac gluten sensitivity," said Dr. Anca Safta, assistant professor and pediatric GI section head at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina.

However, Safta said that since non-celiac gluten sensitivity is still new to the scientific literature, much confusion remains around it as a medical condition. For now, non-celiac gluten sensitivity is viewed as a condition that has the same symptoms of celiac disease but without the immune system damaging the intestines.

"The symptoms are there. Folks do get better once they remove the gluten-containing products, and the very important thing is to exclude celiac disease from the picture, as celiac disease implies that the intestinal mucosa has suffered damage," Safta said.

"As we're learning more, we don't even know if we have the correct nomenclature for non-celiac gluten sensitivity," she said. "It might not be gluten that is causing this non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and it might be a different protein found in wheat, but because of the exclusion of the gluten-containing products for symptoms to improve, that's why it's kind of gotten the name of non-celiac gluten sensitivity."

By this point, however, gluten sensitivity -- whether celiac or not -- had been mostly observed and studied in Europe. That would change in the next decade.

Fasano, director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital, saw many cases of celiac disease early in his career as a pediatric gastroenterologist in Naples, Italy.

"Celiac disease was considered extremely rare, almost nonexisting in the United States, and that was a quite interesting observation given at the same time in Europe, where I was coming from, there was a rampage of epidemics of celiac disease all over," Fasano said.

"Now you know, whenever you look for it, you find it, provided there are genes and environmental triggers," Fasano said of celiac disease.

"We have a major problem of celiac disease in India for example now, particularly in the northern region of the Punjab," he said. "We have problems of celiac disease in South America. We have a growing rampant problem of celiac disease in China, anywhere that you have the genetic background and the westernization of your diet."

Fasano then published more data, leading to a landmark paper that would change the scientific community's view of gluten in America.

There was a big study in the United States done by Alessio Fasano that found the prevalence of celiac disease in the United States at around 1%, which was 10 times higher than what people thought it was in the United States before that, said Leffler, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

"It really was a critical study," Leffler said.

Once Fasano turned a spotlight on celiac disease in the US, many more studies emerged about gluten sensitivity among Americans, some suggesting that a gluten-free diet may benefit a subgroup of patients with various health disorders.

"There is a possibility that some groups of individuals with other chronic inflammatory conditions, including autoimmune diseases like diabetes or multiple sclerosis, of course autism ... and schizophrenia ... there could be a subgroup of these individuals that could benefit from embracing a gluten-free diet," Fasano said.

"For schizophrenia, for example, we're talking about 20% or 25%. That's not a trivial number," he said. "The same applies with autism, which also the numbers seem to adjust a little bit less, roughly 20%."

As scientists explored curious connections between gluten-free diets and various disorders, celebrities started to weigh in.

"Gluten is crapppp anyway," she tweeted.

At the same time, companies also expanded the types of products they offer to cater to a growing gluten-free consumer base.

At the same time, more consumers who didn't have celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity took on gluten-free diets by choice.

Yet experts warn that gluten-free eating might not offer benefits if you don't have gluten sensitivity -- and that the diet could do more harm than good.

"We definitely don't recommend a gluten-free diet for weight loss. My dietician will tell you that. The reason why is, when they remove gluten from a lot of these foods to make them taste more appealing, they add more calories or carbohydrates," said Dr. Runa Watkins, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, who specializes in celiac disease.

"The second thing is, being on a gluten-free diet also puts you at risk for other nutritional deficiencies in the long run, such as like B-12 and zinc and folate," she added, "And cost-wise, it can be expensive. So we definitely don't recommend it just because."

All in all, for those who need to consume a gluten-free diet as a treatment for celiac disease, Watkins recommends to keep at it.

"This is a lifetime disorder that is treated with a gluten-free diet to allow healing of the gut. But when this is achieved, it doesn't mean you can go back to a gluten-containing diet," she said.

Fasano hopes the pendulum on gluten's reputation will swing in the opposite direction, from painting gluten as a monster back to depicting it as a simple protein that some can healthily digest and others cannot.

"The pendulum was all the way to left, where before, the pioneer patients with celiac disease really had a hard time to survive," Fasano said.

"Now. the pendulum is all the way to the right, where this is a fashionable diet," he said. "I think that in the future, we will see a readjustment of the pendulum. and hopefully we'll go back to where it belongs. I of course think everybody with celiac disease needs to be on a gluten-free diet. The people that will be affected by other gluten-free-related eating disorders, like wheat allergy or non-celiac gluten sensitivity, should go on a gluten-free diet, and then there is a question mark for others."

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The risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer may be higher for women who have a poor diet during adolescence and early adulthood, new research finds.

Previous studies have associated an unhealthful diet - particularly one that is low in vegetables, high in refined sugar and carbohydrates, and high in red and processed meats - with chronic inflammation, which may raise the risk of certain cancers.

According to the new study, it is this diet-induced inflammation that may increase a woman's risk of breast cancer prior to menopause.

Study co-author Karin B. Michels, Ph.D. - professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California-Los Angeles - and colleagues recently reported their findings in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. This year, around 252,710 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed, and more than 40,000 women will die from the disease.

"About 12 percent of women in the U.S. develop breast cancer in their lifetimes," notes Michels. "However, each woman's breast cancer risk is different based on numerous factors, including genetic predisposition, demographics, and lifestyle."

For this latest study, Michels and colleagues set out to determine how a pro-inflammatory diet during adolescence or early adulthood might influence women's risk of breast cancer in later life.

The researchers analyzed the data of 45,204 women who were part of the Nurses' Health Study II.

Some of the women completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1991, when they were aged between 27 and 44 years, which disclosed details of their diet in early adulthood. The questionnaire was completed again every 4 years thereafter.

In 1998 - when aged between 33 and 52 - some women completed a food frequency questionnaire that detailed their diet during high school.

Using a technique that associates food intake with markers of inflammation in the blood, the researchers allocated an inflammatory score to each woman's diet. The women were then divided into five groups based on their inflammatory score.

Compared with women who had the lowest inflammatory diet score during adolescence, those who had the highest score were found to be at a 35 percent higher risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer.

Women with the highest inflammatory diet score during early adulthood were found to have a 41 percent increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer, compared with those who had the lowest inflammatory diet score.

A pro-inflammatory diet was not associated with the overall incidence of breast cancer or the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, the team reports.

Although the study cannot prove cause and effect between a pro-inflammatory diet during adolescence or early adulthood and premenopausal breast cancer, the team believes that the results further highlight the importance of a healthful diet.

"Our study suggests that a habitual adolescent/early adulthood diet that promotes chronic inflammation may be another factor that impacts an individual woman's risk.

During adolescence and early adulthood, when the mammary gland is rapidly developing and is therefore particularly susceptible to lifestyle factors, it is important to consume a diet rich in vegetables, fruit, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes and to avoid soda consumption and a high intake of sugar, refined carbohydrates, and red and processed meats."

Karin B. Michels, Ph.D.

There are a number of limitations to the study. For example, participants reported their adolescent diet years later, so their recollections could be subject to error. Additionally, the researchers did not have access to subjects' measurements of inflammatory blood markers during adolescence or early adulthood.

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A bizarre situation was captured on surveillance camera over the weekend as a man spent seven hours inside a Waterville fitness center after it closed for the day.

What he is accused of doing shocked and surprised police.

Eric Davis is accused of squatting at Champions Fitness Center Saturday night. The operations manager at the gym checked her security cameras online at 2 a.m. Sunday and got the surprise of a lifetime.

Through remote access I was able to view and see that there was an unknown person standing right here, writing things down with no shirt on, Renee Raymond said.

Police said David helped himself to drinks and punched out a ceiling tile in the locker room and ring down the wires, disconnecting the music.

My theory is that the music was loud in there, maybe he wanted to take a nap, Raymond said.

Police said he also ordered eight pizzas from Dominos and had them delivered. He kept two for himself, sent four to the police station and two to Hannaford.

Security alarms sounded between 8 and 10 p.m. Police checked on it twice, but did not see anything out of the ordinary.

The third alarm prompted Raymond to check the surveillance app on her phone.

I see him help himself to a towel. He knew right where they were apparently that was his next step, going to take a shower in the locker room, Raymond said.

Police arrived and arrested Davis.

As they took him into custody he said, No. No you dont understand. Im Basher, the security officer that works here, and obviously he was not, police Chief Joe Massey said.

Davis is facing several charges, including burglary, theft and criminal mischief.

I actually feel bad for the guy. He wasnt here to hurt anybody. Police said he does not have a history of violence, so that made us feel better, Raymond said.

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While Instagram has become a beloved platform for posts that spark conversations about self-love and body inclusivity, it also has a track record of allegedly deleting those same kinds of posts, which don't seem to be in violation of their rules. For instance, there was a time three curvy girls showed off their adorable swimsuits only for the picture to allegedly be deleted, or when Instagram was accused of removing a photo of a fully clothed woman with period blood-stained pants. Instagram also [deleted] a partially clothed woman's "booty appreciation" selfie, only to later apologize for removing it.

"We try hard to find a good balance between allowing people to express themselves creatively and keeping Instagram a fun and safe place," a rep said at the time. "Our guidelines put limitations on nudity and mature content, but we recognize that we dont always get it right. In this case, we made a mistake and have since restored the content."

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Perhaps Instagram made another mistake when it allegedly removed a recent photo taken by fitness blogger Mallory King. The picture in question was a response to trolls who jumped at King in her comments section after she posted a photo proudly revealing her cellulite. King's next move was to post a side-by-side photo of herself with her cellulite front and center as she was giving the middle finger, on the right, and giving a thumbs up with her boyfriend, on the left. "To that guy who made a negative comment about my cellulite yesterday," she wrote in the photo's caption, as Cosmopolitan.com points out . "There are so many worse things in life than cellulite, like your shitty attitude. Let people do whatever the fuck they want and look however they please and post whatever makes them happy. Find a hobby and worry about ya damn self."

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However, once the photo was regrammed by @SundayMorningView, it was mysteriously deleted.

King commented on the removal of the photo in another post, writing, "If you follow @sundaymorningview you probably saw the image they posted of me that's very similar to this one except I was giving the middle finger to the haters that leave negative comments about my cellulite. The image blew up, getting an overwhelmingly positive response. Well, that image was deleted by @instagram this morning. This upsets me for two reasons 1) Why do thousands of posts go unremoved that show butts and boobs in WAY more vulgar ways than mine? Is it because my cellulite is offensive? Is it because I'm not trying to be sexy? Is it because I don't have the body type that is continuously shared on here? 2) Why are people so threatened by a woman unafraid of showing her body and speaking her mind? People used the excuse that their kid could see the photo. Don't let your kid on social media! No, that's not it. It's either people feel threatened by my fierceness or people are so brainwashed by media that a perfect pair of tits or butt is fine to flash but a body that's outside of the norm is offensive. Fuck that. Y'all can report my photos as much as you want, I'm gonna keep sharing them because the world needs more women unashamed of their bodies and unafraid to share their voice."

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Instagram's website clearly states that the number of times a photo gets reported doesn't actually make the company remove the photo. So, if Mallory King's picture was in fact deleted, it's not because people reported it. It also doesn't seem like the photo violated nudity guidelines , which state that you cannot post "photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks." As Cosmopolitan.com notes, the possible use of the middle finger isn't a violation either, as there are currently more than 370,000 posts hashtagged with #middlefinger. .

We've reached out to Instagram for comment and will update this story when we hear back.

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Allison Neiberg wanted to lose weight. No matter how hard she tried, she failed.

Then, the 43-year-old Upper Saint Clair mother tried something new developed by Pittsburgh exercise physiologist Dee Barker: the Better Body Image app.

Barker has worked with weight loss clients for 30 years, and kept statistics on what works for different body types. To help her clients see the change, she patented an app.

"A light bulb went off and I said, wait a minute, I've spent years collecting all of this body shape data," Barker said. "If I can see how her body would change, what if she could see how her body would change?"

Just take a photo, enter some information such as age and activity, and the app will do the rest.

Instantly, you can see how your body will change over time -- and looking at the "projected you" will hopefully keep you motivated to keep doing the work to get there.

"It was fantastic," Neiberg said. "I really liked being able to see the change.

"Just putting on a pair of pants, I was like, wow, there's more room in my pants. I was all excited."

WEBVTT ON TRACK.REPORTER 43-YEAR-OLD ALLISONNIEBERG WANTED TO LOSE WEIGHT.NO MATTER HOW HARD SHE TRIED SHEFAILED.>> IT'S FRUSTRATING BECAUSE YOUSTART IT AND TRY AND IT COMESRIGHT BACK.IT'S NEVER CONSISTENT.REPORTER: THEN THIS UPPERST. CLAIRE MOM TRIED SOMETHINGKNEW DEVELOPED BY AN EXERCISEPHYSIOLOGIST WHO CREATEDTECHNOLOGY TO KEEP PEOPLEMOTIVATED.>> THAT WAS WHEN A LIGHT BULBWENT OFF AND I SAID WAIT AMINUTE I'VE SPENT 15 YEARSSELECTING ALL OF THIS BODY SHAPEDATA IF I COULD SEE HOW HER BODYCOULD CHANGE WHAT IF SHE COULDSEE HOW HER BODY WOULD CHANGE.REPORTER: SHE HAD WORKED WITHWEIGHT LOSS CLIENTS FOR 30 YEARSAND SHE KEPT ALL THOSESTATISTICS ON WHAT WORKS FORDIFFERENT BODY TYPES.SO TO HELP HER CLIENTS SEE THECHANGE.>> THERE IS THE FIRST TENPOUNDS.REPORTER: SHE PATENTED AN APP.YOU TAKE A PHOTO, PUT ININFORMATION SUCH AS YOUR AGE,ACTIVITY LEVEL IT WILL DO THEREST.INSTANTLY YOU CAN SIGH HOW YOURBODY WILL CHANGE OVERTIME.AND SHE SAYS SEEING THE CHANGEWILL KEEP YOU MOTIVATED TO STICKTO IT.ALLISON SAYS IT'S WORKING FORHER.>> IT WAS FANTASTIC, I REALLYLIKE BEING ABLE TO SEE THECHANGE BECAUSE MY CLOTHES, IMEAN JUST PUTTING ON A PAIR OFPANTS I'M LIKE WOULD YOU THEREIS MUCH MORE ROOM IN MY PANTS IWAS ALL EXCITED.REPORTER: SHE HAS RELEASED ABETTER BODY IMAGE APP AND IS INTALKS WITH SEVERAL LARGE WEIGHTLOSS COMPANIES, AND AN INSURANCECOMPANY.>> BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE BEINGSPENT IN THE WEIGHT LOSS MARKET,THIS YEAR TEN BILLION DOLLARS TOATTRACT PEOPLE TO BETTER HEALTHAND WEIGHT LOSS, BUTUNFORTUNATELY 75% OF THOSEPEOPLE WHO START WILL QUIT,BECAUSE THEY CAN'T STAY FOCUSEDON THEIR GOALS LONG ENOUGH TOSEE RESULTS.REPORTER: THIS APP WILL ALSOKEEP TRACK OF YOUR CALORIES ANDLET NOW WHEN YOU'RE CLOSE TOEATING TOO MUCH.THERE IS EVEN A VIRTUAL TAPEMEASURE CALLED SIZE ME RIGHT.IT'S THE PROTECTION OF SIX WEEKSINTO THE FUTURE THAT KEEPSALLISON ON TRACK. HOW OFTEN DOYOU LOOK TO SEE THE PROJECTEDYOU?A LOT.I'M LIKE, OOH, I DO THAT A LOT

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