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Diving headfirst into a diet can be exciting, but after a few days or weeks, the endless parade of greens and small portions starts to all blur together and you find yourself daydreaming about saturated fats from a greasy drive-through. We all cheat on our diets and a new study that surveyed 1,000 people found that the most prevalent diet cheat food was pizza (with about 53 percent of respondents listing it as their go-to rule-breaking food). Of course, this information should be taken with a grain of salt since the study was commissioned by the Chicago area's Home Run Inn pizza chain.

Heres the breakdown of our favorite cheat foods, besides pizza:

Anything deep-fried: 39 percent

Candy and chocolate: 32 percent

Grilled meat (like burgers): 20 percent

Alcohol: 20 percent

Pasta: 19 percent

Cakes and pies: 16 percent

The survey also uncovered some dieting stereotypes: that women were more likely to get busted with chocolate than men were, but men were more likely to cheat with a burger or steak. If youre from the Northeast youre more likely to cheat with sweets like cake or cookies. If youre from the South, fried foods and soda are more your weak point. .

If you want the skinny on cheat meals and whether or not they work (by satisfying an urge for something outside your regimented dietary realm), we break it down here.

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The bathroom scale is one of many useful tools to keep you focused on your fitness goal, but get too obsessed and it can spiral you down a dark and miserable path. Heres why relying too much on the scale could hurt your motivation and what to measure instead.

Whether your goal is to fit in your pants better or pack on pounds of muscle, its important to realize that thescale doesnt tell the whole story. In fact, as this article on Born Fitness explains, there are many reasons why you shouldnt put too much stock in the number you see:

Instead, use the scale as just one piece of data to give you a more complete picture of whats really happening. Other valuable feedback to evaluate your progress include taking progress pictures, looking atbody fat percentage and waist measurements, tracking your strength and energy levels in the gym, noticing your mood and sleep patterns, and so much more.

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Inside the crazy hardcore fitness regimen that keeps American astronauts healthy and strong in space Men's Fitness With that go your stamina (from VO2 loss), your aerobic and anaerobic fitness, and your strength. Some of the bodily fluids in your lower extremities shift to your head, swelling your face and causing bruising headaches. One of those liquids, spinal ... and more »

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Lets face it, as entrepreneurswere busy trying to make our impact in the world, while also keeping our personal world in order. Running your own business requires a lot of work. And more often than not, we let business and work take priority over health.

Butwithout your health, youre only going to be a shell of you could be. As I remind every entrepreneur I coach or speak to,its important to run your body like you run a business.You wouldnt take short cuts with your business and you shouldnt do it with your body. After all, these two entities have a synergistic relationship.

Being a fit, happyand productive entrepreneur requires a focus on more than your physical fitness. Our mental and emotional fitness play a pivotal role as well.Here are three simple, but powerful tips to improve your mental and emotional fitness.

In the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey, there isnt a raving fan club providing you validation. I was writing in obscurity for over a year before I received my first opportunity to write for a publication.

Related:What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Perseverance.

Entrepreneurs such as Daymond John, who many know as the guy on Shark Tank,worked for years in seeming obscurity. Years before he arrived on the scene, he was hustling on the streets while working at Red Lobster.If he had placed his identity 100percent on the success of his business then, he wouldnt have lasted tobecome the success we know him as today.

As an entrepreneur, its pivotal that you dont place your self-worth on the achievements of your business.At the start, its important to be process oriented, not outcome oriented. You can only control the effort you put in each day, not the exact result or outcome it creates.

Understand that youre a human being who is separate from your business. The business may be your baby, but it doesn't dictate the currency of your self-worth.Take some time each day to reflect upon all the things youre proud of in your life.

Ive never been good with fitness. Im too busy to exercise andeat clean. My genetics dont allow me to lose weight.People actually believe such disempowering thoughts about themselves -- even the most hard-driving, can-do businesspeople.

Maybe its your past shortcomings or fear, but addressing thelimiting beliefs that are circulating inside your brain is pivotal to improving your mental fitness as an entrepreneur.

Take some time to reflect on your beliefs. Where did these invisible scripts come from? Are they valid? Are these really your beliefs? Or are they beliefs programmed into you by external sources such as the media, family, peersor friends?

Your emotional fitness helps you manage, even excel, amidthe ups and downs of being an entrepreneur. With great emotional fitness comes a strong inner peace that allows you to stay connected to your true identity and to make the sound decisions for your business and health.

But, when youre running a business without a set number of hours and schedule, its easy to lose focus on your emotional health. One key area for optimal emotional fitness is with those closest to us, whom we often push away without even noticing. Its not from lack of love; we often just take them for granted whilebecomingobsessed with our companies.

One of the simplest ways to enhance your business and health is to have powerful relationships, especially with your partner. Its pivotal to pick out a partner who understands your lifestyle and will be there to support you.

Knowing that you have a unique lifestyle and view of the world means that you cant just choose anyone as most people do.You have extra criteria that you have to be watchful for. While this may shrink your pool of potential partners, itprovides a better chance of having a successful and powerful relationship that enrichesyou instead of drainingyou.

Related:How to Ask Your Partner for a Prenup

Instead of keeping your partner in the dark about your business, let them into your world. Set aside time to focus on connection with them and nothing else. Plan for holidays and weekly date nights,makingsure to mark them on the calendar.

It takes a lot of energy, strengthand dedication to start and grow a successful business. But, you can't do this without focusing on your emotional and mental fitness. Your health equals your wealth.

Julian Hayes II founded The Art of Fitness & Life to help ambitious, creative, and remarkable men and women build a world-class body while living a world-class lifestyle. He is an author, fitness, lifestyle consultant and speaker. His m...

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Fitness 19 in Vacaville announced Tuesday it would be closing its gym located at 70 Peabody Road immediately.

Unfortunately, we have made the difficult decision to close this location, the company wrote in a letter to its members. We are unable to relocate your membership to an existing Fitness 19 or a new and improved location nearby.

Fitness 19 has been at this location for 13 years and wanted to provide more for their members, said Bob Rodger, a representative for the company.

They were not able to refurbish the existing building or find a new building to relocate to, so they reached out to Fitness Evolution and asked if they would honor their customers memberships.

Fitness 19 memberships will automatically be transferred to the Fitness Evolution club located at 991 Alamo Drive. This transfer is effective today.

Monthly and annual dues will continue to be billed through Fitness 19 until March 14.

Then Fitness Evolution, which is located inside the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market shopping center behind Jack in the Box, will take over collecting those dues the next day.

According to Fitness 19, members that currently have daily use restrictions will now have access seven days a week.

Members who pay more than $10 a month will be automatically upgraded to a premium membership that includes tanning, hydromassage and the use of more than 51 locations in Northern California.

Rodger said Fitness 19 is sad to leave Vacaville, and tried to provide more notice, but they were working on the arrangement with Fitness Evolution.

If members decide not to transfer their membership, they must provide written notice to Fitness Evolution.

If you have questions about your Fitness 19 membership, email vacavilleclosure@fitness19.com.

For more information on this transition, call Fitness Evolution at 450-1930.

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Rest days are a standard part of exercise programs, but theyre not the only way to avoid overworking yourself. Lets look at the difference between rest and recovery, and when you can bend the rules.

Most strength-focused programs like weightlifting either work your whole body and then skip the next day, or else they have you split up your workouts so that, for example, your arms get a rest on leg day. The idea is to let each muscle recover from a workout before you ask it to do the same thing again.

But not every activity works this way. Runners, for example, often run every day, and may only take one or two true rest days a week. But within that pattern, they will alternate days of hard running (like speedwork, hill running, or long runs) with easy runs that feel less challenging to the body.

Other sports may fall somewhere in between, but nobody expects to work every body part to exhaustion every day. Even when elite athletes do workouts every day that look killer to us, its because our hard is their easy. You can bet their coaches schedule in just enough of the easier workouts to keep the athletes progress on track with minimal risk of injury.

Rest days and splits help us to pace ourselves. Too much hard running, if youre not used to it, sets you up for tendonitis and other overuse injuries. And too much exercise of any kind can lead to a syndrome called overtraining where your body may develop flu-like symptoms and disturbed sleep because it just cant keep up with the demands youre putting on it.

Taking a single rest day after a hard workout isnt the only way to keep yourself from overtraining. There are a few reasons its a good rule of thumb, though:

If you can accomplish those goals with another schedule, though, feel free to do so. If you enjoy all your workouts, even the hard ones, slowly include more hard days in your schedule. If you feel okay with that, keep doing it! But if you end up sore or fatigued, listen to your body and put those rest days back in.

If soreness is your problem, be aware that skipping one day may not be the best way to deal with it. Soreness peaking at 48 hours is just an average, and the true timeframe can vary. Your muscles might only feel sore and weak for one day, or if you tried something new and difficult, you might feel it for a week. At the beginning of a new workout routine, you might even need three or four easy days.

Some people prefer the term recovery to rest days, because total rest isnt necessarily your goal. After all, lifting a fork to your mouth is a similar action to a bicep curl, so if you just did a heavy arm day, would you be unable to eat? Clearly, some amount of activity is fine on a rest or recovery day.

This is where you have to calibrate your own sense of effort. If youre new to exercising and you just did a day of heavy squats, a five mile bike ride is probably not a great choice for the following day. But if you bike five miles to work every day, you should be able to keep doing that even on your rest days.

When I did push-ups every day for 30 days, a few people suggested that I was setting myself up for injury by not taking rest days. But as I wrote in that article, I ramped up my fitness very carefully. A few sets of pushups every day is my new normal, and its no more taxing to me than a bike ride is to a bike commuter. Some days I might try a more challenging type of pushup or I might do more reps than usual; but I balance out those harder days with, you guessed it, easier days that are closer to my baseline effort level.

As you learn your own strengths and limitations, you too can alter your workout schedule according to what works for you. That might mean you only take one or two rest days per week, or it might mean you do mega-hard workouts and then lay low for a few days. If youre getting a reasonable amount of exercise in total, and if you arent getting sore or injured, youre probably doing okay.

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BRANFORD >> Picture this: Eight roughly Medicare-aged men and women, scattered around a dance studio, all wearing boxing gloves, jabbing at punching bags and shouting out the count of how many punches theyve thrown. One man is throwing punches at the unsurprisingly lithe trainer, Terry OHara, and she is shouting, Jab cross, jab cross, jab kick. (The kick is shouted fortissimo.)

The man delivers a swift kick in the direction of OHaras mitt, and she smiles and says, Good.

Whats happening here is an exercise class for people with Parkinsons disease, the progressive neurological disease that results in muscle weakness, stiffness, poor balance, a shuffling gait. Some lose their voices, some have severe tremors. There is, at this time, no cure.

No cure, but some programs that give hope for slowing the progress of the disease. Beat Parkinsons Disease Today, a for-profit organization, is the name of the boxing/exercise program with classes in nine towns (including Branford and Old Saybrook) that was founded and designed by Michelle Hespeler of Marlborough. She has special understanding she was diagnosed with Young Parkinsons Disease 10 years ago when she was 40. A former physical education teacher, she started doing research and focused, she says, on balance, posture and gait and movements that you use every day, like picking something up...You have to exaggerate movements to compensate for slowness.

Boxing, she finds, is good for balance, and also valuable because it uses both the left and right brain. Youre doing two things at the same time....Also it gets frustrations out.

Participants clearly like the boxing part of the exercise classes. Joann Hogan of Madison, after a bout sending punches to a partner (cross punch, jab, cross, hook hook hook), called it strenuous but invigorating.

Allyson Kinney, of Branford, is an avid exerciser/boxer she attends two classes a week the one at the dance studio, Studio One in Branford, and another at Branford High School. She was diagnosed two and a half years ago, at age 69. She has noticed her voice getting softer and softer...You have to practice speaking loud so you dont lose your voice. Like her fellow boxers, shes a believer in the program It jolts the muscles, it helps with rigidity, she says. She exercises daily, and believes exercise is what keeps the symptoms at bay.

Kinney, who was a computer-science teacher for almost 40 years, is the leader of a Parkinsons support group that meets once a month in Branford for a program of speakers and sharing time when Parkinsons patients can meet and share, while families or friends meet separately. The speakers are varied a physician who specializes in Parkinsons, a state legislator who is interested in fund raising to finance research. (Attendance at the meetings, which began with 20 people a little more than a year ago, now averages 40 to 50.) The support groups are organized under the umbrella of Connecticut Advocates for Parkinsons (CAP), a nonprofit also founded by Hespeler and her husband.

Support groups, exercise classes that get people who would normally be past boxing age moving (and punching and kicking) are giving PD patients hope. Kinney says, Im very optimistic about myself because Im taking charge. Im being pro-active. Im not going to sit around and let Parkinsons beat me. Im going to do everything I can to stave off symptoms. So far Ive done a good job.

For further information, see the website http://www.beatpdtoday.com or call 860-463-3747.

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Saint Marys Fitness Center is launching a new eight-week cancer wellness program this month called everyBODY can.

everyBODY can came up as an idea to kick start a healthy lifestyle, Cassie Goodman, medical exercise supervisor at Saint Marys Fitness Center, said.

Goodman explained that Saint Marys Fitness Center has run a cancer rehab program for more than five years now. Many of their cancer survivors, particularly women who have had breast cancer, are trying to lose weight and to reduce the risk for reoccurrence by exercising. However, to be successful members need to focus not only on exercise but also on eating well and living a healthy lifestyle.

They are getting super focused on the exercise part and they are missing that nutrition and self-care component, Goodman said.

In order to focus on all aspects of wellness, the fitness center is launching everyBODY can. The program includes team workshops with health coaches and nutritionists along with weekly group exercise classes and more.

everyBODY can is set up as a competition where participants can earn points in the three areas of exercise, nutrition and self-care. The grand prize winner will receive a spa certificate, hotel room and dinner provided by the Peppermill Resort Hotel along with a shopping spree. However, Goodman said they are implementing a cap on the amount of points a participant can earn for exercising so that they do not over exercise to win the competition.

The idea is sustainable change, Goodman said. We dont want people to go all gung-ho for eight weeks and not be able to maintain it afterward.

everyBODY can runs from Feb. 13 till April 7. People interested in the program should sign-up prior to Wednesday, Feb. 15. The program costs $45 for Saint Marys Fitness Center members and $179 for non-members, which includes a membership to the fitness center during the eight weeks in addition to the program itself. Scholarship opportunities are available and the program is open to all cancer survivors in the Reno-Sparks area.

It is open to men and women with all types of cancer at any stage of treatment as long as their doctor signs off on it, Goodman said.

They already had 17 people sign-up for the program a week out from the launch. Goodman hopes to make everyBODY can a reoccurring program.

We have been getting a lot of support from the community, Goodman said.

Saint Marys Fitness Center is owned by Saint Marys Health Network. However, the facility is not limited to just Saint Marys patients.

For a regular membership anyone can walk in, have a tour and sign-up just like a regular gym, Goodman said.

The fitness center is open Monday through Friday from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. It is located at 645 N. Arlington Ave. Suite 100.

The Saint Marys Fitness Center employs nearly 80 people including 15-20 personal trainers. The center has nearly 4,000 members with the average age of their members being 54-years-old. Since the fitness center offers medical-based exercise programs in addition to traditional fitness programs, it provides a safe environment to improve their health at any fitness level.

We really try to keep it a non-intimidating place, Goodman said.

For more information about the Fitness Center, visit http://www.saintmarysfitness.com. To learn more about the everyBODY can program or to sign up, contact Cassie Goodman at 775-770-7874 or email her at Cgoodman2@primehealthcare.com.

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Megan V. Winslow/Town Crier Students in the El Camino YMCA EnhanceFitness class undergo their exercise regimen.

In the El Camino YMCAs EnhanceFitness classes, students ages 60 and up get their exercise whether they use a wheelchair or not. On one recent Tuesday, a handful of students braved the storm to visit the Y and boost their heart rates.

This low-impact class is for individuals who want to start out or enhance their fitness levels, said the instructor, who wished to remain anonymous. Its great having it at the Y because were a community. Its more than just a gym everyone interacts with one another.

EnhanceFitness evolved from a University of Washington study launched in 1993 that revealed fitness not only improved physical functioning in seniors, but also allayed depression and improved social functioning. The El Camino YMCA has offered the program since 2013, in four-month sessions that enable instructors to track their students results.

While EnhanceFitness classes are also conducted at El Camino Hospital and Villa Siena Senior Living Community, the instructor said teaching at the YMCA is different.

Every time I walk through the doors, I feel happy, she said. Its great to see the whole spectrum of ages.

The wide range means that the seniors can teach life lessons to younger YMCA instructors as well. Including how to talk back. The instructor remembers one instance where a 100-year-old student did not want to follow the rules.

We try to encourage students to drink water, but this woman didnt want to, the instructor said. When I asked why, she looked at me and said, I would rather go home and drink my brandy.

Lisa Schouten, wellness coach at the YMCA, works with patients after their discharge from local hospitals. She pointed to two programs Parkinsons Exercise Program and Health Transitions that take people from not just the community, but from the hospital bed, and try to help them avoid a second visit.

The Parkinsons Exercise Program is a free course that gives students the opportunity to participate in spinning classes, interval and dumbbell training, as well as Drums Alive, a class in which students drum on stability balls.

This is supposed to be great for brain health, Schouten said of the varied offerings.

She added that exercise helps students improve cognition.

Stanford sends a lot of people to us. The Parkinsons Institute is well aware of what we do and sends us a lot of people as well, Shouten said.

Shouten said many YMCA members are also support-group leads for members of the community with Parkinsons.

The Health Transitions program is slightly different. According to Schouten, the complimentary three-month program affiliated with El Camino Hospital helps with pulmonary and cardiac (lungs and heart) rehabilitation.

Hopefully, they can join the Y and their joining fee is waived, she said.

Health Transitions started in 2012 with only cardiac patients but has since expanded. There are now approximately 30 participants spread through three levels of the program and Schouten oversees all of them.

As theyre finishing their (hospital) rehab, theyre told that there is a Y program where someone will help you, she said. I get, for lack of a better word, a prescription telling me what their heart rate should be and how hard they should be exercising, so I can fill out what their needs are.

The relationship enables her to send information back to El Camino Hospital about how the students are progressing. Hospital staff periodically follow up with their former patients, charting their improvement.

Schouten, for her part, said relationships with trusted institutions brings people into the YMCA.

About half continue a relationship with the Y, she said. Because many of them are older folks, theyll bring a spouse in with them.

Schouten encourages it not from a bottom-line perspective, but because it means the students can be more committed to exercise.

A lot of the ladies say, You know, my husband needs this more than I do. I encourage that, because it is so much easier to exercise with somebody than on your own, she said.

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ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - February 15, 2017) - Honduran naturalist and holistic health guru, Dr. Sebi might have been best known for his claims that individuals should be only consuming foods that are identified as 'alkalizing plant foods (the alkaline diet)' to support the claim on his website that, "These foods control the acid level in the body, which protects against harmful mucus buildup that compromises organs and leads to the development of disease." Dr. Nishant Rao -- Medical Director of the nationally recognized weight loss program, Diet Doc believes that this particular claim isn't backed up by the facts. "The truth is that food has a very minor impact on the acid level within the body, which is in fact controlled by the lungs and the kidneys." Dr. Rao continues, "The body's normal acidic range is extremely narrow 7.35 to 7.45. Additionally, the pH for blood (which Dr. Sebi's diet is presumably referring to) is different from that of various cells in various parts of the body." Blood pH is highly regulated by the body, to the point where severe health issues can occur if it is thrown out of range.

Also, Dr. Rao warns that dieters should be aware of additional claims that aren't entirely factual. "Sebi's dietary information includes a few dubious statements such as, 'fruit contains protein'." Dr. Rao states that, "The diet's focus on vegetables that offer very little protein will produce weight loss, but that weight will primarily be muscle and will be very short lived, in addition to an overall negative effect on health and hormones." Dr. Rao believes that rather than merely attempting to eat an alkaline-based diet, individuals should opt for doctor-supervised diet planning that can be individual-specific in order to tackle one's dietary needs. While consuming more fruits and vegetables is always a good choice, overall it is more beneficial health-wise to create a nutritionally balanced diet to address the entire body's needs. Diet Doc offers unlimited dietary consulting with nutritional coaches and medical weight loss experts to help you lose weight quickly and safely. Rather than a one-size-fits all mentality, Diet Doc wants to assess your previous weight loss struggles and create specific diet plans based on your body chemistry.

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