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What do you need? Exercise advice from a personal trainer? A registered dietitian to walk you through the grocery store? A psychologist to help you stop procrastinating and face your fears? Perhaps a chef to help you turn low fat into high flavor? You want it? We have it. Meet our Experts and let them help you through this journey.

meal plans

Morley
  • By Morley · New reply November 6, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • For some reason I cannot access the meal plans when I go to the National Body Challenge site. I can see My Fitness and My Progress fine. I cannot see the meal plans or the overview. I tried three different ...

My wife has sole custody of our children

brownb
  • By brownb · New reply November 3, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • My ex-wife has sole custody of our children and they have reported to me that they have been molested by their uncle whom lives with them. I have brought this up with my ex-wife and she is in full blown ...

Why am I gaining weight when I'm suppose to be loosing

missi0714
  • By missi0714 · New reply November 3, 2009
  • 57 replies
  • So I decided to take this weight loss challange and It's not going so well. Everyday I seem to be gaining just 1 pound...since starting I've gained 3lbs. I don't understand its very upsetting and depressing ...

Losing weight & pmdd

Nichole4565
  • By Nichole4565 · New reply November 3, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • I have recently been diagnosed with pmdd and am finding it very difficult to stay on my diet during my "evil" cycle as I call it. When my pmdd symptoms start to appear, I become very depressed (about ...

hypothyroidism

nancy2love
  • By nancy2love · New reply November 2, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Since surgery I been feeling down ...

Strength exercising

inspired57
  • By inspired57 · New reply October 27, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • I am a bilateral amputee and need to do strength exercises. My question: are strength exercises enough to lose weight? If not, what type of exercising would be helpful? I heard of sitting exercises, where ...

PLEASE!!! This is NOT weight-related, but I really need some SERIOUS advice

Markie
  • By Markie · New reply October 25, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • Ok, being a new mother, I am completely PARANOID about a lot of things, and this time, it's SWINE FLU. Around where I live, the cases of it have drastically increased. FOUR people that I know (2 friends ...

up 5 times from 11PM to 5AM to PEE!! WHAT IS UP WITH THIS?

jhsbobo
  • By jhsbobo · New reply October 23, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • O.K, I DO NOT drink any more of anything more than the Average Bear after 5-6P.M Probably even less..like maybe at the Very Most 1 1/2 small bottles of water. I have been getting up 4-5 times per night ...

What's An Acceptable Weight Fluctuation Range?

busymomofthree
  • By busymomofthree · New reply October 22, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Hello All! It's been a looonnnggg time since I've written, but things have been going pretty well. My back diagnoses have been doing well and I'm doing pretty well w/workouts, too. My question is this ...

Conveniently eating healthy

larueb
  • By larueb · New reply October 22, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • So, here's the deal, I find it very difficult to eat healthy when I am a full time student with a part time job. I partially live in my car. I have clothes that havent even been washed in at least two ...

Not losing weight

shermantcj
  • By shermantcj · New reply October 19, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I need help I don't know what more I can try. I lost 50 pounds and just quit losing. This has been going on for almost 2 months now, and I have tried many different ideas to get it going down again, but ...

hip replacaement

gypsynana
  • By gypsynana · New reply October 14, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • i had right hip replaced two years ago; left hip, one year ago. i have pain in front of my right hip. xrays show nothing wrong. i think the pain is in the ligament. dr gives nothing but a pain shot that ...

Need Recipe Help? Send us your "Fat" version, and we'll revise!!

jenbait
  • By jenbait · New reply October 12, 2009
  • 31 replies
  • This year, one of the National Body Challengers, Amy Jurist, learned how to revamp her favorite recipes into low-fat, healthy dinners. Amy, a self-proclaimed decadent chef, had to learn to swap her cream ...

Potatoes, can I eat'em?

sharonkayt
  • By sharonkayt · New reply October 12, 2009
  • 11 replies
  • I have a question. I have been doing good with the healthy eating and losing weight. I have been eating whole grain breads, pasta and rice. This week our neighbor gave us a LOT of potatoes, so many we ...

Lyme Disease or somethinhg else..Please Help!!

Desperate4Help
  • By Desperate4Help · New reply October 9, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • My name is Shannon and I dont know if this is the right place to start... or actually continue looking, but i am at a Mystery Diagnoses stage in my life, am terrified, and really looking for anyone that ...

Is Dr. Garavaglia is Racist Bigot?

Consciousness41
  • By Consciousness41 · New reply September 29, 2009
  • 12 replies
  • I recently watch an episode of Dr. G Chief Medical Examiner and in this particular show there was a relatively young and apparently fit Black Male that just dropped dead unexpectedly at his job. Before ...

the acai berry colon cleanser thing?

mrsarg
  • By mrsarg · New reply September 25, 2009
  • 19 replies
  • Hey I did a stupid thing the other night when i couldn't sleep i was online and i read this woman's story about taking the acai berry and colon cleanser. she said she seen them both reviewed on the oprah ...

calories,carbs,fats

Robin120
  • By Robin120 · New reply September 24, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • Hi I have tried losing weight counting calories but was recently given a book that counts carbs,fat,protien,sodium and more. I know how many calories a person my size requires, I don't know how much protein ...

Hello, I would like to introduce myself, I am new to this group..

Ayeshachaudhary
  • By Ayeshachaudhary · New reply September 21, 2009
  • 11 replies
  • I am so happy that i found this group on inspire, I am initally active in the "preemie" group, since my son was born severely premature at 24 weeks..Anyway, I had many miscarriages before him and loads ...

A thought that came to my mind about addiction to food..

Ayeshachaudhary
  • By Ayeshachaudhary · New reply September 18, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • well, today morning as i made myself breakfast..I was so tempted to eat more than a little bowl of cereal with 1 cup orange juice...then a thought appeared to my mind that my addiction is food..and I ...

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