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Christina Aguilera Shows Off Sexy Weight Loss During BBMA Performance

Monday, May 20th, 2013


Joined by Pitbull and a special surprise guest, Christina wowed the crowd at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards with a crazy hot performance — but it was her gorgeous body that really had everyone talking!

Looking good, Christina Aguilera! There were a lot of sexy singers at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards on May 19, but the diva definitely stood out when she took the stage with Pitbull to perform “Feel This Moment” and showed off her newly svelte body. Do you think this is the best she’s ever looked?


Christina and Pitbull, both 32, got the energy of the crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas up with a rousing performance of “Feel This Moment” that had everybody singing along — and then surprised all of us when Morten Harket, the lead singer of ’80s pop band A-ha, came out to sing “Take On Me” with them!

Wearing a flirty black mini, The Voice judge showed off her toned legs and slimmer figure. She looks phenomenal! She’s lost over 20 pounds, and has talked in the past about her struggles with weight in the February 2012 issue of Marie Claire:

“I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas,” Christina said. “When I worked on Burlesque, I lost so much weight that I was too skinny. I don’t weigh myself — it’s all about how I feel in my clothes. What looks good on one person might not look good on another body type. I happen to be very confident in my own skin. It takes time to get to that place, but it’s all about embracing yourself and your body.” From hollywoodlife.

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Gov. Chris Christie opens up about weight-loss surgery

Thursday, May 16th, 2013


New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has said family considerations drove him to have weight-loss surgery. Turns out there was a more visible reason, too, one that affects a lot of us who struggle with our weight: He couldn’t fit into his clothes.

Christie, a Republican running for a second term in November, disclosed last week that he had gastric banding surgery in February.

“The things that really got me down, the moments where I would say to myself, ‘Why can’t I beat this? Why can’t I do better?’, it would be when I’d be going out with Mary Pat (his wife) on a Friday night or Saturday night,” he told a Princeton audience Tuesday night, according to The Record.

“I’d be changing out of my professional clothes … and would go to casual clothes that I didn’t wear a lot, and then something wouldn’t fit,” Christie said.

The governor was at a Barnes & Noble bookstore to help MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski promote her new book, Obsession, which deals with food addiction. Brzezinski’s book includes an interview with Christie, done well before the disclosure about his weight-loss surgery.

Although Christie has at times been self-deprecating about his weight, he could get equally frustrated at the attention it drew. Last week, he took questions for 40 minutes about the surgery, which the governor said amounted to a fascination that was “ridiculous and silly.”

Christie told the bookstore audience that he often hears from people who don’t get why it’s been so hard for him to lose weight. “It’s not as simple as, ‘Push yourself away from the table and you’ll be fine,’ ” he said. From usatoday.

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Pre-Portioned Foods May Aid In Weight Loss

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Pre-Portioned foods may aid in weight loss

Dieters who used pre-portioned packaged foods lost more weight than dieters who continued to prepare their own food, in a study published in the International Journal of Obesity.

Researchers recruited 120 obese adults and randomly assigned them to get advice on how to follow a 1,000-calorie-a-day diet or to use the Medifast 5 & 1 program, which also provided 1,000 calories a day. That programs allows participants to chose from 70 packaged meals to create five meals a day and to make one meal a day consisting of vegetables and protein. (The study was funded by Medifast.)

The groups followed their diets for a year. The first six months was a weight-loss phase, while the second six months was a weight-maintenance phase.

After six months, people who followed the Medifast program lost an average of 16.5 pounds, of which 14 pounds were fat, while people in the food group lost an average of 8.36 pounds, of which 8.14 pounds were fat. There were also greater decreases in waist circumference and cholesterol among those following the Medifast program.

At the end of the weight-maintenance period, people in the Medifast program had an average weight loss of 10.3 pounds, compared to an average 4.18 pound loss among people in the food group.

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Sticking to the Medifast program made it harder for dieters to eat more calories than they should, according to lead author James Shikany. More broadly, Shikany says, a more regimented program (not just Medifast) can help people lose weight. One reason is the difficulty of accurately counting calories.

A few caveats: The study participants were enrolled in the Medifast program for free; typically it costs $300. Cost may affect its attractiveness.

Also, bear in mind that these diets were extremely low-calorie. It would be difficult to maintain a decent level of running mileage while on such a low-calorie diet. From runnersworld.

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