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10 Reasons You Are Not Losing Weight (and How to Fix Them)
(Written on Jan 20, 2012 while I was in the States.)
Being in United States, I have noticed how people here can get quite large in size. While there are plenty of people here who are in good shape and health, there seem to be more overweight people (per segment of population) compared to outside U.S. The ones who are overweight seem significantly larger than the average overweight person outside US.
(For what it's worth, I've been in cities such as New York City, Washington DC, Philadephia, Boston, Los Angeles and soon San Francisco, where people are probably more health conscious than other states. I can imagine the situation is probably worse in southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Oklahoma.)
A quick search on Google reveals that obesity is indeed a growing issue in US, despite efforts to control the problem. About one-third (33.8%) of US adults today are obese, with 17% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 who are obese. [Source]
The Epidemic of Obesity
What is it that makes people fat? Is it the lack of healthy food options? Is it the lack of exercising facilities? Is it the lack of knowledge on healthy living?
Possibly, but I don't think those are the main reasons. If anything, I've observed that US has provided a fairly conducive environment to live healthily (at least the cities, because that's where I've been).
For example, during the past few months I've been here, I've seen calorie data available almost everywhere. Starbucks in US has calorie data listed clearly beside each item, something I had never seen before in the Starbucks in Holland, Germany, Paris, London, Singapore, and other countries. Almost every item in the supermarkets has its nutritional information on the pack. Numerous restaurants have calorie data listed as well, much to my pleasant surprise. (Turns out there was legislation passed two years ago, in 2010, where major food chains were mandated to display the calorie data.)
I've also seen many healthy options here, far more than other places I've been to. Salad bars are commonplace. I had never seen so many organic options before. Ralphs, a major supermarket chain in California, has salad bars inside their supermarkets where you can pick and mix your own salad. I've found salad mixes and greens to be very affordable here too.
As to how to live healthily, information is so readily available today that ignorance is simply not an excuse anymore. Google has made it so easy to get information whenever and wherever you want. One can order an e-book using Amazon or an audio book using Audible and peruse it right away. For those with access to libraries, those are great places to get great materials for free.
What does this mean then? It means that at the end of the day, healthy living boils down to you. Doesn't matter if your environment is not conducive for healthy living. Sure it helps some, but if you are truly serious about healthy living, nothing can stop you.
For example, the environment I'm in isn't all that conducive for healthy living. My parents constantly try to force food onto me (metaphorically), because it's their way of expressing their love. All the eateries near my home sell junk food of some sort (fast food, deep-fried stuff, food with tons of refined carbs, etc). My house is constantly stocked with craptacular junk food. I see fast food outlets everywhere I go. However, persistence and determination has helped me to craft out a healthy living lifestyle and stick to it. It's something I'm extremely proud of because I've worked really hard to make this happen.
10 Reasons You Are Not Losing Weight (and What To Do About Them)
If you want to lose weight but you have been facing a weight loss plateau, here are 10 reasons why that's happening and what you can do about them. I know losing weight isn't easy and I hope this post will push you in the right direction.
This post is targeted at people who aren't at their ideal weight. It is not targeted at Americans nor America (I know some Americans who eat/live more healthily than some non-Americans I know). It is also not targeted at people have medical issues, resulting in their inability to lose weight (for example, thyroid issues). If you are, I'm sympathetic to your situation and I hope you can find an appropriate course of resolution. *hugs*
While I use the term "weight" in this article, I'm really using it loosely to refer to "fat". You can be gaining muscle, becoming slimmer, but still having the same weight. That means you're healthier than before. Concern yourself with fat loss and not just weight loss. Measure both your weight and your fat percentage to have a holistic picture of your fitness condition.
If you are underweight (BMI under 18.5), you might want to look into how to *gain* weight, not how to *lose* weight. Strive for a healthy lifestyle and a healthy body, not an emaciated one. If you have bulimia or anorexia, please seek help as these aren't trivial issues. There are many people out there who can help you and are waiting for you to reach out to them.
Let's start with the first reason you are facing a weight loss plateau…
1. You have too many excuses
Do you always seem to have a reason not to exercise or eat healthily?
- "Oh I'm too tired to exercise. I'll go tomorrow." (And then you say the same thing tomorrow.)
- "I want to stick to my diet, but I'm also having a strong craving for X. I'll restart my diet after I eat this." (But you never do.)
- "I should watch my diet but it's Thanksgiving/Christmas/Chinese New Year/[insert some celebration] and there will be lots of great food. I'll return to my diet after this is over." (Then comes the next event which makes you put off your healthy living plans yet again.)
- "I'm too busy to go to the gym. You guys go ahead without me." (But somehow you still have time for Facebook, Youtube and Twitter.)
How to Address This
If you have been saying these things to yourself during the past few months, years, decades, you should probably realize by now that it's not really about the situation – it is about yourself.
Just like the people who sued McDonald's for their obesity, you're not going to lose your weight by pointing fingers at others or your circumstances, be it your parents, your friends, your environment, your country, the society, the media, or the world. The minute you take responsibility for your current weight, you will realize it's up to you to achieve your ideal weight. No excuses, no nothing. It's up to you to set healthy living goals, create healthy living plans, and execute them, so you can get started on living your ideal life.
2. You eat more than you should
If you have excess weight on your body (due to excess fat and not muscle), that means you have been consuming more calories than your body needs (or at least you used to), which in turn has led to the excess calories being stored away as fat deposits, be it your hips, thighs, arms, waist, belly, or face.
How to Address This
a) Take charge of your meals
Often times, excess eating comes from not planning your meals. You eat based on your whims and fancies, without considering whether you need to eat or not. A little bit here and a little bit there, and it's easy to see how the calories add up. Consuming an excess of X calories a day may not seem like a case for concern, but imagine doing that every day. Overeating 500 calories a day means taking in an excess of 3,500 calories a week – equivalent to 1 pound of fat a week, over 4 pounds a month, and 52 pounds a year!!
Take charge of your meals. Identify your body's daily energy needs (otherwise known as TDEE = Total Daily Energy Expenditure). Then, create your ideal meal plan based on your daily energy and nutritional needs. Then, follow it to a tee. The following tasks from Live a Healthier Life in 21 Days Challenge will help you:
- 21DHL Day 2 – Create a Calorie List
- 21DHL Day 3 – Calculate Your Daily Energy Expenditure
- 21DHL Day 4 – Create Your Ideal Meal Plan
- 21DHL Day 6 – Follow Your Ideal Meal Plan
- 21DHL Day 20 – Start Your Healthy Living Guidebook
Meal planning lets you (1) take ownership over what you put into your body (2) gain awareness of how much and what you should consume for the day (3) consume the exact food that is ideal for your body. This way, you won't end up eating more than you should or eating food that is bad for your body.
b) Eat based on internal cues (not external ones)
A common reason for excess eating is because you eat based on external cues than internal ones (i.e. daily energy and nutritional ones). For example, eating…
- When you pass by a food stall / restaurant / kiosk.
- When people ask you to eat.
- When you are offered food.
- When it is the supposed meal time (8am, 12pm, 7pm) for the day.
- When people are eating.
- When you see food.
- When you are in a celebration.
- As long as there is food on your plate.
…as opposed to eating based on internal cues, namely (a) hunger cues (b) caloric needs (c) nutritional needs. You should use these three factors to guide your eating behavior since they are the very reasons why humans eat to begin with. To survive and to have a high level of vitality for daily activities. Basing your eating on the wrong factors easily results in eating behaviors that spiral out of control and excess food intake being stored as fat.
Read: Step #1 of How to Stop Emotional Eating, A Crucial Guide, Part 2 on eating based on your needs.
c) Learn to say no
Learn to say no to others. You don't have to eat just because others offer you food. Eat based on what your body needs (i.e. the daily meal plans you designed from the previous step) and not because others tell you to. Read: How to Say No To Others, The Only Guide You Ever Need.
3. You turn to food for comfort (You eat not to fill yourself, but your emotions)
Rather than eat to feed your body, you eat to feed your emotions, such as when you feel unhappy, stressed out, anxious, angry, disappointed, empty, or [insert emotion here]. Bingeing is not uncommon to you.
Since eating triggers the release of serotonin, a hormone believed to contribute to happy feelings, you feel happy for a short while. It seems like the eating is justified because you emerge a happier person.
However, since food does not address the original issue, the issue arises again after a while. (See: 7 Reasons Emotional Eating is Bad for You) You keep eating to offset your negative emotions, to regain that feeling of peace. This creates an erratic eating behavior that has zero connection with your physical needs. More often than not, you eat more than what your body needs. (Read Point #2: You eat more than you should.)
This overeating builds up over time. You slowly gain weight. Before you know it, you're heavier than you've ever been, which crushes your already diminishing self-confidence. You try to exercise but the calories you burn is not enough to offset the extra calories you consume from overeating.
Anguished, you turn to eating for comfort. This sets you off on new cycle all over again, making you gain more weight.
How to Address This
What should you do then? Start from the very root of it: your emotional eating behavior.
I've written a comprehensive 6-part series on how to stop emotional eating. This is the one guide you need to read, above all else, if you're truly committed to addressing your emotional eating issue. Bookmark it and keep reading it and applying the tips until you completely unroot your emotional eating issue. It's a matter of time before you do.
Read: How to Stop Emotional Eating (6-part series)
4. You have false notions surrounding eating and food
Besides what's covered in Points #1-#3, you carry false notions surrounding eating and food. For example, thinking that X food is good for your health when it isn't. Thinking you need to eat when you don't. Thinking eating is loving yourself when it's no more a neutral activity like breathing and passing waste. And so on.
For me, I had many of such false notions as I've shared in the How to Stop Emotional Eating series. They include seeing food as a symbol of love, thinking eating was a necessary part of celebrations, thinking I had to eat whenever I returned home (like a reward for a long day of work), associating certain food with certain messages which would result in random cravings out of the blue (e.g., eggs = goodness, chocolate = reward), thinking it was better to overeat than undereat (when both were equally bad), perceiving eating as loving myself (when it should be a neutral activity), among others.
These contributed to a very lousy eating pattern and poor eating habits. It was only by listing my false notions, sorting through them, and breaking every single one of those beliefs that I finally regained a normal relationship with food.
How to Address This
How do you know if something is a false notion or not? If it subconsciously causes you to eat outside of (be it above or below) your daily energy expenditure, it's probably a false belief. Food is designed for the purpose of fueling our body. Enjoy food as you eat it, but don't make food your reason for being. Food can't love you no matter how much you love it.
These articles will help you to address your false notions surrounding food and eating:
- How to Stop Emotional Eating, A Crucial Guide, Part 1: Tackling the Causes of Emotional Eating
- How to Create Real Change In Life: Address Root Cause vs. Effects
- How to Stop Emotional Eating, A Crucial Guide, Part 2: Rebuilding a Healthy Relationship with Food
5. You are not taking the right diet
I know some diets purport the view that a calorie is a calorie, but… I've come to discover that this isn't the case for me. I've found that I can consume two diets with approximately the same amount of calories (I measure my food intake even) but different macro-splits, and have different results with each. Strange, but it's true.
A recent research funded by National Institutes of Health had obese participants follow three different diets with the exact same calories for four weeks. These three diets were: A low-fat diet, a low-carb diet, and a low-glycemic index diet.
In the end, it turned out that participants burned about 300 calories more a day on a low-carb diet than they did on a low-fat diet, and 150 calories more on the low-glycemic index diet than the low-fat diet. The researchers do not have a conclusive reason on why this happened, but they believe that it's because the low-carb and low-glycemic index diets do not trigger starvation response in the body (read Point #7: Your metabolism is out of whack) since they do not cause a surge and crash in blood sugar.
(Read more about the study: Low-carb diet burns the most calories in small study)
Weight loss efficacy aside, I also believe quality intake of food is important for good health.
How to Address This
There are a lot of different (weight loss) diets out there, from high protein, to low carb, to slow carb, to low fat, to no fat. I'm not going to suggest what diet you should take; rather, I think you should read up about them yourself, experiment, and pick the one that is best for you, i.e. it is healthy for you and helps you lose weight most effectively. If you must know, I've personally found the slow carb diet most effective for me (so far).
Where quality of food is concerned, cut out junk food, fast food, highly processed food, deep-fried food, sugar-laden food, food with high sodium content (such as potato chips), and carbonated drinks. These food usually have a high level of preservatives and low nutritional value. I think there is no dispute that these are all unhealthy for you in the long run.
An interesting movie to check out is Super Size Me. It's a documentary of a guy (Morgan Spurlock) who went on a 30-day McDonald's-only diet, to become obese and experience a series of health problems. While there were questionable aspects about the way the experiment was conducted, such as the reckless way Spurlock ate, the film nonetheless established what many know but refuse to admit to ourselves – that junk food isn't going to lead us to good health.
Personally, I used to be an advocate for fast food (up till my teens), but I've since stopped stopped eating it. Today, I hardly consume junk food. To be honest, it just don't look appetizing to me anymore.
6. You don't work out
Your life is marked by sedentariness. Wake up, eat, sit, use the computer, lay on the couch, watch TV, lie on the bed, sleep. You don't exercise, you don't do any physical activity, you don't get your body moving at all. The cycle starts all over again the next day.
How to Address This
Firstly, start exercising. At least three times a week, 30 minutes each time. This is the recommended regime for weight maintenance. For those who want to lose weight, step it up by exercising more regularly every week, and for 45 minutes to one hour for each session. Don't exercise more than one hour per session as it has been shown to have diminishing results on weight loss (due to the body being overworked and cutting back on its metabolic rate instead).
When you exercise, incorporate resistance training (muscle building) and cardio (aerobic exercise). There are many arguments surrounding whether cardio is good or not. It's up to you on which argument side you want to take. I think doing both in tandem are essential to proper weight loss. I personally enjoy cardio and having a good sweat and that's why I continue doing it. At the same time, I also intend to incorporate resistance training sessions into my fitness regime soon.
If you find it hard to exercise because there are no ready exercising facilities near you, or because of constantly changing weather conditions, you may find home aerobic videos helpful. Youtube has many of such videos you can peruse. Read: How to Workout Whenever and Wherever You Want
Secondly, as you incorporate exercise into your life, incorporate more physical movement into your daily activities too. Instead of driving to a nearby store, walk. Instead of taking the elevator, climb the stairs every once in a while. Rather than laze around and watch TV in the evenings, go out for a nice evening stroll.
7. Your metabolism is out of whack
Scenario A: Zero weight loss despite following plan
If you have been consuming fewer calories than your TDEE and exercising without fail for weeks without losing any weight at all, it's possible that your metabolism is out of whack.
This happens when you have a history with yo-yo weight loss (losing a lot of weight quickly only to regain it back), bulimia, anorexia, starvation diets (where you consume a ridiculously low number of calories) or excessive exercise regimes (for example, doing two to three hours of cardio every day, without fail). These practices then to cause your body to run on a basal metabolic rate (BMR) that's lesser than someone of the same height and weight as you have.
The reason why such practices have damaging effects to your metabolism is because:
- They reduce your lean body mass. When your body gets a severely reduced food intake, it turns to your next available energy source – your muscle group – for energy. However, muscle burns more calories than fat on a per pound basis. You want to preserve muscle, not burn it. The more muscle your body burns, the lower your BMR becomes.
- They put your body in "starvation mode". This means your body creates a lockdown on its energy reserves (which is the excess fat you want to burn off) because it thinks that it's in a famine and it needs to preserve its energy. What ensues is a counteracting situation where your body learns to run on lower calories a day, perhaps due to reduced fidgeting, or other reasons. The lower your daily food intake, the further your body reduces its daily calorie expenditure. Instead of losing weight, you maintain it. Once you start eating more, your body quickly piles it as excess weight/fat. This is especially so since it's under the impression that it needs to store fat lest it runs into more "famine" situations like this in the future. (Read: Starvation Response on Wikipedia.)
Scenario B: Weight loss plateaus after initial weight loss
If you lost weight initially on your weight loss plan but you have trouble losing weight after several weeks despite following your plan 100% to a tee, it's likely because (a) your body has adapted to your new calorie levels and exercise regime, resulting in lower TDEE than before, or (b) your body composition has improved (fat loss has been replaced by muscle gain, leading to no changes in weight).
How to Address This
If it's due to (b), that's not exactly a case for concern. Continue your plan and track your body composition as well to get a more holistic picture. At the end of the day, fat loss is really the ultimate goal. Gaining muscle is good as it helps you burn more fat and it makes you leaner and stronger.
If low metabolism is your problem, here are some useful strategies I've personally picked up in my weight loss journey on how to break weight loss plateaus:
- Increase meal frequency: Eat five to six small meals per day.
- Time your meals: Eat approximately every three hours, with a substantial breakfast and a substantial post workout meal. Don't skip meals and have one big fat meal at the end of the day. It's a sure way to fail in your weight loss efforts.
- Avoid starvation levels: Maintain a small calorie deficit and avoid starvation-level diets. (Suggested safe levels for fat loss: 2100-2500 calories per day for men, 1400-1800 calories per day for women; adjust as needed. American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommends 1,200 calories as the minimal daily calorie level for women and 1,800 as the minimum for men.)
- Eat natural: Select natural, unprocessed whole foods with a high thermic effect. (Lean proteins like chicken, turkey, egg whites and fish are highly thermic, as are all green vegetables, salad vegetables and other fibrous carbs.)
- Take diet and exercise breaks: Avoid prolonged periods of aggressive caloric deficits. This might lead to a slowdown of your metabolism as your body thinks that it's starving. I personally recommend resting for every three days or six days of dieting (or exercising). Having a rest day doesn't mean that you go all out and binge—please, no. It means you don't restrict your calories, so a good benchmark will be to eat in line with your maintenance calories, give and take 5%. After the rest day, continue on with your usual diet.
- Carb cycle. Maintain a calorie deficit that's optimal (see #3). But increase your calories periodically to keep your metabolism and appetite regulating hormones at the normal level. Instead of the carb-phobic diets that millions of people follow (which can actually suppress hormones like thyroid and leptin), carb cycle with a high carb refeed every fourth day or so.
- Weight train: The basic exercises that include the largest muscle groups or even call into play the entire body as a unit. (Squats, front squats, split squats, deadlifts, stiff legged deadlifts, overhead presses, all kinds of rows and core-activation exercises) will have a much greater metabolism stimulating effect than isolation exercises (concentration curls, calf raises, etc.,).
If you want to read further about metabolic damage:
- Metabolic Damage: Why It Happens, How to Avoid It and How to Fix It
- How to Repair a Damaged Metabolism
8. You have an endomorph body type
Endomorphs tend to retain fat, leading to weight loss plateau
Endomorphs have it harder than other body types when it comes to losing weight (as opposed to ectomorphs and mesomorphs), because the endomorph body type is predisposed to storing fat than losing it. If you're reading this article, you may well have the endomorph body type.
What characterizes the endomorph body? Here are some simple indicators (From Tom Venuto's Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle):
- Wide waist and hips
- Waist dominates over chest
- Tendency to always store excess calories as fat (can't get away with overeating)
- Keeping fat off after it is lost is a challenge
- Tendency to be sluggish, slow moving and lacking energy
- Fairly good strength levels
- Extremely difficult to lose weight (requires great effort)
- Bouts of fatigue and tiredness
- Tendency to gain fat easily as soon as exercise is stopped
- Tendency to lose fat slowly, even on a "clean," low fat, low calorie diet.
- Often overweight, even though they don't eat very much
- Respond best to frequent, even daily, training
It's possible that you were born an endomorph, due to genetics.
It's also possible that you were not born with the endomorph body type, but you messed up your metabolism in the past (read Point #7: Your metabolism is out of whack), leaving you with an endomorph body.
How to Address This
It doesn't really matter that you have the endomorph body type as much as it matters what you do about it. The endomorph body type is not a bad or good body type per se; it just is.
If you consider this from a different point of view, having a body that is resistant to fat loss is actually a good thing. It means your body is functioning as it should. Our bodies are designed to store fat as a self-preservation mechanism. As an endomorph, if you ever enter a famine, you have a much higher likelihood of survival than others. So who has the better body type here?
While the endomorph body type makes it harder to lose fat, this doesn't mean it is impossible. It just means you have to adopt the right strategy to weight loss. Remember, you would never have acquired excess fat in the first place if it hasn't been for wrong eating habits at some point in the past. What matters most is what you do with what you have got, rather than put blame on others or feel bad about it.
Here are my four suggestions on how to fix this:
- Go for a high protein, medium to low carb diet. It is said that high protein, low to moderate carb diets work best for the endomorph because of carbohydrate sensitivity and insulin resistance. Amazingly, I've found that low carb or slow carb diets work really well for me, more so than regular diets, even considering that the amount of calories I take in is the same. (Read Point #5: You are not taking the right diet.)
- Up your training. This means increasing the duration (length of each session), frequency (number of times you exercise a week), intensity (how hard you work out during the session), or a combination of the above.
- Frequency: For an endomorph, the metabolism is usually quick to decrease after each exercise. Hence, endeavor to be in motion as often as possible to keep your metabolism up. See if you can try to exercise at least 4-5 times a week. I don't think exercising all of 7 days a week is necessary unless you personally want to. Overexercising may lead to backfiring, as the body might become over-trained, which leads to a retention of water. (Read Point #9: You might be retaining water.)
- Duration: 20 minutes is a maintenance workout forendomorphs. For maximum fat loss, 30-45 minutes of continuous aerobic activity is recommended. In some instances it may be necessary to go as long as 60 minutes until a goal is achieved.
- Intensity. If you've been doing the same exercise at the same pace during your sessions, perhaps it's time to up the ante. After a while of doing the same thing, your body adapts accordingly, and it actually takes less effort to do it. This means your body also requires less calories to perform that routine. Hence, see if you can push yourself and take things to the next level. If you run, try to run faster, and/or longer. If you weight train, try to lift heavier weights. And so on.
- Get more activity in general. Get active and stay active! You have to get moving! Take up some sports or recreational activities in addition to your regular workouts in the gym. In addition, it is important that you make a lifelong commitment to fitness rather than go for quick fixes, because the constant activity is important to keep your metabolism at a healthy level.
- Use metabolism-stimulating exercises. Weight training exercises that utilize large muscle groups like the back and legs are extremely effective for stimulating the metabolism and for stimulating the hormones that increase fat burning. High rep compound leg exercises (squats, lunges, leg presses, etc.) are particularly effective for this purpose.
More about endomorphs:
- Endomorph Body Type
- "Unexplainable" Fat Loss Plateaus… Explained!
- Once an Endomorph Always an Endomorph? (Can Your Body Type Change?)
9. You might be retaining water
Sometimes you hear of people who do absolutely everything by the book with limited to no results. Exercising every day without fail. Pushing themselves during their exercises. Exercising for a longer duration than ever. Dieting in line with their calorie limits. Eating within the suggested macros. (It is said that there is no one "magic" macro and different macros work for different people.)
Yet, these same people weigh the same, if not more, day after day. They look almost the same too.
If so, we might be looking at the issue of water retention here. What causes water retention? There are three popular theories which I will explain below.
a) Increased presence of cortisol
The first theory is the increased presence of cortisol, a hormone the body ejects in times of:
- Physical stress, such as exercising, lack of sleep
- Low glycogen levels, which happens when you restrict calories
Prolonged elevations of cortisol can lead to (a) massive water retention; (b) gluconeogenesis, where glucose is obtained from non-carbohydrate sources, such as muscle; and (c) reduction of bone formation.
Cortisol levels decrease when the source of physical stress is removed and when glycogen levels are raised. As such, it helps to:
- Have a regulated exercise regimen. Exercise hard, but don't go overboard, especially if you are just starting on your regime. Have 1-2 rest days for every 3-4 days of intense exercise.
- For dieting, have a maintenance day for every 3 days of dieting. This also helps to boost your metabolism. (Read Point #7: Your metabolism is out of whack.)
- Feed yourself with simple carbohydrates (such as fruits) or starches (such as potatoes and rice) as your post-workout meal. Exercising leads to depleted glycogen levels and doing a carb refeed after that will be important.
Read more:
- Factors generally reducing cortisol levels
- Factors generally increasing cortisol levels
- Cortisol and Lifting: Limit Your Workout Time
b) Storage of water in fat cells
Sometimes, you see cases where someone is working out and/or dieting like crazy but still look the same and weigh the same (if not more). But after a period of time, the person suddenly loses a ton of weight (as much as 3-4 lbs) and looks dramatically skinnier overnight. WHOOSH! Just like that. This is known as the "whoosh" effect.
The common explanation is that after fat cells are emptied of stored triglyceride (during exercising and dieting), they are refilled with water. It is said that this is because the body does not know if the fat cells will be needed in the future, which is why it refills them with water first, just in case. What this means is that there is no immediate reduction in your body weight or appearance, despite having experienced fat loss.
To make matters worse, it is unknown how long such water retention can last. Sometimes it can be just one week. Sometimes it can be one month. I have not read of cases where it goes for more than one month, though I wouldn't be surprised if it does last that long.
Using body scales that measure fat do not help because most of them use hydration to measure body fat levels. This means they wind up registering a high figure for your body fat percentage due to the water in your fat cells.
Then, after some magical period of time, the water is released and your fat cells shrink, thereby causing the "whoosh" effect. The person looks like he/she lost weight overnight, without doing anything different.
While this sounds logical in theory, it can create a very frustrating situation where the person thinks that what he/she is doing isn't working, and abandon his/her weight loss plans altogether.
The thing is, the person is doing everything right. In fact, he/she is losing fat correctly. It's just that the water retention has masked the fat and weight loss, making him/her think that he/she is doing everything wrong. It throws things off-scale (no pun intended) because the primary source of feedback (one's weight and appearance) in weight loss has stopped becoming reliable. If he/she has persisted, he/she would have seen the change in a matter of time.
What should you do then? Here are some tips:
- Stop being reliant on the number on the scale as the indicator of your success. Focus more on adhering to your diet plan and exercise regime. You can track your weight every day if you want, but don't use that as the sole determinant of whether you are doing things right or wrong. Recognize that while fat loss can be linear, weight loss just isn't.
- Drink plenty of water. The body tends to retain water when you have low water intake.
- Avoid high sodium. Presumably, you should already have a low sodium diet if you have a clean diet, void of junk food, fast food, and highly processed food. If not, then please cut them out.
- Be persistent. I know it is extremely frustrating. I experience it myself and I feel it's a very annoying problem. But if you have been doing things by the book and if you have not strayed from the plan, then there is really no reason to wonder whether you are doing things wrong. Have faith and continue with your plan. Know that going on a binge fest and abandoning your weight loss plan definitely will not help.
If the issue of stagnated weight loss lasts for more than two months, then it's unlikely that water retention is the issue. You should either re-evaluate your weight loss plan and/or see a medical doctor to check if water retention is indeed an issue.
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c) Upcoming menstrual cycle
It is known that women retain water during the days leading to their menstrual cycles and up until the days they are over.
This is perfectly normal. Follow your usual regime and don't panic. Know that whatever increases in your scale is from water retention (assuming you have been following your plan without fail) and it will go away after your cycle.
10. You keep self-sabotaging yourself
So let's say you have thoroughly addressed the 9 factors above, but you still have trouble with your weight. If anything, you eat in a frenzied fashion sometimes, and you gain more weight with each passing month.
If so, perhaps a part of you is self-sabotaging your fat-loss efforts.
If so, I can relate. Many of my overeating episodes in the past stemmed from anger at myself for failing (yet again) in my diet. Eating was a great self-punishment tool since it would detract me from my weight loss goal. I was also very inferior of my body, and being fat was my way of avoiding my body image issues. (It was an all or nothing mindset. I was never fat or obese, but I was often not at my ideal weight.) A part of me also secretly wanted to be fat, because I hated myself and it was my way of making the self-hate easier.
Many overweight people use their excess weight as a barrier to protect themselves from the world. Perhaps being heavier makes things easier. Perhaps being heavier makes them more accepted so people will not be jealous of their bodies. Perhaps being heavier helps them hide their shame and unhappiness. Perhaps being heavier keeps other people away.
How to Address This
What should you do in such a situation? I've outlined an exercise in Thin You, "Meet" Not-Thin You which you will find highly, highly important. In the exercise, you get to meet the not-thin part of your consciousness in understanding his/her reason for being. People who lose weight but regain it every time do so because there is excess weight in their consciousness that remains. Until they lose that "weighty" part of their consciousness, they will find it almost impossible to keep their excess physical weight off permanently.
At the end of the day, self-hate and body image issues are both very deep issues that can't be resolved overnight (the latter is a topic I intend to cover in the future). The easiest way is to start loving yourself – one step at a time. It may not change the situation right away, but it will trigger the start of a healing journey.
Remember that weight loss is a science, not an art. As long as you kept at it, you'll achieve your end goal. Self-sabotaging only thwarts your attempts; it won't get you any further.
- Thin You, "Meet" Not-Thin You
- Are You Sabotaging Yourself? How to Stop Self-Sabotage
- How a Relapse Begins: The Key To Removing Bad Habits
- Day 16 of Be a Better Me in 30 Days Program on Appreciate Yourself
End Note
I hope this article has given you some insights on how to break your weight loss plateau. If you have a friend who is not at his/her ideal weight, pass this on to him/her.
Take responsibility for your weight and your health. It starts today.
Check out more related articles:
- Thin You, "Meet" Not-Thin You – The spiritual aspect to weight loss.
- How to Stop Emotional Eating (series) – Comprehensive 6-part series on how to stop emotional eating once and for all.
- 25 Tips To Lose Weight – My recommended tips on how to lose weight in a healthy, sustainable way. See it as a list of physical to-dos and tips.
- Cultivate Life Transforming Habits in 21 Days – It takes 3 weeks to make or break a habit. Cultivate positive habits to aid you in your weight loss.
Check out these inspiring stories of amazing people who were once obese, but lost their excess weight because they took charge of their lives:
- 8 Amazing Weight Loss Success Stories
- More Weight Loss Success Stories (Women's Health Magazine)
- Amazing Weight Loss Success (MSN, Fitbie)
Get the manifesto version of this article: [Manifesto] 10 Reasons You Are Not Losing Weight (And How to Fix Them)
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Subject: General Tech, Shows and Expos | January 12, 2012 - 12:11 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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EVGA's dual LGA 1366 SR-2 motherboard has been on the HWLB Extreme System for a while now, even as the Dream system continued to change since there has not been a new high performance dual socket motherboard ... until now. The EVGA SR-X should be replacing the board soon, paired with some LGA2011 Xeon processors. It will not be the Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E CPU however, even though they are essentially trimmed down Xeons they are not designed to work in tandem. Strangely the memory is not balanced between the two sockets, with 4 DIMM slots near one socket and 8 near the other, though space is tight on the board as there are also 7 PCIe 16x slots. Check out the pictures of this board and other EVGA displays at Legit Reviews.
"It doesn't seem all that long ago that we were able to get our hands on the EVGA Classified SR-2 motherboard. It featured dual Intel LGA1366 sockets and support for Intel Xeon processors. During our meeting with EVGA this morning, the revealed the successor to the SR-2, the SR-X! The EVGA SR-X is a dual socket LGA2011 motherboard once again for Xeon processors. If you're hoping to use your Intel Sandy Bridge-E processor, unfortunately it won't work with a pair of them due the single QPI design of the Sandy Bridge-E processors."
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Hit the Surf Road for a Summer Movie Break
Saturday, July 30, 2011, 1:59 p.m.Tenley-Friendship Library
Hit the Surf Road for a Summer Movie Break
Stunning scenery and surf sequences enliven this 2011 movie in which, haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and hits the road to South Africa to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing Jeffreys Bay.
Starring Sharni Vinson, Katharina Damm and Elizabeth Mathis.
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In other news, I am a yard badass. It looks awesome out there.
Can someone bring me some Aleve? I can't move.
I have to admit though, while I was doing all this stuff I was stewing on how I shouldn't HAVE to be doing this alone. I shouldn't HAVE to be taking care of the house, the kids, the finances, working full time, etc and I realized I am in a new stage - resentment. Another divorced friend called in the middle of her meltdown to express the exact same thing - her resentment at being left to handle everything alone. It sucks, and I hate it.
resentment at being left to handle everything alone.
This is probably the last issue to linger for me. I did not sign up to be a single person homeowner. Every time there's an issue with the house or yard, it pushes that button for me. I'm getting much better at shrugging it off, though. I just keep reminding myself how much better off I am now, despite having to deal with crap I don't want to do.
Seriously. With that said, I've been doing all of the yard work and maintenance for years, and I'm tired of it also.
I thought the same thing as I laid under a farm tractor for the annual oil change. I'm just tired of it.
(((Triple trouble)))
I'm sure the yard looks awesome
I won't feel any extra work.
Uh,....my WXH was such a lazy POS that the only thing that changed when he left was....less laundry.
I actually used to do all the outside work as well but now I am working more hours so just don't have time to do it anymore. I splurged and got someone in to the mowing and edging. It's well worth the $30 it costs me and saves me 3 or so hours.
Best thing I gained in my divorce - my freedom.
Life's good.
Good for you for getting that handled!!! I'll bet the yard looks great.
I totally hear you in the doing things alone issue. It isn't that I can't do it, it's that I wanted someone to share this stuff - LIFE- with.
I hope you treated yourself to a cold drink while you lounged in your lawn chair admiring your work.


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Hi all im just wondering what tyres aye your preffered choice for winter riding?
im not looking to pay a fortune for tyres just something cheapish but good!
what do you suggest?
cheers joe
Hi all im just wondering what tyres aye your preffered choice for winter riding?
im not looking to pay a fortune for tyres just something cheapish but good!
what do you suggest?
cheers joe
spesh storm control are good and cheapish
Have been pleasantly surprised by a Specialized Storm Control 2Bliss that I picked up for about £20 a few weeks ago. Running tubeless at just over 30psi and it's proven to be pretty effective in the local woodland singletrack mud, leaves and roots.
I just fit a tyre and ride on it till the tread wears away...
FYI bald tyres are rubbish on wet grass
I wasn't going to join in, but spez storms are really good
Bike tyres.
thanks all so far i think my have to see if my lbs have got some of those spesh tyres in
bassspine thanks
Big bike - Rubber Queen 2.2"
NRS - Old Skool Stylings with a set of Conti XC 1.5". How fast in really vile conditions? VERY fast, that's how fast!
Panaracer trailrakers.
Depends how fast I want to ride....if I want to charge down descents then Swampthing 2.35 on front and High Roller or Minion 2.35 on the rear.
For DH I use Swampthing 2.5 front and rear and if its pissing down Wetscream 2.5 on the front....get all of the above on offer for around £20 each if you look.
Same as SFB. What ever is on stays on until tread too thin.
lower pressure
Mud X here. I did try leaving Fire XC pros on last winter but they clogged so badly that I would have to stop 3 or 4 times on a 6 mile ride to work to unjam everything.
Bonty Jones ACX - all year
I usually have red ones as they are the fastest but might change to some brown ones to hide the mud..........
I take a pair of winter tyres with me on every ride in case the weather turns; you can't be too careful.
Same tyres all year round for trail riding...Fat Albert 2.35. I find mud tyres rotten for cornering when the trails do dry out and i cant be bothered with the hassle of changing..
Conti Mountain King Protection 2.4's all year round, because I cant be arsed pissing about with tyres, I just lower the pressure if I need more grip.
a am going back to conti verts all year round, sick to death of trying differant tyres, and finding they all are really the same.
small block eights came off tonight. Spesh enduro pros 2.3 back on. Big, bouncy, comfy, seem to do the job for most of the winter. I have some conti Fire XC 1.8 for somme-like days, but TBH they only seem to see the light of day at Mayhem.
best to find a couple of locals round your way and ask them. Your mud may be different from my mud (seriously!). For example, many people rave about trailrakers but they just don't seem to work well on anything much round here. However lots of locals round my way use Bontrager mud x's and spesh storm control or captain. I am sure there will be trails where these tyres are less great though (I can't imagine mud x's lasting long in yorkshire grit for example...)
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Dec 4, 2014 – Ikeja Lagos Car Dealer Killed By Armed Robbers After Collecting Payment From Customer At Bank
An Ikeja-based car dealer has been shot dead by some suspected hired killers in Lagos.
40-year-old Lukmon Oluwasheun was killed yesterday by robbers at a bus stop in Egbe after he drove his customer to the bank to collect the balance of a bus he delivered to him.
Police say the victim was shot by robbers who operated on motorcycle moments after he left the bank around 2:00pm yesterday.
According to police investigation, a customer named Dotun negotiated the price of the bus with Oluwasheun, he asked him to supply the bus for a certain amount and promised to pay the balance when he brought the bus to his Egbe office.
It was learnt that Oluwasheun drove the bus to Egbe where he met Dotun. After that, Dotun reportedly took Oluwasheun to a nearby bank and withdrew some money and paid him the balance.
After collecting the money and as they were going back to Dotun's office where the bus was parked, two men on a bike double-crossed them and demanded for the money.
The robbers shot Oluwasheun at close range but spared Dotun.
Witnesses reported the matter to the police and Dotun was arrested after being fingered as the prime suspect.
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So many people saying they will seed when done and yet only 1 seeder -.- Come on guys be a bit nice :)
Somethings wrong I guess I'm also stuck at 92,5%..
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Adela Reaves Holyoke, 92, died Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2000.
A native of Reno, Nev., Mrs. Holyoke was the widow of Charles Holyoke. She had lived in Kingsport since 1936. She was a founding/charter member of Kingsport Music Club and taught 2nd grade at Kingsport Elementary School. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church where she was a 50-year member of the choir.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church with the Revs. Daniel P. Matthews and Suzanne N. Smitherman officiating.
Survivors include a daughter, Sarah Josephine Porter, Blacksburg, Va.; four grandchildren; two nieces; great-nieces and great-nephews.
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WILTON MANORS, Fla., Feb. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Art Gallery 21, in partnership with the City of Wilton Manors, the Central Area Neighborhood Association of Wilton Manors, The Pride Center at Equality Park, Stonewall Museum & Archive and The Humanity Project, will host the traveling Smithsonian exhibit "The Way We Worked" from Friday, March 24, 2017 through Saturday, May 6, 2017. Through rare videos, fascinating interviews and compelling photos taken over 150 years, viewers will be able to explore how the opportunities provided by work became central to the American dream. Art Gallery 21 is one of only eight locations the exhibit will travel to this year.
In celebration of the exhibit's arrival, Art Gallery 21 will host "Wilton Manors Works," on Saturday, March 18, 2017. "Wilton Manors Works" is an interactive event that aims to increase awareness of the LGBT work experience. An exhibit of pictures submitted by Wilton Manors residents will be unveiled at 7 p.m., and at 7:30 p.m. there will be a story slam hosted by Michael McKeever, a Carbonell Award-winning playwright.
"We are extremely honored to have been selected for this traveling Smithsonian exhibit," said Constance Ruppender, Gallery Manager at Art Gallery 21. "This is the exhibit's only stop in South Florida, so we hope everyone will come out to the gallery and learn more about the LGBT work experience throughout American history."
Art Gallery 21 was selected as a host site for the exhibit through a grant provided by Museums on Main Street and The Florida Humanities Council, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution.
"The Way We Worked exhibit has sparked so much excitement here in our Wilton Manors community," says Ruppender. "One of the most intriguing aspects of 'The Way We Worked' exhibit's arrival, is the ability our community members have to participate in the Wilton Manors Works event on March 18, 2017."
To participate in the story slam at the March 18, 2017 event, attendees who are interested in sharing will submit their names at the event and be selected at random. Each participant will then share their story, which shouldn't be longer than seven minutes. People who are interested in judging the story slam will also have their names drawn at random. The story slam winner will receive a prize.
Photographers, of all levels, are invited to submit their photos for "Wilton Manors Works" on or before Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Printed photos may be delivered to City Hall (2020 Wilton Drive) and marked "Attn: Art Gallery 21." Digital photos (minimum size of 6x4 at 300 DPI) may be submitted via email to email@example.com. The name, address and phone number of the person submitting the photo must be included.
"When submitting photos, think about their artistic merit as well as their current or potential social impact," Ruppender said. "Does the photo tell a story? Does it stand on its own?"
"The Way We Worked" exhibit will be available for viewing at Art Gallery 21 (600 NE 21st Ct., Wilton Manors, FL 33305) Fridays through Sundays (March 24, 2017-May 6, 2017) from noon to 8 p.m. Admission to both the exhibit and the March 18, 2017 event is free.
For more information on "Wilton Manors Works" and "The Way We Worked," visit http://bit.ly/2ko5Ahl, or contact Constance Ruppender at (954)661-4740 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wilton Manors was laid out in 1925 by Edward John "Ned" Willingham, a land developer from Georgia, as an upscale residential community. It was recognized as a Village in 1947 and incorporated as a City in 1953. Today, the City of Wilton Manors offers all the benefits of a big city from shopping to hip restaurants and bars, a burgeoning arts community and tons of community events, yet still maintains a cozy, community-feeling offering miles of natural waterways perfect for kayaking, paddle boarding and other outdoor activities. Recently named the "Second Gayest City" in the United States, the City of Wilton Manors celebrates a diverse population of approximately 12,000 residents. To learn more about the live, work and play opportunities in Wilton Manors, call (954) 390-2100 or visit www.wiltonmanors.com.
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For Juventus fans, 2009-10 was a season of disappointment. The Old Lady finished well out of the title race and didn't even rate a spot in next season's Champions League.
So, when the club comes to Toronto in May to begin preparations for the 2010-11 season, there's no doubt that thousands of rabid Bianconeri fans will be excited to see many of their heroes.
They will also be wondering when this team will return to the glory it enjoyed before an influence-peddling scandal saw it relegated out of Italy's top league in 2006, and stripped of its 2005 and 2006 championships.
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While he was starring in Germany, Diego had made his way to the periphery of the Brazilian national team. In 2008, he played for his country against Canada in a friendly held in Seattle.
But, Diego, who Juventus bought from Bremen for nearly 25 million euros, struggled in 2009-10. Had he played like he did in Germany, he may have been on a flight to South Africa rather than to Canada. But Italy offers a much more conservative, tactical game than Germany -- where 4-2 and 3-3 scorelines aren't unusual. And Diego has just five goals this season.
"Very different soccer (in Serie A than Germany), but it's not a problem," said Diego, who holds both Brazilian and Italian passports.
"I really like Serie A. I feel very good, very happy. But of course I want to win because I play with one of the best clubs in the world so I hope I can win with Juve next season. That would be perfect."
And, like his teammates, Diego will be looking for redemption in 2010-11.
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House Sub. for S.B. 212 would amend the Kansas Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Kansas Act) to: reduce the size of the Kansas Universal Service Fund (KUSF); expand the purpose for which the KUSF could be used; reduce KUSF assessments for contributions by wireless providers; clarify the Kansas Corporation Commission's (KCC) authority to implement the Kansas Act; and establish a special legislative committee on telecommunications which would report recommendations to the 1999 Legislature.
Size of KUSF. The bill would curb the size of the KUSF as follows:
Expanded Use of KUSF. The bill would authorize eligible companies to request supplemental funding from the KUSF for infrastructure and enhanced universal service investments in urban blighted areas and slum areas. The KCC would be authorized to rely on state and federal data to confirm the presence of an urban blighted area.
Wireless Providers. The bill would reduce the assessment for KUSF contributions by wireless telecommunications service providers to no more than 50 percent of the assessment for contributions by wireline providers. In the first year of implementation, all intrastate telecommunications providers, including wireless providers, were assessed 9.0 percent of total intrastate retail revenues.
Clarification of KCC Authority. The bill would:
Special Committee on Telecommunications. The bill would require the Legislative Coordinating Council to appoint a special committee on telecommunications to study and make recommendations regarding telecommunications. The special committee would have to report its findings and recommendations to the 1999 Legislature.
This bill would take effect upon publication in the Kansas Register.
The Kansas Act required the KCC to establish the KUSF on or before January 1, 1997. The amount initially estimated to fund the KUSF was $111 million. Intrastate toll and access rates for long distance were to be reduced by that amount over a three-year period with the objective of equalizing interstate and intrastate rates. During the first year of implementation, the KUSF built up a reserve of $15.5 million excluding outstanding payments. The KCC staff is proposing to the Commissioners that this reserve be used in the second year of KUSF implementation to reduce the 1998 assessment percentage applied to contributors. The KCC staff also recalculated the size of the KUSF, reducing the funding requirement from $111 million to $108 million. The KCC authorized an increase in payphone rates and eliminated the free directory assistance call in its order on competition (December 27, 1996). The increased revenues resulting from this change in rates were included in the KUSF and applied in the first year of implementation to Southwestern Bell's and Sprint's recovery from the KUSF. If the Commissioners agree with staff's recommendation, the size of the KUSF could be reduced in the second year by an additional $8 million to allow Southwestern Bell and Sprint to retain that amount as partial replacement of revenues lost through access reduction. According to KCC staff, the combined recalculation of the original estimate of the Fund and the $8 million reduction resulting from rebalancing the increase in payphone charges and elimination of free directory assistance would establish the size of the KUSF at $100 million and reduce the assessment percent in the second year of implementation from 9 percent to 6.8 percent.
Disbursements from the KUSF in the first year were applied predominantly to replacing local telephone companies' revenues which were lost through intrastate access reductions. Legislative concerns about the size of the KUSF stem from future, in part indeterminate, costs associated with the other purposes for which KUSF disbursements are statutorily authorized. These purposes include:
"Enhanced universal service" is statutorily defined as SS7 capability; basic and primary rate ISDN capability (or the technological equivalent); full-fiber interconnectivity (or the technological equivalent) between central offices; and broadband facilities to all schools, hospitals, public libraries, and state and local government facilities requesting such services. In information provided by KCC staff to the House Committee on Utilities, it was estimated that an additional $78.6 million would be needed to fund the KUSF to support enhanced universal service and 28.8 Internet access requirements in accordance with the Kansas Act.
The House Utilities Committee's amendment to reduce the wireless providers' KUSF assessment by no more than 50 percent of the assessment for contributions by wireline providers is based on the argument that only half of each wireless call uses the landline network.
The House Utilities Committee's amendment to condition the deployment of ISDN to a firm order is intended to curb the size of the KUSF by making deployment more demand driven. Another amendment to reduce the required Internet speed from 28.8 to 19.2 kilobits per second is intended to avoid costly upgrades to the local telephone companies' respective networks. In some cases, such upgrades could be necessary to support a 28.8 per kilobit digital signal.
The House Utilities Committee adopted KCC staff's proposed language concerning clarification of the responsibilities of local telephone companies and the KCC with respect to Internet service providers.
The House Utilities Committee recognized that certain issues, due to their complexity, warranted more extensive consideration. Consequently, the Committee endorsed the creation of a KUSF working committee to address and resolve those issues. Specifically, the KUSF working committee would be established by the KCC on or before June 1, 1998. This working committee would include representation from: various contributors to the KUSF, the Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Board, and the KCC. In addition, four legislators (two House members, one from each party; two Senate members, one from each party) would be members of the working committee. The working committee would be required to discuss, identify, and develop recommendations regarding technology issues, KUSF funding regulatory procedures, modifications to universal and enhanced universal service, and other issues identified by the KCC, including, but not limited to, certain issues specified in the bill. The working committee would be required to report its recommendations to the Legislature at the beginning of the session in the year 2000.
The House Committee of the Whole amended the bill to change the ceiling on the KUSF from $90 million per year in 1998 and 1999 to a surcharge on customers in an amount not to exceed 8.8 percent of a telecommunications company's intrastate retail revenues. That 8.8 percent ceiling would be in effect until January 1, 2000.
Finally, the House Committee of the Whole amended the bill to make the definition of "enhanced universal service" correspond to other amendments in the bill. The technological equivalent of broadband capable facilities also was included in that definition, along with corresponding changes to the Kansas Act.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) said on Friday it had secured a firm order for business jets in a contract valued at about $340 million, which could grow to about $1.5 billion if all conditional orders are confirmed.
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Album Rating: 4.0first review since March I didn't like this album at first, but it grew on me a lot.
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Biden: Obamacare Off to "Hell of a Start"
VP plays apologist for disastrous policy
By Adan Salazar On February 20, 2014
Despite innumerable hiccups and a torrent of detrimental "glitches," the Affordable Care Act will soon be off to a "hell of a start," Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.
In an unannounced appearance at a coffee shop in Minneapolis, the vice president, widely known for his penchant for misspeaking at public venues, said Americans will likely miss the sign up goal of 7 million, the number of people the federal government has decided is crucial for the ACA to function properly.
"We may not get to 7 million, but if we get to 5 or 6 million that's a hell of a start," Biden said, according to Politico.
Weighing down the federal government's embattled andimmensely expensive online healthcare marketplace's ability to process such an immense amount of enrollees are a wide swath of technical issues, from various glitches to incompetent codingand gaping security vulnerabilities.
"We didn't want this to start off as shaky as it did," Biden said, acknowledging the bungling of the government's healthcare rollout. "But it's complicated," he added.
Additionally, several state online portals, which are supposed to redirect users to the federal website, as well as relay their information to the government, have come under fire for failing to properly function.
But despite these issues, Americans are still required to sign up for healthcare by the March 31 deadline or face a penalty of 1 percent of their yearly income, or $95, whichever is higher. Come 2016, that tax will be raised to 2.5 percent of your yearly income, or $695, whichever is higher.
The takeaway from all this, Biden would have you believe, is that the Affordable Care Act is plugging along wonderfully, never mind the abysmally low sign up numbers.
The reality is, however, that the system was never meant to work.
As Infowars and others have illustrated, the wealth transfer program being passed off as affordable healthcare was designed as yet another method to further bankrupt Americans and written by the insurance companies to create monopolies that will weed out smaller companies.
Democrat Senator Max Baucus admitted as much when he "singled out" his congressional aide Liz Fowler for putting "together the White Paper last November 2008, [the] 87-page document which became the basis, the foundation, the blueprint from which almost all health care measures in all bills on both sides of the aisle came."
As Salon's Bill Moyers highlighted, Fowler "used to work for WellPoint, the largest health insurer in the country. She was Vice President of Public Policy. And now she's working for the very committee with the most power to give her old company and the entire industry exactly what they want: higher profits, and no competition from alternative non-profit coverage that could lower costs and premiums."
"Under this administration as well,"former Congressman Ron Paul stated in a CNN interview last year, "the drug companies, the insurance companies, organized medicine…they're the ones who write these laws, and it's corporations that are making out on this deal."
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have."---Thomas Jefferson
"...Americans will likely miss the sign up goal of 7 million..."
Oh-so now it's the American citizens' fault?
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have."---Thomas Jefferson
Hey its not how you start its how you finish.
it has been blamed on everyone except the Pope, i figure he's next. i read a post on here the other day that its the republicans fault that they want make him (obama) stop abusing the constitution. i'm blown away at the lack of personal responsibility. how can we expect anything out of our kids when our own politicians will not take responsibility for anything.
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"...Americans will likely miss the sign up goal of 7 million..."
Oh-so now it's the American citizens' fault?
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"...Americans will likely miss the sign up goal of 7 million..."
Oh-so now it's the American citizens' fault?
I am thinking that he has a rubber stamp for that one.
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I think Joe meant to say that Obamacare is "the start of hell."
yes but he's going to wait to make sure who obama endorses. i wonder if it is hillary(we all know it will be) will joe tell any secrets.
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I think Joe meant to say that Obamacare is "the start of hell."
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French President Francois Hollande has been hit with a backlash over the manner in which he dumped former first lady Valerie Trierweiler after being caught having a secret affair.
French politicians have displayed an unusual willingness to voice their opinion on what Mr Hollande's handling of the affair and its messy aftermath indicate about the character of the head of state.
The verdict, from his political rivals at least, has not been kind to the 59-year-old president, who has found himself in a similar position before.
He left the mother of his four children, Segolene Royal, for Ms Trierweiler after an affair that biographers say was conducted in secret for years before he owned up to it.
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a leading light in the opposition UMP, warned Mr Hollande that women voters would not quickly forget the dry manner in which he announced that the relationship with Ms Trierweiler was over in a statement.
"I felt like I was reading a sacking letter rather than a break-up one," said the deputy who is aiming to become the next mayor of Paris.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the Party of the Left, added: "His statement was that of an oaf. You just have to read it ... me, me, me."
Even an ally of Mr Hollande said the president had dealt with Ms Trierweiler ruthlessly after denying for months that he was having an affair with actress Julie Gayet.
"As soon as the Closer revelations came out, Valerie was treated like a tricky political issue, to be dealt with coldly," the ally was quoted as saying by the Journal du Dimanche.
Two other prominent figures, National Front leader Marine Le Pen and the centre right deputy Henri Guaino, have accused Mr Hollande of first promoting Ms Trierweiler to a quasi-official role before "repudiating" her in the manner of a medieval monarch.
"It was the head of state who put Madame Trierweiler at the centre of our institutions and installed her at the Elysee - inevitably this affair is a public matter," Mr Guaino said.
The character assassination inflicted on Mr Hollande reflects a total breakdown in the French political class's traditional reticence about making politicians' conduct in their private lives an issue for the consideration of voters.
And it forced Harlem Desir, the First Secretary of Mr Hollande's Socialist Party, to come to the president's defence.
"He is a very human and very sensitive character," Mr Desir said.
"He expressed himself with a certain restraint and discretion because he did not want the tempo of the debate to be dictated by gossip magazines."
Most polls suggest Mr Hollande's standing has not been affected by 'Gayetgate' but his approval ratings - already the worst of any recent president - could scarcely fall any lower, so it is difficult to assess the actual impact.
Surveys repeatedly return results that suggest the French are not interested, but the booming sales of Closer and similar magazines tell a different story.
Ms Trierweiler, meanwhile, began carving out a new role for herself on a long-planned trip to India for the Action against Hunger charity she is associated with.
Snapped cradling an ailing child in a Mumbai slum, Ms Trierweiler was given a sympathetic reception in India and revealed that she plans to continue charity work rather than returning to her previous role as a political journalist for weekly glossy Paris Match.
The prospect of covering Mr Hollande would be "too complicated" she admitted at the end of a two-day trip in which she impressed with her dignified handling of a press pack anxious to get her side of the split story.
The other woman in the presidential love triangle, Ms Gayet, has meanwhile been keeping a very low profile, although friends of the actress have been quoted in the media as saying she has no intention of trying to become the next first lady.


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