Back before my family and I lost a combined total of over 500 pounds, the way we were eating was almost entirely based on foods that seemed to be a great value for the money. Sadly, processed junk food looks to be the best value in the grocery store when you are not considering how [...]
The Walk from Obesity would like to welcome AmeriWell Bariatrics as a new National Sponsor! Ameriwell Bariatrics™ Supplements are created, manufactured and sold by Amerilab Technologies, Inc. After an Amerilab Technologies’ family member underwent bariatric surgery, the company designed a new technology; a dissolving tablet which forms into a 2 oz. serving of gelatin that [...]
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In 2012, we began our Fundraising Incentive Program as a way to say thank you to those participants that go the extra mile by fundraising. The program provides a chance for anyone that raises over $100 a chance to win a prize in our national prize drawings, or for those that raise over $1,000, prizes [...]
The Walk from Obesity will return to New York City this month. Our last Walk that took place in NYC was in 2011 and we are extremely excited to be back in the BIG APPLE this year! The Walk will return to the beautiful Riverside Park. It is going to be a fun morning full [...]
If you aren’t heart rate training you’re aimlessly training! You see heart rate training determines what intensity you should be exercising at and this will vary depending on your fitness goals. Not to mention that the only way to create a more efficient fat burning body is to exercise using your heart rate as a [...]
After a health scare, Chef George Stella got in the kitchen and helped his family lose 550 pounds. Here’s how. One day 14 years ago, I had to be wheeled in a wheelchair out of the kitchen where I worked as a chef. Diagnosis? Heart failure. At 467 pounds, I was told to lose weight [...]
