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There is a wealth of information sources in the world about healthy lifestyles and weight loss. Some are good, some are not so good.

Here are some that Sally recommends:

Australian Sports Nutrition
This is one of the best places to purchase all your health and fitness needs including protein supplements and vitamins. ·They have a great range, great prices and excellent service! ·(It's a family-owned business too!)

Healthy Weight Loss Plans
If you're planning on embarking on losing weight and donate know where to start, this article helps you to choose. It gives you a run down of weight loss plans available what they do, how they work, and their pros and cons. An excellent place to start!

Mayo Clinic
Anything you need to know about exercise is on this site from calculating your BMI and your target heart rate zones, to how to start out, and how to avoid injuries. Great for the novice exerciser and equally useful to those who are exercising fanatically, but need some additional info.

Mind.org
This site examines the connection between what we eat and how we feel. The newsletters are particularly enlightening.

Busy Day? Take 10
No more excuses of being too busy to exercise this gives you tips on how to fit in 10 minute sessions here and there throughout your day, as well as a fantastic exercise chart to keep handy either print it out and keep on your desk, or save it for use on your screen.

Healthy Weight Success Strategies
There is a lot of psychology around weight gain and weight loss. This site looks at the psychology around keeping weight off once you have lost it, with a number of useful tools to help you figure out how you gained the weight in the first place, and how to keep it off permanently!

How Many Calories Can I Burn?
This site gives you a comprehensive list of how many calories you can burn during physical activity. It doesn't just confine its calculations to formal exercising it includes things such as housework, gardening, carrying loads etc. Although this site is based on weight in pounds, the conversion is as follows:

Natural Health Journals
A Journal Promoting Health and Happiness through Healthy Life Styles and Natural Medicine.