Average self-reported weight is up nearly 20 pounds since 1990, according to a November 2011 Gallup poll.
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The reliance on self-reporting weight, height, activity, and soda consumption in some studies rather than independent measuring and verification might confound their reliability, as might small sample sizes.
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The impetus for change is dampened by the weight and self-serving nature of the system.
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She stumbled upon the Web site of the Hilton Head Health Institute, a self-billed "weight loss spa retreat center" in South Carolina, and signed up.
Early in 2010 she self-reported her weight at about 90 pounds.
He grew up self-conscious about excess weight and felt like he couldn't keep up with the other kids.
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According the National Eating Disorders Association, more than half of American teenage use unhealthy methods like cigarettes, laxatives, vomiting, and self-starving to lose weight.
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In fact the most debilitating symptom of depression is when life no longer produces anything that can free its victim from the dead weight of selfish self-consciousness.
The emotional weight attached to self-exams is so great for some women that Wallace advocates putting associated public health money toward mammograms, rather than trying to get women to be more comfortable with examining their own breasts.
"(She) is great proof of the benefits of self-monitoring in the weight loss and management process, " said Dr. Jessica Bartfield, a bariatrician at Loyola University Health System who sees both surgical and nonsurgical patients battling their weight.
His relatively large build gives him strength but also means he has to show extreme self-discipline to keep his weight down.
Almost 7% of this age group reported self-induced vomiting to lose weight.
He believes the Parliament lacks the self-confidence to punch its weight and says it needs "to be a little bit more citizen-friendly and little bit more open".
Michelle was never shy, but she has become even more confident, outgoing and self-assured as she has lost weight.
" 'Punching-above-our-weight' is a nice self-image for small countries, but it is much less important in world politics than being the heavyweights, " said NYU law professor Benedict Kingsbury.
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Self-monitoring of diet and physical activity is associated with weight loss success and can be performed conveniently using handheld devices.
The Chinese, guilty of currency manipulation themselves, carry little weight in international councils on this issue, but they can resort to self-help.
Politicians are naturally happy to see such self-sacrifice: it may not add up to much compared with the huge weight of the nation's financial predicament, but it fosters an air of crisis and helps prepare people for the tough times to come.
To these boneheads we now add Rod Blagojevich and his bribe scandal, which lends weight to the idea that government has never been run by poseurs, windbags, sociopaths and self-dealers to the extent that it is today.
In real life, boxers who punch above their weight tend to get flattened, but leave this detail aside: the good citizenship argument is not self-evidently foolish.
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