What is the path of your weight loss goal?

Working out & not losing any weight. Skimping on the right amount of aerobic activity might keep you from reaching your weight-loss goals.

You go to the gym, work out, but you still aren't losing any weight. What gives? It's a frustrating scenario but not an impossible one to change. Here are three reasons why you aren't losing weight at the gym & what to do about them.

You're Not Doing Enough [Intense] Cardio Aerobic activity is the most efficient way to burn calories, so make sure you are consistent with cardio workouts. We recommend doing at least 30-45 minutes of cardio, three to four times a week. It's also important to pick the right kind of cardio workout. Studies show that faster-paced workouts help release fat-burning hormones in the body & that interval training is key to losing unwanted belly fat. Still not convinced that you should step up your gym workouts? A recent study said that a 45-minute vigorous workout gets three times the net calories burned compared to the same 45 minutes spent walking; it also increases metabolic rate for up to 14 hours post-workout. To melt away unwanted pounds, choose high-intensity workouts like intervals, running, boot camp, or spin.
You Aren't Really Committed You showed up to the gym, which is awesome. But what's not awesome is how you might be spending your time there — weight loss is as much a mental game as a physical one. Mindlessly walking on the treadmill while flicking through a copy of Us Magazine isn't the best way to go about weight loss, & neither is talking yourself out of a workout once you're there. [You can lose a calorie burn of over 50 calories from just shaving five minutes off of a workout!] Commit yourself by finding a specific goal or personal reason that inspires you to lose the weight & use that as motivation to maintain your fitness routine. Along the way, set smaller goals for yourself & celebrate in some small way when you meet them. This will help you stay focused the entire way through.
You Don't Strength Train Even though cardio is key to weight loss, a good fitness program should incorporate one to two strength training sessions per week. Strength training can reduce overall body fat by three percent in just 10 weeks since muscle burns more calories than fat. & don't forget the after-burn: after an hour-long strength training session, the average woman burns an extra 100 calories over the next 24 hours. Maximize your time by rolling cardio & strength workouts into one. Circuit training intervals & bootcamp-style workouts focus on mixing bursts of cardio with serious strength training moves, but if you don't have time for a long session, perform supersets of compound moves instead.

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Sexual harassment claims - Details of Amanda Knox's life behind bars

Prison officials tricked the U.S. student by lying to her about a medical condition.

Amanda Knox, who has been in seclusion since her release from an Italian prison, is finally venturing out.
Her return to the public was no more than a trip to a store for toothpaste & a chocolate bar, but it was a deliciously simple act that had been denied her during her four years in an Italian prison.

Ironically, one of her last acts in prison was the inmate ritual of snapping her toothbrush & carrying it outside the walls of Capanne prison before throwing it away.
Knox's foray into the public comes as more details of her prison ordeal emerge, specifically how she was sexually harassed.

Knox's younger sister Deanna told ABC News that she saw the remnants of the harassment firsthand while visiting her sister in prison.

"There was something right in front of me & so I put my arm over it," Deanna Knox said.
Deanna Knox said she covered up scribbled words that read "Amanda is a whore."
On one occasion, a male guard reportedly entered Knox's cell alone, despite a policy against it, & made sexual remarks, ABC News has confirmed. On another occasion, a high ranking prison official allegedly ordered Knox into his office at night & wanted to talk about sex.

Amanda Knox Was Sexually Harassed in Prison
"I think the Italian courts...the first time around practically made sure that Amanda was going to be harassed in prison since they made her sex life so much of a focus of the first trial, " said Vanity Fair's Judy Bachrach who has covered the case extensively.

Shortly after her arrest, prison officials tricked Knox, falsely telling her that her medical check-up revealed that she was HIV positive & asked her for a list of lovers for health reasons. The list that a distraught Knox provided to officials was soon leaked & became headlines in tabloid newspapers.

"Please oh please," she wrote in her prison diary at the time. "Let it not be true. I don't want to die."

ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams said that Knox could have the basis for a lawsuit but filing one would require a return to Italy.

Knox, 24, was released from prison earlier this month when she & her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 27, successfully appealed their murder conviction. They had been accused of murdering Knox's British roommate Meredith Kercher in a cottage the two women shared in Perugia, Italy.

Sollecito has not spoken publicly since his release but his father told the press that his son is getting used to being at home.

"It's as if he has been reborn & he is getting used to the simple things in life again, things that he has not been able to do for four years & this will take some time," said Francesco Sollecito.

Meanwhile, a juror who overturned Knox's conviction told Italy's state-run RAI television that he has no doubt that Knox & Sollecito are innocent.

"I saw the faces of these two kids, & they couldn't bluff. They didn't bluff. My point of view is that these kids weren't guilty. They weren't there," said Mauro Chialli.

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Michael Jackson's daughter dresses as him

Paris Jackson sports one of the King of Pop's most iconic outfits at a tribute concert.

Michael Jackson's Daughter Paris Wears [Thriller] Jacket at Tribute Concert

Michael & his kids

[We're very happy to be here on this special night to honor our father,] said Paris, who wore a replica of her father's famous red & black leather jacket from his [Thriller] music video.

Several performers took to the glove-shaped stage, including Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis & Cee Lo Green. The Black Eyed Peas pulled out of the lineup earlier this week citing [unavoidable circumstances.]

Despite the current manslaughter trial involving Jackson's former doctor, Conrad Murray, the evening's performers chose to ignore the court case & focus on the singer's musical legacy.

It's not about the controversy, Ne-Yo, who kicked off the show with a rendition of [Billie Jean,] said. [It's not about the trial. It's not about his death. It's about celebrating his life. It's about celebrating his music.]

Other performers included Jennifer Hudson, LaToya Jackson, Gladys Knight, Pixie Lott, 3T, Alexandra Burke, Alien Ant Farm, Craig David, Diversity, JLS & Smokey Robinson. Beyonce Knowles, 30, also performed via satellite video. More than 50,000 people attended the tribute concert, which was hosted by Fearne Cotton & Jamie Foxx.

Jackson died in June 2009 as he was preparing for a series of comeback concerts in London. Murray is accused of giving Jackson a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol in the hours leading up to his death.

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[ Slimming optical-illusion dresses ] -- Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet turns heads in a clever trompe l'oeil [color block] dress.

The Venice Film Festival this month, Kate Winslet wore a stunning optical illusion dress!!

The Venice Film Festival this month, Kate Winslet wore a stunning optical illusion dress by Stella McCartney that's an extreme example of this season's eye-tricking color block trend. Sir Paul's daughter created Kate's style with clever black panels that gave the star an hour glass figure & made her look a good two sizes slimmer. Fashion mavens worldwide have been clamoring for the fantastic frock ever since. But we're betting that with a price tag of $1,600 & a body-hugging contour, Kate's little number is probably not going to end up on your shopping list! Still, there's no reason you can't take advantage of the waist-whittling effect of strategically placed patterns & hues. We found some affordable options that are guaranteed to flatter your figure this fall.

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TV's highest paid child star turns 18

"Two and a Half Men" actor Angus T. Jones earns $300,000 an episode.

Two & a Half Men will technically become three men on Saturday, Oct. 8 when Angus T. Jones turns 18. Jones, who's been playing Jon Cryer's underachieving son, Jake, since he was 9, has been one of the most successful, not to mention loaded, young stars in the biz. Here are eight things to know about the low-key actor:

1. Jones was born in Austin, Texas. His middle name is Turner & he has a younger brother named Otto.

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2. Last year, Jones became the highest-paid child TV actor after signing a $300,000-per-episode contract, guaranteeing him $7.8 million over two seasons. Oh yeah, there's also that hefty $500,000 signing bonus. Under his previous contract, he earned $250,000 an episode. The next highest-paid minor on the list: iCarly's Miranda Cosgrove ($180,000 per episode).

3. Jones & his family moved to Los Angeles when he was 4, but he never wanted to be an actor. Instead, his mom took him to auditions hoping he could make some money for his college savings. Jones started doing commercials & had a small part in the 1999 film Simpatico. He landed his first major film role, See Spot Run opposite David Arquette, when he was 6.

4. Jones was the only child actor Chuck Lorre & Men producers saw for the part of Jake. Lorre asked Jones to audition after seeing his turn as Dennis Quaid's son in The Rookie & immediately offered him offered the job afterward. Jones learned he was cast as he was leaving the audition.

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5. Men is notorious for its racy jokes & sexual innuendoes, but when he was younger, Jones never asked his castmates or producers to explain the adult humor to him — even if they wanted to. "At one point I asked him if he wanted to know & he said no," Cryer told the Los Angeles Times in 2009. "He doesn't bring it up with me. He's not like a lot of boys."

6. In his spare time, Jones enjoys snowboarding & playing video games, including Rock Band 2 & Call of Duty: World at War.

7. Had Men ended after the Sheen debacle earlier this year, Jones, now a high school senior, would've been perfectly fine with it as he would've returned to school for a full regular year, which he's never done before. Education has always been a main focus of the actor & he plans to go to college. After that? Who knows? Jones has said he's not sure if he wants to continue acting.

8. While Cryer told TV Guide Magazine in September that he has not heard from Sheen at all & does not have his number, Jones & Sheen have been keeping in touch. "I talk to him every now & then," Jones told E! "I still want to hang out with him & stuff. We're still friends. There's no hard feelings at all."

Two & a Half Men airs Mondays at 9/8c on CBS.

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Bieber’s New a Big Expense for Toy Maker

Justin Bieber's haircut costs man $100,000
When teen sensation Justin Bieber switched up his locks, it was bad news for one guy.

When Justin Bieber decided to change his hairstyle last February, Jay Foreman was not amused. The founder & CEO of toy manufacturer the Bridge Direct, estimates that Bieber's small change cost Foreman's company a big chunk of change, around $100,000.

His company makes dolls based on Bieber's likeness. Not surprisingly, the dolls (we refuse to call them action figures) are a huge hit with kids. Foreman related his tale of woe to CNN Money.

Foreman was sitting at his desk when he heard shrieks coming from his co-workers. They'd just learned that Bieber had changed his trademark haircut, rendering the company's hot-selling line of dolls outdated. Foreman had already begun manufacturing a new round of dolls with the star's original haircut.

Foreman says that there was nothing he could do at that point because the dolls were already being made. However, during the dolls' second run, he decided to change their hairstyle to reflect their real-life inspiration. The move, he estimates, cost his business around $100,000. But Foreman isn't bitter. He says those are the risks when you make products based on a celebrity.

It's no surprise that Bieber's haircut is one of the most popular styles in Yahoo! Search over the past month, but he isn't at the top of the charts. That title belongs to Tom Brady. The Patriots quarterback's haircut inspired more searches than any other celebrity 'do.

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Johny Depp

John Christopher [Johnny] Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor & musician known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Raoul Duke in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, & Sam in Benny & Joon.

Depp rose to prominence in a lead role on the television series 21 Jump Street & quickly became regarded as a teen idol. Uncomfortable with that characterization, he turned his focus to film roles that he felt were right. He initially came to film prominence as the titular character of Edward Scissorhands, & later found box office success in roles such as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series & his role as the quirky Willy Wonka in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.

He has collaborated with director & close friend Tim Burton in seven films, the most recent of which include Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) & the upcoming Alice in Wonderland. Depp has garnered acclaim for his portrayals of real life figures such as Edward Wood, Jr., in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco & George Jung in Blow (2001). He plays John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies.


Films featuring Depp have grossed over $2.3 billion at the United States box office & over $4.8 billion worldwide. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, Screen Actors Guild Awards four times & Golden Globe Awards eight times, Depp won the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for his role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street & from the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

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Zac Efron

Zachary David Alexander [Zac] Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor & singer. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s, & became known to young audiences after his roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, & the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. In 2007, right before the release of High School Musical 2, Rolling Stone declared him the "poster boy for tweenyboppers" & featured him in their late August 2007 issue.

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Vin Diesel

Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent; July 18, 1967) is an American actor, writer, director & producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast & the Furious & xXx. He founded the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios & Racetrack Records.

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Matt Damon

Matthew Paige [Matt] Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, & philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting (1997), from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay & the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for their work & Damon garnered multiple Best Actor nominations, including the Academy Award, for his lead performance in the film.

Damon has since starred in commercially successful films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), the Ocean's trilogy, & the Bourne series, while also gaining critical acclaim for his performances in dramas such as Syriana (2005), The Good Shepherd (2006), & The Departed (2006). He garnered a Golden Globe nomination for portraying the title character in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) & was nominated for an Academy Award as a supporting actor in Invictus (2009). He is one of the top forty highest grossing actors of all time. In 2007, Damon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame & was named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine.

Damon has been actively involved in charitable work, including the ONE Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, & Water.org.

 

Matt Damon's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

 

Damon with wife Luciana Bozán Barroso at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival

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Tobey Maguire

Tobias Vincent [Tobey] Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. He began his career in the 1980s, & has since become best known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Spider-Man films.

Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Wendy (née Brown), a secretary turned screenwriter & producer, & Vincent Maguire, a construction worker & cook. His parents were 18 & 20 years old (and unmarried) at the time of his birth; the two married & subsequently divorced when Maguire was two. Maguire spent much of his childhood moving from town to town, living with each parent & other family members. During his childhood, Maguire entertained the idea of becoming a chef & to that end wanted to enroll in a home economics class as a sixth grader. His mother offered him US$100 to take a drama class instead, & Tobey agreed.

The nomadic nature of his school-age years began to take a toll on Maguire emotionally, & finally, after yet another relocation to yet another school, Maguire dropped out of his freshman year of high school & never returned, deciding to focus himself on his blossoming acting career. By 2000, Maguire had taken the General Educational Development (GED) to officially graduate from high school, noting that during his high school days, he'd reached a point where "I wasn't doing school. I was showing up, but...not really giving myself.

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Josh Hartnett

Joshua Daniel [Josh] Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor & film producer. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, & as Matt Eversmann in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.

Josh Harnette was launched into the heart & minds of many as John Tate in Ha llooween H20 (1998). The Faculty (1998) as Zeke Tyler & The Virgin Suicides (1999) as Trip Fontaine shown the raw talent & potiental of Josh that was to come. It is his action packed performances in Pearl Habour (2001) as Capt. Danny Walker & Black Hawk Down that solidified him as a movie star. He provides adorable comedic timing as Matt Sullivan in 40 Days & 40 Nights (2002). With films roles like Sin City (2005) as The Man & The Black Dahlia l(2006) as Ofcr. Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert to his filmography, the long-gevity ofthis actor is assured.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise (Ma-pother IV; born July 3, 1962), better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American actor & film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006.He has been nominated for three Academy Awards & won three Golden Globe Awards. His first leading role was the 1983 film Risky Business which has been described as "A Generation X classic, & a career-maker" for the actor. After playing the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular & financially successful 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise continued in this vein, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s & 2000s. In addition to these heroic roles, he played other parts such as the misogynistic male guru in Magnolia (1999) & a cool & calculating sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann crime-thriller film Collateral (2004).

In 2005, the Hollywood journalist, Edward Jay Epstein argued that Cruise is one of the few producers (the others being George Lucas, Steven Spielberg & Jerry Bruckheimer) who are able to guarantee the success of a billion-dollar movie franchise. Since 2005, Cruise & Paula Wagner have been in charge of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer & star & Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise is also known for his controversial support of & adherence to the Church of Scientology.

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Brad Pitt

William Bradley Brad Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor & film producer. He has been cited as one of the world's most attractive men, a label that entices the media to report on his off-screen life. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations & four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one.

Pitt began his acting career with television guest appearances, which included a role on the CBS soap opera Dallas in 1987. He gained recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis's character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. Pitt's first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) & Interview with the Vampire (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall, which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven & the science fiction film Twelve Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor & an Academy Award nomination. Four years later in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. Subsequently in 2001, he starred in the major international hit Ocean's Eleven & its sequels Ocean's Twelve (2004) & Ocean's Thirteen (2007). He has had his biggest commercial successes with Troy (2004) & Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance in the title role in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. As of 2009, he lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. He & Jolie have three adopted children, Maddox, Zahara, & Pax, & have also given birth to three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, & Vivienne. Pitt owns a production company named Plan B Entertainment, which produced the 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, The Departed, among other films. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues, both in the United States & internationally.

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Leonardo Dicaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor & film producer whose career rose with his role in the television sit-com Growing Pains. His critically acclaimed breakthrough film performance came in This Boy's Life, & was quickly followed by What's Eating Gilbert Grape. His performance as the mentally handicapped brother of Johnny Depp, in the title role, brought him nominations for the Golden Globe & Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He gained fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic, & has starred in many other successful films including Romeo + Juliet, Catch Me If You Can, & Blood Diamond, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Another Academy Award nomination came for his role as Howard Hughes in The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese. He has also worked with Scorsese in films such as Gangs of New York & The Departed. This working partnership brought comparison to the earlier working relationship between Scorsese & actor Robert De Niro, who also benefited from roles in Scorsese films early in his career.

DiCaprio has also been nominated two times for BAFTA, three times for SAG, & seven Golden Globe Awards. He is a Golden Globe & a Silver Bear Award winner.

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is a British actor. Classically trained, he had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings & starting in 2003 as blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films, & subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Troy, Elizabethtown & Kingdom of Heaven. Bloom most recently appeared in the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End & Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He is starring in the upcoming ensemble film New York, I Love You, Sympathy for Delicious, & Main Street. Bloom made his professional stage debut in West End's In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, which ended its run on 15 September 2007.

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