September 2025 – The No Salt, No Fat, No Sugar Journal

Suddenly I’m getting a lot of emails about using weighted vests for weight loss. Add weight to lose weight? It’s a thing right now. But does it work?

*Will a weighted vest help this guy drop pounds? He looks pretty fit already!*

Exercising with more weight on can help you burn more calories and strengthen muscles. Anyone else wear ankle weights years ago to build up leg muscles for sports like soccer? I did, I did.

“Adding a weighted vest to walking, hiking, or mat-based cardiovascular activities like aerobics allows you to reap the benefits of low-impact exercise while ramping up the intensity,” Time magazine quoted one expert as saying.

“Wearing a weighted vest is a “great way to, at the very core element of it, increase the difficulty of whichever exercise you’re doing,” says Mathias Sorensen, an exercise physiologist at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Human Performance Center,” Time reports (this source is a different one than quoted above).

Food diary/weight loss app Lose It explains that “a 155-pound person can burn about 351 calories running at a speed of 6 miles per hour (a 10-minute mile) for 30 minutes without wearing a weighted vest.

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While I try to avoid generalities, one I do use is that the less processed food is, the healthier it likely is as well.

That’s why sushi has become an even larger part of my diet than it was before my two stents were put in to unclog my arteries.

Nutritionists do raise a red flag about eating a lot of white rice, but sushi can be found with brown rice and there’s also sashimi which is sushi’s rice-less cousin. But sushi can get expensive.

So I was excited to try a Chicago sushi lunch spot that sells sushi by the pound ($1.25 an ounce) rather than the piece. Grain & Sea is a very neat-looking spot with an almost limitless sushi buffet.

You walk the food line, taking whichever you want and have it all weighed at the end of the line.

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Month: September 2025

Weighted vests having a weight-loss moment

A healthy lunch spot & sushi by the pound

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