What Are Your Cravings Really Telling You?
Cravings for your favorite snacks are a common experience and a dieter’s nightmare – all your good work of the day can be undone in minutes.
Avoid Breaking Your Diet During the Holiday Season
How exciting is it that the holidays are around the corner! We can already smell the pumpkin pie, stuffing, and mac and cheese. During the holidays, it is so easy to overeat and feel very full. While of course, the true meaning of the holidays is to spend time with loved ones., it’s often easy to shift the focus to the delectable food that becomes available. While it is tempting to stuff your plate, by following these 5 strategies, you will feel pleased and content with your meal options.
Great Snacks for Weight Loss
For many people trying hard to stick to a diet or lifestyle change, one of the hardest parts is eating well when hungry. It’s these moments when we’re hungry, irritated, and vulnerable that most often knock us off our diet. It’s moments like these when we find ourselves craving a snack to hold us over, to get us through the day, to quiet the stomach grumblings. I know the feeling.
Is the Keto Diet Right for You?
The ketogenic diet, usually called the “keto” diet for short, is a very low-carb, high-fat, moderate-protein diet. It was originally designed to help children with epilepsy, and has also been used to treat type 2 diabetes. However, in the last few years, the keto diet has become very popular for people who want to lose weight or change to a healthier lifestyle.
The Importance of Staying Hydrated for Weight Loss, Especially in the Summer
We all know it’s important to stay hydrated. If you’re like me, you can’t count the number of times you’ve said, “I need to drink more water.” And most of us would probably guess that it’s more important to stay hydrated in the summer months.
How to Reduce the Appearance of Cellulite
Cellulite goes by a number of unflattering names. Cottage cheese, lumpy gravy, hail damage. It’s no wonder that people who have cellulite—mostly women—try so hard to cover it up or get rid of it.
Drinking Water Can Boost the Results of Your Diet
We all have a little Bobby Boucher on our shoulders, reminding us to drink some high quality H2O. Yet even with the Waterboy’s pleading reminders, we somehow put it off or replace it with soda, energy drinks, coffees, and cocktails. But I’ve got a reason to drink water that just might motivate you to listen to this advice: drinking water can help boost the effectiveness of your diet and promote weight loss.
Summer Slim Down Tips
You know what’s so great about summer? It’s the season people want to lose weight for, and it’s also the best season for losing weight. What a coincidence! I would wager that if it was summer all year round, I would be slimmer, trimmer, and fitter.
The Costs of Dieting
When you start a diet, you usually have a couple of things on your mind: losing that stubborn weight, slimming down, feeling better, and improving your health. Whether the motivation is overall health or fitting into those jeans you love, we’re usually more focused on the outcomes of dieting rather than the costs of dieting.
Measuring Inches VS. Scale Weight
During those fad diets, you are typically losing water weight for the first several days, not fat. So the question remains: What is the best way to measure weight loss?
How to Determine a Healthy Weight Not Using BMI
Body Mass Index is the standardized scale used to quickly and easily determine a person’s health status. It makes the job easier for insurance companies when they decide your health risk. Unfortunately, it’s also known for being inaccurate.
Tips for Keeping Yourself Accountable While on a Diet
One of the hardest things about a diet is getting yourself to stick to it. It’s easy to set and start goals but the challenge is actually following through and sticking to them. Here are some tips to help you keep yourself accountable while on a diet.
Foods to Eat that Speed Up Your Metabolism
YOUR metabolism – the way in which your body burns food and turns it into energy – is a key part of keeping yourself trim. And the faster your metabolic rate, the quicker you transform food into energy, so those looking to lose weight are continually seeking the Holy Grail – foods that will boost their metabolism.
How the Diet Industry is Changing
DIETING has always been big business and as our focus on our health has come sharply into view over the past year, so the food and diet industry has responded. Dieting for the sake of just losing weight has fallen away quite sharply over the past few years, a combination of an increasing understanding of overall health and increasing information provided to consumers tanks to changes in FDA labeling rules.
Don’t Give Up On that Diet!
We say it all the time – we want to lose weight! We start diets, trying every fad we come across on the internet, willing to try anything. The pounds start to fall off and we feel pretty good and then, boom, a bad weekend happens where we go to a few parties, out to eat with friends, or maybe we just get tired and order a pizza. And then, before you know it, you’re gaining back all the weight you worked so hard to lose. Sticking to your diet can seem nearly impossible at times but you can do it. Here’s a few tips for staying with it to drop those pounds quicker.
Fruits and Veggies: What’s Enough?
Most of us, at some point during school, learned about the food pyramid in a health or science class. We were taught that breads, pasta, and cereal were the base of the pyramid, and should make up around 40% of our diets. The next level of the pyramid was fruits and vegetables at around 35% of our diet, but is this still relevant today? How many fruits and veggies should you really be incorporating into your diet?
Planning a Unique Strategy for Successful and Consistent Weight Loss
Be honest - don’t you want the process of losing weight to be simple? Most of us harbor a belief that it can be, and that’s a direct result of how weight loss is marketed to us. The number of times we’ve heard, “calories in, calories out”— throughout our lives is incalculable.
BMI: What It Measures, What It Doesn’t, and How To Fill In The Gaps
Increasingly, fitness-focused folks have begun questioning whether their Body Mass Indicator (BMI) is actually a good indicator for weight loss. It’s the gold standard amongst physicians, many of whom argue that it’s a quick and simple way to determine a patient’s weight category and consequent risk of developing health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease.
Exercise + Diet: You Can't Lose Weight Without Both
You’ve probably heard the saying, “You can’t out-exercise a bad diet,” and that’s certainly true. But, does that mean we can go without exercise entirely when trying to lose body fat? Is it more effective just to focus on consuming fewer calories from food?
Ketogenics for Dummies: Why Keto is So Effective
The ketogenic, or keto, diet has been all the rage in the health and fitness community for quite some time now. Celebrities who endorse the low carb/high fat diet abound, including Joe Rogan, Kim Kardashian, and Halle Berry, to name a few.
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