The Best Way to Use a Meal Replacement Shake
If we are serious about weight loss, we know we need to be serious about meal planning. But with busy lives, it is simply a fact that sometimes we run out of time to plan recipes ahead, draw up shopping lists, prep ingredients, and cook the meals we want to.
What to Substitute to Satisfy your Cravings
We all enjoy a good snack and there are times we just have to grab our favorite treat to satisfy that craving. But we can undo a lot of our good work on watching our weight if we let our craving lead to a binge – chips, ice cream and soda all come with a lot of calories to go with their delightful tastes and textures.
How to Get your Body Spring Break Ready
Spring break is just around the corner if you may be planning a trip to someplace warm to escape the bitter cold of Northeast Ohio. You also may be stressing that your body is not bathing suit ready after the holiday season. With spring break about two months away, this is the perfect time to start your weight loss journey. Here are a few tips to get you started:
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.
THANKSGIVING WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR DIET
Does your diet have you dreading the holidays?
What to Look for When Shopping for Snacks for Weight Loss
Are you trying to find healthy snacks for weight loss? Nutrition labels can seem scary, but if you know what to look for, your snack-hunt time will be cut in half.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Best Winter Fitness Tips to Stay in Shape
COLD, wet, and dark – winter days are not the natural time to want to get out and about and exercise. Indeed, our core animal instincts are to find shelter, warmth, and store food – not a good combination if you are seeking to maintain an exercise regime.
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.
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.
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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