Workout Tips to Support Your Summer Diet
Summer is one of the best times of the year to be active both indoors and outdoors. Take this opportunity to make sure you are meeting all the needs necessary for your diet, both physically and within your foods. Try and consider some of these tips when thinking about how to incorporate your workout into your diet.
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:
How to Lose Holiday Weight
With the holiday season coming to a close and a New Year right around the corner, it might be time to start your New Year’s resolution of losing weight or you may want to burn off the pounds from the holiday season. Here are a few tips for losing weight after the holidays:
Healthy Alternatives for Thanksgiving Recipes
It may be hard to believe, but Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Many people trying to adhere to a healthy lifestyle or weight loss journey dread this holiday because of all of the food associated with it. But fear not! We have some delicious Thanksgiving recipes for you that won’t ruin your diet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good Carbs vs. Bad Carbs - Where to draw the line
There are many different opinions on the topic of eating carbs. Some people believe it's okay to eat them whereas others boycott the thought of it. Despite the many things that have been said about how bad carbs can be, there are good carbs that will benefit a person's health along with diet.
Working Out Won’t Help You Lose Weight
It may come as a surprise to some that working out doesn’t help you to lose weight. According to research published in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, there are different types of training & exercise that have varying percentages of weight loss. There are 4 types: resistance training, aerobic only, aerobic & exercise training and diet. Diet mostly accounts for the most percentage of weight loss and the rest are ranging from zero to three percent of weight loss. Despite all that, there is an alternative to exercising: Weight Loss Supplements.
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.
Balancing Strength Training & Weight Loss
The most common goals new trainees have are “lose weight” and “gain strength.” This can be challenging, because calories and protein are necessary to gain strength.
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.
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