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.
Tips for Getting Your Spring Body Ready
This is the perfect time of year to think about springing forward, and we mean more than just daylight savings time. You can begin to work on jump-starting your body into the spring and summer body you’ve always wanted. Understandably, you might not know where to start, so here are some tips and tricks to get started on that spring body.
Best Beginner Workout Program for 2022
Picture this: you’ve thought about working out, but you’re not sure how you could possibly fit it into your already busy lifestyle. With the New Year coming up, it feels like the perfect time to reflect on your fitness goals and how to attain them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is Cellulite?
FEATURED on so many magazine covers as a curse to be obliterated, what is cellulite?
A whole industry has grown up and around ways to banish cellulite, but it is a perfectly normal part of a woman’s body and has no health implications at all.
Strength Training VS. Cardio
Strength is the place to put your time, money, and energy, even if cardio is fun and readily accessible. There is a large misunderstanding on how the human body adapts to physical activity. The questions "should I do cardio for weight loss?", "if I do strength training, don't I have to do cardio too?", "won't having bigger muscles hurt my cardio?" come up a lot. The overarching answer to these questions is that strength training will improve your cardio substantially, but cardio will not help your strength much.
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.
How to Improve Your Financial Health by Tending to Your Physical Health
Health and wealth are inextricably linked in many ways. Taking good care of yourself by living a healthy lifestyle can put (or keep) money in your pocket both directly and indirectly. The immediate savings are important, but there are long-term financial benefits to making healthy choices, as well. Here, we’ll provide some examples of how tending to your physical health now improves your fiscal health presently and long into the future.
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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