Snacks can make or break a diet. You don’t give much thought to snacks before you start dieting. After all, if everything you’re eating is unhealthy, then occasional snacks are the least of your worries. You tend not to give snacks much thought when you eat entire meals that are packed with trans fat and [...]
Dieting can be hard work. A lot of people resort to extremes in order to see quick results, thinking that this will allow them to get the diet over with faster. In truth, overzealous diets are typically doomed to fail from the beginning. Depriving yourself of all the foods you love is the worst diet [...]
Belly fat. Ugh. If you’re like most people you’ve learned three things about belly fat. It’s easy to gain. It’s hard to lose. It’s dangerous for your health. You know that you can put on extra inches in your stomach without much effort. It can sneak up on you and before you know it none [...]
Everyone who has belly fat would be more than happy to get rid of it. But sometimes, we let ourselves get a bit too eager to lose those extra pounds, and we can end up believing any fast, easy method will work. There are countless miracle cures against belly fat on television and online. It [...]
When you can’t wear your favorite jeans anymore. When you look at your profile in the mirror and look pregnant (but you’re not). When you feel you look like a middle aged man with a beer belly, (even though you’re a thirty year old woman). These are all reasons to get busy and lose the [...]
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” You’ve heard this many times before and you may even believe it. But it doesn’t make it any easier when you’re rushing out the door in the morning and you’re already late for work. It’s easy to say, “Oh well. I’ll grab something on the way [...]
If you’ve ever dieted or have had thoughts about dieting, then odds are you’ve spent a lot of time weighing the pros and cons. The pros being the healthier, leaner, more attractive body. The cons being all the difficulty you will have to go through as you give up foods you love and do exercises [...]
Overeating is a problem for any dieter who is trying to lose weight. As you already know, that’s what got you into this situation in the first place. Stuffing yourself to the brim gives your body a lot of extra calories that it has nothing to do with except store as fat. Eating too much [...]
Composed by modeling industry veterans Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, the Skinny Bitch Diet seems poised to become the next big part of the upper echelon of strategies for living healthy. There’s no shortage of diets that work in the short term, but finding one that will help shed weight and keep it off for [...]
A scientifically-backed, heart-healthy weight loss program, the McDougall Diet stresses the importance of consuming whole, unprocessed starchy plant foods in lieu of the typical modern fare of fatty, high cholesterol animal products. The diet is based on research showing that a vegetarian diet encourages lower calorie consumption and less fat intake, in addition to improving [...]
Belly fat is some of the hardest extra weight to get rid of, and the” Flat Belly Diet” promises to eliminate 15 of those stubborn pounds in just 32 days. Authors of this practical, fact-filled book have impressive credentials: Liz Vaccariello is the editor-in-chief of “Prevention” magazine; and Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD is the magazine’s [...]
Diets can often fail because of something as simple as overeating. Eating too much in one setting gives the body more than it needs right at this moment, so it has to store all the extra stuff as fat and flab. Most people are most tempted to over eat when they’re at a restaurant. This [...]
What are some of the reasons you use to quit your diet plan of healthier eating? There are plenty of excuses you probably devise. Some of the more frequent reasons are that it’s too expensive, too boring, and you miss eating food that tastes good. If these problems are too much of a concern for [...]
Food is a sustenance from which we obtain energy to live and be active. It’s a life source, not a time-killer. Eating out of boredom is a very bad habit. It’s extremely easy to pick up, and hard to quit; like all dangerous habits. Eating because of boredom occurs more frequently for most individuals than [...]
Are you always struggling to lose weight, only to fail miserably or end up even heavier than before? Perhaps you are dieting for a special occasion, recently had a baby,
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More than 1.5 billion of us are overweight. And we’re all searching for the same thing: diets that work. The bottom line is that to lose weight you need to
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Belly fat. Middle-age spread. Spare tire. Beer bulge. Love handles. It goes by many names, but one thing is certain… the fat concentrated around the abdominal area is the worst
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