From the monthly archives:

April 2009

What is a diet?

April 30, 2009 Read the full article →

What is a diet?  A diet is any food plan which stipulates what foods you should and shouldn’t eat and/or how much you should or shouldn’t eat. A low carb diet food plan is an example. Some diets give you menus to follow. Some tell you how to combine foods. Many list specific foods that [...]

Why Diets Fail

April 25, 2009 Read the full article →

Why do diets fail? First and foremost, for a diet to work, it has to not only accomplish the goal of weight loss but it has to ensure that you won’t regain the weight. Most people consider a diet to have been successful if the person has lost weight. But the reality is that almost [...]

Food Portion Sizes

April 18, 2009 Read the full article →

If you want to control your food portion sizes, stop depending just on your will-power and try some of these tips. Start from where you are – Gradually reduce your portion size so it doesn’t feel so depriving and overwhelming. Going from three scoops of ice cream to two-and-half is going to feel more reachable [...]

Your Brain on a Diet: The Psychology of Dieting

April 10, 2009 Read the full article →

One of the major reasons that diets fail and that the dieting industry doesn’t have it right, is because of the psychology of dieting. I’m not talking about deep seated emotional issues – this isn’t a problem for most people struggling with their weight. I’m talking about something we all share – the way our [...]

Finding the Right Diet Book

April 8, 2009 Read the full article →

We’re inundated with diet books in this country. Since I continually review what’s going on in the diet world, I feel I am a pretty good judge of what’s out there. One of my overall goals is to make you a smarter consumer when looking at the huge number of diet books, diet programs, and [...]