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Is Eating Out Making You Fat?

July 6, 2010 Read the full article →

// How to Minimize the Fattening Effects of Going Out to Eat Americans like to eat out a lot. Unfortunately, eating out can get in the way of managing our weight. There are ways, however, to lessen its caloric impact. Eating out can be fun and flavorful but it can also be fattening. Restaurants are [...]

Weight Loss Nutrition Made Easy

July 6, 2010 Read the full article →

How to Eat Healthy Food Without Measuring, Weighing, or Counting Diets that involve rigid measuring, weighing or counting never last. But there are simple and fun ways of improving nutrition without becoming a scholar on the subject. Who wants to be bothered with studying up on nutrition to eat better or lose weight? Learning about [...]

How to Control Hunger

February 12, 2010 Read the full article →

Hunger is a normal body signal.  The body uses hunger to signal when it needs fuel.  It’s possible, however, to mess up this natural and adaptive function and many people do it by stringent, yo-yo dieting and subscribing to dieting myths. If a person has never dieted they don’t give a second thought to hunger.  [...]

New Years Resolutions and Weight Loss

December 27, 2009 Read the full article →

Does It work to Set Resolutions About Weight? People get tons of messages at the year’s end that making resolutions to lose weight is a worthwhile endeavor.  If the commercials, the talk show hosts, and the advertised new diets are believed,  making a resolution to lose weight during the new year will guarantee success. Making [...]

Easy Dietary Nutrition

July 23, 2009 Read the full article →

Few people who are trying to lose weight find learning about dietary nutrition to be fun despite their desire to eat better.  Along with exercise, eating in a highly nutritious way is important for a lifetime of fitness.  How can someone learn to eat better without getting bogged down by all the nutritional information, however?  [...]

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 [...]