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To Keep Weight Off, Don’t Fall For Fad Diet Myths

July 21, 2010 Read the full article →

Weight-loss talk is heard too often these days. If there’s a new fad diet going around, you hear about it and its so-called “successes.” • Weight-loss success ought to be defined not by how much weight has been lost, but by how long the weight loss is maintained. • People who have had long-term success [...]

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 [...]

Can’t Stick to a Diet? Understanding Why Diets Fail

June 4, 2010 Read the full article →

People usually think it’s their fault they haven’t been able to stick to a diet. However, it’s not a lack of willpower. It has more to do with the brain. It’s a well-known fact that 90% of dieting attempts fail. Considering that over 60% of Americans are overweight or obese (Centers for Disease Control and [...]

New Year Resolutions to Lose Weight: That Time of the Year Again

January 3, 2010 Read the full article →

Is it time  to set a New Year resolution to lose the weight again? All the TV shows that give advice to people are having segments on starting your 2010 diet, how to lose those pounds from the holidays and so on. This could be the first year in a long time that you will [...]

Fat Americans and the Dieting Industry:This Just Doesn’t Compute!

July 6, 2009 Read the full article →

“Fat Americans” – that’s how we’re referred to in other countries.  Look at the facts:  Americans keep getting fatter; no other country comes out with more diets, diet programs and dieting aids; and the dieting industry is making tons of money. Does this sound right? Who is benefiting here? It doesn’t seem to be the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]