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Weight Loss

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 [...]

Afraid to Go Bathing Suit Buying? Tips on How to Buy a Bathing Suit

June 4, 2010 Read the full article →

It’s a common concern of many women as summer approaches. They want to feel comfortable in a bathing suit, have fun, and are also anxious about the whole prospect. Life is short and everyone has the right to enjoy it. That’s why buying a bathing suit should not be an experience that will get in [...]

Turn to the Experts — Thin People Who Have Never Dieted — For Weight-loss Ideas

April 19, 2010 Read the full article →

It seems there’s nothing like dropping a few pounds to turn somebody into an instant dieting expert. Everywhere you go, you can hear people talking about their latest dieting exploits and advising others on what they should do to lose weight. “You should try the X Diet. My sister went on it and lost a [...]

The Truth About Diet Pills

January 25, 2010 Read the full article →

Recently, on the Dr. Oz Show, diet pills were discussed.  Dr. Oz had several guests on the show who had used different types of diet pills and found the experience to be a disappointing one and, in some cases, a potentially dangerous one. Appetite suppressants are a popular diet aid these days but it’s not [...]

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 [...]

The Obesity Epidemic: What Can You Do?

July 29, 2009 Read the full article →

Obesity is officially an epidemic in the United States.  Today I viewed a webcast from Washington, D.C. about the obesity epidemic.  It looks like in the near future we will be experiencing many cultural changes in order to help rid our country of this dangerous and costly epidemic.  Some of these changes may include banning [...]

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?  [...]

What Should I Weigh?

June 16, 2009 Read the full article →

“What should I weigh?”  I’m asked over and over again. Now this is a very broad question but I will attempt to highlight the most important issues about it. The person who asked this question had been looking at charts that said she should weigh 130 pounds. Without considering anything else, she was telling herself [...]