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How to Cut Calories in a Healthy Way

How to Cut Calories Without Starving

Knowing how to cut calories sounds pretty obvious. Eat less, right? You might be surprised to hear that there’s a lot more to it than that, particularly if you don’t want to starve yourself or sacrifice your nutrition.

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How to Measure Your Waist Circumference Accurately at Home

How to measure your waist circumference

Knowing how to measure your waist circumference accurately can help to provide you with helpful information regarding the fit of your clothing and your progress toward health goals.

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Are Your Weight Loss Compliments Doing More Harm than Good?

Weight Loss Compliments Can Hurt

Giving genuine weight loss compliments can be a well-intended habit meant to be supportive of a friend, family member or co-worker.  That said, these well-meant kudos often underscore and magnify harmful thoughts and beliefs. 

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Is Your Weight Gain Putting You at a Higher Gout Risk?

Weight and Gout Risk

Health experts are cautioning that gout risk is on the rise due to the current lifestyles that are leading to weight gain. Extra body fat – particularly “visceral fat” – plays a notable role in the body processes that can lead to this very painful condition. 

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How to Choose the Right Weight Loss Plan for Your Body

choose a Weight Loss Plan

Many people wrongfully assume that there is one weight loss plan that will work well for everyone. This is a matter of those situations in which you hear about the success that somebody enjoyed with a diet and, therefore you want to enjoy that same success story.

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The Watermelon Diet: Weight Loss Tip or Just Another Fad?

What is the Watermelon Diet?

For many of us, the watermelon diet sounds like pretty much what we ate during the hottest summer months of our childhoods.  That said, believe it or not, it is actually an eating strategy that promises to provide weight loss results.  That said, before you hop on board, it’s a very good idea to take a closer look at what it’s all about, what it promises, and if it’s safe and appropriate for you.

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Understanding Hydrogenated Oils

What are Hydrogenated Oils?Although it may be familiar to some circles, not everyone is aware of what hydrogenated oils are—nor are they attuned to the fact that those types of oils can cause some serious health problems, especially if they are consumed in large quantities over extended periods of time. So many of today’s popular food items are chock full of this nasty stuff, but thankfully there are ways to avoid it. First, however, you must understand what hydrogenated oil is so that you recognize it when you clean out your kitchen.

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Frozen Foods to Skip from Your Grocery Store if You Want to Lose Weight

Frozen Foods to Skip for Losing Weight

Though your grocery store’s freezer section is packed with affordable and nutritious items, there are certain frozen foods to skip if your goal is healthy weight loss or good nutrition in general, for that matter.

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Enjoying Exercise Leads to Better Results

Benefits of Enjoying ExerciseDid you know that when you’re enjoying exercise, it will provide you with better outcomes and results than if you’re forcing yourself to push through workouts you absolutely loathe? It’s true!  While any type of physical activity is better than none, if you focus on giving yourself a variety of options and do the one you feel like on any given day, you’ll certainly notice a difference.

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Why Summer Weight Gain is so Common and How to Avoid It

We don’t tend to think of summer weight gain as something that is all that commonplace. After all, isn’t summertime a season when we’re all active outdoors and eating foods like salad while chugging gallons of water? It might surprise you to discover that this is actually the season when we’re the most likely to pack on the pounds. Yes, that’s right, even more than bulky sweater and hot chocolate season in winter.

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