Most anyone who has been dieting and lost a few pound looks towards the holidays with mixed feelings. You want to show off your new figure in that holiday dress, but you dread the temptation of all that holiday food. Even the most dedicated of dieters can give into temptation over the holidays.
But you’ve worked [...]
There’s a popular book out right now that explores the reasons why ‘French women don’t get fat’. It’s certainly not for lack of eating delicious food! The same might be said for the Mediterranean diet – the traditional foods that are prepared and eaten around the Mediterranean region of Europe. The people there may not [...]
If you struggle with weight gain it’s a good bet that you have tried at least one of the “fad” diets that crop up on a regular basis. There’s the Atkin’s Diet, South Beach, the Sonoma Diet, and many more. The truth is that some of these diets may grant you temporary weight loss which [...]
Weight loss is one of the big topics-no pun intended-on the late night television circuit. While flipping through the channels after 11p.m., you are apt to come across several advertisements for weight loss pills and diet supplements, each promising to help you drop those unwanted pounds and remove stubborn belly fat once and for all.
Let’s [...]
Many of us think back fondly to times we cannot possibly remember – times and places when voluptuous, even hefty, women were glorified, when a few extra pounds was a sign of beauty rather than a problem to be dealt with . It is a fact that, even today, there are some societies that have [...]
Here’s one resolution you’ll want to make: Eat breakfast every morning.
One of the biggest mistakes dieters make is not eating breakfast. It’s a bad way to start the day. Dieters say they are in a hurry, but you can prepare a bowl of oatmeal in just a minute or two.
And what better food to consume [...]
These days it seems like everyone wants to lose weight. Whether it be for appearance issues or health reasons, it is becoming quite the trend. But we all know that it is not always easy to lose weight.
Weight loss motivation is one of the hardest types of motivation to acquire. Why is that? First of [...]
If you’ve decided to live a healthier lifestyle, you may also want to consider losing weight, too. Lately, more people have been trying to get healthy with fad diets; and as more and more people fail, we hear about the importance of losing weight more often in television and print media.
But how can the average [...]
The diet industry has grown into a multi billion pound industry and with this growth, diet myths abound.
Diet myths lead to unrealistic expectations and can also be bad for your overall health.
Here are 6 common diet myths to avoid:
Myth 1. Crash dieting or fasting makes you lose weight
This is one of the most common diet [...]
Inspirational writer and teacher Geneen Roth has made career out of offering people – women in particular – an alternative to dieting for natural weight loss. Roth herself struggled with her weight for years. By her own admission, she gained and lost a thousand pounds, over ten years, with yo-yo dieting. She was anorexic and [...]
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