Guides and Tips

Eating out seems convenient , but cooking at home could help dieters lose 26 pounds a year, not to mention also help with the family budget.

Bad health and eating habits can be hard to break. Put these strategies into place and you’ll be well on your way to positive change that will last.

Sometimes healthy diets can become boring. Here are some tips that show you how to put some excitement back in your eating.

Cutting back just 500 calories a day can help you lose a pound a week. Here’s 5 places to make the calorie budget cuts.

These tips will help prevent all those extra holiday calories from turning into extra pounds of fat.

It can be frustrating when the weight just won’t budge. Here are 7 strategies to try that will help you achieve your weight loss goals.

Strategic tips to prevent weight gain after a person has quit smoking. Cigarettes have such negative health impact, so don’t let possible fear of weight gain keep you from kicking the habit.

Many dieters think the lower the calories and the greater the exercise, the faster the pounds will shed.

We all know we need to eat more whole foods and fruits and vegetables to stay healthy.

We have heard of the Air Diet before, where you just pretend to eat food, but are really eating air.

We have been told repeatedly that portion sizes of many restaurant foods are too large.

Now that we have discussed how fruits help to maintain a healthy weight, we can focus on which fruits are the best for fat loss.

Most dieters don’t succeed first time.

A recent commentary from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association outlines the concept of “energy gap” and how it relates to weight loss and weight maintenance.

These 7 strategies can help you maintain your new weight for good and never again be a slave to the scale.

We asked 30 successful maintainers how they did managed to hold onto their weight loss.In no particular order, here is the wisdom of the crowd:

Understand why you over ate in the first place.

To say that overeating is a bit of a problem in North America would be like saying Jimmy Hendrix played a little guitar.

Are you putting off getting started on a healthy diet?

Researchers reporting in the International Journal of Clinical Practice noted that heavy cola drinkers (two to four liters of cola every day) are at risk of hypokalaemia, or low potassium levels.

Do you spend the weekend unwinding a little too much, only to find come Monday morning the needle on your weighing scales isn’t quite as favourable as you’d hoped?

Slipped into bad habits?

If you’re interested in staying fit and eating healthily, it can be difficult to see friends or family members leading a very unhealthy lifestyle.

It’s a situation familiar to many a hardened dieter.

Have you ever wondered what 100 Calories of certain foods look like?

Taking a day off your diet can help you be more successful with long term weight loss. Here are the reasons why.

One tip that most of us could use to boost our health efforts is to eat slowly.

You stir the sauce for dinner and you try a teeny bit …

Weight fluctuations can be frustrating for those trying to lose fat. Here’s why they happen and how you can measure your weight loss more accurately.

Drinking alcohol can add a lot of useless calories to the diet. Here’s a handy guide that show’s how you can cut back on how much you drink.