We envy people with fast metabolisms. You know those people that stay slim despite eating whatever they want? It is because they have a faster metabolic rate than most of us and they burn more fuel (calories) not only when they are being active but when they are sitting at their desks or resting on […]
A Food Journal – Write Your Way To Successful Weight Loss
Writing down everything you eat in a food journal can double your weight-loss success and help you keep that excess fat weight off permanently as well. It is actually harder maintaining your weight than actually losing it so all the helpful tools we can use is a good thing. A recent study of 2000 overweight […]
Having Trouble With Weight Loss? – Lack Of Metabolic Fitness May Be The Problem
You are trying hard to lose weight and you are cutting the calories and are exercising. You know that the calories ‘out’ are greater than the calories going ‘in’. You should be easily losing weight but if you are not you may be not paying enough attention to an often forgotten fact of weight loss […]
Have You Heard – Strong Is The New Skinny?
Women sporting strong muscles and curvier figures are now becoming the new ‘cool’ girls. It seems the skeletal-look of some of our fashion models and film stars are no longer something to strive for. Although a lot of these people are ‘skinny’ they are also fat at the same time. Skinny-fat is the term as […]
The Difference Between A Weight Loss Diet And A Fat Loss Diet
It is easy to get confused between a weight loss diet and one that is focused on losing excess body fat. They are very different and a weight loss diet is focused on the reducing calories while a fat loss diet focuses on ‘metabolic fitness’ and balancing the body’s hormones so it becomes better at […]
Eat Better Not Less And Lose Weight
The first thing we tend to consider when we become overweight is going on a diet. As many as half our population at any one time is engaged in an endless struggle with food and body weight. Yet we now know that doing this does not work for 95 percent of the time. You see, […]
2 Smart Strategies For Weight Loss And Metabolic Health
If you are overweight it is likely that you would have embarked on a weight loss diet at some point. After a few weeks of rapid weight loss that got you excited it is possible that you started to experience reduced energy, lower physical activity and an increase in food cravings and appetite. Your body […]
A Food Journal – Your Secret Weight Loss Weapon
If you keep a food journal you could double your success rate at losing weight. A recent study of 1700 overweight men and women who kept a food diary for 20 weeks saw a greater amount of weight lost than those who did not keep one. One of the extra benefits is that it is […]
What’s Wrong With The Food We Are Eating?
Some of us have trouble with our eating and keep on wanting food when we know we have eaten enough already. That feeling that we are missing something and we keep feeling hungry often when we have just eaten. How can this be we may wonder? To get to the bottom of first we need […]
Are You Engaged In An Ongoing Struggle With An Overweight Body?
Do you know that at least 50 percent of the developed world’s population is on a diet of some sort at any one time? These people are engaged in an ongoing struggle with food and obsessing about being overweight. You would wonder why we continue to partake in diets when as many as 95 percent […]