The most wonderful time of the year is almost here, but for thousands of dieters, this is no time for joy. This is a time of dreading holiday parties, of adding ten pounds or more to their frames and generally being miserable. The holidays don’t have to be synonymous with weight gain, and if you [...]

Continue reading → The Holidays Are Coming – How to Stay on Your Diet

Third Excuse: Most fresh fruits and vegetables are exposed to pesticides and other harmful chemicals and treatments. Bust the Excuse: There are debates continuing on the topic of whether or not there are real dangers associated with using pesticides when treating our fresh foods. The FDA is extremely strict when it comes to their regulation [...]

Continue reading → No Excuses for Fruits and Vegetables pt 2

Is your job making you fat? Our current society puts so many demands on our time that eating healthy is one of the first things to fly out the window. It’s just easier and more efficient to grab something quickly, but before you know it, you’ve packed on the pounds and you don’t have the [...]

Continue reading → Book Review: Eating on the Run by Evelyn Tribole

Once you’re done here, you are going to want to move on to the remainder of the kitchen like so: You need to learn how to read your food labels to make the right food choices. You want to buy a sturdy cutting board to accommodate all of the fresh fruits and vegetables you’ll buy [...]

Continue reading → Avoiding Dangers in the Kitchen pt 2

One of the biggest questions that is arising often ever since Superfoods became a popular concept is whether or not these superfoods can actually help you lose weight. The truth? Yes, they really can. There are a lot of different foods that can significantly boost your weight loss program by being really healthy for you. [...]

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The right way to diet is really all about implementing small and healthy changes. This is the way to sound dieting, and the only way that you are going to lose weight effectively. If you are serious about losing weight and getting healthy then you absolutely need to be willing to implement small and healthy [...]

Continue reading → How to Start Implementing Small Changes Into Your Diet

This is part 2 in a 4 part series about knowing how to read labels and excel at grocery shopping for the purpose of losing weight and getting yourself healthy in every way. Learning how to master grocery shopping is not difficult once you are aware of what to look for. Shopping For – Meats [...]

Continue reading → Grocery Shopping for Better Health pt 2

If you want your diet and exercise effort to work the way you intend for it to, then eating right has to become something that is as automatic for us as it was for our ancestors. It may seem like an insurmountable achievement, but really, it’s a lot easier than you may initially imagine. According [...]

Continue reading → Learn to Automate Your Eating Habits

As I previously mentioned I am back to paying attention to my diet and exercise program… But as I also mentioned I am still on vacation. For Easter my family went to La Quinta Spa and Resort Easter brunch… All you can eat deliciousness. I had BBQ short ribs, bacon, an omelet, sushi, shrimp, crab, [...]

Continue reading → Buffets Not Good for Weight Loss

Out of all of the low carb diet books out there, this has to be the most confusing. Normally, we steer clear of diets that are strictly low carb, since few are balanced, but since this was a book from the Dummies line, we thought it might be worthwhile. What a surprise to find that [...]

Continue reading → Low Carb Dieting For Dummies By Katherine Chauncey