Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

Sometimes I drink coffee all day and forget to drink water. Not on hot days so much; those days I usually have no problem remembering to guzzle the agua. On cooler days, however, I can maintain my diet of nutritious food by supplementing it with coffee all day without once hydrating myself properly [...]

Usually we turn to Consumer Reports for assistance in purchasing the necessities as well as the luxuries in life. Try their eating advice on for size:
Cut the easiest calories first (sugared soft drinks and juices and outsized baked goods alone can eliminate 500 to 1,000 calories a day from some people’s diets); increase fiber [...]

I was lucky.
Okay, I was THAT person; that enviable girl who ate (and drank) everything and never gained a pound. Well, karma caught up at 30, and the weight just stuck. I tried eating less, eating only fruit before noon, eating nothing after 7, drinking huge amounts of water…nothing helped. I felt doomed, [...]

We’ve all been there: the first five just melt away like chocolates in July; the first ten — no sweat! And then, and then: the dreaded plateau. You diet. You exercise. You suffer. But you don’t lose weight. The secret, according to the people at Weight Loss [...]

One problem we have when dieting, especially following the more stringent or the fad diets, is losing track of the nutritional value of what we are eating. Losing weight is one matter, making ourselves malnourished is another. In addition, many of us already use nutritional supplements on our own, or at a doctor’s [...]

So far so good. I’ve lost almost six pounds and doing yoga has made me feel great. I know it’s a small victory but it’s a victory none the less!

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have found that women who repeatedly gain and lose weight have weaker immune systems. They urge women against “yo-yo” dieting in a report in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. They studied 114 overweight but otherwise healthy women. Blood tests [...]

According to the Detroit News, people aren’t so concerned with ending poor eating habits, “despite facing chronic diseases.”

With all the news about obesity and how it increases the likelihood of developing a chronic disease, it’s easy to assume people are concerned about their own risk factors and motivated to lose weight. That’s not so, says [...]

This person lost 50 lbs following a simple plan: consuming no more than 20 grams of fat per day and a minimum of 30 grams of fiber. That’s it. Something to check out for sure.

How to Lose 50 Pounds
A friend of mine was taken to the hospital for being out of breath [...]

It sometimes seems that the best ideas come of their own accord, and not out of a magazine, off Oprah, or in an expensive box.
I’ve managed to lose 26 lbs since December, and I really haven’t done much of anything differently in terms of what I eat. What I’ve done is changed when I [...]