Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

A lot of people are truning to low carb diets as a way to lose those extra pounds. You need some carbs in your diet to get the proper nutrition. So don’t put you body and health in jeopardy by going no carb. But I do have a couple low carb recipes that taste delicious [...]

A new study sought to fid out the mechanism that seems to make people lose more weight when they consume a lot of dairy products.
The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that high dairy diets allowed women to burn more fat and calories after a meal than those who consumed [...]

A comment I saw on a post on another diet-related blog (I can’t remember where, though) stuck in my mind and made me realize this… We’re worrying our heads about what’s, in the end, nothing but common sense.
Yes, when we think of it, there’s no “secret” to the whole diet thing. Don’t pig out? That’s [...]

Everyone knows this is the worst time of year for people trying to lose weight, and even for people trying not to gain weight. Food service giant Sodexo offers 10 tips for maintaining your weight during the holiday eating season.
1. Eat breakfast. It jump starts your metabolism and provides you with fuel [...]

Wondering what will be the next big craze in dieting?
My bets are on the No-Diet Diet.
A professor at BYU developed this diet after struggling with his own weight for years. Essentially, you are allowed to eat whatever you want. Easy, huh? Well, there is, of course, a catch: you must eat only [...]

A recent study from Brown University found that stepping on the scale every day can help people who have lost weight to keep it off. Sixty-one percent of those monitored who lost weight kept it off when they weighed themselves daily, while only 32 percent who weighed less frequently kept the weight off.
I don’t [...]