The Diet Logs

New York chef David Burke is coming out with a line of products that he hopes will add flavor to anyone on a diet. They are cans of mist that you can spray on the usual bland diet foods and give them a little extra kick.
Your awful rice cake can now taste like cheesecake, blue [...]

Looking good in a swimsuit…sure. Fitting in to a dress…of course. Just plain feeling better…definitely. But to be honest, one of the best motivators for losing weight has been having it be noticed. When running in to someone I haven’t seen in awhile and having them tell me how great I look. Or going to [...]

A new product might be making its way to the supermarket soon and it’s named Celsius. The makers just won Best New Product Award from the Beverage Industry Magazine.
They say that it helps raise your metabolism more than 12 percent over a three hour period, which helps you burn those calories.
You can burn roughly 77 [...]

Every few months there seems to be another health craze such as Atkins and low calories. It does seem to be gaining speed as I’ve been reading article after article on many different diets.
If you have better things to do I’ll just sum them up here:

Atkins diet or (low carb diet) may help women with [...]

Ok I am all for losing a few pounds but how is it that I and maybe even you can look at something and go “that is just to damn crazy for me” and yet hundreds more thinks it’s a fabulous idea.
The frenzy to lose weight is fueled by tv, movies, ads and magazines all [...]

“Diet” is such a loaded word. That’s probably why registered dietitian Vanessa Miles boiled the dieting process down to 3 simple steps:
1. Breakfast
“Breakfast really is an essential start to your day.”
I love suggestions like this (”in order to lose weight, eat something!”). But it makes sense — so long as your breakfast of choice [...]

The fat blocking drug Xenical is moving closer to being approve for sale over the counter. The drug is used by people who are more than thirty pounds over weight as a way to block fat from being absorbed into the intestines.
The organization Public Citizen are protesting to the FDA that this drug should not [...]

iVillage says that to try and lose those pounds you should set some simple goals. Such as putting water bottles in places you will be so that you can reach that goal of eight glasses a day. Also don’t keep putting off going to the gym, just go. Find something to distract instead of cooking [...]

South African succulent Hoodia gordonii is a (supposed) apetite suppressant that first arrived on the dieting scene over a year ago,
when CBS’ 60 Minutes sent a correspondent to the Kalahari to try the plant herself. She reported that after chewing on the bitter leaf, she had no desire to eat for almost 24 hours. A [...]

Researchers using an Endoscope non-surgically implanted electrodes in the lining of the test subjects stomachs. These electrodes would deliver gastric electrical stimulation and reduced the subjects’ intake of food and water as well as delay their stomach from emptying for at least 45 minutes after a meal.
They have been testing this since 1995 but in [...]