Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

The biggest key to losing weight is to consume less calories. Cutting back on calories can be tough. Here are a few ways to cut calories you may not even realize you are consuming.
Watch what you drink.  A regular soda usually has around 180 calories per serving. A serving is 8 ounces, so that 20 [...]

My resolution this year is to lose weight. I really need to. Luckily my husband has agreed to do this with me, which makes meal planning at lot easier. After looking through several diet plans and ways of eating, I decided to go with the Biggest Loser.
I had picked up a meal planner by Prevention [...]

My mother says unlike her, I was born a meat eater. Everything I eat has to have meat, even with a salad. I can’t help it if I love my medium rare steak or roasted chicken. So that’s why until recently, I decided to go on an all veggie-soy-no meat or what ever vegetarians eat [...]

“Eat your vegetables” is something a lot of people must have heard in their childhood. “Eat your vegetables” is also what Weight Watchers and many more diet programs tell you as well, because we all know it: there are few calories in most vegetables, so you can eat a lot, not feel deprived, curb your [...]

Ok, so I spent year after year making resolutions to exercise and lose 40 pounds. I tried one diet after another, and realized I wasn’t going anywhere. What I realized I had to do, and my mom helped me, was to identify first where my weight issues suddenly came from. Once I [...]

Let me be straight: I didn’t take any. I realized that what I wanted to do was in fact going on with things I was already doing, so making a resolution about it didn’t make sense!
Nevertheless, even though I don’t really believe in New Year’s resolutions, some (most?) people do, and if it can help [...]