Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

Are you having a hard time with your bowel movement?  Chances are, you are experiencing a condition called constipation.  This happens when our digestive system, particularly the colon, absorbs too much water from the passing food, resulting in waste matter that are dry and hard.  The person experiencing this will have a hard time expelling his bowel movement.  [...]

Nowadays, many people consider about their self - image that they will show to the public. For instance, the dressing style, and the comparison of their body fitness. Most important, how fit is their bodies in comparison to others. The key point here is to compare with others, and how good looking [...]

So far, there are two kinds of artificial no calorie sweeteners in the market today.  Aspartame is the type with popular names like Equal and NutraSweet and is widely used for consumer goods like diet sodas, candies and chewing gums, shakes and yogurt, instant coffees, teas and choco mixes, chewable vitamins and other products with sugar-free [...]

One of the major problems of weight loss is understanding portion size. You can eat all the right foods, but if you eat them in over-sized portions, you’ll still be consuming too many calories to lose weight.
You can eat all the right foods, but if you eat them in over-sized portions, you’ll still be consuming [...]

In general, everyone’s daily carbohydrate intake is different due to weight, size, gender, height, and activity level, especially if you’re living with diabetes and are on medication.
Unfortunately, one number does not fit all. General guidelines recommending that approximately 45-65% carbohydrates from total calories (no fewer than 130 grams daily. For the care of individuals [...]

The Atkins Nutritional Approach is one of the most controversial way of dieting and loosing the unwanted pounds and fats in our body.  Controversial in a way that  we never thought of cutting off the carbs and sugar as the main secret of a successful dieting.  Normally, we blame the fatty foods that we take in [...]

The Food Guide Pyramid emphasizes foods from the five major food groups shown in the three lower sections of the Pyramid. Each of these food groups provides some, but not all, of the nutrients you need. Foods in one group can’t replace those in another. No one food group is more important than another - [...]

The Zone Diet plan is all about ‘meal ratios’. It can be considered ‘low carb’, due to the fact that the average person consumes about 50-60% carbohydrates in their diet. The good thing about the Zone diet is that it encourages a combination of all the nutrients in each meal - and it stresses the [...]

The concept of the Longevity Diet is simple: eat fewer calories and select foods that have a high concentration of vitamins and minerals. The idea is that you will achieve all of your recommended intakes of key nutrients while reducing your intake of calories to approximately 20% below normal amounts.
It emphasizes that calorie restriction is [...]

The Egg Diet has become increasingly popular due to reports that some well-known people and celebrities have successfully lost weight by eating only eggs. The Egg Diet is essentially a crash diet, especially the version that does not allow for nutritional variety.
Lunch and dinner includes either another serving of eggs or a small portion of [...]