Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

Each year many people make the New Year’s Resolution to lose weight and I admit that it’s been on my list for several years. While I start out with the best intentions, something happens about the third week into the new year. We start getting back to our normal routine followed by the yearly winter [...]

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 [...]

In January, the Biggest Loser will have a special show that will feature couples losing weight. It’s inspired me to try to lose weight with my husband. I’ve come up with an incentive to keep us on track since there won’t be a $250,000 prize.
We will both pick out an item that is around $300 [...]

Have you ever noticed the serving sizes when reading the nutrition labels? For example, a usual serving is one half of a cup. How much is that really though in a bowl? Sometimes we may think we are just getting one serving of a food but in reality it might be two or more.
When dieting, [...]

Exercise is my weakest area when it comes to weight loss. I know I need to workout, take a walk, and weight train. It’s getting started that is the real hard part. Making time for working out is really challenging these days.
Some advice I read about exercise is that there are a lot of activities [...]

It seems when dieting the magic number for a snack is 100 calories. In recent years, more products have been showing up on store shelves touting they contain only 100 calories. While some of these snacks are downright unsatisfying, there are those that are really good.
New to the 100 calorie family is Hostess 100 Calorie [...]

Going out to eat can sabotage any diet. It’s best to be as prepared as possible before heading out to a restaurant. A little homework will help to ensure that you can enjoy eating out and not falling off track.
A lot of restaurants offer a special selection of healthy food choices. Usually printed on the [...]

Does writing down what you eat help you when you are dieting? Many people believe that keeping a food diary is well worth the trouble since it is easy to forget just how much or what we eat during the day. A food diary can really keep you on track with your diet.
There are several [...]

Bob Greene’s The Best Life Diet is not just another diet book. It’s a book about changing your eating habits and your relationship with food. Diets can be successful but if you don’t change your overall eating habits, then you are more likely to put the weight back on. The Best Life Diet is all [...]