Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

Atkins diet or the Atkins Nutritional Approach is a low-carbohydrate diet approach, created by Dr. Robert Atkins to solve his own overweight condition. On tasting success, Dr. Atkins spread this diet through a franchisee business model and this soon became a popular and successful weight control approach.
The Atkins approach attributes the major cause for obesity [...]

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 [...]

When I’m feeling quite hungry and want a sandwich or something hearty but can only have a salad or something low carb, I make this salad instead:
Start off with a bunch of greens. Choose your favorite kinds from romaine to baby lettuce to green leaf lettuce.
Toss a bunch of baby tomatoes in there.
Sprinkle with [...]

One of the hardest things about being on a low carb diet, such as Atkins is that you really miss out on sweets. It means no more chocolate cakes, glazed donuts, strawberry pastries and icecream sundaes. Well maybe you can’t have the regular versions of all those, but you can create healthy dessert substitutes [...]

Usually thai peanut salads are full of starches and sugars. Here’s how you can make the low carb version that is tasty and crunchy. First, grill cubed pieces of chicken in sesame or peanut oil.
Take mung beans and boil them until cooked. These will replace the noodles.
Chop up, in long slices, green [...]

I think every single diet needs snacks. Diet doesn’t have to mean “trying to lose weight”, it just means “one’s way of eating”. However, low-carb dieters need snacks too. I’ve been on various diets and have thought of some good lowcarb snacks throughout the years. Here are some.
Lime chicken wings. You [...]

While I do not believe a lowcarb diet is the way to go all the time, I do believe our bodies can really benefit from having a lowcarb meal here and there, possibly even once a day. Breakfast is a good time to have a lowcarb meal because more than likely you’ll get a [...]

I have heard so many bad things about the Atkins diet that I do not think I could try it out. I heard that the foods that you can eat on this wonder diet are the causes for many diseases, such as heart disease, stroke and colon and breast cancer.
It is also know that [...]

We’ve all heard that cutting carbs out of our diet will aid in weight loss, and that’s true. If you cut any part of your diet, you will lose weight. But, that can leave nutritional gaps in your daily intake.
The best approach is to eat a diet balanced in all things: carbs, [...]

When you deprive yourself you are setting yourself up for failure. Ever wonder why men weigh less but seem to down everything in sight? Its their choice of food. believe it or not, but men tend to make healthier choices in food than women. When women have a craving it is more often than [...]