Weight Loss and Dieting

Put on a little extra weight during the summer BBQ, beer and patio season? Well, you can close the books on a lot of weight loss methods - the latest trick may be as easy as drinking a couple of glasses of water before eating.

Diets are a legitimate and often necessary method for losing weight and getting into healthier shape. However diets can and often do have a negative influence on health as well, dieters must be extremely careful to maintain a healthy and balanced diet.

Do you feel that you have hit a plateau in your weight loss efforts? Are you finding that what was previously working for you before is no longer achieving the same results? There are several ways in which we could be slowing down, or even stopping, our weight loss progress.

Your diet has an extreme influence over your metabolism and proper nutrition habits will ensure that your metabolism is running along at a fast clip. Starving yourself or going on a crash diet may seem like an easy path to weight loss, but it’s actually counterproductive and will end up leading to weight gain in the long run.

A calorie is a calorie no matter how you look at it but some calories in foods can fill you up instead of filling you out. Plant-based foods that contain fiber and water such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains will make you feel full longer instead of expanding your waist line.

The best way to tone loose muscle and decrease fat is by incorporating cardiovascular exercise into strength training. Burning overall body fat is an essential part of training your body.

Did you know that 3500 calories = 1 pound? If you can manage to shave 200 calories a day from your diet, that will add up to over 20 lbs lost in one year! Follow these easy tips to shedding calories and you'll effortlessly lose the weight with minimal effort:

Breakfast

87 calories. Instead of two whole eggs at breakfast, substitute for 4 egg whites.

If like most people in the western world you are on a diet and trying to lose weight you may be experience salad fatigue.  After days and day or months and months as the case may be of watching your caloric intake by munching on celery sticks and greens, you’ll probably be bored out of your mind.  So if you feel you can’t stomach one more green salad this week, keep reading to find ou

If you're stuck on wondering the reason for your weight gain, you'll be interested in knowing that the four main reasons are excessive drinking, lack of exercise, too much red meat and a diet high in fast foods. Knowing that, we've assembled some easy tips to enhance your dietary and fitness choices to get you losing a few inches off your waist in no time.

According to retired generals cited in the Washington Post alongside the army’s own statistical records, Americans are getting too fat to serve.  Figures from a report on national health from a few years ago showed that twenty-seven percent of Americans aged 17-24 are so overweight that they cannot fight in the military. 

Based on the premise that every body is different and therefore everyone should have a diet plan customized for them, SmartDiets developed a system to do just that.  Thie rystem creates a diet plan specificly for you. From their website: "Some people need a low-fat diet; others need a low-carbohydrates diet.

Michelle Obama, in her quest to end childhood obesity, has a message to women - maintain a healthy weight when pregnant and breast-feed your babies to reduce obesity in children. This is one of 70 recommendations released Tuesday as part of her campaign against childhood obesity.

We dieters often starve ourselves in our bid to lose weight, which results in a slower metabolism inevitably leading to an increase in weight down the road. Change your strategy and eat these fat-fighting foods to help you reach your weight loss goals:

Our weekend is often filled with social activities, free time and lots of great food. The weekends are less structured than the weekdays which can result in excessive eating and less physical activity. Even the most dedicated can often fall off the wagon and it may be difficult to maintain our eating habits on the weekends.

We often eat more than we need at meals and while snacking that it's easy to get addicted to big portion sizes to satisfy our hunger. Portion size can dramatically impact the calories you take in and is central to weight control. Portion sizes have skyrocketed since the 1980s and is a big reason why our waistlines have increased.

You need energy that is found in food to fuel your body. A bad diet that can lead to obesity is loaded with simple carbs such as white flour, rice, pasta, and sugary foods such as sodas, junk food and sugary drinks. These carbs metabolize quickly in your body which could mean you'll be hungry more often and end up eating more.

As if children suffering from childhood obesity didn’t have enough to contend with, a new study reveals that the negative reactions these children receive from their peers, adults and society at large can actually reinforce the problem.  According to experts at the American College of Sports Medicine, while many of the negative attitudes these

Everyone seems to be on some sort of weight loss diet these days so why is the success rate so low? If you're wondering why your diet is failing you, you'll want to read our 7 reasons why your diet isn't working.

The psychology of color can influence everything from our blood pressure to our mood and overall experience. Color and our appetite for foods are closely related and can affect our perception of taste. So which colors can whet your appetite? And more importantly for those looking at losing weight, what colors can suppress your appetite?

Have you ever gone on a low-calorie weight loss diet only to regain all the weight you lost? Or even worse, put on more weight than before you started your diet? The secret to keeping the weight off is to gradually introduce normal food after you're done dieting, according to new research.

Are you one of the millions of people who go on a weight loss program, lose lots of weight for weeks or months, then hit a plateau? Can't lose that last ten pounds despite doing everything right, exercise and diet-wise, but it just ain't happening?

Water retention can make us feel bloated and can give an appearance of being overweight. Water retention can also occur from taking certain medications or can be related to a health condition. Women generally are at a higher risk of fluid retention due to fluctuating hormonal levels that can play an impact on fluid balance.

Bing eating not only can cause compulsive eating and obesity, it can also be as addictive as nicotine or cocaine, according to a new study released on Sunday.

Great news for the overweight and obese - a common seaweed can reduce your fat uptake by more than 75%, according to new studies.

The best way to diet is to consume fewer calories without feeling that you're deprived rather than going on a crash diet which works in the short-term but not sustainable over the long run. Fortunately, by incorporating these simple calorie-cutting tips, you'll be able to trim down with little effort.

Losing weight can be difficult at the best of times and can make you frustrated if the results don't reflect the effort you put in it. People around the world, from the Europeans to the Asians, have maintained lower amounts of obesity by sticking to their tried and true diets.

Ever go on a diet to lose weight and the scale doesn't budge? Working out, eating sensibly not working? Here are our top reasons why the battle of the bulge is being lost:

80% of men and nearly 70% of women in the United Kingdom will be overweight or obese by 2020, based on data from the Health Survey for England.

The statistics from the National Heart Forum showed that 41% of adult men will be obese while 40% will be overweight by 2020. With women, 36% will be obese with 32% overweight by 2020.

Carrying a few extra pounds is a problem faced by many of us. There are remedies that anyone can use to lose 10-20 pounds without devoting time to strict diets where food must be weighed or points endlessly computed. A few simple changes in your daily routine can lead to a sleeker body profile in just a few weeks. Some simple suggestions:

As most people know an allergy is the body’s immune response to a substance that is generally innocuous.