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10 Quick Tips to Lose Weight

Want to lose weight, but find it hard to stick to a diet?  Or is it that there are so many different diets with conflicting advice that you just don’t know what to, or not to, eat anymore?  For someone who can’t afford the sometimes pricey Mediterranean Diet, or cringes at the thought of a carb starvation diet, here are ten quick tips using general knowledge to help you shed weight, even if you can not hold to a regimented diet.

1) If you drink a lot of soda, stop!  For many people who drink soda, switching to water alone may be enough to lose up to twenty or more pounds in a year.  The average can of soda contains 150 calories.  Even if you stop drinking one a day, that’s 54,750 calories in a year.  That’s 15 ½ pounds of calories, not to me... Read more...

Your Metabolism and How to Speed It Up

Your metabolism is the rate at which your body digests or processes food. People have been infatuated with their metabolism as soon as the weight loss craze hit the country. People are trying to lose weight, yet still continue to follow the wrong path to get themselves there. Apart from the right food and the right exercise, there are also other factors that most don’t keep in mind. These factors have to do with w lifestyle that constantly speeds up your metabolism. It has nothing to do with how many miles you ran on the treadmill or how many fat calories are in that bagel, it has to do with lifestyle. Changing your lifestyle to speed up your metabolism will help you burn calories and fat while you walk, sleep, or even eat (yes, you can act...

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Eat What You Like and Lose Weight. Really!

If you've been trying to lose weight for a while, then you've probably tried more than your fair share of diets, including some that are way too good to be true. You know from experience that you can't lose weight by popping a pill or drinking the newest concoction unless you make some changes to your lifestyle. However, those changes don't have to be drastic, and you don't have to give up what you enjoy in order to lose weight.

Calories, Shmalories

You might have tried some of the popular diets, whether low carb, low fat, or high protein, and some or all of them might have worked for you for a while. The weight probably crept back on over time though, didn't it? And it came back because you simply can't eat that way for the rest of your life... Read more...