All Entries in the "Weight loss" Category
Diets Essentials for your Weight Loss Journey
Guest bloggers Kenneth Schwarz PhD and Julie North Schwarz are the authors of Maria’s Last Diet and Breaking Up with Food. Dr. Kenneth Schwarz is a psychologist and psychoanalyst specializing in personal change and goal achievement. Julie North Schwarz writes about the non-food issues related to women’s weight loss. For more help with the psychological [...]
What is the Dukan Diet? Celebrity Fad Diets
The ever-changing world of diets is never boring. Recently, The Dukan Diet, a restrictive fad diet has been attracting attention among celebrities and non-celebs eager to shed pounds quickly, but without ingesting any heart-racing diet pills or elixirs made of cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Rumored to have followed The Dukan Diet are Gisele Bunchen [...]
Top 5 Diet Crushers
Our guest blog this week comes from the husband and wife team behind Maria’s Last Diet. Dr. Kenneth Schwarz is a psychologist and psychoanalyst specializing in personal change and goal achievement. Julie North Schwarz writes about the non-food issues related to women’s weight loss. For more help with the psychological side of dieting, go to [...]
5 Ways to Keep the Weight Off
John McGran, chief editor at Diet-to-Go, has been covering the fields of diet, fitness and health since 2000. He writes from the perspective of a dieter rather than a dietitian. Over the past 30 years, I’ve lost hundreds of pounds by following a variety of diets. The problem: At the age of 50, I am [...]
4 Keys for Faster Fat Loss
Pamela Ofstein is the Director of Nutrition Services at eDiets.com, a leading provider of weight loss services, information and products. Losing weight isn’t easy for anyone, but with a positive and healthy approach, you will be right on your way to reaching your weight-loss goals. To have the best weight-loss outcome possible, you must provide [...]
Fat, Carbs or Total Fat? What is the key to Losing Weight?
Much research has been conducted to look at the type of diet an individual follows and their associated weight loss. Many people declare that following a low-carb Atkins type diet is the way to lose weight, while others swear it’s by following a low-fat diet. You can get lost sifting your way through these diets [...]
Happy Independence Day!
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You [...]
Top 10 attitude & lifestyle-based tips to lose weight!
~Annabel Adams Let’s face it – unless you’ve lived under a rock your entire your life, you pretty much know that getting to a healthy weight is a balance between eating right (sufficient amount of good foods) and exercise (more than just getting up to change the channel). It’s not rocket science, so why do [...]
Catching ZZZZs To Prevent gaining Weight
The more time you spend laying in bed asleep the fewer calories you burn and thus, the greater your risk for overweight and obesity. Right? That may seem logical but that is not what the research is showing. In fact, a growing body of scientific literature suggests that sleep duration is inversely related to obesity. [...]
Eat Fatty Nuts For A Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss
Yup. You read that right. I know it sounds like an oxymoronic weight loss advice so allow me to explain. You probably know the popular myth that nuts will make you fat. But what’s the real deal about this well promulgated but largely unsubstantiated belief? The surprising and rather comforting answer: it’s not true based [...]
Review: Family Fun and Fitness- Whiplash, the Scooter with a Twist
With the weather warming up and summer approaching it is a great time to get active out-of-doors. As moms, we are role models for our children – whether we are sitting on the couch or running around outside or hitting the gym or squeezing in a power walk during one of their sports practices. We’re [...]
Top 10 Tips for Fueling Fat Loss
Rob Williams is a kinesiologist and posture specialist in downtown Vancouver, BC. He welcomes questions at rob@williamshealthgroup.com. Rob believes it is important to reduce body fat to allow you to see your musculature. Here are his tips: As a kinesiologist I’ve taken university-level courses on nutrition, and have the support of a team of nutrition experts working with [...]
20 Ways to Cut Calories from the Biggest Loser Dietitian
Emily Fonnesbeck is the Registered Dietitian for the Biggest Loser Resort, and joins us today to share some must-have tips to help you manage calorie consumption and weight loss. Chances are you have heard some of these suggestions before. But just because you have heard them, doesn’t mean you are actually doing them! Take a [...]
10 Portion Control Pointers
With portions ballooning to extreme sizes, it’s sometimes tough to stick to what we know are proper serving sizes. Eating contests, “value” meals and bags that contain “30% more free” all contribute to our environment of excess. You’ve chosen to fight back and take control of your portions. Great! It’s a key step to weight [...]
My Weight Loss Journey: Making Changes
We’re honored to have our friend Debbie write a guest post series for us about her health and weight loss journey. Welcome back, Debbie, and thanks for sharing your story with us. * * * There comes a day when you decide that it is time to make some changes. For me, today is that [...]
Great Ways To Show Some Team USA Spirit!
I’ve been giving most of my writing over to the Canadian perspective of our Vancouver Olympic Winter Games and I think it’s time for a little Team USA love, no? Here’s what you can do to support our athletes from Team USA, who have been training their entire lives will take the stage to represent [...]
