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• A Simple Plan for Weight Loss
  The math is pretty simple. One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Want tocreate a weight loss of a pound a week? Then you need to consume 3500 calories less per week than you use.
  
  
  • Reward Yourself
    Looking better and feeling great may be their own rewards when you lose weight, but it never hurts to reward yourself for reaching goals and sticking to your eating plan. Building in incentives is a time-honored way of helping keep yourself on track
    
    
• Dangerous Weight Loss Methods
  Dangerous Weight Loss Methods - We're all looking for the magic bullet. You know - the one that we can take and lose weight without really trying!
  
  
  • Diet Pills A Lot Of Risk For A Little Loss
    There are a number of diet pills on the market - both prescription and non-prescription - which claim to be effective weight loss aids.
    
    
  • Don't Fall For These Weight Loss Gimmicks
    Have you heard about the new weight loss patch? You wear it behind your ear, and it speeds up your metabolism and helps you control your appetite. It sounds pretty reasonable, doesn't it?
    
    
  • Weight Loss Surgery
    The first type of bariatric weight loss surgery is 'restrictive'. It includes the well-known 'stomach stapling'. The purpose of restrictive surgery is to restrict the amount of food that can be eaten at one time.
    
    
• Diabetes and Weight Loss
  Did you know that you can be 'just a little bit diabetic'? The condition is technically called 'pre-diabetes', It is a precursor to diabetes and it is characterized by persistent high blood sugar levels.
  
  
  • Weight Loss Helps Prevent Diabetes
    A few months ago (March 2005), the American Diabetes Association announced the findings of the comprehensive Diabetes Prevention Program. The DPP was conducted at over 25 medical centers nationwide and involved thousands of participants who volunteered to have their habits monitored and to follow dietary and exercise recommendations.
    
    
  • What Kind Of Dieter Are You
    If you're a yo-yo dieter, you probably have a history of swinging between very restrictive diets and then returning to 'normal' eating once you've lost the weight that you need to lose
    
    
  • Whats 100 Calories A Day
    The difference could be as simple as cutting out 100 calories a day from your daily diet - or adding 100 calories a day to your daily routine - or a combination of both. How hard is it to cut 100 calories a day out of your diet?
    
    
• Don't Go It Alone
  Enlisting the aid of friends, family and a good weight loss support group can bolster your efforts and help you overcome setbacks that threaten to derail your weight loss efforts. Instead of trying to go it alone,
  
  
  • Don't Obsess About Food
    One of the dangers of dieting is the 'diet mentality'. The constant need to weigh, measure, count and account for food that most dieters feel can become an obsession with food that comes close to that experienced by someone with an eating disorder.
    
    
  • Don't Undermine Your Diet
    Let's start this article off right. You are not 'going on a diet'. Our concept of 'a diet' implies a temporary change that will work miracles - if we're only strong enough to stick to it.
    
    
  • How To Avoid Those Holiday Pounds
    So, what can we do in order to keep those extra holiday pounds off? After all, our homes are usually filled with holiday pies, cakes and other goodies, and they can be pretty tempting even for the most faithful of dieters!
    
    
  • Losing Those Last Five Pounds
    How many times have you caught yourself thinking, "I can never lose those last five pounds."? No matter how positive you believe you're being, no matter how often you congratulate yourself for the great job you're doing, those lingering doubts are sabotaging you.
    
    
  • Weight Loss Tips From Real Women
    Everyone has their favorite weight loss tips. Here's a handful of diet suggestions from real women who claim they really work.
    
    
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Weight Loss and Diets
    If you’re on a diet, or considering going on one, you’re in luck. We’ve put together ten of the most frequently asked questions about diets and weight loss and compiled them here. Enjoy!
    
    
• Do You Know Your Body Mass Index
  The most commonly used measure is the Body Mass Index (BMI). The BMI measures your weight relative to your height. It is generally an accurate representation of muscle-to-fat ratio, though there are some limitations.
  
  
  • No Excuses Exercise
    It's old news that exercising is the single best way to spark up your weight loss efforts. The activity perks up your metabolism, and eats up more calories. In addition, the more you exercise, the better the effect.
    
    
  • Start Losing Weight Today
    Your one stop source for diet tips that work
    
    
  • Use The Mayo Clinic Diet For A Quick Fix
    There was always a diet plan tacked to our refrigerator door. It may have been the cabbage soup diet, the Mayo Clinic diet, the Scarsdale diet, the Banana diet -- she was an equal opportunity dieter.
    
    
  • Weight Loss And Appetite Suppressants Hoodia
    The latest arrival on the Holy Weight Loss Grail circuit is an unprepossessing African succulent known as hoodia gordoni. Cleared for sale in the U.S. in early 2004, it has been steadily making a name for itself as a powerful appetite suppressant that can help you lose weight.
    
    
  • 10 Ways to Exercise When You Don't Feel Like Exercising
    Exercise. It's been endorsed by every major health organization in the country as one of the most beneficial things you can do for your body.
    
    
  • 10000 Steps to a Trimmer You
    I first heard about the 10,000 steps when I took a vacation with my mother last summer. As we left the house that morning for a day of sight-seeing with my two boys, she clipped a pedometer to her belt. Periodically throughout the day, she checked it, and as I settled to relax on a park bench toward the end of the day she remarked, "I'm just going to walk around the park twice. I only have 500 more steps to go."
    
    
• Five Common Diet Tips That Really Work--And Why
  In some cases, it's because someone said it and it got repeated endlessly. In others, though, it's because the tip really works. Here are five of the most common diet tips that really work - and why.
  
  
  • Five Healthy Weight Loss Tips
    Are you looking for some quick tips to help motivate yourself during a diet? Why not follow along below to learn about some quick healthy weight loss tips?
    
    
  • Need To Lose Weight Fast For A Special Occasion
    If you have just a little weight to lose, and want to lose weight fast (say, so you can fit into those great pants for your cousin's wedding), there are a number of diets that you can use. Most of these wouldn't be recommended for long-term weight loss, as they substantially restrict your intake of some essential nutrients, so using them habitually may not be healthy.
    
    
  • Strategic Weight Loss
    One of the first things that you'll do when you decide to start a weight loss program is to set a goal weight. For most, that goal will be their 'ideal weight', but for many, that 'ideal weight' may be exactly the wrong weight for them to be aiming for.
    
    
  • The Most Practical Diet You Will Ever Try
    There is a practical diet that will help you to lose weight that doesn't involve arcane combinations of foods to set up an ideal balance of foods that burn more than they give, or that promise to 'turn your body into a fat-burning machine'.
    
    
  • Five Things to Reach for Instead of a Snack
    It may be habit, it may be 'socially acceptable' or it may be the result of years of onditioning, but there it is. We've grown to equate food with comfort. There are some situations that are more likely to provoke us to reach for a snack - can you watch a movie without popcorn, for instance?
    
    
• How Much Weight Should You Gain During Pregnancy
  Your OB/GYN or midwife is your best source of advice about healthy weight gain during pregnancy, but there are general guidelines.
  
  
  • Losing Weight After Pregnancy
    God designed our bodies with nurture in mind. Part of that weight that you put on during pregnancy was meant to nurture your baby AFTER birth. While your body requires an extra 300 calories a day to keep up with the nutritional demands of your baby during pregnancy, a breastfeeding mother requires at least 500 extra calories a day to produce enough milk and remain healthy.
    
    
• The Big Three In The Diet World
  Many a fad diet has come and gone over the years. Some linger, most are forgotten by all but those who might have lost weight, gained weight or been damaged by them. Some of the diets were so unhealthy that they garnered the warnings of medical America, or were loudly decried as dangerous and unhealthy.
  
  
  • The Diet Experts Agree More Than They Admit
    Lately, I've been hearing a lot about how wrong for our bodies the current recommendations from our most respected medical institutions are. Well-known diet experts and nutritional researchers have stepped up to the plate to declare that the high carbohydrate, low fat diet regimens recommended by such institutions as the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the United States Department of Agriculture are misinformed, and frankly unhealthy
    
    
  • The Low-Down On Diet Comparison
    Low carbs and high protein is the way to lose weight, or so you'll hear from one diet guru, and he has the testimonials to back it up. Low fat, lots of carbs and fresh fruits and veggies, says another - and he's got the back up from satisfied users, too. A third swears that you need to count the amount of sugar; another tells you the enemy is white flour - if you want to lose real weight and keep it off, who do you listen to? Check the diet comparison below.
    
    
  • The Real Mayo Clinic Diet
    The clinic has repeatedly issued statements that the so-called 'Mayo Clinic Diet' did not originate at the Mayo Clinic and is not endorsed by them. In fact, they have gone so far as to state that it may be unhealthy for some people.
    
    
  • The Atkins Diet
    The Atkins diet is based on one simple principle: Your body burns both carbohydrates and fat for calories. If you reduce the amounts of carbohydrates available, it will burn more fat and you will lose weight.
    
    
  • The Mediterranean Diet
    Exactly what is the Mediterranean diet and can it help you lose weight? There actually is no 'Mediterranean' diet - it's a compilation of the way that people in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea eat.
    
    
  • The South Beach Diet
    The South Beach Diet was developed by cardiologist Arthur Agatston to help his patients lose weight and maintain a healthy diet for a lifetime.
    
    
  • The Zone Diet
    The Zone Diet is one of the five most discussed diets currently being endorsed. Developed by Barry Sears, a former researcher at MIT, it is based on maintaining insulin levels by striking a balance between carbohydrates and proteins at each meal.
    
    
• Diet Food Doesn't Have To Be Boring
  Not too long ago, my mother and I were talking about food and diets. "Your grandmother used to feed you pasta five nights a week," my mother insisted.
  
  
  • The New And Improved Nutrition Pyramid
    Just when you were getting the Nutrition Pyramid down to an exact science, the USDA goes and releases an all new nutrition and diet plan for healthy Americans. On April 19, 2005, the United States Department of Agriculture unveiled its new My Pyramid nutrition pyramid
    
    
  • The Best Diet Foods in Existence
    Your one stop source for diet tips that work
    
    
  • Who Says Vegetables Have To Be Boring
    Eat your vegetables - especially your lettuce. But don't confine yourself to iceberg lettuce or salads! Darker greens have about the same number of calories and carbs -very low!
    
    
  • Is My Diet Deductible
    Dieting can be expensive, especially if you join a weight loss program or purchase special foods. As of April 2002, the Internal Revenue Service recognized some weight loss expenses as tax deductible under medical expenses.
    
    
  • Shopping and Lifestyle Tips for Healthy Weight Loss
    Don't you wish there was an easy-to-follow practical primer to tell you all the things you should and shouldn't do to help your weight loss program?