Participating In a 90-Day Challenge To Lose Weight and Gain Muscle

By Cynthia Phillips It's a constant struggle to find ways to stay motivated in a way that empowers us to help ourselves. We are having to decide on how to make ends meet and our health has taken a back seat to our daily struggles to survive. The average cost to feed a family of four monthly, is between $800 - $1000. It's obvious to me why it's difficult for a mother or father to think about spending additional monies to improve their health. Most of us don't understand how important good nutrition keeps us out of the doctors offices. In...

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Five Things to Avoid With Your Weight Loss Diet Menu

Sticking to your weight loss diet menu can be a trying task. The temptation, the cravings and all of the foods that you know you should not be eating. For certain, adhering to any diet plan can be a real effort that takes confidence and commitment as well as resolution to see through to the end. The more tips that you have along the way with your weight loss diet menu-all the better that you can stick to it by avoiding key culprits that will assuredly encourage weight gain. Be sure to veer clear of the following antagonistic foodstuffs for the...

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Problems With Obesity - 5 Traps to Avoid and Stop the Obesity Epidemic (Don't Do These!)

Millions everyday face problems with obesity. Obesity is a very serious condition and should not be taken lightly. There is no doubt an obesity epidemic. Can it be prevented? Can the epidemic be reversed? If you are obese or at risk take these 5 traps into consideration and incorporate them into your life with your obesity battle. Trap 1 - I have bad genetics This is a very common excuse to defend being overweight and obese. No matter what type of genetics you...

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Which Diet Is Best For You? 3 Easy Steps To Figure Out What Diet Will Work The Most Effective

Have you been searching for an effective diet that can get you the results that you have been wishing for? Do you keep running into dead-end diets that either don't work, they are too difficult to stick to, or you end up regaining whatever weight you've lost? Well, if you have been suffering from those setbacks, and you want to figure out which diet is best for you, then here are 3 easy steps that will help you pick out the right program! First...

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Top 5 tips for healthy grocery shopping

Choose fresh foods, use a list, and read food labels. 1. Buy food that ‘goes bad’. Buy food that has an expiration date or ‘goes bad’ at some point in the near future. These items are generally healthier than others. The longer the shelf life of a product, the more chemicals and preservatives it probably contains. The perimeter of the store generally contains fresher food with a shorter shelf life: fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meats,...

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Try this foods to Fight Fat

Weight loss starts with shopping. Taking control of what you eat begins with taking control of what you buy. Every time you toss a low-calorie food into the cart, you’re taking responsibility for losing weight—even before you sit down to a meal. There’s a very simple formula for low-calorie eating: Stock up on low-calorie staples. These are the basic packaged, canned, and frozen ingredients that you’ll reach for to create tasty, healthful,...

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Cutting carbs just 2 days a week can spur weight loss

By Linda Carroll Dieters who can’t stomach the idea of going hungry seven days a week just got good news: You might be able to drop more weight if you cut back on carbs just two days a week. British researchers found that women who essentially gave up carbs for two days and ate normally the rest of the time dropped about 9 pounds on average, as compared to the 5 pounds lost by women who cut back to around 1,500 calories every day, according...

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