In Part 1 of this post I told you how not getting enough sleep can affect your ability to lose weight - even if you're dieting and exercising. But if you have trouble sleeping, how do you fix that? Here are 6 tips to help you drift off more easily and stay asleep...
Weight Loss Secret: Why Diet & Exercise Aren’t Enough. Part 1
Does this sound familiar: You've made a serious commitment to your health and weight loss goals. You've hired a trainer who's helping you exercise more often and more vigorously. You've changed your diet, swapping out bagels and pizza for lean fish, whole grains and...
Taking Our Pulses: Lose Weight And Save Money By Adding This One Food To Your Diet
Eating healthy on a budget can seem like a challenge. But one of nature's most nutritious foods is also one of the supermarket's least expensive: dried legumes. Legumes, or pulses -- the family of grain seeds that includes lentils, beans, peas and peanuts -- are so...
Don’t Be A Turkey! 4 Tips To Help You Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
The holiday season comes with all kinds of stress, from gift-giving anxiety to dealing with difficult relatives. But the biggest stress-causer of the season, for me anyway, is the parties: all those appetizers; all those chocolates; all that wine; all those calories!...
Fat Is Not Your Enemy: 4 High-Fat Foods That Could Help You Lose Weight
In the late 1970's, rising rates of obesity, heart disease and some cancers were blamed on dietary fat. A few early studies linked fat consumption with higher blood cholesterol levels, and suddenly fat was a new enemy. It seemed so simple: eat fat, get fat. So...
Want To Lose Weight? Why It’s More Than Simply Eating Less
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. -Joseph Pilates If you've ever tried to lose a few pounds, you'll know it can be a real challenge. Why is that? You'd think it would be simple: just eat less and exercise more, right?...
When You Burn Off That Fat, Where Does It Go?
So here's a question I never really thought about before: when you lose weight, where does it go? I mean, fat cells are made up of atoms and atoms can't just disappear. So when your love handles start to shrink or you lose an inch off your belly, what happens to that...