One of the down sides to eating a healthier diet for weight loss is giving up many of the foods you love. Most healthy diets include lots of fruits and vegetables, high-protein meats and legumes, and whole grains. If you love to eat cheese, you can look high and low, but you probably won’t find cheese in healthy weight loss diets. But, luckily, that doesn’t mean you have to give up cheese entirely if you want to lose weight. 2 read more…
Of course, generally speaking, you tend to be healthier when you lose weight. But the one thing you must stop drinking if you want to lose weight is not only bad for weight loss, it’s very bad for your health, regardless of how much you weigh. It’s a superstar of beverages. Water not included, it’s the fifth most popular drink in the world, after tea, coffee, orange juice and beer. Each person in Canada drank 67 litres of it in read more…
Understanding how to healthily and sustainably lose weight can be difficult if you believe in quick weight loss diets. But understanding metabolism can be tough for just about everyone. That lack of understanding can lead to misconceptions about metabolism. The problem is that those misconceptions can make it more difficult to lose weight. What is Metabolism? Metabolism is the conversion of the energy in the food you eat into the energy your body’s cells need to perform their functions. That read more…
If you’re overweight, there’s a darn good chance you’ve tried to lose the extra pounds many times. Many, many, many times. And you’ve probably had no shortage of advice on how to do it from magazine articles, websites, friends, your mother, and a few people you didn’t even ask. So how’d all those weight loss attempts work for you? Probably not how you hoped. But it’s not all your fault. Weight loss is not a simple, one time proposition. In read more…