Skinny Snacking Tips For Shedding Pounds
Do you snack right? Or is your snacking adding unwanted pounds? You’ve heard that snacking is good for your metabolism. It’s something that we read about and hear fitness experts encourage the public to do. We all want to be fit, lean, and healthy so we snack away. In fact, recent surveys report that 65% of adults eat two snacks each day. If these were wholesome snacks then logic would dictate that 65% of adults should be lean...
Healthy Fast Food
Sounds too good to be true, right? Fast food that is healthy? Fast food has a reputation for being high in trans fat, saturated fat, sodium, and calories, while having next to no healthy ingredients. For example, one loaded hamburger, fries, and pie contain more saturated fat than you should eat in two days. However, things are changing. The past few years have seen many fast-food restaurants make a concerted effort to improve their...
Seriously?! Don’t fall for this…
The madness has to stop. This might come across as a soapbox rant, and for that I apologize, but trust me when I say that this is a message that needs to be spread. Your fat loss depends on it. You want to be a fat burning machine, right? So why do we fool ourselves into thinking that we are eating healthy…when our diets consist of so many processed foods? Don’t fall for it: so-called healthy packaged foods won’t...
The Problem with Most Diets
For more than 20 years the media has bombarded us with a perpetual diet craze. An avalanche of fad diets are announced one after another as breaking news while producing zero true results. Have you noticed how people jump onboard with a popular fad diet, lose 5, 10 or even 20 pounds…only to gain it all back and then some. Why does this happen? It’s actually a simple concept, and once you understand it you will be forever saved from...
Can’t slim down? Here’s why…
Wanting to lose fat, and failing at it, is one of the most frustrating experiences ever. Slimming down is not easy. Read the following 7 Fat Loss Problems to discover what is standing in your way and how to quickly and easily begin reshaping it all. Fat Loss Problem #1: Your Mind Your mind is your number one ally when it comes to achieving your goals. However, until your mind has been programmed for success, it will do more to derail...
5 Weight Loss and Fitness Myths Busted
I’m here to warn you of the 5 weight loss and fitness myths that most people fall for. This might come across as a soapbox rant, and for that I apologize, but trust me when I say that this is a message that needs to be spread. Don’t waste your time on these: Myth #1: Take diet pills to lose fat. It’s so tempting! The commercials make compelling claims about the power of diet pills, but don’t fall for it. The...
Your Weight Loss Wake Up Call
It happens to everyone. That moment when you realize that it’s time to do something about your weight. It may happen when you’re looking in the mirror or standing on the scale. Your first thought is to go on a ‘diet’ but as quickly as that enters your mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past return…along with all the frustration. Then you wonder, why bother? The weight will come back, as it always has. Then...
How to Identify and Conquer Overeating
Let’s face it, the extra pounds you’re carrying around are due to overeating – plain and simple. Why do you overeat? Here are a few likely reasons: 1. Habit: Whether you realize it or not, you eat in a learned pattern, rather than out of need. You clean your plate because that’s what your mother taught. You eat what is served without stopping to check if you are full. You butter two pieces of toast for breakfast...