I recently came across this fantastic article on yahoo where the author speaks to easy to follow exercises . With summer  here, its time to think about slimming down and getting ready for the beach. We all know there is no magic bullet or cure-all diet that works overnight, but there are some things […]

 
I came across this article on Yahoo which gives great simple advice on healthy ways to lose 2 pounds each week.  You can shed some weight without the headache of calorie counting, measuring portions or giving up your fun foods and, for regular readers of this blog, you’ll note that we focus on […]

 
Just came across this fantastic article on yahoo where they asked a variety of diet related questions to some of the top dietitians in North America.
Below is what they told them in simple to follow tips, they’ve learned from successful experience with thousands of clients. Some tips are new. Some you’ve heard before, but […]

 
Governments should be regulating the commercial weight-loss industry to prevent Canadians desperate to shed pounds from being taken in by products and programs promoting scientifically unproven therapies, obesity doctors say.
In an editorial in this week’s Canadian Medical Association Journal, Drs. Yoni Freedhoff and Arya Sharma say there is no quick fix or magic pill for […]

Ernesto Suncar holds a pair jeans he used to wear before losing over 400 pounds.

Ernesto Suncar back when he weighed more than 600 pounds.
I came across this inspirational story of  Ernesto Suncar’s incredible battle with weight loss in the New York Daily News.
Weighing 640 pounds, wearing 10X shirts and with a 70-inch waist, the 33-year-old […]

After reading a fantastic article over at Self Magazine, I believe it’s time for a new slim-down mantra for everyone! ‘Eat more to weigh less’. This isn’t some late night infomercial pitch we should all run from! It’s all about the basics, the right foods help you drop pounds by revving your calorie burn and […]

Now don’t get all excited. We don’t have any magic wand solutions that will take the place of exercise and eating right. But we do have a few foods that could help you on your journey to rid yourself of excess flab. Hungry Girl’s here with the scoop…
LEAN PROTEIN
To put it simply, protein takes a […]

 
You just went away for the weekend and you came back to find that you gained 5 pounds over the course of 3 days. In your disbelief, you quickly curse the Weight Gods for being so cruel. Sound familiar? This was me last weekend. A little jaunt to Montreal, eating at decadent cafes, packed it […]

 
Eating out invariably raises a number of tricky questions: sit-down or drive-thru? Burgers or pizza? Thin or stuffed crust? And if you’re dining with your family, add the biggest question of all: Will the food we eat today bring a fatter tomorrow for our kids? And fewer tomorrows for the rest of us?
So the choice […]

 
The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.
A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet improved cholesterol more than the other two. Some critics had […]