Are you eating meat once in a while only? You’re a flexitarian! If you follow mostly a plant-based diet and you seldom eat meat, you can say you are a flexitarian. The term was first coined in the Dawn Jackson Blatner’s book The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease,...
If you are thinking of beginning your very own weight loss journey, then it’s also a good idea to start keeping a food diary. A food diary is a place where you can write down what you have consumed in a day, the calories that you have eaten, and other nutritional facts that you may find...
Many people are very enthusiast at the start of their diet or weight loss plan. After few days or weeks, things started to fail. You gained weight and back to the old habits. With all the convenience and technologies, losing weight should be easy. However, this is not the truth. To produce real result you need...
For those of you who are looking for weight loss inspiration, Jennifer Hudson is one of those great examples of successful weight loss. After having her first baby, Jennifer decided to lose weight using healthy options available and avoid crash dieting. Her goal was being healthy and this is achieved by changing her lifestyle, portion control...
Diet is an old French and Latin word that stands for daily food allowance or way of life. Diet in today’s generation consists of meal planning in order to achieve the desired weight. Planning and preparation is the key when it comes to successful dieting. Let us explore few popular diets in the country. Vegetarian Diet...
Have you ever walked through a grocery store and noticed a shopper staring down at the nutritional facts of two products and comparing the two? Some things are easy for us to see immediately: serving size, the calories, and the total fat, but what does this all mean? Serving Size One thing that people often fail...
Crunches, planks, sit ups… all of this exercising and you still have that stubborn flab that just doesn’t seem to want to leave your midsection! Do not lose hope. You are building muscle – it’s just being covered up under a layer of fat. Getting rid of fat can’t be done by exercising alone. One must...
Not many people embrace the idea of dieting. In fact, the mere suggestion of it can suddenly conjure up all sorts of images and sacrifices – and all in the name of losing a few extra pounds. But the good news is, it needn’t be difficult and better than that, it doesn’t have to be a...
