Are you the right weight? It’s a common question, and with so many varied opinions, it’s hard to know how to reach the right answer. One easy place to start is by calculating your body mass index, or BMI. What is BMI? Your body mass index, or BMI, is a number based on your… Continue Reading
Weight Loss Tips & General Info
25 Holiday Weight Maintenance Tips
The holiday season is here, and with it come celebrations with family, friends, and lots of food. While the holidays are a time for joy, weight loss maintenance studies show more than half of Americans gain at least a pound and 10 percent gain 5 pounds or more. For those who have worked hard all… Continue Reading
Top 10 Tips On Slimming Down For Good
Whether you’re looking to maintain a healthy weight or to shed those extra pounds and keep them off, with the overload of information and misinformation out there, it can be very difficult to know the right steps to take. The good news is that it is never too late to improve your health and wellbeing… Continue Reading
Look to Your Partner to Change Bad Habits
Thanks to something called “assortative mating,” we tend to choose mates that have behaviors similar to our own. Too often, however, that means our bad habits are their bad habits, too. Smoking? Couch potato? A sweet tooth? Birds of a feather, goes the old saying. Thankfully, when we finally wise up and decide… Continue Reading
What’s New In Weight Loss
The topic of weight loss is never more popular than at the beginning of the year. Between overindulgent holidays and New Year’s resolutions or mission statements, it seems everybody is looking to lose some weight. But with so much information at once, how do you know what the latest and most updated facts are?… Continue Reading
2015’s Top Tools for Weight Loss
It’s easy to say you’ll eat healthier and exercise more, but it’s tough to actually get started and keep going. Sure, you can make exercise plans and collect recipes, but if you’re not prepared with tools to boost your success, you’ll quickly revert to old habits. January 18-24 is Healthy Weight Week, and… Continue Reading
Building Healthy Habits: Self-Control & Weight Loss
Take a look at your to-do list. If you’re like most people, chances are you’ve got quite a few things on there, but the most discouraging one is probably “lose weight.” Why is it that you haven’t been able to check that off your list? You start off optimistic that you’re going to do… Continue Reading
Early Antibiotics Exposure Leads to Obesity Later
When you’re born, you get everything from your parents – your genes, your name, and even your habits. But did you know that you also get your gut bacteria from them? Yet quite often, both before and after birth, children are given antibiotics that can change the bugs that they get, resulting in some… Continue Reading
Forming Healthy Habits: How Long Does It Take?
Looking back at your new year’s resolutions, how long did it take to change your old ways? A day? A week? A month? Conventional wisdom seems to say 21 days, but that turns out not to be the case. This spring, whether you’re focused on losing weight, eating healthier, exercising more, or quitting… Continue Reading
Embrace the Cold: Shivering Aids Weight Loss
If this season’s cold temperatures have you feeling like you’re freezing your butt off, the silver lining to this extreme weather might be that you are actually freezing your butt off. The old idea was that our bodies store fat during winter, but new research shows that all this shivering in the cold… Continue Reading