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Everybody has their own purpose behind needing to get in shape. For some it is comfort, for other people, it is the craving to look a specific way. Whatever your essential reason is for needing to shed the weight of obesity from your life, actually getting in shape is useful for your wellbeing. [Read more]

Beginning with another weight loss program always comes with a bit of stress. Is this the program that will take you to where you need to be? Is this how it occurs? Is this the start of your new sound method for being? [Read more]

There are a lot of different types of weight loss programs out there, and so if you spend long enough looking for one that tells you what you want to hear, chances are you are going to find it. [Read more]

The whole foods diet is seeing a bit of a popularity boost right now, but that doesn’t mean that the idea of eliminating processed foods in favor of whole foods is anything new or novel. A diet rich in highly processed foods is unique to the modern generation. [Read more]

Losing weight requires a lot of time and energy. There are dietary guidelines that you need to keep up with, gym memberships that you have to use regularly, and plenty of social engagements and stress-related indulgences that you need to learn how to work around if you hope to keep up with your weight loss goals. While this can weigh heavily on your daily schedule, it can also begin to weigh heavily on your wallet. [Read more]

Are antioxidants really the key to helping you manage your personal health and weight loss goals? This is certainly the type of rhetoric that is typically attached to these feel-good foods, but it is time to find out the truth about antioxidants once and for all. [Read more]

Staying properly hydrated is important for your overall health, and matters when you are trying to lose weight. Being dehydrated can actually slow down your weight loss progress, making it more difficult to reach your weight loss goals, even if you are putting in the dieting and exercise effort that you need. You may think that this is something that doesn’t affect you because you aren’t thirsty, but you could be totally wrong! The problem is that dehydration is actually way more common than you may originally think, and could be impacting your weight loss goals right now. [Read more]

Coffee is one of the most hotly contested and passion infused drinks on the market. There are those who hate it, those who love it, and those who swear that they could absolutely never live without it. For those in this last camp, the idea of forgoing coffee during your weight loss program may seem a little more than far-fetched; it probably seems downright impossible. Making dietary adjustments is hard, finding time to exercise every day is even harder, but not having that cup of coffee in the morning to help you get going—that is the hardest sell of all. [Read more]

Every couple of years a new weight loss trend starts to get a lot of attention. Sometimes it is thanks to some sort of celebrity endorsement on a supplement that is sure to drain your wallet without making too much of an impact on the scale. At other times it is a behavioral trend—something that […]

Weight gain is often considered a totally natural “side effect” of aging, but this isn’t comforting or reassuring to anyone who has struggled with obesity as they’ve grown older. In your youth it may have seemed easy to drop the few pounds you’d gain during the holidays, but as time goes on those pounds tend to stick, and before you know it you could be a few pants sizes larger than you ever thought you would be. [Read more]