Archive for January, 2010

If you’re trying to lose weight, one of the best things you can do for yourself is start a weight loss journal. It’s an eye-opening experience: You’ll become intimately familiar with your eating habits, and you’ll learn exactly how many calories you’re consuming each day. Because it makes you to pay attention to what you’re eating, you’ll automatically cut back on mindless snacking.

You don’t need anything fancy to start a food journal. A simple spiral-bound notebook will do. However, you may find it easier to buy a journal designed especially for this purpose. A ready-made food or diet journal … read more

Ever wonder why some people can eat whatever they want and not gain weight, while others gain weight just thinking about desserts? OK, maybe I’m taking a little poetic license with that statement, but I think you get the jest of it. Two people the same age, weight, and height, but yet one has to constantly watch what they eat, and they other just eats whatever they chose.

The reason being is most likely the one person has a higher metabolism than the other, that is their body burns calories at a quicker rate.

What determines one’s metabolism, and how can … read more