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5 Best Exercise Motivation Tips When You Absolutely Hate Your Workout
Last week, Holly posted a few things on Facebook and Twitter about some of the best exercise motivation tips she’s seen online. Unlike me, Holly really struggles to do her workouts. I used to, but I’m really getting into it, which I’m happy about. I think the difference isn’t that I’m someone who loves exercising and that she’s someone who hates it. I think I’ve just found the right way to do it for me. I’ve found what drives me. Suddenly, it all switched on.
Are Sugar Substitutes Messing with Your Liver’s Effectiveness?
Over the years, sugar substitutes have absolutely fascinated me. I’ve started to basically think of everything sweetened as not-so-great for me. I don’t ban those foods – obviously – but I aim to consume those ones in moderation. Still, the reason sweeteners of all forms are so interesting to me is that science is saying something new about them all the time. The latest seems to be that alternatives have some kind of odd effect on the liver, stopping it from properly detoxifying the body.
How to Beat Bloating in a Matter of Hours
It’s Friday night and you’re feeling as though you could rival the Goodyear blimp due to the bloating that has made its way into your body. While that would usually be little more than a frustration for you because the weekend is coming up, you have a wedding, reunion...
Eat Carbs and Still Lose Weight
No matter what people might tell you, carbs are not necessarily the enemy of weight loss. You just need to know what you’re doing. Sure, if you pig out on chips all evening while you’ve kicked back on the couch, after having eaten a sky-high mountain of pasta for...
Eating What You Can’t See Can Help With Weight Loss
Recent research is starting to suggest that if you eat while blindfolded or if you turn off the lights and have your meals in darkness, you could actually be helping yourself to lose weight more easily. The reasoning behind this rather odd-sounding strategy is that...
How to Be Healthy and Drop Some Pounds This Week
There are lots of different ways to lose weight and to live a healthy lifestyle. However, knowing which one is the best for you to start and maintain over the long term can be challenging. A lot of trial and error is usually involved and it can be frustrating, at...
Dieting Tips When You’ve Got a Busy Life
It’s all well and good for us to know that losing weight is done most effectively when we make all our meals with whole foods, from scratch, and when we do some kind of workout every day, but for those of us with a busy life, that is much easier said than done. These...
What Causes Winter Weight Gain to Happen?
The winter months are notorious for being a time in which people gain weight. While this isn’t fun at all – particularly when it comes time to try to lose it again when we can’t hide it under bulky sweaters anymore – it is something that is absolutely normal. But what...
Tweak Your New Year’s Weight Loss Resolution to Make it Work
Regardless of whether or not we’ve ever successfully achieved previous New Year’s weight loss resolution goals, for many of us there remains a powerful draw to try to change our lives for the better in some way. Weight loss is among the most common forms of New Year’s...
Is Eating “Everything in Moderation” Making You Fat?
Among the messages we hear the most when it comes to trying to lose weight is that if we simply keep everything in moderation, it will help to keep with weight loss and to stop any lost pounds from coming back. As much as we’re ready to believe this type of rule, a...
Is a Bathroom Scale a Friend or Enemy?
The first image that usually pops into a person’s head when thinking about the concept of weight loss is usually a bathroom scale. After all, most traditional diets require you to weigh yourself at least a couple of times, while the majority would have you do so once...
The Best Ingredients for a Weight Loss Smoothie
If you think about weight loss, the odds are that the first things that come to mind aren’t necessarily rich and flavorful foods. This helps to explain why the weight loss smoothie has become such a popular choice among dieters. It combines nutrients and weight loss...
Amazing Weight Loss Tips Science Wants You to Follow
Weight loss tips are awesome for helping you to drop the pounds more quickly and to get an advantage that your main dieting strategy may not have offered you, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re fun. Fortunately, science has actually proven that there are a lot...
How Not to Let Winter Weight Gain Get You, This Year
For the majority of people who live in parts of the world where the weather gets cold in the winter, this time of year is synonymous with eating heavy foods (and lots of them), and staying inside because of the bitter cold and wind outside. Clearly, these types of...
The Balance of a Weight Loss Boosting Meal
Many people find it challenging to take more than just one thing into consideration when they are trying to lose weight by selecting the right foods for weight loss boosting. For example, one diet may recommend that a dieter should remain within a certain calorie...
Feeling Awkward During Yoga Class? You’re Not Alone!
Stepping into a yoga class for the first time can feel daunting. It’s hard to know what you should expect from the experience, as it’s not like any other type of fitness class you’ll have taken in your life. Typically speaking, there is soft music playing, the lights...
Tips to Stop Facebook from Ruining Your Diet
Regardless of whether you use Facebook a dozen times per day, or only once in a blue moon, when you’re trying to lose weight, it is very easy to want to post your progress and show everyone how well you’re doing. In fact, many people find that social media can help...
Low-Cal Lunches: Making Your Lunchbox Fuller but Lighter
Whether you’re back to school as a student or need to take low-cal lunches to work with you every day, the choices that you make when you pack your meal can have a considerable impact on your ability to get thin and stay that way. If you want to achieve a healthy BMI...
Amazing Weight Loss Tips for the Over 60 Crowd
Age can come with a tremendous advantage in life. There are drawbacks, certainly, but there are a very large number of benefits that we’d never want to give up. We’re more confident being ourselves. We have already discovered many things that don’t work for us so that...
Diet and Exercise: Which Should Be Your Main Weight Loss Focus?
We all know that there are two primary components of losing weight: diet and exercise. At the most basic level, It has to do with calories going into the body and calories being burned by the body. Naturally, it is a great deal more complex than that, but that doesn’t...
So Your Workout is Not Working? It May Be Overdue for a Change
There will always be days when you really don’t feel like taking on your usual workout, but when those start to occur more often than not, the odds are that you’ve found yourself in a rut. If you’re in a rut, then you’re likely not getting as much out of your workout...
Top Diet Plan Tips from Effective Weight Loss Strategies
If you are looking for a way to lose weight, then the odds are that you have conducted an online search that has left you with an overwhelming number of diet plan tips. The market is flooded with programs and strategies that make it feel as though it may be impossible...
