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How to Do a 5am Run When You’re not a Morning Person
I am not a morning person, but I’ve still found that a 5am run is the time that works best for me. If you’d asked me a few years ago – heck, six months ago – if I’d be out there before the sun comes up and jogging down the sidewalk on my own, I’d have looked at you like you’d lost your mind. Never at any time in my life had I ever pictured myself as someone who would wake up that early, have a quick bite and sip of water and then start running. Now, I do it a few times a week! Even more surprising, I kind of love it!
Plant-Based Protein as the Focus of Your Meal
This week, I’m investigating plant-based protein and how to make it a focus of the meal. The reason? I discovered that when I eat meat, that tends to be my meal’s focus. When I have beans or tofu or something like that, it’s usually buried into the other ingredients as though I need to hide its shame.
Have You Chosen The Right Diet? Ask Yourself These Questions to Find Out!
Feel like you’re ready to start the right diet that will be the one that will finally help you shed those extra pounds? Are you sure that you’ve chosen the right strategy to reach those goals and keep the weight from coming back? Unless you’ve asked yourself the...
Weight Loss Goals More Effective Than Numbers on a Scale
When most people think of weight loss goals, one of the first images that comes to mind is likely that of standing on a scale. That said, as helpful as bathroom scales can be as a part of an overall dieting program, they are not always an accurate reflection of your...
Weight Loss Tips that Beat the Summer Bloat
When summertime rolls around, there isn’t much that you can do to hide the belly bloat and it can make you feel very self conscious at a time when you just want to have fun and feel like you look great. You know that you haven’t gained a lot of fat, but your belly has...
The Exercise Performance Enhancing Drug You Have in Your Kitchen
Many of us would love to be able to get more out of our workout routines in terms of fat burning, lean muscle maintenance and/or building, and even just the oomph to push ourselves just a little bit harder without feeling like we’re going to drop. However, most of us...
Creative Ways to Break Free from a Weight Loss Plateau
Losing weight is a process that can be very demanding on your patience, especially when you hit a weight loss plateau. One week, you can feel like you’re on top of the world. You’ll lose pound after pound and you’ll feel exceptionally proud of yourself. Then,...
Dieting Tricks You Love but do More Harm than Good
Dieting tricks are fantastic for helping to get the most out of every little effort along the road to weight loss. Unfortunately, not all dieting tricks are created equal and some of them appear to be a great solution to a frustrating struggle, but could actually be...
Don’t Let Summer Fun Ruin Your Diet
Summertime is here and you have been doing your best to achieve your hottest bikini body and to keep the weight coming off. However, some of the most innocent seeming parts of summer can derail all of your efforts in a surprisingly short amount of time when it comes...
The Most Common Causes of Your Hunger
One of the reasons that it can be difficult to lose weight and even harder to keep it off can often be due to the hunger that you feel from eating less food. Dieting can make you feel like all you think about is food. You may even feel hungrier than you typically do...
It’s Never Too Late to Exercise Your Way to a Bikini Body
The warm weather is here and suddenly the panic is starting to kick in because the bulky sweat shirts that hide the evidence of all of the heavy meals and rich desserts that were eaten all winter are being replaced by the need to wear shorts, tank tops, and the...
Give Your Weight Loss a Jump Start Before Summer
Spring is now well underway and summertime is definitely showing signs of appearing. The weather is getting much warmer and bathing suit season is nearly here. Suddenly, all of those great plans that you’ve had since the New Year, for getting yourself slim don’t have...
Great Ways to Overcome Bloating Around Your Belly
When you’re trying to look your best, one of the most frustrating situations to have to face is added bloating around your belly. After all, you know that you’ve been losing weight and you’re pretty sure that you haven’t gained all that fat, so what is making you so...
5 Great Tips to Beat Hunger After Workouts
When you head off to the gym to complete your workout, you are likely going so that you’ll be able to improve your overall physical and mental health and either lose or maintain weight. However, if you’re like most people, it won’t be long after your workout that your...
Are You Stuck With Your Double Chin? No Way!
Nobody likes having a double chin. There are people who hate them, people who don’t like them, people who tolerate them, but there certainly aren’t many people who actually strive to gain and maintain them! That said, you don’t need to simply accept that you have one....
New and Unique Ways to Smash Your Cravings
You’ve heard all of the standard tips and tricks for killing your cravings, but no matter what you do, they’re still there. Temptation is always just around the corner and ready to leap out in front of you, and you’re never really sure if you’ll be able to resist....
4 Simple Tips for Reaching Your Goal Weight Faster
There is no cookie cutter program that will work for every single dieter. Anyone who tells you that they have the one and only plan that will make every person reach their goal weight is either wrong or is not telling the truth. We all lose weight differently and our...
How to Build a New “Normal” for Healthy Eating
When dieting, many people want to be able to start healthy eating “normally”, but when they decide to get started, they realize that they don’t really know what that term means in terms of eating habits. The fact is that the term represents something different,...
You’re Likely Making These Mistakes When Doing Push-Ups
Push-ups are one of those classic forms of exercise that can be great for promoting physical strength and muscle stability. Most of us have at least attempted them in our lives, regardless of whether or not we’ve managed to successfully complete large numbers of them....
Dieting Rewards that Aren’t Food
Weight loss is challenging. Even the best program will involve effort, motivation, and times when all you want to do is give up. People who have lost the weight successfully will often tell you that one of the best ways to keep up your drive to reach your goals is to...
Weight Loss Side Effects Most Dieters Don’t Expect
When you’re dieting, every single time that you see a lower number on the scale, it can feel like a victory, but there is a lot more to weight loss than just watching the numbers drop. In fact, there are a number of unexpected side effects (good and not-so good) that...
Awesome Natural Fat Loss Tricks That Actually Work
The only thing that is better than natural tricks for weight loss are ones that actually work. While they may not be the entire solution to dieting, they can make your current efforts a great deal faster, easier, and more enjoyable, when you combine them all together....
