Do Toning Shoes Work?
One of the biggest crazes at the moment is toning shoes, shoes which create instability when you walk and therefore cause your leg muscles to work harder to maintain your balance, among other things. The American Council On Exercise has found that these claims -burning more calories, building leg muscles, reducing joint stress and improving [...]
Have You Heard Of Hungry Girl?
Hungry girl, also known as Lisa Lillien, has developed quite a following for her daily email newsletter. I just signed up myself. She gives tips and tricks for hungry chicks. She spends time finding the most fun meals for the fewest amount of calories. I am looking forward to reading her advice and food suggestions. [...]
Eat More Fiber
Apparently the experts are telling us now that increasing our fiber intake helps us keep off unwanted extra calories and perhaps even helps with weight loss. Over the course of the two-year study, the researchers found that boosting fiber by 8 grams for every 1,000 calories resulted in about 4 ½ pounds of weight lost. [...]
The Scoop On Coconut
For a long time, I have thought that I needed to stay away from coconuts, because of the fat content, but it turns out that some culture in the world have used coconuts for food AND medicine. It has some fairly incredible healing properties and helps you use the essential fatty acids in your food. [...]
Betcha Can’t Eat One
I have figured out that when I am tempted to eat any kind of junk food, if I get started at all, I CANNOT stop. I think, well, I will just have a few, and a few turns into a lot, or what is left of the candy or chips or even pretzels. So how [...]
www.fitday.com
I found this great website, which lets you to find the amount of calories in a huge variety of foods, and allows you to create a free account and keep track of your weight, what activity you did during the day and the foods you have eaten. You also enter a diet start and end [...]
Weigh Yourself EVERY DAY!
I read a good article on Yahoo. It suggests that you need to weigh yourself EVERY DAY. Personally, I hate doing this, especially because it is cold in my house at this time of year, it is winter after all, and I always weigh myself naked. I would hate for my weight to fluctuate because [...]
Eat More Fiber
Fiber is actually less fattening and more filling at the same time. You won’t be as hungry, and you will be eating fewer calories. It’s a no brainer! We have two kinds of finer to choose from. Fruits tend to have fiber that absorbs water on the way through your body and so helps with [...]
What You Eat Can Make You Depressed
The British Journal of Psychology has reported that if you eat more fish, fruits and veggies, you are less susceptible to being depressed. They speculate that these healthy foods somehow protect you, and that all the junk we tend to eat is harmful to us beyond causing us to have bad hearts and diabetes, and [...]
Minimal Exercises
Parade Magazine had an article about exercising a few weeks ago. They spoke to a trainer in New York named Lacey Stone. She says that you can be in reasonable shape by doing three simple moves. Jumping jacks – these get your heart rate up and burns some extra calories as well as helping you [...]