Weight Loss

5 nutrition goals that are better than weight loss

Rather than counting calories, start keeping track of how your food makes you feel. Jot down what you eat at each meal—not macronutrients and exact portions, as you would on a strict diet, but simple summaries of what went on your plate—how hungry you were beforehand, and how you felt afterward. Paying attention to hunger is an important element of intuitive eating, a diet paradigm that encourages eating based on internal, not external cues. Adults who practice intuitive eating are less likely to stress eat and are happier with their bodies overall.

Coming to Terms With Weight Issues

Readers share experiences and some simple rules for weight loss.

How fat cells work and why it’s impossible to “burn” them off

We all need some fat. It’s an important component of cell membranes, a place to store energy and some vitamins, and it’s used to make different hormones we need to transmit messages throughout the body.

How to Lose Body Fat Without It Ruining Your Life

Your muscle mass is the key to good living; don't give it up in service of shedding "pounds" more quickly.

How to lose weight and keep it off with the right diet and mindset

Many eating plans that promise to help you lose weight are costly and unsustainable, not backed by scientific evidence, and may actually hurt your health more than help it. Losing weight is not a one-size-fits-all approach. How you go about it will largely depend on your current habits, how much weight you want to lose, and your long-term goals.

Is Low Fat or Low Carb Better for Weight Loss?

The secret to healthy weight loss may have nothing to do with how many carbs or how much fat you eat. Read on to find the surprising factor that might make all the difference.

Plateauing? Here Are 8 Reasons Why, And What You Can Do To Help

Getting into shape and eating healthier is difficult yet rewarding. At first you notice the weight sliding off, but then all of a sudden your weight plateaus -- no matter how much exercise and healthy eating you do. First off, it's important to know that this experience is normal. In fact, you could argue that if our bodies didn't plateau at some point, they wouldn't be doing their job.

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About How to Lose Weight

One conclusion from a much-discussed study: The best diet is the one you can stick to.

Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies

The researchers behind the study found that people who have had success losing weight have a few things in common: They weigh themselves at least once a week. They restrict their calorie intake, stay away from high-fat foods, and watch their portion sizes. They also exercise regularly.

Do We Need to Give Up Alcohol to Lose Weight? Not Necessarily

Despite thousands of studies spanning decades, I discovered that alcohol remains one of the most controversial and confusing topics for people concerned about controlling their weight.

Focus on Fat Loss, Not Weight Loss

Weight loss doesn’t always translate to being fit. The true measurement for being healthy and fit is your body fat percentage. Visualize two people. They are the same height, same weight, but one has less fat percentage. That person, while they weigh exactly the same, is going to look and be more fit, most likely wearing a smaller pant and shirt size. This is precisely why we tell our members to ditch the scale and focus on how their clothes fit and how they feel. You need to gain muscle to lose fat. Adding a pound of muscle is much more important than losing a pound of “weight”. This is where our members lose inches, not pounds.

Origins of my lifelong struggle with weight

The question has prompted me to explore the origins of my lifelong struggle with weight. My perception of myself has always been that of an overweight girl. How can I get myself to believe otherwise, to let my head catch up with my body?

The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight

We’ve been conditioned to think of exercise as a key ingredient — perhaps the most important ingredient — of any weight loss effort. You know the drill: Join the gym on January 1 if you want to reach your New Year’s weight loss goal. But in truth, the evidence has been accumulating for years that exercise, while great for health, isn’t actually all that important for weight loss.

Weight loss that works: A true story

Most major weight loss is followed by weight gain, as people revert to their old habits. But, some folks manage to keep it off. How do they do it? Researchers have found that maintaining a healthy diet, ongoing self-monitoring, plenty of self-acceptance, as well as a high level of physical activity are all associated with keeping the pounds off.

Why You're Not Losing Weight

Every year, losing weight ranks among the top New Year’s resolutions. And every year, we keep trying many of the same methods—and not surprisingly, keep getting the same disappointing results. The unfortunate truth is that most weight-loss strategies don’t work long term, and some can even make matters worse or cause other harms. But that doesn’t mean trying to shed pounds is futile. Studies show that some approaches are, in fact, effective.

Weight Loss Programs That Fit Your Lifestyle

If it feels like you’re constantly trying to lose weight, only to have your efforts fail, it’s time to rethink your weight loss program. An effective regimen needs to do more than help you drop pounds, it should also promote habits that you can incorporate into your lifestyle. Each person has their own individual preferences and needs when it comes to eating and dieting.

6 Years after The Biggest Loser, Metabolism Is Slower and Weight Is Back Up

The work provides new insights into why it is difficult to keep off the pounds.

Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts

Wearable activity monitors can count your steps and track your movements, but they don’t, apparently, help you lose weight. In fact, you might lose more weight without them.

After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight

Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but gained them back. A study of their struggles helps explain why so many people fail to keep off the weight they lose.

Doomed to be the Biggest Losers?

The key to avoiding regaining the weight you lost, like the reality-show contestants did, might be in how the dieting is done.

Here's Why It's So Hard to Maintain Weight Loss

Keeping weight off after a diet is no easy feat, and most people who lose weight eventually gain at least some, if not all of it back. This isn't a matter of lack of willpower or effort, but of biology: To maintain weight loss, you are essentially fighting a system that's wired to re-gain lost pounds.

How Carrie Underwood Lost 20 Pounds, Y'all!

One of the keys to keeping calories in check is to read the food labels and writing down the details of everything you put into your mouth, Y'all.

How Kishan Shah's Extreme Weight Loss Unlocked A Passion And A Career Path

The president of Downsize Fitness lost more than 200 pounds and became a healthy-lifestyle evangelist.

How To Avoid Weight Gain, Really!

The question is…how do you avoid packing on the pounds while still eating, drinking, and being all kinds of merry? There has to be a way, right? There is, and certain very fit celebrities are sharing their secrets with us.

How To Bust Through A Fat Loss Plateau

If you’ve been working out and eating well for months and your progress has stalled, here are a few ideas for busting through that plateau in a healthy way—no crash dieting required.

If you really want to lose weight, eat like a dinosaur

The more you learn about fad diets, the more you realize they're complete bullshit. The highly restrictive, almost impossible-to-maintain modes of eating essentially set dieters up to fail — while earning their creators a handsome profit. In a hilarious must-read in the Guardian, Dean Burnett illustrates this truth by offering up alternatives to the latest fad, the Paleo diet.

One Weight-Loss Approach Fits All? No, Not Even Close

The problem, researchers say, is that obesity and its precursor — being overweight — are not one disease but instead, like cancer, they are many.

Rethinking Weight Loss and the Reasons We’re ‘Always Hungry’

The basic premise is that overeating doesn’t make you fat. The process of getting fat makes you overeat. It may sound radical, but there’s literally a century of science to support this point. Simply cutting back on calories as we’ve been told actually makes the situation worse. When we cut back on calories, our body responds by increasing hunger and slowing metabolism. It responds in an effort to save calories. And that makes weight loss progressively more and more difficult on a standard low calorie diet. It creates a battle between mind and metabolism that we’re doomed to lose.

The 6 Weight-Loss Tips That Science Actually Knows Work

When it comes down to it, the things we know to be true about weight loss are relatively simple, and certainly few. They’re also extremely effective when actually carried out. So, from the researchers who have studied this stuff for decades, here’s pretty much everything we know about weight loss today, whittled down to six points about how the body actually gains, loses, and maintains its weight.

This Is What All Effective Weight Loss Diets Have In Common

Eating more vegetables and avoiding added sugars and refined grains are key.

Weight Loss Doesn't Always Lead to Happiness

Research has shown that dropping pounds doesn't mean higher well-being.

What Do We Really Know About Losing Weight?

There are obese people who lose weight and keep it off, but they do so by superhuman attention to their diets and energy output. If they let up for even a short while, the weight piles back on...

Why Weight Loss Really Boils Down To Math And Science

In order to be able to lose weight effectively it is vital to understand the importance of calories and how to calculate the amount of calories required for your body to lose weight. In weight loss, your diet is 80% responsible for achieving the desired results.

Why You Can't Lose Weight -- But Your Best Friend Can -- On The Same Diet

At last a nutrition and weight loss study has revealed what millions of people have already known all too well from personal experience: different folks lose weight at different rates – even when their calorie deficit is the same.

Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet

The problem isn’t willpower. It’s neuroscience. You can’t — and shouldn’t — fight back.

You Can’t Willpower Your Way To Lasting Weight Loss

Shedding pounds is usually a losing battle—research suggests it’s better to just focus on building a healthy lifestyle.

I Tried It: Aromatherapy Patches for Appetite Control

Wouldn't it be nice if you could find a way to manage your cravings for pizza, chocolate, burgers, cake--you name it? When I heard about these little patches you wear to lose weight naturally, I had to try them. Here's what I discovered... Here's the thing: They didn't.

Why the weight loss study everyone has been sharing is misleading

You lose weight, and then you gain it all back. That grim reality is a mainstay of our obese society. But a new study of contestants from the reality TV show “The Biggest Loser” suggests that, for them, that re-gain was all but pre-ordained.

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Doctors Best Weight Loss

Doctors Best Weight Loss is committed to providing the highest quality weight loss products at the lowest prices available on the internet. You will find a wide variety of products including those seen in weight loss centers and physician offices. Our company product lines support medically managed programs

Scientific American

If you've made shedding pounds a New Year's resolution, here's a guide to the research behind dieting and exercise.

Super Skinny Me

Although the name of this website was conceived as a partly ironic response to the current obsession by the media with weight loss documentaries that inadvertently appear to reinforce the notion that taking extreme and unhealthy weight loss measures works, superskinnyme.com is very much intended as a healthy, holistic science-based source of information for anyone looking for answers.