1. Probiotics Good for your gut, and good for your waistline. “Probiotics, when referring to their supplement form, are living bacteria that provide countless health benefits when ingested. These bacteria…
Category: Weight Loss
7 Time-Saving Tips for Keeping an Accurate Food Journal
Keeping a food journal is a tried-and-true weight-loss strategy. By logging everything you eat and drink, you learn more about healthy eating and are better able to create a calorie deficit…
10 Simple Changes That Lead to Weight Loss
Recent research published in Obesity shows what successful MyFitnessPal users know to be true: Small, simple lifestyle changes, aka micro-goals, can boost your likelihood of losing weight and keeping it off for good. “Micro-strategies are the…
5 Surprising Holiday Diet Busters
Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine found participants started gaining weight in October and continued seeing incremental gains in their weight through the New Year. The actual weight…
Should You Pause Your Weight-Loss Efforts Over the Holidays?
Trying to lose weight any time of year can be tricky. But it can be even more challenging during the holidays. It’s one thing to have a big event to…
How Much Weight Loss Can Actually Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
Managing diabetes can be challenging, but the good news is losing weight can help increase the odds of remission — and it doesn’t have to be drastic. New research published…
Why Travel Makes You Hungrier — And How to Combat It
If you’ve ever felt hungrier on a plane, train or road trip, you’re not imagining it — research shows travel can alter healthy eating habits. A study published in the…
The Pros and Cons of Drinking Coffee For Weight Loss
While the potential health benefits of coffee are well-known — sharper cognition, lower risk of developing chronic conditions like dementia, and Type 2 diabetes, even a longer lifespan — exactly how coffee might affect your…
10 Fall Foods RDs Recommend For Weight Loss
While fall is synonymous with comfort foods like apple strudel, pumpkin pie and hearty casseroles, the bounty of fresh produce available as the weather cools makes it super easy to put together lighter meals…
Can Yoga Help With Weight Loss?
When it comes to an intense calorie burn, very few forms of yoga would likely qualify on the same level as, say, a spinning class or bootcamp session. In a physically demanding yoga class…
6 Ways Flexible Meal Prep Can Help You Shed Pounds
Sunday social media can provide such a beautiful sight: An entire counter taken up by hard-boiled eggs, roasted chicken breast, colorful veggies and perfectly fluffy brown rice — all ready to go in perfectly portioned…
7 Weight-Loss Tips When Your Schedule Is Out of Whack
Losing weight isn’t easy, but it’s one of the most commonly cited health and fitness goals. A survey found 51% of Americans hope to lose weight in 2021. But between balancing…