Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips
Your weight loss progress has stalled out. You’re sick of doing the same workout over and over, so you’re lacking the motivation to get moving. There is trouble ahead unless you add some variety to your exercise regimen. After all, variety is the spice of life. Doing the same thing…
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Diet & Fitness / Mind & Body
By Martin Mak If you need to recall something that you learned just a few seconds ago or maybe 2 minutes ago, you are using your short term memory. Many factors affect your short term memory, also known as working memory. Understanding, or being aware of these factors, can help…
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Diet Reviews / Low Calorie
Breakfast: 1/2 grapefruit, 2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon. Lunch: 1/2 grapefruit, salad with any type of dressing, as much red meat or other meat source as you’d like. Dinner: 1/2 a grapefruit, salad with any kind of dressing you’d like. Before bed drink an eight-ounce glass of skim milk…
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Diet Reviews / Prepared Meals
The plan has a balance of lean protein (which protects the body’s lean muscle mass) and complex carbohydrates with a low-glycemic index that keeps your blood sugar levels from yo-yoing during the day. Your calorie intake will range from 1,100 to 1,400, shifting daily to prevent the body from getting…
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Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips
What you eat is written all over your face. Think you’re getting a balanced diet? Take a look in the mirror just to be sure. As the old adage goes, we are what we eat, and nothing reflects that sentiment more than your skin. When you’re slashing calories from your…
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Diet Reviews / Other
Beck’s 6-week solution will help you avoid cheating, deal with hunger, cope with stress and negative emotions without eating too much, get motivated to exercise and eliminate overeating, bingeing and resorting to old habits that often die hard. Through an arsenal of psychological resources that include hunger monitoring scales, daily…
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Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips
Beans — also known as legumes — are healthy and inexpensive. They are high in fiber and protein and low in fat. Legumes are also rich in folic acid, copper, iron and magnesium. They even help lessen your appetite. Because beans have a low glycemic index, they provide energy over…
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Diet Reviews / Low Carb
The Hamptons Diet uses two longstanding weight-loss approaches: the Atkins Nutritional Approach and the Mediterranean Diet. Combining what you might call the best of both worlds, the end result in an eating plan that stresses the importance of whole foods (preferably organic foods) that are minimally processed and have little…
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Diet & Fitness / Mind & Body
By Laura Ng We spent one third of our life sleeping — an activity that’s seemingly useless. But we need sleep as much as we need oxygen and food. Sleep is important to us. It increases one’s work efficiency, extends one’s lifespan, cures illnesses. One should not deprive him/herself of…
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Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips
It’s apparent that losing weight may help enhance the relationship you have with your significant other. Losing weight can help improve your self-image, which is helpful in the bedroom and with your outlook on your relationship. But when your relationship is built on common interests that relate to food and…
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