by Josh Walker Are you tired of diet tips handed out by someone with apparently unlimited income and time? For some of us, it may just not be practical to spend half of our Sunday preparing carefully portioned meals for the rest of the week, or financially feasible to buy all our meals prepackaged in just the right portions. And there are those of us who cringe at the thought of weighing food to achieve ‘optimal portion sizes’. Here are ten real life diet tips for the rest of us. 1. Dining out? Restaurant portions tend to be big, and if it is in front of us, we tend to eat it. So, whenever...

by Ron G Smith If you’ve been fighting a losing (weight) battle you may be starting to think there’s something else to it and you just can’t lose weight. I can say with confidence everyone can (if they want to) lose weight. It’s a matter of finding something that works for you, a system that you can lose weight with. I once believed I couldn’t lose weight but then I was given an almighty wake up call by mother nature. I was carrying around 15 pounds too much for most of my adult life when I got type two diabetes at twenty seven. Talk about a shock. I really don’t...

by Katherine Crawford M.S. You can tone flabby arms without doing any exercise. You may not believe me, but it’s true. I’m not saying that exercise is bad for you, or that it has no value. I mean, exercise is great for getting sexy arms. However, there are other ways for getting rid of arm flab. So how do you do it? With spontaneous fat loss. This type of fat loss refers to reductions in caloric intake that are unconscious. In other words, there are certain environmental factors you can manipulate that will automatically reduce the amount of calories you eat. And without further delay,...

by Daniel Jackson Why is potassium so important for your diet? To begin with your heart cannot function without potassium, which is a big deal. Even if you did manage to find a way for it to function without it, your muscles will not function without it and a serious potassium shortage will also impair your cellular process and make you feel extremely weak. Now that the importance and gravity of potassium has been outline. Here is how you can increase your intake: 1. Nuts and seeds have very high concentration of potassium so eat as much nuts as you can, that should give you a good dose to last you for...

by Melanie Marten There are hundreds of trendy diets and tricks to losing weight being advertised today. Some want you to eat only meat; others have you drinking vegetable juice ten times a day. Some state that you can eat what you want, as long as you exercise for five hours a day. The real truth of the matter is, the only way to lose weight is to create a calorie deficit. Calorie reduction must be present in order to lose weight. One pound of weight is equal to approximately 3500 calories. That means that you must reduce your calorie consumption by 3500, or you must burn that many calories, in order...