Category Archives: weight loss

Eating Beef To Lose Weight

According to the National Cancer Institute, if you eat 2.5 ounces of red meat every week, cooked rare or medium rare, you increase your risk of colon cancer and rectum by 10 percent. If you prefer your meat well done, … Continue reading

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Glucomannan

Glucomannan is a water-soluble dietary supplement or fiber that comes from the konjac root. I didn’t know this but glucomannan is considered a bulk-forming laxative. Glucomannan, like other soluble fibers can attach to bile acids in the stomach and carry … Continue reading

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What is Fenugreek?

Fenugreek is one of the world’s oldest medicinal herbs.It is the small stony seeds that come from the pod of a bean-like plant. Now I didn’t know this but they say fenugreek is mainly used to help women increase their … Continue reading

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Constipation & Weight Loss

Glucomannan as a supplement has been used to treat constipation. Other things that have been known to help relieve constipation are prunes. Prunes contain hydroxyphenyl isatin, a chemical that stimulates the bowel muscles and works as a very gentle laxative. … Continue reading

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Nighttime Munchies

If you eat during the day, you don’t really have a problem, you should be eating during the day.  But unless you work graveyard shift, frankly you should not be eating at night.  But for so many, nighttime cravings have … Continue reading

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Squats As Cardio

With squats, there is no doubt that you can break a sweat, and this has led some to actually use it as a form of cardio or at least they think so.  You can get your heart rate pumping in … Continue reading

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Workout Music

When you are working out, one of the best things to do is actually to listen to music.  As simple as it may seem, it actually works.  I mean honestly, you can’t tell me that if and when you’ve tried … Continue reading

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Finding The Best Weight Loss Products

Many users are often fooled by packaging.  They see the junk food and other foods they like to eat, or they even see healthy foods that they think are more healthy therefore spending money on these products thinking that they … Continue reading

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Maintain Weight Around Thanksgiving

If you are a fan of Thanksgiving as I am to some degree, though only in certain parts, you have to of course remember the parts that are bad versus the parts that are somewhat better.  For example, my nasty … Continue reading

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Motivation For Weight Loss

It is important to have motivation for your weight loss.  As I’ve found with others around me, I can’t motivate them to lose weight, and even if I could, it wouldn’t last because they wouldn’t keep it up.  You always … Continue reading

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