So the strategy to keep weight off is simple: If you want to get rid of excess weight and then maintain your weight loss, don't just study weight losers, study weight loss maintainers. Find out what the most successful weight loss maintainers do and do the same things yourself. But how do you find maintainers and discover their successful strategies? Here's how...
I'm sure you've seen ads like this before: "Cut out this 1 food group and watch the pounds melt away." Why do we see ads like these so often? Because advertisers know they work. They hit a psychological hot button. Harsh truth: There's no 1 thing that's going to transform your body and health. If it were that easy, no one would be obese. No one would have type 2 diabetes. No one would have heart disease.
"You can't out train a bad diet." Basically, this trite saying is trying to convey the idea that if you don’t control your food intake and balance it with your activity, so you sustain a caloric deficit, you won’t lose weight regardless of how much you exercise. Re-stated this way, in the context of energy balance, I don’t think anyone would disagree. However, I'm here to explain how this phrase has gone wrong...
What if your goal was fat loss and you did an hour a day of low-intensity cardio. Would that be a good idea compared to higher intensity cardio with much shorter workouts? What if you did 90 minutes, or even (gasp) TWO HOURS a day of low intensity cardio? What about that? Bad? Total overkill? Or could that be a secret key to losing fat fast that most people never use because it's too time consuming? What if you had the time? For the answer to this unusual question, read on.
With the right nutrition, weight training, cardio, mindset, and accountability, you can transform your body, fitness, and health more than you might imagine in only 12 weeks... Sara Ryan, 44, is one of thousands of people who have proven it with her results from the Burn the Fat Challenge, a 12-week body transformation contest sponsored by Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle.
With a new Biggest Loser documentary debuting on Netflix, I’m revisiting my one and only viewing of the show - the Season 8 premiere - which I watched solely to write this review. What I saw was extreme crash dieting, dangerous workout stunts (including a medevac), and humiliating weigh-ins. My in-depth article breaks down the show’s pros and cons - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from a fitness professional’s perspective.
Despite the popularity of mobile apps, there hasn't been much research on whether they are effective for weight loss over the long term. In addition, because the features of different apps can vary so much, including food, weight, step, and sleep tracking, that has made it difficult for researchers to conclude what is driving their effectiveness when they do work. A recent study analyzed eight apps, including MyFitnessPal, Calorie King, FitBit and five others to try to answer this burning question: Do apps really improve long term weight loss or not?...
Should you eat more fat? This post will not only answer that question, you'll also learn how dietary fat fits into the macronutrient tracking and meal planning system used in bodybuilding and fitness diets. These are diets designed to build muscle and burn fat...
When it comes to fat loss while maintaining or building muscle, is there such a thing as a perfect diet plan? If so, is it possible that the bodybuilding-style diet, which has been around since at least the 1990s and probably long before that is still the best fat loss diet, despite countless other diets being available today? If so, why? If not what are the downsides of bodybuilding diets? If "it depends," what does it depend on?...
Is it possible to speed up fat loss without any formal cardio training... and do it in a way that feels effortless? The answer is yes. There is a new way of looking at burning calories and increasing fat loss and it doesn't involve running for hours, HIITing yourself to death or spinning until you puke. Effective exercise doesn't have to be an all-out effort - it can actually feel effortless, and even fun
