Posts tagged weight loss

The Benefits of Exercising

Most people know that exercise is important for weight loss and preventing heart disease,  and there are a wide range of other scientifically proven benefits to exercising daily. Whether you like to walk, jog, bike, swim, or play an active sport, you can improve your health by maintaining a regular exercise regimen.  Twenty minutes a More >

Plan to Live Healthy

“A little planning goes a long way,” says Johnson. “Eating healthy never happens by accident.” For the most part, neither do good fitness, skin protection, healthy teeth, weight loss, and social ties. Many of these habits take effort that need to be scheduled into busy lives. The more detail you include in your plan, the More >

Rev Up your Metabolism and Keep Your Weight Down

Rev Up Your Body’s Engine We eat food for fuel. When we burn it for energy to run our bodies, the process creates heat. Our ShapeWorks® products assist the body’s engine to burn fuel efficiently, helping our metabolism stay revved and functioning well. Daily Regimen Tips Keep your metabolism revved with these tips: Engage in More >

Don’t Skip Meals!

If you are overweight or obese and your goal is to lose weight, it is important to not skip meals. It’s important to keep your metabolism fired up with the right foods at certain times of the day. Skipping meals tends to leave people hungrier later in the day, and they make up for the More >

Healthy Snacks You will Love.

If you have these snack combos’ on hand, you won’t be making trips to the vending machine or the nearest coffee shop… Apple Wedges Apple wedges with 1 teaspoons of reduced fat peanut butter will stave off hunger until lunch. The carb-protein combo of 24 almonds combined with two prunes will also keep you away More >

Stuck on a Fat Loss Plateau?

The first week of a calorie-controlled weight loss diet is easy. The second and third weeks are generally not too hard either. But, around the fourth or fifth week, it seems that the scale will not budge for some people. YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR FIRST WEIGHT LOSS PLATEAU! Plateaus (the times when your weight stubbornly More >

Vitamin B12 deficiency!

One of the most common symptoms of  vitamin B12 deficiency is fatigue. But then, fatigue by itself can be a sign of almost any health condition. Some other signs of B12 deficiency include: Sudden weight loss, nausea, vomiting, abdominal bloating & gas, constipation, diarrhea, numbness in the hands and feet, loss of balance, a sore, More >

3 Weight Loss Tips

“I really want to lose weight. I hate the way I look and feel, and I know things will be much better when I get the weight off. But I am just not losing anything. I think there must be something wrong with me.” Does this sound like you? Then I have 3 weight loss More >

How Long Will it Take to Lose Weight?

 Written by Susan Bowerman, MS, RD, CSSD. Susan is a paid consultant for Herbalife. Every time I have a new client scheduled to see me for weight loss, I have a pretty good idea of how our first conversation will go.  The first thing they usually want to know is how much I think they More >

How men and women view weight-loss

Did you know that, according to an Herbalife sponsored survey, weight gain of five pounds or less drives nearly 18 percent of women to diet, wherease feeling unhealthy is the primary driver in men’s weight loss efforts, while more women are driven by appearance. Women stress healthier food choices as their primary weight loss strategy, More >