Does HOW You Lose Weight Really Matter?

How much does HOW you lose weight really matter? Your approach can make a big difference in the amount of lean body mass (muscle and bone mineral density) you lose. Your goal should always be to maintain as much lean body mass as you can (to optimize your metabolic rate and ensure functional strength). Remember, the older you are the more difficult it becomes to build back lost muscle or bone density!

So HOW do you maintain more lean body mass while you lose weight?

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5 Things You Need to Know about Protein for Healthy Weight Loss

How healthy is the diet you’re choosing? When you’re looking at fad diets odds are you’re not thinking much about the potential health consequences of the suggested regime. You might think, “Oh what’s the possible harm?” Or, “I’m only going to do this for a short time.” Dieting however isn’t risk free; here are a few things--just regarding protein--to think about.

Protein helps with important components of healthy successful weight loss.

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How to Eat Better at Work AND Save Time and Money

In my last post I introduced the concept of stimulus control: adding healthy food choices to your environment as well as removing trigger foods that tend to provoke eating in the absence of hunger (or overeating). While we have the most control over the food environment in our homes there is plenty that you can also do to set yourself up for success while you are away from home—at work—during the day.

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The MOST Popular Diet: The "See Food-->Eat Food" Diet!

Odds are you have "normal" relationship with food, meaning that you tend to want to eat what is readily available to you. For whatever reasons, this is even truer for those of us with a history of dieting.

How we become overweight is the result of a complex mix of factors that tend to promote a higher energy balance, and therefor a higher body weight.

One of the key factors in this mix is our environment; specifically the number of opportunities to eat, and the type of foods that are most available or handy for us to eat.

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Glycemic index, insulin and weight loss: what are the facts?

The glycemic index (GI) originated as a research tool more than two decades ago. It is a measure of how fast a carbohydrate food is broken down to simple sugars and absorbed into the bloodstream after eating.

GI became popularized through diet books that claim that controlling GI controls insulin and that in turn prevents hunger, fat storage, and weight gain.

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