If you’ve been a reader of mine for some time, you probably know that I’m a big proponent of “cheat meals” to actually increase your fat loss efforts and keep your metabolic rate higher. This is basically strategic planned overeating at certain times while keeping overall weekly calorie intake where it needs to be for [...]

I bet it’s more than you think, and it could be preventing you from achieving the best possible  results, quickly.
There are two main problems with consuming too much sugar: it adds up quickly, and it contains very little nutritional value.
People who replace nutritionally-rich carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, natural starchy carbs, etc.) with refined sugar are [...]

Carry a piece of paper folded up or an index card in your pocket, purse or wallet and write down everything you eat during the day.
Look up the foods in a reference book at home in the evening and add up the calories actually consumed. This is a great learning tool.
You don’t have to do [...]

19 pieces of candy corn – 95 calories, 1.9 grams of fat.

2 tablespoons low-fat yogurt topped with ½ cup of cherries and 2 teaspoons sliced almonds – 96 calories 3 grams of fat.
2 cups air-popped popcorn tossed with 1 teaspoon melted margarine and 1 teaspoon honey – 97 calories, 3.8 grams of fat
½ cup sugar [...]

Eat 2 Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain bars instead of 2 Kellogg’s
Pop-Tarts.
Fix 1 cup of turkey chili with beans rather than regular
chili with no beans.
Snack on 2 ounces of oven-baked potato chips instead of
regular potato chips
Replace 1 large flour tortilla with 1 six-inch corn
tortilla.

Today I’d like to briefly discuss the type of carbs you should eat at certain times of the day, for maximum weight loss in minimum time.
Simply put, there are three types of carbs.
- Simple carbs: fruit and dairy
- Starchy carbs: potatoes, brown rice, beans, oatmeal, lentils, yams,
sweet potatoes, etc.
- Fibrous carbs: most vegetables, such as [...]

Nuts are your friends…
Try to eat a handful of any type of nuts (almonds, pecans, walnuts, macadamias, etc…preferably raw, not roasted) 3x per day… once in the morning before breakfast, once a little while before dinner, and once before bedtime.

Important: make sure you’re positive you don’t have allergies to any nuts.
The healthy fats combined [...]

Replace butter or margarine with butter buds or fat-free buttery spreads. These are really good and you won’t feel deprived.
Cut 100 calories a day (replace that candy bar with an orange and banana) and lose a pound a month.
Sweeten with spice. Add spices like cinnamon and vanilla to desserts versus sugar.

Protein powder, especially the kind made from milk and eggs can be a convenient way to add protein to a diet when you can’t sit down and grab a meal, but it’s not quite the same as eating eggs or meat.
There are lots of substances that contribute to good health that are found naturally in
foods. [...]

As strange as this may sound at first, certain foods require more energy to
process and digest than others do. And eating them regularly can help you
lose fat.
Many foods fit the bill as “high-energy” foods, such as celery, carrots, and
apples – just to name a few.
Simply eating a small portion of these types of foods right [...]

We have all been there, you turn up to work full of good intentions for the day. You promise yourself you will not give in to temptation and not a single sugary treat will pass through your lips. Snacking at work is not even an option today.
It’s all going well so far you think to [...]

Fast food. Wheither it is tacos or burgers, we all love it just the same. Fast food has become a way of life for some people. They eat it three meals a day. There is no difference between a Big Mac and a steak to some people these days. When I was growing up as [...]

If you are a working man / woman, you know how important lunch is. You can’t function without a good lunch. A good lunch is the difference between feeling great during the afternoon and feeling worn out. Many times we skip on lunch. We don’t either eat the right things, or don’t eat at all. [...]

Diets come a dime a dozen in Hollywood. They practically fall out of the sky. Any doctor or layman who manages to have an original idea or, at least, a new twist on an old idea, and is marginally successful in selling it to the public is thinking of setting up a shop in Hollywood. [...]

UPDATE!
Since this article is two years old, I’ve decided to spice up a bit with my personal “sweet tooth” story
I don’t know about you, but I have always had a serious sweet tooth! No joke… when I was a kid growing up, my mom would bake a batch of brownies and I would [...]