Imagine a time when you set a weight loss goal. You found a diet that sounded promising to you. The diet included some kind of timeline, and you stuck to…
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Does Eating Fat Make You Fat?
For decades, fat in foods has been a popular scapegoat for the cause of weight gain. Many fad diets, starting with diets that became popular in the 1970s, list all…
A Winning Strategy To Remove Apron Belly
What is apron belly? If you are seeing your midsection bulging with loose tissues accumulating that like a swimming ring, that’s an apron belly. There are actually different types of…
How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off
This is a letter written by Leslie Chen of Rise Lean on how to lose weight and keep it off through shifting patterns. It answers why you’ve struggled to lose…
What Causes Food Cravings
There’s a difference between hunger and cravings. We tend to talk about having cravings when we might really just be hungry. It can happen at any time to any one…
Food As A Coping Mechanism
Think about a time when you felt a high level of stress. Maybe there was a period when your job just wore you out, and you felt like you had…
The Easiest Diet To Follow
I’ve been asked this question a lot — ”What’s the easiest diet to follow?” Here are a few important traits of an easy diet in my book: “Are you joking with…
Myths About Weight Loss
We have all heard the most common advice for losing weight: exercise a little more and eat a little less. Setting these goals seems easy enough, but does it really…
How to Stop Cravings for Junk Food
Junk food has been turned into such a huge part of American culture that it’s hard to escape from it. No matter which way you turn, someone’s offering you a…
How To Recover from Binge Eating Disorder
Feelings of loss of control can be scary. Do you remember eating something and saying to yourself, “I don’t know why I ate that?” Did you keep eating? Did you…