DietMotion

Fad diets promise you will look better, lose weight in only a few days and that you will never regain your lost weight.

Many people fall in this trap and I’m sure you tried or know someone close who tried The Cabbage Soup Diet, The Grapefruit Diet, The Dissociate Diet or The 90 Days Diet. The results are the same, almost all the time:

• you lose weight, but that is mostly water and muscle tissue;
• you feel weak because your body lacks minerals and vitamins;
• you have unexpected craves; (more…)

Do you feel the urge to eat chocolate whenever you are upset or anxious, even though you are not hungry? It may not be your fault after all. The scientists are giving you a new excuse now: your chocolate craving may be determined by the bacteria in your stomach.

Sure, everyone has a vast number of microbes in their gut, but people who have a daily cravings for chocolate show signs of having different colonies of (more…)

It looks like a regular flipflop to me, but they (Darren James and Dr David Cook, the developers) call it The Fitflop.
There is a footwear phenomenon in the last years that promises far more than just comfort and style. I don’t know what happened to Fitness, Pilates or weight lifting, but it seems like now all you have to do is change your shoes.

The most recent sensation is the FitFlop, whose producers try to convince the public that it gives you longer and leaner-looking legs. (more…)

The weight loss process can be accelerated if you can find methods to increase the body’s fat burning processes. You can do that using (which is easier, but totally unhealthy) or you can do it through old, healthier ways.

Here are 15 ways to increase the body’s fat burning process, except your regular exercises.

1. Reduce your calorie intake with 10%-15%

The formula is simple, you eat less = you weight less, but be careful and don’t exaggerate! (more…)

Yesterday at my local gym, I was doing my regular exercises, minding my own business, but there was a man of about 45 years old “coaching” (I mean supervising not to hit anyone) his son of 10. OK, this is strange too, but there is something else I want to talk about.

This man was watching me and kept telling me all the time “that’s not good for you”, “you’re waisting you’re time”, “you’re pushing too much”, “don’t stay like that”, “do like this”. The bottom line was that he wanted to tell me that no matter what I do there (in the gym) I will not lose weight unless I will eat exclusively chicken sup for as long as it takes to lose all the fat. (more…)

It looks like the nightmare both for men and women is finally over. No more bloating, cramps or feeling nervous, or at least that’s what I hope for.
SmartChocolate PMS Bar from Jamieson Laboratories is a premium rice crisp chocolate bar that is fused with natural botanicals to help relieve both the physical and the emotional symptoms of PMS.

White willow bark is often referred to as “herbal aspirin” and it can help to ease menstrual cramps by reducing levels of hormone-like compounds that cause pain and inflammation in the body. (more…)

How calories work?

I have briefly talked about how calories work and what’s the chemistry behind losing weight, but some of you asked me to try to explain it in another way.

This is simply mathematics. One kilogram (2 pounds) of fat is 7000 calories and according to the First Law of Thermodynamics, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only converted from one form to another. This means that you have to find a way to transform the 7000 calories (more…)

Walking, as any other exercise, is good for your heart, improving cardiovascular fitness and is good for your mind giving you a “happy” feeling.

I need to go to a gym for a proper workout

Be honest with yourself and answer to this question: how often do you actually go to a gym? Walking is free, can save gas and money, it’s better for the planet and can make you fit. Sure, at a gym you can get valuable information from an instructor, you can grow more muscles, but if you want to lose weight, than this is a very good start. (more…)

Ontario residents with questions about healthy eating and nutrition can now seek out free answers online or by telephone.

Health Promotion Minister Jim Watson has launched the free EatRight Ontario telephone service to provide what he calls “credible information”.

Watson says the service will connect people directly with registered dieticians to discuss healthy food choices and explain diet-related health risk factors. (more…)

A typical daily food plan tells you how much of each food you can eat. Many people, however, are not very clear on portion sizes. That’s why you may have to measure and weigh your foods until you can recognize a typical portion by sight.

For a couple of weeks, use measuring cups and a food scale to measure all the food you eat. In time, you’ll recognize what a half-cup of rice or 3 ounces of meat looks like and you can stop measuring.

Where and how you eat

If you eat while watching TV or talking on the phone, (more…)