The President of the American Institute for Preventive Medicine, Don R. Powell recently stated that a lot of eating was psychological. If you are served a small portion of food on a big plate you’ll get the feeling that you haven’t gotten enough food even if that’s not true. Conversely a small portion of food [...]

It’s easy to be successful in the right environment. You can set yourself up for success by having healthy snacks and meals on hand. You can easily put together a nutritious meal in ten minutes or less with the right ingredients. Here are few foods to stock up on – Pre-cut fresh veggies, tomatoes, whole-grain [...]

Try preparing your favorite foods in different more nutritious ways. Instead of deep frying food, pan-fry or stir-fry it with the help of a non-stick pan and a low fat oil spray. Poach your eggs instead of frying them, steam veggies instead of boiling them and grill meat or fish. You don’t have to cut [...]

Eating spicy foods will help curb your appetite. Food that has a lot of flavor stimulates your taste buds and you’ll be more satisfied with a smaller amount of food. It’s easy to feel bored eating low fat foods because your tongue is used to the flavor that fat adds to certain foods. However when [...]

Quite a few people are unaware of just how many calories they consume in the form of creamy sauces, butter, margarine etc. If you are cooking substitute low calorie ingredients for high calorie ones and you’ll be cutting down significantly on your calorie intake. For example you can use evaporated skimmed milk for soups and [...]

Which one sounds easier to you – moving a mountain in a day or shifting pebbles over a period of months? It’s a lot easier to make small changes that add up over time. Instead of setting a goal like – ‘I will lose 8 inches around my waist over the next one year’, set [...]

One of the best tips I have to share with you is to eat a bowl of soup every day. Eating a nutritious bowl of low-salt soup daily is not only nourishing but it’ll help you lose more weight steadily. Try to avoid canned soups that are chock full of chemicals and salt and make [...]

Lots of people think about exercise in the following manner: Exercise = Sweaty, painful workouts = (Leading up to) Endless creative excuses to avoid it altogether and justifying their actions under the banner of ‘no time’, ‘work overload’ etc. The only way to avoid this issue is to never think of exercise as working out [...]

If you’ve seen the movie ‘Supersize Me’ you’ll be aware of how fast food joints push or promote bigger portions just to make higher profit margins. Unfortunately most of that excess food lands directly on your waist line. So how can you avoid eating massive meals whenever you dine out? The solution is to go [...]

Think it’s a coincidence that you feel like munching popcorn or going through bags of chips while watching TV? It’s easy to reach for food when you get bored or are at a loss for things to do. Take a break from TV shows and magazines and get busy doing things that you are passionate [...]