Articles tagged “Weight Loss”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

What You'll Have to Do to Burn Off Your Holiday Feast... By Laurel House IN Food & Health Dec 23 2011 A post-holiday dinner walk is custom for lots of families. But a marathon? Before you serve yourself with several helpings of Thanksgiving dinner, think about the amount of calories that are quickly adding up, and what the after-dinner repercussions will be. Charles Stuart Platkin, author of “The Diet Detective’s Count Down” breaks down each food item’s calorie and fat content, then equates it to the amount of time you will have to spend working it off! Be afraid, be very afraid….. + READ MORE

Traveling for the Holidays? Do These Quickie Workouts to NOT Gain Weight By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 19 2011 I’m the first to admit that an out-of-town attitude includes skipping out on my regular workout. But that’s the great thing! It's your opportunity to try something new, work new muscles, and maybe even LOSE, as opposed to GAIN weight! I know... the holidays can be brutal for your diet. You're too busy, tired, and full to do your entire regular workout routine. Instead, slip in several quickie workouts into your day, every day, to keep your metabolism stoked and naturally burning off even more calories for you. + READ MORE

Get Your Butt Ready For Your Vacation By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jul 16 2011 When it comes to getting your butt into vacation shape, there are two things you must do: -Get a Fanny Facial -Do a Quickie Workout in Bed (daily) Exfoliated, lifted, and toned, you will soon be able to put your best butt forward and show off those assets on your beach vacation. + READ MORE

Video Games: The Secret to Losing Weight… For Good This Time? By Laurel House IN Tech & Transport Jun 22 2011 Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Zelda… aside from seriously working the fingers, plus the occasional shoulder and back action as your body uncontrollably gets into the gaming action, video games of the past were, yes, sedentary activities. Not anymore. The Wii put fitness gaming on the map, and now with the new Kinect for Xbox, “playing” a video game can rival, if not beat, any gym workout (a fact that some personal trainers are expressing concerns over). + READ MORE

Skinny Margaritas and Jicama-Dipped Guacamole: How to Indulge on Vacation w/out Gaining Weight By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 21 2011 You’ve been preparing for your big beach vacation for weeks, getting your body in bikini-strutting shape, waxing out every last hair, even tending to those back pimples. You feel like a million bucks when as you step onto that sand and strip down to your barely there skivvies, finally showing off that bod that you you’ve been hiding underneath your heavy clothes. But after a week of eating too much, drinking too much, and exercising… um, not at all, you feel more than ready to wrap it up and hid behind your clothes one again. Not this year! + READ MORE

Coffee Makes You Smarter, Thinner, and Healthier By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jun 9 2011 With only 2 calories per serving, just plain coffee (without the fatty whip, syrups, and sugars) is a great way to get a jolt of energy without having to then use that extra energy to burn it off. More than its lack of calorie content, coffee is also antioxidant rich and studies have shown that it could in fact boost the mood and help zero in- improving focus and concentration. Here are 3 other great reasons to drink the caffeinated stuff: + READ MORE

10 Different Ways to Motivate to Diet & Exercise By Laurel House IN Food & Health Mar 31 2011 Sometimes, regardless of the fact that you know you should workout, you just somehow can’t convince yourself to. In fact, you have pretty much become a pro at convincing yourself otherwise. You are able to justify exactly why you don’t have to work out and why it’s ok for you to eat that entire bag of M&Ms… until the next am when you regret that decision. Here are 10 ways to motivate yourself to stay on your fit plan. + READ MORE

10 Fit Tricks for Lazy Chicks By Laurel House IN Food & Health Dec 30 2010 Too lazy to work out? I get it. You’re tired, you need to unwind, all you want to do is lie in your bed and let your brain go numb as you zone out to trash TV. SNAP OUT OF IT! Sure, we all need a break sometimes, but the fact is that moving your butt and getting your blood pumping fresh oxygen to your brain will not only burn some calories, but also revitalize, refresh, boost your ego, and uplift your spirits. + READ MORE

10 Fit Tricks for Lazy Chicks By Laurel House IN Food & Health Dec 30 2010 Too lazy to work out? I get it. You’re tired, you need to unwind, all you want to do is lie in your bed and let your brain go numb as you zone out to trash TV. SNAP OUT OF IT! Sure, we all need a break sometimes, but the fact is that moving your butt and getting your blood pumping fresh oxygen to your brain will not only burn some calories, but also revitalize, refresh, boost your ego, and uplift your spirits. + READ MORE

How to Fake It By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Nov 19 2010 We’re all works in progress… but you’ve got all of 1 day to look your best. Now’s not the time to stress. It’s time to fake it. I know, you’re working on your workout program, you’re doing your best to stick to a healthy diet, but sometimes you’re just not as diligently dedicated as you could be… That’s okay. Sometimes you just don’t have the time to get in tip top shape before having to strut yourself at important must-look-good outings like high school reunions, weddings, and Friday night. Sure, you are working on a workout routine, you’re in the midst of designing a diet that fits into your frenetic life, not to mention that you’ve now got just 20-minutes to shower, get dressed, and prettied for the “big” night! Faking your perfected figure just might be the jumpstart you need to finally get fit for good. + READ MORE

Mile High Quickie… in Coach By Laurel House IN Food & Health Nov 12 2010 Going on a jet plane is no longer the luxury it once was. Between layovers and delays, lack of leg room and food, it’s easy to get antsy, angry, and over it all really fast. Which is why you need to move your body. More than toning muscles and trimming off fat, fact is that fitness is known to combat fatigue, minimize frustration, and keep blood flowing (which can fight off blood clots that form from sitting for too long). So how do you workout without sashaying through the aisles, knocking elbow and tripping on sleepers’ feet on your way? By getting staying exactly where you are and working out in your seat. Yes, even in coach. + READ MORE

Eat with Purpose! Drink SuperFruits By Laurel House IN Food & Health Sep 1 2010 The struggle to be fit is something that everyone can relate to- the SocialWife to the Single Working Mom, to the Recent College Grad. Even if we have the means to hire a personal trainer, it takes motivation, dedication, consistency, and fit daily decisions to be fit- long term. It takes a mindset. And that mindset is more than merely working out for an hour a day; it's often the little things that derail a fit life. + READ MORE

Walk Off Your Weight By Adding This Mid-Walk Resistance Stop By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jul 25 2010 Walking workouts are a great way to burn calories without the pounding impact on your joints or the environment. More than being a great casual workout, walking has been proven to fight stress, lower LDL, raise HDL, regulate blood pressure, reduce your risk of diabetes, improve your bood, boost your ego, and help you lose weight. + READ MORE

Pilates- The Green Way to Lose Weight on Your Vaca By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jul 25 2010 Just because you're on vacation doesn't mean you have to get fat. Sure, taking photos and doing touristy things is great! But let your vacation do double duty as a mode to get healthy too, by incorporating a green exercise that you can do anywhere- Pilates. + READ MORE

Leg Injury? Upper Body Cardio Workout to Burn Calories in Bed By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jul 25 2010 You don’t have to get on an electricity-sapping treadmill in order to lose weight. In fact, if you injured your leg, ankle, or knee, your doctor likely instructed you not to do any cardio at all. But there is a cardio workout that requires no walking, running, or moving of your legs. It’s an upper body cardio workout. + READ MORE

Eat Less Meat To Put On Less Fat, Study Says By Mat McDermott IN Food & Health Jul 24 2010 A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at nearly 400,000 European adults and found that eating meat was linked with increased weight gain, even in people eating a normal number of calories and independent of other factors. Over the five year study, people who ate just small additional amounts of meat daily gained an additional pound a year. + READ MORE

Get Lean with this Green Calorie-Burning Workout... In Bed (Video) By Laurel House IN Home & Garden Jul 9 2010 I’m not about to suggest that you run in place, do jumping jacks, or situate your recumbent bike on your bed- that would be just silly. But there are several cardio exercise that you can do to singe calories on your bed. In fact, working out on your bed is one of the greenest ways to go when it comes to burning lots of calories. The idea is to move several muscles at once, engaging both the upper and lower body, in order to get the blood circulating quickly, which gets the heart rate up, and therefore becomes a cardio workout. + READ MORE

5-Minute Workout for Sexy Legs… In Bed By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jun 27 2010 You may not realize it, but your legs are getting a workout all day long. They carry you around- walking, running, maneuvering around cracks in the sidewalk, and lifting you up steps. All of that adds up. So if you want to work your legs, I mean really tone and trim them, you need to do a little bit more. You need to challenge them beyond the pedestrian one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walk. How? Resistance and Change. Thankfully, you don’t need heavy equipment and expensive apparatuses to target and tone those muscles in your legs. Exercise green yet equally effectively instead with Quickie Workouts in Bed. + READ MORE

Forget about Diet Pills, Lose Weight with these Fat-Burning Foods (Video) By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jun 26 2010 There are lots of ways to get skinny. But while many of those pills and fast fix remedies help you drop fat, it’s generally just for the short term (not to mention that it’s often seriously unhealthy). If you want to get skinny- long term, you’ve got to be smart about it; you need to be Smart & Skinny. Because, honestly, just skinny is just stupid! + READ MORE

Lift Your Droopy Butt with this Quickie Workout (Video) By Laurel House IN Home & Garden Jun 18 2010 Does your butt hang low? If you have a Droopy butt (as opposed to a Bubble or Pancake- they’re all different you know), it’s time to perk it up! And one of the best ways to lift it is with a green exercise blast. Forget electricity-sapping, space-hogging, wallet-draining Stairmasters and instead fire those muscles using no-equipment-necessary at-home exercises. + READ MORE