Weight Loss

Top 5 Tips to Finally Lose Weight in 2023 5 Tips to Finally Lose Weight I know what it is like to want to lose weight, and not lose it. Here we are, sitting at the near end of 2022...have you reached...

You can lose weight without exercise. Are you shocked? I cannot tell you how many people have told me, "I can’t lose weight because I can’t exercise.”  in response to my 60 pound weight loss. It’s...

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To assist you in your quest to eat the tastiest of foods in moderation, you need to fill in the hunger gap with some lighter food options. And newsflash! These lighter, healthier foods can, and...

There are a lot of online calorie calculators out there. Many of them give similar results, while others will produce totally different calorie ranges from one to the next. It's hard to know which one...

The Noom weight loss program is a calorie tracking weight loss app, but it is so much more than that. Read on to learn everything a Noom membership has to offer. I also include the pros and cons of...

After a lifetime of struggling to eat healthier, I began to change my eating habits. Here is how to eat healthier in 4 simple steps...

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Newsflash: weight loss is hard, and it takes time. A quick internet search for “how to lose weight,” however, and you will be bombarded by posts claiming fast, easy, and drastic weight loss. It seems...

So many people struggle to lose weight. I know I used to be one of them until I discovered it's not as complicated as I thought it was. Turns out my head was just spinning from all the information out...

It’s time to look inward, consider your effort level, and call yourself out with a little - or maybe a lot - of tough love. Are you actually not losing weight because your body defies the laws of...

It’s true that there is some time-consuming work involved with logging and tracking your food. You will have to create and enter recipes into your calorie tracker, do some math to figure out servings...

Live Free is a weight loss, life, and fitness planner that will help you change how you think about weight loss. This scientific approach removes emotion from the equation and allows you to move...

Here are the top 3 reasons I would encourage you to weigh yourself on a daily basis and eventually. Hopefully, it will also end the control the number has over your mental space once and for all. Once...

The fact that I’ve lost weight by counting calories is probably the most ironic thing to ever happen in my life. For over a decade I refused to count calories because it felt too restrictive. Every...

My weight loss journey and I got slammed over Christmas. I knew losing weight over the holidays would be hard - this wasn’t my first rodeo - but I didn’t anticipate feeling like so much was out of my...

My pizzas are so satisfying YOU WILL NOT MISS THE OLD PIZZA. Yes, the old pizza is good, there's no denying that. But devouring delicious pizza while also losing weight... that wins every. single...

This is the most common question I get asked when people find out I lost 20 pounds this year. (For the record, I’ve lost 66 pounds overall, but the last 20 of it dropped relatively quickly when I...

Man, weight loss is hard sometimes, no matter how long you have been at it. Change truly is a process, with both ups and downs. It takes time, and mistakes are an inevitable and necessary part of the...

Weight gain is almost expected between Halloween and New Years Day. But I assure you, it is possible to get through this crazy time of year without seeing a big spike on the scales come January 1st...

Is there anything more terrifying to a professional dieter than the thought of taking a break? There goes my progress. I’ve failed yet again. Here comes the binge! These are all thoughts that will...

WW has helped THOUSANDS of people lose weight AND keep it off.Perhaps you’re not destined to be one of the thousands of people, and that’s okay! If the program affects you negatively, simply quit and...

I’m sitting on the better side of a 65 pound weight loss, and things are not as “better” as I thought they’d be at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy and proud. I set goals, and I smashed...

I get asked a lot about whether or not I tracked macros to achieve my 60 pounds (and counting!) weight loss. It’s definitely a hot, trendy way to lose weight right now, at least if you go by what...

All these years later, I’ve come to realize how weight loss really works. Instead of swinging like a monkey from one diet tree to the next, I decided it was time to take my destiny into my own hands...

I wasn’t fit as a kid, a teenager, or in my twenties even though I should have been. After all, I was supposedly in my “prime.” Don’t get me wrong, I always wanted to be in shape, but understanding...

Dear Goal Weight, we need to talk..I have chased after you, and your promises of happiness, peace, and self-acceptance, my whole life. You have always teased and tempted me, and all I ever wanted was...

Up to this point, I thought dieting was supposed to be miserable. I thought my life had to go on hold while I struggled to lose weight until I reached my goal, because only then could I eat foods I...

What's the right diet for me? Trust me when I say, you have a much higher chance of success if you pick a diet that fits into your current lifestyle and includes the foods you enjoy...

When you're a newbie dieter, as we all are at one point (or many points!), you might think weight loss is strictly about calories in vs calories out. While that is weight loss in a nutshell, there's...

I've learned dieting is a lot like grief. Not only does it cause grief, but there are several stages of dieting you need to experience and work through before you can overcome and accept it. Looking...

I have lost 60 pounds. That’s unreal...I almost don't even believe it myself. If you are reading this, you know that to lose weight isn't easy, yet I lost 60 pounds. That's nearly the weight of two of...

Being well acquainted with both MyFitnessPal and Noom allow me to share thoughts and give the full picture of my experiences. Here’s my credentials with both programs: I have used MyFitnessPal off and...

I really didn't want to diet again. Honestly, just thinking about trying to lose weight was daunting. I didn't have the drive I had previously had after the first two babies. A lot of that was due to...

I have been overweight most of my life. In my head, if I had to nail down the date where I realized I was bigger, it was in 2nd grade. Now I don't want to depict your traditional heavy kid childhood...

Six months ago I joined Noom while I was also on WW. I wanted to compare the two programs to see which was right for me. Two months later I walked away from WW to be fully committed to Noom...

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How the heck has it been 4 weeks since I committed to Noom? Although, I started Noom a lot further back than 4 weeks ago, I was doing WW at the same time. I didn't count that as my time on Noom since...

I have deep seeded mental hurdles from years and years of poor eating choices, bad habits that I MUST break. Following Weight Watchers or simply counting calories is not going to help me make the...

I have compiled this list of weight loss myths based on my own experiences trying to lose weight over the last few years. I've believed all these things at one point or another. Once I finally started...

Here we go again. Oh the scale, what a mysterious thing you are. Somehow between yesterday and today I lost 2.2 lbs. It cracks me up. Obviously it was water weight, but it is interesting nonetheless...

This morning I woke up 5 lbs heavier than I was 2 weeks ago. Whoops. I know most of it was water weight with a touch of stress eating (and I didn't log several days as you might have noticed), but the...

Today started off well, and calorie wise it ended well, but an unplanned trip to my mom's ruined my WW points. It happens, it's life, what can you do besides go forward? Plus, I'm running 10 miles...

Everyday seems to start off well enough, two eggs and toast. Then by the time lunch comes around, if I haven't had time to snack, I find myself hungry and making poor decisions. This is what I have...

Yesterday I woke up with the resolve to eat better. My plan was to base my day off of WW, and then log it into Noom. Well, I started out down the right path. Breakfast was an easy choice. At lunch I...

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So why do I always end up back with WW? It's because the reward for eating healthy (no tracking) is so good, that I eat way healthier on WW. Then I lose weight because I hate tracking, but need...

Noom offers a 2 week trial for as little as 1 dollar. As much as I hate logging everything I eat(which is why I chose the myWW purple plan), I really needed to know how these two programs stacked up...

In my opinion, the easiest plan to follow will be the purple plan because there will be less tracking with 300+ zero-point foods to choose from. As soon as I discovered the purple plan had so many...

The soup was vegan. I don't know how to say it any other way. Maybe in a month or two it'll be a creamy treat, but I just sat there mumbling to my friend the entire bowl. Things like "You know what...

This day started out a little rough for me. It's not just the vegan thing, it's everything. I am not only doing this super healthy form of eating, but I am also trying to lose weight. If I sit and...

On a less depressing note, I lost 1.8 pounds this week doing WW on a whole-food plant based diet! See? It was a healthy rate to lose weight, I wasn't starving, I ate when I was hungry, and I even...

Here is a week's worth of Vegan meals (which are also WW friendly), and the cost of the groceries needed to prepare them. I thought maybe this information would be useful for someone who won't go...

People, I have arrived. While it may seem like the week flew by to you, it was a long one for me. And I did so good! It wasn't a perfect week with WW or Whole-Food plant based or Vegan...but if I was...

Has it been six days already?! I thought that a year has passed...am I a year older? Official Vegan slogan today: "Veganism - You won't really live forever, it'll just feel like forever since you have...

Woe is me. I'm feeling ROUGH. I keep racking my brain trying to figure out why I feel this way because I am actually confused. Last night I got ample sleep, I've been eating consistent and nutrient...

Today started off alright. I still had some hope that being Vegan might not be too bad...but then James wanted Wendy's for lunch. The key to success is to never arrive at a restaurant hungry, so I...

Things are looking up over here because I have finally acquired groceries. I am actually excited about what is on the menu, but we'll see how it actually tastes. Today I am tired because I went to bed...

Today I came up with the official slogan for the Vegan Diet, "Veganism: You'll live forever, but want to die the whole time!" It's not fair to say that about Veganism, because they eat things like...

If you are in the mood for a light and versatile pasta try this. This is a spin on traditional spaghetti and marinara, but with lentil noodles and fresh tomatoes...

I am going to document my body's reaction to Whole-Food Plant Based living over the course of 12 weeks to see if there is any truth to the documentaries. This entire food journey will be logged with...

I logged over half the month, and went over in points every single week. Incredibly, I still lost weight. That’s why I always say, even failing at Weight Watchers, I will manage to lose. It’s just...

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Seriously, WW has not been a diet this time because my habits are changing being whole-food plant-based. When you eat real food that has been minimally processed you cut out so much junk food. After a...

A lot has changed since I wrote my WW update 4 weeks ago. I have finally had progress, but the most important progress has been in my relationship with food. How did I get to that point? A lot of...

Losing weight is such a mental game. According to Brain Powered Weight Loss, one of the problems people have with succeeding on a diet is black and white thinking. WW helps me break that thinking...

I have been on a weight loss journey a long time, and the only program I have ever lost weight (and kept it off) is Weight Watchers. I have tried many weight loss program, and WW is by far the best...

Sometimes Losing weight can be hard. Just because you joined WW doesn't mean you will have success. Evaluate your weeks leading up to your weight gain or plateau and learn from it...

Two of the main tools I have used and successfully lost weight with are Weight Watchers and MyfitnessPal. Here is a quick introduction to Weight Watchers and MyFitnessPal...

And eat the beef I did. I ate 3 giant soft tacos filled with beef and beans. Turns out that was the same amount of tacos all the male sponsors were groaning about later saying they were stuffed. These...

I have tried many different eating types, I’ve found people on Instagram that started out looking like me and now look like professional athletes. I’ve asked them how they are eating, and I’ve done...

Here are the top 5 items I recommend you purchase in order to have the most success when tracking your food and progress with WW or MFP...

We looked groggily at each other. We had once again been overzealous in our pursuit of being in shape. Had we both been hit by a Mac truck? We were tired, our bodies had nothing left to give, and the...