New Year’s Weight Loss Resolution

Can you believe that in a few more days we will be in year 2009? Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it? Last year I told myself that I wanted to lose 15 lbs. I haven’t even started yet and now the year 2008 almost come to an end. Instead of loosing weight I’m gaining 5 lbs arggghhh!!.

Everyday we hear the news about how bad the economy will be in the coming year. We don’t know what the year 2009 will be like. One thing we have to understand is that worry won’t change anything one bit. Let’s take a positive thing out of the negative. Be an optimist and believe that everything will be better. Despite the economic crisis, this is actually the best time to lose weight. Cut all the unnecessary spending, cut eating out and cook at home more. Read Full Entry

TaiSlim – A Review Of Tai Slim Weight Loss Product By FreeLife

On of the more recent weight loss products on the market is called TaiSlim – it is a liquid weight loss product from FreeLife International.

TaiSlim – The Basics

Tai Slim is based on GoChi, FreeLife’s goji juice beverage. According to Rick Handel, FreeLife’s chief scientific officer, Taislim is designed to foster weight loss in 4 different ways:

• Fight belly fat
• Control appetite
• Cleanse digestive tract
• Boost metabolism

TaiSlim is covered by a 90-day money-back guarantee (before or after you use the product).

Tai Slim – The Science

Rick Handel, FreeLife’s chief scientific officer, informs us that FreeLife has done extensive scientific research related to TaiSlim over the past couple years. As far as published research is concerned, there are currently three peer-reviewed, published studies on GoChi, one of the main ingredients in TaiSlim. There are also quite a few studies published on the other ingredients of TaiSlim.

Buying TaiSlim

Tai Slim is sold in a 1 liter bottle. You can purchase a case of 4 of these bottles for $134.95.

Click here to buy TaiSlim.

Diet.com Review

Diet.com is a website that offers paid memberships to dieters looking for individualized diet plans and support towards their weight loss efforts. We should have seen it coming, right? Dieting via the internet.

Does it work? Can it work for you? That remains to be seen. Read for yourself and determine whether or not diet.com can help you lose weight and keep it off.

The Plan

So, you’ve navigated and found diet.com. Now what?

For starters, a personality quiz is taken in relation to your general eating habits, feelings about yourself and feelings about exercise. You are then assigned a personality type in three separate areas:

Eating Personality: Meal Skipper; Convenient Diner; Steady Snacker; Emotional Eater
Exercising Personality
Coping Personality Read Full Entry

Diet Meal Plan

What is involved in setting up a proper diet meal plan for weight loss? So many times, people who are desperate to lose weight skip meals and practically starve themselves in an attempt to shed undesirable weight. Obviously, weight can be lost, but it is inevitable that the weight will be regained once normal eating resumes. Not only that, but skipping meals and utilizing very low calories diets have nutritional consequences as well.

When we lower caloric intake in an effort to lose weight, it’s imperative that the diet meal plan is well thought out so proper nutrition isn’t sacrificed. Here are some top tips on setting up a diet meal plan that will offer up optimum nutrition as well as promote weight loss in a healthful way. Read Full Entry

South Beach Diet Weight Loss

Can South Beach Diet weight loss last? So many diets tout that weight loss is possible with their particular diet. Sure, many diets offer weight loss, and if a person should follow the diet without cheating then weight loss will occur.

However, isn’t that really part of the question? The efficacy of a diet not only relies on whether or not it actually works for weight loss but whether it has any “stickability.” Can the person stay on the diet? How long can the person stay on the diet? Has the diet taken into account the dieters likes and dislikes? How practical is the diet?

In addition to that, a diet must allow for lasting weight loss. So, with the South Beach Diet, weight loss needs to be actually doable as well as long term. Let’s see how it rates.

Designed as a means to lower cholesterol and help diabetics, the South Beach Diet starts off with a two week sort of cleansing period. During this time, no fruit, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugar, alcohol or baked goods are allowed. Afterwards, healthier carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables are slowly reintroduced. Read Full Entry

The Atkins Diet

The Atkins diet isn’t the first low carb diet. As a matter of fact, a low carb diet can be traced back to 1825 when Jean Brillat-Savarin wrote the book The Philosophy of Taste and prescribed a low carb diet. The popularity of the Atkins diet plan ebbs and flows with every new Atkins recipes book that is published. As well, numerous knock-offs of the plan exist with slightly different rules such as The Zone or Suzanne Somer’s diet.

The Plan

The Atkins Diet plan has four phases:

Induction phase – For the first two weeks a very strict diet will kick off the plan. There’s a list of acceptable foods that consists of protein, fats and vegetables. Foods can be eaten liberally from this list so long as the “rules” are followed.

During this phase, weight loss will be at its peak due to the extremely low calories consumed.

Ongoing weight loss – During this phase, certain carbohydrates are allowed. Five more grams of carbohydrate can be consumed than the stricter 20 allowed in phase 1. After a week, if weight loss has continued, you may increase it another 5 grams.

The carbohydrate choices remain the same, you’re just allowed a few more. Weight loss will continue, but at a slightly slower rate.

Pre-maintenance – This phase is a preliminary step to learning how to eat healthfully for life. Weight loss is slowed and this phase gears the dieter towards maintaining a healthful weight for life.

Life-time maintenance – In the last phase, the dieter will be eating normally with the idea that normal now means a much more healthful diet. Read Full Entry