Weight Loss - Page 69

Want to shrink your belly? Start eating bugs. This isn't a Fear Factor flashback: Probiotics, the helpful good bacteria in your digestive tract, play an essential role in maintaining a healthy weight.

America may run on Dunkin', but sometimes our bodies could use a little more nutrition than what that classic cup of joe offers.

As you head to the stretching area to cool down, it hits you like a ton of bricks: you're famished — and you have no idea what you should whip up to fuel your tired muscles.

It's nature's practical joke. You pass up ice cream for a fruit salad or crunch through a vine-ripened snack instead of scarfing a cookie, all in pursuit of a flat stomach — and suddenly you feel like the Marshmallow Man.

There's no denying it; smoothies are the new cupcakes: suddenly en vogue, sold almost everywhere and the subject of countless Instagram photos.

How would you like to learn all the secrets from the country's most-renowned weight-loss retreats–without having to take weeks off of work?

Good news: We've uncovered the best weight loss supplements. And they're likely already sitting in your pantry.

When it comes to nutrition, you could call us the "just add water" generation. Everything from oatmeal to muscle-building protein is as easy as that. And though it may have saved us billable hours, it's not without its own costs.

The first "diet" ever recorded was a fatal flop.

The best way to get rid of your beer belly: Stop drinking beer. If you say, "Yeah, that ain't gonna happen," that's understandable. (And you don't necessarily have to, if you opt for one of the Best Light Beers in America).

Imagine you're a brilliant chemist and you've just discovered the world's first water-soluble vitamin. It's like body sculpting gold for people looking to lose weight.

They're called the lazy days of summer — and, boy, do our weight loss goals agree.

A top RD spills her secrets for eating a delicious plant-based diet—without ditching meat completely.

Some are too sweet. Others are too dull. Very few are it juuust right. But the best ones can make your heart sing — flooding the system with feel-good chemicals from the very first spoonfest. No, I'm not talking about men. I'm talking about oatmeal.

Iodized salt exists for good reason, and it has a lot to do with your waistline.

Open your refrigerator and count the sticky bottles of half-used salad dressing taking up prime fridge-door real estate. Your goopy collection is out of control, hogging the fridge when you don't even need one bottle.

Death and taxes. According to our ever-insightful forefather Benjamin Franklin, these are life's only guarantees, and while I respect a man who can rock a good pair of bifocals, I think ol' Ben left an important certainty off the list—a threat that comes each and every year and instills terror in the hearts of millions of Americans, causing them to scream, sweat and run (literally) for their lives.

Snacking is to weight loss as fuel is to a vehicle. Without the former you're not going to make any progress.

Back in the day, weight-loss shakes came in three predominant varieties: powdered, nasty and a combination of the two. No longer.

Rapid weight loss is not only possible, but also just as effective for long-term slim-down success as the slow and steady method.

Salad is like the Lady Gaga of the culinary world. While most dishes remain stable since their initial conception — a modern roast chicken is pretty much the same as the medieval one turned on a spit — the salad morphs its identity more often than Mother Monster herself.

Novak Djokovic, the #1 ranked tennis player in the world, defeated Roger Federer in an epic Wimbledon final—but he nearly didn't get there at all. Here, in an exclusive excerpt from his book, Serve to Win, Djokovic explains how going gluten-free took him from second tier to the top of the charts—and shows how you can do it, too.

There's a catchy little phrase about what happens when you assume something. You know the one. But we still continue to make generalizations about life, including food, like this common one: All salads are healthy.

You trained all year for day one of bikini season.

Devouring fattening foods right before you hit the beach — after working so hard to get in shape — is a bit like washing and waxing your car before you drive it through the mud.

Most desserts have the simple courtesy to stay where they belong—in the restaurants, at the concession stands, in the freezer section.

It's the ultimate trifecta: a smaller waist, a heftier I.Q., and a longer, healthier life. And now, science may be on the verge of figuring out one very easy way to achieve them all.