Most people are taught to be afraid of eating carbohydrates, and avoid a high carb diet. There’s really no reason for that. You can add more carbs to your diet and still lose weight. How do high carb foods help with weight loss? Carbohydrates do not inhibit weight loss, as many low carbohydrate diet and keto zealots would want you to believe, but actually assist weight loss. Meaning that carbohydrates are not bad, but instead complex carbohydrates in particular are really good for you, speed up your weight loss. Yes, you can increase your daily carb intake and lose more body weight! Carbohydra ..read more

Here are the nine best healthy morning habits for weight loss to include in your daily morning ritual. But first off… Why Are Mornings Important To Optimize With Good, Healthy Habits? It’s simple: mornings are so important for health and weight loss is that this is the best time to get things done. If you leave things for later in the day, you might not actually get to them. Another thing about mornings is that it’s the start of the day, and it being the start, you have the power to make it a good day straight from the beginning. Even if you are not a morning person, keeping up with a few heal ..read more

How to finally deal with the fear of weighing yourself. What is that one thing that constantly makes you scared to step on the scale? I bet it’s the possibility of a weight gain. Simply put, Gravitophobia is the fear associated with weighing oneself on a scale. And quickly, we’ll talk about four reasons why you might have this scale anxiety, and what you need to do to get over it. That way, your scale would no longer control your mood, your days, or your weeks. That being said, let’s get started with reason number one! 1. Lack of Understanding of Water Weight The first reason is a lack of und ..read more

Today we are talking about weight loss affirmations that really work, even for people who don’t believe they’re going to lose any weight and reach their weight loss goal. If you hear weight loss affirmations (check out this list on reddit), like “everyday I’m getting thinner and thinner” or “I am going to hit my perfect weight” and you want to roll your eyes then keep reading, because repeating a statement you don’t believe won’t bring results! If you want results, then you have to personalize your affirmations so that they really work, help you lose more weight and hit your weight loss goal ..read more

The absolute best way to lose weight and get healthy is by being body positive. In fact, not being body positive will stall your weight loss and new healthy behaviors. This is why it’s important to shift your mindset, and not try to lose weight from a place of self-hate, but rather from a place of self-love. What is body positivity? According to wikipedia: Body positivity is a social movement focused on empowering individuals regardless of their physical weight or size, while also challenging the ways in which society presents and views the physical body. The movement advocates the acceptance ..read more

Many people like to label food as good or bad, or label calories as good calories or bad calories. However, as we’ll discuss in this article, whether calories are good or bad is more nuanced than a simple label, and has to be reviewed in context with the rest of our eating and our intention behind each food choice, and not in isolation. Let me get started by explaining some concepts, like “calorie budget”, “calorie deficit”, and “calorie investing”, and then I’ll answer the question about good and bad foods. Every day you have a calorie budget. This is like you have a certain money every day t ..read more

When people think of prediabetes their mind immediately goes to carb intake! The mainstream thinking is you need to be on a low carb diet to prevent diabetes, and especially if you have prediabetes. Only this is not true. You can actually make solid progress with either a low carb or a high carb approach. However, you do need to do a high carb diet right. This is exactly why diabetes recommendations do not for example advise against eating fruits, and diets like the Mediterranean diet have been shown to be protective. In fact, here is a summary of the CDC’s guidelines to prevent type 2 diabete ..read more

Most people blame themselves for weight gain. Sometimes, they also blame other people. They say, “oh, you bought, so you bought this, or you bought this other thing, and the fridge is full,” but for the most part, they blame themselves. And that is actually not accurate because the big reason why you have a body weight problem is not your willpower or your discipline or your overeating or your big appetite. Instead, the big reason why you have a weight problem has to do with the environment. The environment makes you fat. So today I really want to drive this point and I want to help you under ..read more

Should you count calories to lose weight? For some people it’s a definite yes, and for some others it’s not ideal. In this article we’ll discuss 3 persistent myths behind counting calories and also the 3 reasons that would make counting calories the right choice for you. First off: Why bother with calories in the first place? Because to lose fat, you need to be on a calorie deficit Let me get started by saying that in order to lose fat, you need to be on a calorie deficit, that means you need to be consuming fewer calories than your body needs for maintenance. Maintenance is the state where ..read more

Let me ask you, have you ever stepped on the scale and saw it go up, let’s say two pounds, three pounds, and you started stressing that it was what you ate the day before that caused this weight gain? The form can be filled in the actual website url. If you did, please leave a comment and let me know, then read the article, and write what you think actually happened. Differentiating between losing body water and losing body fat. Let’s discuss water fluctuations and what the differences between losing water weight versus losing weight mostly from fat are. What you care about when you’re trying ..read more