In a world of diets, fad trends, meal plans and being obsessed with weight loss it can get rather confusing on what to eat to be healthy. It might seem like there is diet after diet, when all you really want to do is eat healthy, feel good, have energy and be happy in your body. To add to the confusion, there is the metabolic confusion diet. We will be discussing the metabolic … [Read more...]
Turkey Day Metabolism Boosters
With a long day of marathon eating ahead, any way to boost your metabolism this Thanksgiving will be to your benefit. Sure you could go the route of willpower and just avoid Grandma’s famous cheesy mashed potatoes, or Aunt Helen’s amazing pumpkin cheesecake. However, if you don’t think you have it in you...or if you simply want to indulge for a day while being surrounded by … [Read more...]
Fast or Slow: Make Your Metabolism Work for You
Do you have a friend who can eat an entire pizza and ice cream for dessert, not exercise and also not gain a pound? Meanwhile, you so much as walk down the ice cream aisle and the pounds seem to multiply? If so, thank--more like, curse--metabolism. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, “Metabolism is the process by which our bodies convert what we eat into the … [Read more...]
Spice Up Your Fat Loss
Want to keep unwanted weight in check? Then it’s time to spice up what you’re eating! That’s right, for once the food you take in can actually help the fat you take off--and not in the way eating celery is said to result in negative calories. This is all about bringing some heat to what you eat. It’s long been assumed that capsaicin, the chemical that gives peppers its … [Read more...]