Weight Loss
The Checkup: How This Common Weight-Loss Tactic Is Backfiring on You
• Just typing the words “counting calories” makes me die a little inside. It makes eating sound like … work. Yuck. And good news: Nutrition […]
The Checkup: The Unexpected Side Effect of This Common Yoga Pose
• We all know yoga can double as therapy, but what you might not know is this: There’s one pose in particular that is known to […]
The Checkup: How You’re Accidentally Torpedoing the Effects of Your Healthy Diet
• If you reach for a sports drink with your healthy, protein-packed dinner, you’re going to want read this: A new study, published in BMC […]
The Checkup: The Essential Part of the Weight-Loss Equation You’re Probably Ignoring
• If you’re trying to lose weight, you’re probably super on top of what you’re eating, but research suggests that when you eat is also important. [Men’s Health]
The Checkup: The Daily Addiction to Ditch If You’re Trying to Lose Weight
• Checking your weight seven times a day — or even once a day — isn’t doing you any good or giving you an accurate read […]
The Checkup: Wait — How Much Avocado Is TOO Much Avocado?
• Healthy fats have been getting lots of love lately — avocado toast is on just about every menu, and who doesn’t have, like, seven […]
Study: Vegetarian Diet Could Be Twice As Effective As Just Slashing Calories
A win for all the vegetarians out there: A recent study examining weight-loss methods found that, instead of simply cutting calories, going the vegetarian route could […]
The Checkup: A Full Year’s Worth of Totally Doable Weight-Loss Tips
• BuzzFeed is an unlikely treasure trove of weight-loss tips. And being the kind people they are, they’ve compiled a bunch of their useful weight-loss […]
The Checkup: Why This Counterintuitive Weight-Loss Tip Works
• When you’re trying to lose weight, your goal with your workouts might be just that: To lose weight. But trainer Tony Gentilcore makes a […]
How When You Eat Breakfast and Dinner Affects Your Waistline
I am, without fail, always the first person to fall asleep at a sleepover. Things that should never be drawn on someone’s face have been […]
The Checkup: How to Choose the Best Beer for Your Waistline
• Because warm weather means barbecue season has arrived, and with barbecue season comes beer: Here, a registered dietitian dishes on the quick trick to estimate […]
The Checkup: Common Weight-Loss Shortcuts That Can Totally Backfire
• When it comes to losing weight, many folks think quickie fixes like cutting out gluten or alcohol — or reaching for low-fat everything — are the […]
The Checkup: How This Common Ingredient Could Be Making You Fat
• Put dooooown the salt shaker: New research published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation found that folks were hungrier when they were on higher-sodium […]
A Philly Health Coach’s Guide to Getting Unstuck
You may be sitting where I was about a year ago — in a large office building, feeling like you’re not in the right place […]
The Checkup: The Mistakes That Are Thwarting Your Efforts to Slash Belly Fat
• Belly fat is notoriously stubborn. And on top of that, these five mistakes and misconceptions — like thinking that just doing a bazillion crunches a […]