Top 3 Reasons New Year’s Weight Loss Resolutions Fail

Posted on January 3, 2019 by trimthin.com

Weight loss resolutions have a terrible track record. Depending on the stats you read, you might see that only 8 to 15 percent are successful. Even on the upper end of that scale, it’s not a very promising statistic.

Still, it doesn’t mean that if you set weight loss resolutions for yourself, you will fail. It just means that if you want to succeed, you will likely need to build a better understanding of why others often fail. By doing so, you can make sure that you don’t travel that same path. Instead, you can follow the much less traveled path used by those who have been successful. Continue reading →

Celebrate With These Holiday Low-Carb Cocktails Your Keto Diet Will Love

Posted on December 23, 2018 by trimthin.com

When you’re on a reduced carbohydrate diet, low-carb cocktails can be your key to enjoying a great drink at holiday parties. Keto dieting is more popular than ever, but popular cocktails are often too high in carbohydrates to be permitted. Breaking with your macronutrient strategy’s balance can cause unwanted weight to return. Still, many of us will want to have something great to drink while we celebrate the holidays.

The following low-carb cocktails are only a few of the options you can choose to keep your holidays keto-friendly or to let you stay on top of the macronutrient ratios you plan to follow.

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Are Top Diet Pills Your Key to Weight Loss Diet Success this Holiday Season?

Posted on December 20, 2018 by trimthin.com

Over the holiday season, the definition of weight loss diet success tends to change. It’s really not the same as it is for the rest of the year. At least, that’s the case for many of us. It’s not as much a matter of losing the pounds as it is stopping them from coming back.

After all, Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day presents a range of weight loss diet challenges that aren’t typically there for the rest of the year. We often feel that we’re too busy to exercise. We attend parties and host dinners where the food is far less diet-friendly than what we’d usually have.

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Eat This Metabolism Boosting Bedtime Snack This Holiday Season

Posted on December 11, 2018 by trimthin.com

Is there such a thing as a metabolism boosting bedtime snack? The holiday season makes this type of question more important than virtually any other time. After all, it’s at this time of year that we’re most likely to suffer from unwanted weight gain. With treats everywhere and bulky sweaters to cover the damage, it’s difficult to come up with a reason not to indulge.

That said, even on days when you’ve been good about what you’ve eaten, it doesn’t mean that you’ll automatically be immune to hunger at bedtime. Research says that it’s typically better to have a little something before than it is to go to bed feeling hungry. That said, not all snacks are created equal. Make sure you select a metabolism boosting bedtime snack that will work with you, not against you.

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Don’t Let Holiday Travel Stress Control Your Eating and Exercising Choices This Year

Posted on December 6, 2018 by trimthin.com

Holiday travel stress can feel overwhelming when compounded with all the other stresses that come with this time of year. That said, if you learn how to keep the strain from your journey under control, you’ll reduce the risk that it will take over your ability to keep up with your nutrition and fitness.

After all, the most stressed out you feel, the more likely you are to seek out comfort foods and to skip your workouts. If your holiday travel stress gets to you, it could do a lot more to you than make your trip and unpleasant one. It can set back your weight goals and slow down your fitness progress. Not only does that risk starting your new year in a harder place, but it can make you feel even more stressed.

You feel guilt from giving up on things you know you should be doing. You lose energy from failing to eat right and exercise, and you don’t gain any of the stress busting benefits of treating your body healthfully.

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5 Tips to Get Through the Holidays Without Falling Ill or Gaining Weight

Posted on December 6, 2018 by trimthin.com

Gaining weight is one of the biggest let-downs of the holiday season. With all the excitement, tight schedules and even stress, it can be frustrating to step out on the other side of the holidays up to five pounds heavier than you were at the beginning.

Equally, after spending so much time indoors with lots of people, drinking booze and not quite reaching our ideal nutrition, that extra weight can be made worse with a cold or flu. Getting sick at this time of year can feel inevitable. That said, by taking the right steps, you’ll be able to prevent catching certain illnesses or at least reduce their length and severity if they happen.

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Will Weighing Yourself Daily Keep Your Weight in Check?

Posted on November 30, 2018 by trimthin.com

Using a scale is a staple for the majority of diets but weighing yourself daily has become a tactic rising in popularity. Most of us have heard that it’s not a good idea to weigh ourselves too frequently. After all, the results you see from one day to the next don’t necessarily represent fat loss. It’s far more likely to represent fluid fluctuations in the body, among other things.

For a long time, it was believed that if you weigh yourself daily, you set yourself up to be disappointed. After all, you won’t see the results each time you get on the scale. Moreover, you will be more likely to see fluctuations as your fluids rise and fall in a natural way from day to day. However, new studies are starting to show that this daily habit may be better for your results than you think.

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Here’s How a Fasting Diet Helped Chef Chris Santos Lose 30 Pounds

Posted on November 23, 2018 by trimthin.com

Chef Chris Santos, best known for being a judge on “Chopped” has used a fasting diet to lose a considerable amount of excess weight. Santos has been a judge on the show for a decade, and his look has dramatically changed over the years.

In fact, in an interview with PEOPLE magazine, Santos explained that he gained 50 pounds over the span of his ten years on the show. He pointed out that it barely felt like anything as it came on. After all, it averages out to about five pounds per year, which is less than a half a pound of extra weight on a monthly basis. At that rate, it would be difficult to notice. That said, it did add up. When it came time to lose, his choice was a fasting diet.

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Use Your Bathroom Scale This Often to Motivate Weight Loss

Posted on November 23, 2018 by trimthin.com

When you’re trying to lose weight, learning to use your bathroom scale is often a key tool. That said, every person and every program seems to have a different opinion regarding the ideal number of times you should weigh yourself.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, and from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, sought to determine exactly how often you should use your bathroom scale for the most weight loss motivation.

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Belly Fat Balloons Back after Crash Diet (Science Proved It!)

Posted on October 17, 2018 by trimthin.com

New research presented at a American Physiological Society conference showed belly fat comes ballooning back after crash dieting. In fact, the attendees at the Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases: Sex-Specific Implications for Physiology conference in Knoxville, Tennessee learned that there are many long-term repercussions to these short-term extreme diets.

Crash diets have been around for more than a century. Women are more likely to fall victim to them than men. They typically promise to rapidly reduce belly fat in a short period of time. Unfortunately, research has shown that they do far more harm than good. In fact, they’re more likely to cause pounds to pack on around the middle than to disappear.

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