Weight Loss Basics

If you are weighing sweet potatoes vs white potatoes for weight loss, the honest answer is that neither tuber wins by a wide margin. … Read more

No, dried fruit is not automatically bad for weight loss. A measured 1-ounce portion of unsweetened raisins or apricots lands somewhere around 80 to … Read more

Stress hormones, mainly cortisol, make losing weight harder by turning up hunger, pushing fat toward the belly, blunting insulin, and wrecking sleep. The catch … Read more

If you want the short version of green tea vs coffee for fat burning: coffee has a slight edge on total caffeine and a … Read more

If you are wondering whether does drinking water before meals help you eat less, the short version is: sometimes, a little. Drinking about two … Read more

To use smaller plates to eat less, serve your food on a plate with a smaller diameter, usually 9 or 10 inches instead of … Read more

The honest version: you can hold your weight steady through Thanksgiving to New Year’s by planning a few meals ahead, eating a protein and … Read more

One planned cheat meal will not ruin your weight loss progress. Weight change runs on weeks of averages, not single meals, so one higher-calorie … Read more

The calmest way to get back on track after a diet break is to stop treating the break as damage to repair, then rebuild … Read more

How to eat out and stay in a calorie deficit is mostly a handful of repeatable habits, not a test of willpower. The method … Read more