Stripping The Fat Together: Family Diet Challenges »

A lot of families have more than one overweight family member but when not everyone diets together, it’s harder on the person who’s initially motivated to lose weight. Dieting together can make a big difference to the success of your diet and making it a family competition could increase the rate of results! Strip That [...]

Are You Fooling Your Hypothalamus? »

Many of the problems associated with an unhealthy digestive system stem from eating too quickly. Not only do you not give yourself a chance to process and digest due to lack of chewing but when you eat too fast, you tend to overeat as well. What is the hypothalamus? The hypothalamus tells you when you’re [...]

Does Papaya Really Increase Your Metabolism? »

There are supplements available that extol the virtues of papaya indicating that papaya can aid in weight loss efforts.  Let’s explore this concept: Some fruits and vegetables can be considered negative calorie foods which means that it costs your body calories to process them instead of leaving you with calories after all is said and [...]