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Maintaining Weight Loss: obey the traffic signals

For most people, losing weight is very achievable, but maintaining that weight loss can seem impossible. Unfortunately, losing significant weight and then regaining it is an ...

Breaking Through Weight Loss Plateaus

Lifestyle

When an individual’s rate of weight loss slows or stalls for an extended time despite making no significant changes in their weight loss plan, they ...

Recover from the Holidaze: Why Resolutions Fail

Lifestyle

Most New Year’s resolutions don’t last all year. Studies have shown that only 8 out of 100 people succeed in sticking to their resolutions. One ...

Bouncing Back After a Slip

Lifestyle

If you’ve been working hard to improve your eating habits, it can be discouraging when you slip-up. Maybe you overindulged at a party or ate ...

Ketosis and Meal Replacement Therapy: How Low To Go?

Getting Started

In "fat-burning" mode, your body breaks down fats into ketones and uses them for energy. This process is called ketosis, and it's the reason you ...

Change For Good: Making changes that last

Getting Started

It's not easy to make lasting changes to our behavior. We often start out with the best of intentions, but before long we find ourselves ...