DNA Weight Loss Test Confirms It

For $149 you can get a DNA test that will tell you how your body reacts to certain foods, and provide you with diet recommendations to help you lose weight and keep it off.
Basically, the test checks for three things:

How much fat from you absorb from your diet.
How your body metabolizes carbohydrates, and
How you respond [...]

Only After I Learned This…

Back in the day, when I left college, I made a series of decisions. I decided where I would work (and how hard I would even look for a job), and I decided on how I would eat and exercise.
Both of these decisions affected me for several years afterward (and, it could be argued, that [...]

Don’t Get Caught Unprepared on Your Night Out

There is a line in the movie Boiler Room. It is not one of the more popular lines, but it’s in there, nonetheless.
And it inspires this brief, but useful post, especially for you “night” types out there on the weekend. I have been there… It’s a challenge to balance “socializing” and fat loss.
With a wife [...]

What is this “Raw Food Diet” Stuff Anyway?

This may be the first in a series on the Raw Food Diet. If you like it, and want to see more, please let me know in the comments.
Do you see something wrong with this picture?
You are at a hole-in-the-wall diner. A juicy hamburger is sitting right in front of you. A large order of [...]

What Do You Believe You Are?

You know, if you are like me, at some point in your life, someone told you that you could be anything that you wanted to be.
While that may not be true in the most literal sense, it turns out, you are what you think you are…
Noted author C. S. Lewis said…
We are what we believe [...]

Yes! You Can Lose Weight by Running

I get so many questions on what is the best diet to lose weight, that I often wonder if people have lost their focus on the big equation…
And then someone asks a question like this…
Can I lose weight by running?
yes, Yes, YEs, YES!
There are two sides of the weight loss equation. Calories in. Everyone seems [...]

The Army Body Fat Worksheet

I get asked often about quick ways to measure body fat percentage. Many people find using calipers to be a bit cumbersome and difficult, and underwater weighing to be too expensive.
I get it, you want a way to estimate your body fat that is quick and efficient.
Well, here comes the Army to the rescue!
The Army [...]

Your question LIVE on TV with Valerie Waters

This is “Time Sensitive”.
At 5PM Eastern Valerie Waters is going LIVE on Ustream.TV and she wants to invite you to join her and the girls.
You can see and chat with her here…
http://tinyurl.com/val-tv

She’s going to be LIVE for 5 hours, and you’ll have the chance to ask her anything you want!
You’ll also have the opportunity to [...]

What’s Your Best Fat Loss Tip? Tuesday’s Tips 01062009

Hello! Each Tuesday in 2009, I will be publishing a collection of tips to either burn fat or build muscle. If you have tips, please leave them in the comments section, and you may see them in a future edition of Tuesday’s Tips!
I thought I would get the tips off to a fun start, [...]

Make Friends, Lose Weight

As Middle Managers know, the easiest way to lose weight (and maintain that weight loss), is to expend more calories than you take in – maintain a calorie deficit.  You can exercise more, eat less, or a little of both.
Do you drink regular soda?  Do you know how many calories you are drinking in?
Believe it [...]