Posts Tagged ‘diet’

How to Improve Your Memory

Our memory is one of the integral parts of day-to-day human life. We’re using it every moment, consciously or not, as we perceive the world and interpret it based on our memories and experiences, or as we look for the car keys, trying to recall where, exactly, was the last place they were seen?

It’s no small wonder that this part of our brain would fall prey to such… » Continue

April 21 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: diet, exercise, gtd, meditation, memory, minimalism, mnemonics | 5 comments»

How to Defend Your Coffee Habit

I don’t think I’ve read a productivity blog yet that didn’t suggest kicking the coffee habit. I’ve kicked many bad habits in the last few years, something that seemed impossibly hard at first—such as dumping dairy—but coffee is one thing that I never succeeded with. That’s probably because I never really wanted to.

While it truly is best that you cut caffeine out of your diet or curtail your consumption… » Continue

February 19 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: caffeine, coffee, diet, health, Productivity | 55 comments»

Weight Loss For A Perfect Valentines

As another one of the many special days of this year, Valentines Day, dawns upon us, I thought I’d sit down to write out some ideas you could get going right now to look and feel your best on the day when you’re going to spend some time with your loved one(s).Yes, I know weight loss doesn’t happen in a week, but starting now is better than starting later… » Continue

February 14 2008 | By Kavit | Tagged: diet, health, Lifestyle, weight-loss, wellness | 17 comments»

14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year

Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: change, commitment, diet, exercise, goal, habit, improvement, new years resolution, Productivity | 35 comments»

15 Tips to Restart the Exercise Habit (and How to Keep It)

It’s okay, you can finally admit it. It’s been two months since you’ve seen the inside of the gym. Getting sick, family crisis, overtime at work and school papers that needed to get finished all kept you for exercising. Now, the question is: how do you start again?

Once you have an exercise habit, it becomes automatic. You just go to the gym, there is

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November 6 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: diet, energy, exercise, fitness, health, life | 76 comments»

13 Tips to Actually Enjoy Exercising

Is staying in shape always something that gets bumped to the bottom of your list? I know many people that complain about not having enough time to exercise. I think they are lying to themselves. The real problem is that they hate exercising, so it will never be a priority.

I used to hate exercising too. Going to the gym, running and most forms of physical… » Continue

October 18 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: diet, energy, exercise, fitness, health | 34 comments»

Diet Tips & More for a Healthy and Trim Body

Last week The Secret to a Healthy Body talked about the physical things you should do to have a healthy body. This week, this article discusses the diet tips and more for keeping healthy and trim.

1. Timing. Try to eat every 3-4 hours so that you never get so hungry that you’re tempted to overeat at mealtime. Have breakfast, lunch… » Continue

August 24 2007 | By K. | Tagged: body, diet, healthy, tips, weight-loss | 56 comments»

10 Diet Hacks to Keep You Slim & Trim

1. Just say no to fruit juice. Juice is fruit with the fiber removed. Not to mention, most of them are packed with sugar. Opt for the real thing instead.

2. Stick to water. All of those sugary soft drinks are simply adding excess calories to your diet and to your waistline. Start drinking only water and a bit of tea and you could start seeing changes in your body… » Continue

June 14 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: diet, health, weight-loss | 38 comments»

Cut calories without dieting

Gretchen Rubin, author of the soon to be “Happiness Project” gives her take on how to make small changes in your eating habits to cut calories and shed a few pounds. Think of the tips as an “undiet.” The following are a few of my favorites:

2. I put tempting food in an inconvenient spot. Research shows that people are far more likely to eat food if… » Continue

March 14 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: diet, food, health, Lifestyle | 1 comment»

10 Unconventional Diet Tips: How to lose 50 pounds in three months

The following are 10 unconventional weight loss tips that worked for me. Between January 4, 2006 and March 31, 2006 I lost fifty pounds. These tips work well because almost every tip is focused around completing a small goal. In my opinion, to stay motivated and lose a significant amount of weight, you should complete many goals in a short period of time. The reason… » Continue

January 24 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: diet, health, Management, weight-loss | 264 comments»

Find out the nutritional facts of alcoholic beverages

Ever wonder how many calories (or carbs) are in your favorite “adult beverage?” The University of Rochester posted the nutritional facts of over 150 alcoholic beverages including beer, wine, champagne, liquor, mixed drinks, and malt beverages. The nutritional facts include alcohol content, calories per serving, and carbohydrates per serving. The most surprising to me was Smirnoff Ice racking up 228 calories per serving (more than any beer… » Continue

January 15 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: diet, health | 3 comments»

11 Ways to Use Less to Make 2008 Your Best Year Yet

A few days ago, Dustin suggested that I write a post about “ways to use ___” to kick off the new year. At first, I was at a loss to fill in that blank. I couldn’t think of any gadget, program or trick that was important enough to make a year-long impact.

Then it hit me. Maybe the reason I was having trouble coming up with a… » Continue

January 1 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 2008, diet, exercise, frugality, reading, resolutions, simplicity | no comments»

Avoiding Seasonal Weight Gain

I suppose this article is timely only for those in the hemisphere that is currently approaching winter. All you lucky ducks heading for bright lights and sunshine will just have to file this one away for a few months.

For those of us moving into the long dark tea time of the soul known as winter, an ominous question presents itself.

Do you pack on the extra pounds in the long… » Continue

November 1 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: diet, eating, health, Lifehack, nutrition, weight | 7 comments»

6 Quick Tips to Lose Weight Easily

At Weight Loss Daily Blog, Houa Yang introduces some tips to lose weight easily, by carefully controlling the fat intake and diet through couple of easy ways: