Weight Loss & Obesity Features
- You Lost the Weight. What About That Extra Skin?
A large weight loss can lead to loose, extra skin. Find out what you can do about it.
- Are Your Meds Making You Gain Weight?
Some medicines make you more likely to gain weight. Find out which ones they are and what you can do to avoid those extra pounds.
- How I Lost Half My Body Weight
Weight loss surgery, exercise, and determination helped a WebMD user shape up.
- 5 Tricky Diet Situations, Solved
These five situations can make it really tough to stick to your diet. Find out what do to at happy hour, business lunches, family dinners, and more.
- Trying to Lose Weight? 8 Questions to Ask Your Doctor
When you're setting out to lose weight, your doctors can help. But they may not talk about it much until you bring it up. Use these questions to start the conversation.
- How They Lost 478 Pounds
When you're working on weight loss, it can help to have a little inspiration. Here, six people share their secrets on how they lost the pounds.
- 9 Secrets of Successful Weight Maintenance
Once you've lost the weight, it's time to start working on keeping those pounds off for good. Find out how other people have succeeded at maintaining their weight loss.
- Set the Stage for Weight Loss Success
To lose weight, you need your environment (like your home and job) to support that goal. Get 8 tips you can use right now to set yourself up for weight loss success.
- 12 Tips to Lose the Weight for Good
Feel like you’ve tried every diet trick in the book? Here are 12 new weight-loss strategies to try.
- 9 Lies You Tell Yourself About Food and Dieting
Experts explain how your beliefs about losing weight could be holding you back.
- 10 Surprising Foods That May Hamper Weight Loss
When you're working on weight loss and the scale isn't budging, check to see if one or more of these foods is part of the problem.
- The Real Gains From Losing Weight
Learn how losing even a little weight can help your blood pressure.
- The Truth About Starch Blockers
WebMD looks at weight-loss claims of starch blockers.
- Change Your Habits and Lose Weight for Good
Get tips for setting up long-term changes in your diet and lifestyle.
- 6 Ways Mindfulness Can Help You Lose Weight
Eating purposefully and mindfully can help you reach your health goals and reduce stress.
- Stay Focused on Health: Have Backup Plans
Good intentions for healthy living may go out the window when you find yourself out to eat, at a party, or facing a rainy day. Get ideas for sticking with your goals in surprise situations.
- 9 Foods to Help You Lose Weight
Losing weight is a matter of simple math. To drop pounds, you need to eat fewer calories than you burn. These nine foods can help.
- How I Lost 100 Pounds
Catherine Grunden explains how she dropped so much weight after a lifetime of obesity.
- African Mango: What to Know About Irvingia Gabonensis
African mango supplements are touted for weight loss and belly fat reduction. Do they work?
- Women and Obesity Trends: What's the Link?
The surprising link between women's thoughts and behaviors and obesity in America.
- 7 Things Never to Do to Lose Weight
Be aware of these dangerous things you should never do when trying to lose weight.
- Ask the Expert: How Can I Stop Bingeing?
Our fitness expert, Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP, explains what causes bingeing and how to stop.
- Diet 911: After You Overeat
You may feel discouraged after you realize you’ve eaten more than you planned, but don’t despair! Read these tips for getting back on track.
- 6 Meals a Day for Weight Loss
How eating six meals a day affects your weight.
- Is Fat the New Normal?
WebMD article on why Americans are gaining weight and calling it normal.
- Expert Q&A: Tips from 'The Biggest Loser'
Cheryl Forberg, RD, nutritionist with 'The Biggest Loser,' shares her top weight loss tips with WebMD.
- Grocery Savvy: Calories Count
If you’re counting calories on your diet, it’s critical to understand how many calories are in each portion. Here are some simple tips.
- Acai: Weight Loss Wonder Fruit?
Some ads are touting the acai berry as a miracle weight loss cure. We cut through the hype to bring you the bottom line about acai and weight loss.
- Major Weight Loss: How to Take the First Step
How to take the first step on the path toward major weight loss.
- How to Stay on a Diet
Will this be the year you find diet success, or will you end up a diet dropout? Find out why diets fail, and read expert tips about how to stay on a diet.
- Expert Q&A: Losing a Lot of Weight
Trying to lose a lot of weight? WebMD interviews Biggest Loser weight loss expert Michael Dansinger, MD, for tips on sticking to a weight loss plan and reaching your goals.
- Expert Q&A: Getting Started With a Weight Loss Plan
WebMD gets expert advice from James O. Hill about how to approach a weight loss plan that takes pounds off and keeps them off.
- How Randy Jackson Lost 100 Pounds
American Idol judge Randy Jackson tells WebMD his 9 top secrets for weight loss success.
- Does Fear of Regaining Weight Keep You From Losing?
To help quash the fear of regaining weight, weight loss experts advise people to separate emotions from behavior. That means, in part, minimizing your feelings of deprivation -- and accepting the fact that it's a lifetime eating and exercise plan, not a diet and temporary workout plan.
- When Losing Weight Feels Insurmountable
Your health and emotions can be compromised as a result of obesity. Here are the stories of four people who – at last – lost large amounts of weight to improve their health and mental outlook on life.
- Can a Food Diary Help You Lose Weight?
Wondering how to keep a food journal? Here are 8 tips for making a food diary work for you.
- How to Say 'No' to Food Pushers
Instead of providing diet support, it seems like your well-meaning loved ones are trying to commit diet sabotage. Here's how to deal with it.
- The Belly Fat Burden: Reducing Your Waist Circumference
When diet and exercise aren't helping you lose belly fat, medications and surgery may do the job.
- The Worst Diets Ever: Diets That Don't Work
How do you tell legitimate weight loss plans from diets that don't work in the long run?
- 6 Steps to Changing Bad Eating Habits
If you're serious about eating healthier and losing weight, you need to shake it up, change those bad eating habits, and start thinking differently about your diet and lifestyle.
- 10 Motivational Tips to Keep You Healthy
Here, WebMD shares the top 10 motivational tips from experts on how to stick to your health goals.
- Causes of Obesity in Men
is killing American men. Here’s a look at the causes and health risks associated with obesity, and what you can do to fight back.
- Quality of Life After Successful Weight Loss Surgery
Five "successful losers" tell their story about life after bariatric surgery.
- Weight Loss Surgery: Long-Term Results
Bariatric surgery can help you get past those cravings, get healthier, and be more active.
- Weight Loss Surgery: What to Expect the First Year
With bariatric surgery, the most dramatic changes happen in the first year. Here's what to expect.
- 5 Easy Ways to Lose Weight and Improve Your Health
What if, instead of trying to make sweeping changes, we resolved only to tackle a few easy ways to lose weight and boost health?
- How to Beat the Holiday Weight Gain Odds
From 'food pushers' to parties that tempt your senses, here's how to overcome holiday diet temptations.
- The Skinny on Fat: Good Fats vs. Bad Fats
WebMD knows that fats are an important part of a healthy diet. Learn about these good fats, including how much – and which kind – you should be eating.
- Weight Loss Surgery for Obesity
Discover the risks and benefits of two types of weight loss surgery ― gastric banding and gastric bypass ― for men.
- Foods That Curb Hunger
What if you could cut calories, yet still eat plenty of food, and not be plagued with constant hunger?