Weight Loss & Obesity Features
- The Biggest Loser Isn't Realistic
The Biggest Loser is the newest TV survivor show. For nine weeks, a dozen people are vying for the biggest weight loss -- huffing, puffing, starving, sweating, swearing. And yes, they're losing weight.
- 5 Weight Loss Myths
Get the scoop -- and the truth -- behind 5 common weight loss misconceptions.
- For Weight-Loss Success, Slow Is The Way To Go
Realistic goals can help keep pounds off.
- Barbara's Story: More Food, More Energy, More Fun
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Focus on Fitness, Not Fatness
Critics and experts challenge the goal of thinness as unrealistic and unnecessary; they say fitness is better for health in the long run.
- What to Do When You Want to Give Up Your Diet
Get inspired by these dieters' stick-to-it secrets.
- Break Your Food Addictions
Are you driven to eat certain foods? It could be an addiction.
- Countdown to Maintenance
How to get ready for a lifetime of slimness.
- Weight Loss With Medication
There's no magic bullet yet -- but for people with obesity, weight loss drugs can be a helpful part of treatment.
- Finding Clothes That Fit and Flatter
One problem with today's clothing sizes is that as a nation, our basic shape has been gradually changing. Yet much of the clothing industry hasn't yet recognized that fact.
- Why Aren't You Losing Weight?
Could a medical problem or medication be to blame?
- Calcium: Drink Yourself Skinny
Dairy products boost metabolism and aid weight loss.
- Focus on Thinking Differently to Lose Weight
Are you waiting until you've reached your goal weight to "think thin?" Don't, say weight loss experts. The time to start thinking -- and living -- as a thinner, healthier person is right now.
- How to Think Like a Thin Person
Don't wait to live fit -- start now!
- 'Forgive Me, Doctor, for I Have Sinned'
Instead of feeling guilty about their weight, people can learn how to gain control of their eating habits and behaviors related to food.
- Dieting Dilemma: Keeping Weight Off
Weight loss isn't easy, and staying slim is tricky. That's why a lifestyle overhaul works better than dieting.
- Top 10 Member Weight-Loss Tips
Here's some great advice from people who've been there.
- Take Off Those Last 10 Pounds
These tips can help you get to your goal.
- Spice Up Your Sex Life - No Matter What Your Size
Have you put your sex life on hold while you wait for those last 10 (or even 100) pounds to disappear? While losing weight and getting healthier can definitely get those urges going again, depriving yourself of romance in the meantime is not a good idea.
- What Is Emotional Eating? My Story
Do you remember when your out-of-control emotional eating first began? I can, even though it was more than five decades ago. I was 9, a skinny, active child -- and suddenly I was stuffing myself with entire cans of spaghetti for lunch, two or more desserts at dinner, and, throughout the day, all the soda, candy, cupcakes, and potato chips I could buy or find.
- Food Cravings: Taking Back the Power
In the previous chapter I told you that for long years of my life, emotional eating and food took the place of some very important parts of living. For example, I had few meaningful relationships with other people, and when I moved away from them, I seldom stayed in touch. My most meaningful day-to-day "relationship" was with -- food.
- Breaking Free -- My Battle with Emotional Eating
Talking to the mirror: "How can I be so fat? This isn't my body! This isn't me." But it was me, feeling miserable about my fat, distorted body through more than five decades of helplessness against the power of my food cravings and emotional eating.
- My Relationship With Food: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - But So Worth It
Newsflash: "This just in -- Diana Potter wants the world to know the truth about her longstanding on-and-off relationship with food. In a hastily called press conference following the explosive announcement that she's ending her career as a professional overeater, Potter said today:
- To Start Losing, Start Loving
Getting over emotional battles can be the key to losing weight.
- Fat, Funny Girl: It's No Joke
"I can lose 10 ugly pounds anytime I want -- I'll just cut off my head!" Do you use humor to make light of your emotional eating and your weight? Make jokes about overeating and being fat as a way of getting along with other people? I was a Grand Champion at it.
- How to Deal With Diet Saboteurs
When you're trying to lose weight, often your friends and loved ones become the greatest obstacle. Learn how to turn these diet saboteurs into diet supporters.
- Foil Your Friendly Diet Foes
Strategies to help your diet survive temptations from not-so-supportive friends and loved ones.
- Waistline-Friendly Fast Food?
More fast food chains and restaurants are jumping on the health food bandwagon. But are these lower-fat choices a whole-hearted effort to fight obesity?
- Life After Weight Loss Surgery
Gastric bypass surgery can definitely change a person's life for the better, but there are also some serious risks and profound life changes that go along with the surgery.
- Top 10 Bad Habits That Lead to Weight Gain
Knowledge is power: You can break habits
- Weight Loss Surgery: Is It For You?
Weight loss surgery can change your life -- but it's important to know there's almost as much preparation as there is recuperation for people who undergo the surgery. And once the deal is done, there is often no turning back. Are you ready?
- Make Friends with Your Kitchen
You've heard of retail therapy and cinema therapy? Now comes "culinary therapy," the philosophy of making friends with food in the intimacy of your own kitchen.
- Confronting Your Food Issues
Learn the how-tos of psyching yourself into cooking healthy.
- Beware Untested Diet Pills
There are safe ways to drop extra pounds using diet supplements, but stay away from untested diet pills.
- 5 Diet Traps to Avoid
Can't keep off the weight? Maybe you're caught in a diet trap.
- Little Weight Loss Goes A Long Way
If trying to lose those extra pounds is getting you down, don't despair; doctors say even a modest weight loss can net important health benefits.
- Do Food Cravings Reflect Your Feelings?
Overcome emotional eating. There are many ways to cope with the stress of the day that don't include turning to food for comfort.
- Can't Shed Those Pounds?
A lack of sleep can affect your ability to lose weight.
- Can't Shed Those Pounds?
Sleep loss can effect appetite and metabolism and make it harder to lose weight.
- How to Avoid Weight Loss Crash and Burn
How to stay on track with a diet plan.
- Winning Mental Strategies for Weight Loss
What's keeping you from losing weight successfully? Chances are, it's not just what you're eating and how much (or how little) you're exercising. For most people, a major part of the problem is how they think about their food, their exercise, and themselves.
- Four Keys to Success
You can lose weight and keep it off, no matter what your body type or genetics -- here are four tips that will help.
- Obesity Epidemic "Astronomical"
The prognosis for the nation is bad and getting worse as obesity takes its toll on the health of adults and children alike.
- Thinking Thin: Recipe for Success
People who have lost weight and kept it off owe their success to long-term changes.
- The Town That Lost 2 Tons
A community gets together to 'Fight the Fat' and loses almost 4,000 pounds.
- Avoiding Weight Loss Crash and Burn
Lots of diets promise quick and easy weight loss. But what do you do afterward? Instead of rapid loss, focus on slow changes that result in sustainable weight management.
- The Truth About Weight-Loss Pills
Late night infomercials make it sound like you can you pop a pill, sit on the couch, grab a doughnut, and lose weight, but only if you're willing to fork over the cash for a "fat burner" or "fat trapper."
- 'Cyberdieting' Takes Off
Are your sites set on losing weight? More and more people are using the Internet to become virtually fit.
- Bariatric Surgery
It's not for everyone, but when it works, the results can be dramatic.
- Is Fat Making a Comeback?
Not really. But experts say that low-fat diets aren't the answer, either.