Weight Loss & Obesity News & Features
- Can Email Help Your Health?
Study shows electronic messages may help you adopt better habits
- Are Your Relationships Making You Fat?
5 strategies for dealing with non-dieting loved ones
- You Can Be a 'Biggest Loser,' Too
Ready to transform your body -- and your life? Here are some real-life lessons from the hit reality TV show The Biggest Loser.
- The Health Risks of Fat
The health risks of fat -- consider these 11 tips as motivation to help you lose weight.
- The Impact of Weight on Your Body
Fat, particularly fat around your waist, raises your risk of serious illness. Do you need motivation to lose excess pounds? Consider these 11 tips.
- 8 Ways to Burn Calories and Fight Fat
For years, products have been marketed with the promise of helping you burn more calories. But is there really anything you can do to increase the number of calories your body burns each day?
- 8 Ways to Think Thin
While there's no getting around the need to exercise and eat healthier, long-term weight loss starts in your head. Experts say that having the right attitude can help you think yourself thin.
- Enjoy Food Dates Without Wrecking Your Diet
Experts give tips for making your romantic food dates less fattening.
- Foods to Help You Lose Weight
Looking for foods to help you lose weight? These five tips will help you zero in on the foods that make you thin.
- Losing Weight as a Couple: Double Trouble or Twice the Determination?
Couples loosing weight should recognize they each have different needs.
- 8 Diet Motivation Tips for Success
Can't lose weight? Try these diet motivation tips for success.
- Bathroom Scales Don't Tell The Whole Story
Experts rate the best and worst in body-fat measurement devices.
- 8 Secrets to Diet Success
Diet experts explain 8 diet success tips to help you stick to your diet plan.
- Don't Let the Holiday Blues Derail Your Diet
If you're prone to holiday blues, here are ways to keep the holiday cheer -- and your diet -- intact.
- 5 Strategies for Keeping Pounds Off
Five successful diet secrets from dieters who have lost weight and kept it off, maintaining their goal weight.
- 4 Ways to Get That Diet Going
Before you get started on a weight loss plan, consider these tips.
- Choosing a Weight Loss Buddy
Losing weight with a buddy is more fun, and it may even help you shed more pounds.
- 7 Ways to Jump-Start Your Weight Loss Plan This Fall
Fall can be the perfect time to be active and eat more healthfully.
- Your Weight Loss Wake-Up Call
Experts and dieters offer insights on making the decision to diet - and sticking with it.
- How to Stop Overeating
Try these tips for getting more satisfaction from fewer calories.
- Fructose and Weight Gain: A Bad Rap?
Experts examine a controversy over claims that the sweetener known as fructose may be contributing to the obesity epidemic.
- 10 Diet Rules Meant to be Broken
What the experts say when it comes to dieting rules.
- Kelly's Story: Going the Distance
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- 10 Ways to Help a Loved One Lose Weight
How to be supportive of friends or family members who are beginning a weight loss plan.
- How to Drop Pound-Packing Habits
Are you sabotaging your weight loss program with eating habits you don't even know you have? Three experts tell WebMD how to spot those hefty habits - and change them!
- Jean's Story: Ice Hockey and a Healthy BMI
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Lose Weight: Eat Breakfast
Studies show making breakfast a daily habit can help you lose weight - and keep it off.
- Top 10 Ways to Get Back on Track
Blame it on the holidays. Or maybe you just got too darned busy to think about what you were eating. Perhaps you threw caution -- and calorie counts -- to the wind during a fancy-free vacation.
- Weight Loss: 7 Ways to Get Your Family's Support
Learn how to get your loved ones to support your diet -- and how to cope when they don't.
- Say What? Coping With Comments About Your Weight
How to deflect criticism and accept compliments
- Makeover Magic for Dieters
Why wait until you reach your goal to start looking great?
- Diet-Busting Foods That May Surprise You
There are many foods that seem like they're healthy but are actually loaded with calories and fat.
- Pat's Story: 1 Step at a Time
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- True Confessions: My Weight-Loss Sins
WLC members 'fess up to their top 5 weight-loss mistakes
- The Thin Commandments
A diet expert explains a 10-point behavioral strategy for losing weight and keeping it off.
- Katrina's Story: Making It Work
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Kim's Story: An Inspiration for Healthy Weight Loss
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Sharon's Story: Eating (Healthfully) for 2
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Sherry's Story: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Danger: Diet Disaster Area Ahead!
Learn how to navigate potholes on the dieting highway without gaining a pound.
- Who's That Thin Person in the Mirror?
How to let go of your old image and learn to love the new you
- Dorothy's Story: A Woman on a Mission
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Carolyn's Story: Better Health and a Better Life
A woman's true story on weight loss success.
- Add Joy, Not Pounds, With Holiday Spirits
If you're trying not to gain weight during the holiday season, use these tips to keep your food plan on track -- especially if you drink alcohol.
- 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.