weight loss

Ask LH: How Do I Accurately Track My Weight And Fat Loss?

Dear Lifehacker, When I weigh myself on a scale multiple times a day, sometimes I weigh a lot more in the morning than I do at night. I’ve also heard it’s more important to measure fat loss than weight loss, but how do I track that accurately? I want to measure my progress, but I don’t know how. Please help! Thanks, Losing Track


Old Clothes Won’t Motivate You To Lose Weight

It’s not uncommon to keep old clothes around as motivation to lose weight. Having a pair of jeans from your skinner days may sound like it provides a tangible measure of success, but Psychology Today points out that it’s just creating extra clutter in your home.


Why Low-Fat Diets Aren’t Better For Weight Loss

If food is labelled low fat, it’s got to be better for weight loss, right? Wrong — it’s the total kilojoules that matter most for weight loss. Looking solely at fat content only gives you part of the picture.


Eat Large Meals Earlier For Better Weight Loss

New research suggests that if you want to lose weight, you should focus not just on what you eat, but also when you eat — particularly for your biggest meals of the day.


Keep Off Christmas Weight By Exercising Hard The Day Before

Christmas is a time for indulgent feasts and parties with bountiful booze. That’s great, but if you want to keep off the resulting holiday weight gain, it’s best to prepare. High intensity exercise before meals can give a much-needed metabolic boost.


Cut Carbs Two Days A Week For Weight Loss

This two-day-a-week diet plan sounds a lot easier than full-time calorie-counting: Just avoid eating carbs on those two days and eat what you normally would the rest of the time. A recent study suggests this may be more effective than typical diet plans.


Feel Full Faster By Pretending The Food You’re Eating Is Indulgent

Your mindset plays an even more pivotal role in dieting than you might think. A recent study indicates that merely thinking of food as calorie-rich or low-fat affects how full you feel, by regulating a hormone called ghrelin that’s responsible for controlling appetite.


Vary Your Calorie Intake To Break Through A Weight Loss Plateau

If you’re trying to lose weight and find that all of the sudden it seems impossible to shed more kilos than it was at the beginning, you may have hit a plateau. Nutrition Diva suggests one way to overcome the hurdle is calorie cycling.


For Weight Loss, What You Eat May Matter More Than How Many Calories You Ingest

A new study by nutritionists and public health experts at Harvard University showed that the conventional wisdom that the key to weight loss is just to eat less and exercise more actually isn’t very effective when it comes to weight loss. For many people, they say, what you eat matters just as much.


Don’t Compute While You Eat If You Want To Snack Less

Not eating while you’re doing other things is pretty standard advice when you’re trying to lose weight or modify your diet, but it’s not just folk wisdom. A study by Bristol University confirms that eating at the screen doesn’t leave you satisfied and might lead you to snack later.


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