Articles & Books From Low-Calorie

Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-12-2022
Counting calories is a time-tested method for reducing food intake, which leads to weight loss and other health benefits. Counting calories can be part of making sure you eat a well-balanced diet as well. Eating out can be troublesome for the most committed dieter, but some helpful hints can steer you safely through even that dangerous landscape.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-27-2016
Whether you're trying to lose 15 pounds or 150 pounds, the only real solution to weight control is to eat right, exercise regularly, and stay away from fad diets. The journey to weight loss can be made easier by knowing standard portion sizes for various food groups, keeping your hunger level in check, and knowing weight-loss facts versus myths.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
One way to keep track of how much food you’re eating is to focus on portion sizes, rather than on individual calorie counts. Here’s a quick-reference guide to standard portion sizes of different foods within each food group that provide approximately the same number of calories. Keep in mind that these guidelines are general; calories actually vary within each food group, depending not only on the food itself, but also how it’s prepared.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
You may encounter more weight-loss misinformation floating around than reliable advice. If you're new to the weight-loss game — and it is something of a game — you're going to hear and read all types of tips and advice on how to do it, what foods to eat and not eat, and what works and what doesn't. Here are six popular diet myths, debunked: Eating in-between meals makes you fat.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
What happens when you don’t eat? You set yourself up for a binge in the not-so-distant future. Food deprivation never helped anyone lose weight in the long run. The trick is to figure out if you’re really hungry, and to eat just enough to satisfy your hunger. One way to know if what you’re feeling is true physical hunger, and not emotional hunger, is that when you’re truly hungry, you’ll feel better by eating just about any type of food.
Low-Calorie Dieting For Dummies
Break your bad habits and start enjoying a low-cal lifestyle! Want to lose weight and keep it off for good? This no-nonsense guide shows you how to consume fewer calories than you burn, providing a delicious, easy, and safe low-calorie plan you can follow for life! You'll find tools to improve your eating and exercise habits, cope with stress and boredom, assess your progress, and live healthier and happier.