calories

from walking.about.com

Is it a myth that runners burn more calories than walkers? It just makes sense - all that sweating and huffing and puffing must mean more calories are being burnt, right?

from menshealth.com

We’ve devoted a lot of space to diet disasters like 1,300-calorie gut-bombing salads and 73-ingredient Frankenfoods, so I also want to offer some delicious alternatives to favorite (but sometimes scary) foods, so you won’t feel like healthy eating is some twisted form of self-deprivation.

from exercise.about.com

I once had a client who asked, "When I eat too many calories, how do they know to go straight to my thighs? Do they have some kind of homing device or what?" I suppose that's one way to look at it since our genes usually determine where we store excess fat. But, a more important point is that, if we didn't eat too many calories, we wouldn't have any extra calories to store.

from thatsfit.com

The recommended amount of calories for most adult men and women is somewhere around 2,000 per day (give or take, depending on factors such as weight, basal metabolic rate, activity level, etc.). Now, factor in the 458 calories the average American takes in a day from juice and soft drink consumption (source: Obesity), and it's clear that there isn't all too much room left for actual food.

from shape.com

It's the little things that count...especially when it comes to counting calories and cutting fat in your diet.

1 Leave behind three or four bites of your meal. Research shows that people usually polish off everything they're served, even if they're not hungry.

from menshealth.com

My buddy, Bill, came to me a while back looking for advice on how to banish the bulging belly he had acquired in his later years. I skipped the diet lecture and instead gave him a copy of the book, Eat This, Not That!, and a single piece of advice: Start with the drinks chapter.

from fitsugar.com

The warm weather of Spring seems to say "Miller time." It's perfect for BBQs and cold beverages. I sometimes call beer "liquid bread" because of all the carbs, so it's good to know that not all beers are created equally, especially when it comes to calories.

from shape.com

The truth is, all diets boil down to a simple formula-eating fewer calories than you burn. Break that rule and all the carb-cutting, fat-banning, low-glycemic-index-eating in the world won't make a bit of difference.

from naturemade.com

If you’re concerned about weight loss, don’t be. Losing weight may be easier than you think.

from thatsfit.com

For many of us, the reason we're overweight or obese isn't down to what we're eating -- it's down to what we're drinking. Soda, alcohol, juice, smoothies, lattes -- these are all major sources of calories, yet we don't think of them that way because we don't sit down with a knife and fork to eat them.

from fitsugar.com

Do you work under the assumption that your aerobic workout boosts your metabolism for hours after you stop working out? This statement is actually true -- but the calorie burn is probably not nearly as much as you think!

from slate.com

Do diets work? The great majority of doctors think so. Experience tells us to expect an enormous failure rate, yet most of us continue to hold out hope that the diets we prescribe will result in lost weight or other health benefits. Why do we keep believing?

from thatsfit.com

Happy Valentine's Day! Chances are that many of you are reading this with a box of chocolates sitting on your desk next to the keyboard. After all, candy is the second most commonly received Valentine's Day gift (after, of course, flowers).

But how badly is is that box of chocolates going to mess up your diet plan?

from fitsugar.com

Watching your calories can also mean watching yourself eat through your daily allowed amount rather quickly.

Luckily eDiets has created a short list of easy foods that are very low calorie or calorie free. What does this mean?

Some foods have significantly more calories than others but what does the difference actually look like? Each of the photographs represents 200 calories of the particular type of food; the images are sorted from low to high calorie density. When you consider that an entire plate of broccoli contains the same number of calories as a small spoonful of peanut butter, you might think twice the next time you decide what to eat. You have a fixed amount of calories to "spend" each day; based on the following pictures, which would you eat?