When you're trying to lose weight, dodging the breakroom doughnut tray, your office mate's candy bowl or the vending machine makes sticking to your diet that much harder. Encouraging your workplace to join you, though, just might make some of those temptations disappear.

Reducing belly bulge comes down to a combination of dietary and exercise strategies. Eating lots of junk food, drinking alcohol -- particularly beer -- and living a sedentary lifestyle inevitably leads to belly bulge.

Forget about spot reduction; to reduce excess fat from your midsection, you must lose total body fat. To accomplish this, experts generally recommend eating a healthy diet and committing to a weekly exercise routine that includes at least 30 minutes of moderate cardio on most days and strength training on two days.

Weight gain in the midsection of the abdomen is fairly common, but it also poses health risks, including potential problems with cardiovascular health and cholesterol levels. No amount of situps gets rid of excess abdominal fat, because you cannot choose where you lose fat when you exercise.

Losing 10 pounds in two months requires dietary diligence and serious exercise, but it's possible for most people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends you lose weight no faster than 2 pounds per week, because faster weight loss is more likely to be achieved in an unsound manner.

While overweight and obesity is as much a problem for kids as for adults in the United States, the focus for children shouldn't be on weight, but on making healthier choices. Kids are still growing, and severely restricting calorie intake to promote a fast weight loss may impair growth and development.

Perhaps you were once a competitive runner, a heavy lifter, a football quarterback or a dancing queen. But as the demands of work, kids and life crept in during your 30s and 40s, fitness fell by the wayside.

That upcoming event for which you want to look your very best is only three weeks away -- but that doesn't mean you can drop a significant amount of weight by then.

Water weight gain is a common side effect of pregnancy, especially during the last few months. Although you may be eager to ditch the extra pounds as soon as possible, losing weight takes time. Many women lose excess water weight within a week of delivery without much effort.

Excess fat in the outer thigh and hip area commonly plague women who are prone to store fat in the lower body. Solely reducing fat in one area isn't possible. To quickly remove your saddlebags, you must focus on burning total body fat.

Available in a variety of fruit combinations, Bolthouse Farms smoothies are a convenient way to up your fruit intake. And while the smoothies aren't necessarily a weight-loss drink, you can fit them into any healthy diet and exercise plan designed to help you lose those unwanted pounds.

A 125-pound person burns an estimated 315 calories exercising vigorously on a stationary bike in 30 minutes, while a 185-pound person burns 466 calories. (Ref 1) This 30-minute ride shows you how effective cycling is -- so imagine the effectiveness of a structured cardio routine focused on cycling.