Weight Management: Metabolic Health, Bulking & Fat Loss Strategies

Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.

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Diet & Exercise Plan for 17-Year-Olds

Weight loss can help improve your health if your doctor has indicated that you're overweight, but a 17-year-old boy or girl shouldn't obsessively restrict calories or over exercise.

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What Are the Benefits of Eating Rye Bread for Weight Loss?

Rye, a grain closely related to barley that makes a distinctly flavored bread, has particularly positive effects when your goal is weight loss. Rye bread fills you up, suppressing your desire to eat and squelching that gnawing hunger that often occurs when you're on a weight-loss plan.

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How to Reduce Water Weight in Men

Water makes up about 60 percent of your total body weight, and you lose and replace about 2 to 3 liters a day. Some days, it may feel like you retain more water than you lose. Water weight shows up on your body as swollen fingers and ankles, a bloated belly and sluggishness.

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Diet to Lose 10 Pounds in a Month

When you want to lose 10 pounds for an occasion next month, such as a high school reunion or your best friendโ€™s wedding, think twice before going on a fad diet.

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Gaining Weight and Eating 1,200 Calories a Day

Restricting your daily intake to 1,200 calories per day requires diligence and, oftentimes, hunger. With that effort and deprivation, you would expect to lose weight. When the opposite happens and the scale numbers go up, however, you may feel like throwing in the weight-loss towel and eating with abandon.

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Is it Possible for Women Over 50 to Lose Belly Fat?

"Middle-age spread" can appear at any age, but women may notice it most as they hit 50. Even if the number on the scale is the same as it has always been, your waistline may expand as your proportion of body fat to lean mass changes.

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Side Effects of the Master Cleanse

First published by Stanley Burroughs more than 50 years ago as a toxin-reducing and body-flushing program, the pamphlet "The Master Cleanser" has morphed into a protocol used by superstars and others seeking to demonstrate their dieting grit.

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What to Eat to Lose 20 Pounds

Losing any amount of weight requires you to burn more calories than you consume. Since 1 lb. equals 3,500 calories, for 20 lbs. you must create a 70,000 calorie deficit over several weeks. The most successful rate of weight loss is 1 or 2 lbs. per week says Joanne Larsen, R.D.

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How to Burn Fat Fast for Teens

When you want to reach a healthy weight, trimmimg body fat is preferable to losing valuable muscle mass. An overweight teenager burns fat just like an adult, by making smart dietary choices and moving more.

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Can I Flatten My Stomach in Two Weeks?

Achieving a flat belly in two weeks may not be possible if you have a lot of weight to lose. Use the time to jump start a healthier diet and fitness program.

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Is Eating Late at Night Bad for Weight Control?

Munching mindlessly in front of the television after dinner or stopping for a late-night snack after an evening of dancing can cause you to pile on the pounds. But a sensible meal that you eat later in the evening because of due your work schedule is unlikely to send your weight spiraling out of control.

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How to Calculate Your Weight Without a Scale

Calculating your precise weight without a scale is an impractical and complex physics problem involving water displacement and density. You may apply such a formula to a cube or rod, which has a regular shape and fixed density. Your body, however, is much more complex.

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Foods That Make You Fat Quickly

Too much of any food can lead to weight gain. The ones that make you fat most quickly are, predictably, those with lots of sugar, fats and refined grains. These foods provide easily digested and processed calories with minimal nutrition content.

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How Fattening Is Tofu?

Tofu is a versatile, inexpensive source of plant protein, making it a staple of many vegetarian diets. Also known as bean curd, tofu comes from curdled soy milk that's been drained, pressed into a block and cooled.

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First Signs of Losing Weight

You're strictly watching your portions, choosing healthier foods and walking every chance you get. Know that the scale isn't the only way to measure the effects of these changes. Your body will send signals that weight loss is happening. Instead of being beholden to achieving a certain "number,"

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What Meats Are High in Protein and Low in Calories?

Red meat provides you with high-quality protein, but many cuts contain a great deal of saturated fat, resulting in a high calorie count. Lean cuts of meat still offer all the protein, with far fewer calories.

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The Ideal Weight Based on Body Type

Exactly how much you weigh is a matter of genetics and your body composition. Instead of aiming for a particular number on the scale, make feeling fit and fabulous your goal. Your body type influences how your weight distributes, what exercises best suit you and what you should eat to fuel activity.

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Weight Watchers Grocery List

A coached plan with online support such as Weight Watchers really can help you lose more weight, compared to trying to lose weight on your own.

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Can Eating Grapes Help Me Lose Weight?

Grabbing a handful of grapes instead of a bag of chips is certainly a healthier dietary decision. This choice also supports weight loss, but grapes themselves aren't a weight-loss wonder.

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Ideal Strength-to-Weight Ratio

Your strength-to-weight ratio is simply your strength divided by your body weight. The ideal ratio depends on your gender and what lift you're performing. Competitive athletes' goals for the strength-to-weight ratio differ from those for the average gym-goer.

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