Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.
An active lifestyle helps you gain weight by stoking your appetite and building muscle. Resistance training is especially important in helping you to put on lean mass, which is a far healthier way to gain weight than adding just fat.
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The Master Cleanse, also known as the lemonade diet, is an extreme dietary cleanse, which has you consume a concoction of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water for at least 10 days. You also conduct a nightly saltwater flush and take a laxative tea.
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Reality weight-loss television shows lead you to believe that dropping 60 pounds in four months is a doable goal. Unless you have a massive amount of weight to lose, though, a 60-pound loss isn't a safe goal to achieve in a scant 16-week period.
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Standard lunch fare is often loaded with carbohydrates -- tacos, sandwiches, creamy soups, pizza and pasta salads contain grains, potatoes, milk and sugar that raise your intake of this macronutrient.
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A month gives you plenty of time to lose 5 pounds without extreme deprivation or hours of exercise. A moderate calorie deficit, reasonable amounts of physical activity and some lifestyle adjustments help you achieve your goal and sustain your new body size.
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Even when formal muscle-building exercise isn't an option, making quality dietary choices to gain weight will improve your appearance and function.
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Magnesium is an essential mineral that plays a role in more than 300 functions in your body, many related to the way you metabolize energy. As a mineral, it has no calories and can't directly cause you to gain weight.
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Daily fluctuations in your weight on the scale are completely normal. What you ate, your hormones, how hard you worked out, your hydration levels -- all influence what the number reveals. Your weight can fluctuate by as much as five pounds in either direction from one day to the next.
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Available in health food stores and online, Kombucha tea boasts many health benefits—one of which being weight loss. No major medical research supports this claim, but proponents of the drink promise that it will help regulate your natural systems and lead to better health.
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You're seemingly doing everything right -- trimming portion sizes and exercising regularly -- but your body just won't let go of excess weight.
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A common diet myth is that milk contains too much fat and should be cut out when you are trying to diet, according to the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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Fruits have nearly three times the calories per serving as vegetables, making them an effective way to add nutritious calories and gain weight. Some fruits are more watery and fibrous, which only fill you up so you can't eat additional calories.
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The body mass index uses your height and weight to estimate the level of fatness in your body. For much of the population, it's a fair enough gauge as well as simple to apply and noninvasive to perform. A BMI higher than 25 indicates that you're overweight, and when it's over 30, it indicates obesity.
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In physics, density is defined as an object's mass divided by its volume. Body density is essentially your compactness, or how much you weigh for every square inch of space you take up. Knowing your total body density can be helpful if you plan to use it in equations that help you estimate percent body fat.
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You've got just two weeks to shrink your belly and hips before swimsuit season or that high school reunion. You can certainly jumpstart a weight-loss plan and see some results in two weeks, but how much depends on your starting weight and commitment.
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If you're trying to gain weight, flaxseed oil provides you with essential fatty acids as well as additional calories. Flaxseed comes from the pressed seeds of the flax plant, and you can add it to smoothies, drizzle it on top of cereal or mix it into a salad dressing.
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You diet and exercise faithfully, but the fat in your hips, buttocks and thighs refuses to budge. Your breasts, however, seem to shrink right before your eyes.
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You're trying to trim calories and exercise so you can lose weight, but hunger pangs nag -- so it's nearly impossible to stay true to your plan. To keep your hunger in check, pay attention to more than calories. Be aware of the types of food you choose and when you eat them.
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Ten days gives you time to start padding your meals with extra calories and to embark on a regular gym routine, but gaining more than 1 to 2 pounds so quickly is exceptionally challenging and not a smart step toward good health.
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All the biochemical processes your body does daily make up your metabolism. These processes consist of basic bodily functions -- such as pumping blood -- physical activity and digestion. The energy used to fuel these processes is measured as calories, which you get from food.
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