Weight loss for women over 50 requires a shift toward mindful eating and effective meal prep. Learn how the Eat-Stop-Eat strategy works and find the best vegetables for the Atkins diet.
The diet industry is exploding with fad diets, where you might eat only one kind of food, such as soup, or limit yourself to “detox” beverages to lose weight fast. When you want to drop 20 pounds, a quick fix may look appealing, especially with all those “before” and “after” photos to wow you.
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Eat Stop Eat recommends brief, regular fasts to promote weight loss and retention of muscle. Here's how it works.
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You may want to lose 20 pounds for an upcoming special event, such as a wedding, and fad diets promise fast results. But after you meet your target on a fad diet, it's likely you’ll gain all the weight back, and then some.
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Your body needs all three macronutrients – protein, carbohydrates and fat – to function properly, but various weight-loss diets dictate the amount of each to eat in a day.
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The older a woman gets, the harder it becomes to lose weight. At 50 years old, your body doesn’t burn calories the way it did when you were younger. You may have cut back on your activity level because of health issues or family and work responsibilities. The fact is, too, your metabolism slows down as you age.
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Classified as a whole grain, quinoa is the seed of a plant native to the Andes region of South America, related to Swiss chard, spinach and beets. Cooked quinoa makes a nutritious, gluten-free addition to any diet, providing a valuable source of fiber and vegetarian protein as well as a variety of health benefits.
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Where your metabolism is concerned, 50 is not the new 30. Resting metabolic rate – the number of calories your body burns while at rest – decreases as both men and women get older, which means you need fewer daily calories as you age. Moreover, significant weight loss through dieting can slow your metabolism even more.
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