diet

Tips, tricks, recipes, and hacks to make your diet a successful one.

How to Raise Your Vibration with Food
We have come to a time when Americans have become more interested in being at an optimum level of physical and spiritual health. There is a multitude of diets that claim to enhance your metabolism, activate your body's fat burning potential and unlock insulin from your liver. Companies make millions every year by promising: "eat our food and you will lose weight!" What happens is this—nutrition companies market to a specific audience through target advertising and you pay them your money, eat their food, and you may lose weight. What about your spiritual wellness? Spiritual wellness is key to a happy and successful life. Without spiritual wellness, we are blocked, hungry, and still feeling horrible. What if you could easily make long-term changes to your eating habits and the way you look at food? What if you could eat food and grow spiritually? It is possible!
By Lady Red8 years ago in Longevity
Juice Cleanses: Debunked
Diet fads and myths have been around for several years. The juice cleanse and detox diets in particular splatter the pages of Facebook and Twitter leaving individuals hoping to lose weight confused and in jeopardy of actually harming their bodies instead of losing weight in a healthy way. This blog will lead you through a few different fad diets, why they don't work, and some ideas to help you get started on losing weight in a healthy way.
By Ellie Schmidt8 years ago in Longevity
An Intermittent Fasting Progress Food Guide
These final ten pounds have been the hardest for me to lose. They are coming off slowly but surely. Even though the progress is slow, I'm still happy with progress. I'm currently working out 6 days a week, mostly weight lifting and HIIT (high intensity interval training) cardio sessions, meaning quick bursts of high intensity cardio movements followed by short rest periods. I should be a fat burning machine, but my metabolism slows as I lose more weight. I will explore the different scientific approaches to speeding up metabolism later, but for now, I'm going to try a tactic that has helped balance me in the past: intermittent fasting.
By N8 years ago in Longevity
What Is a Macro and Why Do I Care?
Whether you're watching your weight or trying to bulk up with muscle, you've probably hit the internet looking for help, suggestions, and information at least once. If your search has been anything like mine, you will have stumbled across something called "Macros." Sometimes called Macronutrients or referred to in a programme called IIFYM (if it fits your macros), I gave a macronutrient diet a go recently with great success.
By Sarah Katherine8 years ago in Longevity
Gluten-Free Vegan on a Budget
Living as a vegan with a gluten intolerance is definitely not for the faint of heart. It takes willpower, determination, and a strong love of cooking (especially if you want to be a healthy gluten-free vegan).
By Kristi Jacobsen8 years ago in Longevity
I'm Starting a Pescatarian Diet
Okay—first, a bit of background. All throughout my life, I've struggled with hormone problems. I was diagnosed with PCOS at fifteen. My weight fluctuated every season, and my face was an acne ridden mess. I was addicted to breads and dairy products. I love steaks. But, I've tried everything. I did the gallons of water, exercise, medicines, and more. Nothing worked. My weight still fluctuated, my face still housed acne. I hated it. At 25, I was 205 pounds (I'm 5'7). I was depressed and sad. So, I decided to get a personal trainer. I cut down on eating, I committed to the gallon of water a day, and I lost 30 pounds. Now, I'm 26 and just want to continue to be healthy. So, here I am.
By Regine Demure8 years ago in Longevity
Keto for Health & Fitness
As a teenager, I was very slim naturally. But as I stepped into my mid-twenties, the years of living a gigging musician's unhealthy life, with excessive drinking, zero knowledge of nutrition (I didn't even know what "carbs" were), I gained about 22 pounds. Which wasn't pretty on my tiny petite frame. I ate the same amounts as my 5'10" boyfriend and drank nearly as much wine. My exercise regime was made up of dancing on stage during the gigs. As I entered my 30s, I started to feel like I had lost myself. Not that being slim is the be all and end all, but I felt my confidence levels weren't there. I started to feel sluggish, I was constantly tired, and I'd throw my back out whenever I tried picking up an object heavier than ten pounds. So I started looking for "diets." I tried every diet in the books:
By DeeDee Nyx8 years ago in Longevity
How To Eat Properly to Lose Weight
Let's start with a fun fact—you do not need to starve in order to lose weight, and if you are always hungry when you’re "dieting" (my god, I hate that word) then you’re simply not eating enough.
By Cezza 918 years ago in Longevity
KetoKraze
There are always fad diets every year that people seem to go crazy for, from weight loss pills, magic drinks, needles, and much more. Elimination diets are trendy and very unsustainable for most people. Ketogenic diet or lifestyle is a type of elimination diet but also so much more. Similar to the Atkin's Diet, Ketogenic diet restricts carbs, to send your body into a state of Ketosis. Ketosis is a metabolic state that occurs when your body can no longer burn glucose for fuel. Glucose is sugar; carbohydrates break down into sugars that your body can use for energy. When there is no glucose from restricting carbs and sugar, your body will produce ketones. This state will break down fat in your body and start using fat for fuel.
By Nicole Katie8 years ago in Longevity
Benefits of a Vegan Diet. Top Story - January 2018.
I’ve gone back and forth with myself about whether to write this or not, when I was given the subject I was excited. But I very quickly reclined and have been putting it off for over a month now. The reason? I don’t want the backlash that comes from it. Isn’t that funny? I can write openly about my sex life and intimate details of my relationship, but I am worried about the backlash from writing about what I choose to eat?!
By Samantha Bentley8 years ago in Longevity
Why Your Diet Is Doomed
You started your diet on Monday, after putting it off a few weeks. For the first day it’s fine, you eat your salad, you go to the gym, perfect.
By No One’s Daughter8 years ago in Longevity
Binge Dieting Is Bad For You!
New Year's resolutions are like new gym memberships. You start out motivated, raring to go, but (unless it's really your thing) the inspiration quickly fizzles out and it becomes a chore...
By Kirsty Knell8 years ago in Longevity