The Body You Want

Thanksgiving and Christmas are well behind us and, unfortunately that means that Food Banks and soup kitchens are once again low on food and volunteers. Additionally most of what gets donated to Food Banks is often the worst quality food.

It’s January and most adults are thinking about getting in shape and/or losing weight. There’s a problem however: they’re trying to get a new body with the same old stuff that didn't work in 2010 (or 1999 for that matter).

Most people think that when it comes to losing weight a low calorie, lot fat diet is the way to, but new research in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that this kind of diet may not actually work very well for fat loss after all.

Haloween is just a few weeks away, and many women are wondering if their favorite skimpy costume will make them feel sexy or make them feel fat. This leaves women scrambling to find quick weight loss strategies.

In Washington, DC 10 women have decided that they will drop 1-2 jean sizes before Thanksgiving while everyone else’s jeans slowly get tighter. They’re throwing away the scale and only using their “thermometer jeans”.

Local personal trainer and author Josef Brandenburg was selected as the fitness expert for The PCOS Challenge TV Show.

One thing that pregnant celebrities – Kourtney Kardashian, Heidi Klum – and the general public have in common this time of year is weight loss. But, will chasing a number on the scale necessarily mean that you will get back to your old body?

With the new economic climate one-on-one personal training, and the better body that people expect, is farther out of reach for more and more people. However, there is a new kind of personal training that lowers prices and enhances results.

New research suggests that doing exercise in your “fat burning zone” will actually reduce the amount of fat that your body burns for the rest of that day.

For most Americans the Holiday season – which really starts in October – is the engine that drives a vicious cycle of weight gain and frustration: getting really busy, eating even worse and getting even pudgier.