The surefire - and healthiest – way to lose weight is through exercise and a healthy diet. But there are also ways to drop a few pounds that barely involve lifting a finger. And while they’re no replacement for regular gym sessions, these lazy ways to lose weight are great to incorporate into your everyday fitness routine or to employ on those days when exercising is out of the question. [...]

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What’s the secret to losing weight? While a diet and exercise plan is important, it’s actually mostly about willpower, says Mila Kunis, who knows a thing or two about dropping pounds.
In an interview with Glamour UK, Mila said about her dramatic weight loss for Black Swan: “I never for one moment thought I couldn’t do it. [...]

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When we think of weight loss, we can’t help but daydream about the adorable clothes we’ll be able to wear once we reach our goal weight. For the time being, you can use your present wardrobe to inspire those pounds to drop off. Here’s how.
Bangle bracelets: Drinking water instead of soda, sugary juices, and high-calorie coffee drinks is a surefire way to cut calories. [...]

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Wouldn’t it be nice if calories didn’t count? But since they do, turns out we can’t all just eat what we want all the time if we want to live a healthy life. But since I’m decidedly in the “live to eat” camp, I know it’s no fun to never indulge every once in awhile. [...]

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We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Shape here on FitSugar.
After a week of spartan lunches, rigorous workouts, and sleep-depriving presentations, it’s easy to feel you’ve earned a happy hour margarita and a plate of cheesy nachos. But topping off a tough week in this way can undo all your hard work and even pack on the pounds. [...]

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You’re dieting and exercising, but still the scale won’t budge. What gives? People make common mistakes when it comes to trying to slim down, so if you’re not seeing the results you’re after, here are some possible reasons why.

You overeat healthy foods. Nuts, avocados, whole wheat pasta, olive oil, and dark chocolate are all natural and healthy, but they aren’t void of calories. [...]

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As a mother of a nine month old, I’ve been spending time with lots of mommas lately. I’ve found that besides chatting about diapers, teething, and lack of sleep, we all tend to mourn over the loss of our pre-pregnancy bods. Even if we did lose the baby weight in the beginning, our busy schedules make it hard to find time to exercise and eat right, so it seems inevitable to gain a pound here and there. [...]

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Homeostasis. That’s a fancy way to say equilibrium, and it’s what your body craves, even more than salt and vinegar potato chips. We humans are highly adaptive creatures, and our bodies work to maintain homeostasis. This is really no big deal, unless you’re trying to lose weight, and then it really just translates into the word the dieter dreads – plateau. [...]

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Every bride-to-be is different when it comes to getting in shape for her wedding. Some make little to no change in their lifestyle, but others start a bridal boot camp the day after the engagement ring hits their finger. To see the range of health and fitness tips that the newly betrothed employ, I didn’t have to look very far – in the last year, there have been at least 10 weddings and engagements amongst Sugar staffers! If you’re in the midst of planning your own wedding, keep reading to see what helpful tips these new brides and brides-to-be offered up:

One small change is OK. [...]

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Here are four weight loss lessons that OnSugar blogger Coach Lark Says learned from the A&E series, Heavy.
What I like about the A&E show Heavy compared to The Biggest Loser is that it demonstrates clearly how challenging it is to achieve lasting weight loss. [...]

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FitSugar reader livingthin wants to know if you are making any of these fitness mistakes. She shared them in the Ten Pounds DOWN! community group.

Mistake #1: Only doing cardio and avoiding weights to lose weight. This a huge and common mistake I see women making all the time! Lean muscle is the key to increasing your metabolism. [...]

PROS: 1) Before the Vitamix 5200 Blender, I made nut butter with the Hamilton coffee grinder.   The good thing was portion control existed because I could only make 3 tablespoons at a time.    With the Vitamix, I can make a WHOLE JAR in less than 5 minutes! 2)  Before the Vitamix 5200, I made [. [...]

Every beauty pageant contestant dreams of being Miss Universe, but to achieve this, the contestant must look great and take excellent care of herself.  And that is exactly what Miss Universe 2003 Amelia Vega knows how to do.  Not only does she still look great, but she stays in great shape as well and she’s [. [...]

If you’ve ever seen Dr. Oz‘s show, you know that he is all about promoting the things that will make you the healthiest so you can get the best out of life.  Now, he’s promoting his new weight loss challenge, Just 10, which encourages everyone to lose at least 10 pounds, if only to gain [. [...]

Jackie Warner revealed in an interview some healthy tips to help people lose weight and stick to their diet. The Thintervention celebrity fitness trainer believes that the society is to blame for the number of obese people in America, but it’s the people’s fault for staying that way and not taking action to lose weight. [...]

It’s scrumptious.  It’s appetizing.    And it’s much bigger than the ORIGINAL WHOPPER. Any weight gainers? Diameter:                     9 1/2″ Prime Ingredients:  4 quarter pounds of patties, pepperoni, mozzarella, marinara, and Tuscan Sauce served on a 9 1/2″ sesame bun. [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow may be an Oscar-winning actress, but she’s now making a new name for herself and it involves healthy cuisine. The August issue of Vogue magazine is covering the beautiful Paltrow in a new role, as the “Queen of the kitchen”. The actress is planning on releasing a new cookbook titled My Father’s Daughter, [. [...]

Bike…hike…jog…or walk.   Visit the Grand Canyon, Aztec Ruins, Yellowstone,  Hawaii Volcano Park, Bryce Canyon,  or Rocky Mountain during the following days, and the admission is free.
April 17-25, 2010
June 5-6, 2010
August 14-15, 2010
September 25, 2010
November 11, 2010
Over 100 fee driven national parks in 43 states will be participating, so check listing for further details. [...]

Originally released in 2004, this classic food film features director Morgan Spurlock  embarking on a one month experiment with the “Super Size Diet”.    Pay close attention to his weight & triglycerides in the beginning.    With the exception of protein, all excess calories not used by the body will turn into triglycerides and get stored [. [...]

Food, Inc. – Now until April 29, 2010, be sure to watch the most talked about food film featuring the famous Michael Pollan for free.  Learn why tomatoes don’t spoil easily, chicken breasts are bigger, and pork chops are perfectly colored.   It’s a  film  that will make you think twice about what you are eating. [...]

In as early as 2000 Nancy Makin weighed an incredible 703 pounds. Since then, she’s lost more than a quarter ton and didn’t do it by following a specific exercise regime or diet, but instead relied on her computer. In her new book 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a [. [...]

It’s long been known (and reported) that a Mediterranean diet – one rich in fish, fruit, vegetables and olive oil – is one of the healthiest an individual can follow. Spanish scientists, however, have taken it upon themselves to find out why with a recent study.
Although only 20 participants were observed in the study, scientists [. [...]

Reality star Ruby Gettinger is on the road to weight loss. She started out weighing 716 pounds and she is now down to 316. That’s 400 pounds lighter! In a recent interview, the self-described food addict revealed that she’s considering hypnosis to get to the root of her weight problem and possible childhood trauma. [...]

It seems the Chinese are dangerously cutting corners to reduce the production costs of flour. Reports have surfaced that manufacturing companies are adding pulverized lime to bleaching agents used in Chinese flour after whistle blowers at the companies came forward out of concern for the country’s health. [...]

Do you buy kosher food? Do you do so for religious reasons or simply because you’re one of those people who believe it’s healthier than regular supermarket food? Research shows that a growing number of supermarket shoppers are opting for kosher foods because they think it’s better for their health. [...]

The FDA is lashing out at and warning the nation against procedures, which involve the injection of substances that are not approved by the government body. These procedures include lipodissolve, mesotherapy, lipozap, lipotherapy and lipolysis, and the FDA have officially issued warnings to spas in five different states to stop claiming their procedures can “dissolve” [. [...]

As the world’s fattest nation, America really doesn’t need any more reasons to eat junk food. KFC, on the other hand, disagree. On April 12, one of the world’s biggest fast-food chain restaurants launched the KFC Double Down. Why? Because they want to cater to their customers who are still hungry after eating their regular [. [...]

The recession may be over, but Americans are still entrenched in the eating-cheaper-at-home mentality. So while the restaurant and eating-out industry is continuing to take a knock with a dip in business, eveyone’s trying to come up with the next big idea. But casual-dining restaurants like Houlihan’s, Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen and BJ’s are [. [...]

The red and yellow clown has become synonymous with McDonalds kiddies meals for almost 50 years, but now an advocacy group is calling for Ronald McDonald’s retirement, saying using cartoons and characters like the clown to sell fatty foods to kids is harmful.
The organization has created the RetireRonald. [...]

Traditional and religious spices have long been part of the Indian culture, but new research shows that these could be particularly harmful to young children, with some containing very high levels of lead.
The study was conducted between 2006 and 2008, and studied patients at the Pediatric Environmental Health Care Centre at Children’s Hospital in Boston [. [...]

Launched last year to tighten and rejuvenate skin on the face, the Dermaroller has been reinvented to be used on the rest of the body. The needle-studded roller looks like some kind of medieval torture device, but the contraption’s users are singing its praises saying it tightens loose skin and even reduces stretch marks and [. [...]

While America is fighting childhood obesity, Asia faces a different kind of nutrition problem – extreme dieting. And experts are blaming Asia’s culture for their women’s obsessive need to be 100-pounds-and-under.
In Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo, women and going to extreme measures (from diet pills, to crazy portion control and even checking into slimming clinics) [. [...]

As we shared with you yesterday, Kourtney Kardashian has slowly been getting back to her prepregnancy body: in just under four months, the reality star has dropped almost all of her pregnancy weight. While she lost 12 pounds from the birth itself, Kourtney has worked hard to lose another 21 and recently shared with Life & Style how she managed to take it off. [...]

Celebrity trainer Marcos Borges, who has worked on the bodies of Gwen Stefani and Beyonce, has teamed up with the Wedding Channel to create a special diet and fitness program that will help brides-to-be drop one dress size (especially the ones who buy their dresses a size too small in the hopes that they’ll lose [. [...]

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver recently aired a new series in the US called, Food Revolution. In the program he is trying to persuade Huntington, Virginia (the fattest town in the US) to eat healthy. When episode one of the six-part series was filmed Jamie was devestated and actually broke down in tears as he felt [. [...]

Sue Fleming is the author of Buff Brides (an exercise book to get you wedding ready) and she’s also the former trainer of Katie Holmes. In a recent interview she gave all kinds of tips about exercise and how to quickly drop a few pounds. Take a look at some of her great ideas!:
Eliminate Sugar
The [. [...]

As part of the revised Health Care Bill, which was signed by President Barack Obama this week, fast food restaurants and chains which have stores in more than 20 locations will be required by law to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards and drive-throughs. Affecting more than 200 000 restaurants, this new law is [. [...]

Good news for sushi lovers: seaweed could help reduce the body’s fat retention by 75% says scientists. When compared to diet pills or slimming treatments, the University of Newcastle researchers found that the alginate (a fibrous material) in sea kelp was better at preventing fat absorption. [...]

Dieters looking for a natural supplement to help keep their weight-loss food plan on track might find it in chickpeas. Australian researchers from the University of Tasmania found that the garbanzo bean has pretty positive effects on bowel health and satiation.
Forty-two participants were studied over the course of 20 weeks: the first four weeks they [. [...]

Researchers have shown with healthy college students that bursts of intense exercise with short recovery breaks in between is just as effective as conventional long-term endurance training.
“We have shown that interval training does not have to be ‘all out’ in order to be effective,” says Professor Martin Gibala. [...]

What I wouldn’t give to be able to enjoy a stick of chocolate and a cappuccino without the calories. It seems my prayers have been answered by Professor David Edwards at Harvard University who has created Le Whif – an aerosol stick that sprays zero-calorie flavored particles. [...]

Donna Simpson weighs 603 pounds. But she says she’s still too skinny, and needs to weigh nearly 1 000 pounds before she can be recognized in the Guinness World Book of Records as the world’s fattest woman – a goal she’s set her sights on.
The 42-year-old mother of two is determined to double her size [. [...]

If you live the life of a couch potato, you might be reading the wrong blog. Nonetheless, you may be in the perfect position to earn around $36 000. A company in the UK is looking for couch potatoes to do nothing, eat more and test the fat binding properties of their new weight-loss product. [...]

I always enjoy reading about ridiculous fad diets inspired by celebrities. The latest one is the Air Diet, inspired by Dolce & Gabbana’s campaign featuring Madonna. Created by the French, the diet is pretty self-explanatory – you eat only air.
The biggest and probably only rule of the diet is to eat nothing except water and [. [...]

Hula hooping is not just something the kids do for fun, it’s something First Lady Michelle Obama and actress Marisa Tomei do to keep fit. Hooping strengthens your core, improves your balance and can even serve as a really good aerobic workout, adding variety to your current one. [...]

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been told to rather buy fresh vegetables than frozen ones. But with the current rise in fresh produce prices, I’m having a tough time putting fresh veggies on my dinner table. Recent findings, however, say that buying cheaper, frozen veggies may not only be better for your wallet but [. [...]

If you’re having difficulty shifting those last three pounds, it may be because you’re not on the right diet. And choosing the perfect weight-loss program for you may be as simple as a DNA test. This is the latest news in the growing field of nutrigenomics – an area of study where scientists look at [. [...]

Celeb trainer Valerie Waters helps get the ladies of Hollywood in shape for events like bikini shoots and walking the red the carpet. She’s even named one of her lifestyle makeover programs Red Carpet Ready. But kicking your butt into shape, and I mean that literally (check out Val’s booty-toning moves), is only part of the body transformation puzzle. [...]

Despite the nation’s alarming obesity figures, the Food and Drug Administration’s latest Health and Diet Survey shows that Americans’ nutrition knowledge has in fact increased over the years. The results of the telephone survey conducted with more than 2 500 adults, was released today. [...]

At some point or another we’ve all had our mothers scold us for eating too quickly and told to slow down. There might be some truth to the old wives tale that eating slower will help you lose weight too, according to a new study.
Published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, the study [. [...]

While America is facing the very real problem of childhood obesity, across the pond the British are dealing with another problem. Apparently half of the country’s six-year-old girls want to be thinner.
When I was six I was more concerned with Barbie than my weight, but a recent study conducted at Cambridge University has revealed that [. [...]

Over the years there’s been a significant rise in the amount of meal delivery weight-loss programs. We take a look at some of the most popular, and what they will cost your pocket…
eDiets
Each meal is freshly prepared then flash frozen and shipped to you chilled. There are weekly deliveries with no long-term contracts or commitments, [. [...]

Women have always had the luxury of ingeniously hiding their love handles and sucking in the little imperfections of their thighs. No guys have an opportunity to shave inches off their stomachs – the new RIPT FUSION Firm Control Shapewear promises men an instant six-pack.
The T-shirt that has been quoted as “a T-shirt on steroids”; [. [...]

Is this diet for real? You get to sit around on the couch all day watching TV, basically never moving, and still lose weight? Sounds too good to be true if you ask me. But apparently it’s worked for author of the diet book The Couch Potato Diet, Gregory J.E. Ladas.
Five years ago Gregory lost [. [...]

As long as people are trying to lose weight and as long as corporations are trying to make a quick buck, there will always be fad diets. The Five Bite Diet is one (not-so-new) fad diet that’s being punted in the book Why Weight Around? Changing The Weight Loss Strategy. It’s basic premise – [. [...]

At 700 pounds, Paul Mason is the world’s fattest man. And that’s after losing 280 pounds! Now Paul has begun writing his autobiography in which he plans to tell the world of his weight-loss secrets.
The 48-year-old Brit is a former postman and was forced to lose the weight so he could qualify for the life-saving [. [...]

Just because you appear to have a normal Body Mass Index doesn’t mean you’re healthy; it could in actual fact mean you’re obese! A new study published in the European Heart Journal defines a new term ‘normal weight obesity’ – an individual who has a normal BMI but has a high ratio of body fat, [. [...]

Celebrity dietician and motivational speaker Tanya Zuckerbrot believes that you should never sacrifice taste just to lose weight. But with Super Bowl Sunday coming up it’ll be hard to resist all the high-fat foods and stay on the health eating wagon. The author of the The F-Factor Diet: Discover the Secret to Permanent Weight Loss [. [...]

New research by scientists suggests that the thin air at high altitudes increases an individual’s metabolism and decreases their appetite, even without exercise. The small study found that obese participants who spent time at a weight-loss facility in the mountains lost weight without being put on a diet. [...]

Being extremely overweight might not be entirely the fault of the individual; it may actually be their genes. Or rather, lack of genes. British scientists have discovered that severely obese people lack more or less the same 30 genes – which are found in people of normal weight. [...]

This year Heidi Klum will once again be wearing her heart on her sleeve with Diet Coke and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to promote the national heart health awareness campaign, The Heart Truth. Heidi will also be hitting the runway in the annual charity fashion show, the Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, [. [...]

If you like your carrots orange, potatoes yellow and apricots peach, you may be in for a surprise when you should at UK high-end retailer Marks & Spencer. Food technologists are creating new varieties of your favorite fruits and vegetables.
Marks & Spencer will very soon be stocking their shelves with the new foods that include [. [...]

Yes, Ernestine Sheperd is 72-years-old. Yes, she’s a fitness instructor. And yes, she runs 80 miles a week and lifts weights almost every day.
Once a week Ernestine leads a workout class for senior citizens at the Union Memorial United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, with her main inspiration to let individual s her age know [. [...]

If you’d like to help the citizens of Haiti who are trying to piece back together their lives after the devastating earthquake ripped apart their nation on January 12, you can put your feet on the pavement and your hands in your wallets.
Trish Short: Sponsor this ultra marathoner as she runs 30 miles on January [. [...]

With the United States facing its biggest obesity crisis ever, slimming the nation has never been more important. Whole Foods Market CEO, John Mackey, has found a way he can help the government in its crusade, even if it only affects his employees. Mackey has launched a new rewards initiative, the Team Member Healthy Discount [. [...]

Last year weight-loss experts predicted fitness trends for 2010, with one of them being the increase on digital fitness trackers. A new Facebook application has just been launched, in time to capitalize on the growing trend.
The Your Shape: Picture Progress application can help you stick to your New Year’s weight-loss resolutions by simply helping you [. [...]

We all know what it’s like to get home at the end of a tough day and just want to curl up on the sofa with a jumbo sized Pepsi and super-sized Big Mac. We all think that junk food makes us feel a little self-indulgent and a little better about ourselves, but it might [...]. [...]

It seems this isn’t the week to be buying diet pills; the Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to consumers of the contamination of GlaxoSmithKlein’s counterfeit diet drug. Laboratory tests discovered dangerously high levels of sibutramine in Alli pills, which if ingested could bring about the same health risks as Meridia. [...]

If you’re currently taking the Meridia weight-loss pill and you have a history of heart problems, it’s best you stop using it. The Food and Drug Administration have issue new warnings saying the pill could increase the risk of heart attack and/or stroke.
Meridia is related to the amphetamine family and was approved by the FDA [. [...]

The Dancing with the Stars tv show is famous for helping celebs melt off the pounds and now you can too, at home! Dancing with the Stars: Dance Body Tone was released in December and teaches viewers how to not only dance off the pounds but also gracefully pull of the professional moves like the celebrity contestants. [...]

Lose weight like your favorite stars by dancing of the pounds with the fitness DVD Dancing with the Stars: Dance Off the Pounds.  Professional dancers Lacey Schwimmer, Dmitry Chaplin and Kym Johnson will take your through the jive, swing and quickstep routines that’ll get your heart racing and your legs pumping. [...]

Those who follow strongman competitions and keep an eye on records involving great feats of strength will know the Mighty Joe Rollino. Sadly, at the age of 104, he died. But not from old age, he was hit by a minivan while on one of his daily walks.
Even at his ripe old age, Joe never [. [...]

We’re barely a month into the New Year and it seems many women have already cheated on the weight-loss resolutions and diets. A survey has revealed that 36% of female dieters are secretly cheating by either hiding the food they’re not suppose to eat or eating in the dark. [...]

A 17-year-old has used his love of video games to shed half his body weight. Taylor LeBron was a severely obese 14-year-old, weighing more than 300 pounds, when he decided to do something about his unhealthy situation – he created the Ultimate Fitness Game, a weight-loss program he describes in his newly released book, Cutting [. [...]

For all the mothers who simply can’t make it to the gym during the day (or night), Carloyn Barnes has created the “ultimate mommy workout”. She’s incorporate simply exercise routines you can do while cleaning your house and taking care of your kids.
After struggling to lose the 57 pounds the cLEANmomma picked up after giving [. [...]

If you can’t trust the calorie labels on foods and in restaurants then what can you trust these days? A small study has revealed that restaurant and ready-made frozen meals at times contain more calories than stated on the labels – in extreme cases, twice as many calories. [...]

Many women dread having their first child for what it might do to their bodies (never mind the raging hormones), but a new study suggests that women should rather be afraid of coupling up and conceiving.
Annette J. Dobson, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Queensland in Australia, led a study published in the [. [...]

One fast food restaurant capitalizing on weight-watchers’ New Year’s resolutions to get in shape is Mexican chain Taco Bell, with their new “Drive-Thru Diet”. And their new spokesperson? Christine, a beautiful brunette who claims to have lost 54 pounds in 2 years all because of the new, healthier options now available on the menu. [...]

Can you imagine being kicked off an online dating and social networking website for being too fat? Well, thousands of Americans, Canadians and Brits can. BeautifulPeople.com got rid of 5 000 of its members because they had picked up weight over the holiday season.
But it wasn’t the website’s management that had done the axing, it [. [...]

Filed under: Diet & Weight Loss, Celebs & Entertainment, Motivation, InterviewsAdmittedly teary over bequeathing her hard-fought and highly publicized Jenny Craig crown to successor Sara Rue, 49-year-old actress Valerie Bertinelli dished to That’s Fit about her ongoing health and fitness goals, and how she plans on keeping those 40 pounds at bay. [...]