Aren't You Tired Of Being Fat? by Dan Curtis
... Understand nutrition If you really want to lose weight you have to know something about nutrition. Nutrition really just means what you are putting into your mouth. It is not enough to follow the latest diet fad. You have to know what you are eating. If not, you can be fooled. How do you really know what is right for you and what isn't? How do you figure out why a new diet failed? Or what worked that you need to continue? It all starts with learning something about nutrition, what you are ...

Dump All That Fat You're Lugging Around! by Mike Cuggy
... Your kitchen has a bookshelf that’s sagging under the weight of all the slimming books you've bought. You understand about doing some kind of daily exercise (in theory, anyway). You've got a calorie counter and a protein counter. You've got a drawer that’s bulging with different calculators. Let’s see there’s a fatcalculator; a carbohydrate calculator; a fiber calculator; a heart rate calculator and a Waist/Hip Ratio calculator. You avoid reading about personal fitness because you know ...

Buying Low Fat Foods by Glen D. Williams
... Not Buying Low Fat Claims: The first simple step to buy low fat foods is to ignore the health claims on packages in the supermarket. Ever seen the claim, "all natural?" This is often used to get you to think you're buying healthy food. Consider that fat, cholesterol, sugar and salt are all 100% natural, and you can see what good that claim really is. "Lower Fat" is another popular package claim that bears suspicion. How much lower? Lower than lard?

Two Get Very High Part One by Gary Mortimer
... This meant losing weight, from the equipment and from ourselves. Going to a gym is a fairly alien concept for me but I knew weight had to go and fitness had to improve for altitude conditioning. An unwelcome side effect of getting the equipment light for high altitude is the effect it has when you return to low level. If you do a really good job of getting the weight off and the internal temperature drops into the 40C range then you are in danger of going solar.