Diets Detox and Weight Loss Blog

Does green tea really help weight loss?

Green tea is an excellent choice of drink for dieters. Why? Because supposedly it helps raise your metabolism, has excellent antioxidants properties, can make you feel full and can stop your body absorbing so much fat from foods. But how much of that is true and how good for weight loss can green tea actually [...]

Diet A-Z: Grapefruit Diet (the) - What, Why and Review

Background

The grapefruit diet originates from 1930’s Hollywood where the stars of the day would (much like the stars of today) try any crazy sounding fad diet to lose a lot weight, quickly. The idea was to eat a couple of slices of grapefruit before each of the three main meals of the day. Your meals [...]

5 Reasons Why You Are Eating Too Much Food and How to Stop Yourself!

The trouble with dieting is that you often want to eat when you don’t really need to. You get hungry because you are bored, hungry because you are eating the wrong foods, hungry because you are eating at the wrong time of the day, etc. So lets change all that by looking at why you [...]

Can water make you lose weight?

Water is perhaps your single greatest friend in the battle of the bulge. Not only can water make you lose weight, it can also help your body run smoother and healthier. And on top of that, its free! - well almost free!
Your body is between 55 and 70% water (women towards the lower end men [...]

List of Negative Calorie Foods - Lose Weight by Eating

Any food that makes you lose more calories than you put on just by eating them are no good for an entire diet, (it would result in malnutrition) but as snack foods these things can be fantastic. These foods are also known as negative calorie foods. Usually it means the foods have calories, but so [...]

10 Rules To Follow When Trying To Lose Weight, and 10 Important Things Not To Do (Pitfalls)

Here are some simple but very useful rules to follow then trying to lose weight. After that are 10 things you should not do and to look out for when on a diet. These are from my own experiences.
10 Things To Do
1.Eat 4 smaller meals a day
This spreads your calorie intake over more time and [...]

Raising You Body to a Higher Metabolism - The Key to a Successful Diet

Raising You Body to a Higher Metabolism - The Key to a Successful Diet
Metabolism is the bodies process of using up energy (calories, fat, etc.). The higher your metabolism is the more you can eat without putting on weight, theoretically. There for, raise your metabolism whilst eating the same amount of calories as usual and [...]