Weight Loss Planner

Just in time for your New Year's resolution, The Lima News Weight Loss Planner will help you take charge of your life through diet and exercise:

This diet or that diet? This workout or that workout?
For beginners, choosing the right diet and exercise program is confusing. And adhering to one can often lead to burnout. Here’s how to create a fitness program and healthy eating routine that sticks. Read more...

What not to eat: Beware! The 10 worst fast food items ahead
Fast food has a place in the hearts of human everywhere, but should it have a place in their bellies? It’s not always easy to know exactly how unhealthy a menu item is, and with the constant barrage of advertising and inviting smells wafting through car windows, avoiding fast food isn’t just impossible – it’s unreasonable. Read more...

I, the gym: Bodies are the only equipment required to get in good shape
Usually exercise isn’t the most compelling of daily tasks to complete. While someone’s chipping away over an hour from the day just to make it to a gym, get the necessary equipment, and set up, anyone could have completed three workout routines with Mark Lauren’s new book, “You Are Your Own Gym” (Ballantine, 2011). Read more...

10 foods to fuel weight loss
Seeing all of the “miracle” diet products on infomercials can make a person wonder whether anything can actually promote weight loss. Yes, say nutrition experts. What we eat or drink may keep us full and provide energy to stick to a diet. Read more...

Food redux: New dietary guidelines from the FDA bring sugar, salt and fat into focus
For those concerned about good health, the government is offering solid advice on how to get to a normal weight with the recent release of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines. Read more...

Create your own 'loser'
Having a team to help generate rapid weight-loss results isn’t reality for most people. Here’s how to be a ‘Loser’ without 24/7 assistance.

Three high-tech ways to keep track of your weight-loss progress
While there may be no such thing as a robot that can actually do a workout for you, there are a whole gaggle of hi-tech tools that are geared toward folks who want solid diet and exercise information, motivation and help keeping track of their...... Read more...

Stay on the fast track
Nobody’s perfect. Knowing the best way to rebound from – and prepare for – lapses in exercise and healthy eating will keep good habits from falling by the wayside