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Only a doctor or mental health therapist can say if your “obsession” is a disorder, but obsessing about food is a psychological sign of semi-starvation.  You might be experiencing

While quietly sleeping, you would burn 42 calories per hour at your ideal weight of 115 lb.  The calories are used to sustain

You probably stopped losing weight because you are at your natural set point for 'this point set in time'.  Don’t bother using a scale to assess your weight; measure your body composition instead.  Muscular

The body ordinarily converts 90% of the calories in dietary fat into body fat, but there is no simple relationship between the rates of calorie burning and fat deposition.  We are in a constant state of

One of my favorite books is Thin for Life: 10 Keys to Success from People Who Have Lost Weight and Kept It Off by Anne Fletcher, RD.  The author interviewed hundreds of

Cellulite occurs when fat cells protrude around the connective tissue that attaches skin to muscle.  Weight loss can reduce some of the fat and exercise can make the muscle compact, but creams and diets

Think of a mini-meal as about one half of a normal meal for a particular individual.  Like a major meal, it contains several food groups, or least the nutrients they provide.  A mini-meal may consist of

To lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than you burn regardless of the time of day.  The body is in a constant state of building up and breaking down fat stores and we burn calories

In theory, you need 1850 calories a day to maintain 171 lbs at a sedentary activity level. The book you read, Dieting for Dummies, uses a standard equation to find your Basal Metabolic Rate and then multiplies the answer

Research shows that most people plateau after losing about 10% of their weight.  That’s when adaptive mechanisms kick in to protect the body against starvation. And so, you need to

To develop your abs, you need to work all of the abdominal muscles: the rectus abdominis, the external obliques, the internal obliques, and five others.  Standard crunches do not work them all. See the full set of ab exercises

Consult a BMI (Body Mass Index) chart to find your ideal weight.  Your healthy weight range spans from BMI 19 to BMI 25.  For 172 cm (5’7.5”), an acceptable weight is between

The time it takes to get in shape depends on many factors, including the type of cardio and weight-training you do, your training schedule, how much you eat, your genetic propensity to build muscle, and

As long as you burn more calories than you eat, you will lose weight. It’s easy to lose without exercise initially, but difficult to maintain without it.  And so, since you’ll need to exercise for maintenance

After a binge, you need figure out why you binged to reduce the occurrence of binging in the future.  Binges are triggered by anxiety created by negative feelings. Dieting itself