Diet Tips: Lose More Weight With Dessert for Breakfast

Here are 2 diet tips from a recent study at Tel Aviv University:

  1. If you avoid eating desserts and other sweets completely, you’ll become psychologically addicted to these foods in the long run… so indulge to lose weight… and…
  2. Eating dessert as part of a high-calorie breakfast can curb cravings, improve your body and brain function, and help you to lose more weight and keep it off longer.

Yikes, can the experts be coming around to our way of thinking? We first published the I Love to Cheat lifestyle diet book in 2006. Now the experts, backed by scientific study, are finally catching up in 2012. Heck, even Dr. Oz recommends a cheat day.

But back to the study because these results were surprising even to us… you’ll be amazed by how much more weight the cheaters lost!…

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Weight Loss Blog: Resolve To Separate Your Weight From Your Self-Worth

Have you ever read a weight loss blog where the blogger constantly beats herself up over her weight and her failed weight loss efforts? And then her readers join in the self-hate fest in the comments?

Do you identify with that? Does it make you feel sad and defeated? Do you let your weight make you feel worth less or even worthless?

Then we’d like to recommend a New Year’s weight loss blog resolution — one you can do throughout the year, not just in January.

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Diet Blog Quiz: Test Your Knowledge Of Diet, Calorie Counting and Weight Loss Tips

Take our diet blog quiz to test your knowledge of diet, calorie counting and weight loss tips.

Recent studies have given the answers to these 5 questions. How many will you get right? (Answers appear below the quiz.)

1. A mid-morning snack will help you to lose weight more easily.

 A. True

 B. False

2. Moving on to mid-afternoon… which food should you eat to keep you more alert during the afternoons and help you to burn more calories?

A. A chocolate bar

B. Egg whites on toast

C. Spaghetti

D. Jam on toast

3. Eating diets high in these vitamins, nutrients or fats may make you less likely to experience the brain shrinkage associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

A. Vitamins A, B12 and C

B. Trans fats

C. Vitamins A, B, C, D and omega 3 fatty acids

D. Vitamins B, C, D, E and omega 3 fatty acids

E. All of the above

4. What increases the risk that a child will be obese at 15 years old?

A. Watching over 3 hours of TV a day

B. Eating sugary cereal for breakfast

C. A low-quality emotional relationship with his/her mother as a toddler

D. The child not learning how to ride a bike by 7 years old

5. Obese women often have vitamin deficiencies.

A. True

B. False

Here are the answers…

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Diet Book: Made In America Special Offer

Diet Book — Made In America Special OfferABC World News with Diane Sawyer has been featuring products made in America… so how about a diet book made in America?

And to make it really special, we’re offering a limited supply of our I Love To Cheat diet book at $20 off the regular price of $29.95… yep, that’s two-thirds off… or just $9.95 plus shipping and handling… while supplies last!…

I Love to Cheat works by indulging your weaknesses. In a reasonable way, of course. Because the more you can’t have something, the more you want it. Until you become absolutely obsessed… whether it’s pepperoni pizza or chocolate ice cream or peanut butter cookies.

So indulge yourself. And reach your target weight on your terms — without suffering or depriving yourself of your favorite foods. Won’t it be worth it just to see the envious and admiring looks on your friends, family, and co-workers?

You get an unconditional 60-day, money-back guarantee on your purchase price (less shipping and handling). But due to increasing shipping costs, we have to limit this offer to residents of the continental U.S. and Alaska — while supplies last!

When it’s gone, it’s gone. So don’t miss out.

To get your copy of the I Love to Cheat diet book at just $9.95 (plus shipping and handling) during our Made in America Special, click the Buy Now button below…

Body Mass Index Impacts Surgical Death Rates

According to a new report from researchers at the University of Virginia, your body mass index, or BMI, impacts how likely you are to die after surgery… but probably not the way you’d expect…

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How To Calculate BMI

If you want to know how to calculate BMI, here are the formulas for Standard (aka English) BMI and Metric BMI…

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Body Mass Index

Body mass index (BMI) indirectly measures your total body fat. It’s considered to be a fairly reliable indicator of your weight status — underweight, normal, overweight, or obese.

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Body Mass Index Calculator

Using your height and weight, a body mass index calculator can give you an approximate measure of your body fat. The higher your body mass index, the greater your risk may be for diseases like arthritis, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

And then there’s the especially cruel disease we didn’t expect to be linked to BMI…

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Calculate BMI

To calculate BMI, you just need to know your height and weight. The formula is the same for all adult men and women.

BMI is used to screen adults for possible weight problems and the health risks that go with them. We’ve talked about some of the risks of a high BMI in previous articles like…

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BMI For Women: Can A High BMI Shrink Your Brain?

While we were researching BMI for women, we ran across a study that looked at whether a high BMI can shrink your brain and cause dementia.

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