As we all know all too well, the holidays present a multitude of stresses that together can create the perfect 'fat' storm.

What I ask people to do is to get on the scale every day. Yes, every day. Write down your weight each day and average it out over the course of a week. This keeps you awake and aware to what is going on.

Use these five criteria for every meal to help lose those extra pounds like your favorite celebrities when they're preparing for a red carpet event, movie scene, music video or concert tour.

Even though sugary temptations abound, make sure to focus often on your goal of weight loss, health, happiness and freedom.

I need to put my two cents in here. (Those of you who follow me, know that of course, I always have an opinion.) It never fails to amaze me, how, du...

The best selling diet books out right now want to make you think there is another way. Why? Because you want another way and those books sell.

After a day full of choices, most good, one or two which could have been better, that movie line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade really hit home.

As we move from summer to fall, into the new school season and new year, I am wondering if you would like to join with me as I recommit to my health, ...

The food was so satisfying, that before I knew it, I had eliminated dairy, sugar, caffeine and wheat from my diet. Completely!

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

The solution seems obvious: be less physically active and you'll eat less. You don't even need a Harvard degree to figure it out.

You can't exercise your fat away ladies and gentlemen. You have to speak the correct language to your body if you wish it to release fat from your fat cells.

There are 3 ways to cook the spaghetti squash. Bake it, boil it or nuke it. Micro waving goes really fast and this is how you are going to do it.

Summertime is a great time to shed excess weight. Unfortunately, as we age, it becomes harder to shed the pounds. You have to work at it, exercise and make the right food choices.

Everyday household furniture can enhance your at-home exercise routine. Here, trainers from the Santa Monica Spectrum Club show how your sofa, chairs and counter can help keep you trim and toned.

I decided it was the time to find out how hard it would be to loosen/lessen my addiction to animal based foods--and for several weeks I did.

What's completely ignored in the diet debate but essential to long-term success, is the need to realign the body's biochemistry in order to reach a healthy weight.

I wondered when the best time for a diet would be. Surely there must be a lull, some sort of break from food-focused festivities in a twelve month span.

Without starving yourself, without diet pills or gimmicks, even without exercise, it is possible to have thinner, smoother thighs in three weeks.

Remember, not all Easter candy is created equal. So this Easter, if you're looking to give a basket of goodies that's a little lighter on the hips, here's my favorite candy picks.

A recent study has confirmed what I have been teaching for a long time. A calorie is a calorie and the only way to lose weight is to take in less calories then you burn. The end.

Despite the fact that I lost 212 pounds, I have to admit that exercise played a barely negligible part in my weight loss.