Belly Fat Loser

If you’ve been training for a while, or you’re just starting to lose weight, burning the far while keeping your muscle might seem like a moving target; almost impossible to hit. Simply put though, that is the key to success in weight loss. Not losing muscle is vitally important if you want to see your [...]

Cardio or weights to burn fat if you’re going to do only one? That is the question. I’ve come down on the side of weights here at BFL, on the theory that you need muscle to do the actual burning. After all, it’s your metabolic fires that actually melt away your extra fat, and what [...]

Okay, despite the kind of icy temperatures we’re enduring in the top half of the country this spring, summer’s almost here. You know what that means: mercury rising, outdoor activities, and a renewed push to burn fat left over from a winter of relative inactivity and too many second helpings. Sure, burning off your extra [...]

Are you, just maybe, addicted to bread? I ask you, is there anything more powerful than the smell of freshly baking bread? It matters not whether the variety in question is sweet bread, cinnamon rolls, 8-grain, whole wheat, or potato bread, when that smell hits those olfactory sensors buried deep within your nose, it just [...]

What are the main vitamin D deficiency symptoms? Can a vitamin D deficiency really make you gain weight or feel generally bad, compared to someone who is getting plenty of vitamin D? Fro that matter, what is the recommended amount of Vitamin D you should take every day, and is that really the amount you [...]

Have you been trying to get rid of that last bit of belly fat with far less success than you’d expect, given your efforts? Doing everything right, according to what “they” say, but it still persists; that last 5, 10, or 20lbs right down there? DO your kids jokingly call you “muffin top”, no matter [...]

Starting and maintaining a weight loss program can be discouraging at times. It is hard to stay positive when you are not seeing immediate results and must wait for your consistency to pay off. It is also hard not to get too caught up in your daily requirements. You must remember to have a life [...]

If I told  you that you could lose 5, 10, 20, or 30 pounds this year, yet not diet, exercise, or spend more than a few minutes a day doing it, you’d be all over it, right? Well, it’s the new year; a time when millions of people have resolved to lose fat. Unfortunately, most [...]

We are several weeks into the new year and for most that means a determination to prevent derailment from the tracks of a hopeful resolution.  A regimen was likely put in place to lose weight you’ve been meaning to shed for years. You may be measuring with the wrong scale, however, to rid yourself of [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if there was something that you could do to to help lose weight that entailed eating  the most anti-diet foods you can think of? I’m talking about pancakes with syrup, McDonald’s apple pies, cinnamon rolls, and all sorts of other things that you’d think would kill your weight loss dead in [...]

If there is one prevailing myth in the health industry, it’s the cookie-cutter theory that reducing your calorie intake will not only help you to slim down – it will also improve your health.  While there might be a few exceptions, and there’s no question that fitness and bodybuilding competitors must cut calories to get [...]

If you’ve crawled out from under the Geico rock any time in the last few months and expressed any interest in weight loss whatsoever, you couldn’t have failed to notice the popularity of HCG rapid weight loss programs. I actually heard about this stuff almost a year ago, although I couldn’t have imagined the extent [...]