A quick look at weight loss forums will tell you that many dieters weigh themselves constantly. In an effort to keep a handle on their weight, they’ll step on the scales every day, or sometimes more than once a day. Having spent a hundred dollars on a super-accurate digital scale, they will see that they have gained .7 pounds since yesterday, or 3 pounds over the course of a...

Human beings haven't been couch potatoes for very long, in evolutionary terms. Only a few thousand years ago, we were still walking miles every day to find food, and more often than not we were going days or weeks without a decent meal. While we have thankfully forgotten what this feels like, our bodies are still designed to deal with the stresses of long fasting periods and high ...

It seems that most people (and every treadmill I've ever run on) are confused about the idea of net calories. This confusion accounts for a great deal of the inefficiency of many exercise and diet plans. Calories are a measure of how much energy your body uses. This energy is derived from the breaking down of molecules of food, and then converted into function, such as a mus...