Lentil Soup Never Looked So Good

Here's the beautiful Nigella Bites showing us how she makes lentil so...

The Cave Woman Diet

Coty Fowler lost 20 pounds in six weeks and reached her ideal weight by adhering to what she calls "The Cave Woman Diet". The diet is based on eating meat, fruits, nuts and vegetables. She says she began "by purging the kitchen of every slide of bread, every cracker, every package of pasta, and every cream-filled pastry." She goes on to describe what her daily meals were like and then she says; "At...

Weight Loss Stories at Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping Magazine has some nice weight loss success stories they've recently posted to their online site. Here is one of their success profiles; Robyn Spieler. She lost 70 pounds in less than a year. She did this by cutting out the carbs and by going to the gym four days a week. See more about her story and other stories at Good Housekeeping he...

Looking Ten Pounds Slimmer on Camera

Can a camera make you look ten pounds slimmer? The HP Photosmart camera has a 'slimming feature'. And it really does work. Here's a photo of Libby before and after using the slimming feature on her camera. See more details about how this deceiving magic works at a blog by Regina Lew...

A Doctor Loses 270 Pounds

Dr. Nick Yphantides weighed 470 pounds at one point. He then decided to change his life. He took a sabbatical for one year to focus on what he enjoys most (baseball) and to lose weight in the process. He went on a medically supervised liquid protein diet (soybean based) for several weeks. Just over a year later he had lost an amazing 270 pounds. He's been quoted as saying "Food was never meant to...

Raw Foods to Sing About

Angela Stokes lost 160 pounds by switching to a raw foods diet. Here's another of her videos. Here she reminds us to try eating more raw foods each day. She shows us some of her favorite raw foods....

Drinking Tap Water for Weight Loss

Drinking lots of water is one of the easiest ways to lose some weight quickly, especially for many people who are chronically dehydrated. But tap water is usually a better alternative to bottled water. Bottled water companies are not regulated for safety or purity. And the environmental waste resulting from the bottled water craze is horrific. Here's an eye-opening passage from the Food & Water...

Confronting Morbid Obesity

Here's an artist who is morbidly obese and has created this very touching video about his weight loss issues. His name is James Bara...

Janet Jackson Gains Weight

The Skinny Website has just posted these new photos of Janet Jackson. After losing over 60 pounds and keeping the weight off for more than a year, it looks like she has gained more than a few pounds since her cover photo on US Magazine (just seven weeks ago) where they celebrated her one year weight loss anniversa...

Competitive Eating

Joey Chestnut is a competitive eater from San Jose, California. On July 4th he won the 92nd Annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating six-time defending champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi by consuming 66 hot dogs and buns in twelve minutes. Jocelyn Noveck writes; Watching these "gustatory gladiators," as the show calls them, brings a few basic questions to mind. Why do people subject themselves...

Walking the Weight Off

Mr. Fat Guy set out to lose 100 pounds. He is six feet tall and weighed 303 at Christmas. That's when he started walking off the weight. By March he had lost 28 pounds. But then he fell off the wagon. In June he started in earnest again. He now weighs 281 pounds and has recently made an extreme goal of walking two hours per day. When he keeps to his regular walks the weight falls off quickly. See...