Losing weight is so easy, right? Just eat veggies for dessert, skip lunch hour, and poach a personal chef from the local health spa. Scrapping a lifetime of eating habits -- especially ones that we all enjoy -- is unrealistic. Our expert Dr. Brian Wansink asked 2,000 people to make one of 20 small, manageable changes and see whether they lost weight and felt better after one month. Here's what ...

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Most people have a hard time understanding that, most unnecessary weight gain, is a choice that each of us make. Some of it is caused by how we were brought up. Remember your mom saying to you “clean up your plate, if you want desert”. We have been programmed to stuff ourselves and then indulge in dessert. Then of course, you always had that evening snack, while you sat around and watched television with the family. Understandably, we have become a society that goes to extremes. Once you hav

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Do you have plans for Thanksgiving dinner? And if so, is your plan to let loose and overindulge, eat a healthy platter beforehand and nibble on a few foods, have an escape route when it’s time for dessert or cram a workout in before you head out? In today’s weight-obsessed world, along with the recipes for mouth-watering mashed potatoes and sweet apple pies, you also find recipes for cutting calories from your Thanksgiving feast; ways to fit a workout into the day; and tips for getting back o

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One cup of canned pumpkin contains only 83 calories, 1 gram of fat, and 7 grams of fiber. Besides being low in calories and high in fiber pumpkin is full of vitamin A and beta-carotene which has been shown to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. So, instead of turning this healthy and good for you food into a high calorie, high fat dessert try pumpkin in some of these weight loss friendly recipes for Thanksgiving, or any night of the week: Spicy Pumpkin and Split Pea Soup Fres

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{Originally posted on Fit Bottomed Girls} The Fit Bottomed Girls are all about enjoying all that life has to offer, and sometimes life offers dessert. And the FBGs love us some dessert—and not just the fat-free type. Unfortunately, over consumption of mouth-watering desserts can get in the way of maintaining a fit bottom, and most of them aren’t exactly easy to make anyway. Have you ever actually tried making a Martha Stewart dessert? I did it once in college, and after a whole day in the kit

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