Tone It Up | Raise The Bar

Changes in lifestyle and eating habits can mean a big change when you step on the scale. Make the right choices and you will meet your weight loss goals.

Losing weight can be a winning battle if you have the motivation it takes to stick with it. While watching your body change for the better can really get you going, sometimes you hit a plateau and need a bit of a pick me up.

The liver has many different important functions, such as filtering blood as it passes through it from the digestive tract. Chemicals and toxins that are in the blood must be removed, or if these toxins reach our vital organs it could have drastic results on our health. Best case scenario if they aren't removed by the liver is they end up in tucked away in our fat cells. Body detoxing helps to get rid of some of them, but we'd rather not deal with detoxification if we could.

Are you one to get up first thing in the morning, and race to the scale to see if the numbers have changed since the day before? If you haven't, many people do, and it can become an obsessive habit. People go through great lengths to change their diet and exercise routines, and want to ensure that the amount of work they put in pays off.

It is amazing how much losing weight is just like quitting any habit you may have. In fact, the steps used to quit smoking are just as applicable to changing your lifestyle to lose weight as anything else.

When you need to lose weight, getting off on the right foot is imperative. Doing so will motivate you and be immediately rewarding!

While yo-yo diets seem to be all the rage, the results are just not healthy for your body. The most effective way to become healthier is to lose your extra pounds and then keep them off for good.

Losing weight is not something you can do cold turkey. If you try to change your life all at once, you are almost guaranteed to fail.

Weight loss can be a challenge for most individuals, and it often results in a yo-yo effect of trying diet after diet. Yo-yo dieting results in feelings of frustration, as well as increased difficulty with keeping those pounds off.

There are tons of people out there who tip the scales a bit further than they want to. If you're one of them and you're ready to get rid of the excess baggage you're lugging around, you need to eat healthy and exercise more.

If you want to lose those extra pounds and begin to feel healthier again, there is no reason to wait. There are some simple steps that you can take today which will help you to reduce caloric intake and increase the calories you burn.

More Americans than ever before are struggling with their weight. In fact, obesity has become a nation-wide epidemic leading to many serious, preventable health problems.