Welcome to SparkPeople, America's most active weight-loss and healthy living website! This article will introduce you to all of the SparkPeople features that can help adults manage type 2 diabetes, including our Spark*D Diabetes Management Progra... Read more
Some "diet facts" are repeated so often that we can be pretty convinced that we know everything there is to know about fat, carbs and hunger. But when you peel back the platitudes and look at the research, the truth about eating healthy foo... Read more
Whether browsing the Internet, surfing through 500 channels, or flipping through your favorite magazine (or tabloid), you’ll find them everywhere: weight loss supplements that offer quick and easy solutions to shedding unwanted pounds. Simply p... Read more
Almost every time we turn on the television or glance at a magazine cover in the supermarket checkout line, we are bombarded with the new weight-loss rules and diet plans. We're constantly given suggestions to drink a special shake, cut out carbs... Read more
If you had told me six years ago that I’d be working for SparkPeople today as a fitness and weight loss coach, I’d have told you to see a psychiatrist and get some medication to help control those delusions of yours.
At that point, m... Read more
I have found it very helpful to put one marble in a jar or pretty container for each pound I desire to lose. Each time I lose a pound, I transfer a marble to another container beside the first. This helps me to see how far I have gone and encourages... Read more
Hi! Loseing weight is a challenge but if we strive for a goal each day , we can achieve our goal! How much weight do you want to lose? I want to lose 10 more pounds. I have lost 25 pounds so far.Its very difficult but I wont give up! 381... Read more
My stats: age-20
Starting weight-113
Current weight-103
Height-5'2
Exercise-5-6x per week of AT LEAST 1 hour intense cardio. I attend a spin class 3x per week. Strength train 3x per week along with cardio.
Diet-clean eating 80/20. Barely an... Read more
Hey everyone, I am looking for some suggestions. I have been doing my mealplanning and overall, i'm doing okay, but having some trouble balancing my carbs/fat/proteins to the recommended percentages, i.e. 50%/30%/20% respectively. I always seem to... Read more
Hi guys, not sure if this is the right place for this.
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I am creeping up on reaching -100lbs(about 11.xlbs away) and especially recently, my wife has noted that I have become increasingly more aggressive toward... Read more
According to Mt. Sanai School of Medicine 1 OUNCE of CHEESE before dinner will slow carb absorption and cuts blood-sugar surges and also helps weight loss... Read more
Carbohydrates are important and necessary in our diets and have generated a great deal of attention over the past decade due to the low carbohydrate weight loss craze. Marketing trends have played off of that low carb craze and so have dieting plans... Read more
Gone are the days of carbohydrates being the evil enemy of weight loss. But before you serve up platters of pasta and piles of pancakes, it’s important to separate the truth from the myths we've all heard about carbs. (These rules do not ap... Read more
Chronic pain can make it difficult to get a good night's sleep but restful sleep helps with pain management. Here's how to break the vicious cycle of pain and sleep.
