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Would you love a  GUARANTEED flat tummy?  Adding these healthy foods to your diet will help you slim down, tone, tighten and expose your flat 6-pack tummy within! You hit the gym regularly, go through numberless sit-ups and stability exercises but still nothing! Not an ab in sight. Not even a one-pack. It’s discouraging, we know. Maybe the saying “abs are made in the kitchen” is cliché, but its foundation is still true. No one will see your abs if you don’t do something about the layer of lard sitting on top of it, no matter how strong your core is. No number of sit-ups or hours on the treadmill will help you if you’re eating the wrong foods. You’ll have to ditch the junk food, obviously, but you’ll also have to incorporate fare into your diet that torches belly fat, boosts metabolism, and banishes bloat. Luckily, we’ve made up a list of the most important foods you should include into your diet to expose the six-pack within. 1. Eggs Eggs consist of a nutrient called choline t...

As a life-long dieter, I doubt there is a weight-loss plan I haven’t tried or a diet book I haven’t read. Weight Watchers, Diet Center, Diet Workshop, the Scarsdale Diet, Fit for Life, NutraSystem, Jenny Craig, the Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet, South Beach, Whole 30…, I’ve tried them all, with no meaningful or lasting success. I discovered Dr. Atkins in 2000, and his keto plan was probably the most effective plan I tried, but after a few years, even that stopped working. I did not understand how I could be eating fewer than 20 g of carbs per day and still gaining weight. Despondent and desperate, in 2007, I finally elected to have weight-loss surgery – a vertical sleeve gastrectomy that removed ⅔ of my stomach. Unable to eat very much in one sitting, I lost 70 pounds (32 kg) in my first year post op. I followed the bariatric surgeon’s dietary advice to the letter. One hundred and fifty grams of protein daily, largely supplemented with artificially-sweetened protein shakes and bars, whole...

Looking for snack ideas while on the keto diet? Snacking on keto can be easy if you know what healthy high-fat foods to grab. We’ve put together a list of 16 keto diet snacks that you can grab easily and snacks you absolutely MUST avoid! One of the hardest things about being on any diet is the snacking aspect of it, especially when you’re hungry and it’s not quite time for lunch or dinner. When you’re hungry, it’s so easy to succumb to convenient and unhealthy snacks like bread, chips or candy. It’s even worse when your schedule is tight and time is limited. So if you’re wondering what the best and worst snacks for keto are, read on. Firstly, it must be said that you’ll find that once you’re fat-adapted, you’ll have less inclination to snack because one of the best things about following a strict ketogenic diet is that your hunger remains at bay for some time after you’ve eaten your main meal. Snacking for keto can be quite easy if you just think about including some basic healthy high...