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Count Calories to Lose Weight

Learn how to count calories so that your weight loss plan is effective. These quick tips and easy strategies will help you to lose weight and reach your goal weight.

Calorie Counting Dos and Don’ts

Accurate calorie counting is your first step to effective weight loss. Make sure you are doing it right.

Find the Best Diet for You

5 key questions to ask before choosing a weight loss plan.

Healthy Snacks: Tips and Recipes

Combine healthy snack recipes with healthy snack strategies to make it through the day or the social events that threaten to derail your diet.

Cooking Tips to Cut Fat and Cut Calories

Just a few simple changes to your cooking techniques can decrease the fat and calories in your favorite home-cooked meals.

3 Easy Ways to Make Vegetables Taste Better

Simple techniques and low calorie vegetable recipes to try at home

About.com's Calorie Count

About.com's Calorie Count is an excellent tool for searching the calorie content of your favorite foods -- including restaurant and fast food choices -- and tracking your caloric intake.

Cutting Too Many Calories

Cutting too many calories won't help -- in fact, it will hinder -- your weight loss efforts ... and it can be dangerous.

Extras, Extras: Are Added Calories Blowing Your Diet?

Your food may be doing a service to your weight loss efforts, but are sabotaging them by adding calorie-packed condiments such as sauces and dressings? The calories in these add-ons may surprise you. Learn how many calories typical "extras" add to a given meal.

Hidden Calories Add Up

Hidden calories can cost you pounds-gained! They sneak into your diet where you least suspect them ... like these examples.

How Many Calories Should I Eat?

How many calories I should eat is a question most people ask when they want to lose weight. Here's how find the answer.

How to Calculate Your Calorie Intake and Use it to Lose Weight

Learn how to calculate your daily calorie intake and use the results to lose weight.

How to Lose Weight with Calorie Counting in 5 Steps

Learn how to lose weight by cutting calories in just a few easy steps.

Save Calories with Food Switches

Check out these ideas for food swaps all saving between 50-300 calories each!

The Reality of Calories

Learn how your weight is related to your caloric intake.

What is a Calorie?

It's a pretty simple question, but the answer is more important than you might expect: Just what is a calorie, and, anyway ... why should I care?

What is a Very Low Calorie Diet?

A very low-calorie diet -- sometimes referred to as a VLC diet or VLCD -- is a medically-supervised diet plan that produces rapid weight loss.

Why Calories Count

Learn why counting calories always has and always will work for weight loss.

How Many Calories Should I Eat?

How many calories should I eat if I am a male in my 30s?

Calculate Your BMR

Calculate your BMR to find out how many calories to consume daily.

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