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Easy Weight Loss Tips

Here's a collection of our top weight loss tips. These pointers will help you with everything from portion control, to cutting fat, to dressing slimmer! From your About.com Guide to Weight Loss.

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15 Facts for Weight Loss Newbies
These are the 15 facts anyone who wants to lose weight needs to know!

10 Tips for Making Healthier Meals
Dinner-time doesn't have to prove a dieting-dilemma. Keep these healthier-meal-making tips in mind.

A Fresh Start
If you've drifted away from the direct path to your weight loss goal lately, join me as we take a look at some ways to ease yourself back into living like a "loser"!

Cut 100 or More Calories ... Painlessly!
One pound is equivalent to 3,500 calories. Whether by making slight changes to your diet like the ones listed below or exercising, a deficit of 500 calories a day will lead to the loss of a pound a week!

Fatty Fare Gets Friendly
If you are attempting to follow a low-fat/reduced calorie diet, you know there are challenges surrounding you nearly every minute of the day. Here are some alternatives to high-fat fare that you may find helpful.

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Overcome Your Weight Loss Plateau
Have you hit one yet? That plateau where the scale just seems to be stuck? Here are a few tips we have found helpful in breaking through our weight loss plateaus.

Quick Tips #1
First in our "Quick Tips" series, offering pointers for practical, effective weight loss tactics. Those small changes can really add up!

Quick Tips #2
Ready for more easy-to-use tips? Try these tricks for curbing your appetite, sticking to goals and more.

Quick Tips #3
Our visitors share their most effective, yet easy, weight loss tips on everything from getting support from the family to working up the motivation to work out.

Quick Tips #5
Part 5 of our "Quick Tips" series offers a warning about sugar-free treats, advice on healthy fast foods, handling leftovers, and more.

Quick Tips #6
Another installment of our "Quick Tips" series, part 6 includes tips on portion control, drinking water, and skipping meals.

Small Changes, Big Rewards
Here are some easy ways to make some of your higher-fat favorites more diet-friendly. After all, it's the small changes you'll stick with... and they'll pay off big time.

Weight Loss "Survival" Skills
It takes strength. It takes endurance. It takes will power. It takes dedication. It's... weight loss! This article series includes our best tips.

Weight Loss "Survival" Skills: Part 2
Part two of our weight loss "survival" skill series brings you tips from visitors on everything from portion size, to drinking water, to emotional eating.

Weight Loss "Survival" Skills 3
The last installment brings the best weight loss tips from our community members. You'll find some great advice here!

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