Weight Loss

Millions struggle with weight loss. Learn everything you need to know about weight loss meal plans and weight loss tips.

Does Drinking Water Help Lose Weight? And 8 Other Hydrating Questions

Water does a body good, but is it really the miracle cure that some people claim? Here’s how drinking water...


Quiz: Are You a Food Addict?

These eight simple questions will help you zero in on the trigger foods that set you off.


21-Day Tummy: 8 Recipes Inspired by the Popular Weight-Loss Plan

We challenged a few of our favorite food bloggers to create recipes based on the best-selling book 21-Day...


Quiz: Which Food Has More Sugar?

Get sugar savvy: Author High Voltage shares which common foods are shocking sources of added sugar.


Portion Distortion Quiz: Guess the Right Serving Sizes

Use these common objects to properly size your servings without weighing everything you eat.


21-Day Tummy Diet Success Stories

Our testers collectively lost 90 pounds and 29 belly inches in just three weeks on the 21-Day Tummy plan, and...


How Professional Bakers Don’t Get Fat at Christmas

If you like to turn out baked goods but hate what it does to your waistline, follow these tricks and...


Soothe and Shrink Your Belly: Our 21-Day Tummy Diet Plan

The Reader's Digest book 21-Day Tummy contains the exclusive meal plan, recipes, and workout that helped test panelists lose weight...

Get a 21-Day Tummy! How to Shrink and Soothe Your Stomach

Best-selling author Liz Vaccariello describes the new 21-Day Tummy plan that remedies digestive issues and shrinks the tummy. With this...


The 8 Best Weight Loss Snacks

Snacks provide about one-third of an adult’s average daily calories, but many classic snacks aren’t rich in nutrients. Satisfy a...


GMA’s Tory Johnson Shares Weight Loss Secrets from “The Shift”

Good Morning America contributor Tory Johnson, author of the weight-loss book The Shift , describes the principles that helped her...


New High-Tech Ways to Whittle Your Waistline

Losing weight can be a challenge. Here are some types of technology that can help you do it—and you don't...


Weight Loss Advice from 1920: Does It Still Hold Up Today?

Published in the very first issue of Reader's Digest magazine, the article "How to Regulate Your Weight" is full of...


Fast Weight Loss: Secrets From Trainer Chris Powell

Chris Powell, host of the show "Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition" and author of the book "Choose More, Lose More...


Bob Harper’s Fast, Celebrity Weight-Loss Secrets

When the Hollywood elite need to know how to lose weight fast, they beg ‘The Biggest Loser’ coach for help....


19 Strategies to Keep Your Appetite Under Control

Stress eating? Tired and hungry? Appetite out of whack? No matter what the source, you can outwit your hunger with...


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Harley Pasternak’s Famous Red Berry Smoothie Recipe

This recipe blends raspberries, blueberries, orange, and flaxseeds for a filling, fiber-rich shake. See more of Harley Pasternak’s delicious smoothie

Weight-Loss Story: A Day in the Life of a Fat Cell

A talkative bit of blubber exposes the surprising ways we steer the body wrong.


Sharon Osbourne’s Top 3 Diet Secrets

We spoke with TV star Sharon Osbourne, who recently shed 23 pounds in six weeks, to find out her top...


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Digest Diet Success Story: “My Blood Sugar Dropped 105 Points!”

How's this for inspiring?: Schoolteacher Janet Smallwood dramatically lowered her blood sugar and blood pressure on the revolutionary 21-day weight...


13 Things You Didn’t Know About the Digest Diet

Whether you're a newcomer to the Digest Diet or an experienced pro who's cycled through the plan several times —...


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Digest Diet Success Story: “I Broke My Sugar Addiction!”

In this inspiring weight loss success story, see how Dawn Vezirian used the Digest Diet to kick her sugar addiction...


9 Offensively Enormous Beverages

These ridiculously oversized sweet drinks provide as many as half a day’s calories and are loaded with sugars. See what...

Skinny Rules ‘Biggest Losers’ Never Break

Weight-loss expert and ‘The Biggest Loser’ star Bob Harper’s eating tips and tricks help you get slim and healthy, whether...


8 Habits That Can Help You Slim Down

Weight loss is not about just eating less or exercising more: Try to adopt these easy habits if weight loss...


Lose Weight Around the Clock

6:45 AM: Get Some Early Exercise “Studies show that most people who wear pedometers clock up more steps before lunch


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25 Diet-Busting Foods You Should Never Eat

What to Pick, What to Skip It really is a shame. Some of the best-tasting foods are actually some of


8 Things That Are Making You Fat

If you're logging hours in the gym to no avail on the scale, it's time to rethink your game plan....


6 Household Chores That Burn Major Calories

Sweeping/mopping Burning about 240 calories per hour, sweeping/mopping is a great upper and lower body workout. Focus on the dirtiest