Weight Matters

What’s Your Plan For Halloween? Don’t let Halloween candy derail or slow your diet down this trick or treat season. Cheating is a slippery slope. Especially when junk food and sugar is involved! Once cheating on your diet, it can easy to fool one’s self into thinking it will be easy to get back on...

Sugar Q&A Hey Sugar, Gimme the Facts. Here’s the straight scoop on refined and added sugars. What is meant by refined sugar? Here are some examples of refined sugars and the source from which they are made. •    Dextrose, otherwise known as corn sugar, is derived synthetically from starch. •    Fructose is derived from...

8 Tips to Avoid Halloween Candy Binges This Halloween beware of the pitfalls of candy binging. Don’t let Halloween trick you into cheating on your diet this October. The coaches at BodyTech Weight Loss and Health clinic in Rockville, Maryland have come up with eight ways for you to keep your diet on track...

Top 10 Ways to Help a Dieter Succeed Weight loss and dieting can be challenging and takes great courage. Helping a dieter achieve their weight loss goal requires positive, supportive mindset. Here are some rules to follow to show your support for a loved one who may be dieting. Stay positive. Only offer encouraging...

Get The Real Scoop On Stevia A sugar substitute that is in a class all its own.   Stevia is a popular, all-natural, zero calorie sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the leaves of the plant species called Stevia rebaudiana— more commonly referred to as sweet leaf. The name stevia is derived from Spanish...

10 Amazing Anti-Cancer Foods Phytochemicals “The Healing Foods of Our Time” FEATURED GUEST BLOG POST BY Michelle Krutan Berman RD, MS There has been much talk about health foods, organic foods, low-fat foods, raw foods, unprocessed foods, and chemically treated foods over recent years. It is no wonder that the general public and health professionals...

30 Powerful Reasons To Drink Water Pure, clean water is one of the most underappreciated health and beauty secrets today. We all know we should drink plenty of water, but do you really know why? The team of health and wellness experts at BodyTech Weight Loss and Health in Rockville, Maryland has prepared a...

Weighing In on the Power of Positive Thinking   One of the biggest challenges that plague dieters is a negative attitude. If you’ve ever been on a diet and found yourself thinking, “I can’t do it,” then you are not alone. Negative thoughts are considered one of the leading causes of failed diets. The...

Dieting, Are You Kidding Me? The top 15 funniest one-liner diet jokes ever. The coaching team at BodyTech is no stranger to the humorous side of dieting. After all, they have to come into work daily and face Larry. Hee hee hee. Just for giggles, our crack coaching staff thought it would be fun...

A Diet Well Worth Investigating Discovering the right way to lose weight can mean the difference between life and death for some. Success Story: Scott Miller WEIGHT LOSS: 101 Pounds He investigated just about every diet.  He tried Weight Watchers, but it didn’t work. Sampled Nutrisystem, only to discover he didn’t have a taste...