You’ve met them. The co-worker juicing for a month straight. The cousin who works out two hours a day. The friend who’s always on the latest (and weirdest) Hollywood regimen.

They’re all going to the extremes to lose weight – and the thing is? They’re doing it all wrong.

Trying to lose weight and get healthy is difficult enough by itself, but what if you had to do it while also serving as the primary caretaker of an ill loved one?

It may not sound like too much fun to most of us, but for Sheryl Walder, her mother’s Parkinson’s disease diagnosis was the catalyst to push her into finally taking the leap. 

We’ve all heard it a thousand times. Exercise helps us lose weight. Exercise keeps our heart strong. Exercise helps us live longer.

Healthy life practices lead to healthy eating practices. Starting your day off right is the first step to daily health and happiness. We asked 10 Diet-to-Go experts how to get the day started successfully.

It’s a story many women are all too familiar with — putting on extra pounds every year after 40, with no explanation and no obvious way to combat it.

It’s definitely the story of Stephanie, a California mental health specialist who at 5'6" slowly started gaining weight until she bubbled up to 165 pounds.

Greg Berlin, 29, decided to try Diet-to-Go as a way to get on-track with his eating habits.

“I worked out a lot, but the food was a problem,” he said. “I was always a big believer in what you put into your body is 90 percent of it.”

When that first alarm goes off early Monday morning, the last thing you want to do is get out of bed and head to the gym. Believe me, I know.

Luckily, there are a few things people like us can do to get through that annoying pre-dawn beeping (or after-work, or whenever), and still do what’s necessary to lose weight and get healthy.

Everything's better when you have people to share it with. Supporting one another and using each other’s experiences to better ourselves and succeed is what makes us human beings and holds us accountable.

There are about a million diets out there pitching themselves as the next big thing to losing weight — some are okay, but many of them are pretty far fetched.
 

It’s a new year, and that means a whole lot of new weird and wacky trends popping up online promising you new ways to lose weight and get fit and healthy. Some of them aren’t too bad, but others are way out in left field.

Here are five of the most outlandish, which are sure to gain some serious popularity in the coming year.

Research shows that feeling good about what we eat and enjoying food with family and friends is essential to healthy weight maintenance. Sharing a meal with loved ones makes us more relaxed, more mindful of how much we’re eating — and can ultimately lead to a leaner body.

We all have different reasons for wanting to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle, but we all have one thing in common. Whether we are looking to lose a little or a lot, to get ready for an event or to maintain a life-long healthy diet, setting proper goals is essential to our success.

Without proper goals (and the tools to stick to them) we’ll never get where we want. Have you set a SMART weight-loss goal? And are you documenting your progress to stay on track? Here’s how to get started:

Diet-to-Go is more than just a healthy food company. We are a company that cares. We talk to people every day who depend us for our healthy lifestyle expertise. We know that change is never easy so we are always lending an ear and making suggestions that really improve lives. 

Mixing cinnamon graham crumbles with steamed milk and sweet cream for a toasty beverage is about as perfect for a snowy morning as it can get.

It’s certainly delicious enough that it landed the No. 1 spot on Google’s Top 5 Calories Searches of 2015 in the search engine giant’s annual “Year in Trends” report.

That report provides top-10 search lists nationwide based on new queries that had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2015 compared to 2014.

But one serving of the “Toasted Graham Latte,” a drink released this past autumn from Starbucks, also means 300 calories down the hatch — not something those of us trying to lose weight can really afford.

The NEW Diet-to-Go Balance-Diabetes meal plan, perfectly formulated by the Diet-to-Go nutrition experts, makes losing weight and controlling blood sugar an easy proposition.

At Diet-to-Go, our team is constantly working to provide you with the best experience possible! That’s why, with your valuable customer feedback, we’ve added new meals and upgraded others (see full lists below). Based on customer ratings, we’ve done away with the least popular meals and replaced them with more popular ones, such as the Chicken Burger and the Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich. We are excited about and proud of these changes - we hope you enjoy them too!

Diet-to-Go is excited to announce Fresh Home Delivery options in more cities than ever before! Our twice-weekly Fresh Home Delivery is now available in the greater DC Metro area and as far north as Baltimore. Further, we’re now able to deliver fresh meals to the millions of people in the NY Metro area, including New Jersey and Connecticut.

You know who they are – the well-meaning folks who push food on you during the holidays, urging you to “Just have one!” or “Splurge a little, it’s the holidays!” It may be Grandma (which is kind of sweet), but more often than not it’s a friend, neighbor or co-worker — and that’s extra pressure to eat the calorie-laden foods and drinks you don’t need.

Guess who won third place in our September Weight Loss Challenge…. Lou Martini Jr. from The Sopranos! We caught up with Lou, who lost 15 pound in just four weeks. Congrats on the loss, Lou. You look great!
 

More than 38 million Americans suffer from digestive issues. We eat on the go and we eat distracted. This lack of connection with eating can lead to digestive problems that range from indigestion, bloating, gas, constipation or diarrhea and can lead to bigger health problems down the road, like, irritable bowel, GERD, heartburn, leaky gut syndrome (as if the other problems didn’t sound attractive enough).