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How to achieve Jessica Simpson's remarkable 100-pound weight loss

Jessica Simpson has been making headlines for her incredible body transformation.

The mom of three took to Instagram to reveal that she lost 100 pounds in six months, noting that she "tipped the scales at 240" after giving birth to her third baby.

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So how did she do it? AOL caught up with Jessica's longtime trainer and Sweetkick founder, Harley Pasternak, who shared the tips and tricks Jessica used to get back in shape.

"Three meals and two snacks a day following the principles of the Body Reset Diet --  where she's having protein, fiber and healthy fat in her meals. She loves Tex-Mex flavor. She doesn't want eating well to feel like a punishment or a diet. The food still has to be delicious and that's why she was really able to (and still does) continue with it," he explained.

"There's a great apple pie smoothie in there that she [Jessica] loves. Sometimes in the morning she'll do a scramble. The Body Reset Diet is smoothies, soups, salads, scrambles, stir fry and sandwiches. It's really simple and doable. Unlike me, I like the same thing every morning, Jessica really mixes it up and she's so busy between three kids and running big businesses, I think it gives her variety. She's amazing," Pasternak said.

The Body Reset Diet was made popular by Pasternak through his best-selling book, The Body Reset Diet Cookbook: 150 Recipes To Power Your Metabolism, which has garnered a cult-following. 

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"I bought this book year ago and I lost 40 pounds on smoothies I just love it . I had problem with BP cholesterol, but everything is healthy now. Recommend this book to anybody who wants to be healthy. I also got the cookbook and this author just amazes me. I am really grateful. I can't even describe in words how much this book helped me. I practically think it saved my life," one Amazon customer reviewed.

Pasternak recently founded Sweetkick, a 14-day sugar reset in the form of a powerful breath mint.

"It's a plant-based mint. It's the safest thing in the entire world. You just pop it in your mouth. It's a two-week rest. It's a blend of the active ingredients Gymnema (a flower), inulin (found in jicama and artichoke) and Spearmint oil -- and when you combine it together, it actually goes into your sugar receptors, so when you eat sugar there's no room left for sugar to bind to your taste receptors on your tongue so you don't taste sugar," Pasternak  explained. 

The mint sold out nationally after it aired on E!'s "Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian." Shop it here.

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Keto diet: How to tell if you are in ketosis - weight loss expert reveals

A keto diet plan involves eating a diet full of high fat, high protein foods.

Cutting out carbs is key in the plan, which aims to shift the metabolic state of the dieter.

The body usually uses carbohydrates for energy.

A man recently used the keto diet plan to lose just 15 stone in a year. 

Keto diet: How to tell if you are in ketosis - weight loss expert reveals

Ketosis is when the body shifts to using fats as its main source of fuel.

This state encourages rapid weight loss, which is why the plan has become so popular.

The keto diet was initially devised to help those with epilepsy or who suffer with seizures.

What is the keto diet?

The usual breakdown for a keto diet is to get 70 per cent to 80 per cent of your daily calories from fat.

Twenty to 25 per cent should come from fat and five - 10 per cent from carbs.

Keto diet: How to tell if you are in ketosis - weight loss expert reveals (Image: GETTY)

Keto diet: It was initially devised to help those with epilepsy or who suffer with seizures (Image: GETTY)

Keto diet: Ketosis is when the body shifts to using fats as its main source of fuel (Image: GETTY) How can you tell if you are in ketosis?

Suzannah Robin, who is behind a new device to test whether someone is in ketosis, revealed how to tell if you are in ketosis.

How can you tell without using a device?

She said: "There are a variety of ways to tell whether your body is in ketosis. Some methods are more reliable than others as they depend on physical signals that aren't always consistent and could be indicative of something else, such as bad breath.

"The most obvious signal, of course, is weight loss. Appetite suppression and increased focus and energy will also tell you if the keto diet is working for you. However, these signs alone won't tell you exactly when you are burning body fat and, if so, at what rate.

"Knowing this will help you to optimise the keto diet and your exercise regime, and tailor them accordingly."

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However, there are more accurate tests you can use.

She added: "There are three methods of testing for ketosis – blood, urine and breath.

"In the last few years some breathalyser manufacturers have tried to adapt electronic breathalyser semi-conductor sensors to detect the acetone that is produced during ketosis.

"However, these devices, while relatively cheap, are generally inconsistent, are inaccurate at lower levels and can't be calibrated, so have a fairly short lifespan."

The Ketoscan Mini is the world's first portable cartridge-based analyser, which can tell if you are in ketosis using your breath.

Binge eating ‘mukbang’ videos are helping some people lose weight

NEW YORK (AP) â€" While trying to lose weight, Becky Beach found assistance in an unlikely place: thousands of online videos featuring people binging on massive amounts of ramen, burgers, chicken wings and seafood boils brimming with crab and lobster.

The South Korea-rooted video trend is known as “mukbang,” and it has spread to the U.S. and around the globe on YouTube GOOG, +1.78%  , Facebook FB, +0.60%   and Instagram.

“I watch one whenever I feel like eating sweets or bad foods,” said Beach, a Dallas-based product designer for a Fortune 500 company. She has lost 10 pounds and views up to three mukbang videos a day. “It’s just satisfying to watch.”

Ashley Cobb, a math teacher in Washington, D.C., is also a fan after one of her eighth-graders turned her on to the videos.

Cobb said it’s “fun and soothing” to watch people dip food in sauce and “eat with so much enjoyment.” The footage transports her to “a different place” and “has a way of making you leave reality for a second, sort of like a good book.”

Such glowing feedback is pure gold to top creators like Bethany Gaskin in suburban Cincinnati. The 44-year-old, who has 2.2 million subscribers to her Bloveslife channel on YouTube, is a top earner, clearing more than $1 million in ad money as she eats her way through seafood boils, ginormous servings of barbecue ribs and other drool-worthy spreads.

She recently put out a Cajun butter dipping sauce, Bloves Smackalicious, and counts Cardi B and Amber Rose among her 1.1 million followers on Instagram.

“I started off trying to cook in videos,” Gaskin said. “I cook really well, then people wanted to see me eat. I unapologetically eat whatever I want, however I want, food dripping down my chin.”

Gaskin has some advice for critics who say the excess of mukbang promotes an unhealthy lifestyle: “If you don’t like it, don’t watch.”

The word mukbang is a mashup of the Korean words for “eating” and “broadcast,” translating in English to “eatcast.” Livestreams in South Korea started sprouting up around 2009. It didn’t take long for fans to catch on and YouTubers to cash in.

“The core principle behind mukbang is that eating is a social activity,” said Victor Chang, marketing manager for the South Korea-based fried chicken restaurant chain Bonchon. It’s “a way of connecting people through meals even when they are miles apart.”

The company’s wings appear frequently in videos.

The mukbang phenomena is not focused on fancy food. It’s “more about the `treat yourself’ moment and the simple joy of casual conversation over a no-frills, delicious meal,” Chang said.

Some mukbangers avoid speaking in their videos, using specialized microphones to heighten the crunches and slurps. Others like Gaskin are in it for the chatter. Visiting with Gaskin on YouTube as she talks, dips and eats feels like catching up with a neighbor over the backyard fence.

At 4-foot-11 and about 130 pounds, Gaskin said she’s able to put away the amounts of food that she devours on camera due in part to her high metabolism. During a 30-minute video, she said she may actually eat for only 11 to 15 minutes.

Gaskin, who grew up poor in Chicago, was making circuit boards for the military in January 2017, when she put up her first mukbang video. She retired from her day job that May. Her husband, Nate Gaskin, retired after 20 years at General Electric to help manage her mukbang career, which is packed with speaking engagements, Make-a-Wish visits with sick kids and brand deals.

To round out the family affair, their two sons _ the youngest is 18 _ are also earning incomes from mukbang.

So does Nicholas Perry, 27. He’s a classically trained violinist who gave up that career struggle for mukbang in 2016. He started with videos focused on the vegan lifestyle he followed for about five years. Then he gave up veganism for junk food-fueled mukbangs that go deep into his personal life. He messily answers viewer questions, burps and chows down with regular “mmm, mmm, mmmmms.”

Perry has three mukbang channels under the handle Nikocado Avocado, with 1.72 million subscribers on the largest. He would not reveal how much money he earns.

“One of my friends told me to try it out,” he said from his home outside Philadelphia. “I thought she was crazy. I said to myself, ‘Who on Earth is going to watch me eat food? Sure enough, my very first mukbang got like 50,000 views in a couple of weeks, which was a lot for me at the time, and everybody was asking, when’s the next mukbang?”

After gaining weight, Perry tries to counter all the fast food with exercise and nutrition off screen.

“I just want to do this for a couple more years,” he said. “It IS very unhealthy.”

Brittany Marsicek, 28, a dancer, actor and YouTuber, has a 2-year-old Mukbang Monday channel with Chantal Plamondon, 27. The two focus on vegan food, but Marsicek eats and chats her way through non-vegan videos on some Wednesdays when she goes solo or teams up with her boyfriend.

Marsicek and Plamondon often film in their cars while munching from food containers, rather than making videos featuring a spread of food and people who mostly “just gorge,” Marsicek said.

Consumer psychologist Michal Strahilevitz, an associate professor of marketing at Saint Mary’s College of California, said mukbang “may seem crazy” at first, but “watching people binge eat is a whole lot healthier than binge eating yourself.”

She added: “Of course, there’s also the risk that this is modeling bad behavior and making it socially acceptable, particularly with younger viewers.”

Beach’s assessment? At least as it applies to her weight-loss goals: “It’s weird, but it works!”

How to Lose Weight for the Man On The Go

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Trying to get into shape and lose weight is a commendable goal and one everyone should always have. But the sad truth is that not everyone has the lifestyle to make these goals come to fruition easily. There are many men in the world that have to travel a lot for their work. Traveling does not make it easy to get a workout in. Going out on the road does not guarantee easy access to the kinds of food that keep weight down and keep men on point with their diets. There has to be ways to stay healthy while constantly on the road. Noom can help set goals and give tips for travel based health tips. 

What sets Noom apart from other fitness trackers is that Noom is aware that what keeps people back from getting into proper shape are mental blockages. People can get into bad habits that are detrimental to their health and getting out of these habits is very difficult. People are creatures of habit and breaking from a habit is not easy, especially when unhealthy habits tend to very addicting. 

Unhealthy habits are easy and hit the pleasure centers of the brain whereas healthy living demands some work, at least at the beginning when getting started. Noom is all about building a sense of community to help build each user's sense of confidence and giving them a support system. What Noom also does is give people a place to get helpful tips on how to build a diet based on each user's life. 

Traveling guarantees that there will be no sense of consistency in life. No hotel is going to be the same as the one before it and the community around the hotel is going to be different. Food will not be the same and the availability of food won't be the same in each place. So going out to a restaurant near the hotel is not the most viable idea. There are ways to keep oneself nourished without worrying about the local eateries. 

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Find a local supermarket and stock up on the kinds of foods that will not destroy any progress in a diet or weight loss plan. Get some dried fruits, nuts, vegetables or oatmeal. Stuff like this that don't need much preparation that will keep you healthy but will also keep you full and nourished. 

Now maybe there isn't a supermarket nearby. It can happen. There are only restaurants nearby or there's no time to prepare before a business meeting that is taking place in a restaurant. Many restaurants these days are equipped with some kind of healthy options if one knows how to eat properly. And most restaurants are more than well equipped to handle those who are on the Keto Diet. 

Long story short regarding the Keto Diet, all you need to worry about is eating meat and vegetables. No carbs, no sugars, no potatoes. If it's not a meat or veggie, stay away. And regardless of the type of restaurant one finds themselves in, meat or veggies will be in stock. Keto is an easy diet to keep on track with if traveling is a constant.

There are other options when it comes to the dietary aspect of health that can help with weight loss. One of the easiest and most obvious in hindsight ways to help with weight loss is to fast. Don't fast for days, but short scale fasts every now and then helps to boost the metabolism and burn fat quicker. So maybe skip breakfast and lunch one day, holding out till dinner. That'll help out greatly. And one of the keys to weight training is to have a cheat day or two in the week. It helps out psychologically but it will also help physically as well since it would be too hard to stay on the grind 24/7. 

Dieting isn't the only way to keep oneself on track with physical fitness. Obviously, working out tends to be a real key component to keeping someone in shape. Some hotels can come with a gym inside of it to allow guests to get a workout in during their stay. But not every hotel gym is going to be the same. There can be weight training equipment there to keep fat down and build muscle. But sometimes there are only cardio machines about. And cardio is obviously a great component to losing weight, but it isn't the only component. There are plenty of ways to get muscle workouts in on the road with equipment and that's going to be workouts like sit-ups or pull-ups. Using the weight of your body to get a pump in can be done anywhere. 

Traveling makes keeping up with physical fitness a bit of a creative endeavor. The very act of traveling makes consistence a difficulty that needs to be overcome because consistency is key when it comes to physical fitness. There needs to be a healthy habit formed. Breaking through those mental blocks is going to be difficult. Noom will help break through those blocks and will give tips to keep it up on the road as well. Build up a personalized physical fitness routine with Noom today by signing up for a risk-free 14-day trial here.

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'My 600-lb Life' Houston doctor reveals 22 weight loss tips in exclusive interview

In an exclusive interview with Chron.com, TLC's Dr. Younan Nowzaradan revealed his tips to lose weight successfully.

>>> See Dr. Now's 22 tips for shedding the pounds.

In an exclusive interview with Chron.com, TLC's Dr. Younan Nowzaradan revealed his tips to lose weight successfully.

>>> See Dr. Now's 22 tips for shedding the pounds.

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In an exclusive interview with Chron.com, TLC's Dr. Younan Nowzaradan revealed his tips to lose weight successfully.

>>> See Dr. Now's 22 tips for shedding the pounds.

In an exclusive interview with Chron.com, TLC's Dr. Younan Nowzaradan revealed his tips to lose weight successfully.

>>> See Dr. Now's 22 tips for shedding the pounds.

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A new book by a well-known Houston doctor describes obesity, specifically adolescent and childhood obesity, as "a worldwide epidemic" that affects nearly one third of the earth's population.

"The Scale Does Not Lie, People Do" puts into perspective the economic impact of obesity, which every year claims the lives of millions globally and has doubled in 70 countries since 1980.

The book's author is none other than TV star, obesity expert and bariatric surgeon Dr. Younan Nowzaradan, known endearingly to his patients as "Dr. Now" on the TLC show "My 600-lb Life."

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The book is a segue into a new campaign Nowzaradan is working on to shed light on the effects childhood obesity.

"Obesity is proven to shorten the life span about 20 years," Nowzaradan said in an exclusive interview with Chron.com. "For the first time, Americans' lives will be shortened by five to 10 years by the next generation."

Obesity, a chronic and relapsing metabolic disease, is caused by several factors, but can mostly be attributed to a genetic predisposition, combined with epigenetics, which is affected by the environment, Nowzaradan said.

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"Obesity is not a choice for people," he said. "It's not something that most people can walk their weight off with diet and exercise."

The disease controls your calorie expenditure and intake, and even with surgery, which impacts the gastrointestinal hormones inside the stomach, the predisposition that causes obesity won't correct itself, Nowzaradan said.

That's why the success rate for those who are extremely obese, like the patients on his show, is about 5 percent, he said.

In short, losing weight is not easy, especially when you have multiple factors against you, he said.

Click through the slideshow above to get Nowzaradan's 22 tips to losing weight — and keeping it off.

"It's a double-edged sword," he said, adding that people cannot solely blame their unsuccessful weight loss attempts on the environment or medications, which have been proven to alter the micro bacteria inside our intestines.

"It's our own responsibility to understand what the problems are and what the solutions are," he said.

Many people fail in their weight loss journey because they are not truthful with themselves, often eating more calories than they should be, he said.

Nowzaradan recommends understanding healthy eating habits and avoiding popular fad diets that are just a "temporary solution for a permanent problem."

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Why maintaining weight loss demands more than willpower

Scientists are learning more about why keeping off lost weight is so hard — and a pair of studies suggest it's more than a question of sheer willpower.

A Dartmouth University study published in Cognitive Neuroscience used brain imaging tests to show that some people have an imbalance between the executive control and reward systems of the brain. This disconnect means you may not have enough natural control over the impulse to reach for food when you're stressed or even when you're happy. It also seems more likely to be the case in people who are chronic dieters.

The other study was done by the University of Michigan and the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and published in the journal Obesity. It found that the body's internal protection against starvation encourages eating specifically so that you'll regain any lost weight — and at a rate of 100 calories a day for every kilogram or 2.2 pounds dropped. Since that's much more than the average person would naturally burn off, the end result is weight gain.

This doesn't mean your weight loss efforts are doomed, but you will need to make a strong effort to overcome these forces. It will likely take a combination of healthy lifestyle habits and a commitment to practicing mindfulness to squash the emotional urges to eat.

Research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that maintaining a loss often requires a different approach than you used to lose the weight.

The researchers looked at the habits of 1,165 people and found some intriguing contrasts. People who followed a consistent exercise routine or ate an abundance of low-fat protein foods were better able to maintain a weight loss, but these techniques did not work for losing weight. On the other hand, people who said they did many different kinds of exercise or planned their meals ahead of time found that such steps helped them lose weight, but weren't factors in weight-loss maintenance.