Metabolism/Weight Loss

By switching to a plant-based diet and redoubling his training efforts, this young basketball player finally lost the weight that had been holding him back.

These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.

A functional-medicine nutritionist shares how her Seven Systems approach effectively detoxes the mind as well as the body.

Roxane Gay’s bold account of her weight issues offers insight into the connections between trauma, shame, and body image.

Low-calorie food replacements have promised to make our weight-loss dreams come true, but research indicates that these pseudo-foods rarely deliver. In fact, they may set our weight-loss efforts back.

How one man is creating a family tradition of healthy living by making manageable changes to his own diet and lifestyle.

Set aside the calorie obsession and fat-gram fixation. To lose weight and maintain a healthy body, try these strategies instead.

Dairy-free, gluten-free recipes that nourish your thyroid.

It’s possible — but the fitter you are, the harder it might be.

Here are six ways strength training supports your overall health — beyond building muscle and burning fat.

How one woman — determined to transform her lifestyle and inspired by Zumba — shed more than half her body weight.

How one man returned to a favorite childhood pastime to overcome a traumatic injury and years of obesity.

How one woman overcame nearly two decades of chronic pain and found the fit life she’d been missing.

When a lifelong dieter gave up sweets, smoking, and a sedentary lifestyle, she rediscovered her sense of self.