Whew! Sorry for the long absence, we botched a Wordpress upgrade about as badly as is possible. Welcome back! 
There’s a lot we’ve been waiting to talk with you about, so expect a lot of catching up over the next few days. Please pardon our dust as we rearrange things on the blog to try to [...]

According to a 2005 study, the music you listen to during your workout makes a BIG difference.
People work harder, have more fun, and lose more weight when they work out with music. If you’ve ever left your MP3 player at home and had to work out without music, you know exactly the difference it makes.
We [...]

Podfitness member Sue Slutsky was profiled last night on ABC Action News Tampa as part of a story on Podfitness.
Sue joined with the Discovery Health National Body Challenge, and has lost weight, toned up, and now uses her treadmill for more than just a clothes rack!
Sue, thanks for being an inspiration to the rest of [...]

After hearing the same things for ages, it starts to get old. Yes, yes, we know we’re supposed to eat more fruits and vegetables. OK, we get it, we need to get more exercise. And we know we’re not supposed to take four hamburgers, smash them into some sort of super-hamburger, and barely choke it [...]

Cravings are a tricky thing. Psychologically, they seem like a “need”, but are actually a “want”, and it’s rarely in our best interests to give in to them.
OK, so they’re not all must-read. However, several of these tips are things you wouldn’t normally think of, though they make complete sense.
My favorite:
Distract yourself. If only ice [...]

First off, welcome back to the Podfitness Blog! Right now, we’re retooling our blog to be more relevant to what you, as a Podfitness member, care about, and we’d like to welcome our newest blogger, Heather.
One of the new features of our blog is the “Definitive Guide” series, a (mostly ironically-named) series of guides for [...]

jliddil had a great question this week that hasn’t made its way to our FAQ page yet.
He writes, “It seems that with a playlist of 100 songs or more don’t load completely in the mixer. As I scroll down the list if songs becomes blank and nothing is listed after a given artist.”
Content expert Chris [...]

According to author Michael Pollan, what you’re eating might not be food at all, but an “edible food-like substance”. In his new book, In Defense of Food, Pollan contends that as a society, our study of food as the sum of its nutrients is way off.
This is the second recent book we’ve seen that directly [...]

In a new section called “From the Forums”, we’ll highlight the questions, concerns, or success stories from the Podfitness Community Forum that we think will be helpful to anyone reading the Podfitness blog. (The Podfitness Forums are a great place to get advice from our experts, as well as to connect with and support other [...]

Wired reports on a new drug called tranabant that works like inverse marijuana. In weight loss trials, it sped up metabolism 5%, and gave people “reverse munchies”, suppressing appetite rather than encouraging it.
It works by blocking the same brain receptors that THC stimulates, and the weight loss results were encouraging. At a 6mg dose, people [...]