If you fill your body with junk food and empty calories, you'll gain weight and feel lousy. Eating healthy foods, getting plenty of exercise, and drinking lots of water will boost your energy and help your body burn calories more efficiently.
Whether shopping or thinking about food; approaching the table with a plan or with trepidation; or talking about what you want to eat or will try not to eat, dieting can be sort of exhausting, just from the sheer concentration of it all. Yet -- ironically -- food is your best tool to gain and maintain energy, resolve, and clear thinking.
You just have to do it right.
If you have been working on losing weight, those extra lumps and bumps are really nothing more than a stored form of energy known to most of us as fat. What we affectionately call fat is really just a friendly term for what scientists call triglycerides. Besides being stored as body fat, triglycerides can also be found floating freely in our blood stream. As you might expect, triglycerides can wreak havoc on our health if blood levels become too high. There are 
