About Half Of Americans Say They're Trying To Lose Weight

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Losing weight is the number one New Year's goal and the one most people fail. Many restrictive diets result in fast weight loss because of the lack of carbohydrates. Why does this work? It's all about water weight," says Dietitian and BDA Spokesperson Chloe Miles. When you eat carbohydrates, your body stores it as glycogen in the liver and muscle. Your muscles store approximately 500g and your liver approximately 100g and it's thought that every gram of glycogen in the human muscle is bound to 3g of water," she says.

Typically, once they're back to their birth weight, new babies gain 6 to 8 ounces a week for the first few months — that's 1 to 2 pounds a month. After about 4 months, formula-fed babies will gain at a slightly faster rate because formula has more calories than breast milk, and parents tend to push baby to finish bottles (as opposed to letting them stop at the breast whenever they want). If you're not sure whether your little one is getting enough milk, here's a good gauge: If your baby is eating enough, she'll produce eight to 10 wet diapers a day, and at least five poopy ones if she's breastfed (fewer for formula-fed newborns).