losing weight

8 Fun Ways to Lose Those Chichos!

8 Fun Ways to Lose Those Chichos!

By Cristina Goyanes | 04/26/2013 - 10:39 | 0 Comments

Fitness isn’t just about being able to squeeze into skinny jeans and minidresses —you’ve got Spanx for that. Truth is, you want to feel sexy, beautiful, confident and, above all, healthy so you can dance the night away with your girlfriends, kick the ball around with your kids and be up for whatever steamy adventure your partner proposes. Now, if only...

5 Surprising Ways to Lose Weight While on Vacation

5 Surprising Ways to Lose Weight While on Vacation

By Irina Gonzalez | 04/11/2013 - 17:30 | 0 Comments

Every time you go away on vacation, I know what you’re thinking: “There goes my diet!” It’s a pretty easy assumption to believe that all of the food you’re planning to consume while away is going to pack on the pounds....

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Christina Milian on Marriage, Motherhood and 'Sex'

By Latina Staff | 05/28/2010 - 18:00 | 7 Comments

Latina.com caught up with singer-actress Christina Milian, 28, on the red carpet at a screening for Sex and the City 2 this week in Los Angeles. The bubbly new mom/newlywed was open with us about baby weight, married life and why she thinks she's a "...

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Fat Burning Machine

By Nicole Toro | 04/12/2010 - 17:26 | 10 Comments

You're probably asking yourself: Out of all the foods there are to choose from, which one is the most important to eat? I try to serve as someone from whom, through my experiences, you can learn how to become a lean, mean, fat burning machine. As I am going through my journey, one of the most important things that I have learned is the way we all should eat. (...

Save the Date

By Nicole Toro | 03/31/2010 - 20:00 | 6 Comments

Drum roll please…

So, I spoke to my surgeon who will perform the Sleeve Gastrectomy. Boy, what a meeting! My doctor is AMAZING! He is a down to earth, truth tellin. And he definitely gave me a serious talk on the do’s and don’ts I have to follow before, during, and after surgery. Just so you get an overall understanding of the surgery, I will briefly explain things...

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Checkup or Checkout

By Nicole Toro | 03/15/2010 - 09:49 | 4 Comments

Why do some of us do everything possible to not go to the doctor regularly? At the end of the day, you know who ends up paying for the delay in getting a checkup? YOU!

I can't reiterate enough how important it is to get your yearly checkup! Even though, at times in the past, I've skipped them myself! As soon as you feel the sniffles come on, don’t assume its...

The Whole Truth

By Nicole Toro | 03/09/2010 - 20:10 | 8 Comments

When I arrived to my Bariatric appointment last week with my best friend (THANK YOU!) I was so nervous. I was more nervous to get on that scale than to actually discuss the surgery. My blood pressure was taken, which was fine except for the obvious issue of my weight and BMI (body mass index). But when we got down to business discussing which surgery I wanted to do and the...