Lose Weight Faster

Your best friend regularly eats doughnuts for breakfast yet remains maddeningly thin. You and your husband decide to lose weight together, and in two weeks he's lost 6 pounds and you've lost only 2. Your teenage son consumes everything in sight and just keeps growing taller, while you take two bites of chocolate cake one night and the next day the scale says you've gained 3 pounds.

Do you blame it all on metabolism and feel like simply giving up? Don't. While you may not naturally burn through calories like others do, making a few small adjustments to your exercise routine and diet can immediately rev up your metabolism -- and help you lose weight.

Sound easy? It is. We'll tell you what you need to know to get started.