How to Lose Weight Fast
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Melinda GrossmanWith the possible exception of the proverbial "fountain of youth", one of the most highly sought prizes in the history of mankind is how to lose weight fast. I mean, wouldn't it be nice to wave a magic wand, push a button or perhaps even take a pill and the pounds just melt away effortlessly? Sounds like something in Peter Pan's “"Never-Never Land"!
But suppose there's a party, reunion or other special occasion coming up in two weeks. You've got the perfect outfit for it, but it's just a little tight right now. You need to lose about 5-7 pounds and you're looking for ideas on how to lose that weight fast. We're not talking an extended diet plan – just some options for quick weight loss. Well, there are several different methods out there.
One popular way people have found to lose weight fast is the "cabbage diet." The basis of the diet is a soup made of cabbage and other vegetables and foods. This is often called a "negative calorie diet" as these foods are said to require more calories to burn than they provide. Here's how it works: you eat all the soup you want on the first day. On subsequent days, you would be adding particular foods in addition to the cabbage. A word of caution: this diet would not be healthy to use for very long, but in the short run it seems to work. If you really want to know how to lose weight fast, this is one possibility.
Another "old standby" is the Slim Fast diet plan. I'm sure you've seen the TV ads of sports figures losing weight with this plan, and in the short term it works. The diet shakes are filling and contain fewer calories than you would normally take in for breakfast and lunch (these are the meals you replace with the shakes). You eat a sensible supper (be careful no to over-do it!).
An exercise program is also recommended. In addition to helping you to lose weight fast, you only have to cook once a day!
The plan also offers protein bars or other snack foods to help you stave off hunger. The pounds fall off quickly when you first start the Slim Fast diet and with proper maintenance you should be able to lose all your weight fast. If you want to continue this diet after your quick weight loss time frame, you can – but you just will not lose weight as fast.
Another possible idea for how to lose weight fast requires that you be in reasonably good health and condition at the start – exercise! You can walk an hour each day (just at a normal rate, not speed-walking or jogging) and see weight loss results quickly. Swimming is an alternative exercise for people who have joint problems or other conditions that keep them from walking far.
However, if you are out of shape, doing that much activity on the first day is not advisable. The key is to do SOMETHING - add the most activity that is within your reach and you will lose weight fast. It just involves pushing yourself a little harder than you normally would. Watch out, though – increased activity will increase the appetite, so don't eat more than you normally would or you'll sabotage your efforts to lose weight quickly.
One tip anyone can do to help lose weight fast is an analysis of the food you consume. Make a list of what you eat and evaluate it for calories, fat grams and dietary fiber. Determine what you need to change so that you are eating less food than your body requires powering it. When you are in this state, you cannot help but burn fat.
Do you want to know how to lose weight fast? Be cautious. You can probably accomplish it using mostly safe methods. However, if you go to extreme measures, remember you can only lose weight fast this way safely for a short time. The goal is weight loss – not starvation!
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Your Guide to Weight Loss Without Prescription
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Phillip EnglandWeight loss without prescription is possible with the various number of over-the-counter weight loss supplements available in the market. Available supplements for weight loss without prescription are generally safe but caution must still be exercised in choosing. With the growing demand for weight loss supplements, it's no surprise that dishonest manufacturers are taking advantage of this.
Finding supplements for weight loss without prescription is fairly easy to do. The hard part is in the actual choosing of which supplement to take. When choosing weight loss supplements, it's best to buy only FDA-approved products from licensed distributors. Be sure to check the ingredients list for items that may be on the FDA watch list and to safeguard you against food substances you know you are allergic to. Be wary of supplements that are cheaper than normal because they might instead contain ingredients that do nothing for you – you might as well be taking a sugar pill.
You can actually consider it your good luck if you encounter a product that contains ineffective yet unresponsive ingredients. Some have the misfortune of encountering cheap weight loss products that contain harmful ingredients unfit for consumption. To be on the safe side, consult your doctor. Your doctor knows your medical history best and can advise you on supplements for weight loss without prescription that are safe for you to take. If you are interested on a particular weight loss supplement beforehand, bring them when you see your doctor. Your doctor's advice is highly important most especially if you are suffering from any health condition or are currently taking any prescription medication.
To aid your weight loss efforts, there is undoubtedly enough weight loss supplements out there that you can try out. However, the most effective weight loss aid still lies in natural means consisting of a healthy diet paired with a regular exercise regimen.
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Weight Loss for Women Over 40 - Love Yourself First
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Rosanne RustIf you are 40-something, you know that it is getting harder to manage your weight. This is true for most, but it doesn’t mean you cannot still maintain a healthy weight.
First you may need to re-frame your outlook. If you are dreaming about your high school weight, you may need a reality check. For some, this may be possible, for others it may simply be unrealistic and unnecessary. When determining what your goal weight is, consider this: fi Calculate your BMI (see below). This is the best way to assess whether you really need to lose weight, or you just want to look better in your jeans. If your BMI is in the healthy range of 19-24, then you can be assured that your weight is not adversely affecting your health. If it is over 24, then you could reduce your risk for disease by losing a few pounds.
fi Love yourself first. If you think that losing fifteen pounds will solve all of your body image problems, you are probably wrong. Work with a therapist or life coach so that you can come to peace with who you are and the body shape you were born with. Try not to let your appearance be your biggest motivator to eat well and exercise. fi Consider inches, not just the scale. Take your waist, arm and thigh measurements now. Then compare every two weeks for three to four months after you have been exercising and eating better. You may not always see huge losses on the scale, but lost inches means lost fat and better health.
Secondly you need to make some changes in your eating habits. Most women at this age are pretty busy. They may be juggling a family, career and aging parents. This often adds up to skipping meals, eating junk food, and being dehydrated! Keep these tips in mind each day to get you out of a bad habit: fi Sit down and take a lunch break. While breakfast may be quick, lunch should not have to be on the run. Often we think that we are saving time by eating at our desks or in our car! But your body and mind need some downtime and a twenty to thirty minute break will likely leave you more focused and energized. Plus, sitting down will help you eat more slowly, which will help you eat less and stop when you’re full.
fi Plan two to three snacks a day. If you work out of the home, bring two snacks with you each day. If you work at home, choose your snacks in the morning or the night before. You may even want to post a “Healthy Snack List” on your refrigerator to help you make good choices.
Portions are important. Snack ideas: Low fat yogurt; 1-2 ounces pretzels; low fat string cheese with 6 wheat crackers; low fat granola or high fiber bar; 10 animal crackers and a glass of skim milk; a piece of fresh fruit or a cup of melon or berries; raw carrots; hummus with 6-8 wheat crackers; a glass of low fat chocolate milk. fi Consider keeping a food log. Writing down what we eat helps keep us accountable for all the little tidbits and go into our mouth. fi Be patient. Weight loss after forty is slower than it was before. You have to simply accept this. Make small changes, stick with them, and you will eventually see results.
Finally, exercise is more important than ever. Again, with the busy and often content lives that 40-something women may lead, they may get relaxed on exercise. It’s never too late to start an exercise program. Check with your doctor first to find out if there should be any restrictions, then shoot for exercising 3-5 times a week. While this may seem like a lot, keep in mind, household activities count too. So consider more formal exercise (like jogging, walking, weight lifting) to be done 3-4 times a week.
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and American Heart Association (AHA) have released updated physical activity recommendations for adults and older adults. The recommendations are an update and clarification of the 1995 recommendation on the types and amounts of physical activity needed by healthy adults and older adults to improve and maintain health. Specifically, the guidelines recommend all healthy adults aged 18 to 65 years need moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity for a minimum of 30 minutes on five days each week or vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity for a minimum of 20 minutes on three days each week. So the good news is that once you increase your intensity, you can get by with 3 days a week of activity. Keep these ideas in mind when planning out your activities: fi If you are not active at all, start walking. A nice walk outside each morning will be a great way to start your day. Even if you only have time for a 30-minute walk, start there. Some activity is always better than no activity.
fi If you are already a walker, try jogging. Increasing the intensity of any activity will help boost your metabolism. Start by jogging for 30 seconds, then one minute, and continue alternating minutes of jogging with walking. Before you know it you will be jogging two miles. fi Don’t hire it all out. Often individuals may have a comfortable lifestyle at this point and be able to hire folks to do the weeding, mulching, dig a new garden, mowing, or housework. Consider doing some of these old chores yourself. Shoveling mulch builds muscle and burns lots of calories! fi Try weight lifting. Weight training doesn’t mean you have to turn into a body builder nor does it mean you have to go to a gym. If you want to join a gym, that’s fine. It is a good idea to get some initial training from a personal trainer to be sure you are doing the activities with good form, but once you have the form down, you can easily work out at home. Invest in a set of light hand weights (usually 2, 3 and 5 pounds each) and start doing repetitions. We lose muscle as we age and weight lifting is one way to build some back and burn more calories.
Take your weight loss goals one at a time and you will see results eventually. In the meantime, think about your short-term goals and how eating healthy foods and using your muscles keeps your body well. Before you know it you will be inches smaller and a few pounds lighter
Rosanne Rust, MS, RD, LDNRegistered DietitianNutrition Consulting, Writing, LecturesLicensed Provider for Real Living Nutrition Services®
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6 Quick Ways to Burn Fat
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Dan BurleyWe live in a world of excess food and it’s easy to get overweight and stay that way. Fast food and sloppy eating habits can make losing weight very difficult, but you can burn fat off and keep it off by incorporating the 6 easy and sensible tips below:
1. Plan Your Meals – Never eat whatever is available. Always know and plan each meal. Write down each of your meals and the approximate time you will eat. Most people fail to lose weight because of poor planning.
2. Eat Small but Frequent Meals – Instead of eating 3 big meals per day, adapt the grazing policy and eat 5 to 6 small meals. Eating frequent but smaller meals will keep your blood sugar stable through the day and boost your metabolism. Stable blood sugar prevents sudden cravings and food binges. When your blood sugar is stable, your body will burn fat much more efficiently.
3. Walk the Pounds Away – You don’t need strenuous exercise to lose weight. You don’t even need to exercise at all to lose weight but a daily 30 minute walk will naturally boost your metabolism and help you burn fat a little more quickly.
4. Limit Calorie Intake – Most women should strive to stay between 1200 and 1500 calories per day to lose a pound per week. Men should stay between 1600 and 1900 calories to lose the same.
5. Limit Simple Carb Intake – Simple carbs consist of white or bleached flour products and sugar. Process foods are usually loaded with simple carbs. Non-diet sodas are nothing more than liquid candy, so avoid them at all cost. Replace simple carbs with complex carbs from fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grain products.
6. Small Dinner Meal - Your last meal should be no more than 300 calories and preferably at least 2 hours before bedtime. Energy demands are the least during the evening so there is no need to fuel your body, especially with carbs which convert to sugar more easily than protein.
Excess sugar turns into stored fat, so to avoid this problem, eat a lean meat like 1 chicken breast with 1 or 2 non-starch vegetables.
The important fact to remember is never starve to lose weight and burn fat. Frequent meals in smaller quantities is your ticket to a better body. Planning is extremely important so make sure you write down each of your meals. If you need help, consult reputable websites like the Diet Forum to help you out.
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5 Ways How To Stop Eating Junk Food
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Stefan AschanJunk food. Don’t eat this and don’t eat that. We all have heard this in the media. Even your friends tell you: “Oh you can’t have that”, when you pull out your chips or you eat your french fries. Doesn’t it feel like you are surrounded by the food police? Obviously, we don’t really have a food police, because if we did, the obesity rate in this country would be much lower. But maybe it would be nice if we each had a personal food policeman to advise us on what to eat, to guide us, and to stop us when violating the principals of a healthy diet. Let me play that role for you, though I don’t want to tell you what you can’t have, or what you can’t do, but rather give you advice about what you can do to stop eating junk food.
Identify what is junk foodWhat the hell is junk food? Some of us say it is bad to eat certain fruits because they are high in sugar but then go eat potatoes chips. It is all relative. First, really learn what junk food is by educating yourself. Why not pick up a book that covers the basics of carbohydrates, fats, protein, minerals and vitamins? No, I did not say a diet book. Educate yourself and make informed decisions.
The urgeIt is 3:00 pm in the afternoon and your energy level drops. Off you go on a hunt for a candy bar or other packaged snack food that makes your insulin levels shoot up and drop after 20 minutes, which is damaging to any form of weight loss program. When you feel the urge to pick up energy, first try to identify why you are tired. Not enough sleep? Stressed? Working too hard?
There can be many reasons for fatigue. As your first line of attack against eating junk food as a quick fix to fatigue, address the route problems as much as possible. When the urge to binge on junk food still hits you, in spite of your best efforts, try drinking sparkling water with lemon juice instead, to stimulate your taste buds and your overall system.
HappinessIsn’t it interesting to know that many of us are eating junk food self-destructively? Yes, some of us eat because we feel bad about something we have done, or about something that has happened to us over which we have no control. Resorting to junk food is a comforting habit.
Alright, if this is the case it is time to dig a little bit deeper. Why don’t you speak with a friend or a professional about it what is going on? Get it out. It is better said then kept inside which is eating you alive. Confront the situation and see what will happen.
Trick yourselfThe texture and taste of food can be addictive. Some like it crunchy, salty, sweet etc. Look for healthy food substitutes with textures and tastes similar to the junk food you have come to crave. Fortunately, we live at a time where many healthy products exist that are even tastier versions than the junk food. For example, besides fried chips you can buy baked chips. Items that are sweetened with corn syrup or evaporated cane juice can be found sweetened with fruit juice. So make better decisions towards processed and non processed foods.
Challenge yourself by competing with others
Just have a bet with friends and colleagues. Yes, why not. Just challenge them that they can’t stop eating sugar, caffeine and white flour, white rice and white pasta for 5 days. We all like to win and why not win a food competition? Have a prize awarded to the winner. No, not a chocolate cake or a party at Dunking Donuts. How about money? It can be as little at $50 dollars.
Many of my clients come and confess how bad they have behaved over the weekend or on vacation. There is nothing wrong with it if you do this only time-to-time. But hey, not all the time. Ninety percent of what you eat should be great, healthy food. If you manage this, it is okay to leave 10% for foods that are not on the list of beneficial foods for the body that come as close as possible from the earth.
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Facts You Knew About Weight Loss Before You Were Misled - Back To The Basics
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Jennifer OlsenThis article is about what you already know or knew to be true. Weight loss is a 40 million dollar industry and new diets and programs try to make easy money by promoting their specific diet or supplement to help you lose weight superfast. You have probably seen commercials claiming to help you lose 20 pounds in a week and other ridiculous statements. It is extremely easy to fall for this kind of promotions since the product have gone through several tests, clinical studies and so on. Well, all of the information printed in such an advertisment is probably true, at least statistically speaking. Statistics are great but are easily re-focused and taken out of context to give them the data they want to mislead you.
Weight loss is simple, you go on a diet and lose ten pounds in a week, congratulations! But what did you really lose? Ten pounds of fat? Hardly, you are more likely to have lost about 2 pounds of fat, 4 pounds of water and 4 pounds of lean muscle. You should never aim at weight loss but fat loss and as you see there is a big difference. Show me a diet that burns 10 pounds of fat in a week and I will be very impressed, obesity problem solved.
Let's take a look at some diets and programs that makes you believe that fat loss is easy and that you don't need any exercise.
Low-carb diet - This have been very popular for a few years now. Dieters on a strict low carbohydrate diet are setting themselves up for a rebound once they re-introduce carbohydrates. Most often all of the weight lost is gained again. Is it healthy to be on a low carb diet? There is still a lot of debate about this but most leading scientists would agree that a well balanced diet is preferred in the long run. Atkins is one of the diets that recommend a very low carb intake and these calories are replaced with processed and saturated fats. Healthy? That is also up for debate so for now you have to make your own opinion about it.
Lose weight without exercise - If you are interested in losing fat permanently it is more important to increase your exercises instead of just counting calories. In the example above you learned that weight loss and fat loss is not the same thing. If you cut back on calories by 50% or even more your body put it self on a starvation metabolism and instead of using fat for energy it uses your muscles. However, if you exercise running and weight lifting your body believes that you need the muscle so instead it uses fat for energy. Our body has become 'smart' over the millenniums of evolution.
The basics of permanent fat loss is easy to understand but it takes discipline and hard work to achieve. There is no shortcut, no easy ways and once you make up your mind that it is time to lose fat, don't fall for any of these diets promoted as easy, fast and proven. It will only waste months of dieting and when you fail it takes time to get the courage to start on a new diet.
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Stop Over Eating - 7 Tips On How To Stop Over Eating
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Matt W MartinAre you ready to break the habit of over eating? Many people suffer from mindless eating and as an result gain unwanted weight. If you want to live a healthy lifestyle, you have to find the balance between eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are satisfied. This article will provide you with very specific tips on how to stop over eating.
Tip #1
The first step you should take is to drink more water. Drinking a full glass of water or two before eating each meal will help you stop over eating. You should drink 8-12 glasses of water throughout the day. This step alone can actually lead to weight loss.
Tip #2
Another way to stop over eating is to eat your foods more slowly. Many people gulp food as fast as they can when they are hungry. They are not giving their brain enough time to realize their hunger has been satisfied and as an result, they over eat. It takes your brain several minutes to realize your hunger has been satisfied. Eating more slowly will help you stop overeating.
Tip #3
Many people over eat because they are not paying attention. When you eat do you actually think about what your doing? More often than not your mind of else where. Pay attention to how the food makes your feel. Has my hunger been satisfied? Do I need To eat more? You should only eat at the dinner table. Do not eat while at an computer or watching television or you will find it hard to stay focus.
Tip #4
Many people who try to stop over eating start by fixing smaller portions of meals. If you fix smaller portion meals you should use a smaller plate. In your minds eye, a lesser portion on a larger plate is going to make you feel as though there is not enough food on the plate. A full plate will give the illusion your eating a larger portion meal.
Tip #5
Many people often eat simply because they are bored. If hunger strikes, wait several minutes and find something to occupy your time. If your hunger is still there, you should eat something. If your hunger subsides, it was just because you were bored
Tip #6
As humans we are creatures of habit. You have to become more aware of what you eat and when you eat. Make a daily list of everything you eat and when. By doing this you will be able to identify habit eating patterns. You can eliminate these habits by sheer will. Ask yourself, do I really need to eat this? Am I really hungry? Could I go without eating this?
Tip #7
If you think you are about to break down if you do not eat something, try eating something healthy like an apple instead. Apples have been known to produce negative calories. This simple means your body burns more calories in the act of digesting the apple than the actual calories of the apple. Do not resort to ice creams or junk food. Just eat something healthy that will fill you up.
You should really make an honest effort to stop over eating or it will lead to unwanted weight gain. Most people who often over eat are also over weight. Dieting is hard for them and they usually fail. You need to find a diet program that is not a calorie counting based diet that allows you to eat foods more often . Visit
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10 Handy Ways To Loss Weight Effectively
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Robert G Smith1. Trying to make it one step at a time
Initiate it by giving attention to the thing that you eat. Reduce sweets and fat and increase the amount of vegetables and fruits. After you make that under control, adding exercise. If you do no like to exercise, give it a try for just 15 minutes a day at the beginning, then half an hour.
Bear in mind that when you are doing exercises you are making the calories burning and do not eat during that period. Also, it will become easier for you if you select an activity which you enjoy.
2. Finding a friend
It is always nice to get support while you are planning to lose weight.Try to find a friend who hope for losing weight and compare notes together and perhaps even take a contest together.
3. Making use of weights
Working out weights would accelerate your metabolism and build muscle so you should make more calories burned. Meanwhile, muscle occupied less room than fat so you should be smaller ( but maybe weight more).
4. Eating lesser carbs
Do not eat so much pasta and bread and you will find a difference.
5. Setting an objective
Set a schedule to lose weight and make a note. For instance,by Nov 15,2006 I shall weigh 160 lbs or less.Hang it somewhere you could see it everyday.
6. Giving up soda
If you are drinking one or two soda daily, you are adding up empty calories. If you feel that it is hard to stop totally, cutting back at beginning and drinking water instead.
7. Grilling or boiling
Staying away from fried meat, grilling and using lots of spices.Little by little,you will get accustomed to it and perhaps enjoy it more.
8. Do not buy garbage food
As you go shopping, do not go with an empty stomach so it will be less likely for you to buy garbage food. Keep your home's garbage food out of stock so you would not be lured to indulge.
9. Eating breakfast
Consume the majority of your calories at early time in the day and constantly eat breakfast. Do not eat after eight clock at night and not only you will avoid these added calories but also you will have a better sleep .
10. Giving yourself a treat
As you feel that you could not have something that you want it more. Make a treat to yourself one time a day ( for example: half a cookie) and you would not feel missing out.
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Leave The 21st Century And Start A Natural Diet
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Oliver SpringateWhenever we feel we have gained excess weight, we try to follow certain fanatic diet plans and exercise regimes to lose the weight as fast as possible. Very rarely we consider the pros and cons of such diets and the threats they pose to our health. Most of us give such diets an enthusiastic start and leave them midway after the initial interest is lost. This may lead to weight gain. And this time we gain more weight than normal. We end up putting on more weight than we started with. But there is a solution.
The Natural Diet is the answer. Losing weight through a natural diet is the best way to keep it off forever. It involves losing weight by giving your body proper nutrition through natural foods.
What to eat?
We consider ourselves as ‘omnivorous’. That means we can eat plant and animal foods. Biologists believe that we are not designed to eat flesh as nails, teeth and jaws of humans are similar to herbivores. Even our stomach is not suited for proper digestion of meat which all indicates that our diet should comprise mainly of plant based food - vegetarian food.
In a natural diet, the stress is on consumption of natural foods that are rich in nutrients and fibre. The excessive processing done on packaged foods takes away the nutrients, so these as well as overcooked food, fast food, convenience foods and combination foods that work against each other should not be consumed.
Fruit And Veg
It is best to eat more fruits and vegetables. Nutrient rich green vegetables should be eaten. We might miss out on proteins due to a vegetarian diet. To avoid this soy proteins should be consumed, as this is the only complete protein from plants.
Eating whole fruit rather than fruit juice will help you as fruit juice does not have fibres that whole fruit has, but juice can be a good substitute for your sodas. Herbal tea can be a substitute for tea and coffee and you should also drink lots of water; at least 8 glasses everyday. Our daily food may consist of soups, whole grain sandwiches, cereal, yogurt, fruits, milk, boiled vegetables etc.
It is a good practice to read labels on food products and buy the ones with least preservatives and processing.
How to eat?
We usually eat one or two large meals a day and snack in between. But it is advisable to have three to four small meals of natural foods instead. This way our body can burn the calories faster. Thus our metabolism is high and we are packed with energy throughout the day. The best thing is that we don’t even feel that we are on a diet.
After all, the existence of humanity is down to originally eating natural food, so going natural must have its own benefits. Eating natural would not only take care of your health, resulting in toned bodies, glowing skin and rosy cheeks, it would also keep many hundreds of chickens happy!
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The Truth on Weight Loss with Spicy Food
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Phillip EnglandEverybody seems to have their own ideas on how to lose weight. Atkins and Banting suggested low-carbohydrate diet plans, the South Beach does away with bad carbohydrates and fats, and the Beverly Hills diet wants weight watchers to go with an all-fruit meal. Then there are some people who think that eating spicy foods will help them lose weight faster than you can say overweight.
Spicy foods have always figured in various native delicacies in different cultures. Black pepper, for example, is an antioxidant and it also has antibacterial effects. Cayenne pepper is touted to boost the immune system and clear congestion. Eating spicy food also increases the endurance of athletes and also helps in treating osteoarthritis.
Interestingly, among the many benefits of eating spicy food came the idea that it can actually aid in weight loss.
Weight loss with spicy dood: Fact or myth?
There is an ongoing debate on whether or not one can achieve weight loss with spicy food. The idea is that spicy foods increase your body's metabolic rate which makes you digest your food faster. Basically, spices improve digestion by increasing the hydrochloric secretion in the stomach. This is what increases your metabolic rate. With increased metabolism comes increased absorption rate. When there is increased absorption, then the body is able to utilize the stuff that you ate for your daily activities so almost nothing really stays put. Ergo, you lose weight.
Some experts believe that while it's true that spicy food can increase the body's metabolism, the increase is not really as substantial as we would like to think. The increased digestive rate after eating spicy food isn't so high as to affect weight loss. Still, there are some other people who look at it from a different standpoint.
Spicy food makes us eat less
There are only a few of us who have a high tolerance for spicy food. Logically, when a meal is spiked with pepper, we have a tendency to eat less. Cayenne pepper, for example, has capsaicin, which among others has shown to help the body burn fats and reduce the appetite. According to some scientists, cayenne increases the level of epinephrine and norepinephrine in the body which causes us to feel less hungry. Spices enhance the flavor of any food which provides the a satisfied sensation to the palate. Eating spicy food makes us eat less which explains why people connect weight loss with spicy food. As thermogenic herbs, spices helps the body burn more calories in food especially when eating a meal high in fat. This is by increasing blood circulation and the body's temperature. In this regard, spices are also capable of stimulating the break down of fat cells thus aiding in weight loss.
So in a sense, weight loss with spicy food sounds logical enough to be true.
But...
With this explanation in hand, more and more people strongly believe that eating spicy food can aid weight loss. Unfortunately, eating spicy foods is not without a negative consequence. Eating spicy food can also cause stomach ulcers. Spices can also cause GERD or acid reflux. Moderation is really the key. Don't overeat on spicy foods especially if you have a sensitive stomach. Acid reflux usually happens to obese people so if you're trying weight loss with spicy food, you may want to think this over. Maybe you can go on the spicy food diet as a sort of supplement to another weight loss plan instead of using it as your basic means of burning calories.
Aside from acid reflux, spices can also irritate your digestive tract and mess up digestion. Too much spicy food can also wreak havoc on your sense of taste. Over time, you won't be able to enjoy food in its natural state.
Heads-up
If you're still hell-bent on going on the idea of weight loss with spicy food, you may want to keep a few tips in mind before going on a curry overload.
Try to test your tolerance for spicy food in small amounts first. Make sure to put in just small amounts of it in your meals. As you go along, feel free to increase the servings according to your taste. Remember not to eat too much of it though because as it was mentioned, spicy food in large amounts isn't good for your stomach.
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Eat To Lose Weight - 7 Super Tips
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Derrick DeLayWhat and how much you eat has a profound impact on your weight and health. Here are seven great tips to help you make healthy food choices and lose weight.
1) Eat a variety of foods-
Variety is essential for optimal health. By eating a variety of foods your will ensure you get the energy, carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals, and fiber you need.
2) Keep your daily menu consistent-
By eating the same or very similar thing everyday for breakfast and lunch you are able to keep your calorie intake right where you need it. We recommend changing your breakfast and lunch menu weekly. Dinner is the place to vary your menu on a daily basis. Experiment with new healthy recipes.
3) Choose fresh, whole, organic foods whenever possible-
Choose whole foods in their natural state—for example, fresh, whole corn is better than corn chips made from refined corn flour. Organic foods are grown without the use of harmful pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. All of these poisons were designed to kill living things, they are biocides. You are a living thing, why would you want them in your body?
4) Choose plenty of vegetables, and fruits-
These foods provide needed vitamins, minerals, fiber, and complex carbohydrates, and can help you lower your overall calorie intake. Make it a goal to eat 6-10 servings of vegetables and 4-6 servings of fruit everyday. A serving of vegetables is 1 cup of raw leafy vegetables or 1/2 cup of other vegetables, cooked or chopped raw or 3/4 cup of vegetable juice. A serving of fruit is 1 medium apple, banana, orange or 1/2 cup of chopped, cooked, or canned fruit, or 3/4 cup of fruit juice.
5) Choose foods low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol-
Fat makes you fat and clogs your arteries. Eat less than 20% of your calories from fat. Reducing your fat intake will reduce your risk of heart attack and certain types of cancer. It will also help you lose and maintain a healthy weight. Fatty foods usually contain a lot of calories.
Cholesterol is only found in animal products and saturated fats are found predominantly in animal products. Reducing your reliance on foods of animal origin is important for long-term health and weight loss. If it had a momma don’t eat it.
6) Choose foods low in sugars-
Eating foods high in sugar can lead to hormonally induced binge eating and weight gain. When you eat foods high in sugar, you rapidly increase the amount of sugar in your blood stream. This in turn causes your pancreas to release the hormone insulin. One of insulin’s jobs is to maintain blood sugar levels by taking sugar out of blood and putting it into your cells. The problem is, when you have a rapid rise in blood sugar, insulin causes a rapid decline in blood sugar. This leaves you feeling hungry and tired. And then guess what you do? Yep, you eat more high sugar food and the process starts all over. You end up eating way more calories than you intended and you end up gaining weight. Foods high in sugar also tend to be low in nutrients. Using the Glycemic Index as a guide is a great tool for eating low sugar foods.
7) Eat carbohydrates, protein and fat at every meal-
Doing so leads to greater feelings of satisfaction, which reduces cravings and the likelihood of eating more than you need and gaining weight you don't want.
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Green Tea - The Natural Weight Loss Product that Works
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Phillip EnglandHow many times have you found yourself looking for a natural weight loss product that works effectively and can promote long-term weight loss? There are a lot of claims made by numerous natural weight loss product that works only for short-term purposes and some of them do not make you lose weight naturally at all.
Something really natural
With so many natural weight loss products that claim to work, it is difficult to judge them based on their claims because we cannot try every single one of them in one sitting. Furthermore, it can take a lot of time. According to research and to some users, there is weight loss product that really works naturally.
The wonders of green tea
This natural weight loss product that works for any person is known as green tea. It claims to work naturally because it promotes an increase in a person's metabolic rate through thermogenics. Thermogenics is a natural occurring process where our bodies produce heat. Green tea has thermogenic properties that can also influence fat oxidation, which is effective for burning some harmful fats that can cause health problems.
What's in green tea?Green tea contains extracts that have polyphenols known as catechins, which makes it a natural weight loss product that works. Recent studies made on the ingredients of green tea revealed that catechins are helpful in lowering your body's cholesterols levels and fat. Furthermore, they can prevent your fat cells from increasing in size and number.
As an appetite suppressantMany people consider green tea as a natural weight loss product that works because of its appetite suppressing effects. This is due to its leaves known as ECCG (epigallocatechin gallate), which leaves you feeling less hungry or not hungry at all.
For your caffeine fixCaffeine is considered by some people as a natural weight loss product that work wonders for them because it increases their heart rate, which they believe can promote an increase in their metabolism. While that can be true, too much caffeine can cause a lot of side effects to any person like anxiety, nervousness, palpitations, etc. Green tea has low caffeine levels but they are just enough to perk you up when you need it.
Flush out toxins
In the advent of processed foods, it seems unavoidable not to be able to consume any food that contains free radicals and toxins that can harm our bodies. Green tea is also a natural weight loss product that works like a diuretic that can help by getting rid of those toxins and free radicals. Furthermore, it can help you get rid of your water weight.
Vitamins and mineralsGreen tea is also known as a natural weight loss product that works by providing you with essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs for maintaining its normal functions and to give you sufficient energy. It contains thiamine, vitamins C, and vitamin B to ensure that your your brain cells have enough energy for protecting your nervous system from becoming too stimulated. Remember that you need to be able to think clearly and rationally so you can effectively achieve all your weight loss goals.
More energy and enduranceStudies stated that green tea's ingredients are able to slow down the speed of your body when it comes to turning complex carbohydrates into simple sugars, which leads to the delay of fat conversion into your body but still providing you with enough energy to move around. Furthermore, it increases your endurance with the help of catechins and caffeine so you can endure long hours of exercising without tiring out easily.
Healthy diet and exerciseFor green tea to be truly effective for you, you need to be able to combine it with regular exercise and a healthy diet. If you are following a weight loss meal plan, you can include green tea as one of your drinks or weight loss supplements.
Known side effects
Not every weight loss product that are natural can work perfectly. Even green tea has a few side effects that you may want to consider before drinking or taking a supplement. One side effect is due to its caffeine content: insomnia. Bearing this in mind, it is safe to say that you should not drink green tea before going to bed. Other side effects include constipation, increased heart rate, and a slight increase in blood pressure.
Buying tipsAvoid buying green tea products that come in the form of high-sugar drinks. Try brewing your own tea so you can be sure that there are no unnecessary additives in your drink. Furthermore, before buying your green tea product, ensure that your health is suitable for consuming caffeinated beverages or for taking weight loss supplements. Consult your doctor first before taking any weight loss product, even if it's just green tea.
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Weight Loss - The Key To A Healthier And Happier Future
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Dane BurgeHere is 10 beautiful steps to trimming down the stomach and toning the muscles.
Before we start, recognize that EVERYONE'S bodies are different and some people will take longer to lose weight than others.
1. EAT HEALTHY!
Do not eat LESS or your body will simply force you to eat more food anyway, because it is used to it. Instead of a burger, try a roll, or instead of medium fries go with small. If you keep this up for a long time you will feel your body adapting.
2. Do what you enjoy.
If you cannot stand running, cycle! If you get bored on a bike, swim! Find your comfort zone and work from there.
(Steps 3, 4, 5, and 6 are all exercises that should be done daily.)
3. The sit up.
Get someone to hold your feet or slide them under something. Bend your knees. Bring your body horizontal slowly, but do not fully place your weight on the ground. Come up and crunch your body. Repeat 10 times. When comfortable move to twenty.
NOTE: doing these fast DOES NOT benefit you! Go slowly and condition your muscles to pain.
4. The push up.
Plank your body placing your weight on your toes and your arms 20cm on either side of your torso. Move down keeping your body straight, but bending your elbows. If this is too hard, place your knees on the ground and lean forward going down. Repeat 10 times. When comfortable move to twenty.
5. Squats / Vertical leap.
These are great for your quads. First, simply raise off your feet 10 times. Then, bend your knees and come up without jumping, 10 times. Then, bend all the way down, and spring off the ground as high as you can. On your way down bend your knees back to the starting position to absorb all the shock. Repeat 10 times. NOTE: Keep your back straight.
6. Leg raises.
THIS WILL STRENGTHEN YOUR CORE MUSCLES AND YOU will LOSE WEIGHT. Lie down on the floor. Place your hands under your buttocks. Raise your legs to 90 degrees. Lower legs almost to floor, but do not rest on ground. Repeat x 20. When conditioned, clasp your hands together and reach all the way above your head as high as you can. Do the leg raise x 10.
7. Stretch.
Believe it or not, stretching STRENGTHENS the muscles and will contribute to weight loss. You don't need me to tell you how to stretch, use the internet, a book or a friend.
8. Take breaks.
A lot of our society today spends time sitting down. In offices; schools; whatever job you do unless you are an athlete, you will be sitting down. Get up of your backside EVERY 30 minutes and simply walk for 5 minutes. Talk to someone, get a drink, anything. Remind your muscles that they are alive.
9. Cardiovascular fitness
Run, swim or cycle twice a week MINIMUM. Get sweaty and push yourself hard.
10. Drink water.
65% of your food cravings are actually thirst cravings. You will find yourself not wanting to eat as much if you simply drink water.
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Free List Of Fat Burning Foods
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Frederik DeglandeThis free list of fat burning foods will help you to burn fat faster and to get a healthier lifestyle in general. Fat burning foods are foods are foods that burn more calories than the calorie content of the foods itself. You can call them also "negative calorie foods" and they are natural plant foods. This free list of fat burning foods is divided in several categories with a few words of explication at the beginning of each category.
Foods rich in vitamin C.Citrus fruit are rich in vitamin C and by adding them to your diet you will see an increasment in your metabolism and you increase your ability to get rid of fat as well.
- Lemons
- Oranges
- Limes
- Mandarins
- Grapefruit
- Watermelon
- Tangerines
- Pineapple
An other advantage of foods rich in vitamin C is that they will help you to lower your cholesterol level.
Foods rich in fiber.When you eat high fiber foods your stomach will think that it’s full.
- Raspberries
- Beans
- Carrots
- Dried fruits
- Fava beans
- Walnuts
- Cherries
- Brussels sprouts
These are not exact fat burning foods however it lessens the amount of overall calories that you can ingest
Foods rich in protein.It is very important to keep your protein intake high. Protein is important to build muscles and the more muscles you have the more fat you will burn
- Beef- Pork meat
- Chicken breast
- Salmon
- Eggs
- Cottage cheese
- Macadamia nuts
Try to consume several foods a day of this free list of fat burning foods. They will help you, that is for sure, however there is no magic bullet to lose fat.
The best way to lose fat is.
- Keep an eye on what you eat.
- Do regular and effective exercises
- Get and stay motivated.
With the help of this free list of fat burning foods you must be able to establish a healthy fat burning eating plan.
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How to Lose Belly Fat
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Ricky LimIt seems that we are bombarded every day with pictures of beautiful people who don’t have an ounce of body fat on them least of all, the dreaded belly fat. It’s hard not to imagine what we would look like if we didn’t have belly fat. Most of us do. Belly fat is perhaps the hardest fat to lose but it can be done!
Lowering your intake of calories is the most effective way to lose belly fat. Losing fat in general, on any area of your body, actually requires you to reduce your calorie intake. If you are eating too much, you won’t lose fat around your belly or anywhere else. It’s important to do this safely though. You don’t want to go overboard and starve yourself as this can do irreparable damage.
Find out from your doctor what your recommended daily amount of calories is and go by that.
To lose the “beer belly”, you need to stop drinking beer. It got it’s name for a reason. Beer has a substantial amount of calories in it and drinking beer will not help you lower your calorie intake. Another reason to stop drinking beer is because of the inflammation it causes in the liver and pancreas, leaving a person bloated. Also make sure you are not drinking an excess of number of other alcoholic drinks as these are often combined with other sugary drinks.
When trying to lose belly fat, it’s important to cut down on sugar. Refined sugar such as the kind you find in junk food burns far more quickly than natural sugar such as that found in fruit.
Sugars are later converted into fat and at least some, if not all, is going to head towards your belly.
Daily exercise and walks are a great way to lose belly fat. Because exercise burns calories and it’s already been determined that you need to burn calories as well as have a lower intake of them, exercise is a must.
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The Key to Fat Loss - Exercise
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Simon DaintonLook no further. This article could be the holy grail to losing excess bodyfat. It contains the basic ingredients needed to accelerate fat's banishment from your body. In a matter of minutes you will be armed with the secret formula that could guarantee your success indefinitely.
To get fat loss results you don't need to exercise like a person possessed, 5 or more times a week. You just need to train smarter. Let's focus first on what many of you may already do too much of - cardio.
If you want to do the cardio, make sure it's effective. Don’t waste your time on steady-state, single speed work - not while trying to lose fat. Perfrom interval work instead.
Warm up for 5 minutes on the machine of your choice, before taking the pace up to an intensity that feels like an 8/10. Feel like you are making this interval count. Hold it there for 30 seconds, then drop the pace down and continue to move for 60 seconds, at a 4/10 level of intensity. Use this ‘down’ time as your recovery, but keep moving.
Crank the pace up again to an 8/10 level and work hard for a further 30 seconds, before reducing the pace once more to a 4/10 for 60 seconds. Repeat this pattern for up to 6 repetitions. Finish your workout with a 5 minute cool down, at a 3/10 intensity level. Do this 2-3 times a week and you will fry body fat in less than 20 minutes – guaranteed.
If that formula proves too easy, increase the work interval and reduce the recovery. That could mean a 40-60 second work interval, and a 30-50 second recovery period.
Here's a quick summary of this cardio magic:
Warm Up: 5 minutes at a 4/10 intensity
Work Interval 1: 30 seconds at a 8/10 intensity
Recovery Period: 60 seconds at a 4/10 intensity
Work Interval 2: 30 seconds at a 8/10 intensity
Recovery Period: 60 seconds at a 4/10 intensity
Continue for between 3 - 6 work intervals. Finish with a 5 minute cool down at a 3/10 intensity.
Once 6 intervals becomes manageable, increase the work period and reduce the recovery.
You will very quickly find the level that works for you by looking in the mirror once a week, since the mirror never lies. Once you find the work/recovery ratio that works for you, stick with it and increase the pace.
To get the results that you want, strive to work hard and be consistent!
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Tips to Help you Lose 10 Pounds
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Chris CamposYou don't need to read more obesity statistics, you need to learn how to lose 10 pounds. And fast. That's what most people want, how to lose weight fast. But it's just not the right way to go about it. If you really want to lose weight and keep it off, you'll take the steps that will get you there and keep you there.
There are no quick fixes to weight loss. You can lose 10-20 pounds in a month with some diet pills and other drastic measures but once you stop taking those pills or stop starving yourself the weight will start to come back on and you'll be right back where you started.
Get out of the habit of thinking you can do it overnight. Yes, you can try and lose weight quickly to look better for a date but if they don't like you for how you look then why would you want to be with that person in the first place? And remember, there are billions of other ones out there - men and women.
It takes about a month for a new habit to take hold. You need to do something for 30 days for you to be able to do it for the rest of your life.
Adding habits such as walking and exercising 2-3 times a week take time, motivation and discipline to develop.
Cutting back on your portion size is not easy. You may go for a week of eating healthier and then just one day you'll have a really bad day at work and won't care about what you eat or how much you eat that day and all your good work will be lost.
The key to success in losing 10 pounds or more is to keep at it, to keep trying and not giving up. Once you make up your mind to doing it, you're halfway there.
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How I Lost Twenty Pounds in Two and a Half Months
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Woodrow MeeksI won’t lie about it, I am still not at my ideal weight due to diabetes, my present diet constraints and certain medications I, perhaps, shouldn’t be on. That being said I will now describe the mental tools I used in the early nineties to peel away twenty pounds of excess weight. I didn’t count calories, I didn’t exactly exercise (I did have fun), I did eat less and was not miserable during the process.
This really isn’t extreme at all and it is a healthy diet, if in fact, one may call it a diet. I think of it more as a regime and mindset. Let me first describe the logical basis of what I did:
I knew that most of the time when I thought that I was hungry, that I was actually bored or stressed. Most of us have trained ourselves to seek out comfort foods at such times.
Comfort foods, the ones that make us feel good, are almost always rich in the things we shouldn’t be eating to start with. Some popular comfort foods are macaroni and cheese or ice cream. There are a host of them almost every one a dairy product. Dairy products are the worst things a human can devour. As a doctor told me and my wife once, “Man is the only animal in the world that consumes milk or dairy products after infancy.” Household pets don’t count because they are perverted from their natural ways by human intervention and are less intelligent for it.
Habits require intervention at the exact moment needed and by the person needing intervention. We must all be responsible for our own actions and not be so dependent on others so often. I must intervene on my own behalf because my extracurricular self gratification usually occurred when no one was around to intervene for me. We should each fight our personal battles alone when possible.
Excuses are just a deceptive way to avoid doing that which we know needs to be done in personal transformation. There can be no excuses or exceptions.
Realize that personal growth is also a personal test of character. Morality is a set of personal rules that each of us choose to live by. Character is the measure of our ability to abide by such rules at times of duress. So having a code of conduct means little if one is unable to maintain their character during the very difficult times. It is during the difficult times that we are truly measured and it is these very moments in life that heroes and cowards are born. This is as true at the refrigerator as it is anywhere else. Those seemingly little moments of testing that are so easily blown off as insignificant are probably more trying than any dramatic human endeavor.
These are the tests we endure alone. These are the moments we can cheat and no one will know. If one cheats at such trials it will be their greatest disgrace, even if they do not know it.
Exercise has become a dirty word thanks to the ignorance of teachers who punish children by having them do things they should have been encouraged to do such as writing and exercise. I refuse to refer to any physical activity as an exercise. I will use it in any context but that one.
Your mind acts on the information given it. Positive affirmations don’t always succeed because of how they are worded. I don’t use them. Your mind is as smart as you are -and why not. You cannot change your mind by simply making a declaration of intention if you do not truly believe it. I made no declaration of intent. I never said that I was going to lose weight. Thankfully we don’t have scales and that put me in a position to declare within two or three days that I had lost five pounds. Was it the truth? Probably not. I didn’t have scales to alter my new reality. I simply declared one morning that I had lost five pounds and went about telling everyone that new truth. They would say things like how did you do it or how long did it take and I would tell them. This was the most valuable part of the plan. Their involvement reinforced my new truth and as time progressed I would declare that I lost another pound or two until the day came that I was weighed at the doctors office. I had lost almost ten pounds in the space of a couple of months. It was not as much as I had declared but it was progress. I took the opportunity to use the reported weight loss as incentive to bolster my determination to lose even more weight.
There is a border we cannot cross and remain healthy despite what any doctor may say and you are free to research this for yourself. It is known as the set point. The set point is the lowest weight achievable by an individual and is determined genetically. It is not meant to be an excuse to quit or slack off. It also changes through your life and in my opinion can be slightly altered through a strict program designed to change your metabolism. I think changing one’s metabolism does require the advise of of a professional and I refuse to go to such lengths myself. I therefore cannot dispense with such advise publicly.
I eventually reached my set point and could not lose any more weight than the twenty plus pounds I had gotten rid of. The following is exactly how I did it:
Remember, these rules applied to me. If you feel you will not succeed you are 100% correct.
When I go to the refrigerator I would ask myself if I was in fact hungry or if I was actually bored or perhaps my wayward brain no longer knew the difference between hunger or boredom. It is simple really. If I had eaten a reasonable amount that day my brain (or mind) was in error and I would correct it by suggesting we go for a walk or do something useful around the house. Like a two year old my mind (or brain) would object and I would have to insist that it it join me in a more healthy endeavor for the moment until it overcame it’s lustful urges. I know I’m being silly, but thank goodness everyone is not privy to our every thought. Because the battle in my mind was about like that. I exaggerated only slightly. It is a fact that you can reason with yourself and change your own mind. It is sad that most people do not use this ability to coerce themselves to act against their will when their health or betterment is at stake. Strange, but our minds are usually wrong. Some of my best essays would display a change of mindset on my part as would realize, as I explored a subject through writing, that I was wrong, indeed. This requires a certain amount of mental disassociation on the part of the practitioner. In other words you must exercise a great deal of objectivity when screwing around with your own head.
I did not do this but it would have helped. Put a notice on your refrigerator door that reads, “Are You Really Hungry”.
Hide your scales. Scales help you to worry about your weight thus increasing stress which will increase the likelihood that you will eat more. If you stick to the plan you will lose weight. If you cannot see the difference and you do the right things you are in no need to look at scales. In time others will reward you by asking how you lost so much weight and that does encourage us to try harder.
Walk a lot and take in as much physical activity as you can. Do not use a pedometer, they are like scales. This is not a competition or torture. If you are healthy enough, and only then, walk a minimum of thirty minutes a day. We are people so I will not insist on some torturous program.
Anything over thirty minutes should begin to burn glucose and thus eliminate calories. How much more is up to you.
When walking hold your stomach in and keep your chin up. Good posture contributes to better health and longer walks. Practicing your posture while walking is as good a place as any to begin.
See yourself as looking good. Beauty really is in the mind of the beholder and your mind is paying attention.
Park farther away from the store.
Use stairways when available. Each floor has a door so you can finish on the elevator when needed.
Use smaller dishes or plates.
Whenever given a choice between walk or ride, choose walk. My dog made the walks more enjoyable.
Outsmart the old you. I know you can do it.
Remember, in the Bible, (One of the books of Timothy I Believe) gluttony is treated with the same disdain as drunkenness. Eating over and beyond your physical requirements is wasteful and gluttonous. It doesn’t matter what others believe. It doesn’t matter, in this regard, if you are Christian or not. Wisdom is where you find it. It is true and gluttony is as deadly as alcoholism where health is the concern.
Things a doctor told me: When eating dairy products picture them for what they really are. Pure cholesterol refined and made attractive and tasty for your detriment and the profit of those in the dairy production business. They will not be sued for poisoning people as they are backed by the government who also approved of an untold number of drugs and foods and processes that has killed thousands of American citizens and perhaps even more people outside of our borders. Refined dairy products are worse than natural dairy products.
You may deem this plan as foolish but it actually worked for me. Talking to yourself silently or otherwise is actually healthy if you say healthy things to yourself. Do so with discretion.
Truth can be found even in the mouth of a liar or a fool. It is up to you to have the knowledge, wisdom and discernment to figure it out.
That’s it. I actually lost twenty pounds in a matter of months. I am pretty sure it was about two and a half months. I cannot and will not guarantee your success but it is easier to eat less for a logical reason and to reinforce why you are eating less each time you are tempted than to count and worry over calories. There’s no such thing as a calorie. It is a measurement of heat. Nothing has calories in it. We are overweight because we eat too much, work & play too little and consume pills and certain foods that are unnatural.
Obligatory Disclaimer:
Dear Reader. Your on your own here as we all are responsible for our own deeds and choices. You have the ability to read and it is assumed you can also make your own decisions as an adult.
The following worked for me and may work for you as well. I wish all the love and success that one can possibly have.
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Green Tea and Lose Weight
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Brian I ParkIn recent studies, consuming green tea on a daily basis has shown to promote weight-loss. Now that doesn't mean if you drink 10 glasses of green tea a day, you'll be 100lbs lighter by the end of the week. It doesn't happen like that. Burning fat and losing weight takes a multitude of factors towards reaching your goals. These factors include your exercise routine, diet, sleeping patterns, etc etc. All these factors come together, but within this article I will tell you how green tea can be beneficial towards your weight-loss goals and also tell you why it should be included in your diet.
If you're a big tea drinker like myself, you should know that green tea has several fat and caloric burning characteristics. With these characteristics, green tea contains the following compounds: Theanine, Catechins, Flavonoids, and Tannins. All of which contain anti-oxidant and medicinal properties. These anti-oxidant properties are able to prevent certain cancers. Green tea also contains epigallocatechin gallate (ECCG). You may have seen the abbreviation ECCG on a few bottled products, and if you've been wondering what it is...Basically ECCG has been known to act as an appetite suppressant. With this, it'll help you crave less for certain foods you desire most and help you lose weight at the same time. The consumption of green tea will also speed up your metabolic rate for burning calories. And as some of you may know, the more calories that are burned the better! Green tea is also known to burn a certain harmful fat called visceral fat which is linked to diabetes.
There's also a group of polyphenols called Catechins that green tea extract contains. The ingesting of Catechins will help lower body fat and also decrease cholesterol levels. In scientific studies, it's been researched that the consumption of green tea will actually prevent from fat cells enlarging and multiplying. Thus, another reason why you should drink green tea. And as another weight-loss benefit, one cup of green tea usually only contains about four calories and is a great alternative to coffee as green tea also contains caffeine. From time to time, try to slow down on the coffee intake and replace it with a cup of tea. A cup of green tea will have more healthy benefits from consumption compared to coffee. As coffee will contain an unnecessary amount of sugars and calories that will only slow down your progression of losing weight.
As you've read, green tea has proven itself to have many weight-loss characteristics and as well as a couple other health benefits. If you're wanting to start drinking more green tea, I would recommend you brewing it yourself. Because I have yet to find a bottled product that does not contain a high amount of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). And by brewing it yourself, you can avoid consuming an unnecessary amount of sugars. Thank you for giving the time to read this article, and I hope you take it highly into consideration of including green tea to your diet!
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Weight Loss Calculator
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George SpenceA weight loss calculator is a tool dieters use to determine the amount of calories that they can consume to reach their target weight. These calculators usually just provide estimates based on the information that you input. For a more precise and customized weight loss scheme you must consult a nutritionist or a medical professional to guide you. A professional can make better recommendations for your case.
There are many free weight loss calculators available on the internet. These calculators usually ask for details such as the person’s height, weight, age, target weight and the level of physical activity. These factors are used to determine the amount of calories you can take in to initiate weight loss or to maintain your current weight. The calculators usually use the Body Mass Index to determine if a person’s weight is ideal to his height. The calculators also compute the basal energy or the amount of calories needed by the body to maintain normal metabolic rates to sustain the body’s standard physical activities that are needed to survive such as breathing, etc.
To maintain current weight, a person must consume enough calories to sustain the person’s physical activities. To lose weight a person must consume lesser calories. Lesser calorie intake means all the calories are utilized by the body and not stored as fat.
The number of calories from your daily consumption that you were unable to burn during the day is called the Daily Calorie Deficit. This means that if you consume 2800 calories and burn only 2000 calories during the day, you have a daily calorie deficit of 800. This excess of 800 calories is what’s stored as fat in the body.
The fat in the body can only be melted if you burn more calories than you actually consumed during the day. When you consume less calories than you burn, the body will get its additional energy requirements from the stored fat in the body. This means that you will end up losing weight. The weight loss calculator will help you compute the number of calories you can take to lose weight. If you are extremely overweight, you will realize that to achieve your ideal weight you will need to consume very little calories.
This should tell you that in order not to suffer from starvation and still lose weight, you will need to increase your physical activity to burn off the excess calories.
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Control Dieting Weight - Stop The Cravings
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Eric HeadLosing weight is actually a very simple process, but we make it difficult, because our emotions or cravings get involved. Our cravings for eating delicious foods are our worst enemy when it comes to losing weight. So to lose weight effectively, it is crucial that these cravings become decreased or eliminated all together.
The million dollar question is: “How do we reduce or eliminate our cravings?”
The answer is actually simpler than you might expect. It can be summed up in three words:
“Plan your day”
When you plan your day, or create a schedule of what you are going to eat, you are essentially creating organization to your diet regimen that will allow you to combat any possible cravings that may arise later in the day.
One of the main reasons that people fall victim to cravings is that they don’t write out ahead of time what and when they are going to eat.
When you try to work out what to eat in you head, you are bound to forget to eat at a certain point in the day and this will later result in feelings of hunger. That hunger will then turn into cravings and you will find yourself deviating from your diet and eating inappropriate foods that go against your food intake goal for the day.
So to remedy this, it is very important to work out what you are going to eat on paper. Write it out so you can see it visually. Define what you are going to eat and schedule it to regular intervals throughout the day. By doing this, you can plan ahead so that your body continually remains full and as a result you will no longer suffer cravings.
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Control Dieting Weight - Still Eat Your Favorite Foods
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Eric HeadSometimes when we are trying to lose weight, we tend to make the whole process out to be worse than it really needs to be. A lot of this has to do with the negative stereotypes that people have placed on the concept of a diet.
For example, you will often hear people describe dieting as “a struggle” or that it is “tough”. Even the famous cartoon fat cat, Garfield, describes DIET is “Die” with a “T”.
The truth is that losing weight doesn’t have to be a difficult process. What it really all boils down to is organization and creating a schedule of eating the same thing everyday. The keyword here is “planning” and the best part is that when you apply a schedule and plan to eat the same thing everyday, you can eat your favorite foods and still lose weight.
Our weight often fluctuates, increasing and decreasing, because we eat so many different foods at different times of the day. This unorganized way of eating can cause an imbalance and as a result, we fall into this trap of yo-yo dieting.
So by following the procedure below, you can easily see that through just some simple planning, you can lose weight and still eat your favorite foods.
To begin, follow these initial steps.
1. Get out a piece of paper and a pen.
2. Write down all the foods that you love to eat and title this your “Favorite Foods List”.
3. Then write down next to those foods how many calories each of those foods contains.
4. Assign those foods to the three meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
5. Make sure that the calories of you schedule is lower than your daily calorie maintenance level.
Let’s look at an example of my “Favorite Foods List” and their calories.
Snickers Bar = 350
Dr. Pepper = 150
Large Burrito w/sour cream = 700
Fruit Loops Cereal w/milk = 400
Cheeseburger = 500
Now, let’s look at how I have assigned those foods to my three meals of the day.
BreakfastFruit Loops Cereal w/milk = 400
LunchCheeseburger = 500Dr. Pepper = 150
DinnerLarge Burrito w/sour cream = 700Dr. Pepper = 150
SnackSnickers Bar = 350
As you can see from my schedule, if you total all the calories, this comes out to 2,250 calories for the total amount of calories that I will have consumed during the entire day.
I have already predetermined that my daily allowance of calories to stay at the same weight is 2500 calories. This is called my “daily calorie maintenance level” and it means that if regardless of what foods I eat, if I consume 2500 calories, I will neither gain, nor lose weight. I will stay at the same exact weight.
So you can see that when applying my eating schedule from above in comparison to my daily calorie maintenance level, I am consuming 250 calories less. The result of this is that I will, in effect, lose weight over an extended period of time.
If my daily calorie maintenance level is 1800 calories, then I could easily remove the Snickers Bar as my snack and replace the Dr. Pepper with Diet Dr. Pepper. This would then reduce my daily calorie intake to 1600 calories each day and I would be 200 calories under my daily maintenance calorie level allowing me to still lose weight.
Now you can see that losing weight doesn’t have to be so difficult. It’s really all about assigning a schedule to your day based on the calories of your favorite foods. By simply adjusting the portion size of your favorite foods, assigning them to the three meals of the day, and then following that schedule everyday, you are well on your way to losing the extra weight.
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The Sonoma Diet Cook Book - Wine and Weight-Loss - Hooray!
By Suzanne Webb-Brikas
The Sonoma Diet Cook Book is all about food, wine, and stable weight loss. If there's a better combination, I haven't found it. For me, food is all about celebration, and lots of flavor. That's the philosophy behind The Sonoma Diet Cook Book.
The Sonoma Diet Cookbook contains 150 flavorful well balanced recipes that are easy to fit into your cooking routine. The recipes are portion controlled, yet they leave you feeling full and happy.
This cookbook is great for those who follow the Sonoma Diet Plan, since its recipes are divided into the 3 "waves" that the Sonoma Diet is famous for. Specific foods and portion sizes are highlights of each wave. But even those who are not on a "diet" will love the recipes in this book.
Cooking for a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting is an easy way to incorporate the recipes in the Sonoma Diet Cookbook. For those busy days when a home cooked meal is not convenient, there's a handy little pull-out guide for making smart eating choices while dining on the run.
To be able to eat, enjoy the colors and full flavors, and still lose weight in the process, is a refreshing change of pace. The Sonoma Diet Cookbook provides this and much more. The recipes are healthy and though they promote weight loss, they will never leave you feeling deprived.
The photos of the recipes in the Sonoma Diet Cookbook are colorful, and will make your mouth water, but when the recipes actually come out looking like they do in the photos - and taste as good as they look, you will find yourself reaching for this book often.
Although some have criticized the author for using pre-prepared ingredients in some recipes, I feel that it makes them more convenient. And the easier a recipe is to make, the greater the likelihood that I will try it, and make it again. I don't know about you, but I'd rather make a healthy, easy meal, than resort to take out...
In my experience, using shortcuts to prepare a healthy home cooked meal is a time saver, not a sacrifice. Besides, any "diet" book that pairs wine with its recipes, is a cookbook that I applaud. I will be using the Sonoma Diet Cook Book again tonite.
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