Thursday, August 30, 2007

Why Do You Never See A Fat Person Advertising Weight Loss Products?

You always see the anorexic model selling the product, who thinks "weight" is spelled wait. Have you ever seen a fat weight loss trainer? Maybe someone who knows what you are going thru. I would bet that 90% of these weight loss experts have never had a serious weight problem. Do you want to know who the weight loss experts are? Fat people. They have read everything written on weight loss and used almost every weight loss product ever made . Their success, or lack of it does not disqualify them. There is something missing like...

* Lack of discipline (Because they know what to do but can not stick to the program)

* They do not understand their addiction to food and what is causing it (physiological, chemical, or medical)

* Refuse to see the health problems being caused by being overweight ( this is realized after it is to late)

* Most Fat people are great at justifying or making excuses for their Fatness (I can lose weight tomorrow. It does not interfere with life..)

This last and biggest thing missing is support from the people who love you and are in your life every day. If they have no weight problem, they do not understand what you are living with. If they are fat and are not worried about weight loss, your success undermines their life choices. These two reasons are why most people fail with their weight loss programs. Everyone needs support at reaching goals in their lives. It is the very rare person who can do it alone.

People sharing like minded experiences is the best support group for you to reach the goals you set. They might be where you are going. If someone has a road map showing the hazards along the way, why not use it? If they can show you an easier way to do something, why not do it? If they can take something that is not working for you and show you how to make it work, is that not better than setting up another excuse to fail.

Weight loss is a battle everyday for the rest of you life. It does not matter if you are overweight by 10 pounds or 410 pounds. If the extra weight affects your health and life, it is a problem. Studying, reading, and learning why you are overweight is important. Taking actions is the only thing that will make it happen. Who or what is the only thing that can stop you from being successful, Write your name here

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Live With Energy - Live With Passion

The plan has it that we work until we are too tired to contine, then 'retire'.

Doesn't the word retire say it all - 're' suggests we are just doing the same thing again - getting tired. Have you ever noticed that you never get tired doing something you love. Remember the feeling when you come home after a long days snow skiing or shopping. Your whole body just wants to collapse into that armchair. Your body is weary, but you feel great! It's been a terrific day.

With the plethora of opportunities for people to work in later years, why is it that so many retire, just to become old. For generations, we have been focused on the expectation that come 55 or 60 we retire to do all the things in life we always wanted to do. We see retirement as a passage of honor. But what if you planned you life to live with passion - and you actually love your job. Why stop just to play in the garden and take an offshore vacation each year?

For many, the reality of retirement is not as glamorous as the concept. They find themselves bored, socially isolated and unhappy. Well, after 6-12 months anyway.

Our bodies are no longer subjected to the heavy loads previously endured through more physical vocations. As our worklife today is considerably more sedentary, our bodies no longer need to stop at a certain age. Rather than use the adage retirement, why not embrace this age as a 'relive' point. That point, where you reassess the way you earn an income, the passions you have in your life and how you want to approach the next twenty years.

Rather than buy into the social norm, using age - why not let your body and mind dictate your 'relive' point. All through my life I have tried to live with passion - for those I loved, and for the things I loved doing. I have had incredible highs and devastating lows, but one thing has remained constant - I am determined NOT to live the same day over and over, like so many do.

Sure, it takes courage to make a change. And sure, not all changes are what we expected. So what! One can always make another change, and another, until you find yourself immersed in a life so rich, the hours of the day whip past you before you realise you have even passed the age of 30.

I prefer to take my 'retirement' years as I go. Once I passed age

40, I found many of my friends we falling off the face of the earth, either from accidents or illness. What is the point of leaving all those things you really want to do, until the latter years, when you may longer be physically capable of doing them.

Accept the economic cost and have the courage to take a year off to explore new horizons. You may find at the end of the year, not only are you more passionately invested in your new role, but you are actually making sufficient income that you no longer need to return to your previous mode of employment. I tend to work on seven year cycles. Five years of solid consulting, followed by two years of exploring new fields. This not only develops me as a person, but also provides me with a lot deeper knowledge and perspective for my next set of clients.

The past two years I have focused on setting up passive income streams for my retirement, in a new field for me - electronic information. I have loved learning how to use Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I have a passion for art, photography and architecture, so naturally I have a site on remodeling and renovations.

I love technology and marketing, so I have a couple of websites on that as well.

And I love success, you guessed it, I have a website on success also. I have successfully integrated all my passions into a expanding network of income.

As I embark on my next five year round of consulting I am eager to continue to expand my new areas of passion, and work them into my workday. It just doesn't seem like work.

Life is not about getting older. It's about gathering more experiences and maintaining your mind and body in the best possible state to embrace new opportunities. It's like friends - make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver, the other gold. Use the same approach with everything in your life. Try new activities, new paths of travel, new ideas, new ways to earn an income. You may surprise yourself. And your body will love you for it. The old adage - Use It Or Lose It, holds true for both the body and the mind.

Muscle loss and loss of brain function both result from lack of exercise.

Live with passion, live by your rules. Don't have time to get old!

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Age Dieting: Choose The Best Diet For Your Age Range

You probably know that it is much harder to lose weight when you are 30 than when you are 20. And if you are over 40, it is even more difficult. Every year your metabolism slows down. That is why the older you are, the more attention you should pay to healthy dieting and maintaining a healthy life style.

You are 20 – 30 years old.

It is not common to have a serious problem with weight in this age range. You can lose 3-5 pounds without trying too hard. The best way to lose extra pounds is a fruit diet. Fruits are rich in vitamin C, which will help you to stay physically active. Pectin, fruit acids and potassium burn calories and improve your metabolism and digestion.

Here is an example of an apple diet:

Breakfast: grate 1 apple; add 1 low fat yogurt and 1 table spoon of oatmeal.

Brunch: 1 apple.

Lunch: slice 2 apples and add spinach. For sauce mix 1 low fat yogurt, 1 tea spoon of olive oil, 1 tea spoon of apple cider vinegar and 1 tea spoon of water.

Snack: 1 apple and 3 walnuts.

Dinner: slice 1 apple, squeeze lemon juice on it and eat it with 5 oz of cheese.

You are 30-40 years old.

When you turn 30 years old, your metabolism slows down. You should lower calories in your dieting even if you are physically active. Do not try to lose weight fast. It will make you look a few years older because your skin will become loose and wrinkled. The older you become, the slower you should lose weight. Your goal at this age is to lose no more than 4-5 pounds a month. An ideal diet for you consists of vegetables because you will not have ‘hunger attacks’ and swaying in your weight. Also, you should add regular exercise, massage and skin care that improves skin elasticity.

Do not plan exercises on your dieting day.

Here is an example of a vegetable diet:

Breakfast: mix oatmeal and corn flakes; add low fat milk and 1 grated carrot.

Brunch: 1 cucumber.

Lunch: 2 boiled potatoes (with the skin still on them) with a lot of vegetable salad (you can use any vegetables)

Snack: 1 red sweet paprika.

Dinner: vegetable salad and 1 piece of rye bread.

You are 40-50 years old.

Almost every woman over 40 has weight problems. Your muscular mass decreases and fat increases because of hormonal changes. You should eat most of your food in the first half of the day and have very light and early dinners. You should get no more fat than 30% of your daily ration. Choose vegetable oils. Eat fish and sea food regularly.

In this age range your body starts retaining fluid. An ideal diet for you is a rice diet because it will help you to maintain a healthy fluid level in your body.

Here is an example of a rice diet:

Boil 8 oz of rice and divide it into 3 portions. 2 of them will be combined with additional protein components.

Breakfast: boiled rice with 1 low fat yogurt and 1 tea spoon of honey.

Lunch: boiled rice and 5 oz of fish or chicken.

Dinner: rice with steamed vegetables and 1 tea spoon of vegetable oil.

Do not add salt because it will lead to retaining fluid in your body. You can add soy because it will help with ‘hunger attacks’.

For snack you can eat a fruit or 3 oz of low fat cottage cheese.

You are 50-60 years old.

If you are over 50, you need less energy (about 30%) than somebody who is 20 years old. Eat 4-5 small portions a day. Do not over eat because it is harmful to your health. Limit your daily ration of salt to ¼ tea spoon a day. Sometimes you can fast, but do not do it often because in this age range your body loses its strength to fight illnesses.

The most effective substances ‘killing’ fat are enzymes. Pineapple and papaya are very rich in enzymes and vitamin C.

Here is an example of a diet for you:

Eat during the day about 4 -5 pounds of pineapple and papaya (or choose just one), including the pulp and juice. Divide these 4-5 pounds into 3 portions: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Do not eat anything else this day. If this diet is too strict for you, try this one:

Breakfast: 1 slice of pineapple and 3 oz of low fat cottage cheese.

Lunch: a half of pineapple and 3 oz of boiled chicken or fish or low fat meat.

Dinner: 1 slice of pineapple and 1 piece of rye bread with 1 piece of low fat cheese.

Also, powerful ‘fat-killers’ are kiwis, apple cider vinegar and artichokes (and the water left from boiling artichokes)

You are over 60 years old.

Your muscular mass in this age range is about 15% of your body. That is why if you want to lose weight, you should do it very slowly because fast diets decrease the amount of protein in your muscular mass.

The main rule is to eat no more than 40 g of fat a day.

Here are some examples:

Breakfast: 1 slice of bread with 1 tea spoon of low fat yogurt.

Lunch: instead of 1.5 oz of ground meat choose 1.5 oz of red beans. You will get an optical illusion of meat, but 7g less fat. If you can’t live without meat, eat low fat beef instead of pork chop. You will get 13 g less fat.

Snack: instead of cake, choose a piece of fruit pie (minus 13 g of fat).

Dinner: instead of salami choose a piece of ham (minus 10 g of fat). With a piece of 30% fat cheese you get 10 g less fat compare to 60% fat cheese.

Drink no less than 2 L of water. It will support your digestion and metabolism.

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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Guaranteed Weight Loss-A Diet Sure To Drop The Pounds

My family and I have just discovered the greatest weight loss diet on the market. Collectively, we lost at least 20 pounds while laying around in bed. All this in just three days! Yes, I said three days!

What is this diet and how much does it cost? It is known as the gastrointestinal virus. Yes, it can cost you an insurance copay for taking your kids to the doctor to be told it is a virus but that is entirely different story.

Other than that, the diet is free and you even get days off of work. The benefits of the weight loss diet are endless. You are looking at spending hours and hours of time with your family laying in bed. You get to become closer as a family unit. How can a family not come close after cleaning up after one another and smelling the same stinky clothes for three days? Yes, I said three days!

So I know you are asking-how can I get one of those gastrointestinal viruses so I too can lose weight, grow closer with my family and get days off of work? Well, you are in luck because I have retraced my steps and have some tips for you to use as your very own in hopes that you too can be so lucky to catch a gastrointestinal virus.

Hang out in the church nursery.

Kids carry germs like nobody in the world. It shouldn't take much. They never cover their mouth when they sneeze or cough. I have gone home countless times with all kinds of bodily functions on me from leaky diapers to snotty substances. Extra tip: always volunteer to calm down the upset child-they are sure to snot on you.

Eat out at all of the restaurants

My father was just in town and wanted to eat out at all these new restaurants because they don't have them in the small town in which he lives. I am not saying restaurants are bad, but in some cases they can be breeding grounds for the virus. You have a dirty waiter or undercooked meat and you are set with the diet virus.

Hang out at the community pool

My goodness, this last week at our pool-I kid you not there was dirty underwear on the deck. The bathroom is always an adventure trying to get through the wet floors, soggy toilet paper and dirty diapers stacked in the stall. A mom's worse nightmare when you are in the process of potty training, but for those hoping for this new diet-it is a match made in heaven!

So get going, the summer is almost gone and you don't want to cut into your kids school time! For those who are offended by this article, it is just a little glimpse into my life over the past three days! I don't mean to offend.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Best Core Exercise Program for Core Fitness

The right core exercises can mean the difference between great progress and definite results with your core training program or not getting any results at all.

There are hundreds of muscles in the core of your body - the abdominals (all layers), lower and mid back, pelvic region, obliques and the popular 'love handle' areas are loaded with muscles of all different sizes, shapes, lengths and angles - which require specific exercises to produce the desired strength training effect for optimal fitness.

The following exercises can serve as a core training primer for beginners or they can be added or substituted into your current core workout routine.

1 – Lying face up, hand down at your side. Bring your legs up, knees slightly bent with the bottom of your feet toward the ceiling. This is your start position. While keeping the abdominals pulled in (contracted), slowly lower your right leg, until the heel touches the ground, and then raise it back up. Do this fifteen times. Then switch legs.

2 – Lying face up with knees bent, feet off the floor. Arms are extended as if reaching toward the sky if you were standing. As you breathe out, slowly bring your knees toward you by contracting your abdominals (pulling inward). Then breathe in as you return to the start position.

3 - Lying face up with knees bent, heels on the ground and toes pointing up. Lift your butt off the ground to engage the core muscles. Now, here is where the fun starts. Lift one foot off the floor, extending that leg until it is straight, bring it back to the start position (heel on ground) and then do the same with the other leg. Keep alternating until you do a total of twenty, ten on each side.

If this exercise sequence is too easy, go through it again and see how you do. If it was too challenging, decrease the number of repetitions to about five and do this every other day. Gradually increase the repetitions as your core gets stronger.

A big mistake many people, even trainers, make is to mimic the abdominal routines of bodybuilders or power-lifters. The problem with that is most people are not bodybuilders or power-lifters - and these people tend to over-train anyway (I know this because I used to do it myself!).

The problems here range from a lot of wasted time to serious, long term injuries.
This happens every day to people who try to exercise without proper guidance and it’s one the reasons why physical therapists are so busy!

The proper workout must be designed to provide the most effective exercise training stimulus to the entire midsection, in the shortest amount of time (because we are all very busy people, right?), with minimal risk of injury. The problem is it is extremely rare to find an abdominal and core workout routine that fits all of these criteria. Use these important points when structuring your program.

These are the exact principles I follow when training my personal, one-on-one clients AND they are the same principles I follow in my own fitness training workout program. Structure your own program according to the principles outlined above, with the proper selection of core exercises for effective and safe results.

Joey Atlas, M.S. – Exercise Physiology, is a fitness consultant, trainer and writer in Jacksonville, Florida. He is the creator of ‘Abs of Stone – Core of Steel’, a complete Core Exercise Fitness Program

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Review Of The Negative Calorie Diet Part I And II

The two articles sound like a hybrid of the Raw Foods (vegan diet) and the 6 week body makeover diet by Michael Thurmond. Both experience very good weight loss if done properly. In the two programs they stress either no animal protein (vegan) or in small amounts 3 to 4oz in 5 to 6 meals per day (6 week body makeover). The Thermal calorie burning is key in both programs.

If the body is allow to burn or uses all the calories taken in at one meal before the next, weight loss will happen. Protein is much harder to metabolize than fruits and vegetables, so eating less protein allows your metabolism rate to go up. Higher the Basal metabolic rate the more calories burned and the more weight that is lost.

The important thing to remember with a strict Raw Food diet is? Because of
reduced levels of calcium, iodine, and vitamins B12 and D, vegans are encouraged to take dietary supplements.
On the minerals, salt should not be uses during weight loss. Any salt intake retains body fluids which hurts your weight loss program. The quicker you show weight loss the longer you will stay on the program.


No matter what diet you use Water is the key part of any successful weight loss program. The liver plays the main roll in the metabolism of fat in the human body. If the kidneys are deprived of water the liver has to pick up part of the kidneys functions, which in turns lowers it affectedness of metabolizing fat. You need at least 64oz of water a day for the human body to run like a fine tune machine.

This is a fine example of someone taking two weight loss programs and making one that works for them. Human body types are like cars, some run ok on cheap gas while others become clogged and breakdown. Not every diet fits every body type, so do the research and find out what works for you.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Negative Calorie Diet - Part II

What Foods Have Been Designated as Having “Negative Calories"?

The following foods are considered to have these characteristics, although this is mainly in the raw (or very lightly cooked) state:

Vegetables:

Asparagus, Beans, Broccoli, Cabbage, Chicory, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Hot Chili, Cucumber, Garlic, Green Lettuce, Onion, Radish, Spinach, Turnip, Watercress, Zucchini

Fruits:

Apple, Blueberries, Cantaloupe, Cranberry, Grapefruit, Honeydew, Lemon/Lime, Mango, Orange , Papaya, Peach, Pineapple, Raspberry, Strawberry, Tomato, Tangerine, Turnip, Watermelon

Conclusions

Whatever else is true, it is clear that “all food calories are not equal" and the composition of your diet can have a significant effect on your weight loss/fat loss progress. To loose weight successfully in the long term your body has to burn off some of its fat deposits. This will require the establishment of a daily calorie deficit in terms of the energy balance of the body. This deficit is created when the calories of food energy ingested are less than the calories of body energy expended (in the form of the energy needed to maintain BMR plus the energy expended in daily physical activity: a must!!).

In other words:

Calorie Deficit (Replaced by burning fat) = Energy In (Food Calories) – Energy Out (Heat Calories)

In this equation however “Energy In" must be expressed as Net Food Calories, which are the calories obtained from food NET of the calories (i.e after subtracting them) burned in digesting/metabolizing the food eaten. Most food energy values are expressed (in calories) as their gross energy value (i.e. total heat energy value per gram or oz) and therefore make no allowance for any thermic effect. Therefore, regardless as to whether you fully believe in the concept of Negative Calorie Foods, you can be sure that the food choices you make CAN and WILL have an impact on your weight/fat loss program. This is particularly true in relation to the proportions of macronutrients (protein, fat, and carbohydrates) in your diet when a diet that has a higher proportion of protein (which raises BMR by 25%-30%) will contribute a smaller quantity of NET calories than a diet which gets its calories from quantities of either fat or carbohydrate (which only raise BMR by 4%-6%). Do keep in mind that a proper ratio of macronutrients is approximately 50% carbs, 30% protein, and 20% healthy fats. This ratio can vary slightly for different individuals, but this is a good place to start.

Therefore, it makes sense to carefully evaluate the make up of your diet and to have some understanding of the proportions of protein, fat & carbohydrate. A diet that obtains a higher proportion of its calories from protein rich foods (such as lean white meat or fish) will tend to be more effective at promoting fat loss. Whatever you believe about the claims made, the list of “Negative Calorie Foods" is principally made up of healthy complex fibrous carbohydrates and including many of these into a diet that is skewed towards more protein (30% of the diet) is likely to prove to be a winning combination for promoting steady weight loss, provided an overall calorie deficit is maintained by a program of modest calorie restriction combined with regular aerobic exercise. Please see my other articles, or visit my website, for more on this.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

The Negative Calorie Diet – Part I

The Thermic Effect of Food & Negative Calories

The concept behind the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) and the idea that it is possible to eat Negative Calorie Foods is the fact that eating any food causes your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) to increase because you use energy to eat, digest, and metabolize the food you’ve just eaten. The rise occurs soon after you start eating and peaks two to three hours later. This rise in the BMR can range from between 2-3 per cent, up to 25-30 per cent, depending on the size of the meal and the types of foods eaten. The idea of Negative Calorie Foods is based on the belief that there are certain foods, which use more calories to digest than the amount of calories actually contained in the food! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to use. In other words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though different foods may contain equal amounts of calories, in Negative Calorie Foods much less of these calories turn into fat, as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This allegedly gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.

The Theory of How it Works

There are six essential nutrients that the human body requires to keep it nourished and healthy; these include; protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Foods have a macronutrient (carbohydrate, fat, and protein), caloric (calories) and vitamin & mineral content. Vitamins stimulate living tissues to produce enzymes that breakdown the caloric nutrients of that food. It is generally accepted that the various categories of macronutrients that are present in the diet will increase BMR by different amounts as shown below:

· Fats - raise the BMR 4 per cent

· Carbohydrates - raise BMR 6 per cent

· Proteins - raise BMR 30 per cent

(It is suggested that hot spicy foods can also have a significant thermic effect: for example foods containing chilli, horseradish and mustard). The overall “Thermic Effect of Food" is considered to utilize roughly 10% of the total calories of food ingested in the “average" diet. However, Negative Calorie Foods are supposed to contain enough vitamins & minerals to produce enzymes in quantities sufficient to break down not only its own calories, but additional calories present in digestion as well. This is the “secret" of The Negative Calorie Foods and the reasoning behind why Negative Calorie Foods may be regarded as “Fat burning Foods" (The Negative Calorie Foods will tend to have maximum benefits when eaten without any “empty calorie foods" i.e. junk foods).

There is much disagreement about the negative calorie diet and some experts are unconvinced about the claims made. Some believe the amount of energy used may be relative to the amount and complexity of the meal ingested. In other words the energy used to digest and absorb may be set as a general percentage of the energy contained in each specific food, thus there cannot ever be foods with negative calories. However, some research has proved that celery does cause a negative energy intake but this is mainly because the energy is "sealed" making the digestive system work harder to obtain its energy content.

It is unclear therefore as to whether negative calorie foods are fact or fiction. There needs to be more research done in order to prove or disprove the theory. Although it seems reasonable to believe that if negative calorie foods help people consume fewer calories AND eat healthier foods, then including lots of these foods as part of an overall balanced diet, can be a positive start to permanent weight loss!

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Nutrisystem Vs. Medifast - Two Popular Diet Plans, Nutrisystem & Medifast Compared

You may have decided that using a diet meal replacement plan or diet food plan would be the easiest way for you to lose weight. However, there are so many plans available; you may not know which program would work the best for you. In this article I will compare two very popular diet food, meal replacement plans Nutrisystem and MediFast. These diet plans may seem similar, although once you read about each plan, you will find they are very different.

Nutrisystem Overview:

Nutrisystem offers prepackaged, pre-portioned diet meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks. You are advised to add fresh vegetables, fruits, salads to lunch, and dinner meals. The meals are low calorie, yet nutritionally sound with the added fresh fruit and vegetables. The diet meals are based on low glycemic, good carbs, with the right amount of protein and fiber that your body needs for increased fat and calorie burning.

The Nutrisystem program also offers a free weight loss community website where you can get free diet counseling, weight loss tips and community support in your weight loss endeavors.

Nutrisystem advises if you eat their prepackaged diet meals and follow their plan, you can potentially lose 1 to 3 pounds a week.

MediFast Overview:

MediFast offers prepackaged diet meal replacement foods including shakes, soups, bars, pudding, drinks and cereals. Their name basically sums up how their plan works; you are “fasting” most of the day. Their most popular program is the 5 and 1 diet program where you eat 5 MediFast meals a day and 1 low calorie, low fat meal you cook and prepare yourself. Their plan is designed to be calorie deficient (between 800 – 1000 calories a day), thereby allowing your body to use fat for energy.

MediFast also offers a free weight loss community website where you can get diet support, weight loss tips, diet recipes and more.

MediFast advises if you follow their 5 in 1 diet program and use their diet meal replacements you can potentially lose up to 20 pounds in a month.

The Cost:

Nutrisystem costs about $11 a day, $77 a week and $308 a month plus shipping, although if you choose their auto-ship program, you will get a discount and a free week of diet meals and free shipping.

MediFast costs about $10 a day, $70 a week or $275 a month if you order one of their 4-week variety packages.

Both Nutrisystem and MediFast offer a money back guarantee minus shipping if you choose to return unopened packages of the diet meals within 30 days.

The Difficulty:

Nutrisystem: Using the Nutrisystem diet meals for weight loss should be an easy transition since you will be eating regular meals and snacks. You may find the calorie reduction in the meals leave you hungry or not satisfied. The convenience of the prepackaged, very little preparation of the diet meals should make the program easier to follow. Staying on the diet for a long term may become difficult because of the lower calorie intake makes you feel unsatisfied. The taste of the foods (which will be discussed next) may also be hard to enjoy.

MediFast: Transitioning to the MediFast meal replacement plan may be difficult at first since you will be replacing most of your meals with a meal replacement shake, soup or bar. Sometimes a drastic change in your eating habits can be a bonus because it may give you a greater feeling of dieting control. Staying on the diet for a long term may be very difficult because of the monotony of replacing 5 meals a day with the MediFast foods and the taste of the foods.

The Taste:

Nutrisystem: There are reports and reviews throughout the internet regarding the taste of Nutrisystem’s diet meals. Some people rave about the taste (although these “raves” may be biased if the person is promoting the program), and many people absolutely hate the taste of the diet meals. On average, many Nutrisystem dieters report they have favorite diet meals, while some suffer through the taste of the meals because of the convenience of the program and the weight loss achieved. Recently, Nutrisystem listened to their customers and introduced many new “better tasting” diet meals that may be more palatable.

MediFast: There are also mixed reviews on the taste of MediFast meal replacements. On average, many MediFast dieters report that the tastes of the meal replacement foods are “okay,” not overly tasty, yet good enough to stay on the diet program to achieve weight loss goals.

Conclusion:

Nutrisystem diet meal plan is a convenient, diet food program that offers a membership site with diet counseling and diet tips. The transition to using their diet foods should not be too difficult since it is recommended to eat 5 diet meals a day supplemented with fresh fruit and vegetables. Since the diet meals should be less calories than you normally eat, and designed to increase your body’s ability to burn fat, you can expect to lose 1 to 3 pounds a week. The diet plan may work best for people who may need a support group for weight loss, yet are too busy to shop for and prepare diet meals, and don’t have time to continually analyze food calories and fat grams.

MediFast diet meal replacement program is also a convenient weight loss program that offers a community forum, diet support and tips. The transition to using their diet meal replacements 5 times a day may be difficult. Yet, it may also help many dieters resolve to stay on the diet plan since the results may be realized fast with up to 20 pounds lost in the first month. The diet program may work best for people who need to lose a significant amount of weight. In addition, it can also work well for those who desire convenient meal replacements, yet also wish to prepare a fresh meal once a day.

By: Michelle Dixon

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Weight Loss Over 40 On Buck Rogers Surgery Videos

It is important to remember that weight loss is a battle for life. These videos show that even if you are rich and famous, weight loss is still a problem. Gil Gerard had all the money needed to fight being overweight but was losing the war. Here is a man who was a heartthrob back in the 70’s. Until his surgery, he was slowly dieing from the diseases caused by being overweight.

Major surgery like gastric bypass should be the last option to save your life. Anytime you go under the knife and you are sedated, your life is at risk. So before you consider any life changing surgeries, do the research on it.

Ask These Questions

  1. What are the risks?
  2. How will it affect my life?
  3. What will I have to give up?
  4. Do I have to do this the rest of my life?
  5. Can it be reversed?
  6. What is the dead rate?
  7. What can I eat?
  8. What I cannot eat?
  9. Do I have to take nutritional supplement the rest of my life?
  10. What will be the permanent affects on my weight loss?
You should be able to answer each one of these questions before considering gastric bypass surgery. What you do not know could kill you.

To qualify for surgery, most insurance companies require a 2 year medical weight loss record. Your weight must be proven to be life threatening . Morbid obesity is defined as 100 or more pounds overweight or a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more. This alone is judged by many states insurance guidelines to be life threatening. The patients are between the ages of 18-60 years old. They must have a complete understanding of the risks and real benefits caused by this surgery.

Most Insurance Companies deny your first claim. Always submit an Appeal Letter within 30 to 60 days of the denial. The cost of the surgery is not cheap ranging from $15,000 and up.

Gil Gerard Gastric Bypass surgery Video’s

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Lose Weight - 5 Diet Myths

How to get rid of excess weight is a very common topic at home, amongst friends, at work...
Here are some of the most common weight loss myths people tend to believe when searching for a way to lose weight:

Myth 1: Food eaten in the evening contributes more to weight gain.
Wrong: It is the amount of calories accumulated throughout the day, but the time of the day you consume those calories is of minor significance. If you were on low calories during the day you can afford a dinner without worries.

Myth 2: To skip breakfast or lunch is good for staying slim or reducing weight.
Wrong: It is a bad idea to skip breakfast as your cravings for food will increase so much till lunch time that you will probably forget all you have pledged and eat a lot more than you should. The same applies to skipping lunch. If you still manage to stay away from all snacks and sweets during the afternoon but your hunger will be out of control latest at dinner time. Thus you will add more calories than you would with regular meals.

Myth 3: Five meals instead of three are a better way to lose weight.
Wrong: It makes no difference how many meals you have a day. Important is that you limit the total amount of calories. Eating less but more often shortens the time between each meals and makes you feel less hungry. But on the other hand, if you are having a hard time to resist eating more food than you should, you might be better off with three meals only. Less exposure to food means less temptations.

Myth 4: The metabolism of people over 40 is slowing down, thus putting on weight is unavoidable.
Wrong: True is that muscle mass gradually decreases with age if people do not exercise. As a result, increasing fat deposition develops a risk factor for your health. Regular exercise can help you to prevent that. A higher age is therefore no excuse for putting on weight. It only takes more effort to keep up your exercise routine and maintain a healthy level of fitness.

Myth 5: If exercising and working out in the gym keep you fit and slim, you don't have to care about what you eat.
Wrong: The number of calories being burnt during workout is mostly overestimated. To burn 300 calories one has to swim for 40 minutes. Besides that, somebody wanting to loose weight has to burn the daily calories of the food eaten and additional calories from stored fat cells. That's a hell of a task. One kilo of fat is equal to 7000 calories. To burn such an amount one will have to work out on his home trainer for 12 hours. This means, losing weight merely through exercise is hardly achievable. But it is important to maintain a regular exercise routine. It helps you to increase muscle mass which in return burns more calories. Besides this you will also feel a lot better. But there is no way around limiting your calorie intake. A combination of both will bring you a step closer to your goal.

One last word: Most weight loss efforts collapse quite quickly because people set unrealistic goals. Go for small steps, easy to achieve and a glitch once in a while is nothing bad. Just get back on track and never give up!

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Is Fitness Over 40 Easy?

It seems pretty hard to be fit over 40, doesn't it?

Well, I could tell you about people like Kelly Nelson and Morjoie Newlin, two female bodybuilders. They're not your typical bodybuilders. Kelly Nelson first began training with weights in the early 1980's at age 53 and was still competing in the 21st century in her late 70's...in a bikini...and lookin' good if I may say so! Morjorie Newlin was in HER 70's before a 50 pound bag of cat litter convinced her that if she didn't do something, old age was going to be a difficult time. That's when she began a fitness training program that included weightlifting. Morjorie Newlin was participating in bodybuilding competitions, and winning, in her 80's! Same comment...in a bikini and lookin' good.

Now, obviously, these are special ladies who put in a lot of extra effort to accomplish some specific goals, but it does make a point. Life...and fitness...does not have to end at 40. Both of these ladies STARTED their fitness careers after age 40. Kelly Nelson was 53 and Morjorie Newlin was 72. Years later, both were still active in their chosen fitness areas and still enjoying life as well as, or better than, many in their 30's or 40's.

Fitness over 40? Heck, all around the globe, people in their 80's are skiing, hiking, canoeing, biking. Some, not so adventurous, are lifting weights or sweatin' along with Richard Simmons. Some are black belts in Karate, and some quietly and calmly practice yoga or tai-chi.

As easy as this sounds, fitness over 40 requires regular performance of the proper exercises. Just as in our 30's or 40's, sitting in the easy chair, clicking the remote, doing 16 ounce curls with a Miller Lite just doesn't cut it. However, it is not necessary to pack up and head for the gym and try to keep up with the hardbody cuties, either. It IS necessary to pick an exercise program or physical activity, combine that with some healthy eating habits...AND STICK TO IT!

Even over 40, the benefits normally associated with a regular, moderate exercise program will kick in, but for seniors, some benefits are of special importance.

People over 40 tend to break bones, usually from falling.

As we age, bones weaken, as do muscles. We lose some of our proprioception, the perception of stimuli relating to a person's own position, posture, equilibrium, or internal condition. Our ability to react quickly to a loss of balance, whatever the source, or to avoid an obstacle or actual peril becomes diminished.

Exercise helps bones stay strong and exercises such as weightlifting and other resistance training help your body maintain balance and stability. Weight bearing and resistance exercises assist the body in maintaining proprioception by improving the connections and conditions of the muscles and their anchoring in bone. This training also triggers the reconditioning of the signaling system from body to brain which allows the brain to realize the danger and transmit the appropriate signals to muscles which can react to correct the situation. Weightlifting and resistance exercises can help give your muscles the strength and agility to respond to those signals if you are tripped, off balance, or in other peril requiring quick reaction.

People over 40 begin to lose their zest for living and experience more health crises.

Part of this is due to normal changes that take place as we grow older. Our bodies get thicker and lose the gracefulness of youth. Things seem to become heavier and harder to move, and we begin to feel aches and pains that often accompany aging. Some of those aches and pains may be due to arthritis, and other ills may also attack us as we seem to become prey to every passing cold or other social ailment, and also see some deadlier or more debilitating conditions crop up in our age group, if not in ourselves.

Regular exercise comes to the rescue here as well. It can help with weight loss, or it can help with weight management once we get to our appropriate weight. Regular, moderate exercise can keep joints supple, in many cases even joints under attack by arthritis. I know about this as I have been afflicted with fairly severe osteoarthritis for several years and manage to keep myself active and the condition somewhat under control by my own exercise activities. Exercise also strengthens the immune system, which helps us avoid or fight off the normal bacterial and viral infections which seem to come our way and which often seem to wreak havoc on the older population.

Even better; regular, moderate exercise seems to be somewhat effective in helping ward off such common companions of aging as high blood pressure, type II diabetes, and even some forms of cancer.

What exercise program is beneficial for fitness over 40?

In the first analysis, almost any physical activity which gets your heart rate up, makes you breathe more deeply than normal, and which challenges muscles beyond their normal range of activity is going to be on the list. There are people in their 80's hiking mountain trails, water skiing, playing softball, weightlifting (as pointed out earlier), or even cheerleading. It is NOT necessary to take out a membership in a local gym, hire a personal trainer, or invest in a lot of exercise equipment and apparel...unless that helps get you motivated. Anything from walking, to swimming, to yoga, to weightlifting will generally fill the bill. There are, however, some simple points to think about.

1. Get your doctor's approval first. "Nuff said?

2. Pick an activity, or even a group of activities, which you will enjoy doing. Don't be afraid to try something new...take some classes in yoga, tai chi, or even karate. Maybe you will feel better in a certain amount of solitude and just want to pick up a set of weights and exercise in the privacy of your home. Perhaps the idea of biking around the neighborhood or even around other parts of the country appeals to you. If this is a new set of decisions, realize that you may try a few things at first that just don't pan out for one reason or another. Keep experimenting until you find what is right for you. You are STILL exercising, right?

3. Put some variation into your exercise.

Any exercise cannot itself provide the three basic types of exercise needed. We need exercises which will stretch muscles and joints, exercises which strengthen muscle, and exercises which improve our cardiovascular fitness. This is not really hard to do, however, and should not take a lot of time out of your life, particularly when you consider how much it will put back into your life. As one example, you could do a simple weight or resistance training for strength two or three times a week, some sort of low-impact aerobics or walking for cardio on other days, and do some simple stretching exercises every day. None of these workout periods needs to be more than about 30 minutes, although a little more time and effort may produce better benefits, particularly once you have trained up to a level where your body is comfortable meeting the demands you place on it.

You are more likely to stay on a physical fitness regimen if you enjoy it. However, things do tend to get stale over time. It doesn't hurt to vary your approach from time to time in either the manner in which you do certain exercises, or by varying the exercises themselves. While not exact equals, for example, swimming, biking, and walking can be somewhat interchangeable as part of your fitness routine. In some cases, simply varying the environment, i.e. taking a walk in the park or botanical gardens as opposed your neighborhood may be all the variation you need to feel like you have put a little zing into your day-to-day workout existence.

4. Start off easy. At any age, a common reason for failure to stay on ANY exercise program is that people tend to try to do too much at first and try to progress too fast. Whatever you choose, your body needs time to adjust to the new demands being made on it, and results will never come overnight.

5. Don't stop. Probably the most important aspect of any exercise program, or any other self-improvement program, is the commitment to what you know you should be doing day after day. A haphazard approach to your exercise program is detrimental at any stage in your life. After 40, however, making sure you get your regular dose of anti-aging exercise is incredibly important.

6. Eat healthy. I try to avoid the use of the word "diet", and often substitute the term "healthy eating" instead. Diets don't work and can even work against you. They are difficult to stay on and take a major portion of fun out of life instead of making life better. Healthy eating choices will do the trick if you make them a regular part of your life.

While fitness over 40 can demand some of your time and attention that you might not want to surrender to it, the rewards in overall health, fitness, and enjoyment of life will far outweigh any investment you put into it.

Donovan Baldwin is a freelance writer residing in Copperas Cove, Texas, and a University of West Florida alumnus. He is a member of Mensa and is retired from the U. S. Army after 21 years of service. In his career, he has held many managerial and supervisory positions. However, his main pleasures have long been writing, nature, health, and fitness. In the last few years, he has been able to combine these pleasures by writing poetry and articles on subjects such as health, fitness, weight lifting, yoga, weight loss, the environment, global warming, happiness, self improvement, and life. You can find a collection of his articles on health, fitness, diet, and weight loss at http://nodiet4me.com/articledirectory and a review of Jon Benson and Tom Venuto's ebook "Fit Over 40" at http://nodiet4me.com/review/fit_over_40.html.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Benefit Of Physical Fitness For Over 40’s

The benefits of physical fitness, especially in a person over 40, are tremendously important for long-term health and well-being. As we grow older so do our bodies at the cellular level. This is the reason why our skin sags, gets darker and develops cellulite. The benefits of physical fitness include being able to hold back the hands of time. Well, not literally of course! Exercise will build muscle and strength that often deteriorates as we age. This will allow you to move more easily, accomplish daily tasks and delay the pain and discomfort that can be caused by arthritis.

People who exercise also find that they are able to lose those unwanted pounds more quickly and with less effort. This is accomplished because exercise burns calories and if you don’t replace those calories you’ll lose both weight and body fat. The other benefits of physical fitness include decreasing the risk of high blood pressure or reducing high blood pressure.

Between the weight loss and the chemicals that are released during exercise you have a decreased risk of developing high blood pressure and a greater chance of reducing blood pressure that may already be elevated. A connected illness with high blood pressure is heart disease. Often those who suffer from high blood pressure also have some degree of heart disease.

The benefit of physical exercise is that it will decrease your risk of developing or dying from heart disease. Another condition that is linked with high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and diabetes is high cholesterol. One of the benefits of physical fitness is to reduce your risk of high cholesterol, no matter your diet or genetics. By reducing your risk of high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart disease you also reduce your risk of premature death.

Not only will physical fitness decrease your risk of physical illness but also of mental distress and stress related illnesses. For instance, a benefit of physical fitness is to reduce your risk of depression and anxiety. You’ll spend less money on anti-depressants and improve your psychological well-being and work, recreation and sports performance.

The benefits of physical fitness are different for aerobic exercise vs strength training. While aerobic exercise will improve your ability to use and transport oxygen, increase blood supply to the muscles and improve glucose tolerance strength training increases muscle strength, improves flexibility, balance and coordination.

The benefits to physical fitness are numerous. Our bodies were designed for motion and movement. Without that movement we suffer the consequences of stress related illness, and age related conditions.

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Weigh Loss Over 40 Is Your Community

Community is where people come together to share, help, and even learn. You are here to find successful ways to defeat a weight loss problem. The majority of you are battling the hardest part, the mental side of weight loss. When the the term diet comes to your brain, it starts doing mind gymnastics. You know the ones. See if these sound familiar.

1. I will start this weight loss program and when I start losing the pounds, I can have a few of my favorite foods. ( that causes you to be overweight)

2. I am doing so well that I can treat myself with this very fattening food.

3. This bucket of fried chicken will not hurt my weight loss, because I will drink this diet soda.

4. The trade offs…I will eat this piece of chocolate cake and workout 20 minutes more or skip a meal.

5. I will eat this empty high calorie food today and start my weight loss over again tomorrow…tomorrow….( get the idea)

Then your mind tells you this weight loss program does not work. You have not lost a pound. So why bother. Just eat what you like. Life is to short to put yourself through this Just enjoyed what life you have left. So you go back to your old bad eating habits. Now your body punishes you for going on that weight loss program by adding a few more pounds than you had before you started. The sorry part is that mind knows what you are doing is bad for you.

This is where that community comes in as a friend or good neighbor. It can help teach that mind what it is doing is hurting you. That same community can give support throughout your whole weight loss program. People like Heidi (lost a 100 pounds) are great role models that there is a goal to reach. If you ask her, I think she would say, She was sick and tired of being tired and sick.

There is no better feeling than to help people with there dreams and reaching their goals. Giving to others only makes your life richer.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Baby Boomers Weight Loss Over 40

This is for you Baby Boomers. Some of you might feel like you are on the downside of life so why care? Maybe you are married and the kids are all grown up living on their own. So why bother with weight loss or physical fitness at this point in your life. Let’s see if we can break it down for a better understanding of why?

1. This could be the best time in your life. Your chance to enjoy things that you could not because of raising your family or building your career. This is the time in your life you should have the resources and time to live your dreams. No responsibilities to anything but living every day and enjoying your life.

2. If you are lucky enough to have grand kids you will want to take part in their lives. To go on a bike ride through a beautiful Forest or along a beach bike path. To be able to share those moments with the grand kids will give them memories for the rest of their lives. Every time they take a bike ride ,they will remember you and those adventures you gave them.

3. Do you have the feeling of doing something to push yourself to new heights. Maybe ride a bike across the country, hike through one this country’s great national parks, sail around the world, or just get back into an athletic activity you did in your youth.

4. Maybe you just want a better quality of life to live. To stop taking all those medicines that comes with getting older… being out of shape…overweight. How many aches and pains could you lose if you start eating healthy and exercising. No high blood pressure, low Cholesterol, and reduce chances of a heart attack or stroke. Not to mention the stress level low to zero about your health.

The choice is yours to make, a life of doctor visits, taking pills, and the stress of worrying about is this my last day. Or do you look to the future with your dreams coming true every day. Enjoying every minute of every day for the rest of your life. There are two stories left to be told about your life which will be told. The first one is my life was a struggle each day and you justify it by saying pain lets you know you are still alive. The second one is I so many things to be thankful for and I could not have live my life any fuller.

If weight loss is holding you back in life, make something happen today. You have to take action. No one else can do it for you. Wrap you mind around the idea of living life the highest level you can. Start a program that works for you and stick with it. Get some motivational programs to help create that mindset you need to be successful at anything. Each human body is different. One diet plan may not work as well for you as for someone else. So you will have to do some research, testing, and maybe combine different parts of more than one diet plan. When you find one that works, then work the plan to reach your goals.

Exercise works every time it is used, period. So making excuses not to do them it just plain BULL_ _ _ _. You need to do three types of exercises.

1. Cardio: Which needs to done 45 minutes every other day. 2. Weights and Resistant training: Do this on the off days. 3. Stretching or Yoga: This could be alternated with Weights and Resistant training.

Drink lots of water and do not over do it. If you have not workout in a long time take it slow. You should build up your level of conditioning and endurance. If you have pain stop. Your workouts should be fun and done nice and easy. You will know when you be ready to go for it and that will the best feeling you will every have in your workout program.

Be good to yourself. Life is too short to miss it.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Weight Loss Over 40 Is A Group Effort

Losing weight alone is hard if not impossible for a lot of people. That is why there are so many support groups in the weight loss programs. They help with education on how to lose weight without causing harm to your health. The group teaches the proper food to eat that allows you body to lose weight. They show how targeting problem areas of you body with effective exercise programs will change the shape of your body. The most important part of the group is the mental and emotional support. During any weight loss programs there will be times that support will save your weight loss life. Because you are human you will make mistakes or have failures in that weight loss life. The people in these groups have been in your shoes and they know what you are going through. Who better to talk to than someone who has real life experiences with what is happening to you.

The human body is not the same for everyone, one weight loss programs works great for one type of body and not for others. Your body does not react to food like your skinny friends body. They can sit down eat a nine course meal and not gain an ounce. You smell a cake baking you gain 10 pounds. So you have to learn what foods to eat in the right portions that will help you to lose weight. Your weight loss program should be setup to eat the proper foods in the proper portions and not cause you to starve your body. This is important to remember, do not allow family, friends, or people around you to have a negative effect on you eating. They need to support you but their eating habits might not be good for you. Find someone who can share your weight loss program with you, the “Buddy System” it works. Competition is one of the best motivators to reach your weight loss goals.

Join a fitness center or put together your own little workout club. Set up goals to reach during the workout sessions. Do one more set, add a little more weight, walk… run… or bike a little farther. Keep track of your progress in pounds and endurance. This will encourage that competitive spirit so your workout group will try harder to hit their goals quicker.

It is much easy to do anything with a group of like minded people working together than it is by one self.

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Friday, August 10, 2007

Hoodia Gordonii – Valuable Tool In Losing Weight

If you think gaining weight won’t be a bother at all, you better think again. If you gain so much weight, it can lead to obesity or overweight. Obesity and overweight can lead to other illnesses that can harm your health.

Usually, most people out there tend to be inactive and eat everything they want since there are plenty of delicious foods available for us. These are the reasons why there are growing numbers of obese or overweight nowadays. Actually, obesity is one of serious problems that are being faced by the country these days, since it increases in number every year.

Because of obesity and overweight, there are plenty of products that come out in the market today and each claiming that they are the best one for the problem.

Indeed, as an obese, you have to find way to solve the problem. Do not just let it destroy you and your health.

Typically, most dieters are afraid of using pharmaceutical drugs that can make them lose weight since these drugs can give side effects to those who are taking it. So dieters would prefer to use and find alternatives in losing weight. One of the alternatives that claim that it is effective enough to make you lose weight is hoodia gordonii.

What is Hoodia Gordonii and where it came from?

Hoodia Gordonii is a cactus like plant that can be found in Kalahari Desert in South Africa. Hoodia gordonii was a food for San people for lots of years already. Scientists tested and made research about it few years ago to check if this plant is safe and non-toxic. Scientists found out that hoodia gordonii were used by San people by chewing it to suppress their appetite when they are out for hunting. So scientists made and conducted thorough research and found that this plant has active molecule which they called p57. They tested this molecule to animals by injecting the p57 to animals and found out that the animals injected with p57 eat lesser than to those who are not.

The active molecule works by tricking the brain that you are already full and have eaten, so it can aid in losing weight.

Is Hoodia Gordonii Effective and Safe?

Hoodia gordonii is a popular weight loss supplement these days. Lots of dieters trust that they can lose weight with hoodia gordonii. Actually, hoodia gordonii is known without side effect, it is different from prescribed medications that can give risks to the one who’s taking it.

With the research and test conducted, yes, it is proven to be effective, reasons why lots of dieters are switching to hoodia gordonii.

But as a reminder, you have to conduct simple research and checking when you are purchasing hoodia gordonii. This can help you in getting the real hoodia gordonii product. Because of its popularity, lots of companies are producing fake products, so in order to make sure check out the product first.

Indeed, hoodia gordonii is a valuable tool to lose weight but look for certification that making sure it comes from South Africa. Make sure that the certification is clear and understandable, in order to have the real one. It is also better to purchase hoodia gordonii to a reliable company.

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Food Lovers - How To Master Weight Loss

Like most of us, you probably love food! Eating less to lose weight is probably not a happy thought for you. But wait.. it doesn't have to hurt so much! Follow these suggestions: you'll be amazed at how painless it can all be and you'll be delighted with your new sleek and slender figure!

We all know we need to have a well balanced diet. But this doesn't mean your diet has to be boring, just well planned. Sit down with your low fat recipe books and plan your week's meals before you go grocery shopping. Do not shop while you're hungry as you'll buy more. Only buy what's on the list. See how good it feels to have your shopping trolley full of mostly fruit and vegetables!

Rather than following the current trend of using huge plates, convert to small dinner plates. It will look like you're eating more than you actually are, and this can kind of fool your mind. Don't fall into the trap of eating dinner late: again, organisation is the key. If you eat dinner early in the evening, you can brush your teeth and tell yourself eating is over for the day. You won't be as tempted to munch on late night snacks. If you do want something in your stomach while you're watching telelvision, grab a water bottle from the front of the fridge and sip on that.

It's easy to remember this formula of your daily food requirements: 5 serves of vegetables and 2 serves of fruit. I find that starting the day with some fruit on my cereal takes care of one of the fruit serves and then I only have to munch on an apple some time during the day to fulfil that requirement. Eating a carrot for morning tea works for me because it takes a long time to chew (and therefore feels like I'm eating more!) plus it takes care of my first vegetable serve.

In our busy lifestyles most of us have developed the nasty habit of eating too quickly. Slow down,it's not a race! The texture and flavour of the food is delightful, notice it, enjoy it! And don't neglect water. If you drink water with every meal and snack, it will fill you up and you will eat less food. Plus it has loads of other benefits. Consider leaving chopped up fruit in the fridge for easy access. It's surprising how many people eat fruit when it's ready to eat and doesn't require peeling and chopping.

Have you noticed how most of our social events with family and friends are built around eating? Why not be the one to change all this by suggesting a walk together instead of a dinner party, a ball game in the park instead of an All-You-Can-Eat restaurant, a card game instead of a coffee shop? The company will still be great, and you won't feel tempted to mindlessly eat lots of food.

A danger for people wishing to lose weight is outings. Food is fatty and expensive at sporting and other entertainment events. Far better to pack healthy food and model healthy eating to the kids. Remember, losing weight is about lifestyle change, not a one-off diet.

The truth is that none of us manage to eat everything we should on every single day of our lives. In our busy modern lives there's bound to be days the 5 vegetables 2 fruit rule is not observed. That's where health supplements come in. You'll experience great peace of mind as you and your family consume your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals in the form of a shake or capsules. It's a safeguard so that you know your body is getting what it needs. It's even more useful after exercise as whey protein-based shakes help repair and tone muscle.

It's not as hard as you think to lose weight by eating well. It's not about fad diets, because these never result in sustained weight loss, and it's not about starving yourself, because you'll feel like you're missing out on pleasure. It's about organisation and retraining yourself by employing a few tricks which are tried and true.

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

The Answer To "What Makes Us Fat"

The questions posed in the article I read were...

1. Unhealthy eating combined with sustained lack of activity usually causes obesity.

Answer: This lifestyle will always cause you to be overweight or very fat. Any eating without thinking is not good for your overall health. Many of us were never taught how to eat healthy. Most families have both parents working outside the home, so most meals are fast foods or pre-package. Neither is created with your health or weight problems in mind.

Lack of activity: Today's world is design around the Television and the home computer. Two of the most physical inactivity tools every invented. Our minds might be over developed but our bodies are within away. People using both of these inventions never have to leave their homes, talk about lack of activity.

2. Bad eating habits are the top reason why people become obese. With neither the time, nor the inclination to control one’s meals.

Answer: No brainier here, like the answer above eating without thinking is never a good thing for your weight problems. To say you do not have the time or will to eat health is just plain lazy.
If you cared about what you eat and how it affects you body. You would use the home computer to create a meal plan that would fit your lifestyle. It takes no more time to eat the right meals as it does to eat to unhealthy ones.

3. Many people try diets in order to lose a few pounds. But the fact is, most of them return to their old lifestyle and eating habits easily, which almost always means the lost weight would be regained rapidly.

Answer: It is called discipline and the will to change your life. It is true most people use the “Elevator Diet Plan", this is where they lose a few pounds, then thinking they have things under control slowly go back to their old eating habits. This is the worst kind of diet to be on, you would be better off to never diet. When you starve the body of food then begins to eat all those calories again. The body starts storing those calories into body fat not knowing the next time it will be fed. So you become a lot fatter through your dieting efforts.

4. I would say keep a healthy lifestyle is the most effective way to keep you fit. Don’t eat foods with high calories too often, do enough sport exercises regularly and better on a daily basis.

Answer: A respectful DAAAAA!!!! This is the bases of all weight loss programs. Think about what you are eating and how it affects you body's weight. Know that you are eating something that tastes good but is bad for you, the trade off is a lot more exercise. If you stumble on your healthy way of eating do not quit. Just pick up where you stumble and do something to make up for it. Like EXERCISE.

The article had some good ideas but left a lot of unanswered questions. The one idea in the article was to take a pill to lose weight. This is always a temporary fix and you really do not know the side effects it will have on your body. A natural way is the better way to lose weight permanently and keep it off forever.

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

What Makes Us Fat

Anyone who wants to resolve any problem, he has to know the cause of problem above all. It is the same by losing weight. We have to know why we are growing fat first, then, we can suit the remedy to the case.

Unhealthy eating combined with sustained lack of activity usually causes obesity. You take more calories than you burn everyday, your body then puts on fat. This is the common sense behind obesity. Further more, according to genetics, obesity could also be inherited from family members. If your family has a history of weight problems, then you should watch your weight very carefully.

However, bad eating habits are the top reason why people become obese. With neither the time, nor the inclination to control one’s meals, there’s no wonder people get fat all over the world. People are always busy, but this is not the excuse that we have to eat junk food all the time. Fast foods may look good, but they contain too high fat for your body. Thing is, a single burger is worth a whole meal, but your body does not judge the situation this way. Your stomach will never be filled by a regular burger, so it will keep asking for more, despite the fact that your body does not need more burgers.

Many people try diets in order to lose a few pounds. But the fact is, most of them return to their old lifestyle and eating habits easily, which almost always means the lost weight would be regained rapidly. Moreover, the body will get used to these diets after long time diet taking, and after that it will be much harder for you to lose weight. Strictly taking diets means you have to refuse a lot of delicious foods, which will make these foods much more attractive than usual. The result is, most of the diets takers give up easily.

At the end of this article, I would say, keep a healty lifestyle is the most effective way to keep you fit. Don’t eat foods with high calories too often, do enough sport exercises regularly and better on a daily basis. If you already have weight problems, then you’d better try some products like Proactol fat binder, which won’t ask you to eat diets strictly. I’ve already seen too many people tried diets and gave up. Results are they regained more fat than before.

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Control Of And Freedom From Pain

Many of our aches and pains are a direct result of our sedentary lifestyles. These conditions often begin to show themselves when we stress ourselves in new activities, become over tired or they may just come on their own.

It is becoming a common belief that these pains in our back, neck, knees, etc. are a result of our body being out of sync and telling us something is wrong. Through stress or injury, or lack of consistent stretching to keep our muscles loose and supple our bodies become out of symmetry. Muscles that don’t get stretched on a continual basis begin to pull our body out if its normal balanced stasis. This starts to put stress on the supporting structure of our skeleton and, instead of our body load being spread evenly over support structures it gets spread to one side or the other. Parts of the body that were built to share the load find themselves carrying a greater proportion of the load. These spots begin to deteriorate and send out help signals on the way of pain.

An easy example is our spine. It is designed to carry our weight in a gentle s-curve which places the load squarely across the surface of each vertebra. This curve is maintained in its proper shape by the strength of the back muscles counterbalancing the strength of the abdominal muscles. Our back muscles get a daily workout in general just keeping us upright and as in our everyday activities, we lift things, move ourselves up and down as we get out of chairs, etc. Our abdominals unfortunately don’t get this rigorous work out unless we intentionally focus on it. Our back muscles are constantly working and strengthening; they need a conscious effort to stretch them to help them relax and stay supple. Our abdominals are loose and relaxed; they need us to consciously work at strengthening them. If we don’t continually focus on these two needs:

Our back muscles strengthen and tighten pulling our spine out of its proper s-curve
Out abdominals loosen and weaken allowing the spine to slip out of its proper s-curve
This results in the body mass being shifted to the edges of some of the vertebrae which causes overloads resulting in degeneration and pain. If we don’t do things to counter this lack of symmetry we are destined to a life of pain and agony.

This example of back pain is one way we put our bodies out of symmetry. We also do this by slouching in chairs as we watch TV or read books, working at a job station that causes us to do most of our effort in a one-sided fashion, receiving an injury that causes us to favour one side of our body and carry the load more with the other. Just being left-handed or right-handed causes us to do things unevenly. There are many things that we do or have happen to us that may cause us to lose the healthy symmetry of our body structure. If we allow this state to continue some part or parts of the body take more of a load then they were designed to carry. This results in pain which, if unattended become chronic pain and then a disabling condition.

At this point I’m going to tell you a short story about a good friend of mine; Phil. He is an avid skier and it was on the mountains of Alberta, B.C., and theNorth West States that I have shared some tremendous times with him: but enough about that.

Phil had tremendous back problems. Each morning before skiing he would literally role out of bed onto the floor and work at limbering up his back enough to be able to move about in a normal manner. We would then ski the day away. Did I tell you that he had a tremendously high pain threshold?

Phil was this way when I first met him and for several years from that time. He read a great deal about his condition and was quite an expert on everything about it except making it go away. He had been to several doctors and had undergone various treatments including acupuncture. He was at a point of desperation and was seriously considering undergoing spinal fusion as a last resort to overcoming the pain.

It was at this point of desperation that he happened upon a life-changing discovery. My friend Phil did not go through with the spinal fusion surgery. He did however, go on to control and conquer his back pain.

To be continued . . .

Until then . . . in pain or not . . . . . . you still . . . look . . . marvellous!

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

How Juice Dieting Can Help You Lose Weight

Let's do juicing! Just the mention of juicing and one conjures up visions of celebrity super bodies relaxing around the LA pool, soaking in the sun and sipping some colourful concoction through elegant, sometimes flashy straws.

Well however you prefer yours, I've got no problem, but juicing is here to stay - thankfully, at long last, it's taken its rightful place on the podium with the kings and queens of dieting.

There are many wonderful benefits to juice dieting. To be frank, it's the simplest, most convenient road into the invigorating lifestyle associated with a healthy, vibrant body. Your body belongs to you and its up to you to take control of its well being. We've been led along the path to ill health and sickness long enough and the giants of the food and drink conglomerates have only been too willing to take us there.

What to Expect From Your Juice Diet

At the outset, juice diets are not to be mistaken for any other liquid diet. A diet based on fruit and vegetable juices is quit unlike a regular liquid diet. When you undertake a course of juice dieting your intake is set around consuming about 8 tall glasses, each of 12 ounces, of specially formulated juice per day. The super packed foods, which you will consume, are not the odd bottle of shop bought Tropicana from the local gas station on the way from a hard day at work.

Special Formula Juice Diet

For the juice diet to be successful you need to drink the expressly formulated juices which are obtainable online and in health food stores. These drinks are designed with the added vitamins and minerals your body needs in larger amounts than would be achievable with fresh fruit juices alone.

Once you embark on a correct fruit and vegetable diet you'll be amazed at just how you begin to feel. That feeling of wellness extends to greater levels of energy and a sense of complete vigour and this is a feeling that great many people have never before experienced, especially as you consider the act that the average diet consists of junk food that we have been fed since childhood.

Fresh fruit juices are, quite simply packed to the brim with minerals and essential vitamins, enzymes and photo nutrients, all waiting to find a resting place in your body. From the day you begin a serious fruit juice diet you need no longer think about measuring your recommended daily allowance of bottled vitamins and minerals. In fact you can cross these off your shopping list, thereby saving you money and time.

Rapid Results from a Fruit Diet
In most cases your body will be able to tell the difference in just two short days. That's all that's needed to begin to feel a new person, even after decades of neglect.

Convenience

Don't forget the convenience factor - you can put away your pots and pans and just pull out that juice extractor and get juicing for a new you.

Juicing is the natural way to revitalise your body and I'm ever more convinced of this fact. Over the years family, friends, associates and colleges have all testified to the fact that they now feel years younger, more vitalised and energised than ever before. Simply put, juicing is the most natural, convenient and delicious way of restoring the years the locust has eaten.

I wish you every blessing as you seek health and restoration, as you seek to take the initiative and live life to the full.

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Saturday, August 4, 2007

Life Lost to Obesity - Not Just Quality

With two out of three Americans overweight today, we’re learning more and more about the numerous ways that carrying excess weight can really affect our health and diminish our quality of life.

But you may not have heard the hard facts about how overweight and obesity can diminish your quantity of life.

Simply put, overweight people die younger. On average, they lose as many years to their excess weight as smokers lose to their cigarettes.

It stands to reason, doesn’t it? With all the health problems that we know are caused or worsened by excess weight, it is to be expected that those who carry an excess would die sooner than those who don’t.

Still, we don’t often hear the cost of our extra calories expressed in such stark terms. In the popular media, we’ve typically seen our weight problems discussed as a function of appearance and appeal, and feel the imperative to lose weight in order to be more attractive and more successful.

The medical establishment has been warning about the risks of obesity and overweight in terms that address their health consequences, but early death is seldom mentioned among these.

Yet Dutch researchers studying Americans found that there’s a lot to lose for those who don’t lose their extra pounds. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the data from the Dutch study were gathered from more than 3,450 subjects between the ages of 30 and 59.

The researchers categorized people according to their body mass index, or BMI. A BMI of 19 to 24 is typically considered healthy, while a BMI of 25 to 29 is considered overweight, and a BMI of 30 or more is clinically obese. Among those subjects who were overweight but not actually obese, the study showed that 40-year-old female nonsmokers lost 3.3 years of life due to their excess weight.

In this weight class, the 40-year-old male nonsmokers lost 3.1 years of life expectancy. For non-smokers who were clinically obese, the news only got worse for women, who lost about seven years of life because of their obesity, while the men of this size lost just under six years.

That’s six Thanksgivings, six New Year’s Eves, and who knows how many grandchildren born. That’s six Superbowls they’ll miss, six World Series they won’t see.

Not surprisingly, the loss is much greater for overweight smokers. When we add the strain and damage of cigarettes to the body’s burden of obesity, the loss doubles, to around 13 years for both men and women.

That’s 13 birthdays, 13 Independence Day fireworks shows, 13 years of some special child’s school pictures that will be missed. When you think about it in such personal and specific terms, those extra calories suddenly seem so much more costly. "Obesity and overweight in adulthood are associated with large decreases in life expectancy and increases in early mortality," the the journal reported. "Because of the increasing prevalence of obesity, more efficient prevention and treatment should become high priorities in public health."

But what “prevention and treatment” means depends on who you talk to, and it’s becoming an increasingly controversial issue, with some saying that overweight is an individual problem caused by individual actions, and therefore one that should be dealt with by the people who are personally affected.

But others say that’s a gross oversimplification. Increasingly, public health official and other researchers assert that this is a social problem that deserves all the attention it can get.

While people certainly must take responsibility for their own eating practices, and families must be responsible for the dietary habits of their children, there’s more to it than that.

In our society, we are faced with what some experts refer to as our “toxic environment,” and they’re not talking about chemical waste; they’re talking about the ubiquity of burgers, about soda machines in schools, about giant-sized snacks devoid of nutritional value.

They’re concerned about millions spent promoting essentially worthless foods, while education and promotion of good nutritional options languishes in unfunded media obscurity.

We face tremendous pressure to eat often and eat poorly, and there are consequences to that, for everyone, even those who are not personally overweight. American’s weight-related health expenses now exceed $130 billion per year, and that gets spread across everyone’s health costs.

And that says nothing of the incalculable economic cost to businesses and communities in lost human time and potential. And it says nothing of the immeasurable loss to families and individuals, of those moments on birthdays and holidays, of those stories and photographs that end up missing someone, lost early to a preventable weight problem.

Caroline J. Cederquist, M.D. is a board certified Family Physician and a board certified Bariatric Physicians (the medical specialty of weight management). Dr. Cederquist is the founder of Bistro MD formerly Diet To Your Door, a home diet delivery program that specializes in low calorie gourmet food that is delivered to your home or office. Bistro MD serves as culmination of Dr. Cederquist's expertise and experience in the world of medical weight loss.

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