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Thursday, 29 October 2009
You Don't Have To Eat It All
If you've had enough to eat you should stop whether there is more food available or not. You shouldn't need to get rid of food as these days it is no longer necessary to be concerned with keeping the food fresh as it was in the past. Stop eating and put that excess food into the refrigerator where you can eat it tomorrow.
If you are constantly finding there is additional food left when you are satisfied then you need to reduce the quantities that you are cooking or making available for your meals each day.
It is better to have a little less than too much.
Don't feel obliged to eat all the food that is placed before you when you're eating out. Even then you should only eat to feel comfortable and not feel full.
For most people it is a habit to eat everything that is on their plate and this belief has been drummed into them from childhood. Now is a good time to reverse that train of thought.
Where possible put the food on your plate that you intend to eat at any particular meal and then take that plate with the food to the table. This will encourage you to put limits on the amount of food that you will eat. Having additional food available at the table only encourages you to eat more. If it is not in sight you are less likely to feel the need to eat it.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Slow Down Your Eating
The longer it takes you to eat your food, the less food you will need to eat to feel satisfied.
There are some simple techniques that can get you out of a bad habit of eating too fast and consequently eating too much.
Try to chew your food a little longer before you swallow it as this will help with the digestion of the food and the extra time that it takes you to chew will also help you to feel more satisfied without having to have such a large quantity.
Don't load up your fork or spoon with more food until you have finished eating the food that is already in your mouth. One simple way of doing this is to actually put down your fork or spoon until you ready to pick up the next piece of food to eat.
It breaks the habit of over eating from eating too fast. If you look at the way that French people in particular eat as a whole, you should notice that not only do they have smaller portions of food but they take a lot longer to eat their food. They are doing two things that help them to stay slim. Eating smaller amounts and taking longer to eat those smaller amounts.
You will find that once you start eating a little slower you will actually get to enjoy the food a lot more. You will have more time to savor the tastes in the food.
It takes a little while after eating food for your body to register the fact that it has had enough and many people overeat when they eat too fast simply because they believe they are still hungry. You should never eat until you are full; rather eat until you feel comfortable that you have had enough.
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Diabetes drug may also help in weight loss
| Diabetes drug may also help in weight loss Los Angeles Times By Shari Roan A medication under review by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of type 2 diabetes may also promote weight loss, according to ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Patients kick the insulin habit through diet, exercise Los Angeles Times Lifestyle changes: Over the next year he lost 50 pounds on a low-carb diet, and 10 more pounds the year after that. His doctor put him on insulin and ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| A High Fiber Diet for Cars New York Times By STEVEN ASHLEY WHAT the world could use right now is an affordable plastic car. After all, a car with a plastic frame and body would be lighter than a ... See all stories on this topic | ||
Examiner.com Carnie Wilson, who famously underwent weight-loss surgery live on the Internet 10 years ago, is going to lose weight again before the public's eyes in a new ... See all stories on this topic | ||
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| Are You On the Twilight Diet? FitSugar.com (blog) This combo has led to some serious weight loss — some fans have lost six pounds, while others claim 25. I admit that the Twilight diet is an easy target, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
Weight Loss Surgery Channel Diabetes and obesity in young people is now linked to how muscles handle a high-fat diet. Watch to find out more on this week's Weight Loss Surgery News. ... See all stories on this topic |
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Friday, 23 October 2009
So a diabetes drug might help you lose weigh but low carb diet increases your Alzeimers risk!!!!
| Extreme weight loss show in the works at ABC Reuters Roth said the show will differ from other weight-loss reality shows, which have been led by Roth's own highly rated "Loser" franchise on NBC, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Michelle Obama shares diet tips CalorieLab Calorie Counter News ... standing up while watching television. It's not quite the Vertical Diet, but every little bit helps. (By Sarah E. White for calorielab Calorie Counter News) See all stories on this topic | ||
| Investigational drug may promote weight loss Los Angeles Times All the participants followed a diet of about 500 less calories than they normally consumed. They also increased their physical activity levels. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Novo Nordisk Drug Helps Healthy Lose Weight, Cut Blood Pressure Bloomberg Novo Nordisk said it is waiting to hear from US regulators this quarter about the use of the drug for diabetes before it starts additional weight loss ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Pumpkins carve out a healthy diet Medill Reports by Kendahl Lauren Gardner With Halloween on the horizon, pumpkins are everywhere. You decorate them, carve them and print invitations with images of them. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| How, and how not, to diagnose a food allergy Washington Post I have removed them from my diet and no longer have reactions. I encourage your audience to seek alternative medicine practioners for allergies. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
Telegraph.co.uk A diet full of dairy products such as cheese can help overweight people lose weight, Australian researchers claim. By Andrew Hough During the 12-week trial, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
HealthNews High protein diets have been popular off and on since the 1960s, and are once again grabbing the attention of millions of people desperate to lose weight. ... See all stories on this topic |
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Thursday, 22 October 2009
Weight Loss Surgery - could be a killer!!!!!! Maybe diet is a better option
New York Times As difficult as it is to lose weight in the short term, it's easy compared to maintaining weight loss in the long term as everyone knows. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Guess who has another weight-loss show: 'Carnie Wilson Unstapled' Really?I Los Angeles Times The still-overweight singer will once again try to jettison 50 pounds of baby weight on "Carnie Wilson: Unstapled," airing on GSN. Baby weight. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Super Obesity Ups Risk of Dying After Weight-Loss Surgery U.S. News & World Report The research involved 856 men and women who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery at 12 Veterans Affairs medical centers between 2000 and 2006. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| High Protein Diet May Shrink Brains WPBF Researchers testing diets to see how they affect Alzheimer's disease said they found that a high-protein diet seems to lead to a smaller brain. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Obese men wanting children 'should diet' Telegraph.co.uk Obese men should go on a diet if they want to increase their chances of having children, doctors have said. By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent in Atlanta ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Learn how to spot weight-loss scams WFMJ These promise to block or interfere with starch in your diet. Many users report nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pains. "Magnet" diet pills. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Special diet speeds spinal cord healing United Press International CHICAGO, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates speeds recovery in rats with spinal cord injuries, Canadian researchers said. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Arts, Briefly Jillian Michaels Gets 'Biggest Loser' Spin-Off New York Times By BRIAN STELTER; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF Buoyed by the success of its weight-loss competition "The Biggest Loser," NBC is adding a motivational partner to ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Diet could play role in reducing risk of breast cancer The Patriot Ledger Follow a healthy diet to keep your weight under control. Being overweight or obese, particularly post-menopause, could increase your breast cancer risk. ... See all stories on this topic |
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Reward Yourself
I am not suggesting that you reward yourself with a whole lot of bad food but rather something more effective such as a new piece of clothing in the smaller size that marks a stage in your weigth-loss program where you have made another positive achievement.
It is important that you reward yourself and feel good about what you have done because the better you feel about yourself the more likely you will be to continue with the program you have chosen.
For many people it is a lack of self worth that caused them to start gaining weigth in the first place so a reversal of this mindset can be a very powerful stimulant for getting back into shape.
It is more important that you feel good about yourself rather than being concerned what others think. By rewarding yourself in one way or another you are taking your self worth to a higher level and that is extremely important to your success not only with your weigth reduction but every other aspect of your life.
Each time you get closer to your optimum body weigth you are benefiting as a whole with improved health and well-being and these rewards that you give yourself along the way are significant reminders of what you have achieved and they are very powerful incentives for bigger and better things.
Never underestimate the impact that this can have on your ability to succeed with a whole new direction in life starting from the inside out.
It doesn't even need to be something that you have to spend money on even just taking time out for a while and considering what you have achieved and congratulating yourself with what you have done.
Saturday, 17 October 2009
Changing Your Routine
We get into the same habits of eating the same foods and doing the same things every day and the change alone can stimulate the body into action.
There is no better way to break a habit than to do something completely different and if you do it for long enough that will become the norm and changes in your lifestyle can be made within the course of a month if you habitually do the same thing every day - just make sure that that things that you do every day are making positive steps to achieving a better quality of health and lower body fat.
Most people who are overweigth have some habit or habits that have resulted in their condition because it takes the constant over abuse of food and alcohol to get in such a state unless there are some other specific health-related problems.
If you make a concerted effort to change many of your normal routines you might find that these habits present themselves and you can begin to understand why you started putting on weigth in the first place. If you know the reason for your condition that makes it a lot easier to reverse that state and get to where you want to be.
No matter how many weigth loss programs you attempt to go on they will always be a struggle if you can't resolve the underlying issues and the habits that have caused you to neglect your health to such an extent that you don't feel happy about your body.
Quite often the foods that we believe we can't do without are only needed due to the habit of always having had them. If you were brought up in a different household where your diet was different then those would be the foods that you would want to eat even if the diet was completely different from the one you currently enjoy.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Exercise To Reduce Appetite
What they don't realize is the fact that your blood sugar levels determine when you feel hungry. When your blood sugar drops you will begin to feel hungry and seek food to increase the level again.
Exercising helps to normalize fluctuations in your blood sugar levels and in doing so you won't get that starving feeling as often.
Exercise activates your muscles which in turn burns fat rather than carbohydrates so this reduction in the burning of carbohydrates maintains your blood sugar levels in a more balanced manner.
By raising your metabolic rate from exercise the cells of your body will burn oxygen more efficiently and that in turn helps you to use the nutrients from your diet more effectively. It also helps to eliminate waste products and in doing so you are getting better nourishment from the foods that you eat.
By getting more nourishment you don't require the same quantities of food to feel fulfilled.
Another benefit of exercise is the fact that you are increasing your body temperature and this will help to mobilize the fat in your body that is used for energy rather than the food. Your resting basal metabolic rate will also be raised after exercise for a considerable amount of time effectively helping you to burn more fat and improving the ratio of body fat percentage in your body.
There are so many positive reasons why you should be including some form of exercise into any weigth-loss program and even if you are reluctant to exercise you should understand that it is probably easier to increase the exercise than to reduce the amount of food that you feel like eating every hour of the day.
Friday, 9 October 2009
Your Fat Point
This is not true and we all develop our own fat point based on our lifestyles.
While there are various different body types that are determined by our genes the percentage of fat that we carry around in our body is not due to the genes that we have inherited. It is due to the food that we have been eating from the beginning of our life to the stage where we are at presently.
If you have been over eating for a long period of time and you have remained at a specific fat percentage for quite some time then that becomes your new fat point. And that can change up or down according to the lifestyle that you choose to lead.
If you have remained at a particular fat point for a year or two then your body will develop all the necessary requirements in the form of capillaries, connective tissues, hormonal levels and so on to support that point.
You have determined what that point is and your body will now try to maintain the new level.
Your body will constantly monitor that new fat point by all the messages that are sent to the brain. If you are to go on a crash diet your body will react to the fact that it sees an attack on that fat point and will do all it can to maintain what it believes is the correct balance. The maintenance can be in the form of a reduction in muscle tissue to save fat.
Unfortunately for many people they don't like to accept the fact that it is not their genes or anything else that has resulted in their fat point being too high.
Being overweight might hurt your child......
| Mom's Obesity Tied to Baby's Heart Defects ABC News "Since obesity is a common condition among women of child-bearing age and is increasing in the US in prevalence, it's important for us to understand the ... See all stories on this topic |
| Obesity is an unhealthy, expensive, growing problem Anderson Independent Mail A study by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that more than 65 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. As the figures rise, ... See all stories on this topic |
| Three more die due to H1N1. Obesity link emerges. Pioneer Press It's unclear whether obesity itself causes more complications, but the rate of deaths and hospitalizations among obese people is notably higher, ... See all stories on this topic |
| Delaying Weight-Loss Surgery May Leave Teens at Risk Atlanta Journal Constitution The findings suggest that waiting until teens are "super obese" before performing weight-loss surgery may not resolve their obesity or related long-term ... See all stories on this topic |
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Wednesday, 7 October 2009
depresion can make you fat.......
Telegraph.co.uk
Even when other factors, such as drugs taken by those with mental health problems, were excluded, the link between depression or anxiety and obesity ...
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| More study needed to determine if adding calorie counts to menus curbs obesity ... Los Angeles Times But the lead researcher also notes that it's hard to assess the many anti-obesity public health efforts underway. Brian Elbel of New York University says ... See all stories on this topic | ||
USA Today A study released this summer showed that obese Americans, those who are 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight, cost the country an estimated $147 billion ... See all stories on this topic | ||
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Kellogg chief executive David Mackay announced a $20 million anti-obesity campaign to encourage some of the world's largest food makers to reconsider the ... See all stories on this topic | ||
BBC News According to the latest US government statistics, 32.2% of American adults and 17.1% of children are clinically obese. Obesity can lead to early heart ... See all stories on this topic | ||
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Everything In Moderation
Excessive exercising for somebody who hasn't done much in the past can result in injury and that injury can make you less mobile and increase the opportunity to gain body fat.
Sudden changes in diet will send the body into reactionary mode storing fat. Gradual changes to your diet on the other hand done in moderation will not send signals to the body that is a starving and in fact you won't feel as though you are starving either if you do it in moderation.
Making moderate changes to your food and exercise won't infringe on your lifestyle anywhere near as much and that will in effect make it a lot easier for you to maintain the changes for a lot longer until they become second nature.
This is when you will get to the stage where you can gradually keep reducing the body fat and become healthier and healthier and more energetic as time goes on.
Even your intake or water has to be in moderation because drinking excessive water can flush out important nutrients from your system doing more harm than good.
You are better drinking a glass of water here and there throughout the day rather than trying to drink gallons of water in the hope that it will help you to lose weigth faster.
Even good foods need to be eaten in moderation as excessive quantities of these foods can still cause the body to store them as fat.
It's a simple rule to follow really; if you are eating drinking or exercising too much or too little you are unlikely to get optimum results.
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Duff beer to combat abdominal fat??
| The Simpsons join obesity battle The Press Association The Department of Health is to sponsor episodes of hit TV show The Simpsons in a bid to tackle obesity, it has been revealed. Fans of the long-running ... See all stories on this topic | ||
NDTV.com There has been a steady rise in the number of elderly persons in industrialised countries and these nations also show a trend of increase in obesity. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Frank Lampard and Thierry Henry to front Pepsi's anti-obesity TV ads guardian.co.uk Click in bottom right for full image Football stars Frank Lampard and Thierry Henry are to front an anti-obesity ad campaign launched by Pepsi that ties in ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Peg Doyle: Preventing childhood obesity starts with the parents Allston-Brighton TAB One-third of American children and adolescents are either obese or at risk for becoming obese. Between 1963 and 2004, obesity rates have quadrupled for ... See all stories on this topic |
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news on a new experimental diet pill
| Science Briefing Los Angeles Times Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. of San Diego said its experimental obesity pill, Empatic, slimmed patients in a study. At least twice as many patients on ... See all stories on this topic |
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Monday, 5 October 2009
Tweet what you eat!!! A new way to lose wieght
| Tweet What You Eat diet shames people into calorie counting Telegraph.co.uk A new diet on Twitter dubbed Tweet What You Eat has been hailed for its effectiveness as it shames people into listing the amount of calories they have ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Diet soda may not be the best alternative The Collegian By Alexandra Zentner | October 5, 2009 (12 minutes ago) While sugary sodas have become the focus of negative attention, diet sodas have risk factors as well ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Iron deficiency associated with Weight Loss surgery 24 Medica Weight loss surgery can help you lose weight, but it's also likely to leave you unable to absorb iron, a new study suggests: Iron deficiency is a common ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Class without quiz encourages students to tackle heart disease ... The Spartan Daily Mahdi Ashktorab, a senior electrical engineering major, said the lecture made him realize how important a diet is to a healthy lifestyle. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Firm may have to pay for weight-loss surgery Anchorage Daily News Q. Despite the fact that our employees know our company hovers on the brink of layoffs, one of my key employees made a bizarre request, telling me I needed ... See all stories on this topic | ||
Examiner.com The happy trio of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and long-time friend and musician Sam Bradley were spotted dining at Pinky's Restaurant in Vancouver, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Dieting and exercising, but not losing weight? High cortisol ... Examiner.com Without effective stress management, one who is exercising regularly and following a healthy diet may not lose weight and belly fat. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Review: 'Sherri' on Lifetime Los Angeles Times She recently appeared on "The View" in her bathing suit (to show off the results of a new diet) and a quick Google search reveals her public announcements ... See all stories on this topic |
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Friday, 2 October 2009
Todays news on Acai Berry and Green Tea
| Green Tea Linked to Less Stomach Cancer in Women ABC News NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As if you needed another reason to drink green tea: Japanese women, but not Japanese men, who regularly drink 5 or more cups ... See all stories on this topic | ||
Consumer Affairs By Mark Huffman Advanced Wellness Research, Inc., a company allegedly offering free trials for its products, including Acai berry supplements and whitening ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Green Tea Party: Sat., 1-4 pm Heritage.org For those of you in or near the Washington area, Truth About Green will host the first-ever Green Tea Party tomorrow, Sept. 26, from 1 to 4 pm in Lafayette ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| New eco-friendly cream may cut down on skin cancers Edmonton Sun Rather, it's an eco-friendly skin cream that contains green tea extract. I thought green tea was for drinking. But a report in the American Academy of ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Acai Slim - 2009 Top Acai Berry Weigth Loss Product Article Maniac The Acai berry owes its origin to the Brazilian rain forests where it has been harvested for thousands of years by the Brazilian natives who were aware of ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| So what is the secret to Sinead's fresh-faced look? Green tea, the ... Herald.ie "I'm healthier now that I've ever been in my life, I go to the gym, take supplements every morning, drink green tea. I'm becoming a bit of a supplement ... See all stories on this topic |
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News on new weight loss drug ...Empatic
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What You Can Expect
You need to look not only at the diet itself, the time that you were on it and whether you lost weigth or not, but also the period after you stopped dieting and consider how fast you put the weigth back on because very often that weigth gain after dieting was a result of the diet itself.
If you are considering another attempt at that diet where you lost a lot of weigth quite rapidly, it will be worthwhile to look a little further and see what the final outcome was over the medium to long term as that might paint a different picture and change your opinion on the effectiveness of the diet.
It might be time for you to consider an alternative way of losing weigth or to be more precise losing fat because that is the most important thing that you should be looking at.
Consider using a weigth-loss program that reduces the fat gradually and is easy to maintain while you go about your normal day-to-day life. You might think that it will take longer to lose the weigth but what you really should be focusing on is getting to an optimum body shape and staying there for the rest of your life.
It is not much use to you to lose weigth for a few months and put it on for the next few months and then repeat the cycle over and over again.
This is all that you can expect to get if that's all that you got in the past and in fact it only becomes more difficult to lose weigth and easier to put it back on so keep that thought in your mind before you embark on another weigth-loss program.