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12 tips to better weight loss

866006_peppers_5 Losing weight is a constant battle for most of us but you can successfully lose weight and keep it off through good daily habits. Instead of drastic dieting, make the 12 tips below part of your regular routine and watch the weight fall off. It is very important to keep these tips for a long term, in order to make sure that you keep your weight under control. A first step will be to put this list somewhere relevant for your eyes, just to see them every day. You must also, keep your promises regarding this subject!

  • You are a sandwich eater. You like very much this kind of food. Use light mayonnaise or low calorie dressing when making sandwiches. This is the first step. In time, you will learn to forget all about mayonnaise.
  • You prefer salads, no matter what kind. Use fat free or low fat salad dressing, which will keep your salad low in fat and calories.
  • There are some forbidden aliments like potato chips or French Fries. Avoid those regular products. If you have the taste for chips, use fat free or low fat chips. But, you have to be assured you will not eat more then once a month!
  • Everything that starts with “white something” is wrong. Therefore, use brown rice instead of white rice. Brown rice is much higher in fiber. Other whole grain rice is also high in fiber. Read the package label for fiber content. Three grams or more of fiber is desirable.
  • This tip is a golden one. Strive to drink a minimum of 8 cups of water each day. Sometimes, a juiced lemon in it, it is a great idea!
  • Avoid loading your baked potato with sour cream and butter. Use half a serving of each on your potato or use 1 serving of fat free / low fat sour cream.
  • Avoid cream sauces of any kind, if it is possible. They are loaded with fat and calories. Any kind of sauce or cream cheese sauce wills double the fat and calories in your meal. You have to remember that!
  • Try to eat three to four servings of fruit a day. Substitute fruits for sugary desserts. Fresh fruits are your best choice in your battle!
  • Avoid fried foods when possible. The oil that foods are fried in will double the amount of fat and substantially increase the calorie content. Boiling or grilling the meat or the vegetables is the perfect solution! You can be bored by this kind of food, but the best choice is to boil or grill everything you eat!
  • Exercise regularly. A fast pace walk three to four times a week is a good aerobic program.
  • Take a vitamin supplement when dieting. Consult a pharmacist when you decide to take these pills.
  • If you snack on a large bag of low fat or fat free chips, make sure that you divide the contents of the bag or package by the number of servings. Put one serving each into individual zip-lock sandwich bags.

This method also works with desserts. This method will keep you from opening a bag of chips and eating the entire bag. It also reduces the temptation to binge on chips and desserts. You have to believe it!

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With a little help from my friends….

857987_corn Weight loss is a common concept nowadays. People who are preoccupied by this kind of living surround you. Everywhere you go you see fat people or skinny people who are not satisfied by their appearances. You can choose to be one side or another, but the subject is very interesting.

Now the question: Do your friends and family rely on you to help them lose weight? Offer them the support they need to develop a healthy lifestyle. You are obligated to do. It is moral thing.

The second idea is that losing weight creates a lot of interest. People around you notice your weight loss and ask how you lost it. How did you do it? Did you follow this kind of diet or another? Did you follow a no-carb or a low-fat diet? How do you feel? Are you feeling depressed or just sad? Are you ok?

Whether it is your husband, your mom or a close friend, when someone you know asks for your help with their weight loss, you can offer your knowledge and support. What can you do about it? You can do many things, namely: share what you have learned about healthy ways to lose weight (it is very important to let know that you are interested and that you something about it). Share weight loss tips and tricks that have worked for you (the results are always helping). Make yourself available as a weight loss friend to hold them accountable (this process is very difficult). You can also, offer your support and motivate your friends and family to succeed at their weight loss goals( you are looking better this morning…).Encourage friends and family to talk to their doctor and have a health check before starting a weight loss program( for everybody is essential to do this check). Provide your friends and family with healthy recipes or direct friends and family to informative web sites to learn weight loss basics. Exercise together to make learning calories easier (create a simple and funny chart). You can help people who are reluctant to change, to explain them why is important for them to change their lives.

Obesity and losing weight are touchy subjects for some people. Overweight individuals who are sensitive about their size and about almost everything that is concerning them. Approaching someone about weight loss when they are sensitive about the subjects can be difficult and sometimes, impossible. You have to make sure they know you are concerned about their health and keep your focus on ways to help them better their health to live a longer, more productive life. It will be an interesting job for you and that person can become your best friend.

It is difficult to make someone change if they do not want to. You have to be ready to make changes and develop a healthy lifestyle. If someone you know needs to lose weight, but is not ready to focus on themselves, all you can do is be a good role model for them. Continue to exercise and eat healthy and be ready to provide support to your friends and family when it is needed. That you can do and you must do.

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Do you eat to feed your emotions?

881415_vegetable What kind of eater are you? Are you hungry all the time or sometimes are you not? Do you eat to feed your emotions? Does feeling deprived because you eat more to make up for lost time, and end up yo-yo dieting?

Imagine waking up hungry, experiencing cravings before lunch, munching on rabbit food and feeling hungry even after you have eaten dinner, only to see a disappointing number on the scale. You have worked so hard and given up so much for nothing.

If you have followed a calorie-restricted diet before, you probably do not have to imagine the scenario. Dieters often feel hungry and deprived. That is I. I always feel like it is the end of the world. In addition, it is raining all the time in my head. Therefore, the truth is I eat to food my emotions. It was hard to recognize that. It is these feelings that often cause rebound eating.

A good example of deprivation causing rebound eating is when you attend a social event and are strong enough to eat healthy while watching everyone else eat whatever they want and indulge in dessert. You sip on water all night and clasp your hands to keep from reaching for or any of the tempting foods in front of you. It is mentally exhausting to keep from eating the foods you loved in the past. I hate this image because this is a mirror where I can see myself feeling more deprived and depressed about not eating everything I like. In the mean time, all the skinny girls are eating all.

It is common for people in the situation to turn to food after the social event is over. The feelings of deprivation linger long after the food is removed from your site. It can make you feel depressed and you know from experience that carbs and sugar foods work to lift your depression quickly. That is right. I feel much better after I ate a chocolate cake and cream!

Depression and deprivation cause you to eat on the rebound. Eating to feed your emotions rather than your hunger, you are more likely to binge on the foods you have been craving.

If you are tired of bouncing back and forth between feeling deprived and binge eating, there is hope and the answer is simple. When faced with food in a social situation, it is best to have a small piece of your favorite foods without overdoing it. Here you are some tips for overcoming your hunger:

  • Share a dessert with someone (the smaller piece must always be yours);
  • Share a meal with someone (take care what kind of food they order and think twice when you will order your meal);
  • Place half of your meal in a to-go box before you even start eating (I cannot eat that much…);
  • Take only a few bites of the foods you feel like you are depriving yourself from (not more then six bites, do you promise?);
  • You can always order a hot drink like tea or coffee to have something to sip on while others are eating
  • In addition, you have to look for light or low-fat versions of your favorites, since many restaurants now offer these options.

It is not that difficult.

Just because you are trying to lose weight and diet does not mean you have to give up the foods you love. Stop thinking of foods as good or bad. Once you look at food as a way to fuel your body rather than your emotions you will be able to see that everything is okay in moderation. Let us hope so!

Following a restrictive diet is not the right plan for everyone. Restrictive diets cause depression; binge eating and rebound eating that can actually set back your weight loss goals and discourage you from trying to lose weight. So, another time, when you are sitting in a restaurant, you must think twice about everything. After all, it is all reasoning.

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Diet and metabolism

776158_diet To many women, the concept of a diet is scary. In a world dominated by imagine in general, where little girls look for a perfect image to copy, in a world full with comments about how was your look today, we must have an attitude regarding our weight. So, the diet can be the perfect solution to feel better an to have success.

There are many opinions about dieting and about weighting loss. You must eat! What kind of food? You must exercise! What type of sport? Am I having metabolic problems? This is a perfect question to ask in order to accomplish your dream. You want to thinner, much thinner then you are right now.

Do you think your metabolism is responsible for your weight gain? Scientists who study metabolomics (a new science) think it can explain why some people lose weight and others do not.

Do you have the picture? You are on a diet. You are exercising six days a week and eating nothing but carrots and broccoli. You are desperate to lose weight. You lean in and ask the thin woman next to you how she stays so skinny, and to your disgust, she tells you she does not do anything. She never exercises and eats whatever she wants. It is not fair. It is a nightmare for every woman who eats perfectly healthy. What can you do? Exactly this type of situation leads us to believe that weight is determined on a genetic and metabolic level. Is it the truth? Maybe, the skinny woman eats everything and she stays like that forever. For the rest of us, what is the solution? Do we have to stare in the mirror and be disgusted for the rest of our lives? What exactly can we do?

According to this science, there may be hope for the rest of us who do not have the “skinny” gene. Bless you and thank you, God! Researchers are working on a diet based on metabolism. Metabolomics is an area under study at the moment. Therefore, that is the black part. But, we have a hope, don’t waste it! It is a unique way your body reacts to cellular changes or your metabolic reactions. Studying metabolites and how they change after you eat is helping scientists learn how to treat obesity in people with varying metabolic rates. Therefore, there are differences between those who are skinny and those who are fat. This is fair.

The field of metabolics shows a lot of promise for a new wave of weight loss drugs. The information provided by the studies on metabolites will be a useful tool in fighting the obesity epidemic. It will help us understand lipid dysfunction. Can you hurry a little bit, please? When I will be sixty years old, I will not need those results. I need those right now.

According to the specialized literature, a simple blood test could reveal metabolism problems. Physicians then develop a customized diet designed to work with the patient’s metabolism, while follow-up blood tests could allow caregivers to track improvements in a person’s health status. Here I go again, battling and crying about my extra-kilos and hoping that, someday, a handsome doctor will come and he will give me my personalized diet!

We have all had that friend that has lost all of her excess weight on the Atkins diet or using Jenny Craig. We get excited, we get on board with the program they used, we work hard and yet something is not right. You do not seem to lose weight the same way the other person did. Our genetic makeup is not the same; therefore, the same diet will not work for every person.

I do not have a prefect conclusion. The most successful weight loss programs are ones that are customized to meet a person’s specific needs. Studying the way metabolism is affected by food will help scientists and doctors measure metabolism and use the information to create a diet that will work for that specific person. So, I will wait until a handsome doctor will come to me, for a blood test. Then what? We have to hope that, someday, this prefect doctor will be invented.

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