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Why Some Weight Loss Programs Don’t Work? Then What Works?

Posted by admin on December 3rd, 2009 Comments Off

You cannot lose weight using Low Fat Diets. For more than 15 years, we have been conditioned to think that low fat foods would help us to lose fats. As we know, our society is still filled with people who are getting more overweight. What does that mean for you? This confirms the fact that eating a purely low fat menu is not the answer to weight loss.

How about Low Calorie Diets?

You tried a Low Calorie Dieting Plan. Does it work? Eating low calories is the worst thing that you can do to your body. Not only will this habit slows down your body’s fat burning engine, it destroys your hope of losing weight. Yes low calorie diets may allow a few pounds of weight loss for the first few days, but then after that what happens? The weight loss comes to a stop, commonly known as a dieting plateau.

How about Low Carb Plans?

In the last couple of years, low carb diets have been quote popular. Why do some people fail to lose fats using this method? Numerous feedbacks showed that it is extremely difficult to follow. With less carbo in your body, you feel energy-less and restless. How are you going to live with this kind of life? Many gave up the idea about weight loss.

How about Low Fat Diets?

Today, we are so conscious of the word “fats” on any food labels. You go for ‘low fat’ or ‘non-fat’ food. Bottomline, are people losing weight? No.

How about Eating Lesser Amounts?

Do you think by starving yourself, you will lose weight? Wrong! The body is a smart engine. It detects a drop in calories intake and then adjust itself by burning fewer calories each day. For example, if you are eating a 2500 calories per day your body will adjust its metabolism to burn 2500 calories per day. And you begin to drop your calories intake to 1000. The body metabolism will adjust to the new 1000 calories intake. Therefore you fail in your attempt at weight loss target.

What is the Problem?

You are overweight because you are eating the wrong foods in the wrong way. Hence the problem lies with the food you eat. You get fat because you don’t eat the right foods at the right intervals each day. Just like biorhythm in our body, the body needs certain foods at certain intervals each. So if you don’t eat the right foods at the right times then the body won’t burn those calories. You end up storing those calories as fat tissue. So it has nothing to do with eating lesser portion or exercising to weight loss. Oh this is a real paradigm shift in the way society thinks in weight loss!

Then What Works?

Did you know that your brain controls the release of Fat Burning Hormones after each meal? It’s true. Every time you eat something there are 2 types of hormones released into your bloodstream, and together they control Fat Burning and Fat Storage. And these 2 hormones are controlled by the foods that you eat.

In order to ‘trick’ the body to burn the fats faster, you will need to eat more than 3 meals a day over 11 days. You will need to alter these hormones correctly. Of course you cannot be eating all the chocolates that you love to eat for the next 11 days. You must eat the right meals in the right patterns each day. And after 11 days have passed you’ll be much slimmer and lighter on the scale. It is based on the Shifting Calories Theory. And a Menu Generator that will tell you what foods you should be eating for 11 days. It is a Weight Loss Secret Formula Truly Revealed.

Check it out for yourself at … http://www.fatlossfast.org if you want to try this revolutionary weight loss solution. Please leave your name and email so that Dr Jo Johnson can keep in touch with you and she will give you a free Ebook on “51 Tips to Lose 9 lbs” for a start.

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Healthy Diet – a Guide to Weight Loss

Posted by admin on December 3rd, 2009 Comments Off

Here are some weight loss diet tips that can be followed anywhere, everyday:

1. Make a delicious low fat mayonnaise by combining one teaspoon of Dijon mustard or satay sauce with a low fat yogurt.

2. Do not skip meals. Skipping meals slicks the body into slowing down the metabolism, attempting to conserve calories during a period where limited fats and fuel are available. Remember that eating increases the metabolism.

3. Stuff vegetables like capsicum and zucchini with flavored fillings or minced chicken, white meat or fish. These are healthy and contain low fat.

4. Take pita bread roll ups or wraps with salad fillings.

5. Eight hours after waking up, our metabolism slows down that is why 30 minutes of exercise before dinner will increase the metabolism for about two to three hours. This produces an increase in burned fat even hours after the work out is over.

6. Add alfalfa or mung beans to salad to get extra iron.

7. Good cooking and healthy eating begins with learning about nutrition and how to prepare healthy recipes.

8. Learn how to make the family favorite recipes and make sure that fats, salt, and sugar are cut out. Substitute non-fat yogurt for cream, stir-fry without oil and use herbs and spices instead of salt to taste.

9. Consult the doctor before beginning an exercise or weight loss program.

10. Slowly eat and chew each bite during meals as this would decrease one’s appetite.

11. Complete three small meals and two snacks everyday instead of one or two huge meals.

12. Use chicken stock when stir-frying. This will cut down on hidden fat.

13. Buy non-toasted muesli instead of the toasted ones. A plate of toasted muesli contains more fat than a plate of bacon and eggs.

14. As much as possible do not remove the skins of fruits and vegetables since most of the nutrients are concentrated under the skin.

15. Warm water with just a squeeze of lemon juice before breakfast get the metabolism going for the day, this also help preventing constipation and is excellent for the skin.

16. One of the best sources of vegetable protein is from soya beans or tofu. All legumes provide some protein, so include lentils, lima beans etc into casseroles and soups.

17. Look for a weight loss “buddy,” club, or support mates. This will motivate you to stay and enjoy your weight loss program.

18. Though it’s hard at first, try not eating 3 hours or more before bedtime.

19. Make pasta a fast food choice – preparing a pasta meal or salad will only take 10-12 minutes.

20. Chilli helps to speed up metabolism – even the milder varieties.

21. Try making omelettes without adding the yolks! A dramatic decrease in fat.

22. Substitute baking soda, baking powder, MSG and soya sauce in cooking.

23. Remove fat by dropping ice cubes into the baking tray. Fat will stick to the ice cubes.

24. Drinking hot water instead of cold water in the morning can increase the speed of your metabolism and burn more calories.

25. Eat before you go food shopping and always prepare a shopping list. Only buy food which relates to your weekly menu plan and don’t be tempted to buy goodies.

Make sure that the right discipline is still practiced to promote consistency on the diet plan. This will lead eventually to a healthy life-style and a more fruitful living without the extra fat and extra pounds on the side.

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What Weight Loss Supplement Will Work the Best?

Posted by admin on December 3rd, 2009 Comments Off

You should be prepared for a successful weight loss program. Prepare your mind for the program. You should understand the process of losing weight that you will be suffering a bit. People who failed with different weight loss programs are shocked by the fact when they finally succeeded in their weight loss goals. They can not adopt their minds for this kind of success.

In weight loss programs sometimes it takes months or even years to find the right diet or weight loss supplement which will help you to lose your weight. There are a number of weight loss drugs in the market and it’s difficult to find the right supplement.

I will tell you a weight loss secret that is no diet help to lose weight permanently because diets give short term solutions. Most of the diets alone such. Regular exercise and weight loss supplements should be combined with diets.

What weight loss supplement will work for me to get successful in weight loss program? There are a number of weight loss supplements in the market. You should consult a weight loss doctor. I personally recommend a popular weight loss supplement Acomplia rimonabant a product of a French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Aventis. Acomplia rimonabant cure obesity and balances cholesterol. Acomplia rimonabant helps in combating smoking and helps to combat alcohol and reduces extra fat and get you into shape. Acomplia blocks CB1 receptors found in the brain which decrease the overactivity of the endocannabinoid system. Acomplia is known by the name of Zimulti in United States.

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The Weight Loss Benefit of Green Tea

Posted by admin on December 2nd, 2009 Comments Off

Much of the awareness that green tea is receiving today has in fact been known by the traditional home brewer from generation to generation. But only with the approval of modern science are people really considering for the first time all the ways that they can stand to benefit from green tea extracts.

In households of long ago, green tea was (and still is) used for its effects of soothing the mind and stimulating the body. Though the exact way that this was achieved then was not known, still it was widely accepted by many as a wonder medicine. Today however we know that green tea is a powerful antioxidant that benefits us with healthier and younger looking skin and by helping stave off cancer and heart problems.

Additionally, green tea is now well known to be good in the fight against diabetes by controlling the rate at which starches and carbohydrates are broken down to release sugars (hence is good also at curbing the appetite). Finally, and most importantly for the purpose of this article, green tea is one of the newest wonder herbs used in the weight bulge battle.

Any weight loss article will tell you that the key to losing or maintaining weight is to keep the amount of calories that you burn more than or equal to the amount of calories that you consume on a daily basis. One of the ways that people strive to do this is by exercising, and in itself exercise benefits weight loss by attempting to burn more calories faster.

Having realized the key to weight loss, many drugs are now being offered which promise fast results with little or no work being required to lose weight – these drugs are not all faux, for they all attempt to make use of the underlying principle of burning calories – increasing one’s metabolism. By increasing the metabolism, it is actually possible to burn more calories by literally doing nothing. What does this have to do with green tea? Green tea itself contains a number of beneficial compounds to mankind. Among these is one that has the ability to speed up one’s metabolism.

Green tea works much in the same way as caffeine does to increase metabolism, but it is able to do so without the side effects commonly associated with caffeine. With such ability, green tea is in fact being used to replace caffeine as one of the major components in many fat burning stacker pills. The advantages of using green tea over caffeine means that the pills are no longer addictive and that they would no longer induce the person taking them to feel hyperactive or jittery.

Additionally, green tea is an all-natural component, hence it can be considered as an organic weight loss supplement. With the rapid growth of the kinds of chemicals that we continue to put into our body, organic substances have become a lot more popular now than they were a few years ago.

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Selecting the Right Weight Loss Program

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2009 Comments Off

For some people a formal weight loss program isn’t necessary. They can summon the willpower, do the research and carry out the needed actions independently. Others will benefit from support, guidance and a helping hand.

 

When seeking out that weight loss program there are a number of important questions the second type will want answered.

 

The most essential, and therefore the first question is: What are the facts about diet, exercise and weight loss? There are dozens of fad diets, special exercise regimens and all manner of junk science surrounding the subject.

 

It won’t be easy for those not trained in science to sort the wheat from the chaff, to sort fact from fiction. But anyone with common sense and some persistence can fairly quickly find one or more sources of reliable information. Scientific studies don’t stand in isolation, they either support or contradict others. When you find a number, from serious sources, that agree there’s good reason to give them some credence.

 

Similarly, it will be important to find knowledgeable and experienced people at the gym and nutritionist that help you along. Most people can distinguish between people who are trying to give wise counsel and those who just want to sell you something that may or may not have any value. People deserve to be paid for their services, but offering something worthwhile is fundamental.

 

Once you find a gym and/or nutritionist that can offer you good guidance and moral support, you’ll get added benefits. Such people can help remind you, when the going gets tough, of why you chose to make the effort in the first place. It’s difficult to adhere to a long term program when the progress is slow.

 

Any wise diet and exercise program needs be oriented toward lifestyle changes that will help you lose the weight and keep it off, and keep you healthy and fit. Counseling provided by fitness and nutrition professionals can help you do that. They can help you unlearn bad habits and learn better ones, and encourage you to stick with them.

 

You’ll need to monitor your progress, so you need to ask where and what are the tests and tools to do that. You’ll need food charts for measuring calories and types of nutrients. You’ll need a BMI calculator and other tools.

 

Some of those tools are as simple and inexpensive as a scale, a flexible tape measure and a mirror. Others may be a heart rate or pulse monitor, a device that measures body fat percentage and other things that often accompany a treadmill.

 

You’ll want to judge any program by how many people have actually found success using it, of course. But beware the hype. A few unsolicited opinions from people you don’t know won’t tell the whole story. Find out how many finished, and how much they lost, and whether there were any downsides or side effects.

 

It’s your health. That’s worth doing some homework to find the right weight loss program for you.

 

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10 Ingredients in Weight Loss Pills

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2009 Comments Off

Looking for help with losing weight? Help that goes beyond the usual lifestyle changes, portion control advice and exercise routines? Weight-loss supplements touting names like “fat burner” and “thermo max” can be enticing. But do they work? And even more important, in the wake of the Food and Drug Administration’s recent ban on ephedra, are they safe?

In this article, Environmental Nutrition provides a snapshot of 10 of the most popular ingredients currently in supplements for weight loss.

ChitosanMade from the shells of lobsters, shrimp and other shellfish, chitosan is an indigestible fiber. It is supposed to help weight loss by binding with the fat you eat, blocking its absorption. However, studies do not support this claim. Side effects include constipation and gas. People with shellfish allergies should beware.

ChromiumMost often present as chromium picolinate, it has been promoted to boost lean mass and decrease body fat. Though study findings have been inconclusive, an analysis of several studies recently concluded that supplementing with 200 to 400 micrograms of chromium picolinate could result in about a 2.5-pound weight loss per week in some people. Other studies have found a loss of body fat and an increase in muscle tissue, with no change in weight. Still others have found no effect at all. Though some laboratory studies have raised safety issues, a large number of human studies suggest it is safe.

Citrus Aurantium (Bitter Orange)This herbal extract is a natural source of synephrine (a compound similar to ephedrine) and the supplement industry’s current answer to the ephedra ban. But there are no published studies to show it is an effective supplement for weight loss. And like ephedra, its side effects include an increase in blood pressure; Environmental Nutrition recommends avoiding it.

Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)Both animal and human research hints at a possible role for CLA in reducing body fat and increasing lean body mass, but it’s not quite ready for prime time. None of the human studies have been long-term. CLA is currently being studied in combination with chromium picolinate. CLA is found naturally in dairy foods and beef and is generally considered safe.

Garcinia CambogiaThe extract from Garcinia cambogia fruit rind contains hydroxycitric acid (HCA), which supposedly curbs food intake, weight gain and storage of excess calories as fat. However, studies have failed to prove G. cambogia is an effective weight-loss aid. The most common side effects are upper respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms.

GuaranaCaffeine is the effective ingredient in guarana plant seeds. Guarana may have a mild appetite suppressant effect over the short term. It was often used in combination with ephedra until ephedra was banned. The potential side effects are those of caffeine overdose—insomnia, restlessness, anxiety or panic.

Hydroxymethylbutyrate (HMB)HMB is a natural byproduct of the breakdown of the amino acid leucine. HMB supplements are used by body builders in hopes of increasing muscle mass. A few small studies have suggested that HMB increases lean mass and decreases body fat when combined with weight training. However, studies with overweight and obese people are needed.

Plantago PsylliumPsyllium is a water-soluble fiber from Plantago ovato seeds. Taken before a meal, it may make you feel full, causing you to eat less. While it is proved to aid constipation (that’s how Metamucil works), it has not been proved as an effective weight-loss aid.

PyruvatePyruvate formulas boast that they stimulate metabolism and reduce body fat. Pyruvate is found naturally in food and in the body as a result of the breakdown of carbohydrates and protein. Some studies have shown a weight-loss benefit with pyruvate supplements. But the people in the studies also exercised and cut back on calories. Moreover, the dosage used in the studies was high, requiring a handful of tablets each day. Experts say the case for pyruvate to aid weight loss is weak.

Yerba mateBrewed into a tea, bitter Yerba mate is high in caffeine. Used in combination with other caffeine-containing herbs, like guarana and damiana, it was found in one study to delay stomach emptying time and aid weight loss. The study was short (45 days), so conclusions on keeping the weight off cannot be made.

The Bottom Line

Though all are relatively expensive and none are proved, of these top popular weight-loss contenders, chromium picolinate and CLA are probably the most studied. If you’ve already made up your mind to go the supplement route, you might want to give them a try. Just don’t expect miracles and check with your doctor first.

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The Use Of Weight Loss Herbs

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2009 Comments Off

Nothing has garnered more attention in today’s world than the success or failures of weight loss products. With a new product seemingly coming to market each day, it’s no wonder that as a society we’re confused and overwhelmed. And for those of us for whom weight loss is an ongoing battle, we watch each and every product awaiting its “grade.” However, among all the products that come and go, weight loss herbs continue to stay at the forefront in the battle of the bulge.
Combinations of natural herbs have been used for centuries to address all manner of health-related issues. From migraines and acne, to nausea and infertility, the properties found in specific herbs have been known to combat them all. And when it comes to dealing with unwanted pounds, weight loss herbs are used to a variety of products designed to speed metabolism and burn fat.
In weight loss herbs such as dandelion, green tea, cayenne, and even seaweed, the metabolism is stimulated in response to the specific properties of the herb. Most herbs associated with weight loss are considered mild stimulants that speed digestion, along with heart rate and respiration. In most cases these weight loss herbs are completely safe but it’s always best to consult with a doctor prior to introducing your body to anything new.
Other weight loss herbs act as diuretics and help the body shed excess water. However, these weight loss herbs can actually be quite dangerous if not used responsibly. Therefore, it is absolutely imperative that weight loss herbs of this type be used under the care of a medical professional.
More importantly, while weight loss herbs can aid in the body’s battle to lose weight, it is important to remember that a healthy diet and consistent exercise program is the best way to shed unwanted pounds – and keep them off. Therefore, a program that combines diet, exercise, and weight loss herbs under the supervision of a doctor can go along way to a long life at a healthy weight.

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Fast or Rapid Weight Loss

Posted by admin on November 30th, 2009 Comments Off

The idea of fast weight loss is one that many of us find quite attractive. We want to look good and have model bodies within a few days, or weeks. To attain a healthy, yet quick weight loss we should consult multiple diet guides and judge each one by their own merits. Ask yourself, what are you willing to eat during your diet, how much variation do you need, and will you be exercising?

Rapid weight loss diets state that you can lose lots of weight in a short period. Of course, that comes with a price; your calorie intake is severely limited and you may have to prepare meals that are not as appealing as a piece of fried chicken or a slice of pizza. Also, often recommended during fast weight loss diets, are strenuous exercise programs, which will help you to burn off extra calories and tone some muscles.

Diets, restricting certain types of foods and drinks, are also popular because of their fast results. During a specific time frame you are allowed to eat, for example, only certain kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables. The diet does allow you to alternate between having these foods either raw or cooked. Leafy green vegetables, such as kale, mustard greens, or spinach come highly recommended, because they are rich in vitamins and minerals. They contain few carbohydrates and are packed in layers of fiber, making them very slow to digest.

Drinking lots of water during a quick weight loss plan is also a top priority. Benefits of drinking water are: it regulates your appetite, increases metabolism, boosts energy levels, makes for less water retention, helps to reduce blood pressure and high cholesterol, can ease joint pain, will release toxic waste products and can improve your skin texture.

Do not give up, if one rapid weight loss plan does not work. What do you have to lose by trying another? If you are one of those people looking for a quick fix body make-over, then study all rapid weight loss options and set your goals, before deciding which one will suit you best. If you opt for diet pills, know they can suppress appetite, increase metabolism and reduce the body’s ability to absorb specific nutrients in fats. Some kinds are non-prescribed, but to obtain the more effective types, you will have to make an appointment with your physician. Diet pills will be successful only until your body has adapted to their effects. Check with your doctor if you notice any side effects.

A quick weight loss plan may not always be the healthiest weight loss solution. If you are concerned, you should consult a doctor or dietician before trying it out. If you do go ahead with the diet, stop immediately if you feel any discomfort or faintness. Each body will respond differently to a diet, like it does with any kind of treatment, and remember, nobody but you will be able to figure out what sacrifices you are willing to make, and how much time you are willing to give yourself to reshape your body!

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