- 2 Quick Recipe Tips That Makes Boring Food Fantastic! - Every Other Day Diet Want to read a great diet/fitness article? Then check this one out... it was sent to me by Jon Benson. I have his thumbs-up to forward it to you. Enjoy! One of the most surprising benefits I’ve discovered for being engaged to a gal from the Middle East, other than the vast cultural exchange, is the cooking. Oh, yes ladies… my gal COOKS! Which is good since I am a lousy cook. : ) ... Read full post here
- Carb Friendly Diet Plan - Every Other Day Diet - Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you. Caution: This sounds like a silly question, but it’s really the most important question you can ask: “What REALLY makes me increase my bodyfat?” Is it too many calories? Sure. That’s one part. But I know people who can eat 4-5K calories a day and not add an ounce. Is it dietary fat? Rarely if ever.... Read full post here
- Detailed Goal Setting For Weight Loss - A Ship’s captain and an airline pilot have the same thing in common, before they even leave port they have a destination already set. Before you embark on your program, you too need to have an end in mind. You need to have a destination, an arrival point. In other words, what weight will you finally arrive at? Don’t take it as the weight you think you will look good at and just because you may have looked great at that weight as a teenager or when you were younger... Read full post here
- Diets & Alcohol - Think Before You Drink - I used to work with a woman who complained that she could not lose weight. She was doing all of the right things - eating the right foods and exercising constantly. In fact, she seemed to eat less than me and definitely, by her accounts, exercised more than me, but she still could not lose weight. I figured she just had a low metabolism and that mine was higher. Then one evening after work, when our group went out to dinner, I saw why she was not losing weight. After her fourth... Read full post here
- Difference Between Bad & Good Fats - Bad fats These fats tend to be the saturated fat and of the Trans fat variety. There is a link between saturated fats and cardiovascular heart disease, it is this type of fat that raises your cholesterol levels. It usually exists in diets that are high in animal fats which is why the Atkins and low carb diet models aren’t usually the best kind. Although Atkins himself has found no increase in cholesterol levels with his way of eating, we still do not know what the long term effects this kind... Read full post here
- Does Your Weight Have Emotional Control Over You? - Psychologists are aware of the emotional effect weight can have on self esteem but the remaining medical world is just starting to wake up to this fact. Find out if weight gain has an emotional effect on you. Some brief questions. - Are you conscious of your physical appearance when you are out in public? - Are you comfortable with looking at yourself in the mirror or do you avoid it? - Are you concerned with what others think of your body? - Do you feel... Read full post here
- Exercise As Part Of Your Weight Loss Plan - You know that exercise is extremely important and you know that the only way to shift the fat that has accumulated on your body is to burn it through exercise. If you want long lasting success with your weight loss plan and really want to lose fat then you need to do at least 30 minutes of exercise 3 times per week to see results. More than 3 times per week if you want to see even more significant results and double your weight loss. Expend more calories than you eat. Double... Read full post here
- Factors That Can Affect Your Weightloss - There are several reasons why we gain weight of which we will delve into in more detail. What We Eat – Our Calorie Consumption When we consume more calories than we burn our bodies store the excess away as fat. As I mentioned before our bodies are extraordinary creations and tend to store away any excess fat we don’t need in case of leaner times that might lie ahead. However today those times are few and far between and because we live in the developed world rarely are there ever... Read full post here
- Fad Diets Pros and Cons - The term fad diet is often used as a term of derision to describe a poor diet program. But the facts of the matter are that there are always advantages and disadvantages associated with a fad diet. We are going to explore the fad diets pros and cons in this post and let you decide if what's right for your situation. What is The Definition of a Fad Diet? Before we get started, we should decide how exactly we define a fad diet? This can be very subjective and vary greatly between definers. The University of Pittsburgh Medical... Read full post here
- Flat Belly Solution - A Quick Introduction - If you have yet to hear about Flat Belly Solution, I'd like to give you a short introduction to this all natural diet and nutrition program that helps women lose belly fat fast. Flat Belly Solution - What Is It? FBS is a complete all natural diet and nutrition system developed by certified nutritionist, Isabel De Los Rios. The Flat Belly Solution has helped thousands of men and women lose belly fat and get started and maintain a healthy eating plan designed to burn fat and improve your health. Here are... Read full post here
- Flat Belly Solution Recipes - Flat Belly Solution Recipes - Losing Weight With Tasty Food. Flat Belly Solution recipes include a comprehensive list of selections for your dining pleasure. Don't think that you are going to be eating a bunch of rabbit food or that the food you will be eating will be bland or disgusting. In fact, the recipes that I prepared were so good that if I didn't know it was supposed to be diet cuisine I wouldn't have known. The Flat Belly Solution Recipes book includes recipes for appetizers, snacks, entrees, sauces, salads, desserts and even beverages. I... Read full post here
- Green Tea - A Secret Weight Loss Suppliment? - There has been a lot of talk about green tea and how it can work for diets. Does green tea work to help you lose weight? Yes. As long as it is home brewed, unsweetened green tea. If you think that you can drink gallons of sweetened green tea and lose weight, think again. Green tea has health benefits that are not found in black tea. In general, tea is a drink that is good for you. There are hundreds of different teas and many different flavored green... Read full post here
- Helping Overweight Teens Lose Weight - Today, approximately 15% of children between the ages of 6 and 19 are either overweight or obese (which is a 10% increase since 1970). In fact, there are now more than 9 million youngsters who are at risk from suffering some impaired life due to high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels or Type 2 Diabetes, as well as having a negative self image of themselves, which will continue as they grow into adulthood. There have been studies carried out that indicate a child who is obese at the age of 6, will have a 50% chance... Read full post here
- Is This The Best Diet Tip Ever? - This may be the best diet tip that you have ever received. Seriously, you can increase your ability to stick to your diet by at least a factor of ten, and all but end your dietary screw ups just by putting this one simple rule into place. Here's the story: I was watching TV the other evening around 9:30 and I got a powerful case of hunger pangs. So, I got up and rooted around in the kitchen to see what was available. I finally ended up eating some leftover sliced grilled chicken... Read full post here
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- Keeping Tabs Of Your Calories - Know what you are putting into your body. I love knowing that there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. Some people can consume that amount each day which is not surprising why some people gain 30 pounds in a year without knowing how. It’s very easy to do. Think about it, a hamburger, fries and soda (1,200 calories) and there’s most of your daily calorie allocation blown right there, to top if off it won’t keep you full for long either. Eat that every day for a year without much... Read full post here
- More Factors That Can Affect Your Weight Loss - Not only how much you eat can impact your weight loss efforts but also how you are eating plays a huge role in your ability to lose weight. Are you aware of how you are eating? Even the speed at which you eat can have an effect. Being aware of how much you eat at a meal and being aware of every bite will decrease the need to top up your plate. How many times have you sat down to a meal and ate so fast you wondered where the food... Read full post here
- Negative Calorie Foods & How They Help Weight Loss - You will find a free list of negative calorie foods below, but first let's consider what this means. There is no such thing as a negative calorie - a calorie is a unit of heat and it cannot be negative. So when people talk about negative calorie foods, this just means a food whose calorie level is low enough that it takes more energy to eat and digest it than the food contains. For example, if you consider water to be a food, then cold water is certainly a negative calorie food. It contains no calories at... Read full post here
- Negative Calorie Foods - 5 Great Tips - You will find a free list of negative calorie foods below, but first let's consider what a negative calorie food means. There is no such thing as a negative calorie - a calorie is a unit of heat and it cannot be negative. So when people talk about negative calorie foods, what this really means is a food whose calorie level is low enough that it takes more energy to eat and digest it than the food contains. For example, if you consider water to be a food, then cold water is certainly a negative... Read full post here
- Quickfire Exercise Tips - Dieting without exercise is a complete waste of time. Remember when we talked about metabolism? It gets revved up when you exercise. Exercise will not only help you burn off fat and promote weight loss, it will also make you feel more energized and emotionally healthy as well. If you think that you can just diet yourself thin, think again. You need to exercise in order to lose weight. It is also important the type of exercise that you do. You need to do cardiovascular exercises in order to lose... Read full post here
- Setting Your Weight Loss Goals - “Lose 10 pounds in a week!” “Lose 20 pounds in 20 days!” “Lose 50 pounds by fairy dust!” You have seen all the ads … all promising to help you lose weight instantly. While some may work, many don’t. Sure, you can lose weight quick and many times you will, BUT…what they don’t tell you is that many times that rapid weight loss is water weight. AND IT WILL RETURN! So, what we have to do is set realistic and achievable weight loss goals. ... Read full post here
- Stay Away From Depriving Yourself - One way that I used to diet all the time is exceptionally unhealthy. I did this often in my early 40s and used to wonder why I was unable to lose anything more than 5 pounds. This is called the “starvation diet.” A friend of mine explained to me that not only is the starvation diet a dangerous way to diet, but it is also ineffective. The starvation diet is just what it sounds like - not eating. Or eating a piece of bread all day long. Naturally, this is not... Read full post here
- Teen Weight Loss Tips - The key to teen weight loss is that they improve their health habits. Today, teenage obesity is a growing problem, and there is plenty you can do as a parent in order to help your teen with any weight problems they may have. Although there is no magic formula to teen weight loss, the real key to succeeding is by helping them to lead a healthier kind of life that they can then carry on into adulthood. Top Teen Weight Loss Tips 1. Talk to your Teen If... Read full post here
- The Art Of Eating Properly - It is not only what you eat that can cause you to gain weight or not lose weight, but also how you eat. My father, for example, complained of not being able to lose weight, despite the fact that he never ate breakfast or lunch and only had dinner. The reason he was unable to lose weight was because he was consuming all of his calories at one time, late in the day, and not giving his metabolism time to act when it came to burning calories. His metabolism was shut down all day and only came alive at night.... Read full post here
- The Atkins Diet - Who does not desire to have a fit and shaped up body? Perhaps we all do. Overweight is the biggest enemy of our health. But factors such as sedentary work, lack of time to exercise and the availability of delectable fast food have made it extremely difficult to have stabilized weight. It is not only a person’s appearance that is badly affected by being overweight but also his fitness. Usually obese people keep on confronting one or the other health problem. There are times when excess of weight becomes a mental torture and leads to depression.... Read full post here
- The First Steps To Weight Loss - Motivation - “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher - Think about that statement for a minute: why is that important in your “journey?” Because if you think that just eating less and exercising you will lose 100 pounds in the next week…I am sorry to say, you are probably in for disappointment! It’s just not reasonable to think that you are going to lose a bunch of weight, and keep it off, in such a short amount of time. Now, if you... Read full post here
- The Four Main Food Groups You Must Have In Your Diet - To have a balanced diet we need to eat from all of the food groups because we gain all of our nutrients and vitamins from each of these four groups. The Four Basic Food Groups: - Grains, whole grains, cereals, breads, pasta - Vegetables and Fruits - Dairy , milk, cheese, yoghurt - Meat, protein, poultry, fish, eggs Breads, cereals and grains gives you sustained energy throughout the day as well as giving you bulk to help properly clean out your bowels protecting you against bowel cancer. ... Read full post here
- Understanding Diet Pills - There are many diet pills on the market. They make all sorts of promises, most often being that you can eat whatever you want and lose weight magically by consuming these pills. Such diet pills have been sold for years and most of them, throughout the years, have been banned in the United States after people died or became seriously ill after taking them. Often, diet pills are nothing more than stimulants. Over the counter diet pills are usually caffeine tablets. They can cause a rapid heart beat and even lead to... Read full post here
- Why We Eat & Why We Gain Weight - Emotional Eating Human beings are creatures of habit. We have amassed lots of habits that have been developed over the years that sometimes become subconscious. Many times we are not even aware of the things we do until we purposely take notice of them. For instance, observing the thought that leads to the action of us reaching for the cookie. What was the thought? Were we feeling upset?, distressed?, depressed?, angry? If you find you want to reach for the jar of cookies, catch yourself in that moment. ... Read full post here
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