Weight Loss

Healthy Weight Loss

When one wants to, or needs to lose some extra pounds, it should be done using a healthy weight loss plan. And having a plan is one of the most important aspects of losing weight. If you do not have a plan then your chances of being successful are very low. You will have no focus and before you know it you will be giving up on your attempts to lose those extra pounds.

And there should be no reason why you don’t have a plan. There are so many available that it can become a problem trying to choose. But don’t keep choosing new plans each week. Are you a weight loss yoyo-er? Do you lose weight only to put it back on again time after time? Perhaps you even put more weight on than before and your weight is gradually creeping up higher and higher and you don’t know what to do about it. Well, it may help you to know that you are not alone in this and weight loss yoyo-ers are on the increase.

Being a person that goes on and then of a weight loss plan on a continuous basis is not a good idea. Once you get into the cycle of weight off – weight on, your body, not surprisingly, becomes confused. Once upon a time your body had a set point, a weight that was the norm for you. With repeated weight gain followed by weight loss followed by weight gain etc etc, your body is constantly changing that set point until it is at a higher rate than you would like it to be. It can then be very difficult to attain the weight loss you so desire. Your body plateaus and any further weight loss seems like an impossibility. When this happens we often we get frustrated and disheartened and give up on the weight loss diet thinking it isn’t working. This inevitably results in our weight starting to increase once again to an unacceptable level. This is far from being a healthy weight loss plan.

If this is so important what can a person do? How can one regulate their set point in order to control their weight loss attempts. First and foremost, it is important to realize that you are going to have to be far more persistent in your approach to healthy weight loss. One of the reasons you find it difficult to sustain your weight loss is because your adrenal glands have become exhausted. Very often when you have been on a weight loss diet month after month, perhaps not following a well structured diet, maybe cutting calories or missing meals or eating too many carbohydrates, your body is constantly in a fight or flight state. This situation will inevitably leave you tired confusing your metabolism and encouraging it to turn to stimulants such as tea, coffee, and diet drinks as a pick me up to compensate for what may well have been an energy deficient diet. Unfortunately this just activates the sympathetic nervous system to release more stress hormones which in turn requires more stimulants and so the cycle goes on and weight loss becomes less and less likely. This vicious circle can be almost impossible to break without professional help.

Lacking knowledge on how to properly lose weight can hurt you. You can do harm to your body if it does not get the proper nutrients. For example, people who have been on a “not so healthy” weight loss diet will inevitably have lost some muscle as well as fat. As muscle burns energy this will not help your weight loss regime as a decreased muscle mass means a lower metabolic rate. Yet another vicious cycle your body has to find a way to break. This increases your chances gaining weight rather than losing weight and so the yoyo effect continues.

Healthy weight loss is not a game and it must be taken seriously. If not you could develop some health issues. Your future health is dependant on you losing weight so take your diet seriously. If weight loss has been an issue for you for many years then it would be advisable to get the advice and support of a professional weight loss coach who can monitor your progress. You need to be patient and remember it has probably taken you many years to become over weight particularly if you have been a weight loss yoyo-er, so it is likely take time to crack the cycle and achieve permanent weight loss. Remember also that tackling your weight loss problem also means that you are improving your overall health.

Janet Matthews

Make Healthy Choices

Healthy Weight Loss: How Not To Achieve It

For anyone wanting or needing to lose weight, the number of weight loss programs is unbelievable. If you don’t do some background research you can easily end up wasting your money on a program that doesn’t work. Many diets and weight loss plans have no or very little scientific support. The sad part is that all of these plans suggest that their particular plan is the best way to achieve healthy weight loss. The truth of the mater is that any given plan may help you lose weight, but is it healthy and does it sustain your weight loss?

As you search for a healthy weight loss plan you’ll see how many of these programs entice you by claiming fast weight loss. Why? Because we all want things to happen quickly. If you see a diet saying you will lose weight in 7 days, the truth of the matter is, yes you may well lose weight in 7 days , but only 2lb of any weight lost will be fat. Any other weight lost during the 7 days will be either water, muscle or both. You will come across many thoughts and ideas about how to lose weight and some of them are distinctly unhealthy and will not only cause health problems but may also cause you to gain weight Here are some examples

How about those fad diets? Do you really think that you can achieve healthy weight loss by following these? A fad diet such as the Hollywood Cookie diet, juice fasting or the Grapefruit diet and follow it for a week. At best you will lose 5/6 lbs that will go straight back on the minute you return to normal eating, at worst you will feel really ill, possibly very light headed and/or headaches as your body tries to adjust to this unhealthy regime. Don’t try to lose weight this way.

What about your eating habits? If you want to have a plan that promotes healthy weight loss you have to eat the right foods. But some of the idea surrounding when and what to eat can hurt your attempts to lose weight. Eat no more than three times a day and do not eat after 6 p.m. Do not eat real food, focus on protein bars and pre-packaged foods. Eating smaller meals more often is now thought to be the way forward and protein bars are for emergencies only. Nothing can replace “real” food as this is what the body recognizes.

Beware of any weight loss plan that instructs you to make a big change in the amount of food you eat. If you are told to dramatically reduce your calorie intake think twice about it! Low calorie diets are now thought to be dangerous and cause the body to go into adrenal stress. This will not help you to achieve healthy weight lose weight and may even cause you to gain weight.

One final word about when you eat and what you eat. It has to do with breakfast, the most important part of the day when our body needs nutrition. I’m sure you’ve been told to not eat breakfast. Have two cups of coffee and a low-fat muffin. High carbohydrate breakfast and stimulant drinks such as coffee will play havoc with your metabolism and give you a very bad start to the day whether you are on a weight loss diet or not. Also your low fat muffin may well contain hydrogenated fat which is very bad for your health. Be smart and know what you are doing if you want to achieve healthy weight loss.

Janet Matthews

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Weight Loss

With so many experts, programs, theories, diets, fads, etc. it is no wonder people get confused when trying to decide on the best method to lose weight. Weight loss has become a complex issue. Diet has always been thought to be the most important part of any dietary regime. However very few will disagree that exercise is also an important part of a weight loss program. Exercise also has a secondary benefit, not only does it help us get rid of those extra pounds but it helps improve our overall health. So what really takes place in the body when we exercise? What changes occur and how does our body processes work together to achieve these benefits?

Each and every day, regardless of our activity level, our body is working and expending energy. When we eat any food we are consuming calories and we also at the same time we burn up calories as we go through our daily routines. If our daily activities burn less calories than we take in, then we are going to gain weight. If we do not have enough physical activity in our normal routine of life, then we must find a way to burn more calories. Exercise is the most efficient way to do this. But exercise not only burns off calories as we are doing the exercising, it also has a very important after effect beneficial in anyones attempt to achieve weight loss.

Science has shown for decades that exercising our bodies can be an important factor in maintaining our health. Exercise raises the metabolism, the body’s mechanism for burning calories. What happens is that by raising our metabolism we not only burn more calories as we exercise, but the body continues to burn calories for a period even after we finish exercising. It’s like our body knows what is best for us, so it continues to work a little overtime to help us with weight loss. Exercise gives us that feel good factor, but it feels better knowing that our body’s continues to burn calories for a period after we have finished exercising.

When our goal is to achieve some weight loss we should be concerned with muscle tissue and fat. The muscles in our bodies use up energy and burns off the calories/fat. Even when we are at rest our muscles will be using energy, thus burning calories. However, we know that it certainly isn’t enough to lose weight or all we would have to do is sleep. While muscle tissue burns calories, the opposite is true of fat tissue. Fat cells store calories. As you can see there is an intrinsic link between muscles and fat?

This relationship between muscle and fat is very important and we should understand how it works. The basic concept is quite simple: one uses calories and the other stores calories. More muscle means burning more fat, and therefore there are less calories to be stored in our fat cells. Since our muscles need energy, the more muscle tissue we have the faster our metabolism runs. The faster our metabolism runs the more calories we burn up. The more calories we burn off the more weight loss we achieve.

If we look at this sort of physiological information it should help us to understand the intricacies of how to lose weight. So why not take time to learn how the body works and what will help you achieve sustained weight loss. This way you will understand why it is necessary to exercise as part of your regime.

Scott Cameron

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Weight Loss

Most people know when they are over weight. The pants that you put on last month, no longer fit this month. But, people are often surprised when they are told they are overweight because they don’t eat enough! But the real answer is to Eat More Small Meals for weight loss. Healthy snacking or if you prefer to call them ’small meals’ will make it easier to lose weight, the body needs regular fuel to speed up the metabolic process.

I recommend that you have small nutritious meals more often is one key to success. So if you are the sort of person who eats very large portions then one way for you to be successful with weight loss is to gradually start reducing the portions of the meals but at the same time increasing how often you eat.5 small meals a day is far better than 3 large meals

Lets take a look at our biology. Our digestive systems can work more efficiently with a small meal and thus we assimilate the nutrients more efficiently, giving ourselves more energy after the meal. Big meals make us sluggish and we fail to utilize a lot of the nutrition. For successful weight loss have some quick easy preplanned snacks. There are good selections of protein bars and health drinks, fresh fruit and keep fresh raw vegetables cleaned and cut up with a dip you like. Experiment with new foods, like a tofu dip with spices you like or maybe a hummous dip. If you have never tried it or didn’t use a good mix, find a new recipe and try again. Tofu is high in protein and has NO taste so itt takes on the taste of whatever you add to it.

There is less potential energy in a small meal to be stored as fat. This of course gives you the opportunity to burn off excess fat and help you have a steady flow of weight loss.

So to re-cap about eating smaller portion sizes. With the concept of eating small meals and eating more often, you get triple benefits for your efforts. There will be fewer calories, increased metabolic rate and less chance of feeling bloated. Weight Loss is within your reach.

An excellent tip that can be very helpful for dieters is to drink a large glass of pure water ½ hour before the meal and don’t drink again until 1 hour after the meal. The water will take the edge of your appetite. Did you know that often when you think you are hungry, you really are thirsty. Give it a chance. You’ve got nothing to lose but weight. Just keep things in balance. Eat healthy, exercise 3 to 5 times per week and have a positive attitude.

Tana Hamiter – Goes Green Mentor

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