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niedziela, 24 lutego 2013

13 Keys to a Healthy Diet

Developing healthy eating habits isn’t as confusing or as restrictive as many people imagine. The first principle of a healthy diet is simply to eat a wide variety of foods. This is important because different foods make different nutritional contributions.

Secondly, fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes—foods high in complex carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals, low in fat, and free of cholesterol—should make up the bulk of the calories you consume. The rest should come from low-fat dairy products, lean meat and poultry, and fish.

You should also try to maintain a balance between calorie intake and calorie expenditure—that is, don’t eat more food than your body can utilize. Otherwise, you will gain weight. The more active you are, therefore, the more you can eat and still maintain this balance.

Following these three basic steps doesn’t mean that you have to give up your favorite foods. As long as your overall diet is balanced and rich in nutrients and fiber, there is nothing wrong with an occasional cheeseburger. Just be sure to limit how frequently you eat such foods, and try to eat small portions of them.

You can also view healthy eating as an opportunity to expand your range of choices by trying foods—especially vegetables, whole grains, or fruits—that you don’t normally eat. A healthy diet doesn’t have to mean eating foods that are bland or unappealing.

The following basic guidelines are what you need to know to construct a healthy diet.

1 Eat plenty of high-fiber foods—that is, fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains. These are the “good” carbohydrates—nutritious, filling, and relatively low in calories. They should supply the 20 to 30 grams of dietary fiber you need each day, which slows the absorption of carbohydrates, so there’s less effect on insulin and blood sugar, and provides other health benefits as well. Such foods also provide important vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals (plant chemicals essential to good health).

2 Make sure to include green, orange, and yellow fruits and vegetables—such as broccoli, carrots, cantaloupe, and citrus fruits. The antioxidants and other nutrients in these foods may help protect against developing certain types of cancer and other diseases. Eat five or more servings a day.

3 Limit your intake of sugary foods, refined-grain products such as white bread, and salty snack foods. Sugar, our No.1 additive, is added to a vast array of foods. Just one daily 12-ounce can of soda (160 calories) can add up to 16 pounds over the course of a year. Many sugary foods are also high in fat, so they’re calorie-dense.

4 Cut down on animal fat. It’s rich in saturated fat, which boosts blood cholesterol levels and has other adverse health effects. Choose lean meats, skinless poultry, and nonfat or low-fat or nonfat dairy products.

5 Cut way down on trans fats, supplied by hydrogenated vegetable oils used in most processed foods in the supermarket and in many fast foods.

6 Eat more fish and nuts, which contain healthy unsaturated fats. Substitute olive or canola oil for butter or stick margarine.

7 Keep portions moderate, especially of high-calorie foods. In recent years serving sizes have ballooned, particularly in restaurants. Choose a starter instead of an entrée, split a dish with a friend, and don’t order supersized anything.

8 Keep your cholesterol intake below 300 milligrams per day. Cholesterol is found only in animal products, such as meats, poultry, dairy products, and egg yolks.

9 Eat a variety of foods. Don’t try to fill your nutrient requirements by eating the same foods day in, day out. It is possible that not every essential nutrient has been identified, and so eating a wide assortment of foods helps to ensure that you will get all the necessary nutrients. In addition, this will limit your exposure to any pesticides or toxic substances that may be present in one particular food.

10 Maintain an adequate calcium intake. Calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth. Get your calcium from low-fat sources, such as skim milk and low-fat yogurt. If you can’t get the optimal amount from foods, take supplements.

11 Try to get your vitamins and minerals from foods, not from supplements. Supplements cannot substitute for a healthy diet, which supplies nutrients and other compounds besides vitamins and minerals. Foods also provide the “synergy” that many nutrients require to be efficiently used in the body.

12 Maintain a desirable weight. Balance energy (calorie) intake with energy output. Exercise and other physical activity are essential.

13 If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation. That is one drink a day for women, two a day for men. A drink is defined as 12 ounces of beer, 4 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof spirits. Excess alcohol consumption leads to a variety of health problems. And alcoholic beverages can add many calories to your diet without supplying nutrients.


How To Lose Weight Fast: 63 Ways!

So you’re wondering how to lose weight fast? This can be done. Look below for the 63 best tips, ranging from the best workouts to good diets and the foods you should (or shouldn’t) eat. But remember, as you shouldn’t slowly starve yourself to death for a month or so, losing a significant amount of weight in a healthy way will always be a longer process. However, there are some things you can do to lose weight a lot faster as you’re probably being able to do right now. See below on this page for the fastest tips on how to lose weight fast!
never give up
Golden Rule: Never Give Up

1.  Golden Rule: Never Give Up

If you really want to lose weight fast, you have to be prepared to really do everything in your power to lose weight. There is no easy way to lose weight fast. If there was, the majority of people would have a body as slim as they wanted to have. Therefore you need to go where others don’t go. You need to be persistent and willing to give up some of the foods you like. You need to be tough and exercise every day. Only then can you lose weight in a rapid way.

2.  Make Use of Ready-Made Diet Plans

Creating your own diet plan can take a lot of time which is usually something people don’t want when they want to lose weight fast. Most people who start their weight loss journey underestimate the amount of work that goes into the research of creating the perfect weight loss and diet plan. The research necessary to know what you are doing can be extensive. This is where ready-made diet plans come in. Aside from some garbage plans, there are several well-tested weight loss plans out there. The best part about using a widely used weight loss pplan is that there are usually 1000′s of people who follow the same plan available on a variation of websites(and anywhere in the world) at any time of the day which you can often share your experiences with. This gives a sense of community and can be strong motivator for some people. Here are some popular weight loss diets:
Keep in mind that you should only use the above ready-made diet plans if you really need to lose weight in the fastest way possible and it takes too long for you to construct your own diet plan.

3. Get Personal Coaching

For the fastest results – without having to read about weight loss for hours or even days – it may be a smart idea to consult the help of a professional weight loss coach. A coach will usually conduct a quick plan and you can usually also ask your coach all kinds of personalized advice. A lot of people enjoy getting coached because it relieves you of all the hard work and time that can go into researching and planning the perfect personal weight loss plan. There are several coaching options online as well as various online support groups. Here are some of the most well-known online weight loss coaches of the moment:
You can also search for “weight loss coach [your city]” in Google (or any other search engine) to find local weight loss coaches you can meet in real life. Meeting one in real life can be an advantage when you want to have your coach, for instance, exercise with you or cook with you.
 
 
4.  Create Your Own Diet & Weight Loss Plan

Ready-made diet programs are there for people who do not want the hassle of creating their own plan. It is however much better to put some time in researching and learning how to make your own diet plan. Creating your own personal plan really gives you the advantage of understanding why and how you lose weight when you do certain things. WLZine gives you all the information you need to teach yourself how to lose weight in the fastest and healthiest way possible.

5. Most Important TIP: Stop Eating Calories Your Body Doesn’t Need

It may be a cliche, but most people who are overweight do not realize they are eating slightly, or in some cases way over the amount of daily calories their body needs. It is the number one cause of being overweight. The human body uses a particular amount of calories each day and every calorie intake above that daily amount will result in the body storing fat. A good tip is to take in account all the food you consume in a week and divide the outcome by 7 (seven days in a week). Now take this number and visit our how many calories to lose weight page and see if you are eating too many calories. You can also, perhaps an easier way to calculate your daily calorie needs, use our calorie needs calculator to calculate it automatically. Depending on the results of your calculations, it might be time to cut out some food from your daily diet.

6.  Choose A Diet: Low Calorie Diet

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Choose a Low Calorie Diet for Fast Weight Loss
It’s simple; you lose weight by eating less calories as your daily calorie needs. First go to this calculator page. After you find out how many daily calories your body needs, you are going to have to cut down that number severely. DON’T cut down too much in calorie-intake though, that is extremely unhealthy. To lose weight in the fastest way you need to cut to about 3/5th of your daily calorie needs. So if your daily calorie needs are 2000 calories, you need to cut down to about 1200 calories a day. Don’t go too far below 3/5th of your daily calorie needs as that is very unhealthy and will result in an unhealthy body, which is not something you want. Want to learn more about this subject? Visit this page to learn how to lose weight fast with a low calorie diet. It’s also important to note that you need to balance your calorie-intake as much as you can. It is best to never go too high or too low in calories when you are dieting. Also, go here to get and answer to the question how many calories does a person burn in a day?

7.  Lose Weight Fast With a Weekly Refeed Day

Note: This tip is extremely effective for people on a low calorie diet, as described in the above tip
This is one of the most unknown but best tips we can give you; Have one refeed day in the week for maximum weight loss results. A refeed day is a day where you eat slightly above your daily calorie needs (so 2000+ for women and 2500+ calories for men, depending on your daily calorie needs). You might frown upon this thinking it will gain you weight but a refeed day is extremely effective when you are cutting down in calories severely during the rest of the week. Because you have a low calorie-intake during the rest of the week, your body will get used to a low calorie-intake and will slowly adapt to it, meaning it will need lesser calories to function. This is bad for weight loss since you want to lose fat(which is the bodies’ energy source) by eating less calories as your body needs. This is where the refeed day comes in.  The refeed day will set your body back to a higher calorie need, resulting in you losing more weight when eating low calories during the other 6 days of the week because your body needs more energy to function.

8.  Exercise Twice Every Day. Morning Sports, Evening Walk

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Exercise Twice a Day
If you really want to lose weight fast you have to exercise regularly, preferably two times a day. Do the more heavy sports in the morning and make a long walk in the evening.  You can also take up swimming for weight loss. If you don’t like exercising you can make it more fun by doing a different kind of activity every day of the week. Or find someone to team up with, this will make it a lot easier to maintain a daily exercise schedule. Exercising this way for a longer time period will result in you losing weight quick. Scientific studies have also shown exercising regularly is good for health and can even extend your life span. More on exercising twice a day on our workout twice a day to lose weight page.
Tip:Do a cardio exercise right after you wake up, before breakfast. It’s a well known fact that doing cardio before breakfast gives added benefit to your fat loss rate when exercising. This is because your body is close to starvation mode after waking up, your body is out of energy because you didn’t eat for a long time.

9.  Drink Tons Of Water

Drink as much water as your body can handle. Not many people realize that they are missing out on losing a lot of weight by not drinking enough water every day. Drinking a lot of water increases the bodies’ metabolism resulting in a high increase in fat loss. Recently, a study by Virginia Tech was done where for a period of three months, half of a group of 48 people on a low-calorie diet slowly increased the amount of water they drank every day. The other half didn’t. The half that increased their amount of daily water intake lost 4.5 pounds of weight more as the other half who didn’t increase their water intake. Learn more about this subject by reading our does drinking water help you lose weight page or visit this drinking water information page for more general information about drinking water. Drink water, don’t miss out on faster weight loss results. When you gain too much weight for your liking, you can visit our how to lose water weight page to learn how to lose water weight.

10.  Eat Six Meals A Day

Most people eat three big meals a day; One in the morning, one during the day and one in the evening. If you are doing that as well you are not losing weight as fast as you could be. It is better to eat several small meals a day as three big ones. The reason why eating smaller meals in a higher frequency has a positive effect on weight loss is because it will stimulate your metabolism; Your metabolism will be higher and you will lose more fat. So 6 meals a day instead of three big ones and don’t miss out on faster weight loss.

11.  NEVER Reward With “Bad” Food

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Don’t Reward Yourself With “Bad Foods”
The fastest way to lose weight? That is to NEVER(did we make that clear enough?) reward yourself with bad foods that will hinder your weight loss progress. Even after weeks of eating healthy and exercising. That’s right, you have to be tough on yourself if you want to lose weight fast. Do not eat any fatty foods, do not eat sugary foods and do not eat high calorie foods.  Read more about this subject here. An important thing to realize is the importance of the foods you buy in the supermarket have a direct impact on your weight loss progress. Whether you buy good or bad foods for weight loss can make a difference of night and day. Which foods should you buy when shopping? The following list will give you an idea what to look for when you’re searching for good weight loss foods:

Foods which are GOOD for Weight Loss:


  • Oats. Eating oats will make you full quickly. Oats are also full of fibers, which makes them healthy.
  • Kale. Kale is full of calcium and iron and contains healthy fibers. Adding it to your diet is healthy and good for weight loss.
  • Eggs. Eggs will make you feel full and the proteins inside of them will help grow the muscles which is good for losing weight.
  • Green Tea. The catechins antioxidants inside of green tea have a positive effect on fast weight loss. The caffeine helps too.
  • Apples. Eating an apple before a meal will result in you reducing your appetite, which will make you eat less during your meals.
  • Lentils. Adding lentils to your diet has a positive effect on weight loss because lentils help prevent insulin spikes, which are bad for weight loss.
  • Fish. Almost all fish (but especially salmon) have very healthy nutrients and are rich of omega-3 fats, which will reduce insulin spikes.
  • Fat Free Yogurt. Yogurt has healthy nutrients and will make you feel full fast which is good when you want to reduce your appetite.
  • Olive Oil. Olive oil is one of the healthiest “foods” you can add to your diet. It’s good for the heart and overall health while making you feel full fast.
Go to this foods to help you lose weight page for more good foods to add to your diet when you want to lose weight.

12.  NEVER Drink Alcohol

Alcohol has one of the worst influences on weight loss of all the “nutrients” you can “feed” your body with. Alcohol will sabotage your weight loss progress and will make you feel worn out and tired(which doesn’t do your workouts a lot of good). Don’t drink it. Drink water instead. It’s boring, yes. But you want to lose weight fast, don’t you? If you are a heavy user of alcoholic drinks and replace them with water you will see fast weight loss results in a matter of weeks. Visit our giving up alcohol to lose weight page for more information on this exact subject. For more general information on alcohol go to this health effects of alcohol page.

13.  Drink Water Instead Of Soda Or Fruit Juice

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Drink Water To Lose Weight Faster
Drinking too much soda and fruit juice is one of the most unknown causes of being overweight, especially the effects of fruit juice are unknown to most of the general public. Although fruit juice is often marketed as a safe, healthy beverage, the truth is that it contains almost just as much sugar as any soda. For instance, one liter of orange juice contains about 100 grams of sugar, just as much sugar as in one liter of coke!
Many people who regularly drink soda or juice know about the negative effects of sugar on the body fat but do not realize they are consuming huge amounts of sugar when they’re drinking their soda’s or fruit juices during the day. Replace these drinks with water and you will soon see the effects on your weight loss. You can, however, use juicing for weight loss to follow a healthy diet.

14.  Be Honest With Yourself

Are you really doing everything in your power to lose weight or are you trying to take the easy route? Be honest with yourself; There is no easy route, and you know it! Losing weight takes persistence and a little toughness. When you’re not fully committed to losing weight, it’s hard to succeed. Often we like to fool ourselves by making excuses so we can eat unhealthy foods or not exercise. This has to stop when you really want to lose weight. Be honest and hard on yourself when it comes to calorie intake, exercise and types of food you consume.

15.  Buy Smaller Sized Clothes For Important Occasion

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Buy Smaller Sized Clothes To Motivate Yourself
Buy smaller sized clothes which you are going to wear on an important occasion in the nearby future. If you buy these expensive clothes you force yourself to lose weight so you can fit these clothes on the date of the occasion. This tip is a really good motivator to achieve the weight loss goals that you want.

16.  Do Not Give Up When Getting No Results

If you’ve followed all of the tips on this page on how to lose weight fast, you will sometimes feel like you want to give up. Especially at times when you feel like you are hardly losing any weight. This is a moment everyone who is trying to lose weight will face. After a day of hard “losing weight work” you will look on the weighing scale and see hardly any results and feel like you are doing this all for nothing. You are wrong. These are normal weight fluctuations. The best thing you can do is weigh yourself every week instead of every day. Only then you can truly see if your are losing weight or not.

17.  Enjoy Losing Weight

Try to enjoy losing weight. The best way to do this is to look in the mirror and see the results of all you hard work. After a few weeks of following our tips you will see the results and you will feel great about losing weight.

18.  Avoid Starvation Mode

Never starve yourself. If you starve yourself your body will go in what we call “starvation mode“. This is the worst state you want your body to be in. Starvation mode will make it harder to lose weight since the body will adapt to low calorie intake and not use the fat you want to lose as an energy source.

19.  Lift Weights

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Do Some Weight Training For Maximum Weight Loss
Muscles need body energy to “survive”. The more muscles you have the more calories your body needs and the easier it will be for you to lose weight while maintaining a more normal food intake. This is the reason why lifting weights can have a positive effect on weight loss. For more general information on weight lifting go to this page. This weight lifting for weight loss tip is especially good for men but can also be of help to women.

20.  Don’t Stress

Heavy stress releases cortisol, a hormone that breaks down the muscle as an energy source. Muscles are good for losing weight. So try to avoid stressing yourself too much.

21.  Do A Variety Of Workouts

Vary your workouts, do a different one every day. It’s best to not bore yourself with doing the same workout each day of the week as it will be harder to continue your weight loss schedule/program.

22.  Take The Stairs

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Take The Stairs Instead of a Lift
Whenever you see a stairs, go for it! Never take the elevator, never take the easy route to get to a higher place. This will give you some extra calorie-burning exercise and will get you in better shape.

23.  Make Love

This tip is only for adults; Make love and burn calories while enjoying the exercise! While making love you burn a lot of calories and you use almost all your muscle groups. Is there a more enjoyable workout out there?

24.  Follow An Exercise Schedule Religiously

If you really want to lose weight then one of the best ways is making a weekly exercise schedule and follow this schedule, whatever it takes! This site has good information on how to make an exercise schedule. When you exercise you burn more daily calories, making it easier to maintain a normal lifestyle when it comes to eating(meaning you can maintain a normal required daily calorie intake and still lose weight). A good way to lose weight by exercise is to join a sports club. If you join a sports club you are forced to exercise at least once a week. It doesn’t matter if it’s a football club, tennis club or a swimming pool membership. As long as you’re paying for the membership you force yourself to go to the club and work out. You wouldn’t pay for the membership and stay at home all year, would you!

25.  Visit The Supermarket Once A Week

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Visit the Supermarket Once a Week
One of the best ways to lose weight is to make a shopping list once a week and stick to it. This shopping list should include all the healthy foods which causes you to lose weight. If you stick to this list and visit the supermarket only once a week you won’t be tempted to buy unhealthy foods.

26.  Stop Eating 9 Calories Per Gram

Fat is the most calorie-rich nutrient there is, it contains 9 calories per gram. For this reason it’s advised to not eat too much fat when you want to lose weight. Fat is formed in our bodies when we take in more calories as we use.
Although our body needs this fat as an energy source to survive, many people have may more fat as their body needs. When you care about losing weight, it’s advised to watch the fat in your food.

27.  Change Your Lifestyle: Feel Good And Lose Weight

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Change Your Lifestyle
The best way of achieving good weight loss results is to make a drastic lifestyle change and maintaining that new lifestyle. Change the way you eat, how many times a week you exercise and how you think about food. The best weight loss results are often with people who’ve changed the way they live(in terms of eating and exercise) instead of starving themselves for 1 or 2 months. A healthy lifestyle can be just as fulfilling as an “unhealthy” lifestyle. Frankly, a healthy lifestyle is often MORE fulfilling as an unhealthy one. When you eat healthy and exercise regularly you will feel ten times better as in your old lifestyle, PLUS you lose weight and will look better. Also, there are tons and tons of healthy foods which taste great and will give you just as much eating-pleasure as the more fatty or sugary foods.

28.  Be Realistic

Often when people are trying to lose weight they feel like they should lose 10 kilo’s a month or otherwise they feel “it isn’t working out” for them. Losing weight is often a slow process of being persistent and being tough on yourself. Do not expect to lose all the weight you want within 1 or 2 months.

29.  Park Your Car, Take A Walk Or Ride A Bike

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Try Taking The Bike Once Instead of the Car
In this modern day and age we sometimes do not realize how lazy we’ve become, we use the car for everything. Some people even take the car to post a letter in the mailbox one block away from their home. This is something you have to change when you want to lose weight. Instead of taking the car to travel to places in about a five to ten mile radius around your house(or more, if you prefer), take a walk or ride a bike. This is one of the best ways to lose weight. Of course there’s a difference when you need to travel 100 miles instead of 10 miles but you get the point.

30.  Rest Enough

If you workout a lot, your body needs rest to recover from all the hard work. If you don’t rest enough you won’t be able to maintain a daily exercise schedule.

31.  Don’t Take Snacks

If you really want to lose weight in the fastest way you need to give up snacks. All your food intake should be healthy and have a positive influence on weight loss.

32.  Take Pictures Of Yourself

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Take Pictures to Track Your Weight Loss Progress
If you take weekly pictures of your body and your weight loss results, it will be easier to see the progress you are making. This will motivate you to continue losing weight.

33.  Don’t Obsess

If you obsess about losing weight you have a higher chance of failing. It will overwhelm you after a period of time, especially on days where you feel you aren’t making any progress. It’s good to be persistent in following your weight loss program but stop thinking about it when you don’t have to.

34.  Don’t Stop Your Routine On Weekends

To lose weight in the fastest way it’s advised to continue working out and following your weight loss diet as normal. Don’t think of weekends as “reward days” where you can fill your body with snacks and chill out all day. Instead, use the weekends to exercise MORE as during the week. Make long bike rides, long beach walks, etc.. Go where others don’t go and use the weekends as “super weight loss days” for maximum weight loss.

35.  Add Fiber To Your Daily Diet

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Add Fiber Foods to Your Diet To Lose Weight Faster
Eating fiber is one of the best weight loss tips we can give you. Fibers are in brown rice, whole grain foods, fruits, legumes and other vegetables. Eating fiber has a very positive effect on weight loss and it is advised to include
fiber foods into your weight loss diet. Eating fiber is also very healthy and protects us from certain diseases and is just healthy overall for the human body. If you want to go extreme you can try the raw food diet and take advantage of uncooked fibers.

36.  Don’t Eat Emotionally

If you are serious about losing weight you have to force yourself to stick to your weight loss diet. Don’t use food as a way of satisfying your emotions. If you have emotional problems you should face them instead of using food as a way of masking the problem. If you can’t do it on your own, contact a psychiatrist to help you.

37.  Add Proteins to Your Diet

When you do lots of exercising, your muscles need protein to recover and grow stronger. Without protein the process of muscle growth cannot occur and your body has a harder time to recover from your exercises. This is why you need to include protein foods into your weight loss diet. Choose healthy foods which contain lots of protein like fish, chicken, eggs, etc.. If you are a vegetarian you can include tofu, beans, etc (as in the vegetarian diet)..

38.  Keep A Daily Diet Notebook

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Keep a Daily Diet Notebook
If you keep a daily diet notebook with everything you eat and drink you can easily keep track of how many calories you ate, making it easier to maintain a low calorie diet.

39.  Never Miss a Breakfast

Breakfast is very important. Some people skip breakfast but if you want to have a maximum metabolism(which is good for weight loss) you need to start with at least a small meal right after you stand up. The breakfast is a very important factor when you want to lose weight fast.

40.  Team Up

When you team up with someone close to you to both lose weight it will be easier to keep a diet and exercise schedule as when you’re doing it alone. Often when you feel like giving up the other person(s) in your “team” will motivate you to keep on going and not give up.

41.  Don’t Use The Weighing Scale As A Weight Loss Indicator

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Don’t Use a Weighing Scale as a Weight Loss Indicator
When you exercise regularly, particularly when doing weight lifting, your muscles will slowly grow larger and heavier. Muscles are heavier as fat, so it is entirely possible that when you exercise regularly and keep a weight loss diet you will gain weight but are losing fat. So don’t put too much importance on your weighing scale. Use the measuring tape, the mirror or take weekly pictures of yourself instead. More on this subject here.

42.  Use Measuring Tape or A Body Fat Meter

Measuring tape or a body fat meter are the best tools to measure your weight loss progress. It are the most accurate measuring tools when it comes to measuring fat loss. Certainly more accurate as a weighing scale(as explained in the last tip).

43.  Be Your Own Chef

Try to be in control of the food you eat as much as you possibly can. This way you won’t feel forced to eat certain “bad foods” that other people will offer you.

44.  Keep One Diet

Do not mix between various diets that you do. The best way to keep a diet is to choose one and totally devote yourself to that. Even if it doesn’t work in the beginning, don’t give up too easily.

45.  Drink Caffeine

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Caffeine has a Positive Effect on Losing Weight
Caffeine has a positive effect on speeding up the metabolism, which will burn you more fat. Just watch out that you don’t drink sugary caffeine drinks like soda because that will GAIN you weight. Drink coffee or tea instead.
Tip: Oxygen has a positive effect on the metabolism, and a high metabolism will result in more fat loss. Therefore it is advised to breath deeply and often. Breathing like this has an overall positive effect on the bodies’ health as well.

46.  Learn From Weight Loss Mistakes

Learn from mistakes you make or have made in the past. If you continue doing the wrong things thinking “whatever” or “it’s OK” you will never lose weight.

47.  Educate Yourself On The Human Body

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Educate Yourself on Weight Loss
Starting with this page, try reading a lot about how your body works and how you can lose weight fast. The more you know about your body, the less weight loss mistakes you will make. Think about the questions you have and search them op on Wikipedia or Google. You’ll be surprised how much information is available for free.

48.  Understand What You Are Doing

Understand why you are doing certain weight loss “tricks”. This way you won’t make any mistakes. If you only follow other people’s advice without understanding what you are doing you have a higher chance of doing the wrong things.

49.  Keep It Safe

An important rule to lose weight the right way is to keep your weight loss habits safe for your body. Some people just want results so badly (and quickly) that they sometimes forget that their body needs nutrition to survive. Don’t go too far in your weight loss routine, learn how to lose weight fast and safely before damaging your body. A good rule of thumb is to never under-eat, always keep your food intake within safe limits.

50.  Prepare Meals Ahead

When you are going out for a whole day and will be with people who like to order “bad foods” the entire day it’s best to prepare some meals for that day to take with you. You won’t be tempted to join them in eating fatty or sugary foods.

51.  Do Cardio Exercising

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Do Cardio Exercises To Lose Max. Weight
Cardio  exercises are the best type of exercises to lose weight. Walking, running, swimming, biking are all very good cardio exercises to perform when your focus is purely losing weight. However, running is the preferred choice for most people in the world because it can be done on almost any terrain in any place all over the world, in the comfort of your own neighborhood  On top of this you can run at any time of the day without paying anything for it. Go here for cardio exercises for weight loss. Interested in running? Read more on our how to start running page page and also take some to learn how to run faster if you’re doing HIIT running.

52.  Don’t get Obsessed With The “Fat Burning Heart Rate”

You’ve probably heard it before; maintaining a lower heart rate while doing cardio will results in more fat loss. While it is true in the technical sense that you burn slightly less fat in the “fat burning zone”, the reality is that you should focus on how many calories you burn instead of fat. When you maintain a higher heart rate during your workout you will burn way more calories PLUS fat. More on this on our fat burning heart rate page.

53.  Do HIIT Workouts

HIIT(High Intensity Interval Training) cardio workouts are just as good for weight loss as normal cardio workouts or long walks and bike rides(although for best results you should do a combination of both of them). The positive thing about HIIT workouts is that it takes you only about half an hour while achieving maximum weight loss results.

54.  Allow Yourself Time

Losing weight takes a lot of dedication and time. Most people who don’t succeed are looking for results way too quickly, it’s virtually impossible to lose weight overnight. You need to allow yourself at least a few weeks before you start seeing results.

55.  Avoid Negative Thinking

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Avoid Negative Thinking – Never Give Up
It might be an unimportant thing to you but being positive really helps you to maintain your weight loss. More often than not people give up their diet and excercise schedule because they feel like it isn’t working. And more often than not these are unrealistic negative thoughts. Losing a significant amount of fat is hard. Giving up because of negative thoughts will result in no weight loss at all. It’s also important to not that if you really have a serious depression, it may influence your appetite and therefore your weight loss progress.

56.  Choose The Best Weight Loss Foods

Don’t go for second best. Chicken filet is better as chicken breast. Low fat butter is better as normal butter. Water is better as soda. Low fat milk is better as normal milk. And go on, and go on. In most people’s normal daily
diets there are more things they can change to lose weight as they realize.

57.  Find Motivation

When you want to maintain a weight loss diet and exercise schedule you need to find motivation as to why you are doing it. This is very important if you don’t want to fail.

58.  Hire A Personal Trainer

A personal trainer is probably one of the best motivators there is to maintain an exercising schedule and weight loss diet. He/She generally knows way more as you about weight loss and workouts so you will have your own personal ”weight loss library” with you. A personal trainer can also teach you which exercises are best and what you are doing right or wrong, he/she can avoid injuries by you doing exercises in a bad form.

59.  Avoid “Bad Food” Shops Or Restaurants

bad food shops or restaurants
Avoid “Bad Food” Restaurants or Shops
Don’t visit a candy shop. Don’t go to a fast food restaurant. Don’t pause at the sugary foods section in the supermarket, keep on walking. Don’t tempt yourself and don’t torture yourself. This way you have the highest chance of succeeding your weight loss goal. Just pass by and think about something nice and healthy you are going to eat soon.

60.  Experiment With Healthy Foods

Healthy foods can be really really tasty. Fast food restaurants don’t have a patent on nice tasting food! There are thousands of different food combination and flavors you haven’t tasted yet. If you open yourself up to experimenting with healthy foods you will be surprised what you have been missing out on.

61.  Avoid Processed Bread, Eat Whole Grain Bread

Processed bread (white bread) is the worst choice when it comes to eating bread. It has a negative effect on weight loss and is just unhealthy overall. Whole grain bread is your best choice, it contains a lot more fibers and has less calories as processed bread. Whole grain bread is a healthy food.

62.  Fish Oil Every Day

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Take Fish Oil to Stimulate Weight Loss and Health
Fish oil has been proven to have a significant effect on weight loss and overall health in general. Most (western) governments in the world even recommend taking in a certain amount of fish oil every day because of its health benefits. Fish oil comes in soft gels and in bottles and is available in almost any drug or health/body store.
Tip: Just as fish oil, olive oil also has a positive effect on weight loss and is very healthy for the body. As with fish oil, you shouldn’t use too much of it, use a table spoon a day. Both fish oil and olive oil are important components of the Mediterranean Diet.

63.  Take Your Time When Eating

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Take Your Time When Eating
Our body needs a certain amount of time(about fifteen minutes) to notice how full we are when we are eating. If you eat too fast you might eat way more as you would like to, resulting in a bloating stomach and gaining weight.
On top of it it is also very healthy to chew your food well before you swallow it.

How to Lose Weight - The Basics of Weight Loss

At it's most basic, losing weight is about burning more calories than you eat. That seems simple enough, but if were really that simple, none of us would have a weight problem. Too often we take drastic measures to see results -- diets, pills or those weird fitness gadgets on infomercials that promise instant success. Maybe you lose weight but what happens when you go off that diet or stop that crazy workout program? You gain it all back and more. The real secret to weight loss is to make small, lasting changes. The key is to forget about instant results and settle in for the long run.
Rules of Weight Loss
To lose one pound of fat, you must burn approximately 3500 calories over and above what you already burn doing daily activities. That sounds like a lot of calories and you certainly wouldn't want to try to burn 3500 calories in one day. However, by taking it step-by-step, you can determine just what you need to do each day to burn or cut out those extra calories. Below is a step by step process for getting started.
  1. Calculate your BMR (basal metabolic rate). Your BMR is the amount of calories your body needs to maintain basic bodily functions like breathing and digestion. This is the minimum number of calories you need to eat each day. Keep in mind that no calculator will be 100% accurate, so you may need to adjust these numbers as you learn more about your own metabolism.
  2. Calculate your activity level. For a week or so, keep an activity journal and use a calorie calculator to figure out how many calories you burn while sitting, standing, exercising, lifting weights, etc. throughout the day. Another, easier option is to wear a heart rate monitor that calculates calories burned. After a week, add your totals for each day and average them out to get a general idea of how many calories you burn each day.
  3. Keep track of how many calories you eat. For at least a week, enter and track your calories online (e.g., with Calorie Count) or use a food journal to write down what you eat and drink each day. Be as accurate as possible, measuring when you need to or looking up nutritional information for restaurants, if you eat out. After a week, add your totals for each day and average them out to get a general idea of how many calories you eat each day.
  4. Add it up. Take your BMR number and add your activity calories. Then subtract your food calories from that total. If you're eating more than your BMR + your activity calories, you're at risk for gaining weight.
Example:
Mary's BMR is 1400 calories and she burns 900 calories with regular exercise, walking around and doing household chores. To maintain her weight, she should be eating 2300 calories (1400 + 900= 2300). However, after keeping a food journal, Mary finds that she's eating 2550 calories every day. By eating 250 more calories than her body needs, Mary will gain about a pound every 2-3 weeks.
This example shows how easy it is to gain weight without even knowing it. However, it's also easy to lose weight, even if the process itself can be slow. You can start by making small changes in your diet and activity levels and immediately start burning more calories than you're eating. If you can find a way to burn an extra 200 to 500 calories most days of the week with both exercise and diet, you're on the right track. Try these ideas:
Instead of... Do this...
An afternoon Coke Drink a glass of water. (calories saved: 97)
An Egg McMuffin Eat a small whole wheat bagel +1 Tbsp of peanut butter (calories saved: 185)
Using your break eat sweets Walk up and down a flight of stairs for 10 minutes (calories burned: 100)
Hitting the snooze button Get up 10 minutes early and go for a brisk walk (calories burned: 100)
Watching TV after work Do 10 minutes of yoga (calories burned: 50)

Total Calories Saved: 532 (based on a 140-pound person) How Much Exercise Do I Need?
Exercise is an important weight loss tool, but how much you need varies from person to person. The guidelines recommend at least 250 minutes per week, which comes out to about 50 minutes, 5 days a week. If you're a beginner, start small, for example with 3 days of cardio for 15-30 minutes, gradually adding time each week to give your body time to adapt. Learn more about getting in shape and getting started with exercise.

piątek, 22 kwietnia 2011

The Importance Of Regular Bowel Movements

 
For many people talking about bowel movements is a taboo subject, but the truth is it’s a pretty important subject. Your bowel movements can tell you a lot about your health. The reality is that most people who consume a Western Diet have infrequent bowel movements, strain to make bowel movements, or have hard black stool. The good news is that’s it’s easy to fix – with a better diet and exercise.

WHY ARE FREQUENT BOWEL MOVEMENTS IMPORTANT?

For the average healthy person, it takes about 12 to 24 hours for consumption of food to pass though the digestive system. This means you should be taking at least 1-2 bowl movements per day. If you average over 24 hours between bowl movements, then toxic residues from undigested foods can start to build up in your colon. These toxic residues can cause a whole host of problems, but most importantly they prevent your body from absorbing vital nutrients. Over time this can lead to other serious conditions such as auto-intoxication or colon cancer. Think of it this way. Would you leave dirty dishes in the sink for weeks at a time for the food to cake up and bacteria form? That is exactly what is happening inside your body when you aren’t having frequent bowel movements!

WESTERN DIETS ARE THE PROBLEM

Western Diets are packed full of items like white bread, fast food, sodas, doughnuts, potato chips, french fries, and other greasy fried foods. None of these items are close to something you would naturally find occurring in nature. They are also very low in nutrients and fiber which your body needs to promote healthy digestion. The harder it is for your body to digest the food, the harder and less frequent your bowl movements will be. The reason why many people who consume a Western diet have bowl movement issues is because their diet is packed full of nutrient depleted, low fiber, highly processed foods.

HOW TO FIX THE PROBLEM

As a simple rule of thumb, the closer your food is to its original form, the better it is for you – and the easier it is to digest. I know it sounds simple, but it is really that simple. For instance, foods like berries, leafy greens, nuts, vegetables, fruits, and fish are easy for the body to digest. These items are eaten directly from the ground or taken directly form the ocean and aren’t processed at all. If you replace your diet with more of these natural foods, unprocessed foods, then you will undoubtedly find that you have more frequent bowl movements.
Don’t wait another day. Take charge of your health and start eating more of the healthy foods listed above today!

High Fructose Corn Syrup : Why It’s Bad

Added sweeteners, so common in the American diet, have long been under fire from health officials.   According to the American Heart Association, women should consume no greater than 100 calories per day from added sugar in their diet and men should consume 150 calories from added sugar or less in their diet.

Health problems that can result from excessive added sugar in the diet are weight gain, dental problems, higher triglycerides, a higher risk of heart problems and poor nutrition.  When reading food labels, sugar is often not mentioned in such an obvious manner.

One of the most popular ingredients used in processed foods and beverages to sweeten is high fructose corn syrup.  Another name for this type of sweetener is corn sugar.  Recently, research studies have been done due to concerns about how high fructose corn syrup is processed and how it is effecting our health.

Generally speaking, all added sugar should be consumed in moderation and if you can avoid it altogether, it is best.  Some helpful guidelines in achieving this goal are avoidance of sugary sweetened beverages, carefully reading labels of breakfast cereals to avoid added sugars and avoid processed and packaged foods as much as possible.

For snack items, choose fruits, vegetables, low fat cheese and whole grain products rather than candies, cookies or pastries.  When reading labels and determining if it has added sugar, you might be surprised at some items that have high fructose corn syrup added.

Certain foods that we don’t even think of as sweet will contain high fructose corn syrup.  Some of these food items may include ketchup, tomato sauce, crackers, some salad dressings and barbecue sauces.

In the time period from the 1970′s until now, the use of sugar in processed foods has decreased while the use of high fructose corn syrup has increased dramatically. The taste factor derived from high fructose corn syrup is perceived as sweeter than the same amount of regular sugar.

Some health experts think that this has given our society even more craving for sweets and more constant feelings of hunger.  With high fructose corn syrup as a “hidden” sweetener, consumers need to be aware of it’s presence in so much of our food.

Consumers need to be knowledgeable about what they eat since obesity and type 2 diabetes have been increasing at an alarming rate, and what a disadvantage eating a lot of this ingredient in our foods gives us when it comes to our weight and our blood sugar and ability to suppress our hunger properly and not over eat.

Wait – Large Breakfast Not Good for Weight Loss?

Well, it seems that the advice that has been given now for years from dieticians and other health professionals and advice givers on dieting is actually wrong. In fact, it’s a principle I somewhat practice, and I tend to still think it works, for me at least, in maintaining my ideal weight.
I’m talking about the oft-discussed advice of eating a large breakfast if you want to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight. The idea was that if you eat a large breakfast – and it has to be a HEALTHY large breakfast, with fats from the right foods, and fiber and some sort of fruit – you would not eat as many calories throughout the rest of your day.
And it is often true for me personally.  I like to eat a larger breakfast rather than a small one of only say 200 calories, because I’m usually ravenous by the time lunch comes, and ready to eat anything including the kitchen sink when lunch comes around. Either that, or I get so hungry by ten AM that I’m munching on something I probably shouldn’t be.
What I really like to do is  eat some oatmeal with walnuts in the morning, then I eat a small apple at about 10:00 am so that I’m not ravenous before lunch, that’s how I make it through til lunch. But my breakfast is about 350 calories, much of it form the good fat I get from the walnuts. They are really filling, and they keep me focused and able to think straight until my snack.
While I tend to believe that eating a substantial breakfast really works, I only think it works if you’re eating the right foods. You can’t eat a McDonald’s Big Breakfast and expect to get a benefit out of it if you’re dieting. Foods like that more likely make you eat more throughout the day AND add more to your calorie bottom line at the end of the day.
However, a new study suggests that normal weight people actually tend to eat smaller breakfasts, and heavy and obese people tend to load up the calories at breakfast time. I think that this is an exception, and it probably really depended on the foods they were eating and where they were getting their calories from.
I don’t like studies like this, because there is not one approach that works for every single person, their body type, and their metabolism.  You do what you find works for you. I think that eating enough in the morning makes me take in less calories the rest of the day, and I’ll stick to it!

Cancer and Obesity Link

It’s a well known fact that your lifestyle and particularly your diet habits can dramatically influence your odds of getting various diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.  So then, why do people still insist on eating foods that clog their systems, and make their bodies more toxic and more conducive to developing cancers of various sorts?

Well, it’s like the question, why does anyone smoke any more – it’s just something that people do – it’s a vice, and us humans will never give up our vices, whether they be drink, drugs, or eating badly.

Since obesity has become such a cumbersome topic and a fact of life for far too many Americans over the past two decades, there has also been something else at the forefront.  This is the big reason that health supplements for fat loss and dieting are so prevalent and profitable here in the US, we are obsessed with, and yet cannot stop, the obesity issue.

And that is cancer. Cancer is definitely linked to bad eating habits, but bad eating and obesity certainly isn’t the only factor that contributes to people getting various types of cancer. It can be heavily genetically related, or it can be a result of some toxic exposure, or it can simply be the luck of the draw and your body’s unique responses to the environment.

Researchers are starting to find more and more convincing evidence that carrying extra weight around for a long time definitely increases the risks of several different kinds of life threatening cancers.

For example, they are finding that in developing nations where obesity was never a problem but has now become a problem as more and more processed food becomes available, are now also seeing higher rates of all types of cancers.  That’s pretty convincing, or at least very coincidental, evidence, that there is a strong correlation between the two.

One example is breast cancer.  It is a known and accepted fact that excessive estrogen is carried around in body fat. So logic follows that women who carry a lot of extra body fat are also at a higher risk for breast cancer, since breast cancer is one that is fueled by excessive estrogen, stored in the body fat.

Colon cancer is another one that is associated with obesity and plentiful food sources – of the bad kind. Colon cancer is heavily associated to a bad diet and excess weight, because the colon really relies on a lot of fiber and little dietary fat being consumed to keep it healthy and “scrubbed out” all the time.

When the colon begins to get clogged, this is when the irritation starts, and constipation and digestive irritation leads to cancerous cell growth, so a healthy diet is necessary to reduce the risk of this cancer, and that obviously is not something that obesity is known for.