I have been writing a lot about obesity here lately. Why you ask? It is a subject dear to my heart because I have been fighting obesity all my adult life! Losing weight is the hardest thing I have ever tried to do because you cannot just walk away and never eat again. You have to eat to live>Click Here!.
Overeating is an addiction such as gambling. However, with gambling you can simply stop gambling, walk away from it, and never gamble again. I am not saying it is easy to do that, but it can be done. You do not have to ever go around gambling again! That is not true of food. You cannot just walk away from food and never go around it again, because you must eat to survive!
Losing weight is one of the hardest things you will ever have to do. The best plan is to never get fat so you do not have to get a Fat loss diet>Click Here! plan. It is easier to stay thin than it is to try and lose weight. If you do not believe this, just pick up a few health magazines. Everyone of them proclaims obesity is a major health issue in America today. It is ranked right along with heart disease and diabetes!
There is no known Fat loss diet>Click Here! plan, weight loss plan, or diet that helps you lose weight. If there were, all overweight people would be thin. You do not think an obese person would choose to remain obese if there were an easy way to lose, do you?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have done studies which show more than 66%of American adults are either obese or overweight. Our children are following in our footsteps and are fast becoming obese as well. What can be done to stop this?
I am sure you heard the reports that the U.S. Government has ordered trans fats removed from fast foods and other foods prepared for the public. It will alter the taste of the foods, but no one seems to care. For years we have been eating fast foods, junk foods, sugary donuts, and sodas that made us addictive to them and added the pounds to our frames!
Years ago it might not have mattered so much that we were devouring foods rich in calories, starches and sugars because people labored for a living. Nowadays most people in America do not do physical labor to make a living. We ride to school or work, we take the car to a store just a block from our house when we need something, and we cannot even find the time to do physical exercise because it might interfere with our favorite television program!
Nowadays you can find a restaurant or fast food drive-in on every corner. We can order any kind of food we want and take it home with us. It is easier to order diner and take it home than it is to cook our own dinner! Plus, we want Mexican food instead of a healthy salad with a little dressing on the side, ½ a baked potato and some green beans.
It is time to wake up America. We are killing ourselves with processed foods. We eat food we pick up on the way home after work, we watch television as we eat it, we clean up the leftovers and dirty containers, watch more television, and we exercise our fingers using the remote control.
Many Americans have surgery to lose weight and that is not even a permanent solution! The only way to produce Fat loss>Click Here! and weight loss, and drop pounds is to change your eating habits. This lack of eating the right kind of foods and not exercising is killing us, America! Obesity leads us straight into diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and numerous other medical complications.
I am fighting my obesity. There are days I feel I make no headway, but I know in the long run the changes I have made in my diet will pay off. My Fat loss plan>Click Here! plan will make me thinner, less obese, less fat and healthier! Perhaps I will even live longer!
What about you? What is your choice?
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
OBESITY and Fat loss>Click Here!
Have you tried to follow a Fat loss>Click Here! diet or weight loss plan to lose pounds? You are not alone! Obesity is prevalent in America. Some 65% of Americans are obese. If we could poll that 65% of the population, I bet we would find the majority of them have tried to lose weight. They probably lost weight, gained it back, tried another diet, lost weight, gained it back and the struggle goes on!
What does this matter, you ask? It matters in the long run. At first it does not seem to affect you physically. It might prevent you from running a marathon and winning, but you do not realize what is happening inside your body!
You might even attribute getting fatter with getting older and think it is no big deal. It is a big deal! The extra weight is stealing years from your life. Eventually, the extra pounds start affecting your knees, your back, your feet and legs and that is only the beginning.
Do you know anything at all about Type II Diabetes? It begins in your life as you grow older, get fatter and your body is unable to produce enough insulin to provide the amount the body needs. Sometimes your body creates excess insulin which is dumped into our body when it cannot get to the cells . The excess insulin affects all the major organs of the body. Years of abuse can cause heart failure, kidney failure, blindness, circulation problems, amputation of limbs and even death!
All of this starts happening because we are obese!
What does this matter, you ask? It matters in the long run. At first it does not seem to affect you physically. It might prevent you from running a marathon and winning, but you do not realize what is happening inside your body!
You might even attribute getting fatter with getting older and think it is no big deal. It is a big deal! The extra weight is stealing years from your life. Eventually, the extra pounds start affecting your knees, your back, your feet and legs and that is only the beginning.
Do you know anything at all about Type II Diabetes? It begins in your life as you grow older, get fatter and your body is unable to produce enough insulin to provide the amount the body needs. Sometimes your body creates excess insulin which is dumped into our body when it cannot get to the cells . The excess insulin affects all the major organs of the body. Years of abuse can cause heart failure, kidney failure, blindness, circulation problems, amputation of limbs and even death!
All of this starts happening because we are obese!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Kids Tell Everything! Can You Take the Heat?
You know kids are very honest. Lots of times they embarrass their parents with the things they say. They do not care who hears it either. Kids blurt out whatever they think and sometimes you stand there with your mouth open hoping the person did not hear.
I remember when Chris, my grandson, was about ten years old, and he went with us to a big party. Our friend Neal held the party every year. We all knew each other and had a great time. One of our friends, named Sherri, had lap band surgery the year before and had lost Click Here!a lot of weight. The last time we saw her, she was really thin!
Chris was curious about the surgery Sherri had. I told him she had a big band put around her stomach and the band would keep her stomach small so she could not eat so much food and she could lose weight. He asked several questions but he really wanted to know about the band: "What kind of band?" "How does it work?" "Why would she do that?" I told him it was like taking a big, wide rubber band and putting it around a balloon so it would make the upper part of the balloon small and the bottom bigger. Chris said, "Oh, Sherri got a rubber band around her stomach, right? I replied, "right." End of story right?
Well, a lot can happen in a year. When we saw Sherri, I hardly recognized her. She was bigger than ever! Sherri was very overweight! She weighed more now than she did before she had the lap band surgery! Well, leave it to kids! Chris piped up and said, " Well I guess Sherri's rubber band broke!" I was so embarrassed!
But that phrase stuck in my mind! I kept hearing him say, "I guess Sherri's rubber band broke!" Years later and I still remember. I thought what a terrible thing when you pay all that money to have surgery to lose weight, and even that is not foolproof!
That is the sad thing about Fat loss>Click Here! diets or any diet. You can eat correctly and lose lots of weight and the minute you let your guard down, you start eating the foods you really love and you will gain it all back plus some. You will be bigger than ever before! All that work for nothing!
I hate having to diet! I hate not being able to eat the foods I love! What about you? Are you content to remain fat and eat the foods you love? Had you rather be thin? Does it bother you for people to stare at you just because you are fat? What is your choice? Do you fight against all odds to be thin or do you accept your fate?
Maybe, it was never meant for everyone to be small. Fat loss>Click Here! plans will work until you fall off the plan! Then what do you do, start all over? Whatever you decide is alright with me because I am in the same boat as you!
I remember when Chris, my grandson, was about ten years old, and he went with us to a big party. Our friend Neal held the party every year. We all knew each other and had a great time. One of our friends, named Sherri, had lap band surgery the year before and had lost Click Here!a lot of weight. The last time we saw her, she was really thin!
Chris was curious about the surgery Sherri had. I told him she had a big band put around her stomach and the band would keep her stomach small so she could not eat so much food and she could lose weight. He asked several questions but he really wanted to know about the band: "What kind of band?" "How does it work?" "Why would she do that?" I told him it was like taking a big, wide rubber band and putting it around a balloon so it would make the upper part of the balloon small and the bottom bigger. Chris said, "Oh, Sherri got a rubber band around her stomach, right? I replied, "right." End of story right?
Well, a lot can happen in a year. When we saw Sherri, I hardly recognized her. She was bigger than ever! Sherri was very overweight! She weighed more now than she did before she had the lap band surgery! Well, leave it to kids! Chris piped up and said, " Well I guess Sherri's rubber band broke!" I was so embarrassed!
But that phrase stuck in my mind! I kept hearing him say, "I guess Sherri's rubber band broke!" Years later and I still remember. I thought what a terrible thing when you pay all that money to have surgery to lose weight, and even that is not foolproof!
That is the sad thing about Fat loss>Click Here! diets or any diet. You can eat correctly and lose lots of weight and the minute you let your guard down, you start eating the foods you really love and you will gain it all back plus some. You will be bigger than ever before! All that work for nothing!
I hate having to diet! I hate not being able to eat the foods I love! What about you? Are you content to remain fat and eat the foods you love? Had you rather be thin? Does it bother you for people to stare at you just because you are fat? What is your choice? Do you fight against all odds to be thin or do you accept your fate?
Maybe, it was never meant for everyone to be small. Fat loss>Click Here! plans will work until you fall off the plan! Then what do you do, start all over? Whatever you decide is alright with me because I am in the same boat as you!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5 Tips To Help You Follow a Fat Loss Diet Plan! Do You Want To Get Thin?
Fat loss is the most important thing if you plan on losing weight and keeping it off. If you are happy being obese then you can continue as you are. However, please take note of this fact: being obese takes years off your life. Not only does obesity shorten your life but it causes many health problems such as heart disease and diabetes.
Please realize obesity can lead to disease such as heart disease and diabetes. These are serious health issues and can seriously affect your quality of life. Heart disease can lead to heart failure, stroke, even death. Diabetes greatly complicates your life and can lead to heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, amputation, and death. Either one of these diseases can make for a miserable life and can make you wish you were dead!
If you are interested in a Fat loss diet plan to lose weight and to help you lead a healthier life, then here are some tips to help you achieve your goals.
1. Eat less food.
The total number of calories you eat each day must be less than the number of calories you use. If the number of calories you eat equals the number of calories you use, then your weight will stay the same. You can only lose weight when you eat less calories than you use. Thus, if you eat less then you will have Fat loss>Click Here!
2. Eat several smaller meals throughout the day.
If you eat several smaller meals you can increase your metabolism. You trick your body into thinking it does not need to store up fat and thus you have Fat loss>Click Here!
3. Make sure you eat protein.
Protein helps your body form lean muscle. Protein is harder for your body to digest and it also helps slow down the digestion of carbohydrates. The best thing of all is that protein satisfies your hunger longer.
4. Eat complex carbohydrates.
A reliable Fat loss plan is a balanced diet including carbohydrates. There are two types of carbohydrates: slow and fast digesting. Eating carbohydrates triggers the body to release insulin. This is where the weight gain begins. Fast carbohydrates are digested quickly and causes more insulin to be secreted by the body. The more insulin secreted the more the fat gain. Therefore, you must eat slow carbohydrates! Slow carbohydrates digest slower so less insulin is produced and released into the body.
5. Throw away all the foods in your house you should never eat!
Clean out your pantry, your cabinets, your refrigerator, and every drawer where you have stashed food. All the chips, dips, cookies, ice cream, pies, and donuts must be tossed in the trash. These foods are bad for you and you cannot eat them and lose weight. Fat loss will not take place if you continue to eat these bad foods!
Oh, yeah, get the stash of bad foods you have hidden under your bed and throw them away also!
You have to stop eating these kinds of foods. No more of them at all! If you want to be thin again, then quit eating these foods today!
Psych yourself up! You do not want to be obese. You do not want to end up with heart disease or diabetes. You are changing your eating habits. You plan to get slim and trim by following a Fat loss plan!
Please realize obesity can lead to disease such as heart disease and diabetes. These are serious health issues and can seriously affect your quality of life. Heart disease can lead to heart failure, stroke, even death. Diabetes greatly complicates your life and can lead to heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, amputation, and death. Either one of these diseases can make for a miserable life and can make you wish you were dead!
If you are interested in a Fat loss diet plan to lose weight and to help you lead a healthier life, then here are some tips to help you achieve your goals.
1. Eat less food.
The total number of calories you eat each day must be less than the number of calories you use. If the number of calories you eat equals the number of calories you use, then your weight will stay the same. You can only lose weight when you eat less calories than you use. Thus, if you eat less then you will have Fat loss>Click Here!
2. Eat several smaller meals throughout the day.
If you eat several smaller meals you can increase your metabolism. You trick your body into thinking it does not need to store up fat and thus you have Fat loss>Click Here!
3. Make sure you eat protein.
Protein helps your body form lean muscle. Protein is harder for your body to digest and it also helps slow down the digestion of carbohydrates. The best thing of all is that protein satisfies your hunger longer.
4. Eat complex carbohydrates.
A reliable Fat loss plan is a balanced diet including carbohydrates. There are two types of carbohydrates: slow and fast digesting. Eating carbohydrates triggers the body to release insulin. This is where the weight gain begins. Fast carbohydrates are digested quickly and causes more insulin to be secreted by the body. The more insulin secreted the more the fat gain. Therefore, you must eat slow carbohydrates! Slow carbohydrates digest slower so less insulin is produced and released into the body.
5. Throw away all the foods in your house you should never eat!
Clean out your pantry, your cabinets, your refrigerator, and every drawer where you have stashed food. All the chips, dips, cookies, ice cream, pies, and donuts must be tossed in the trash. These foods are bad for you and you cannot eat them and lose weight. Fat loss will not take place if you continue to eat these bad foods!
Oh, yeah, get the stash of bad foods you have hidden under your bed and throw them away also!
You have to stop eating these kinds of foods. No more of them at all! If you want to be thin again, then quit eating these foods today!
Psych yourself up! You do not want to be obese. You do not want to end up with heart disease or diabetes. You are changing your eating habits. You plan to get slim and trim by following a Fat loss plan!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Do You Want a Fat Loss Diet That Lasts a Lifetime? Read On!
I have been on a Fat loss>Click Here! diet all my adult life. It seems like I became an adult and shortly thereafter I started gaining weight. You know, I started smoking my freshman year in college and smoked for ten years. When I quit smoking, I gained weight. Every year I gained more. In addition to gaining weight, my blood pressure got higher and higher. Not one medical doctor ever said that I had metabolic syndrome - Not one!
If any doctor had told me that that having high bad cholesterol and low good cholesterol, high blood pressure levels, fat gain and weight gain, and drinking Diet Coke, was known as metabolic syndrome, I could have changed my life right then! However, not one of them ever mentioned metabolic syndrome to me. How was I to know I should have been on a diet that creates Fat loss>Click Here! right then? How was I to know drinking diet coke and having all the symptoms I had, were signs of metabolic syndrome?
Since then, I have discovered that drinking as many Diet Cokes as I drank everyday, could cause all these symptoms to start and push me straight into metabolic syndrome?
I have been told by two doctors since then that drinking 4 or 5 Diet Cokes per day can cause metabolic syndrome to begin! I saw a letter from a doctor stating diet drinks turns to formaldehyde in your body. When you drink 4 or 5 per day, you are embalming yourself.
You are setting yourself up for weight gain, medical problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes!
You need to stop drinking diet drinks now! Stop drinking sodas period, diet or regular! You do not want to end up overweight or even worse, you do not want to end up with diabetes!
What can you do? You cannot continue doing what you have been doing because it is not working. You keep gaining weight year after year. You are headed for obesity! Now is the time to stop before you get there! Get on the right track with a diet that promotes weight loss and Fat loss>Click Here!
This list of 7 tips is designed to help you lose fat and weight:
1. Set small weight loss goals
Most people want to lose weight fast. Fast is not better! You need time to make changes that last a lifetime. Your goal is to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life!
Can you stop eating all your favorite junk foods right now, today? If you tried, you might succeed for a day or two, but then the cravings would creep in and you would binge eat. You would end up gaining more pounds than you lost. How foolish is this?
It will be easier for you to begin slowly. Eliminate one junk food at a time by replacing it with a healthy food. When you have mastered this step, then you could choose another junk food and do the same thing. Do you like peanut butter? Do you like butter on your toast? Then, replace the butter with peanut butter. Peanut butter is good for you and it has lots of protein. It will fill you up and you stay full longer. This is one simple change but it will start you on your Fat loss>Click Here! plan with less pain!
2. Change your bad habits with good ones.
Do not stop having an afternoon snack. Just change what you eat. Instead of eating a stack of Oreo cookies, eat some fruit or yogurt instead! Yogurt is one of the foods you should eat everyday and you will not feel deprived!
3. Remove all temptation from your house.
Do not buy your favorite junk food. Do not store it in your cabinets, your refrigerator, your freezer, and your house! (Don't hide it under the bed either!)
4. Eat more vegetables.
Your mother was right! They are good for you!
5. Eat more fiber.
Look on the internet. Get a list of resistant starch foods. This is one of the best sources of fiber and a diet rich in fiber is great for Fat loss>Click Here! and weight management!
6. Stop drinking sodas! Drink more water!
Just like with food. When you do not drink enough water your body starts storing it just like it does food! Drink water. Lose the fat and lose the weight.
7. Exercise!
I know you hate to hear that word! I do not like it either. I hate exercise. So find something fun you like to do outside and do it!
Ride a bike. Walk. Hula Hoop. Just get moving!
These tips can save your diet, or better yet, they may save your life!
If any doctor had told me that that having high bad cholesterol and low good cholesterol, high blood pressure levels, fat gain and weight gain, and drinking Diet Coke, was known as metabolic syndrome, I could have changed my life right then! However, not one of them ever mentioned metabolic syndrome to me. How was I to know I should have been on a diet that creates Fat loss>Click Here! right then? How was I to know drinking diet coke and having all the symptoms I had, were signs of metabolic syndrome?
Since then, I have discovered that drinking as many Diet Cokes as I drank everyday, could cause all these symptoms to start and push me straight into metabolic syndrome?
I have been told by two doctors since then that drinking 4 or 5 Diet Cokes per day can cause metabolic syndrome to begin! I saw a letter from a doctor stating diet drinks turns to formaldehyde in your body. When you drink 4 or 5 per day, you are embalming yourself.
You are setting yourself up for weight gain, medical problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes!
You need to stop drinking diet drinks now! Stop drinking sodas period, diet or regular! You do not want to end up overweight or even worse, you do not want to end up with diabetes!
What can you do? You cannot continue doing what you have been doing because it is not working. You keep gaining weight year after year. You are headed for obesity! Now is the time to stop before you get there! Get on the right track with a diet that promotes weight loss and Fat loss>Click Here!
This list of 7 tips is designed to help you lose fat and weight:
1. Set small weight loss goals
Most people want to lose weight fast. Fast is not better! You need time to make changes that last a lifetime. Your goal is to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life!
Can you stop eating all your favorite junk foods right now, today? If you tried, you might succeed for a day or two, but then the cravings would creep in and you would binge eat. You would end up gaining more pounds than you lost. How foolish is this?
It will be easier for you to begin slowly. Eliminate one junk food at a time by replacing it with a healthy food. When you have mastered this step, then you could choose another junk food and do the same thing. Do you like peanut butter? Do you like butter on your toast? Then, replace the butter with peanut butter. Peanut butter is good for you and it has lots of protein. It will fill you up and you stay full longer. This is one simple change but it will start you on your Fat loss>Click Here! plan with less pain!
2. Change your bad habits with good ones.
Do not stop having an afternoon snack. Just change what you eat. Instead of eating a stack of Oreo cookies, eat some fruit or yogurt instead! Yogurt is one of the foods you should eat everyday and you will not feel deprived!
3. Remove all temptation from your house.
Do not buy your favorite junk food. Do not store it in your cabinets, your refrigerator, your freezer, and your house! (Don't hide it under the bed either!)
4. Eat more vegetables.
Your mother was right! They are good for you!
5. Eat more fiber.
Look on the internet. Get a list of resistant starch foods. This is one of the best sources of fiber and a diet rich in fiber is great for Fat loss>Click Here! and weight management!
6. Stop drinking sodas! Drink more water!
Just like with food. When you do not drink enough water your body starts storing it just like it does food! Drink water. Lose the fat and lose the weight.
7. Exercise!
I know you hate to hear that word! I do not like it either. I hate exercise. So find something fun you like to do outside and do it!
Ride a bike. Walk. Hula Hoop. Just get moving!
These tips can save your diet, or better yet, they may save your life!
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