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!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Americans Are Fat and Getting Fatter! Do You Need a Fat Loss Diet Plan?
Everywhere you look people are talking and writing about dieting. They are either dieting or going on a diet. They know they need to lose weight and they are going to start a diet tomorrow. The truth is Americans are fatter than ever before. 67% of America is overweight. America needs a Fat loss>Click Here! diet plan!
It seems fat has taken over America. We are fatter than ever. We are not talking 5, 10 or 20 pounds overweight. Americans are fat! There is a fat epidemic in America and it is killing us!
It is time to stop saying "I am going on a diet tomorrow. The time to start is now! Perhaps we always plan to start tomorrow because we do not know where to start. We need a diet plan focused on
Fat loss>Click Here! However, there are so many diet plans out there how do we know which one to choose?
We need some guidelines to use when we decide to choose a diet plan. We need some basic requirements when we are looking for in a diet plan. There are far too many diet plans on the market today to choose one without some standards to use when we choose. I have floundered from diet plan to diet plan in the past trying to find "the One" that was right for me.
I finally found "the One" and before I settled on it, I stopped one day and wrote my own guideline. I set my own standards. I based them on what I had learned from all the investigation I did while looking for the right plan. Today dieting is about "how to lose fat" or "how to lose belly fat." Since Fat loss>Click Here! is so important, I made that a major guideline as I searched for a plan.
I had my guidelines in my hand and I began searching for fat loss plans. My research and my guidelines can help you find a plan for you. Take advantage of my work, use my standards and find a fat loss diet plan that is "just right" for you!
Below is the list of standards I used. I share "my Guidelines" with you in the hope you find your plan, start your diet today, lose weight, and live a healthy life.
1. Choose a plan that focuses on Fat loss>Click Here!
2. Make sure the plan tells you which foods to eat.
3. The plan needs to be based on eating healthy foods.
4. Make sure the plan tells you how to make healthy food choices.
5. Needs to provide lists of healthy foods and foods for Fat loss>Click Here!
The key to any diet plan is to allow enough time to lose the weight. You cannot expect to go to sleep one night and wake up thin the next morning. It should happen that way, but it doesn't. You have to be realistic about how long it will take you to get thinner!
You must make this a change in the way you eat for the rest of your life. You are establishing new habits and learning how to change the way you eat. You not only want to lose weight, but you want to keep the weight off for the rest of your life!
No matter which plan you choose, make it a plan for a lifetime! Plan on eating healthy so you can become thinner and healthier.
Here is to a thinner you. Until next time.
It seems fat has taken over America. We are fatter than ever. We are not talking 5, 10 or 20 pounds overweight. Americans are fat! There is a fat epidemic in America and it is killing us!
It is time to stop saying "I am going on a diet tomorrow. The time to start is now! Perhaps we always plan to start tomorrow because we do not know where to start. We need a diet plan focused on
Fat loss>Click Here! However, there are so many diet plans out there how do we know which one to choose?
We need some guidelines to use when we decide to choose a diet plan. We need some basic requirements when we are looking for in a diet plan. There are far too many diet plans on the market today to choose one without some standards to use when we choose. I have floundered from diet plan to diet plan in the past trying to find "the One" that was right for me.
I finally found "the One" and before I settled on it, I stopped one day and wrote my own guideline. I set my own standards. I based them on what I had learned from all the investigation I did while looking for the right plan. Today dieting is about "how to lose fat" or "how to lose belly fat." Since Fat loss>Click Here! is so important, I made that a major guideline as I searched for a plan.
I had my guidelines in my hand and I began searching for fat loss plans. My research and my guidelines can help you find a plan for you. Take advantage of my work, use my standards and find a fat loss diet plan that is "just right" for you!
Below is the list of standards I used. I share "my Guidelines" with you in the hope you find your plan, start your diet today, lose weight, and live a healthy life.
1. Choose a plan that focuses on Fat loss>Click Here!
2. Make sure the plan tells you which foods to eat.
3. The plan needs to be based on eating healthy foods.
4. Make sure the plan tells you how to make healthy food choices.
5. Needs to provide lists of healthy foods and foods for Fat loss>Click Here!
The key to any diet plan is to allow enough time to lose the weight. You cannot expect to go to sleep one night and wake up thin the next morning. It should happen that way, but it doesn't. You have to be realistic about how long it will take you to get thinner!
You must make this a change in the way you eat for the rest of your life. You are establishing new habits and learning how to change the way you eat. You not only want to lose weight, but you want to keep the weight off for the rest of your life!
No matter which plan you choose, make it a plan for a lifetime! Plan on eating healthy so you can become thinner and healthier.
Here is to a thinner you. Until next time.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Are You sick of Being Overweight? You Can Fix It With Fat Loss Diet!
If you are overweight you are shortening your life by several years. Can you live with that? If you are fat, then you are on a collision course with death! Fat will kill you! It is time to get serious about losing weight and the best way to do that is use a plan focused on Fat loss!
I have been overweight for several years. I have tried diet after diet. Weight loss is a must for me. I have no choice if I want to live. I have lost weight, and gained it right back when I get sick and tired of a diet!
One day I received an email from a friend all about low calorie diets, fat free diets, diet sodas, and artificial sweeteners. It included a letter from a doctor stating the dangers of diet sodas. His letter told what all diet sodas do to your body and how addicting diet sodas are. He claimed diet drinks make you fat. They make you crave sweets, and as a result, you gain weight!
I quit drinking diet sodas that day! I believed him and as a result, I have lost weight and I have lost my craving for sugar and sugary foods. When I lost that craving, I decided I needed to eat healthy foods. I began focusing on eating foods that are good for me. I ate lots of fruits and vegetables, complex carbohydrates, and no fried foods. I drank water or tea, no sugar and no artificial sweeteners!
This letter made a believer out of me. I began researching diets. Diets focused on Fat loss were recommended the most! Diet plan after diet plan stressed if you are FAT, you are not fit! I decided I would follow this kind of diet!
In addition, all of these diets talked about attitude! The power of positive thinking was mentioned time and again. Accept the fact you are changing your lifestyle. You are in this for the long haul! You are not on a diet plan, but you are changing the habits of a lifetime.
You are eating to live, not living to eat! Start eating more fruits and vegetables, protein rich foods, and less carbohydrates. Avoid fried foods, sugar and sugary foods, and white foods such as white bread, potatoes, rice, etc.
Begin small. Change a few things at a time. You might start with eating protein rich foods for breakfast. They fuel you up and keep you full longer. I started by eating a piece of toast with peanut butter on it. Peanut butter is high in protein and started my day off right. It filled me up and I was full until lunch. Drink a protein rich breakfast drink for breakfast sometimes. Protein first thing of the day gives you fuel for the day!
Next you might decide to stop eating fried foods. This is a major step. Keep a positive attitude. Once you do this for a week, you will not even miss the fried foods and you have taken a major step in the right direction. Keep doing this week after week until you have eliminated most of the bad foods from your life.
Eating healthy has become my way of life! Make it your way of life. Fat loss and weight loss will follow!
Speed up the weight loss - EXERCISE! You do not have to begin your exercise program doing thirty push ups everyday. Begin small and increase the number as you gain strength.
Motivate yourself! Be positive. Have talks with yourself. You might not want to tell everyone about the talks you have with yourself. They may want to send you to a psychiatrist!
At the beginning, when you start changing your habits, take a sheet of paper and list why you want to lose weight. Be honest with yourself. Why do you hate being overweight? Take pictures of the way you look today. Make notes to yourself on sticky notes. Post these notes and your pictures on the refrigerator door, since this is the place you are most likely to cheat on your diet plan. Put your picture and your notes in prominent places throughout the house where they are visible. When you see them, you will be motivated to stick to your plan!
Remember this plan for weight loss and Fat loss will become your way of life. This is a lifetime sentence! You are making a commitment to eat healthy and throw in a weekly routine of exercise!
You can do this. Be patient and be positive. Here is to a thinner you!
I have been overweight for several years. I have tried diet after diet. Weight loss is a must for me. I have no choice if I want to live. I have lost weight, and gained it right back when I get sick and tired of a diet!
One day I received an email from a friend all about low calorie diets, fat free diets, diet sodas, and artificial sweeteners. It included a letter from a doctor stating the dangers of diet sodas. His letter told what all diet sodas do to your body and how addicting diet sodas are. He claimed diet drinks make you fat. They make you crave sweets, and as a result, you gain weight!
I quit drinking diet sodas that day! I believed him and as a result, I have lost weight and I have lost my craving for sugar and sugary foods. When I lost that craving, I decided I needed to eat healthy foods. I began focusing on eating foods that are good for me. I ate lots of fruits and vegetables, complex carbohydrates, and no fried foods. I drank water or tea, no sugar and no artificial sweeteners!
This letter made a believer out of me. I began researching diets. Diets focused on Fat loss were recommended the most! Diet plan after diet plan stressed if you are FAT, you are not fit! I decided I would follow this kind of diet!
In addition, all of these diets talked about attitude! The power of positive thinking was mentioned time and again. Accept the fact you are changing your lifestyle. You are in this for the long haul! You are not on a diet plan, but you are changing the habits of a lifetime.
You are eating to live, not living to eat! Start eating more fruits and vegetables, protein rich foods, and less carbohydrates. Avoid fried foods, sugar and sugary foods, and white foods such as white bread, potatoes, rice, etc.
Begin small. Change a few things at a time. You might start with eating protein rich foods for breakfast. They fuel you up and keep you full longer. I started by eating a piece of toast with peanut butter on it. Peanut butter is high in protein and started my day off right. It filled me up and I was full until lunch. Drink a protein rich breakfast drink for breakfast sometimes. Protein first thing of the day gives you fuel for the day!
Next you might decide to stop eating fried foods. This is a major step. Keep a positive attitude. Once you do this for a week, you will not even miss the fried foods and you have taken a major step in the right direction. Keep doing this week after week until you have eliminated most of the bad foods from your life.
Eating healthy has become my way of life! Make it your way of life. Fat loss and weight loss will follow!
Speed up the weight loss - EXERCISE! You do not have to begin your exercise program doing thirty push ups everyday. Begin small and increase the number as you gain strength.
Motivate yourself! Be positive. Have talks with yourself. You might not want to tell everyone about the talks you have with yourself. They may want to send you to a psychiatrist!
At the beginning, when you start changing your habits, take a sheet of paper and list why you want to lose weight. Be honest with yourself. Why do you hate being overweight? Take pictures of the way you look today. Make notes to yourself on sticky notes. Post these notes and your pictures on the refrigerator door, since this is the place you are most likely to cheat on your diet plan. Put your picture and your notes in prominent places throughout the house where they are visible. When you see them, you will be motivated to stick to your plan!
Remember this plan for weight loss and Fat loss will become your way of life. This is a lifetime sentence! You are making a commitment to eat healthy and throw in a weekly routine of exercise!
You can do this. Be patient and be positive. Here is to a thinner you!
Monday, October 26, 2009
America is Overweight! Are You One of These?
Millions of people diet day after day. Some people choose to eat healthy foods, avoiding fat and carbohydrate dense foods. They focus on losing weight by eating foods that will trigger Fat loss as well as weight loss.
Lots of others choose a low calorie diet plan to lose weight. So have I. If you look around there are millions of people following low calorie diet plans, buying low calorie foods and they are still fat? I think it is time to face the fact. Low calorie diet plans do not work!
I see people at restaurants. They are eating low calorie dinners thinking, like I did, that this is the answer to losing weight. I have talked to many dieters who have followed low calorie diets for weeks and they have lost very little weight. They get discouraged to realize they have dieted for weeks and lost only a few pounds.
It is more than discouraging to realize you have dieted day after day, for weeks, and you have lost seven (7) pounds! Why diet? Thus I began eating right then and there. In the end I gained weight and ended up fatter than ever!
The number one reason why low calorie diets do not work is eating low calorie foods starves your body. You become malnourished. You feel tired all the time. You do not have the energy to do your regular chores, let alone exercise!
The answer to this vicious cycle is a healthy diet plan focusing on Fat loss! If you want to lose weight successfully, you need to keep these two things in mind:
1. Calories are not your enemy.
Calories are not what you should avoid. They are required to supply your body with the necessary nutrition and energy. When your body gets enough food, it will increase your metabolic rate, which will automatically result in weight loss!
The bad calories are those that are available in junk foods. They are foods high in fat or carbohydrates or both. Avoid fried foods high in fat and calories.
Avoid white foods such as potatoes, rice, bread, etc. Avoid sugar and sugary foods. These calories are high in carbohydrates and fats.
Eat fruits and vegetables. The calories in fruits and vegetables are negative calories. Negative calories means it takes more calories to digest these foods than the foods provide! This results in calorie deficit which will ultimately result in weight loss!
Fat loss and weight loss are tied together. You have to focus on foods low in fat, if weight loss is your goal!
2. Muscle building is a must!
Do you know that muscles burn a lot of your calories? This means that the more lean muscles you have, the faster you will be able to lose weight!
Eat protein-rich foods and build lean muscles. Protein-rich foods keep you feeling full longer. This helps keep you from over-eating and will help you lose weight faster!
Working out regularly in a gym will build lean muscles as well.
Remember these two (2) steps to help you lose weight.
(1) Avoid bad calories. Eat more protein/ and (2) Exercise! Focus on muscle building. Muscles burn calories.
Do not count on low calorie diets to help you lose weight. All they do is help you lose water and muscle. You might be misled into thinking you have lost several pounds, and all you lost was water and muscle!
Remember this: Unless you have Fat loss you will not become slim! If you do not lose fat, you can not become Fit!
The truth is "Fit not FAT!"
Until next time, take care!
Lots of others choose a low calorie diet plan to lose weight. So have I. If you look around there are millions of people following low calorie diet plans, buying low calorie foods and they are still fat? I think it is time to face the fact. Low calorie diet plans do not work!
I see people at restaurants. They are eating low calorie dinners thinking, like I did, that this is the answer to losing weight. I have talked to many dieters who have followed low calorie diets for weeks and they have lost very little weight. They get discouraged to realize they have dieted for weeks and lost only a few pounds.
It is more than discouraging to realize you have dieted day after day, for weeks, and you have lost seven (7) pounds! Why diet? Thus I began eating right then and there. In the end I gained weight and ended up fatter than ever!
The number one reason why low calorie diets do not work is eating low calorie foods starves your body. You become malnourished. You feel tired all the time. You do not have the energy to do your regular chores, let alone exercise!
The answer to this vicious cycle is a healthy diet plan focusing on Fat loss! If you want to lose weight successfully, you need to keep these two things in mind:
1. Calories are not your enemy.
Calories are not what you should avoid. They are required to supply your body with the necessary nutrition and energy. When your body gets enough food, it will increase your metabolic rate, which will automatically result in weight loss!
The bad calories are those that are available in junk foods. They are foods high in fat or carbohydrates or both. Avoid fried foods high in fat and calories.
Avoid white foods such as potatoes, rice, bread, etc. Avoid sugar and sugary foods. These calories are high in carbohydrates and fats.
Eat fruits and vegetables. The calories in fruits and vegetables are negative calories. Negative calories means it takes more calories to digest these foods than the foods provide! This results in calorie deficit which will ultimately result in weight loss!
Fat loss and weight loss are tied together. You have to focus on foods low in fat, if weight loss is your goal!
2. Muscle building is a must!
Do you know that muscles burn a lot of your calories? This means that the more lean muscles you have, the faster you will be able to lose weight!
Eat protein-rich foods and build lean muscles. Protein-rich foods keep you feeling full longer. This helps keep you from over-eating and will help you lose weight faster!
Working out regularly in a gym will build lean muscles as well.
Remember these two (2) steps to help you lose weight.
(1) Avoid bad calories. Eat more protein/ and (2) Exercise! Focus on muscle building. Muscles burn calories.
Do not count on low calorie diets to help you lose weight. All they do is help you lose water and muscle. You might be misled into thinking you have lost several pounds, and all you lost was water and muscle!
Remember this: Unless you have Fat loss you will not become slim! If you do not lose fat, you can not become Fit!
The truth is "Fit not FAT!"
Until next time, take care!
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