20Aug/090
Diet And Weight Loss
People who lose weight quickly by "crash" dieting or other extreme measures usually gain it all back or gain even more of the pounds that they lost because they haven't permanently changed their eating habits. As a general rule though, most nutrition experts recommend never going below 1,000-1,200 calories a day if you're dieting on your own. This explains why it's crucial to diet sensibly with a suitable, rather than a very low calorie intake so that you lose fat rather than muscle.
Losing weight
Weight-loss typically involves the loss of fat, water and muscle. Weight management is about long-term success & will hopefully last a lifetime. Weight gain is often linked to certain medication, such as HRT, the contraceptive pill and steroids.
The risk of developing gallstones is increased by weight loss dieting. The risk of developing gallstones is likely to be increased by losing and gaining back the lost weight, also known as weight cycling.
Following are some of the weight reduction diets:
*Medically supervised diets
*Diets followed independently
*Commercial diet organizations and centers
*Support group for weight loss programs
*Diet supported by drugs and artificial food, prepackaged
foods, foods with low calorie (VLCD), balanced diet plans
supported by food supplements, 'Fad diets', diets medically
supervised, diets provided in hospitals.
Diets
Diet affect the energy intake by limiting nutrition supply to the body. Fiber is an essential component to sustain healthy motion. In most cases diets result in fiasco gaining more weight than what was lost. This is due to the fact that our body is not designed to engage in the constant process of losing and gaining weight. Therefore, diets cannot sustain weight loss and long-term health benefits. The temptation for food and old habits still linger.
The chief purpose of diets is to lose weight. But some of
the athletes diet to gain weight in the form of muscles.
Diets can be used to maintain a stable body weight. Diets
without adequate nutrition, or diets without adequate
calories in it could be dangerous for the kids.
A variety of diets are available. But all weight loss diets
limits the food intake in order to reduce the body weight.
American football players on the other hand, follows a diet
regimen to increase their body weight to give them the
advantage over the other players in the field.
Weight gain diets are suitable for those people who are
recovering from anorexia nervosa, starvation etc. These
individuals focus on gaining their normal body fat, muscle
and essential nutrients as opposed to the athletes.
Dieting
Dieting sets up a psychological state of childhood and
usually fails in the long run, study finds. Dieting
actually causes some people to gain weight.
Some of the side effects of dieting are:
*Feeling hungry and wanting to eat previously given up foods
* Distracted and tired
*Sad and unmotivated
*Dizzy feeling and cold
*Cravings for the deprived food
Doctors emphasize dieting and losing weight before
pregnancy. Hypo caloric diets, especially causes depletion
of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrition, notably, vitamin
B. Dieting is a stress on the body, and over and above the
depletion of vital nutrients affect the child during the
pregnancy, mainly caused due to the changes in hormones in
the dieter. Dieting can affect the breastfeeding after
pregnancy.
Dieting creates more problems than it solves; dieting and
overeating become a vicious circle. Dieters never stop
dieting, and never stop using the dieting industry. Dieters
have double the risk of getting type-2 diabetes compared to
those who are overweight but do not diet.
The best kept secret for an effective and sustainable weight
loss is cleansing. Cleansing is the key to detoxify your
liver and colon and to keep the toxins out of your system.
Start with a healthy eating habit that includes plenty of
nutritious food and greens. This is the best way to staying
healthy with optimum weight, a good alternative to dieting
and weight loss.
Good luck dieting and remember to eat smart.
3Aug/090
Weight Loss Camps for Adults
Adult weight loss camps evolved in the 1980's from the traditional children's summer camp experience. Predictably, as the incidence of obesity grew across all age ranges in the 70's and 80's, weight loss camps for kids, teens and adults became popular and gained terrain.
Typically, the weight loss camp setting featured a low calorie diet and a fitness or exercise program. In the beginning, many so-called fat farm and weight loss boot camp programs also failed to address fundamental behavioral and emotional issues, including body image and body acceptance struggles.
While many children, teens and adults enrolled in these programs lose weight and return home fitter, little data exists in the literature about whether these outcomes are permanent. Many experts suggest that the results are short-lived because true behavioral change cannot occur in the absence of teaching how to eat (opposed to how to restrict/diet) and without learning how to deal with the emotions and stresses that trigger overeating. Finally, experts also questioned – and still do -- whether younger age campers are emotionally ready to create long-term changes, regardless of the program curriculum.
Weight loss is more efficient and can be helpful in creating healthy lifestyle behaviors if the weight loss program is followed in an adult weight loss camp. These conditions should be accomplished if you want to follow an adult weight loss camp:
• Is the overall philosophy geared towards weight loss at any cost, or is it focused on creating healthy lifestyles that promote healthy weights?
• How do the various components of the program support that philosophy to achieve the desired results?
• Does the staff include qualified counselors, health professionals such as nutritionists, registered dietitians, psychologists and exercise physiologists?
• Is the program tailored to meet individual needs; how many participants does the program allow per session?
• Is counseling available to help make changes in eating and lifestyle choices?
• Does the program include stress management and a behavioral component dealing with emotional aspects of eating?
• What aftercare support is provided? How long does this last?
The result obtained in the adult weight loss camps shows us that the group work is more efficient than working alone. Some causes of these result are the strictly program applied by the dieters, the food that contains the right calorie intake for weight loss, and the fact that everyone makes new friends and the atmosphere is friendly. There are also non-diet philosophy of an adult weight loss camp small-sized program -- where the emphasis is on helping each adult successfully attain a healthy weight, feel good about itself and have fun in the process -- remains the same as it was conceived in the beginning of these organizations, only modified to meet the changing needs and realities of today's busy adult.
25Jul/090
Weight Loss Secret – Get Weight Loss Motivation
It's not uncommon to start a weight loss program, but never finish it. We either ditch the diet, throw in the towel on our exercise efforts or both. Whatever the cause (and the excuses are many) it doesn't mean that you're destined for failure. Even if you've started and stopped 100 times before, this time doesn't have to end the same way.
By finding the right combination of weight loss motivation, you will find it a little easier to stick to your plan than if you rely on sheer will alone. And although maintaining proper motivation can be one of the biggest hurdles you face, there are some tips you can use to stay motivated.
1. Get Into the Groove. We all know that next to diet, exercise is vital to losing weight. To get motivated to exercise, remember that music makes you move and possibly groove. A recent study by the North American Association for the Study of Obesity found that women are more likely to stick to an exercise program if they listen to music while working out. Sites like jogtunes.com let you select your workout pace, then download playlists of songs with bpm's (beats per minute) that match your heart rate.
2. Make the Mirror Your Friend. Another way to stay motivated in losing weight is to actually face yourself in the mirror. Odd as it may sound, when you feel fat you shouldn't shun mirrors. A study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders found that mirror-exposure therapy--staring at your bod in the mirror and stifling the usual criticisms of your thighs--can improve body image, which, can help keep you committed to healthy eating.
3. Set Reasonable Goals. It is also important to set reasonable goals in order to maintain proper motivation. Make a list of all the reasons why you want to lose weight, e.g., lose 10 pounds, fit into a new outfit or for a special event. Tape them to your mirror in your bathroom and read them each morning when you wake up. This will serve as a constant reminder and help keep you on track.
4. Find Support. Support from other people can keep you motivated to lose weight. And it doesn't have to be in a group setting. Studies show that dieters who get counseling over the phone lose just as much as those who get it face to face.
5. Reward Yourself. Plan a treat for yourself when you have had a great week or reached a particular milestone. Make it non-food related such as getting a pedicure, facial or massage. Try anything that will not only help you look better, but make you feel better as well about your great progress.
It is important to note that motivation is but one secret to weight loss success. For additional weight loss secrets to help you achieve your goals click the link below to receive a complimentary copy of "7 Secrets to Fat Loss."
24Jul/090
Online Weight Loss Help – Low Carb Diets Are Not the Answer
I don't think so, the reason why is that a lot of low carb diets have a lot of problems with them that makes it hard for the everyday dieter. Let's look at a popular diet, if you tried the Atkins diet then the amount of carbs that you could have is very limited by anyone's standards.
The Atkins diet only allows 20 grams of carbs each day during the first part of the diet and this last for 14 days. This is not enough carbs for the regular dieter for 2 weeks. This will make you feel miserable and weak throughout the day. Our bodies need carbs for energy.
The South Beach Diet is not as bad as the Atkins Diet, but it is not that easy to follow. A winning diet plan should be easy to follow, so people will stick with it. A good diet should not make you feel weak or miserable.
I know that not all diets are limited like the Atkins Diet is, but many low carb diets are very difficult to follow. These diets will leave you hungry and weak, which is not a good way to get online help for weight loss. The answer to losing weight is not low carbs. Your body needs fat, carbs, protein and calories.
To get real online help for weight loss, you should have all 3 types of calories in the right quantities, and this is why most people fail with their diets. They don't succeed because nobody has a clue as to what the right amount of calories should be that you consume daily.
4Jul/090
South Beach Diet Weight Loss Plan
The South Beach Diet weight loss plan is a three phase diet plan which, rather than banning carbohydrates and fats altogether, seeks to educate dieters about which are the right carbohydrates and fats to eat. If someone eats refined sugars and simple carbohydrates (eg baked goods) they are absorbed quickly into the bloodstream, raising blood sugar and soon resulting in hunger again. However, complex carbohydrates such as grains, cereals and so on are good in that they are digested slowly and give the fullness factor which prevents immediate cravings for more to eat.
Phase one of the South Beach Diet weight loss plan lasts for two weeks and is incredibly strict. There is no carbohydrate allowed i.e. bread, cereals, baked goods, potatoes, yams and even carrots are prohibited, although some fats are permissible such as olive oil and some hard cheeses, for example cheddar. A dieter who follows this plan rigorously could lose as much as 1 stone (14 lbs, 6.4 kg) in this initial two week phase.
Phase two gradually reintroduces some of the forbidden foods such as wholegrain bread and cereal and should be followed until the weight loss goal has been achieved and serves as a retraining phase. In other words, the dieter gets used to eating good carbs and good fats and snacking on fruit rather than cakes and biscuits.
Phase three is the maintenance phase. The dieter has reached his or her goal in terms of weight and that's exactly where they want to keep it. This is the adoption of a lifestyle change whereby, although the occasional cake or bag of crisps is not prohibited, it should be a very rare treat. Some people find that they don't even enjoy sweet or processed foods any more and are much happier snacking on a carrot stick or piece of celery.
Many people find that the South Beach Diet weight loss plan really does work for them, especially if they can get through the first two weeks, which is a real baptism of fire for those who have previously lived on junk food.
















