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Why Quick Weight Loss Diets Never Really Work In The Long Run

March 4th, 2010 | Author: Helenaz

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Most of the time when people are looking at losing weight, they are really looking for a miracle cure or quick fix that will help them lose that extra twenty or thirty pounds.

Typically people want to avoid any hard work in hopes of effortlessly losing weight quickly.  Most of these quick weight loss diets that are supposed to remove pounds per day really don’t work and are not healthy in the long run.

Many of these diets are not entirely safe and focus on almost starving you for a short period of time just to attempt to drop a few pounds per day.  The thought is that if you can make it through a few days of hunger, then you can drop the weight.

Even if pounds come off, is this actually working?

For short term diets, most of the time all you are really losing is water weight.  After you start eating and drinking water as you normally do, all of this weight will come back negating any loss that you thought you might have had.

Another factor in starvation based diets is that you end up losing about as many pounds in muscle as you do in fat.  The big issue with this is that the less muscle that you have, the less calories your body will burn in it’s natural state.  Losing muscle is a horrible strategy for losing weight since after the diet is over it will be much easier to gain back the weight and end up being harder to get off after wards.

If there was a simple proven way to stay fit and thin without fairly disciplined eating and some exercise, everyone would be thin.  It is best to stop looking for shortcuts and start working on proven diet plans that you know will get you results over the long term.

Too many people want to have a quick and easy weight loss diet.  The problem is, the majority of these fad diets  do not actually work very well and will ultimately leave you worse off in the long run.

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Successfully Burn Fat For A Leaner Body

January 9th, 2010 | Author: Helenaz

For any person attempting to lose weight, burning fat is the most significant thing you can achieve. Without burning fat all your going to lose is muscle, and the more muscle you lose the more fat you’ll actually gain.

The more muscle your body has it naturally burns more calories during your body’s resting state. The higher your body’s fat percentage the slower your metabolism will be.

Don’t skip your breakfast. As soon as you first arise in the morning, your body has just completed an 8 hour fast. After enduring such a time span without nutrients, your body enters a catabolic (muscle wasting) state and starts breaking down protein. This is an important time to eat some much needed nutrition ASAP! A healthy breakfast is critical to any successful fat-burning diet.

Consume a meal every 2 to 3 hours. This means that you will be eating a meal 5 to 6 times a day. Not only will this kind of meal regime stimulate muscle maintenance and fat loss, it is also an essential technique for controlling food cravings.

You see, when people miss a meal, or neglect eating for a while, their blood sugar plummets, and their will power becomes weak. In other words, people who go a long time without eating are much more likely to cheat on their diet. Thus, eating every two to three hours will help eliminate those cravings that may be the main reason that you have failed all dieting attempts in the past.

Even if you never get the cravings for food caused by missing meals, you must still be careful. If you miss meals on a regular basis, your body will actually activate enzymes that store fat. This will make losing weight much more difficult. So don’t do it! Eat!

You must reduce your carbohydrate intake. Your body’s fuel will be attained from a mixture of carbs, protein and fat. When you reduce your carbohydrate intake, your body’s stores of carbs will diminish quickly. This creates an effect in your body, and it will use a higher amount of free fatty acids (fat) for fuel.

Cutting down on your carbs will also cause a hormonal fat-burning effect. When you decrease the amount of carbs that you eat, insulin (a storage hormone) is lowered and glycogen (a fuel mobilizing hormone) is raised. This causes a greater number free fatty acids to be released from fat cells and burned, relying on the fact that you’re working out properly.

Choose compound exercises over isolation exercises. Compound exercises use more than one muscle across several joints, and isolation exercises attempt to train only one muscle at a time. The advantage of using compound exercises is that you will be training the most muscle in a given amount of time.

Generally, the more muscle you use per exercise, the larger the energy (calorie) demand will be on your body. This in turn, uses more energy, which is definitely good, but it also encourages the body to hold on to its lean muscle during fat burning phases, which helps keep your resting metabolic rate up. In addition, compound exercises have been shown to stimulate the release of your body’s natural anabolic hormones. This further helps you maintain lean muscle.

Be accountable to someone. If you unable to afford a trainer full-time, hire one to write your diet and exercise programs for you and monitor your progress. You may only need to be in contact with your trainer once a month, but having them there will offer you someone you are accountable to on a continual basis. This will help you stay focused.

If you can’t, or don’t want to work with a trainer, attempt to find someone to work out with. This will make you more committed to exactly when and where you will be working out.

There will be less missed workouts, and you’ll have more consistency in the gym and your workouts in general. If this is impossible or undesirable to you, attempt to find one good friend who totally backs you, and who doesn’t mind you calling them up every few days and reporting your progress.

It may seem like your friend is almost like a sponsor in an AA meeting at times, but in saying this, that’s not such a terrible thing to possess in your life when you’re trying to lose weight. This is even more important when you’re continually in the company of people who don’t care about what they eat.

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New Research on the Placebo Effect

December 4th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

You have probably heard about the Placebo effect. We know new drugs are measured against the placebo effect because a good percentage of people get better just by taking sugar
pills.

I think a lot of us don’t take the time to consider how crazy this is. Some pretty major health conditions are “cured” by basically the belief that the pill or injection will work.

This is obviously power of the mind stuff, but until recently scientists had never been able to actually “see” the placebo effect actually working in the brain.

Thanks to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (f MRI) and PET scans, researchers can now see the brain work in real time.

The Placebo Research

A researcher named Jon-Kar Zubieta, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, used some amazing trickery in order to discover that the driver of placebo effect in the brain is an area called the nucleus accumbens (NAcc).

What is interesting, (and actually makes sense) is that this area of the brain is responsible for our expectancy of reward.

I won’t go into too much detail about the actual study (it involved researchers sticking subjects in the jaw with a needle to cause pain – OUCH!!!), and then giving them an intravenous pain cure.

The cure of course was just plain old saline solution (a placebo).

The PET scans revealed that the placebo caused an actual dopamine boost with highest dopamine release coming from the nucleus accumbens (NAcc).

All the subjects experienced some relief, but some more than others.

So the researchers used fMRI on the same subjects to see if there was a correlation between those who got the best placebo effect with those who potentially had the mostactive nucleus accumbens (NAcc).

Scientists are tricky! Here is how they pulled it off.

While using f MRI to monitor brain activity, they had the subjects play a game where they could receive monetary rewards. The anticipation of reward intensified the activity in the nucleus accumbens.

The cool part is that the people who had the highest activity in the NAcc during the game are the same people who had the most profound placebo effect in the pain part of the study.

The Take Home

So it seems that it pays to have an NAcc that hums if you want to get cured by a sugar pill.

I have been thinking about this study a lot and it begs this question.

Could we actually train ourselves to enhance our expectancy of reward, thus strengthening the NA? If so, this might mean we could develop some ability for self healing. Or it just might be genetic – nobody knows right now

Here is the citation for the study I just summarized.

Scott et al.: Individual Differences in Reward Responding
Explain Placebo-Induced Expectations and Effects
Publishing in Neuron 55, 325–336, July 19, 2007. DOI
10.1016/j.neuron.2007.06.028.

The research is still in its early stages and I would curious if any of you have any other real research on the subject (not new age mumbo jumbo, but real peer reviewedresearch).

If you do, just post it below.

Here are some other cool facts about the placebo effect:

  • Orange, Red and other hot colored tablets work better as stimulants.
  • Cool colored ones (blue, green, purple) work better as depressants.
  • Big pills generally work better than small pills!
  • Higher priced pills work better than lower priced pills.
  • Injections work better than tablets
  • And “branded” tablets work better than unbranded tablets!

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Will This Fat Burning Diet Change Your Life?

November 6th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

How many times have you heard “This diet will change your life?” You have heard that one previously, have you not? The hottest trends profess to stumble upon a mystery secret that years of research and millions of real-life experiments failed to uncover. Funnily how those “magical secrets” just do not live up to the initial high expectations.

Even if these fat burning diets accomplish you to shed unwanted pounds, they never help you to transform your life.  For a healthy lifestyle and success on any fat burning diet, you need to transform your life. If you do not transform your lifestyle, you will end up with the same unhealthy eating habits and that will lead you right back to square one. Unhealthy, obese and depressed for life.

Conventional diets are temporary solutions to what representing the whole obese world with a lifetime predicament. Did you know that 95% of dieters gain their weight back within a year? Your best choice to success with your weight loss goals is to forget about fads and gimmicks and rely instead on you own common sense.

Trying to lose weight successfully without changing to a healthy lifestyle is like patching a flat tire. To ride further you put a temporary fix on the damaged area, but it is more than likely that you will have to patch it again later. The same principle is true with weight loss. You can choose either change to a healthy lifestyle or just put a temporary fix on your health.

Remember by putting on a temporary fix you are in the habit of yo-yo dieting and that put extra strain on your heart and depletes your immune system. Yo-yo dieting also have the effect that when you lose weight and gain it back it is becoming that much harder to shed the pounds and much easier to gain more weight.

The key to a healthy lifestyle transformation to fix the weight problem finally lies in motivation, healthy habits, and confidence. You need a healthy weight loss diet with permanent results. One that makes you feel good about yourself, one where you get support from fellow dieters who know the steep path to achieve your weight loss goals.

Where you will experience freedom to make your weight loss journey as you see fit. Freedom to carve out your weight loss goals and to create the healthy lifestyle you always dreamed about. Now is the time to start your journey to reinvent yourself to a beautiful and gorgeous YOU!

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SparkPeople – Excellent Weight Loss Solutions

October 30th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

The weight loss and fitness industry have been booming for decades, and there is no sign of them slowing down. Books, magazines and DVDs all are equally obsessed weight loss solutions.

With various support programs such as Weight Watchers, Weigh Less, and Jenny Craig this trend has grown massively over the years. Even online, there are many sites dedicated to weight loss and exercise to help dieters in their weight loss battle.

Most weight loss sites are asking a membership fee. Therefore, for a long time those who needed personalized guidance to a healthy weight loss diet, but unable to pay the membership fees, were out in the cold.

There is however one site that threw open their doors for all to benefit in their quest to healthy weight loss solutions.  SparkPeople is a 100% free online program that offers features that rival those of expensive weight loss websites.

Their credentials speak for themselves. Named as the Best Health Website by Business Week in 2006, 2007 and 2008, SparkPeople is one of the most visited diet websites in the world.

In 2001, SparkPeople.com began as a goal-setting website. However, when the owners realized that the majority of members’ goals were related to nutrition and fitness, they switched the site’s focus.

With premium tools, added SparkPeople became a subscription site. However, in 2005, a decision was made to offer all of the tools and resources free!

How SparkPeople Works

As a new user, you are ask to declare your goals. The body mass index (BMI) is calculated. They also provide further assistance in setting safe and achievable weight loss goals to lose a certain amount of weight in a certain time. Next, the user sets his “Fast Break” goals, which consist of small changes toward a healthier lifestyle.

Create your own personalized “SparkPage” and join “SparkTeams” geared toward different interests and goals. A message board let you interact with other members and get support.

A variety of tools will help you in your quest to conquer the battle of the bulges.

Nutrition Tracker
This tool helps you to plan your meals, check the calories and the nutritional value of food. The healthy eating plans allocate a certain number of calories, carbs, fat and protein each day. As you add your food during the day, their values are subtracted, showing how much more calories you may consume.

Fitness Tracker
Use this tool to assists you to build a fitness plan especially for you. A standard plan automatically generate according to each member’s needs. However, feel free to alter it to suit your preferences.

I learned that if I must do something, which clashes with my personality, I usually do not follow it through. You need to do stuff that inspires you to do it even more.

Weigh-In
This tool helps members keep track of progress by recording weight and measurements.

Blog and articles
SparkPeople features a motivational blog and thousands of articles about weight loss and fitness.

The SparkPeople website supports itself with an online fitness store. Items available include fitness equipment, DVDs and apparel. However, unlike many programs, SparkPeople does not require members to purchase anything.

For a $40 billion industry, weight loss programs are surprisingly horrible at giving you the whole picture. In fact, hardly anyone even mentions how to overcome the most common dieting roadblock – weight loss motivation.

Sick and tired of your overweight body? Give yourself a gift – the gift of loving you enough to decide today to join a safe weight loss program and enjoy a healthy lifestyle full of vitality.

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Dining Out on Fat Burning Diets

October 27th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

There is nothing as exciting as dining out. However, when one is on a fat burning diet it may present you with some serious choices. Eating out is about pleasure!

One can look at it in two ways, the pleasure of the company or the pleasure of treating your taste buds to a new adventure. I, however treasure the company as well as great healthy food. What is more enriching than the company of loved ones and a treat on tantalizing healthy food?

Back to reality one sit with the dilemma of safe weight loss and on the other hand, one wants to be great company.  So let us get one thing straight “I want to lose weight, but I want to do it in a joyful spirit. I do not want to be a spoil sport!”

What can we do then to make dining out a joyful affair without long faces and feelings of guilt afterwards?

1 Do Some Homework

Most Restaurants are on the Internet. Have a look beforehand at their menu’s and phone and make sure how they prepare their food.  By deciding beforehand what to order one is not tempted by the sight of other choices.

2 Be Drink wary

I’m very wary of drinks when dining out. It is very easy to consume many empty calories without realizing it. Therefore, I choose to drink cold water with lemon or lime wedges. This way I make sure, I do not consume empty calories and after three glasses of water I’m also not that hungry and tend to order smaller portions

3 Don’t Be Fooled By These Buzz Words

The following add-ons are unnecessary and may make your dining out experience unpleasant. Just for the record, they may taste delicious but the taste is going to sit around your waist because they are real fattening. Stay clear of cream sauce, oil, butter, battered, gravy, smothered, au gratin, Alfredo.

4. Make your own menu

Politely request that no sauce, oil or butter be used in your dish. Also, ask the waiter to replace the starch with extra vegetables. This is a great way to save on calories and to ensure that you fill up with more healthy food, without any guilt feelings afterwards.

5 Enjoy the company

Eat slowly and concentrate on the taste of the food. Analyze the taste sensations try to establish new tastes that you aren’t familiar with. Enjoy the conversation and give special attention to your dining partner.

If you can remember that the eating part is NOT why you are dining out you have come a long way. Dining out, for me, is about excellent conversation, enjoyment of my surroundings and relaxation away from home.

Dining out successfully on your fat burning diet is what you are making of it. You can choose what you want, but staying on a healthy weight loss diet and achieving your weight loss goals are far more satisfying than a one night eating out spree. Enjoy your life by living your dream!

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You Are What You Eat With Fat Burning Diets

October 20th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz
“Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.” (unknown)

The thing about healthy dieting is that one must remember, “you are what you eat.” Forget food as a release valve for feeling down. The fact is YOU are in control. You just need to realize that every decision about unhealthy diet choices is in your hands.

For best results with fat burning diets, you need to nurture your body with the exact nutrients it requires. By eating healthy weight loss foods, you will feel, both physically and mentally, on top of the world. The newly found energy will help you to be more productive and to seize every opportunity to accomplish your weight loss goals and your life goals.

If we look at the healthy food pyramid, the following foods are essential for optimal health, energy and zest.

Protein

Protein is the basic building block in your body. Essential for metabolism and fast fat burning. A lack of protein has often the result of being fatigue and sick. Healthy fat burning diets include protein with every meal. Especially if you are exercising, protein are of cardinal importance. Food high in protein includes lean meat, fish, chicken, dry beans, eggs, avocado, dates, figs and nuts.

Fruits and Veggies

You have probably heard about the five a day, which is the daily portion for safe weight loss and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Try to select fruits and veggies of various colors, as each color contains different nutrients. It is vital to include red, green, orange, purple and white in your fat burning diet to get the maximum nutrients for a lifestyle filled with vitality.

Fats

Good news: “Not all fat is bad.” For proper organ and brain function, you need the good fat. So let us separate the good from the bad.

Good Fats:

Mono-unsaturated fats: olive oil, peanut oil, canola oil, avocados, nuts & seeds.

Poly-unsaturated fats: sunflower oil, corn oil, soy oil, nuts and seeds.

Omega 3 fatty acids – fish (salmon, mackerel & herring), flaxseeds, flax oil & walnuts

Bad Fats:

Saturated Fats: animal products (meat with fat), coconut and other tropical oils

Trans fats: partially hydrogenated vegetable oils – commercial baked food, fried food, margarine

Fiber

Fiber come as soluble or insoluble. Insoluble fiber is a type of carbohydrate that the body cannot digest. Great sources are fruits, veggies, whole grain breads, whole grain cereals and beans.

To help us in our quest to conquer the bulges it is best to avoid the following unhealthy fattening foods:

Saturated Fat

Dietary cholesterol

Sugar, high fructose corn syrup

White flour and processed flours

Excessive Alcohol use

Caffeine in abundance

A healthy weight loss diet is relative to YOU and your personality. It is important to figure for yourself out what is important for you and the necessary changes to achieve your weight loss goals.

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Fat Burning Diets – The Best Life Diet

October 15th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

Have you tried every fat burning diet under the sun, only to find that they just don’t work? Fast weight loss diets often encourage dramatic changes in your eating habits, and while these diets may aid in weight loss, if you can stick to them, it is only temporary.

Fast weight loss diets are extremely difficult to maintain for the long haul, and when you resume your usual unhealthy diet, the pounds come back.

Many nutritionists recommend a different approach. Healthy eating plans are far more sustainable. Try to remember that you put on weight over a long period.

Therefore, a healthy fat burning diet, together with loads of healthy weight loss foods and motivation, one can achieve weight loss at a more reasonable pace and reduce the chances of regaining it.

This is the idea behind Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet.

Greene has been Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer since the 1990s. He has written numerous books on diet and fitness, including The Best Life Diet. Published in 2006, the book outlines a healthy diet plan for safe weight loss and keeping it off.

Phases of the Best Life Diet

The Best Life Diet consists of three phases. Unlike many fat burning diets with such phases, however, the Best Life Diet starts with minor changes and works up to the most difficult ones.

Here’s how it works:

* Phase 1 – This is an introductory phase. It introduces changes such as eating three meals and one snack per day, increasing the activity level and not eating late at night. This phase should last 4 weeks at most.

* Phase 2 - Phase 2 steps things up a notch. It focuses on controlling hunger, eliminating problem foods and learning portion control. Physical activity is increased, and dieters are encouraged to weigh in weekly. This phase lasts a minimum of 4 weeks.

* Phase 3 – The final phase introduces a few more changes. It eliminates more unhealthy foods from the diet, but it also introduces the concept of “anything goes” calories. This allows dieters to treat themselves to small portions of their favorite foods, especially when they are very active. This phase lasts for the rest of the dieter’s life.

Many fat burning diets also encourage making changes in phases. With the first phase the most restrictive and then become less restrictive as the diet progresses. While this may result in more initial weight loss, it may not as sustainable as the Best Life Diet’s approach. By easing into the healthy eating plans and lifestyle changes, we stand a better chance of making them permanent.

The Best Life Diet ranked No. 1 in the Consumer Reports magazine in their review of seven weight-loss books. You will find sensible, sensitive fitness and diet advice combined with generous calorie counts and weight loss motivation on this healthy weight loss diet.

As a fat burning diet, the Best Life Diet contains all elements to help you to achieve your weight loss goals successfully. Start today with the Best Life Diet and change your unhealthy diet to healthy lifestyle for a life full of vitality and zest.

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