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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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Is This The Missing Key To Conquer Obesity?

January 15th, 2010 | Author: Helenaz

I just read this incredible article.

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism that controls energy expenditure in muscles and helps determine body weight. This could lead to a new medical approach in treating obesity. Read more on this fascinating topic Obesity

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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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Think And Be Slim

January 9th, 2010 | Author: Helenaz

Use the power of your brain to get the body of your dreams! No effort required! Simply use the exercises and principles contained in this book and get ready for results you never dreamed possible!

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Relax Your Way to Thin! Hypnosis Weight Loss Motivation

January 2nd, 2010 | Author: Helenaz

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By creating direct access to the most powerful part of the mind, the subconscious, you can teach your subconscious mind to automatically act in the ways that best suit your goals, rather than relying on poor habits that you’ve built up over the years.
When you align what you consciously desire with your subconscious motivations…your possibilities are endless!
Can everyone be hypnotized?
Yes. Have you ever been driving a familiar route home and suddenly arrived at your destination without remembering the last few minutes of the drive? This is one example of our subconscious mind taking over the routine details of life. Our subconscious mind handles most of our day to day activities. That is the subconscious mind’s job – to handle the details of life, while our conscious mind handles the more important needs.
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Movie Goers Should Consider Skipping the Popcorn and Drink

December 4th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

A recent report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest discloses a shocking revelation regarding movie popcorn.

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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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Why Are People Getting Bigger?

November 18th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

It is a fact! People are getting bigger. Not taller but bigger (sidewise). Recently I went to a mall (after I don’t know how many months). At every turn, you are bombarded with food; fattening food, delicious smelling food and promises of exotic tasting experiences to die for.

I also came to the realization that portion sizes, especially in steakhouses has become bigger.  We are fighting the bulges and portion sizes increase to make our job that more difficult. This is getting ridiculous!

The solution? You have to gain control over what goes on your plate. In the beginning, it may be difficult, but with experience, you can learn exactly how many servings you are eating. After a while, you will know exactly how big the portions should be to be in line with recommended portions.

If you can master this skill (and make it a habit) you will have a sure fire method to cut the most calories the quickest. Just by changing to a healthy fat burning diet with portion control, you can literally lose weight without doing anything else.

If you are like me, the following statement will fit you like a glove. Do you ever feel obligated to finish everything on your plate?  Were you raised with the same principle than me? Clean you plate otherwise you are wasting food and there are hundreds of thousands people dying for a morsel

The solution to lasting weight loss with fat burning diets is to exercise portion control.

•    Always use smaller plates and bowls. I use a side plate for my main meal.
•    Order an appetizer as an entree. Look for fresh salads or fruit and try to stay clear from fried foods.
•    If possible, use the lunch menu (to order) at dinnertime.
•    You do not have to eat everything! Leftovers are okay. Let them wrap half your meal before bringing it out.
•    Go for smaller sizes for instance a half-order of pasta.
•    Always be aware what you are eating. Chances are good that you will eat excessively if you are mindlessly picking at your food.
•    Another vital habit is to learn to read and understand food labels. Watch out! Serving sizes can be misleading! Did you know a can of cola is actually two servings?

As you cut down on your portions, you may feel a little hungry at first. To beat this temporary hunger without eating more try to:
•    Drink more water
•    Eat fiber-loaded foods
•    Eat low-calorie foods first
•    Eat slowly, put the fork down between bites
The main thing to success on any fat burning diet is to take your life back from obesity. We want to be healthy and full of vitality. The price therefore is to stay focus on one’s weight loss goals and incorporate small changes to ensure success.

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Beans – Best Protein For Fat Burning Diets

September 25th, 2009 | Author: Helenaz

The basics of healthy fat burning diets are more fat burning food more frequently. A good healthy fat burning diet is one with flexibility, freedom and knowledge to make the right food choices. For success, one must switch our focus from food and our stomachs to our brain and the thinking process.

To lose weight you need to burn more calories than you consume. We need all the help we can get with the fight against the bulges. Extra help is available in the form of fat burning food.

Now the first item on the list is Beans and other legumes.

Beans are the best source of plant protein, but they also are full of fiber, iron, folate and potassium. With beans, you get all the protein without the fat. However, plant protein is incomplete and therefore you need to combine it with whole grain products. Whole grain foods provide amino acids plant protein needs to form a complete protein.

Why are beans then this absolute wonder fat burning food?
The protein in beans helps you to stay focused and reward you with a sharper memory. The body converts protein into amino acids which make up and repair muscle and bone tissue. Protein also fights infections, helps heal wounds and regulates enzymes and hormones. Protein, iron and fiber are very important when it came to building muscles and fat burning. By exercising and building your muscles, you will burn in return more fat.

Enjoy a healthy lifestyle with beans as part of your fat burning food.

The best beans and legumes for fat burning are:  Soybeans, pinto beans, garbanzo beans, nay beans, black beans, white beans, kidney beans and lima beans.

Black Beans

Black Beans

Lima Beans

Lima Beans

Pinto Beans

Pinto Beans

Red Kidney Beans

Red Kidney Beans

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