Hi. Kelly here again with a word about bathroom scales and dieting.
When dieting, many regard the bathroom scale as something of an enemy, yet they can’t seem to stay away from it. They want to know how well they are doing, but they don’t want to see how slowly the scales can really move. Some get on it every single day, which might be part of the reason so many fall off of a diet so quickly. They see too many commercials promising fast weight loss, and when they don’t see that for themselves, they just give up.
When dieting, the bathroom scale is not the only measure of success, nor should it be. Most have been luck measuring themselves each week. If they are exercising as they should be, they will be getting fat to come off and they will be forming new muscle. That means that even though the bathroom scale might not be moving, they are actually making progress. Sometimes, they are doing better than they could imagine, but they have no idea what is going on.
Getting on the bathroom scale once a week is better, or even once a month. It can be hard to resist, but it is the way to go. If the diet is going well, the scales will reflect that in a month’s time. If you combine that with measuring important areas, the results of hard work will be more visible, without the stress of wondering why the scales are simply not moving from day to day. It takes a while to get used to the fact that you should just wait, but once someone can get a handle on that, they are going to hang on to a diet much longer, and they are going to see more results.
When it comes to buying a bathroom scale, spending a little more means more accuracy. The cheaper ones work, but they do wear out rather quickly and they may not be as accurate after just a few months. That can mess with any dieters head as well. Sometimes, a bathroom scale can also calculate body fat and other things, but those should be taken with a grain of salt.
Everyone has a different build and frame, and though fat percentage is important, it might be more accurate when assessed by a doctor. Keep the scales for reference, but don’t use it very often, and don’t live and die by what it says each time you use it.
Here's to your success for weight loss.
Kelly the Weight Loss Guy
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
FREE! Secrets To The Healthy Way to Lose Weight
Hi! Kelly here again about a no cost way to lose weight.
There are certain times of year that are more popular for weight loss programs. The first is New Year's, with a determined resolution to lose what you gained over the holidays. Valentines Day is an additional incentive. When summer's coming and you're contemplating wearing a swimsuit, it's enough to put everyone on a diet. Then, in the fall, Halloween triggers a diet alert. All that candy! Oh, and the holidays are coming! You need a healthy way to lose weight that isn't torture!
Some people try a new diet with each attempt, some of which involve joining a membership, buying ready made and portioned meals or at the very least, buying a book full of magic weight loss recipes. This can all add up to a lot of money. You may not even like the prepared meals, but you've already committed to the program.
Recipes you prepare from a book often require careful measuring and weighing if you hope for success. Here we're going to unlock the secrets of the healthy way to lose weight and, most importantly, keep it off! Wouldn't it be wonderful to diet for the last time?
One of the main reasons people fail to achieve their dieting objectives is that they feel deprived and don't even particularly like the proscribed foods. On the other hand, people who actually like their food tend to feel less deprived.
Even if you need to lose a substantial amount of weight, treating and rewarding yourself once a week with just one forbidden goodie may be just what you need to stay on track with your personal plan and the healthy way to lose weight.
You must count calories, so whatever reward you choose, make it count! If you're on a 1200 calorie per day plan and you 'spend' 400 calories on a piece of chocolate cake, well, you will have to adjust the rest of the day's intake. Although this is not sensible, the enjoyment derived from the cake may be enough to compensate for the sugar rush and possible headache that follows.
One of the hallmarks of a healthy way to lose weight program is that change in your eating habits is gradual, not radical. When you suddenly depart from your norm, your body is going to complain loudly.
A good way to begin is to eat small, but frequent mini-meals. This gives your stomach a chance to adjust to reduced intake. Have a fruit smoothie made with low-fat milk or yogurt. This will fill you up without loading on the calories. You'll be good until at least 10am. Have a cup of soup and half a dozen crackers. At noon, have a banana and a muffin. You get the picture. If you have five small meals of healthy, filling foods, you'll completely fake out your stomach.
Your personal healthy way to lose weight program should address the sugar situation ASAP! We all know that a single can of a popular soda contains 200 calories and a bunch of caffeine! The virtual elimination of refined sugar brings quick results, both in weight loss and an improved mood and sleep.
Do become friendly with all the veggies you can eat. Again, if this is a radical departure for you, make the change gradually. You'll learn to like it.
Perhaps one of the best incentives to sticking to your healthy way to lose weight plan is to keep a food diary. Write down everything you eat! Log your weigh-ins, but once a week only. The food diary keeps you honest and shows you what works and what doesn't.
Good luck and good eating!
Hope you found the secrets to the healthy way to lose weight helpful.
Kelly the Weight Loss Guy
There are certain times of year that are more popular for weight loss programs. The first is New Year's, with a determined resolution to lose what you gained over the holidays. Valentines Day is an additional incentive. When summer's coming and you're contemplating wearing a swimsuit, it's enough to put everyone on a diet. Then, in the fall, Halloween triggers a diet alert. All that candy! Oh, and the holidays are coming! You need a healthy way to lose weight that isn't torture!
Here's a great weight loss resource for anyone.
Some people try a new diet with each attempt, some of which involve joining a membership, buying ready made and portioned meals or at the very least, buying a book full of magic weight loss recipes. This can all add up to a lot of money. You may not even like the prepared meals, but you've already committed to the program.
Recipes you prepare from a book often require careful measuring and weighing if you hope for success. Here we're going to unlock the secrets of the healthy way to lose weight and, most importantly, keep it off! Wouldn't it be wonderful to diet for the last time?
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One of the main reasons people fail to achieve their dieting objectives is that they feel deprived and don't even particularly like the proscribed foods. On the other hand, people who actually like their food tend to feel less deprived.
Even if you need to lose a substantial amount of weight, treating and rewarding yourself once a week with just one forbidden goodie may be just what you need to stay on track with your personal plan and the healthy way to lose weight.
You must count calories, so whatever reward you choose, make it count! If you're on a 1200 calorie per day plan and you 'spend' 400 calories on a piece of chocolate cake, well, you will have to adjust the rest of the day's intake. Although this is not sensible, the enjoyment derived from the cake may be enough to compensate for the sugar rush and possible headache that follows.
One of the hallmarks of a healthy way to lose weight program is that change in your eating habits is gradual, not radical. When you suddenly depart from your norm, your body is going to complain loudly.
A good way to begin is to eat small, but frequent mini-meals. This gives your stomach a chance to adjust to reduced intake. Have a fruit smoothie made with low-fat milk or yogurt. This will fill you up without loading on the calories. You'll be good until at least 10am. Have a cup of soup and half a dozen crackers. At noon, have a banana and a muffin. You get the picture. If you have five small meals of healthy, filling foods, you'll completely fake out your stomach.
Your personal healthy way to lose weight program should address the sugar situation ASAP! We all know that a single can of a popular soda contains 200 calories and a bunch of caffeine! The virtual elimination of refined sugar brings quick results, both in weight loss and an improved mood and sleep.
Do become friendly with all the veggies you can eat. Again, if this is a radical departure for you, make the change gradually. You'll learn to like it.
Perhaps one of the best incentives to sticking to your healthy way to lose weight plan is to keep a food diary. Write down everything you eat! Log your weigh-ins, but once a week only. The food diary keeps you honest and shows you what works and what doesn't.
Good luck and good eating!
Hope you found the secrets to the healthy way to lose weight helpful.
Kelly the Weight Loss Guy
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Dieting And Food Portion Sizes - Important Considerations
Hi! Kelly once again with some info about dieting and food portions sizes.
If you have been trying to lose weight lately, you are probably familiar with some of the obstacles that we all face. Sometimes, it can be difficult or impossible to figure out why a weight-loss program isn't working.
Are you eating too much fatty food? Are you not eating enough grains or vegetables? What about protein – how much of that should you eat, and what should it come from? Is it all right to eat animal products, or should you switch to tofu? All of these are questions that most dieters have to struggle with on a daily basis.
One of the most important questions, however, is one that many dieters neglect to think about enough – food portion sizes. No matter how healthy you eat, research shows that if you eat too much you simply won't lose weight.
The old myth that you can eat as much vegetables and grains as you want is rapidly losing credibility, and many weight-loss experts and gurus put food portion size as the most important factor in how much weight you can manage to take off.
The problem is that there is no one guide to portion sizes of food. There is the USDA food portion sizes guideline to look at, but this isn't universally accepted. The government is often bureaucratic, and it can take years to update food guidelines to the latest thinking. As a matter of fact, each diet plan seems to have its own guidelines for food portion sizes.
The important thing is to find a standard and stick with it. Too many people make the mistake of trying to eyeballs food portion sizes, but this neglect some of the problems that we face in our culture.
Most of us are raised in an atmosphere where more is better. Restaurants, cafeterias, and even households tend to serve up huge portions of food, so what looks normal to us might actually be except excessive.
One of my friends – a dieting expert himself – recommends this rule thumb for determining food portion sizes. If you are just starting to diet, try out a basic type of food – a plain vegetable dish, a breast of chicken, or whatever – and see how much you need to feel like you have had your fill.
Roughly two thirds of that is the appropriate food portion size. When you are first starting dieting, you want to be hungry all the time. If you aren't, you are probably eating a little too much.
Here's to your success in getting your food portion sizes right for you!
Kelly
If you have been trying to lose weight lately, you are probably familiar with some of the obstacles that we all face. Sometimes, it can be difficult or impossible to figure out why a weight-loss program isn't working.
Are you eating too much fatty food? Are you not eating enough grains or vegetables? What about protein – how much of that should you eat, and what should it come from? Is it all right to eat animal products, or should you switch to tofu? All of these are questions that most dieters have to struggle with on a daily basis.
One of the most important questions, however, is one that many dieters neglect to think about enough – food portion sizes. No matter how healthy you eat, research shows that if you eat too much you simply won't lose weight.
Turbo charge your weight loss
The old myth that you can eat as much vegetables and grains as you want is rapidly losing credibility, and many weight-loss experts and gurus put food portion size as the most important factor in how much weight you can manage to take off.
The problem is that there is no one guide to portion sizes of food. There is the USDA food portion sizes guideline to look at, but this isn't universally accepted. The government is often bureaucratic, and it can take years to update food guidelines to the latest thinking. As a matter of fact, each diet plan seems to have its own guidelines for food portion sizes.
The important thing is to find a standard and stick with it. Too many people make the mistake of trying to eyeballs food portion sizes, but this neglect some of the problems that we face in our culture.
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Most of us are raised in an atmosphere where more is better. Restaurants, cafeterias, and even households tend to serve up huge portions of food, so what looks normal to us might actually be except excessive.
One of my friends – a dieting expert himself – recommends this rule thumb for determining food portion sizes. If you are just starting to diet, try out a basic type of food – a plain vegetable dish, a breast of chicken, or whatever – and see how much you need to feel like you have had your fill.
Roughly two thirds of that is the appropriate food portion size. When you are first starting dieting, you want to be hungry all the time. If you aren't, you are probably eating a little too much.
Here's to your success in getting your food portion sizes right for you!
Kelly
Using A Food Calories List for Weight Loss
Hi! Kelly here again with some helpful about using a food calories list to lose weight.
There are a lot of complex strategies out there for dieting, but for some of us it is too much to handle all at once. I have tried using diets with food points, food portion size guidelines, food pyramid charts, and all the rest of it, but in the long run I just get confused.
I'm not good at keeping track of what I eat, and with so many different criteria to keep track of, I don't end up doing any better in my eating habits than before. It took me a long time, but finally I found a solution that works for me: a food calories list.
I found an online alphabetical list of calories in food when I was browsing the Web for dieting advice one day, and was immediately sucked in. Basically, with a list of food calories, all you have to do is keep track of one factor: how many calories you eat every day.
Although it might be better to diet by reducing fat, increasing fiber, and eating just the right amount of protein, few of us have the time to do that. With the food calories list, however, you don't really have to. No matter what you eat, if you cut your calories you will lose weight.
You could eat 1200 calories of pure fat, and you would shed pounds. On the other hand, you could eat 2500 calories of vegetables every day, and I'm pretty sure you would put on some weight. It all comes down to calorie counts in the end.
Of course, food calorie lists aren't quite as simple as I'm making them out to be. You can't just take the number and apply it – a little bit of simple mathematics is a must. You see, a food calories list depends on portion size.
Obviously, a quarter pound of chicken costs more calories than an ounce, so it is crucial to make every effort to keep track of how much you eat. Once you have been using the list for awhile, however, you can sort of start to eyeball measurements out.
You will not get an exact count, but if you are careful, you can get close enough. Even a casual use of the food calories list will make a huge difference in your dieting. If you don't believe me, try it yourself. Hopefully, you will be quite impressed with the results. I know I was.
There are a lot of complex strategies out there for dieting, but for some of us it is too much to handle all at once. I have tried using diets with food points, food portion size guidelines, food pyramid charts, and all the rest of it, but in the long run I just get confused.
I'm not good at keeping track of what I eat, and with so many different criteria to keep track of, I don't end up doing any better in my eating habits than before. It took me a long time, but finally I found a solution that works for me: a food calories list.
I found an online alphabetical list of calories in food when I was browsing the Web for dieting advice one day, and was immediately sucked in. Basically, with a list of food calories, all you have to do is keep track of one factor: how many calories you eat every day.
Although it might be better to diet by reducing fat, increasing fiber, and eating just the right amount of protein, few of us have the time to do that. With the food calories list, however, you don't really have to. No matter what you eat, if you cut your calories you will lose weight.
You could eat 1200 calories of pure fat, and you would shed pounds. On the other hand, you could eat 2500 calories of vegetables every day, and I'm pretty sure you would put on some weight. It all comes down to calorie counts in the end.
Turbo charge your weight loss
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with or without a calories list!
Of course, food calorie lists aren't quite as simple as I'm making them out to be. You can't just take the number and apply it – a little bit of simple mathematics is a must. You see, a food calories list depends on portion size.
Obviously, a quarter pound of chicken costs more calories than an ounce, so it is crucial to make every effort to keep track of how much you eat. Once you have been using the list for awhile, however, you can sort of start to eyeball measurements out.
You will not get an exact count, but if you are careful, you can get close enough. Even a casual use of the food calories list will make a huge difference in your dieting. If you don't believe me, try it yourself. Hopefully, you will be quite impressed with the results. I know I was.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
What About Weight Watchers?
Hi! Kelly here again to tell you that Weight Watchers meetings are helpful.
When I first started on the Weight Watchers diet, I was pretty gung-ho to get started. I knew that I was far from a healthy weight, and that I could use this diet plan to get where I needed to go.
Weight Watchers Diets are not exactly straightforward, but they are clear enough. You count points and keep track of everything you eat, and write it down in your diet plan book. I felt like I did not need to go to any Weight Watchers meetings, since I was so determined to succeed on my own.
For the first couple of weeks, my weight loss diet went pretty well. Soon, however, I started to fall off the wagon, so to speak. It is easy to cheat just a little bit, rationalizing that you will make up for it later in the week, the problem is that, once you start lying to yourself and cheating on your weight loss diet, it can be a pretty tough thing to stop. That is what is so useful about Weight Watchers meetings.
When you go to a Weight Watchers meeting, there are other people there to help you out with your own goals. Everyone depends on each other at these meetings, which is why they are so useful. If you do not accomplish your weight loss goals every week, you feel like you are letting other people down. Somehow, it is a lot easier to change your life when you feel like other people are depending on you for mutual support.
When you first go to Weight Watchers meetings – or any support group meetings – it can be a bit intimidating. After all, going in to meet a bunch of strangers for mutual support in overcoming a problem is daunting. No one really wants to admit to strangers that they have a problem, but that is exactly what you have to do at a meeting like this.
Nonetheless, it is worth it once you get past the hesitation. People there are very nice for the most part, and it is very easy to form friendships. In addition, you will often meet people who have been dieting for longer than you and might have some advice. It also gives you a way to gauge your progress, since every week you have to participate in a weigh in to see what you have gained or lost.
Who knows, perhaps I'll meet you at the next Weight Watchers meeting.
Here's to your weight loss success.
The Weight Loss Guy
When I first started on the Weight Watchers diet, I was pretty gung-ho to get started. I knew that I was far from a healthy weight, and that I could use this diet plan to get where I needed to go.
Weight Watchers Diets are not exactly straightforward, but they are clear enough. You count points and keep track of everything you eat, and write it down in your diet plan book. I felt like I did not need to go to any Weight Watchers meetings, since I was so determined to succeed on my own.
For the first couple of weeks, my weight loss diet went pretty well. Soon, however, I started to fall off the wagon, so to speak. It is easy to cheat just a little bit, rationalizing that you will make up for it later in the week, the problem is that, once you start lying to yourself and cheating on your weight loss diet, it can be a pretty tough thing to stop. That is what is so useful about Weight Watchers meetings.
When you go to a Weight Watchers meeting, there are other people there to help you out with your own goals. Everyone depends on each other at these meetings, which is why they are so useful. If you do not accomplish your weight loss goals every week, you feel like you are letting other people down. Somehow, it is a lot easier to change your life when you feel like other people are depending on you for mutual support.
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When you first go to Weight Watchers meetings – or any support group meetings – it can be a bit intimidating. After all, going in to meet a bunch of strangers for mutual support in overcoming a problem is daunting. No one really wants to admit to strangers that they have a problem, but that is exactly what you have to do at a meeting like this.
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Nonetheless, it is worth it once you get past the hesitation. People there are very nice for the most part, and it is very easy to form friendships. In addition, you will often meet people who have been dieting for longer than you and might have some advice. It also gives you a way to gauge your progress, since every week you have to participate in a weigh in to see what you have gained or lost.
Who knows, perhaps I'll meet you at the next Weight Watchers meeting.
Here's to your weight loss success.
The Weight Loss Guy
Weight Loss Testimonials Inspire and Motivate
Hi! Kelly here again to talk about the power of weight loss testimonials.
It is a well known fact that most weight loss plans end in disaster. As a matter of fact, it is commonly thought that quitting eating unhealthy food is even more difficult than quitting smoking or other addictive drugs.
When you quit smoking, all you have to do is give up one product. When you develop a healthy diet, you have to change everything about the way you eat. This is why so many people like to look at weight loss testimonials for ideas and inspirations.
There are dozens upon dozens of weight loss supplements, diets, pills, and other cures out there, so it can be a daunting task to figure out which one is the right one for you.
Although most people recommend a combination of eating a healthy diet in accordance with the food pyramid, working out several times a week, and taking the right weight loss supplements, this still leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
Which supplements are the best ones?
What is the healthiest diet?
Exactly how much do I have to exercise?
Weight loss testimonials can help you to answer these and similar questions.
Some of the best weight loss testimonials are the ones that come from the people you know. Although you can read online weight loss testimonials, it can be hard to tell whether or not they are accurate.
If you have a friend who has lost a lot of weight, however, you can ask him or her to find out just how it was done. Your friend may have gone through many different weight loss diets, supplements, and exercise programs, so he or she may be in a great position to tell you what to do and what to not waste your time with.
Another great way to achieve weight loss success is to go to a dietitian. Dietitians tend to collect weight loss testimonials from their clients. They will know what works for what type of person, and what doesn't. The perfect weight loss plan for a stay at home mom is not necessarily the best plan for a professional.
The mark of a true nutritionist is the ability to set up something especially targeted towards giving you the best results possible. It is a much easier solution than having to go through each and every weight loss testimonial individually! After all, why not have the expert do the work for you?
I hope you will soon have a weight loss testimonial for your family and friends!
The Weight Loss Guy
It is a well known fact that most weight loss plans end in disaster. As a matter of fact, it is commonly thought that quitting eating unhealthy food is even more difficult than quitting smoking or other addictive drugs.
When you quit smoking, all you have to do is give up one product. When you develop a healthy diet, you have to change everything about the way you eat. This is why so many people like to look at weight loss testimonials for ideas and inspirations.
There are dozens upon dozens of weight loss supplements, diets, pills, and other cures out there, so it can be a daunting task to figure out which one is the right one for you.
Although most people recommend a combination of eating a healthy diet in accordance with the food pyramid, working out several times a week, and taking the right weight loss supplements, this still leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
Which supplements are the best ones?
What is the healthiest diet?
Exactly how much do I have to exercise?
Weight loss testimonials can help you to answer these and similar questions.
Some of the best weight loss testimonials are the ones that come from the people you know. Although you can read online weight loss testimonials, it can be hard to tell whether or not they are accurate.
If you have a friend who has lost a lot of weight, however, you can ask him or her to find out just how it was done. Your friend may have gone through many different weight loss diets, supplements, and exercise programs, so he or she may be in a great position to tell you what to do and what to not waste your time with.
Turbo charge your weight loss.
Another great way to achieve weight loss success is to go to a dietitian. Dietitians tend to collect weight loss testimonials from their clients. They will know what works for what type of person, and what doesn't. The perfect weight loss plan for a stay at home mom is not necessarily the best plan for a professional.
The mark of a true nutritionist is the ability to set up something especially targeted towards giving you the best results possible. It is a much easier solution than having to go through each and every weight loss testimonial individually! After all, why not have the expert do the work for you?
I hope you will soon have a weight loss testimonial for your family and friends!
The Weight Loss Guy
Motivation is Key to Weight Loss Success
Hi! Kelly here again to get you motivated to achieve your weight loss goal.
If you're serious about weight loss, motivation is your key to success!
We're getting into the holiday season, so many of us, ironically, are determined to lose some pounds, before we start the round of parties and family celebrations, where we'll be right in front of some very enticing foods!
If you've been on diets before, which haven't turned out quite as successfully as you might have hoped, take a moment to think about what made the plan fall apart. You can declare to one and all how you're going to avoid fat like the plague, shun those baked goods and just live on fish and bread.
What's missing in your plan for weight loss? Motivation! You know what you should do, you just don't have very specific reasons. Sure, weight loss is a fine objective if you're overweight. The real question is, why do you want to shed those extra pounds?
Before you ever choose your menus, you've got to clearly define what motivates you.
Everyone has different reasons. For example, a woman may have her eye on the oh-so attractive guy at work and figures losing ten pounds might catch his eye. A man in a sedentary job has accumulated a bit of a belly. He figures, at 40, he wants to tackle this now for continued popularity with the ladies.
Some people find their clothes getting a bit snug, and don't relish the prospect of being forced to buy a new wardrobe. Maybe you just feel sluggish and your weight loss motivation is a desire for more energy. Another weight loss motivation comes from your friendly Doc, who cautions you to lose weight before you jeopardize your health.
These are all legitimate reasons. What you need to do is make your own list of reasons you're going to torment yourself with a strict diet. You need that daily incentive, just to keep you honest with yourself. Then you're far more likely to stick with it and achieve your goal.
Your list should include as many good weight loss motivational ideas as you can come up with and you don't want to hurry through this process! If possible, inject some humor, too. (What comes to mind here is that Far Side cartoon, where a man puts a cat into some ridiculous contraption, with the cat emerging from the other end as a dog.) An utter transformation, just as you'll emerge from that nasty diet, with a svelte figure!
Take a week for this worthy project. Add something new each day. “I won't get depressed trying to fit into my jeans.” Promise yourself something special, of increasing value, for each week you stick with the program. No, dinner at the fast food as a reward is inappropriate here.
Beauty treatments work well with women. Wanting to look like a fitness trainer model can be a great motivator.
With men, reverse psychology sometimes works. If you don't cheat, yes you can watch the football game on Sunday.
Setting aside a cash reward, which increases weekly, to be spent as you please when you achieve your goal is popular with everyone.
Now, what to do with your personal list of weight loss motivation? Well, it's up to you, whether you brazenly tack it up on the frig, or hide it in your nightstand. Just go over it every day, or any time you're about to shuck it all. It'll work!
If you're serious about weight loss, motivation is your key to success!
We're getting into the holiday season, so many of us, ironically, are determined to lose some pounds, before we start the round of parties and family celebrations, where we'll be right in front of some very enticing foods!
If you've been on diets before, which haven't turned out quite as successfully as you might have hoped, take a moment to think about what made the plan fall apart. You can declare to one and all how you're going to avoid fat like the plague, shun those baked goods and just live on fish and bread.
What's missing in your plan for weight loss? Motivation! You know what you should do, you just don't have very specific reasons. Sure, weight loss is a fine objective if you're overweight. The real question is, why do you want to shed those extra pounds?
Before you ever choose your menus, you've got to clearly define what motivates you.
Everyone has different reasons. For example, a woman may have her eye on the oh-so attractive guy at work and figures losing ten pounds might catch his eye. A man in a sedentary job has accumulated a bit of a belly. He figures, at 40, he wants to tackle this now for continued popularity with the ladies.
Turbo charge your weight loss.
Some people find their clothes getting a bit snug, and don't relish the prospect of being forced to buy a new wardrobe. Maybe you just feel sluggish and your weight loss motivation is a desire for more energy. Another weight loss motivation comes from your friendly Doc, who cautions you to lose weight before you jeopardize your health.
These are all legitimate reasons. What you need to do is make your own list of reasons you're going to torment yourself with a strict diet. You need that daily incentive, just to keep you honest with yourself. Then you're far more likely to stick with it and achieve your goal.
Your list should include as many good weight loss motivational ideas as you can come up with and you don't want to hurry through this process! If possible, inject some humor, too. (What comes to mind here is that Far Side cartoon, where a man puts a cat into some ridiculous contraption, with the cat emerging from the other end as a dog.) An utter transformation, just as you'll emerge from that nasty diet, with a svelte figure!
Take a week for this worthy project. Add something new each day. “I won't get depressed trying to fit into my jeans.” Promise yourself something special, of increasing value, for each week you stick with the program. No, dinner at the fast food as a reward is inappropriate here.
Beauty treatments work well with women. Wanting to look like a fitness trainer model can be a great motivator.
With men, reverse psychology sometimes works. If you don't cheat, yes you can watch the football game on Sunday.
Setting aside a cash reward, which increases weekly, to be spent as you please when you achieve your goal is popular with everyone.
Now, what to do with your personal list of weight loss motivation? Well, it's up to you, whether you brazenly tack it up on the frig, or hide it in your nightstand. Just go over it every day, or any time you're about to shuck it all. It'll work!
Using Weight Loss Forums For Your Success
Hi! Kelly here again with some helpful tips on using weight loss forums to help you achieve your desired goal.
With all that tools that you can find online to assist you in your endeavor to lose weight, there is one that many forget to take advantage of for extra support. Before the Internet was wide spread, many people used friends and local support groups for the extra push they needed to succeed.
Today, you can find that same type of support through weight loss forums that you can find all over the Internet. The best part is that they are there all of the time, and that you can remain anonymous if that is what you want to do.
Typically, you can find a weight loss forums that you can join no matter what type of diet you are doing. If you are going about things in a low carb type of way, you can find forums that are dedicated to those using the Atkins eating play, or for those that prefer South Beach dieting.
These are full of people who are just starting out just like you may be, and there are also those that have gone through and have maintained their success for a number of months or even years. These weight loss forums are also full of those halfway there, or almost to their goal weight.
One great thing about weight loss forums is that you don’t have to wait for a weekly meeting to find out the answer to any question that you may have. You can post any time of the day or night, and you will probably get an answer within a few hours if not within a few minutes.
You can also go back through the older posts that you can find in forums for weight loss to see if someone else has already asked your question and if there are any good answers. You may even find information on questions you have not yet had.
When it comes to dieting, motivation and results are important for someone to have the will to continue. Weight loss forums can have both of these in spades.
Those members that have had success often share their stories, and even their before and after pictures. These can be immensely motivating, and a great reminder as to why you are doing what you are doing.
These folks often stick around to help you because there were others that did the same for them, and that may have been one of the major keys to their success.
Just go to your favorite search engine, like Google, Yahoo or MSN, and key in the terms for the type of weight loss forum you would like to join. Then choose one be encouraged!
Here's to your weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
With all that tools that you can find online to assist you in your endeavor to lose weight, there is one that many forget to take advantage of for extra support. Before the Internet was wide spread, many people used friends and local support groups for the extra push they needed to succeed.
Today, you can find that same type of support through weight loss forums that you can find all over the Internet. The best part is that they are there all of the time, and that you can remain anonymous if that is what you want to do.
Typically, you can find a weight loss forums that you can join no matter what type of diet you are doing. If you are going about things in a low carb type of way, you can find forums that are dedicated to those using the Atkins eating play, or for those that prefer South Beach dieting.
These are full of people who are just starting out just like you may be, and there are also those that have gone through and have maintained their success for a number of months or even years. These weight loss forums are also full of those halfway there, or almost to their goal weight.
Want to turbo charge your weight loss?
One great thing about weight loss forums is that you don’t have to wait for a weekly meeting to find out the answer to any question that you may have. You can post any time of the day or night, and you will probably get an answer within a few hours if not within a few minutes.
You can also go back through the older posts that you can find in forums for weight loss to see if someone else has already asked your question and if there are any good answers. You may even find information on questions you have not yet had.
When it comes to dieting, motivation and results are important for someone to have the will to continue. Weight loss forums can have both of these in spades.
Those members that have had success often share their stories, and even their before and after pictures. These can be immensely motivating, and a great reminder as to why you are doing what you are doing.
These folks often stick around to help you because there were others that did the same for them, and that may have been one of the major keys to their success.
Just go to your favorite search engine, like Google, Yahoo or MSN, and key in the terms for the type of weight loss forum you would like to join. Then choose one be encouraged!
Here's to your weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
Manage Your Weight Loss
Hi! Kelly here again with some helpful advise on how to manage your weight loss diet to a successful conclusion!
If you're going on a diet for the sole purpose of losing weight, it requires discipline, a regular exercise program and counting calories, but not much else.
What? Isn't that enough trouble?
Sure, but think of your weight loss diet program from the positive, glass-half-full perspective. People who are on 'restricted' diets, such as heart or diabetes patients, have many more factors to consider with every bite they take. So take heart. You can do it!
The properly managed and planned weight loss diet lets you plan your menus and count calories, while allowing for an occasional forbidden treat. Let's go over each aspect and see how you can stick to the program, without undue suffering, and still achieve your goal.
We'll start with the discipline factor.
Just as with any endeavor, you need to abide by the rules. For example, you've got to be on time to work. Students need to turn in assignments on a timely basis and drivers have to obey traffic laws. Conforming to these rules becomes simply a matter of habit. However, managing your weight loss diet program means that you make the rules.
For example, if your goal is to lose one pound a week, you'll need to reduce your caloric intake by 500 calories a day. Let's say you normally drink four or five regular sodas a day. Cutting back to just two a day cuts your calories by an awesome 400. Substituting a piece of fruit for your usual afternoon candy bar and you've reached your weight loss program goal!
Turbo charge your weight loss permanently.
Now let's move on to exercise.
If you want to enhance the effectiveness of your managed weight loss diet, know that exercise is your friend. A regular program of daily exercise burns calories. Your weight loss exercise program of choice makes all the difference. If you hate jogging, you won't follow through.
Choose something you truly enjoy. Do you like dancing to music? Turn on some music and dance to your heart's content. A half hour of such activity burns lots of calories. With headphones, you can lose weight in the wee hours of the morning, without disturbing anyone and have a good time doing it! Do something you like and do it every day.
OK, how about counting calories?
On a weight loss diet program, calories are the bottom line. Tailor your menus for maximum satisfaction and minimal suffering. If there's nothing you like more than a juicy burger, there are a number of ways to have your cake and eat it too. Instead of packing your burger bun with beef, try a chicken or turkey burger. Soy burgers are another healthy, low calorie option, loaded with nutrition. Just as juicy and tasty, these burgers have far fewer calories.
Good weight loss diet programs include foods high in fiber. High fiber foods sometimes require that your body expend more calories in digesting the food than the calories contained. Fruits, like apples, and vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, leafy greens and carrots are high in fiber, packed with nutrients and low in calories.
Here's a great weight loss secret. Eating an apple before lunch quenches your appetite, due to the high fiber content, making you feel full before you ever tackle lunch. You'll need less food for your meal, consume fewer calories, feel satisfied rather than deprived, and burn off some of the calories you've already ingested.
Managing a successful weight loss diet program is easier than you might think. Planning is the key. Count your calories, exercise and stick to your menus. This formula allows you to lose weight while enjoying an occasional piece of cake or an ice cream cone without guilt! It's doable! Watch the pounds disappear.
Here's to your ongoing weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy.
7 Ways to Lose Weight Quickly
Hi! Kelly here again for some great ways to lose weight before the holiday or beach season.
The holidays are fast approaching and we all know what that means! We want ways to lose weight quickly.
Food, food and more food. Calorie-laden cocktails and desserts. Parties and neighbors dropping in with a cookie gift basket. It's all so irresistible, but you want to be able to fit into that size 8 dress as you attend parties and host gatherings.
It is somewhat of a paradox: we want to look good while making merry. Now is the time to shed any extra pounds you've got, so you'll still look great by the time New Year's rolls around. Here we present seven ways to lose weight quickly, now.
If you integrate all of these methods, without fail, into your daily diet, beginning today, you will lose weight. It will probably require you to adopt habits you're not used to, but, hey, it works.
These seven ways to lose weight may even become a new way of eating for you, paying dividends for the rest of your life.
1. If you're used to eating three meals a day, start eating five or six small meals a day. You'll not suffer hunger pangs and your stomach will shrink, not expecting a large amount of food at any given time. The end result? You'll eat less over the course of a day. Naturally, you must choose healthy foods low in fat.
2. Before eating, while you're preparing your food, drink a glass of water. Dress it up with a spritz of lemon or lime juice, but drink it! The water will give your stomach a sensation of fullness and also clean up your kidneys and flush toxins, giving you glowing skin, enhancing your appearance in that LBD.
3. Eat slowly. While it's known that people who eat less as well as slowly, tend to live longer than those who wolf down large amounts of food, this third essential component of ways to lose weight quickly pays off right away. Your aperitif of water starts your digestive system on the right track, while eating slowly gives your stomach a chance to appreciate the amount you've consumed.
4. Eat small portions of everything. While this may seem like a no-brainer, when you're looking for ways to lose weight, many people try to fool themselves into believing that a great big steak won't hurt anything. Instead, you want to savor every bite of a 4 ounce portion, following rules 1 through 3. You'll be amazed at how satisfying that small portion can be.
5. Load up on fiber. This means that you can have a huge plate of veggies for one meal. Insoluble fiber requires more calories be burned than you consume in the process of digestion. This is one of the most healthful and least painful ways to lose weight in a hurry. Use some of those inventive seasonings on the supermarket shelf to make those veggies something you actually want to eat!
6. Avoid fatty meats and fried foods. Make a list of your favorite fish and eat plentiful amounts. Choose skinned, broiled chicken and lean pork cuts, as suits your taste.
7. Our last tip on ways to lose weight fast is to exercise daily. Yes, you've heard it before, but it's essential to your weight loss regimen. Say, you're probably going to be getting your house ship shape for the holidays anyway. So run that vacuum like there's no tomorrow. Apply vigorous elbow grease to ovens, the frig and bathrooms!
Paste these guidelines on ways to lose weight quickly up on the frig, at eye level. You'll be looking good for the holidays – and beyond.
Here's to your weight loss success!
Oh, by the way, would you like to look like a fitness trainer model for those special occasions?
The Weight Loss Guy
The holidays are fast approaching and we all know what that means! We want ways to lose weight quickly.
Food, food and more food. Calorie-laden cocktails and desserts. Parties and neighbors dropping in with a cookie gift basket. It's all so irresistible, but you want to be able to fit into that size 8 dress as you attend parties and host gatherings.
It is somewhat of a paradox: we want to look good while making merry. Now is the time to shed any extra pounds you've got, so you'll still look great by the time New Year's rolls around. Here we present seven ways to lose weight quickly, now.
If you integrate all of these methods, without fail, into your daily diet, beginning today, you will lose weight. It will probably require you to adopt habits you're not used to, but, hey, it works.
These seven ways to lose weight may even become a new way of eating for you, paying dividends for the rest of your life.
1. If you're used to eating three meals a day, start eating five or six small meals a day. You'll not suffer hunger pangs and your stomach will shrink, not expecting a large amount of food at any given time. The end result? You'll eat less over the course of a day. Naturally, you must choose healthy foods low in fat.
2. Before eating, while you're preparing your food, drink a glass of water. Dress it up with a spritz of lemon or lime juice, but drink it! The water will give your stomach a sensation of fullness and also clean up your kidneys and flush toxins, giving you glowing skin, enhancing your appearance in that LBD.
3. Eat slowly. While it's known that people who eat less as well as slowly, tend to live longer than those who wolf down large amounts of food, this third essential component of ways to lose weight quickly pays off right away. Your aperitif of water starts your digestive system on the right track, while eating slowly gives your stomach a chance to appreciate the amount you've consumed.
Turbo charge your weight loss.
4. Eat small portions of everything. While this may seem like a no-brainer, when you're looking for ways to lose weight, many people try to fool themselves into believing that a great big steak won't hurt anything. Instead, you want to savor every bite of a 4 ounce portion, following rules 1 through 3. You'll be amazed at how satisfying that small portion can be.
5. Load up on fiber. This means that you can have a huge plate of veggies for one meal. Insoluble fiber requires more calories be burned than you consume in the process of digestion. This is one of the most healthful and least painful ways to lose weight in a hurry. Use some of those inventive seasonings on the supermarket shelf to make those veggies something you actually want to eat!
6. Avoid fatty meats and fried foods. Make a list of your favorite fish and eat plentiful amounts. Choose skinned, broiled chicken and lean pork cuts, as suits your taste.
7. Our last tip on ways to lose weight fast is to exercise daily. Yes, you've heard it before, but it's essential to your weight loss regimen. Say, you're probably going to be getting your house ship shape for the holidays anyway. So run that vacuum like there's no tomorrow. Apply vigorous elbow grease to ovens, the frig and bathrooms!
Paste these guidelines on ways to lose weight quickly up on the frig, at eye level. You'll be looking good for the holidays – and beyond.
Here's to your weight loss success!
Oh, by the way, would you like to look like a fitness trainer model for those special occasions?
The Weight Loss Guy
Weight Loss for Free! How Cool is That?
Hi! Kelly here again with a great way to lose weight at no cost. You lose weight without losing you wallet. You've got to love it!
The secrets to the healthy way to lose weight are about to be unlocked – for free!
There are certain times of year that are more popular for weight loss programs. The first is New Year's, with a determined resolution to lose what you gained over the holidays. Valentines Day is an additional incentive.
When summer's coming and you're contemplating wearing a swimsuit, it's enough to put everyone on a diet. Then, in the fall, Halloween triggers a diet alert. All that candy! Oh, and the holidays are coming! You need a healthy way to lose weight that isn't torture!
Some people try a new diet with each attempt, some of which involve joining a membership, buying ready made and portioned meals or at the very least, buying a book full of magic weight loss recipes. This can all add up to a lot of money.
You may not even like the prepared meals, but you've already committed to the program. Recipes you prepare from a book often require careful measuring and weighing if you hope for success. Here, we're going to unlock the secrets of the healthy way to lose weight and, most importantly, keep it off! Wouldn't it be wonderful to diet for the last time?
Turbo charge your weight loss and safe money too.
One of the main reasons people fail to achieve their dieting objectives is that they feel deprived and don't even particularly like the proscribed foods. On the other hand, people who actually like their food tend to feel less deprived.
Even if you need to lose a substantial amount of weight, treating and rewarding yourself once a week with just one forbidden goodie may be just what you need to stay on track with your personal plan and the healthy way to lose weight.
You must count calories, so whatever reward you choose, make it count! If you're on a 1200 calorie per day plan and you 'spend' 400 calories on a piece of chocolate cake, well, you will have to adjust the rest of the day's intake. Although this is not sensible, the enjoyment derived from the cake may be enough to compensate for the sugar rush and possible headache that follows.
One of the hallmarks of a healthy way to lose weight program is that change in your eating habits is gradual, not radical. When you suddenly depart from your norm, your body is going to complain loudly. A good way to begin is to eat small, but frequent mini-meals. This gives your stomach a chance to adjust to reduced intake.
Have a fruit smoothie made with low-fat milk or yogurt. This will fill you up without loading on the calories. You'll be good until at least 10am.
Have a cup of soup and half a dozen crackers. At noon, have a banana and a muffin. You get the picture. If you have five small meals of healthy, filling foods, you'll completely fake out your stomach.
Your personal healthy way to lose weight program should address the sugar situation ASAP! We all know that a single can of a popular soda contains 200 calories and a bunch of caffeine! The virtual elimination of refined sugar brings quick results, both in weight loss and an improved mood and sleep.
Do become friendly with all the veggies you can eat. Again, if this is a radical departure for you, make the change gradually. You'll learn to like it.
Perhaps one of the best incentives to sticking to your healthy way to lose weight plan is to keep a food diary. Write down everything you eat! Log your weigh-ins, but once a week only. The food diary keeps you honest and shows you what works and what doesn't.
Good luck and good eating!
Here's to your weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
On a Diet? Forget the Bathroom Scale
Hi! Kelly here again to talk about your diet and the bathroom scale.
When dieting, many regard the bathroom scale as something of an enemy, yet they can’t seem to stay away from it. They want to know how well they are doing, but they don’t want to see how slowly the scales can really move.
Some get on it every single day, which might be part of the reason so many fall off of a diet so quickly. They see too many commercials promising fast weight loss, and when they don’t see that for themselves, they just give up.
When dieting, the bathroom scale is not the only measure of success, nor should it be.
Most have been measuring themselves each week. If they are exercising as they should be, they will be getting fat to come off and they will be forming new muscle. That means that even though the bathroom scale might not be moving, they are actually making progress. Sometimes, they are doing better than they could imagine, but they have no idea what is going on.
Getting on the bathroom scale once a week is better, or even once a month. It can be hard to resist, but it is the way to go. If the diet is going well, the scales will reflect that in a month’s time.
If you combine that with measuring important areas, the results of hard work will be more visible, without the stress of wondering why the scales are simply not moving from day to day. It takes a while to get used to the fact that you should just wait, but once someone can get a handle on that, they are going to hang on to a diet much longer, and they are going to see more results.
When it comes to buying a bathroom scale, spending a little more means more accuracy. The cheaper ones work, but they do wear out rather quickly and they may not be as accurate after just a few months. That can mess with any dieters head as well.
Sometimes, a bathroom scale can also calculate body fat and other things, but those should be taken with a grain of salt. Everyone has a different build and frame, and though fat percentage is important, it might be more accurate when assessed by a doctor.
Keep the scales for reference, but don’t use it very often, and don’t live and die by what it says each time you use it.
Here's to your ongoing weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
When dieting, many regard the bathroom scale as something of an enemy, yet they can’t seem to stay away from it. They want to know how well they are doing, but they don’t want to see how slowly the scales can really move.
Some get on it every single day, which might be part of the reason so many fall off of a diet so quickly. They see too many commercials promising fast weight loss, and when they don’t see that for themselves, they just give up.
When dieting, the bathroom scale is not the only measure of success, nor should it be.
Most have been measuring themselves each week. If they are exercising as they should be, they will be getting fat to come off and they will be forming new muscle. That means that even though the bathroom scale might not be moving, they are actually making progress. Sometimes, they are doing better than they could imagine, but they have no idea what is going on.
Want to turbo charge your weight loss? Check this out.
Getting on the bathroom scale once a week is better, or even once a month. It can be hard to resist, but it is the way to go. If the diet is going well, the scales will reflect that in a month’s time.
If you combine that with measuring important areas, the results of hard work will be more visible, without the stress of wondering why the scales are simply not moving from day to day. It takes a while to get used to the fact that you should just wait, but once someone can get a handle on that, they are going to hang on to a diet much longer, and they are going to see more results.
When it comes to buying a bathroom scale, spending a little more means more accuracy. The cheaper ones work, but they do wear out rather quickly and they may not be as accurate after just a few months. That can mess with any dieters head as well.
Sometimes, a bathroom scale can also calculate body fat and other things, but those should be taken with a grain of salt. Everyone has a different build and frame, and though fat percentage is important, it might be more accurate when assessed by a doctor.
Keep the scales for reference, but don’t use it very often, and don’t live and die by what it says each time you use it.
Here's to your ongoing weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
Lose Weight at a Fitness Center
Hi! Kelly here again.
More than likely you've noticed the explosion of diet and fitness trends over the past decade. In reality this is a very difficult trend to miss. With all of the reality programs about dieting on television every night and the countless diet supplements gracing the market, everyone on planet earth has probably caught wind of the diet and weight loss phenomenon by now.
A major part of this health and appearance kick involves fitness centers. In all likelihood you have at least one major gym or fitness center in your neck of the woods.
Some of the more major ones are Gold's Gym and the typically reliable YMCA. Therefore if you're seeking a great place to pump some iron or get into the cardio groove, you may want to search your area for one of these popular fitness centers.
Want to look like a fitness trainer without the high cost of a fitness center? Check this out.
Not everyone prefers doing the membership thing at a well-known fitness center or gym. This is not always a problem. In fact, many of these workout facilities allow you to pay by the day or time you visit. This way you don't have a monthly cost hanging over your head, but you can visit the gym for a workout whenever you please.
Often a one-day pass is not too pricey. I've encountered a five or ten dollar charge at most of them. Naturally if you're going to attend and make use of a fitness center on a routine basis, it's much cheaper to simply go with the 40, 50, or 60 dollar a month membership.
If your gym fee is greater than that, then you either reside in a major city, or you've chosen one of those "high-end" fitness centers, which are generally pretty exclusive. Just be aware of what you're getting into prior to forking out some major dough for a long term membership. These fitness centers can get a bit pricey if you don't watch out.
There is always the obvious alternative to common fitness centers, which is known as buying the equipment yourself. While this route can cost you some serious bucks in the beginning, there are a few major perks to keep in mind.
First of all, you won't have to pay anymore once you've purchased the equipment you desire.
Secondly, you can exercise in the privacy of your own home and save on gas.
Finally, you have total reign over the fitness equipment and do not have to share it with others. In the end, the way you workout is really just a personal preference.
Here's to your weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
More than likely you've noticed the explosion of diet and fitness trends over the past decade. In reality this is a very difficult trend to miss. With all of the reality programs about dieting on television every night and the countless diet supplements gracing the market, everyone on planet earth has probably caught wind of the diet and weight loss phenomenon by now.
A major part of this health and appearance kick involves fitness centers. In all likelihood you have at least one major gym or fitness center in your neck of the woods.
Some of the more major ones are Gold's Gym and the typically reliable YMCA. Therefore if you're seeking a great place to pump some iron or get into the cardio groove, you may want to search your area for one of these popular fitness centers.
Want to look like a fitness trainer without the high cost of a fitness center? Check this out.
Not everyone prefers doing the membership thing at a well-known fitness center or gym. This is not always a problem. In fact, many of these workout facilities allow you to pay by the day or time you visit. This way you don't have a monthly cost hanging over your head, but you can visit the gym for a workout whenever you please.
Often a one-day pass is not too pricey. I've encountered a five or ten dollar charge at most of them. Naturally if you're going to attend and make use of a fitness center on a routine basis, it's much cheaper to simply go with the 40, 50, or 60 dollar a month membership.
If your gym fee is greater than that, then you either reside in a major city, or you've chosen one of those "high-end" fitness centers, which are generally pretty exclusive. Just be aware of what you're getting into prior to forking out some major dough for a long term membership. These fitness centers can get a bit pricey if you don't watch out.
There is always the obvious alternative to common fitness centers, which is known as buying the equipment yourself. While this route can cost you some serious bucks in the beginning, there are a few major perks to keep in mind.
First of all, you won't have to pay anymore once you've purchased the equipment you desire.
Secondly, you can exercise in the privacy of your own home and save on gas.
Finally, you have total reign over the fitness equipment and do not have to share it with others. In the end, the way you workout is really just a personal preference.
Here's to your weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
Exercise and Diet - The Perfect Duo for Weight Loss
Hi! Kelly here again.
Did you know that exercise is a natural adjunct to a healthy weight loss diet program?
For many dieters, weight loss seems to be a subject of almost constant attention.
Have you gone on a diet and lost the weight, only to have those unwanted pounds creep back within several months? This constant dieting is a discouraging proposition, always having to watch and weigh everything you eat! “When do I get to enjoy eating?” is a common refrain. Yet, it need not be this way.
Most people don't make the correct connection between a healthy weight loss diet program in concert with an exercise regimen. People on diets often have a mindset that says the exercise part of the program is just more punishment.
The fact is that exercise is the key to your long term success: getting the weight off and keeping it off! Let's take a look and see just how a healthy weight loss diet program dovetails perfectly with your exercise regimen.
We all know that the centerpiece of the diet part is reduced intake of calories. If your goal is to lose a significant amount of weight, reducing your calorie intake may be rather difficult on your temperament and patience.
Many a dieter 'falls off the wagon' due to nothing more than plain hunger, usually because your calories are slashed too radically. A healthy weight loss diet plan shoots for losing one pound per week.
Losing weight slowly is the most successful style of diet. Your stomach adjusts to a gradual reduction of food intake, shrinking to slowly accommodate your new eating habits. In a year, you could lose 52 pounds with a daily cut of just 500 calories. When you consider that some cakes contain 500 calories in a single slice, this can be doable, right?
Here's where your exercise program kicks in to help. If you reduce your caloric intake by 500 per day, you'll lose about a pound each week, without exercising.
However, consider this.
If you spend one hour each day, exercising moderately, you'll burn, on average, about 250 calories, depending on the activity. Look online for charts which list dozens of activities and how many calories that activity burns.
Burning 250 calories off, while already reducing consumption by 500 calories not only gives you an edge on your healthy weight loss diet plan, but produces positive metabolic changes, improving circulation, sweating out toxins and giving you new found energy. Meanwhile, your stomach is still happy.
Recent studies have shown that people who combine a daily program of exercise with a sensible, healthy weight loss diet plan tend to stick with their goal and achieve their objective. The most interesting note is that people who continued to exercise regularly, after reaching their goal, kept the weight off a year down the road and 'automatically' reduced their caloric intake by 300-400 calories.
The bottom line is that exercise results in metabolic changes that your body adjusts to naturally. These success stories formed new eating habits they wanted to continue, long after the dieting phase was over.
Here's to your weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
Did you know that exercise is a natural adjunct to a healthy weight loss diet program?
For many dieters, weight loss seems to be a subject of almost constant attention.
Have you gone on a diet and lost the weight, only to have those unwanted pounds creep back within several months? This constant dieting is a discouraging proposition, always having to watch and weigh everything you eat! “When do I get to enjoy eating?” is a common refrain. Yet, it need not be this way.
Most people don't make the correct connection between a healthy weight loss diet program in concert with an exercise regimen. People on diets often have a mindset that says the exercise part of the program is just more punishment.
The fact is that exercise is the key to your long term success: getting the weight off and keeping it off! Let's take a look and see just how a healthy weight loss diet program dovetails perfectly with your exercise regimen.
We all know that the centerpiece of the diet part is reduced intake of calories. If your goal is to lose a significant amount of weight, reducing your calorie intake may be rather difficult on your temperament and patience.
Many a dieter 'falls off the wagon' due to nothing more than plain hunger, usually because your calories are slashed too radically. A healthy weight loss diet plan shoots for losing one pound per week.
Losing weight slowly is the most successful style of diet. Your stomach adjusts to a gradual reduction of food intake, shrinking to slowly accommodate your new eating habits. In a year, you could lose 52 pounds with a daily cut of just 500 calories. When you consider that some cakes contain 500 calories in a single slice, this can be doable, right?
Here's where your exercise program kicks in to help. If you reduce your caloric intake by 500 per day, you'll lose about a pound each week, without exercising.
However, consider this.
If you spend one hour each day, exercising moderately, you'll burn, on average, about 250 calories, depending on the activity. Look online for charts which list dozens of activities and how many calories that activity burns.
Burning 250 calories off, while already reducing consumption by 500 calories not only gives you an edge on your healthy weight loss diet plan, but produces positive metabolic changes, improving circulation, sweating out toxins and giving you new found energy. Meanwhile, your stomach is still happy.
Recent studies have shown that people who combine a daily program of exercise with a sensible, healthy weight loss diet plan tend to stick with their goal and achieve their objective. The most interesting note is that people who continued to exercise regularly, after reaching their goal, kept the weight off a year down the road and 'automatically' reduced their caloric intake by 300-400 calories.
The bottom line is that exercise results in metabolic changes that your body adjusts to naturally. These success stories formed new eating habits they wanted to continue, long after the dieting phase was over.
Here's to your weight loss success!
The Weight Loss Guy
Welcome to the Sensible Weight Loss Blog
Hi! My name is Kelly aka The Weight Loss Guy.
Welcome to my blog where you will find some of the
best and most sensible information about how to lose weight and keep it off.
I'm looking forward to sharing with you sensible ways to lose weight and get into physical fitness that go beyond the latest fad.
So come me join me in an adventure were losing means gaining!
The Weight Loss Guy - Kelly
Welcome to my blog where you will find some of the
best and most sensible information about how to lose weight and keep it off.
I'm looking forward to sharing with you sensible ways to lose weight and get into physical fitness that go beyond the latest fad.
So come me join me in an adventure were losing means gaining!
The Weight Loss Guy - Kelly
Monday, December 8, 2008
Sensible Weight Loss Information
Hi! Kelly here.
I hope you will find this article about the flood of weight loss information helpful.
Sorting the wheat from the chaff in weight loss information: what's credible?
With the holidays upon us, there are millions of people looking to skinny down before loading up on all the goodies to be had at this time of year. You tell yourself if you can lose ten pounds, you can appear more suave or sexy as you make the rounds of parties and holiday events.
There are more weight loss programs, pills and advice available than you could possibly try in a lifetime. When you go looking for weight loss information, how do you know what's hype and what works? Weight loss forums get real busy this time of year. After the holidays, you're back to bemoan the fact that the weight's back and now what?? Everybody has their two cents to contribute.
Some of the more institution-like websites that deal with weight loss information are a bit stodgy and dry. This information, while for the most part credible, is plenteous, to the point where you begin to feel like digesting it all might take months. You'll also find caveats galore. “Don't do this if you're on a salt restricted diet” or, “if you're genetically disposed to ...”, leaving you thinking you need a battery of tests performed to distinguish the do's from the do not's.
Unless you can and want to spend a few months figuring out your own custom weight loss program, this type of weight loss information may not be news you can use right now. Credible, but maybe TMI for your immediate needs.
See this site that focuses on losing weight by getting in shape and looking beautiful!
There's no shortage of weight loss information books, from chic and trendy programs to scholastic tomes. The academic books, written by people with degrees in nutrition, contain accurate information. The trendy books – ones that read, 'The (insert now-household name) Diet' would not have become household names if they didn't work for some people.
Therein lies the rub. What if you're not one of those people? You might even have tried one of these in the past and found it did not work, even though your neighbor lost 20 pounds with that method. This type of weight loss information carries its own caveat, that being that it might not work, although the theory and science is credible.
Then there are the so-called 'miracle' diets and pills. Some are plain snake oil remedies, which don't work for anyone. Others employ herbs like ephedra or hoodia, which, while they work, can be super dangerous to your health, used improperly.
Ephedra is a powerful stimulant and is best avoided, except in very narrow circumstances and under strict medical supervision.
Hoodia is a plant native to the Australian outback. The aboriginal tribes make use of it when making long treks through the desert, in search of food. It suppresses the appetite, for sure, but is not a recommended lifestyle. Any qualified herbalist will tell you that both herbs should be used with caution, if at all.
So, where do you find practical, accurate weight loss information?
What's not often mentioned in any of these venues is that losing weight has a largely psychological component. This is why your neighbor lost 20 pounds on the X diet, while you gave it up after a month of fruitless effort. The psychological factor is key to your success. The bottom line is your motivation and counting calories. That's all there is to it.
So here's my two cents.
Allow a week to prep up for the effort. Just like quitting smoking, you've got to mentally prepare yourself. List every reason you can think of that motivates you to lose weight. Nothing's too silly.
Stick your list on the frig or hide it in your purse.
During this week, make a food diary which details every bit of food you ingest. No cheating. Add up the calories for each day and divide by seven. That's your average current caloric intake.
If your weight loss goal is one pound per week, deduct 500 calories from your average and plan your menus accordingly. Weigh yourself on the morning of day one.
Exercise will naturally enhance reaching your objective. Be hard on yourself and stick with the program. Fewer calories equals weight loss. This is the common sense approach to weight loss information that works for you.
Now, where's that LBD?
Here's to your long term success for weight loss.
The Weight Loss Guy
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With the holidays upon us, there are millions of people looking to skinny down before loading up on all the goodies to be had at this time of year. You tell yourself if you can lose ten pounds, you can appear more suave or sexy as you make the rounds of parties and holiday events.
There are more weight loss programs, pills and advice available than you could possibly try in a lifetime. When you go looking for weight loss information, how do you know what's hype and what works? Weight loss forums get real busy this time of year. After the holidays, you're back to bemoan the fact that the weight's back and now what?? Everybody has their two cents to contribute.
Some of the more institution-like websites that deal with weight loss information are a bit stodgy and dry. This information, while for the most part credible, is plenteous, to the point where you begin to feel like digesting it all might take months. You'll also find caveats galore. “Don't do this if you're on a salt restricted diet” or, “if you're genetically disposed to ...”, leaving you thinking you need a battery of tests performed to distinguish the do's from the do not's.
Unless you can and want to spend a few months figuring out your own custom weight loss program, this type of weight loss information may not be news you can use right now. Credible, but maybe TMI for your immediate needs.
See this site that focuses on losing weight by getting in shape and looking beautiful!
There's no shortage of weight loss information books, from chic and trendy programs to scholastic tomes. The academic books, written by people with degrees in nutrition, contain accurate information. The trendy books – ones that read, 'The (insert now-household name) Diet' would not have become household names if they didn't work for some people.
Therein lies the rub. What if you're not one of those people? You might even have tried one of these in the past and found it did not work, even though your neighbor lost 20 pounds with that method. This type of weight loss information carries its own caveat, that being that it might not work, although the theory and science is credible.
Then there are the so-called 'miracle' diets and pills. Some are plain snake oil remedies, which don't work for anyone. Others employ herbs like ephedra or hoodia, which, while they work, can be super dangerous to your health, used improperly.
Ephedra is a powerful stimulant and is best avoided, except in very narrow circumstances and under strict medical supervision.
Hoodia is a plant native to the Australian outback. The aboriginal tribes make use of it when making long treks through the desert, in search of food. It suppresses the appetite, for sure, but is not a recommended lifestyle. Any qualified herbalist will tell you that both herbs should be used with caution, if at all.
So, where do you find practical, accurate weight loss information?
What's not often mentioned in any of these venues is that losing weight has a largely psychological component. This is why your neighbor lost 20 pounds on the X diet, while you gave it up after a month of fruitless effort. The psychological factor is key to your success. The bottom line is your motivation and counting calories. That's all there is to it.
So here's my two cents.
Allow a week to prep up for the effort. Just like quitting smoking, you've got to mentally prepare yourself. List every reason you can think of that motivates you to lose weight. Nothing's too silly.
Stick your list on the frig or hide it in your purse.
During this week, make a food diary which details every bit of food you ingest. No cheating. Add up the calories for each day and divide by seven. That's your average current caloric intake.
If your weight loss goal is one pound per week, deduct 500 calories from your average and plan your menus accordingly. Weigh yourself on the morning of day one.
Exercise will naturally enhance reaching your objective. Be hard on yourself and stick with the program. Fewer calories equals weight loss. This is the common sense approach to weight loss information that works for you.
Now, where's that LBD?
Here's to your long term success for weight loss.
The Weight Loss Guy
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