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Eating Only Nutritional Foods
Posted by Cassandra Segoviano in Fitness on December 28, 2008
The biggest problem with most people gaining weight is due to the quantity of food they consume.
Usually, there is a good reason why some people feel the need to eat large amounts of food and that’s the main reason why they gain weight.
Consuming foods with low nutritional value will not supply you with the energy you need. Nor will they satisfy your appetite so you will leave wanting more because your nutritional requirements have not been satisfied.
Human nature dictates that we will eat until our hunger has been satisfied and since we have been left feeling hungry, we will eat more food.
Excessive weight gain is brought on by eating foods that don’t meet your nutritional requirements. Eating the right foods, will satisfy your nutritional needs thereby reducing your need to eat more and that will ensure that you wouldn’t gain excess weight.
Fast foods lack the essential nutrients the human body needs. Eating fast foods is the main cause of weight problems.
We can maintain a good bodyweight without being hungry by simply avoiding foods with low nutritional value and replacing them with foods that are high in essential nutrients.
There is a problem with most diets – they are too hard to maintain and hunger should not be part of a well-balanced lifestyle
Good food in good quantities will help you to maintain a healthy bodyweight and you will feel satisfied after your meals.
Age is Not an Excuse
It’s a fore-gone conclusion that with age, our bodies change. Unlike when we were young, now fat is stored in places we have to be concerned about.
When your metabolic rate slows, your digestive system doesn’t work as efficiently as it used to.
There is one constant and this constant is forever present and that is that if you eat too much food and drink too much alcohol coupled with a sedentary lifestyle, you will gain weight. Also, the shape you’re in can be affected by the hormonal changes in your body.
Being overweight and using your age as an excuse is unacceptable. Particularly when you consider the large number of elderly people who remain slim, fit and healthy – it should become crystal clear that age is not a reasonable excuse.
The bodies we have were created by poor lifestyle choices. The effects, of poor lifestyle choices, are increased as we age. We abuse our bodies with poor food choices and those choices are manifested with overweight and other health related problems due to poor nutrition.
Throughout your life, you should maintain your fat percentage at an optimum level. By doing so, the health benefits are large like; a better quality of life, reduced dependence on medications and save money on costly medications and avoiding other health related problems as you age.
At any stage in your life, no matter how old you are you can benefit from improved nutrition and exercise.
You will live longer and happier by reducing the excess levels in your body fat.
Starting on an exercise program and taking care to improve your nutrition is the best way to turn back the body clock and it is never too late to start winding back the years. Obviously the sooner you start the better but starting is the essential ingredient that you need right now.
Key To Fast Weight Loss
There’s no doubt that many people need to lose a few pounds. Look around where people gather, you’ll notice the fat. Don’t laugh. Unfortunately you’re likely to see it in the mirror too. If your goal is fast weight loss, keep a few simple things in mind to lose the pounds quickly and safely.
Skipping meals is one of the first things people often try when they want to lose weight. It makes sense, right, cut out the calories by eating one fewer meal. Doesn’t weight loss come with eating less calories? That’s correct but skipping meals isn’t the right way to reduce calories. When you skip meals your body goes into starvation mode. It starts to retain fat to counteract what it perceives as a food shortage. Another problem with skipping meals is that when you finally eat you’ll be a lot more hungry. The result is binge eating. Skipping a meal plus binge eating, then, will likely result in eating more calories and the body gaining even more weight from those calories than normally. It’s the worst of both worlds. Don’t do it.
Know how much to eat. Portion control is just as important as eating the right food. Too much of even a healthy food still results in weight gain. Portion control isn’t easy when large portions are so common. Restaurants serve over large portions, as do most people at home. The FDA and other sources list recommended daily allowances. And remember portion size when you eat at restaurants, especially fast food restaurants. Don’t eat the full portion served at the restaurant, or order less than a full meal, such as soup and a salad.
Eat more whole grain foods, skip the white grains such as white bread, sugar and white rice. Whole grains are lower in fat and higher in nutrients. The fiber in whole grains will make you feel fuller faster and longer. Also whole grains contain many nutrients that are often lacking in people’s diets.
Consume more water. Drink it instead of juices and sodas which add about 90,000 calories to the average person’s diet each year. Drink water between meals too. In fact, the goal is 8 glasses of water each day. It’s easily possible. Drinking water will also promote health in general by keeping you well hydrated and cool.
Eat healthy snacks between meals. The body needs food every three to four hours to maintain proper blood sugar. Eating healthy snacks, such as fruits, helps control eating at meal times.
With some knowledge and planning, fast weight loss is easily possible. It won’t be long before you’re slimmer and trimmer.
Discover Real Diets That Work
Posted by Dereck Simmons in Alternative Medicine on November 26, 2008
People who need to lose weight are constantly seeking diets that work. The trick isn’t really finding a diet plan that works, but rather finding a diet to which a person can stick. The diet industry is very large. Including books, diet food programs, trainers and nutritionists, spas, and all the other elements of the health and diet industry a lot of money, over 46.8 billion dollars in 2005, is made not from people becoming healthy or losing weight, but rather from people trying to become healthy or lose weight. Because repeat business brings in the cash, the focus is surely on the ping-pong reality of poor living followed by short stints of diets and health programs.
So you want a diet that delivers? Here’s one. Combine limiting caloric intake to 1000 calories a day with at least 30 minutes of exercise at least five times a week. That diet will result in shedding weight. Only two small things. The first is that cravings will foil the diet. 1000 calories and all that exercise will eventually lead to ruinous hunger and binge eating. First it’s a potato chip or slice of cake, then it’s an extra hot dog and the whole bag of chips, and then the diet is kaput. #2 the diet eventually ends. You soon go back to eating the same old way. Next spring, or next time to wear that dress or tuxedo, or next family trip, or simply the next time you look into a mirror on the way out of the bathroom it will be once again be diet time.
The best diet is a permanent diet. A lifestyle change to healthier eating habits and more exercise is the best way to lose weight and keep off the unwanted pounds. The Sonoma Diet, created by Connie Guttersen, discusses 10 “power foods.” These are almonds, bell peppers, blueberries, broccoli, grapes, olive oil, spinach, strawberries, tomatoes and whole grains, eaten in conjunction with the cuisine of the Sonoma country, which includes Asian, Latin American and Mediterranean influences. The diet is full of real food, and real portions, combined into enjoyable dishes to help motivate someone to stay with it .
Want a diet that works? Move your mind from a short term diet to a long term style that’s part of an overall healthy and active lifestyle. That’s the way to not only lose the weight, but to avoid gaining it in the first place.
Dieting Myth: Calorie Types Influence Weight Control
Posted by Stephen Bartlay in Health on November 14, 2008
Have you noticed it? There is a bunch of information on the Internet about “calorie types.”
There are articles out there going on about “what kind of calories to eat to lose weight” or “why you should be aware of calorie types.” I saw one that goes into the “fact” that there are 3 types of calories – protein, fat and carbohydrates!
We are talking about people who are doing serious time in la-la land here.
Calories are not things. You can”t see them and you certainly can’t eat them! What is a calorie then” It is the energy required to raise the temperature of a gram of water 1 degree Centigrade.
Since a calorie is a measurement of energy, it makes about as much sense to talk about carbohydrate calories vs. fat calories as it does to talk about red inches vs. green inches. An inch is an inch and a calorie is a calorie.
We can however, talk about things like the amount of energy in food. We can also talk about the amount of energy you burn when you perform some task, such as walking, raking leaves of shoveling snow.
When we talk about the energy in food or the energy used up by an activity, we use the word calories to indicate how much energy we are talking about.
Some foods are packed with more energy than others. In the same way we expect a bag holding a pound of feathers to be much bigger than a bag holding a pound of coal, we expect for the same number of calories, the pile of lettuce to be much bigger than the pile of grease dripping french-fries.
This fact lays the foundation for some diets and it is also the basis for long term weight control. The feeling we have when we feel “satisfied” after eating is actually quite complex – too complex for us to go into here.
But I can say that the relationship between volume of food and number of calories is very important when it comes to weight control. If we can find foods that supply large quantities but small numbers of calories, we stand a better chance of feeling satisfied while not gaining (and maybe even losing) weight.
The notion that there are “types” of calories needs to be replaced with the idea that different foods contain different amounts of energy.
Also, if weight loss is our goal, then what we ultimately want to do is burn more calories during the day with our activities than we take in when we eat.