Fill up For Fast Weight Loss

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles, Eating habits and diet | Posted on 23-04-2010-05-2008

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When you’re dieting, a growling tummy is like a wedding toast: The longer it lasts, the more dangerous it gets. But your hormones, not your gut, are really to blame for most binges. Ghrelin, which makes you hungry, and leptin, your primary appetite suppressor, are eternally battling it out. Preventing these hormones from going haywire is the key to reining in calories without always feeling ravenous. So dig in we’re giving you 50 ways to fill up and conquer the growling beast that is your stomach.

1. Pack a packet Instant oatmeal beats out All Bran and Muesli for fullness factor. We love Quaker’s Weight Control Maple and Brown Sugar it tastes heavenly and has more fiber, protein, and whole grains than the regular variety.

2. Find berry treasure Raspberries are one of the most fiber-filled fruits, packing 8 grams into a cupful a whopping 32 percent of your RDA. Add some to your cereal or yogurt.

3. Can the juice Whole fruit has a higher fiber content and makes you feel fuller than fruit juices, even those with pulp.

4. Make a dinner date A study found that women eat less than usual on dates (men tend to eat a lot more).

5. But don’t eat by candlelight Dim light can trigger binge eating. Read the rest of this entry »

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Healthy Eating Tips

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles, Eating habits and diet, General tips | Posted on 19-04-2010-05-2008

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Don’t sabotage your workout routines with unhealthy binge eating. Instead, find out what you need to do to stop the binging.

Eating so you’re full and satisfied, rather than giving in to emotional overeating to fill a void or simply because the food is there, takes some planning—and a few good strategies. Here they are:

Healthy eating tips # 1. Identify high-risk situations.

Few people overeat in every situation, so determine the circumstances that are likely to trigger a binge. Once you’ve identified which situations are most likely to spark emotional overeating, come up with a game plan for each one. For example, if eating at relatives’ always involves plentiful gooey desserts, plan to make or buy a low-fat dessert, and bring it with you for everyone to share. If you can’t go to the movies without snacking on something, sneak in your own bag of air-popped popcorn or some low-cal candy.

Healthy eating tips # 2. Keep a record of what you put in your mouth in a food diary.

In a study at the Center for Behavioral Medicine in Chicago, researchers asked 38 people who were trying to lose weight to keep a food diary; doing so not only helped them control their weight during high-risk holidays, but even helped them peel off unwanted pounds. Keep it simple—it doesn’t have to include total calories or fat grams—but don’t forget to jot down snacks or drinks, which can add up. You need to maintain a record at least 75 percent of the time for a food diary to be effective.

Healthy eating tips # 3. Explore food-free ways to socialize.

In social situations, everybody eats more if they see everybody else doing so. If this sounds familiar, get in the habit of bonding with friends over activities that don’t center around food: a walk at the park, an afternoon at a paint-your-own-pottery shop, a long bike ride or hike, or trying a new class at the gym.

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Eat These Diet Foods to Get Abs

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles, Eating habits and diet | Posted on 17-04-2010-05-2008

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To get the number on the scale to go down, you have to chow down. Between 10 and 30 percent of the calories you use each day get burned by the simple act of digesting your food. Now that’s pretty cool — satisfying your food cravings actually fries calories! But not all foods are created equal. Your body uses more calories to digest protein (about 25 burned for every 100 consumed) than it does to digest fats and carbohydrates (10 to 15 burned for every 100 consumed).

That’s why the Abs Diet concentrates on adding lean, healthy proteins. Eat more of them, in a sensible way, and you’ll torch more calories. Protein is also the nutrient that builds muscle — and the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism and the more calories you’ll burn throughout the day. When you lift and lower weights, you create microscopic tears in your muscles. To mend the tears, your body parachutes in new protein to assess the damage and repair the muscle. Proteins fortify the original cell structure by building new muscle fibers.

This wonder child of the nutrition world also makes you feel fuller faster. But the good news doesn’t stop there. Following an eating plan that emphasizes lean proteins will accelerate weight loss from your midsection first.

The Abs Diet plan is simple: Just stick to the six guidelines below and follow the Abs Diet Quickstart Workout for weight loss success. You can burn a serious hunk of fat — from your belly first — in just a few weeks.

Let the belly flattening begin!

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8 Things You Wanted to Know About Diets

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles, Eating habits and diet | Posted on 16-04-2010-05-2008

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Your cube mate advises against eating after 8 p.m., a girl from your yoga class swears by the grapefruit diet, and your best friend warns that mixing carbs and protein can pack on the pounds. Sure, you’ve been hearing diet tips like these from well-meaning people for years, but is there any truth to them? To set the record straight on the most oft-repeated advice, we consulted a team of nutrition experts. They revealed which strategies you should forget and which live up to their get-slim promise.

Q. Will chewing low-cal foods like sugar-free gum and celery help me burn calories?

A. It might, but hardly enough to trigger weight loss. Gum and certain veggies are often called “negative-calorie” foods because they supposedly take more energy for your body to chew or digest than they contain.

The negative-calorie myth was put to the test when researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, asked people to chew sugarless gum at a rate of 100 bites per minute. After calculating the energy expended (about 11 calories per hour), they concluded that a person who chomped on a piece every waking hour of the day for a month would lose less than a pound. As for celery? All that crunching does burn energy, but it amounts to less than the 6-calorie stalk contains. The bottom line: If you really want to shed pounds, give your jaw a rest and start moving your body.

Q. Can coffee really rev up my metabolism?

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Never Skip Breakfast

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Eating habits and diet, General tips | Posted on 01-04-2010-05-2008

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The worst thing you can do while watching you diet and trying to lose weight is skip a meal. It has just the opposite effect of what you want. You need to have at least four regular meals every day.

Important fact: While skipping a meal will reduce your calorie intake for that hour, it will leave you much hungrier later on.
 
Have an egg for breakfast. Studies found that an egg for breakfast helped overweight people feel more full over 24 hours than a bagel-based breakfast of equal calories and the people who ate the egg breakfast ate 330 calories less during the day and after an 8-week study.

The people who had eggs for breakfast instead of bagels lost 65% more weight and they lost 16% more fat and don’t worry about your cholesterol levels going up because even though the people in that 8 week study had 2 eggs for breakfast everyday.

Please leave a comment if you found this weight loss tip useful.

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Eat to Lose Weight

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles, Eating habits and diet | Posted on 29-03-2010-05-2008

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Eating healthy can help you lose lbs. Here is a food list of some of the best appetite suppressants already in your kitchen

Pine Nuts

New research shows that the fatty acids in pine nuts initiate the release of an appetite-suppressing hormone called cholecystokinin. Sprinkle them on salads or mix them into pesto.

Hot Stuff

As in hot to the touch (think tea and soup). According to studies from the Smell and Taste Research Foundation in Chicago, the aromas released by hot food make you feel full faster by affecting the satiety centers in the brain. We know there’s no substitute for a cold slice of pizza, but pop it in the microwave and you’ll probably eat less.

Green Leafies

Cabbage, iceberg, romaine, spinach, and other leafy greens are nearly calorie-free. And in most cases, you burn them off just by digesting them. (Cucumbers and celery count too.)

Oil, Slick

Researchers at Cornell University found that diners who dipped their bread in olive oil rather than spreading it with butter ate less of the loaf and consumed 53 fewer calories overall. They’re not sure why but think that something in the oil makes it more satiating.

(Article from http://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/the-best-foods-for-weight-loss)

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78 Ways to Cut 100 Calories

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles, Eating habits and diet | Posted on 26-03-2010-05-2008

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Calories can be cruel. Sweat through a 30-minute workout and you can torch 200. Take three gulps of a foamy frappuccino and you’re right back where you started.But slashing those suckers can be as effortless as piling them on. We’ve found 78 ways you can cut 100 or more calories at a pop. From picking the right slice at Pizza Hut to skipping the whip on your latte, they’ll add up so fast, you won’t miss a thing—until poof! Your love handles are gone.

At Breakfast

  • • Ditch the Pop-Tart for a slice of high-fiber toast with strawberry jam.
  • • Gotta have carbs? Split a bagel with a coworker.
  • • Drink your two cups of joe black. Or order a single espresso instead of your usual latte.
  • • Swap OJ for the real deal—one fresh orange.
  • • Trade a side of regular sausage for turkey.
  • • Top your waffles with Reddi-Whip instead of syrup (or use sugar-free).
  • • Skip the whip on any Caribou Coffee 16-ounce drink.
  • • Eat your granola from a 4-ounce mug, not an 8-ounce bowl.
  • • Lose the Yoplait Thick & Creamy and have a Yoplait Fiber 1.
  • • Order pancakes, but hold the butter.
  • • Scramble together 4 egg whites instead of 2 whole eggs.

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Alternative to Diet: Green Tea

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Eating habits and diet, Supplements | Posted on 24-03-2010-05-2008

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Greet tea herbal capsules help to lose weight fasterFor some people getting on a diet is extremely hard. Diet should be your lifestyle, not a temporaly solution. If you lose 10 pounds and then gain 20 after you get off the diet – such diet will only harm your health. In such cases doctors recommend to take Green Tea . It is even better if you combine it with a light diet.

Green Tea: Green tea is a supplement that is used for immune-enhancing effects and fat loss. Did you know that:

  1. Green Tea increases your metabolism making you burn more fat and it’s a mild appetite suppressant that makes you eat less so… weight loss becomes a natural process with green tea.
  2. Dr. Nicholas Perricone told Oprah Winfrey she could lose 10 lbs. in 4-6 weeks drinking green tea instead of coffee
  3. Green Tea causes carbohydrates to be released slowly, preventing rises in blood-insulin levels and this causes your body to burn fat.
  4. Green Tea prevents you from gaining weight by stopping the movement of sugar into your fat cells. Evidence shows that taking green tea is related to reductions in body fat.
  5. In a test where 10 men were given Green Tea, caffeine, or a placebo with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The men who took green tea burned more fat than the placebo and caffeine groups.
  6. Research shows you can burn 35-43% more fat during the day when you take or drink Green Tea.
  7. The International Journal of Obesity states that Green Tea contains polyphenols which causes your body to produce heat that burns off your body fat.
  8. Green Tea is one of the most popular herbal supplements recommended by the doctors internationally.

Note: Green Tea can be in tea bags or capsules. We recommend capsules since they have additional weight loss ingredients and are more effective than just tea.

You can order Green Tea online here

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Drink Water and Lose Weight

Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Eating habits and diet | Posted on 23-03-2010-05-2008

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Water helps losing weight fasterYes, it might sound unrealistic but it is true that water helps losing weight.

Interesting fact: When your body gets not enough water it experiences the same state as during stress and starts sending signals to your brain that are similar to those that are sent when you are hungry.

So as a result when your are actually thirsty, you start eating. Since you have no need for extra energy guess what happens to those extra calories…fat!

Paradox: The less water you drink, the more water your body will safe for future use.

Drink plenty of water evenly through the day, eight or more glasses total.  As soon as you wake up try and drink 16 ounces of cold water.  Drinking water is one of the most rapid weight loss tips that dieticians suggest to people and leads to 100+ calories extra burned a day.

Interesting fact: Water makes your metabolism burn calories 3% faster.

It may be difficult to drink enough water on a busy day. Be sure you have water handy at all times by keeping a bottle for water with you when you are working, traveling, or exercising. If you get bored with plain water, add a bit of lemon or lime for a touch of flavor. There are some brands of flavored water available, but watch for extra calories

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