Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles | Posted on 17-05-2010-05-2008
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Here’s how to reduce 8,101 (or more!) calories from your home cooked meal plan
The way nutritionists go on about restaurant diet crimes, you’d think the entrance to Bennigan’s would be blocked off by yellow police tape. But, breadbasket assaults aside, the riskiest place for your waistline is actually your own kitchen. That’s where you make daily decisions that affect your weight loss success: choosing between skim milk and whole, reaching for butter or olive oil, stocking up on Oreos or Triscuits. “Cutting calories when cooking at home is the first step to creating healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime,” says Lisa R. Young, R.D., author of The Portion Teller Plan. The following easy tips will help you crack down on fat and calories and serve and protect your figure.
Oil Be Damned
It’s healthier than butter, but it’s still fat. Here’s how to skip the slick stuff or make a little go a long way.
Make it a spritzer Oil in a spray can or mister (we like the Misto Gourmet Olive Oil Sprayer, $10, chefsresource.com) lets you fry foods with a fraction of the calories you’d get from a pour spout. A spritz works great on pasta and roasted vegetables, too. Calories cut: 112
Cook twice For crispy chicken or fish without all the fat of frying, use your oven, says dietician and nutritionist Molly Morgan. Coat a pan with a tablespoon of flavorless canola oil and fry the meat for 10 minutes per side. Blot up extra grease with paper towels, then transfer to the oven and bake on low heat (200 to 250 degrees) for 15 to 20 minutes. Calories cut: 2,767
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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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Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles, General tips | Posted on 10-04-2010-05-2008
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Set yourself up for body-trimming success with these five lifestyle tweaks.
Call in a Support Crew
Obesity loves company: Your odds of packing on pounds rise when your friends, family, and even neighbors chunk up. The good news: The reverse also seems to be true. A study in the International Journal of Obesity found that the spouses of dieters enrolled in weight-loss programs also lost flab—without trying. The average loss by matrimony was five pounds in a year, higher in some cases (one woman lost 14 pounds to her husband’s 35). If no one you know is cutting calories, it’s easy to find a diet BFF using a free service like bluepont.com. Download the free software to your cell, enter your preferences and location, and you’ll be alerted when a match is found.
Eyball Ingredients
A 2008 USDA report found that consumers read labels less often today than they did 10 years ago. Other studies have shown that shoppers who do often end up confused—who wouldn’t be, when a tiny bottle of OJ turns out to be 2.5 servings? “Labels can lie,” says Tanya Zuckerbrot, M.S., R.D., author of The F-Factor Diet. Sign up at eBrandAid.com, which lists red-flag ingredients like artificial sweeteners and MSG (recently linked to an increased risk of being overweight). Easier: Swear off any packaged food whose first four ingredients you don’t recognize.
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Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Eating habits and diet, Supplements | Posted on 24-03-2010-05-2008
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For 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:
- 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.
- Dr. Nicholas Perricone told Oprah Winfrey she could lose 10 lbs. in 4-6 weeks drinking green tea instead of coffee
- Green Tea causes carbohydrates to be released slowly, preventing rises in blood-insulin levels and this causes your body to burn fat.
- 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.
- 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.
- Research shows you can burn 35-43% more fat during the day when you take or drink Green Tea.
- The International Journal of Obesity states that Green Tea contains polyphenols which causes your body to produce heat that burns off your body fat.
- 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.
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