Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

  What you eat matters! This is what they promise you. I found this in my email today and wanted to write about it. This is really what everyone hopes for when they diet. Like most of these diets, they only work for some people. If you think you can cheat. Wrong!! The Promise Eat fat and lose weight. That’s the promise of the Flat Belly Diet. Now for the fine print: The kind of fat matters. The plan focuses on monounsaturated fats, which you get from olive oil, nuts, and other plant foods. Authors Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD, claim that in 32 days, you can lose up to 15 pounds and drop belly fat by following their plan: Eat 400 calories per meal, four times per day (daily total: 1,600). Don’t go longer than 4 hours without eating. Eat monounsaturated fats at every meal. What You Can Eat and What You Can’t First, you target bloating for four days, aiming at consuming 1,200 calories each day. During that time, you can’t add salt to any food and you must avoid: Processed foo

  Whether it’s on the latest magazine cover, during a doctor’s appointment, or even just in the department store change room, belly fat seems to be getting a lot of our attention these days. But how do you know whether your personal stockpile of abdominal fat is a longevity threat, or just a cosmetic nuisance? As we get older, fat tends to migrate towards the mid-section of our body, whether we’re male or female. Many women notice a “menopot”, or thickening of their waistline after menopause. This can be true even if they traditionally had a flat tummy, and haven’t gained any weight. Yes, as you get older your waistline can grow and you don’t have to gain weight. Other parts of your body are naturally shrinking. Your muscle mass can shrink over 50, especially if you don’t workout. You can avoid that menopot by changing your diet and doing some exercise. It’s inactivity that will change your body’s shape. Read more: Help! My body shape is changing! While subcutaneous fat sits just benea

  I started this blog in 2009, to try to help people who have had problems losing weight.  I had to stop posting for several months but got serious about the blog last year.  Losing weight is not just an isolated problem that affects a small percentage of people. Sixty-six percent of adult American are overweight and half of those are serious overweight. So, what is serious overweight exactly. I’ll spell it out. The British Healthcare System has a good handle on this. Much of the best research has been done by the British and Canadians. I may not agree with the whole formula but it has merit. They developed a formula to find your Body Mass Index and from there they can calculate your percentage of body fat. It’s the ratio between body Mass Index and Body Fat. If the percentage of fat is between 20 and 24 you are in the normal range. If your percentage of fat is between 25 and 29 you are overweight and if your percentage is 30 or more you’re obese. You can still be relatively healthy be

  I guess you can try, but I never could. I was one of those guys that grabbed a drink and ran out the door every morning. I never worried about what I ate and by age 38 I was 60 pounds over-weight. I gained that extra weight after I turned 30. I never paid attention to my body and what was happening to me. I always thought I had time to deal with it later. When I turned 40 I started to slow down and realized I had to lose weight. Because I was an athlete throughout High School and College, I thought I knew how to lose weight. I spent 5 years Wrestling in school and I had to maintain my weight, so I was on a constant diet. The real problem was my new diet. My diet had evolved over a couple decades and it took me a long time to realize I had to return to eating fresh food if I was going to lose my fat. So…. Is skipping breakfast really a big deal? What the difference? If your trying to lose weight, I think that breakfast is important. It all goes back to the basic reasons for eating. If

So how much body fat is too much? We know that some body fat is necessary; it cushions the organs and helps prevent bruising. But where do we draw the line? How much is too much? This is a question we all seek an answer to. There's been several studies done about body fat. Mostly about bad fat and how it can cause sicken and disease. You might be thinking, "How is that possible? How can body fat cause me to get sick?" Ok, here goes nothing; this is my version of Health 101. First, there's no "one fits all" answer because everyone's body is different. How so? Blood types make your body function or react differently to stimuli. And what is stimulus? Stimulus is anything the body reacts to, chemical for instance. Medicines are another form of stimulus that should help you to feel better, but because our bodies react differently to medicines, not all medicines work for everyone. Some drugs only work for 35% of the population but they leave them on t