Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

I found a great article I want to share with you. I added a few comments along the way. These are the same beliefs I have and I write about in all my blogs. The chef who wrote this is a typical full-time worker who squeezes in family-time and a busy work schedule. The whole idea of 5 or 6 small meals a day is not a new concept. In some parts of the world this is the way they eat everyday. But because this country began as a country of mostly Europeans, we adopted their ways and in part we still do. The three heavy meals per day really became popular as the population became more industrialized. As more and more of the population worked in factories and other types of production jobs. People got use to eating before and at mid-day and in the evening, after work and around the work schedule. In the day when man was a nomad and traveled with the herds or like some spent their days fishing, man would eat while on the move, eating more fruits, berries, root type vegetables, nuts and thin...

A lot of people who have tried to lose weight for years and have pretty much given up need to read about this women who finally decided to lose weight because of her job. She wanted people to take her serious and wanted to lead by example. Alerted to the health dangers of being overweight, Samantha Szabo changed her lifestyle and her eating habits. Now she's 145 pounds lighter, and in better shape than she was in high school. By Charlotte Latvala Originally published in Fitness Magazine  "I Did It!” Name: Samantha Szabo Age: 31 Height: 5'5" Her Weight Before: 280 Her Weight After: 135 Pounds Lost: 145 At Current Weight: 1 year Even at 280 pounds, Samantha Szabo considered herself athletic. "My weight didn't stop me from playing sports; I told myself I carried it well," says the Brooklyn physical-therapy assistant. But her career choice alerted her to the health hazards of being overweight, and she made changes that led to a 145-pound loss. ...

Good for you: You’ve achieved your desired weight. Next up? Keeping it off. Yes, you need a positive attitude. The changes you made can stick. Most people who have lost weight put the weight back on, and that’s why they lose the willingness to diet again. Even those who diet again and again always seem to put the weight back. You can keep the weight off. People who gain the weight back are those who return to their old way of eating; there old lifestyle. They seem to thing this time they can beat the odds. This time they can keep the weight off. You can but there’s some simple rules to follow. Use these five tips to help you stay on track: Don’t skip meals. Skipping meals can slow your metabolism down; that means you'll burn less calories.  Skipping meals can also cause overeating later in the day. Weigh yourself daily. A daily weight-in may seem like overkill but research shows the method is more effective than getting on the scales less frequently. If  your keepin...

Emotional eating means turning to food for comfort -- not because you’re hungry. That bag of potato chips and those chocolate chip cookies may provide short-term relief when you’re feeling bored, lonely, anxious, frustrated, depressed, angry, or stressed. But emotional eating can also lead to overeating and unwanted weight gain. Experts estimate that 75% of overeating is a response to emotions. That’s three quarters of all over-weight people have an emotional eating problem. Even if you conquered the emotional problems, you probably still have the extra weight. Now you want to lose the weight, but you might still have those cravings from the days when you had those emotional problems. The good news is that you can learn skills and alternative ways to cope with feelings of emotional distress so that you’re not reaching for unhealthy foods whenever you’re faced with a negative feeling. When you know what situations and emotions prompt you to eat, you can come up with ways to steer cle...

If you eat the right foods you don’t have to buy those vitamins. Some vegetables I don’t really like cooked, but in a salad, for example, I like spinach better than lettuce. In a restaurant I’ll order a sandwich with spinach not lettuce. Kale is something else I like in a salad. I chop it small and mix it with spinach. Sardines are another great source of nutrition and is many times over-looked. Read the list below and try and fit these super foods into your diet. Salmon, berries, broccoli, almonds, and kale are among the superstars of the dietary world. But they're not the only nutritional powerhouses out there. Many other foods that haven't earned celebrity status are also worthy of a spot on your plate. Start with these nine. 1. Cauliflower Broccoli is the relative that gets all the attention, but its paler cousin is no wallflower. Like other cruciferous veggies, cauliflower is a good source of vitamin C and fiber. Like broccoli, it also has a natural plant che...

Want to lose weight, but feel as though you’ve already tried every trick in the book? It’s time to take a different approach to dieting. Try these 12 proven strategies will help you slim down for good. Change the way you describe your goals. “Call it whatever you want, but don't call what you’re doing a ‘diet,’ ” says David Grotto, RD, author of The Best Things You Can Eat. “Diets have a beginning and an end -- and that’s the problem.” You will only succeed, Grotto says, when you make a lifelong commitment to a healthier lifestyle. Make your goal meaningful. Shift your focus from “I want to fit into those jeans” to “I want to feel good and have more energy.” Internal goals -- like how you feel instead of how you look -- tend to have greater staying power over time. Concentrating on the feel-good benefits you're getting also helps you to stick with something. I know that when your young (under 40) you may not realize that you lost any of your energy, but if you ga...

There's a new study that changes the thinking about how to lose weight.  The findings are published Oct. 15 in  The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology . "Across the world, guidelines recommend gradual weight loss for the treatment of  obesity , reflecting the widely held belief that fast weight loss is more quickly regained," study lead author Katrina Purcell, a dietician at the University of Melbourne in Australia, said in a journal news release. However, the new study shows that "achieving a weight loss target of 12.5 percent is more likely, and drop-out is lower, if losing weight is done quickly," Purcell said. Current guidelines recommend slow and steady weight loss in the belief that it is more likely than rapid weight loss to help people keep their weight under control. This study included 200 obese adults randomly assigned to either a 36-week gradual weight-loss program in which they consumed 500 fewer calories per day, or a 12-week rapid weig...

Fitness trackers are all the rage. They're the next big thing and everyone wants one. So which one do you buy? Combine a highly evolved pedometer with a mini computer and a virtual coach and what do you have? A fitness tracker. These high-tech gadgets contain sensors that pick up data about your body (heart rate), activity (steps taken and calories burned), sleep, and more. This kind of insight allows you to make smart choices -- everything from ramping up the intensity of your workouts to gaining the motivation to drop extra pounds. With dozens on the market, how should you choose? Mix and match the functions based on your goals. Each device has its own combo of special features. Be on the lookout for features like these: Step counter. Most devices show you the number of steps you take and how many miles that equals. If walking or running is your main exercise, this is the feature you'll use most. Shop for devices that ask for the length of your footstep or “cadence.” T...

This is a question, people ask me almost everyday. The answer is "no". You can lose weight without exercise, but do you want to lose weight or lose body fat, there's a difference. You can lose weight by changing things you're doing. Changing bad habits you inherited during childhood or just bad eating habits you picked up in the school cafeteria or maybe habits you picked up from the friends your eating with. Anyway you can get serious about your weight and try to re-teach yourself the right way to eat. Eating more vegetables is the first thing. Make three vegetables at dinner not just one. If you have choices you'll eat more. Eating more vegetables will increase the vitamins and minerals in your diet and give you more energy. You'll also get more fiber. Eat a broth based soup like vegetable soup,  minestrone or Chinese wonton before your entre. It has two purposes; first it slows down our meal and it's filling. Eating fast is the easiest way to o...

If your scale is stuck, if the weight you lose just bounces back, there’s a chance you’re making diet mistakes that won’t help you keep the pounds off. You can’t rely on fad diets like the grapefruit diet or the cabbage soup diet. Yes, when you cut your calories to less than 1000 a day the pounds will start to melt away, but your starving yourself and the day you go back on a normal diet, the pounds will come back. Why you ask, your training your metabolism to slow down, so when the diet is over you have a body that burns calories very slow and so when you start eating more the body can’t burn those extra calories and you put the weight back on but this time in the form of fat. When you lose the weight, your losing part muscle, part fat, about half and half, but when you gain it back it come back as fat.  Say, for instance you lost 20 pounds and 10 pounds of that was muscle, then you gain the weight back and it come back as fat. You weight the same now as you did before ...

I believe you have to understand why you have a weight problem if your going to lose weight. In the U.S. we’ve been very fortunate. Since the 1950′s the economy has made big gains, we live much better. So much so that the under 50 year olds don’t remember when the average blue-collar worker made very little money, less than 100 dollars a week. They lived in cities close to the factories or buildings they worked in and lived in old apartment buildings in neighborhoods that were not very nice. Many families didn't have a car. Parts of the country have seen more trouble than others, but overall the American people have done pretty well over the last 50+ years. And it’s this prosperity that has causes us to become overindulgent. We overindulge in everything, and food is at the top of the list.   So when I say that overall the American people have done pretty well, I guess what I mean is that there’s not a lot of people skipping meals any more. Forty or fifty years ago we ate be...