Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

I had to post this story for my readers who haven't read this before. Lacing up her shoes, strapping on her GPS watch, and heading out on a long run are things 26-year-old Rebecca, the blogger behind My Girlish Whims, has come to appreciate. In January 2014, it was a different story—she weighed 246 pounds, and running was something she avoided. But that month she booked a summer vacation to Jamaica and decided she wanted to shape up. “I didn’t want to go on the trip, come back and look at pictures from my fun tropical vacation and not be able to remember how much fun I had [because of my weight],” she says. Along with a healthy, balanced diet, one major change she made was she decided to start running regularly—even though she  hated  it. “I was the girl in high school who huffed and puffed around the track  every year  in gym class when we were forced to run one mile,” she recalls. These days, her trail runs and treadmill ...

You think that being addicted to food is just a myth? You think that it's only people without will-power that can't stop eating? Well, it's not a myth. I found this post in WebMd.com and thought I needed to reblog it. Many of us don't realize that the food cravings they have might be more than just a craving and that their overweight problem is not really their fault. Processed foods contain chemicals and if you eat processed foods all day, day after day, you can become chemical dependent or addicted to those chemicals. Remember that you might thing that the foods you're buying only contain salt or sugar but process food don't use real ingredients. They use a chemical substitute for salt and sugar, that why you see the word "sodium" on the label or artifical sweetner in place of sugar. Most all processed foods contain the same chemicals that are used to flavor and preserve the food. Small children can easily form a dependence to these foods and ca...

Eat Clean Diet Review: Unprocessed Foods for Weight Loss Reblogged from WebMD The Promise She means eating foods -- like lean protein, good-for-you carbs and fats, fresh fruits, and vegetables -- six times a day in the right amounts. Do that, drink lots of water, and exercise regularly, and Reno says you’ll turn your sluggish metabolism into a fat-burning machine. If Eating Clean is something new to you, you might have to do a little homework. You can find info on the internet. Reno is the author of a new book and she has some great ideas about changing your diet and losing weight. You don't have to starve to lose weight. Dedicate yourself to the clean eating lifestyle, and you’ll lose about 3 pounds a week, Reno says. The benefits go beyond weight loss. You'll stay healthy and have more energy. Your eyes will look bright and alert. Your teeth and gums will be healthier. Your skin will glow. Oh, and did we mention yo...

When you want to lose weight, is your first choice to run to the latest fad diet? Often a quick 5 to 10 pounds will come off, then your old eating habits return. If you stick with it to attain your weight goal, you may still find yourself back at the same weight or higher in a few months. Why don't diets work? The biggest reason is that most people don't give it enough time to work. Your body has to get use to the new routine. At first your body thinks your starving yourself and goes into hybernation mode and stops burning calories. It takes a couple of week for the body to adjust. Losing weight will start slow. If you have trouble losing weight, take time to learn how the body works. You have to understand how to lose body fat before you can slim down. Often losing weight will not reduce body fat. Losing body fat is key to keeping weight off.  A Diet is a Lifestyle, Not an Event On many diets, you are not eating the way you will eat for the rest of your life. You eat f...

I found this post on one of my favorite site. This author is one of my favorites. You can trust her research. Weight loss made easy with simple changes to your habits By Jennifer R. Scott Losing weight is  not easy . You will never hear me say that it is. It takes dedication, motivation, and hard work. But you can make weight loss easier. There are easy tricks to lose weight. Changing what you eat is the first step. Change What You Eat to Make Weight Loss Easier You can lose weight by changing  how much  food you eat, but if you change  what  you eat, the weight loss process gets even easier. Here are the diet changes that I suggest. Eliminate or reduce the amount of red meat in your diet.   If foods like burgers and fatty steaks are staples in your current diet, you may want to consider cutting back. Reducing your red meat consumption can go a long way in helping you to cut calories and slim down. If you choose to eat red meat one or ...

Dieting is hard. But avoiding "empty" calories helps you reach a healthy weight without feeling like you're dieting. Your body needs a certain amount of energy each day. Energy comes from food in the form of calories. Calories let you function and keep doing your daily activities. But after your body meets its needs, it stores extra calories as fat. Most of us get plenty of calories in our diet—often too many. Foods with empty calories have lots of calories but very few nutrients like vitamins and minerals. "Convenience foods," like packaged snacks, chips, and sodas, are common sources of empty calories. Nutrient-rich foods, on the other hand, have a lot more nutrients in relation to their calories. A few examples are vegetables, peanut butter, bran cereal with fruit, and fish. Tips for avoiding empty calories Instead of this: Choose this: Sugar-sweetened drinks like soda, energy drinks, and sweetened coffee drinks, not good. Water, no-sugar-added fruit...

Do famous-name diets really work? There are plenty of famous-name diets for weight loss, but none stands out from the pack when it comes to lasting results, a new review suggests. Looking at a dozen clinical trials, researchers found that three big-name diets -- Atkins, Weight Watchers and the Zone -- were all "modestly" effective over the course of a year. In studies that compared the plans head-to-head, people lost anywhere from 4 to 10 pounds, on average. Meanwhile, a fourth commercial diet -- South Beach -- was no better than traditional advice to eat a low-fat diet, the study authors said. And in the few trials that lasted two years -- all looking at Atkins or Weight Watchers -- people will often regained some of the pounds they lost. "From our results, no weight-loss diet came across as a clear winner," said study leader Renee Atallah, a research assistant at Jewish General Hospital/McGill University in Montreal. A registered dietitian who was not ...

I read this post on WebMd. I had to reblog this because it says things that women want to know. I know it might sound crazy but most of my readers are young women or maybe I should say, most of the emails I receive from my readers come from young women. By Alia Hoyt @WebMd I admit it: I was once one of “those women” for whom post-pregnancy weight loss was relatively quick and painless. I’ve never been model-skinny, but after the birth of my first two children my previous waistline was recovered with little to no effort. Yeah, I know what you want to call me, and I don’t blame you. So kick back and laugh when I tell you that the pounds decided they wanted to take up permanent residence after my third son was born. No amount of calorie counting or exercise did the trick, which threw me for a tailspin worse than those teacups at Disney World. Most exercise programs promise extreme results just by going through the motions. But great results can only be achieved by also overhauling ...

So you’re finally ready to lose weight. Now the question is: How? The standard advice -- to eat less and move more -- isn’t so helpful when it comes to the “how.” You probably know you need to cut calories, but how many? Are you better off getting those calories from low-fat or low-carb foods? And what’s going on with your metabolism, your personal energy-burning furnace? Is it programmed to keep you overweight? Is there any way to fan the flames so you can dream of one day eating a piece of pie without gaining a pound? Even science is still stumped on many of the basic questions of weight loss. “Amazingly, in this era of obesity, there are still many things that we really don’t know,” says Robin Callister, PhD, professor of human physiology at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Here’s what we do know about some of the most persistent mysteries of weight loss. Do You Have to Cut 3,500 Calories to Lose a Pound? The idea that dieters need to cut this many calories -- ...