Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

You want to lose weight but you've never been successful. Losing weight is a commitment to stop what your doing now and change your plan. I weighed about 180 pounds in high school and that's good for a kid 6 foot tall. After about 10 years in the workforce and at the age of 32, I still weighed 173 to 178. In those days I was working construction jobs, very physical. Now 30  years have gone by and I still weigh 177 pounds. Now though I have to work at it. It's not like I never had a weight problem, at one point I was 220+ pounds. I owned a restaurant for more than 5 years and my weight inched up and I didn't really realize it. I was in my 30's and gaining weight didn't bother me. I could still run, swim and play basketball. I still had energy. After I passed 40, then I noticed myself getting sluggish.  I knew I had to lose weight, the extra weight was affecting my performance. I joined a health club, started to play racketball, and use a rowing machine. I ...

This is the question that you can find a thousand answers to. But I discovered a simple formula that gives you the answer. I've been reading about diets and fitness, losing weight, and building muscle for more than 10 years and I've found several theories about diet and protein. I'm sure you've heard that by eliminating red meat from your diet will reduce your body fat, but then how do you get protein? I get protein from Chicken breast, tuna and other seafood, peanut butter, plain Greek Yogurt, black beans, chick peas, eggs, protein powder, and Almond milk. The only dairy I eat is the Greek Yogurt for the protein. I also drink protein shakes. I make a shake with some Greek Yogurt to thicken the shake, protein powder, almond milk, and frozen blueberries. As you can see there are dozens of ways to get protein without eating red meat. The trouble with red meat is the animal fat that comes marbled in the meat. Animal fat is the one type of fat the body can only proc...

I found this article and it's one you should read. Sugar is an additive habit that hinders your ability to lose weight and is bad for your health even if your not losing weight. Learn how to break free of the constant cravings and finally take sweet control of your diet. By Maura Kelly So Long, Sweet Tooth I consider myself a pretty healthy eater. I chow down on a variety of fruits and veggies, lean protein and whole grains, and I do my best to keep my sweet tooth in check. So I never really worried about how much sugar I was getting -- that is, until I recently heard one doctor say that high doses of sugar were poison and another that he was eliminating the refined sweetener from his diet. Uh-oh. Was the sugar I sprinkled on my oatmeal and stirred into my coffee -- and okay, the occasional cookie or three -- hurting my health? If I'm eating too much of the sweet stuff, I may have reason to be concerned, doctors say. Sugar is made up of roughly equal parts glucose and ...

This is a great article, it confirms the same things I write about. Losing body fat is a big part of being healthy and doing exercise while you diet can speed up the weight loss and I've wrote about this before, exercise has a two fold purpose. Your speeding up your metabolism when you exercise and your increasing your muscle mass. Now increasing muscle mass does two things. First your body burns calories even if you do nothing. Muscle mass will burn more calories than fat. So by increasing your muscle weight and reducing the weight of your fat you actually will burn more calories just doing your normal routine. And as this article explains the more muscle and the less fat you have, the longer you'll live. HealthDay Reporter The more muscle older adults have, the lower their risk of death, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from more than 3,600 older adults who took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1988 and 1994. Th...

Good for you: You’ve achieved your desired weight. Next up? Keeping it off. Yes, you can! Have 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 will 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. 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 keeping a record of your weig...

Did you know that almost ALL yogurts are flat-out bad news for your waistline? "Light" yogurts, for instance, are absolutely terrible for you, and for more reasons than one. First, most "light" yogurts are loaded with artificial sweeteners and/or high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is one of the top 3 WORST ingredients you could ever consume. First, as its name suggests, it's made of primarily fructose, a sugar that easily spills over to fat storage when consumed in sizable quantities. And artificial sweeteners are...well...artificial. Do you really want to put chemically altered, man-made ingredients that don't exist in nature into your body? Us either. Second, HFCS is made from genetically modified corn. Third, HFCS spikes blood sugar and insulin-like almost no other food or ingredient.  Bad news all around. Bottom line, just because something is low calorie (i.e. "Light") doesn't make it a healthy choice, or even a ch...

We think that we are drowsy because we over-ate. What if that food you ate at lunch makes you drowsy.  Men who eat a lot of fatty foods may find themselves needing an afternoon nap, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among almost 800 men aged 35 to 80, those with diets high in fat reported more problems with daytime sleepiness. The connection was not explained by body weight, exercise levels or chronic health issues, such as diabetes or depression. The study, published recently in the journal  Nutrients , does not prove that dietary fat, itself, induces drowsiness. It's unclear why a fatty diet might affect drowsiness, according to lead researcher Yingting Cao, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Adelaide in Australia. But, Cao said, lab studies suggest that certain "gut neuro-hormones" promote sleepiness, so it's plausible that a high-fat diet could somehow affect daytime drowsiness. According to...

Not just to lose weight. I exercise to firm up. If you lose several pounds quick, without exercise, you can end up pear shaped. I’m sure you’ve seen people walking on the street and it seems to happen to women more, but the first pounds that they loss always seems to be above the waist. The face, shoulders, arms and chest always lose fat first. Why, you might ask? I think it’s because no matter how much time you spend sitting or standing without moving, your arms and shoulder are still usually moving. When you spend time at a desk you are generally moving from the waist up even though your just sitting. That’s one reason that walking for exercise is the best exercise you can get. Basically, that’s your problem in this country, the reason obesity is at an all time high. We as Americans don’t walk enough. I don’t talk much about exercise, but it’s an important part of getting healthy. Most of us don’t want to take the time, we feel that we’re neglecting something more important. Actual...

Dieting is hard. But avoiding "empty" calories helps you reach a healthy weight without feeling like you're dieting. If your trying to lose weight and you're trying to stick to 1600 or 1800 calories, make those calories count. 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, peanuts, fruit, and fish, chicken, and lean meat. It's true that you can get calories from anything you eat but i...