Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

At parties we need to eat smart. Anytime we eat-out, parties or just dinner with friends, we can easily load up on calories without realizing it. Forget the chips and go for the vegetable tray. Try not to drink calories or at least keep it to a minimum. I avoid big meals and I don't eat late. I try to eat something small every 3 hours to prevent getting hungry. 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 -- a...

The Best Time of Day to Exercise to Lose Weight We are firm believers that exercise should be a part of a daily healthy lifestyle no matter what your end goal is. It keeps the mind alert, the muscles fresh, and the heart ticking properly. However, if your end goal is to shed a few pounds while you’re at it, you may be wondering the best time of day to exercise. Here’s a piece from the New York Times about a study done regarding weight loss focused workouts.  You're probably wondering, "what difference does it make"? It will make a difference if you're trying to lose body fat. I've read several articles on exercise and the consensus as I see it is that morning, afternoon, or evening doesn't really matter. It depends on your schedule. The important thing is that you stick to the same time of the day and don't over exercise the same muscle group.   You might try setting your wake-up alarm earlier and exercising before breakfast. There is some evidence...

I wrote before about making a lifestyle change as a way to lose weight.  There has been much written about the Mediterranean Diet, it's not a real diet with set rules about your everyday meals. It's a lifestyle of eating the way Mediterranean people have been eating for centuries. On the front page of my website, I write about the Mediterranean lifestyle of eating in the diet section. When I gave up on diet plans that you buy in packets at the grocery store and decided I wasn't going to sweat the pounds off. I read a book on the Mediterranean Diet and it all started to make sense to me. The suggested foods are in the diagram above. Cutting back on the food I was eating, only made me hungry after an hour or so. I needed to change my eating habits totally. I stopped eating traditional meals, no more 3 meals a day. Now I was going to eat 6 times a day. So you might ask, how do I lose weight that way.? Good question. The Idea is to only eat enough to stop the cravings....

Big dieting names like Atkins, Ornish and Weight Watchers have long competed in the battle of the bulge. But a new analysis concludes that whichever diet people choose, their chances of success are about the same. For years, people seeking to shed weight have heard conflicting messages about the best route: Low fat? Low carb? Low glycemic index? The analysis, published in the  Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests it doesn't matter much. Across 48 clinical trials of more than 7,000 people on diets like Atkins, Zone, Ornish and South Beach, researchers found minimal differences in average weight loss. Instead, experts said, the old-fashioned advice to cut calories, rather than specific nutrients, seems key to success -- as is burning more calories through exercise. And ultimately, the "best" diet for any individual is the one he or she can live with long-term, according to Linda Van Horn, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern Univers...

Forget counting calories. Your ticket to a lean, healthy body is “eating clean,” says Tosca Reno, author of The Eat-Clean Diet series. 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. This might sound a little crazy eating 6 times a day but I did try it and it worked for me. The idea is that you maintain a level blood sugar count without any spikes. This will keep you from eating big meals and over time you will shrink your stomach. I is normal to overeat a little the first couple of weeks but after that your body will adjust to the food and you will start losing inches. 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 ey...

Sugar is Poison. Sugar is going to kill you. Sugar makes you fat.  Do these lines sound familiar? From books to TV shows to the Internet, we have heard it all. It seems that extreme messages such as these are what catches people’s attention. The latest is that sugar has been linked to Cancer. Perhaps it’s the wow-factor, or maybe it’s the simple idea that cutting out one thing from your diet will help you lose weight. To be honest, though, cutting out an entire group of foods is not that simple. And whether you are trying to lose weight or not, it’s usually not the best idea for your body and mind. There are frankly several more pieces to this nutrition puzzle. Will Eating Sugar Prevent Weight Loss?  In a word,  no , sugar itself will not prevent weight or fat loss. In fact, sugar  is  glucose, and glucose happens to be the preferred energy source of our bodies. It also primarily comes from carbohydrates. We all need glucose for our organs to func...

For those that are having trouble losing weight, you have to look beyond the simple "cutting calories" method to lose weight. An in-depth look at how the body loses weight, is really about losing body fat. Depending on the amount of fat you have, there will be a different approach to your weight loss journey. We all just can't cut out 1 meal a day and lose weight. Or maybe you have even tried cutting out 2 meals and still can't lose. Well, It's true that you do have to cut your calories every day but you don't have to starve. More of us that need to lose fat are eating high calorie foods that add body fat. So for those people changing to low-cal diet should work for you. That means you can eat most things if they are low in calories. For instance, if your choosing meat for dinner, Choose a chicken breast instead of fried chicken wings dipped in sauce. Those chicken wings at WingStop might be 1000 calories but the chicken breast salted without dipping sauce o...

Because of my age I'm one of those staying home and for me it's tuff staying away from the kitchen. I'm on a maintaining diet and while it's pretty easy for me because my wife and I both eat the same things; when there's only two in the house we just don't buy the wrong things. Many of our neighbors and several of my readers are not in the same situation. When there's 3 or 4 people living under the same roof, maybe it's your kids, maybe it's your parents, the diets will vary. I understand that cooking a meal will be challenging. I you're staying at home now because of the virus, this is the time to concentrate on making the changes in the household's diet to accommodate everyone. Use your time wisely and by using the internet you should be able to create a menu that is healthy for everyone and for those weight loss people, you don't have to eat some of every dish on the table. You know what you should be eating and those foods ...

What's really making us fat? Have you ever noticed that no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you exercise or no matter how many calories you cut, you still can't get rid of the extra fat. There could be another reason for your size. My friend has a twin, born at the same time but one guy's bigger and still is 40 years later. The bigger brother is overweight and the smaller one is thin and fit. The overweight brother can't seem to lose the extra fat. At family gathering they always eat the same amount of food but the smaller one never gains weight. So what's going on is pretty normal for siblings. I've read a lot about families with some overweight members and some thin members. Research shows that we are all different even when we're twins. So even if we look the same, we all process our food differently. It's your DNA that's different. DNA is in every gene that you were born with and siblings from the same parents won't have...