Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

Most people don’t think of their weight loss journey as a math problem. But in many ways, it is. To lose weight, you need to calculate your energy balance equation, then change the numbers to create weight loss. If you can get your numbers to tilt in the right direction, you’ll slim down and keep the pounds off for good. The reason diets fail is pretty simple. I had to start by knowing what my energy output was. Most people that want to lose weight don’t know how many calories their body burns and that’s why they fail. The “Energy Balance Equation” is a way you can determine your calorie burn and thus determine how many calories to eat and lose weight. Most of us make the mistake of just cutting back on food and thinking we can lose weight. Not so, you have to eat about 500 calories a day less than you burn. So you have to start with the number of calories you burn or your “energy output” then you’ll know how many calories you can eat. What is the Energy Balance Equation? Ener...

To help you lose weight, your doctor might have said things like, “Get more exercise,” “Cut back on calories,” or “Eat less junk.” It’s all good advice — but what exactly does it mean? How much exercise should you do? How many calories do you need to stop eating in order to shed pounds? Remember that your doctor is also running a business and him or her wants to keep you for a customer, so how “frank” can your doctor be without hurting your feelings or making you mad. Learn how to turn your doctor’s well-meaning, yet sometimes vague, strategies into real steps you can start taking today. You weight 220 pounds and your 5 ft. 8 inches. Your waist is a 40 usand your doctor tells you that you should exercise more. “What does that Mean?” “I try not to walk, my feet are killing me.” “Then he tells me I should eat better. I eat healthy food.” You might think you do but why are you gaining weight? How did you get so big? Ask yourself the tough questions and be honest with yourself. Remember yo...

 From my own experience and my daughters, until you have the willpower to make a permanent change in your lifestyle and the food your eating, your weight will only change temporarily. I'm a senior now and have finally lost most of my body fat and I'm thin, active, and healthy. I'm 6'1" and weigh 160, I bike 3 days a week and walk on the other days. I feel great, actually never felt better.  My daughter had gained some 40 pounds when she was in her 40's, and after turning 50 decided she had to do something to lose it. I know she had an uphill battle because she doesn't exercise and has a bad back. I'm so proud of her because she lost that 40 pounds in less than 2 years, and did it by changing her diet and never cheating. She stuck to a strict diet of mostly meat and vegetables and salads. She cut her calories in half by eating fresh foods with fewer calories.  She did continue to drink wine but cut alcohol consumption in half. She cut out other drinks ex...

A good post that we all need to pay attention to. Processed food is the cause of our health problems. By Brenda Goodman WebMD Health News Melanie Warner is the author of Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Foods Took Over the American Diet. A former reporter for The New York Times, she spent a year and a half investigating the modern system of food manufacturing in the U.S. to conclude that “much of what we now eat is not so much as cooked as it is engineered into finely-tuned, nutrient-deficient creations of science.” I call it “Frankenfood”; this is not Goodman’s words or Warner’s but mine. Warner says she began to wonder what manufacturers were adding to foods after she started what she calls her “food museum”—a collection of products like cookies, crackers, and even guacamole from a grocery store deli that she discovered could sit on the shelf of her pantry or refrigerator for months or years past their expiration dates without spoiling. Since her book came out in 2013, the FDA h...

You don't have to starve to lose weight. You simply have to eat differently. Read the post below to learn about better foods that will help you burn more calories.  Nutrition and weight loss go hand-in-hand, and it pretty much comes down to chemistry and math. Intake too much energy (calories), weight is gained while creating a caloric deficit stimulates weight loss. Everyone seems to be on the search for something quick and easy. Very Low-Calorie Diets (VLCDs) are popular but disregard possible health risks. Seems like a risky high-dollar cost to shed unwanted pounds. I am a believer in eating “real” quality food to maintain a fit physique and at a cost-saving. To start a healthy weight loss journey, review what you’re eating now in order to make changes promoting healthy weight loss which is no more than one to three pounds per week. Time for a Lifestyle Change Losing weight is a pretty straightforward process. It will require a nutrition lifestyle change together with regular ex...

I found this post on WebMd and for those who overeat, this read is a must. Think back to the last time you ate when you felt absolutely stuffed. Were you tearing into a huge cake to celebrate a friend’s birthday? Loading up on turkey and sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving? Or were you at home alone, maybe at the end of a tough day? How did you feel afterward — simply annoyed that you gave yourself a stomachache? Or were you tormented by guilt or shame? For me, it was the guilt and shame that I couldn’t control myself. But compulsive eating is not just binge eating. It’s more than that. It’s anytime your eating just because you want to eat. This type of eating has nothing to do with nutrition, it’s a habit a person develops when they have nothing better to do. Eating too much every once in a while is normal. So is eating for emotional reasons. “From the moment we’re born, we’re nurtured with food, rewarded with food, and so emotional connections to food are normal,” says Michelle May, MD. P...

Getting there is easier than staying there. I hope that makes cents. Everyone has a method of losing weight that worked for them in the past but the weight always comes back and you end up with more fat than before. Think about changing everything you’re doing and try something new. Try throwing away all the foods in the kitchen that you like and start over. Try eating fresh and eat clean and just drink water or coffee plain, or tea plain. Get radical, read about healthy eating, and see what it’s going to take. Think about this for a second: No condiments, no salt or sugar, no sauces or gravy on your food. No Lattes, or any drinks with fat, sugar, or calories.  A no-fat diet means no dairy, no red meat which means no hamburgers, no starchy foods, no cheese or milk. Now, what you can eat This is called the Mediterranean diet or the foods of the Mediterranean people. If you noticed, you can eat cheese and yogurt but only non-fat dairy. It says you can eat sweets and meat but only sel...

I normally  write about losing weight and why it’s good for you to weigh less, but today I think I should discuss the Healthcare problems that we all face in this country. It’s almost scary to think about the problems we have in the healthcare system and all the different theories out there about healthcare. The one I think is the scariest is the one I heard on the radio last week. The commentator was talking about the Constitution and that people are not guaranteed healthcare, that healthcare is not a right that is guaranteed by the Constitution. In other words he claimed that 80% of people are happy with the status quote and why should the government be spending taxpayer’s money to try and rebuild a system that most people are happy with. Talk about living in denial, taxpayers today are spending 26% of their income on health care and by 2025 they’ll be spending 42% of their income. O.K., you might say, I’m not paying 26%. Well some of that is direct cost and some is indirect whic...