Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

  The top on my list would be to eat less. You can accomplish this by first eating slower and second eat for only 20 minutes then stop. Eating for only 20 minutes is a good practice, often we are in the habit of grazing and that packs on the pounds. Sleeping more can keep you from grazing and will reduce your total calorie intake for the day. And you do burn calories when you sleep. You can lose from 12 to 20 pounds extra a year by sleeping one hour extra a day. Cook more. By cooking 3 vegetables for dinner instead of one, you’ll eat more veggies a day without trying. You don’t have to eat everything you cook. Veggies reheat better than other foods, so make 3 vegetables one day and they’ll last for 2 or 3 days. Eating more fruits and veggies is a great way to lose weight. Remember to cook without fat and season with lemon and herbs rather than creams or sauces. Soup is another way to lose weight. Make a meal with a vegetable soup, minestrone, tortilla soup or Chinese won ton. Start...

Eating out is something we all do, we can’t avoid it. I found some good tips in a newsletter I subscribe to. If you’re a health-conscious individual, you likely cringe at even the mention of fast food. McDonald’s. Burger King. Wendy’s. AHHHH! We all know that fast food, for the most part, is REALLY bad news, so if you’re going to go “out to eat”, whatever you do, don’t eat fast food. Instead, try a nice sit-down restaurant in which an independent study recently determined that when compared to the golden arches and King of Burgers, those who choose sit-down restaurants wind up eating TWICE as many calories as those that choose fast food. What? Eye-opener: What appears to be healthy at a restaurant, is very likely not healthy. The reality is that sit-down restaurant meals, due to their exceptionally large portions and often irresponsible preparation methods (with respect to calorie content) give very little regard to health and weight management. Restaurants want you to LOVE the food, b...

  I should say that methods of weight loss usually work on a small percentage of those that try the method. We’re all different with different body chemistry. Using a “trial and error” method is the best way to find a way that works for you. This is the reason most people give up on weight loss. Read on and you’ll see how I found what worked for me. First, I researched all I could find about why the body adds weight. I found that once your fully grown which could be 18 to 21 years of age, You shouldn’t be adding weight. Now those years can vary for some of us. For instance, I am the same size as I was at the age of 16. Actually, I weight a few pounds less today. Second, I realize some of my weight management is just dumb luck. I used to yo-yo around a lot. You should know the whole story because in my early 20’s I never really tried to maintain my weight or exercise, but in those days, I worked blue collar and worked very hard, physical labor. I drove a route truck for Cola-Cola fo...

If  obesity is causing stress in your life. If your doctor wants you to lose weight and you can't. Your doctor is concerned about your health and excess body fat will cause several health problems. Your doctor is right, but if this is causing stress in your life, it could be adding more fat to your waistline.   If you’re someone who deals with stress fairly often (who doesn’t?), here’s something you may not know: your body produces a hormone called cortisol in response to chronic stress which is associated with causing excess belly flab. The more cortisol you have, the more belly fat you typically gain. Now get this: The New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that individuals who consumed mini meals spaced three hours apart each day actually decreased their cortisol levels by 17 percent compared to those who ate the same amount of food in only three meals per day. And here’s some even better news… This cortisol-blunting, fat-burning effect occurred in j...

 Eat Fats,  (Healthy Ones) In Moderation The body doesn't react to all fats in the same way. According to Patton, research correlates a high intake of saturated fat (the kind in meat and dairy) to increased visceral fat.  Monounsaturated fats (the kind in olive oil and avocados) and specific types of polyunsaturated fats (mainly omega-3s, found in walnuts, sunflower seeds, and fatty fish like salmon) have anti-inflammatory effects on the body. If eaten in proper portions, they may do your body good.  But Patton warned that overeating any kind of fat increases your calorie intake and could lead to weight gain, so enjoy healthy fats in moderation. Reducing fat intake is essential to staying healthy.  Everyone wants a slim, fit body today. It can help your career. Studys show that people with a fit body are looked upon differently. They appear to be more productive. They don't lose as much time from work.  Follow me on Twitter @GertsRay70369 Look for my podcas...

  I had some email requests to resend this post, so here goes. How can I lose weight like that? The whole idea is to control blood sugar levels and avoid food cravings. You will still be eating less calories than you do now, and you’ll be eating healthier. Yes, today anyone preaching weight loss will tell you to eat every 2 to 3 hours to avoid cravings. It’s cravings that cause you to “impulse eat” and eat the wrong things. That’s harder than it sounds if you work all day. If you have a weight problem or maybe too much body fat, you're probably overeating when you do eat. There’s a great article below, written by a working mom who happens to be a Chef and I already know what you're going to say. Well, a Chef can throw a meal together in minutes, it takes me forever. If you have a weight problem, you're doing it wrong. You’re not eating often enough, you're eating the wrong foods and when you're eating a meal, you're eating too much. When I first started to eat f...

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 weight-loss regimen that featured a very-low...

This is the most frequently asked question in my Inbox. The answer is that it all starts with your diet. You can go to the gym every day but “you can’t exercise away a bad diet”.  The problem that most of us have is that we think we have a good diet. If you have added weight to your body over the last 10 years, your diet is the problem. Most of us think that we can fix our diet just by eating less food. Not really. The problem is the food we are eating and not so much the quantity. When you eat fresh food the urge to keep eating will disappear. So what does fresh eating mean?  I found this food pyramid on the internet. This is a good example of eating fresh. This pyramid explains what you can eat every day, What you should only eat weekly, and what you should only eat once a month. You should drink water or other drinks that have no calories. The only exception is one glass of wine either before or after dinner. I live by this pyramid every day. You can eat all you want, as lo...

I found this post on WEBMD and thought it was worth reblogging. There’s good information here and at the end I added a paragraph of my own. 1. 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.  When you're trying to lose weight, you’ll never keep the pounds off permanently if you think about this as a temporary problem that you can fix in a couple of months. The problem with  d iets   is they  have a beginning and an end. You will only succeed when you make a lifelong commitment to a healthier lifestyle.  I call it “my new meal plan”. The Doctor has a point, using the word  diet  and convincing yourself that “this is just a diet and I’ll get back to those desserts after this is over”  is  not a good way to look at your weight problem. I liken a weight problem to a person who has a problem with  smoking.  ...