Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

Some of us get wrapped up in the wrong things in life and we don't take care of ourselves. How does this happen you might ask. We think that we are multi-taskers but in reality we aren't very good at it. We try and do more than we can do and become overloaded. This can happen to anyone, but a lot of us don't realize it's happening to them. You can easily analyze your own situation by stepping back for a minute and looking at your life from an outsiders point of view. Are you skipping meals? Do you make time for exercise? How much did you weight when you got out of High School? How much do you weigh now? Are you eating healthy foods? Are you sleeping 7 hours a night? Often we can find out for ourselves if we have a health problem if we can be objective. Americans often rush through their day so fast just to get it over with and never slow down to see what they're doing wrong. We cause our own health problems by not paying attention to our bodies needs. We co...

One of my fondest memories as a child was going out to dinner with my family when we had something to celebrate. Whether it was straight A’s on my report card or if I lowered my best time in the 100-meter butterfly, food was at the center of how we celebrated these moments of success.  To this day, if something great happens, I still have this urge to celebrate with food, alcohol or both. Get a salary raise for doing good work? Pop the bubbly and bring on the cheese board! Run over 13.1 miles while training for my first full marathon? It’s burger and craft beer time. I know I’m not alone in celebrating with the delicious things in life. But, having this as my knee jerk reaction had me thinking that it isn’t really the best mindset for my healthy. The problem is that big meals are the way we can pull the whole family together, whether we go out and eat or make a big meal at home. Whether it's a birthday party or a holiday I think we always celebrate with food and this it...

2 Years & 3,000 Instagram Posts: How Kim Lost 170 Pounds by  JONAH FREEDMAN   DECEMBER 2, 2016   23 COMMENTS SHARE IT: 886 9 Meet Kim Carter Martinez. By day, she works for a labor union in San Francisco. On weekends, you’ll often find her participating in runs or bike rides. Kim stays fit, eats well and makes healthy choices, including everything in moderation. What isn’t immediately obvious from this description is that she is literally half the woman she used to be. Here she is in a recent photo:   Kim has lost nearly 170 pounds over two years by making big changes to her lifestyle that have led to, she hopes, long-term healthy habits. And over the past three years, she’s chronicled every step of her journey through  thousands of Instagram posts . This is Kim in 2013. To hear her tell it, she has struggled with weight her whole life. She was also diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, which her mother eventually died from wh...

Shortcuts are awesome. Who doesn’t appreciate a nice back road that slices a commute in half? I’ve been known to skip ironing because the wrinkles usually fall out in a couple of hours, anyway. Sometimes, steps can be skipped or shortened without compromising the result too much. Unfortunately for dieters, weight loss is generally not something that can be rushed along... at least, not if you want long-term success. Then you’re right back where you started. Before you buy out your local produce section’s entire stock of grapefruit, consider the following reasons why quick-fix diets are not the answer to your waistline woes: But... I always see good results with quickie diets. It’s true that quick-fix diets can help you get the pounds off, but most of the time they come back with a vengeance. The smartest over at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insist that people who make real, sustainable lifestyle changes are better-equipped to keep weight off. They recommend a...

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? 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 foods you may not like very much and don't find satisfying. If you are determined enough, you stick with it until you reach your goal. But you know this is "just for the diet" rather than finding healthier foods you enjoy in amounts that don't cause weight gain. Diets Can Be Downers The very word "diet" is depressing to many of us. We think of giving up foods that are comforting and enjoyable. We think of sitting a party with celery sticks while others are eating the crab puffs. We may even stop socializing becaus...

When you eat fewer calories than you burn you create a calorie deficit. You must create a calorie deficit to lose weight. A calorie deficit is sometimes also called an  energy deficit  because calories are a unit of heat or energy. If your serious about losing weight you have probably heard that term several times. But you need to read because there's more to it and no one has told you the real story. Each bite of food you eat contains energy in the form of calories. You need to consume calories for your body to function properly. But most of us consume more calories than we need each day. This creates a calorie surplus or  calorie excess . The extra calories are stored as fat. Sounds simple, ah? There's more to it. All calories are not equal and that's the part the diet experts don't tell you. Yes, every bite of food does contain calories, but not all calories contain energy in fact the fats in processed foods can even slow down body and brain functions.  S...

This is the one big promise we make to ourselves every year but seldom keep. I can't speak for everyone, but for the ones obsess with losing weight, don't make that resolution about the bathroom scale. If this is the promise you have been making for years, "this is the year I'm going to lose weight", it's time for a change. This year you want to promise your going to "live a healthier life", exercise regularly and eat better. Step off the scale now and no one will get hurt. Focusing just on weight loss can lead to cycles of losing and regaining weight, lower self-esteem, and a preoccupation with food and body image. “You’ll do better if you have goals that have to do not with weight, but with health,” says Carol Landau, Ph.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and medicine at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University. While a New Year’s resolution is a great way to get in touch with what’s important and how you want to change, “Most diets don’t...