Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

Imagine this: You decide it’s time to make a  concerted effort to lose weight . You start exercising regularly and embark on a healthy eating plan. The time comes to check in on your progress, so you step on the scale for the moment of truth. You  haven’t lost any weight . What do you do?  Continue with the exercise and healthy eating plan? Throw in the towel, and go back to what you were doing before? Start restricting your eating even more as an effort to make weight loss happen faster? I think you need to keep on doing the same thing. Here are a few tips: It takes your body a few weeks to get used to the new diet, Don't get impatient. Weighing yourself every day isn't a bad idea because it's your reminder that you're on a diet and your goal is to lose weight. But don't think that your scale is your friend because it isn't. Some days you might be up a pound and the next you might be down a pound.  These are all completely normal and reasonable reacti...

It may sound like a stupid question...like who doesn't need to lose weight?  But we often base our weight loss goals on an old version of ourselves that was once fit and thin.  When you get older, things change and it pays to actually assess your weight with the right tools so you know just how to set your goals. Many of us need to lose far more fat than we realize. It's not the weight you need to lose, it's body fat and there is a difference. The first twenty pounds I lost, was actually very little fat. It's easy to lose body mass so after I lost the first 20 pounds and I was still fat I knew I had to change. I couldn't just cut back on my food. I was losing weight by starving myself. I had to eat foods that help me lose weight. I was doing this backwards. For example, if I normally eat 4 sandwiches a day and I want to lose weight so I eat 3 sandwiches a day, so cutting back I should lose weight and you might but every day you go to bed hungry. You can't ...

Tricks to Prevent Weight Gain Put Your Go-To Foods On Repeat Decide which healthy meals and snacks you love, then go ahead and eat them as often as you like. "Relying on the same nutritious foods over and over is an easy way to keep your weight steady because it takes all the guesswork out of the process. Plus, you're more likely to practice portion control with foods you eat all the time, research from the University at Buffalo shows. In the study, women who had macaroni and cheese daily consumed less of it over time than those who ate it just once a week. Researchers believe the novelty wears off when you eat a food daily, so you end up eating less. But don't confuse an eat-and-repeat strategy with being resigned to the exact same breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks every single day. Instead of a completely regimented (and boring) routine, simply have a rotation of foods that you enjoy, you know are good for you, and keep you satisfied and ha...

A post from the VeryWell.com site.  Ever wonder why it's nearly impossible to stay on a diet and lose weight? There are many reasons most diets don't work and even more reasons to give up dieting forever and get on with your life. If you've tried more diets than you remember, it's time to give it up once and for all and reach your goals the old fashioned way: with a little exercise and some small changes. 1 They're Hard to Stick To The problem with most weight loss diets is they're too specific to fit our lives. They tell you what to eat and how much, but don't take into account individual preferences, lifestyle, time constraints and likes and dislikes. Plus, they throw so much change at us that they're nearly impossible to follow for a long period of time. Remember that weight loss is a lifestyle thing. The exception are diets that are more flexible, such as Weight Watchers (read ConsumerSearch's detailed review of Weight Watchers), whi...

There's a link between  obesity  and 40 percent of all the cancers diagnosed in the United States, health officials reported Tuesday. And more recently than this report was published, sugar has also been confirmed as a link to Cancer.  That doesn't mean too much  weight  is causing all these  cancer  cases, just that there's some kind of still-to-be explained association, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Still, the study findings suggest that being  obese  or  overweight  was associated with  cancer  cases involving more than 630,000 Americans in 2014, and this includes 13 types of  cancer . "That obesity and overweight are affecting cancers may be surprising to many Americans. The awareness of some cancers being associated with obesity and overweight is not yet widespread," Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC deputy director, said during a midday media briefing. The 13 cancers incl...

This is a good article. I wrote about this in an e-book I published. A high-fat meal can overload your liver. What that means is that once the liver has a high percentage of fat to process, the liver will slow down. The liver can become loaded to the point where it oozes fat from it's pores like your skin when it sweats. This allows unprocessed fat to enter the blood stream. People need to realize that when your body is adding fat around your waist something is wrong. The body is not working properly. Over time, rapid effect of 'fat loading' meals could contribute to disease, researchers say. By Randy Dotinga HealthDay Reporter Eating a high-fat meal -- say, a cheeseburger and fries or a pepperoni pizza -- disrupts liver function, a new, small study reveals. Researchers found that the high levels of saturated fat found in such rich foods immediately alter the work of the liver, possibly setting the body up for serious disease down the line. "The effect...

By  Shereen Lehman, MS Oscar Wong / Getty Images Question:  I don't have a problem with my weight, but I'm trying to eat a healthier diet. I eat a good breakfast; usually a salad for lunch and what I think is a good dinner at night. The problem is afternoon and evening snacking. I feel like I'm hungry all the time, and it's so easy to nibble on something and not always something that's good for me. Answer:  If you want to get away from between meal snacks, the first step may be to figure out why you're snacking so much. If you're hungry, you may need to eat more at lunch and dinner so you can make it to the next meal without the extra nibbles. If you're munching is mindless then maybe you need to rearrange your environment, so you don't automatically grab something and shove it into your mouth whenever you get bored. Tips for Not Snacking You can cut back on your snacking with a little preparation. Don't keep candy at your ...