Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

We all have spent the last few weeks on an eating binge. You can’t just give up because you gain some weight and blew your diet. Don’t think you're the only one who gained some weight lately. But you can get your eating back on track. Here’s how. First, Relax You need some perspective. You need to eat 3,500 calories to gain one pound of body fat. One unplanned treat — a slice of cake, some fries, or even a rich meal — probably won’t make a major difference on the scale. “We call these ‘taking timeouts,’ and we all take them,” says San Antonio nutrition consultant Rebecca Reeves, RD. “No one is perfect in their eating habits. What we have to learn is that we are giving ourselves permission to do this, and as soon as it’s over, we should go back to the eating plan we normally follow.” The goal is to not make a habit of it. “Most people overeat somewhere between 500 and 1,500 calories every single day,” says cardiologist Allen Dollar, MD, assistant professor of medicine at E...

Anti-sugar fever seems to be on the rise. Especially now, since sugar has been linked to Cancer. Last week, a friend who does not have type 2 diabetes asked me about my diabetes diet: “How many carbs can you eat without raising your blood sugar?” Another pal is on a 21-day-cleanse – no sugars allowed. And folks in my neighborhood recently formed a support group for going cold turkey on sugar, which one member claimed is harder than giving up cigarettes: “No one wants you to smoke, but they’re happy to see you eat a slice of birthday cake.” This is a blog post from WebMD, but I want to stick my personal opinion in here. "I think that sometime in the future medicine will know for sure that refined sugar might be one of the causes for most of our health problems." I know that sounds a little vague and I'll explain. Sugar, the real sugar, isn't the same as refined sugar that you buy in the stores. The real sugar is the sugar in produce and in dairy products. The g...

I found a great article I want to share with you. I added a few comments along the way. These are the same beliefs I have and I write about in all my blogs. The chef who wrote this is a typical full-time worker who squeezes in family-time and a busy work schedule. The whole idea of 5 or 6 small meals a day is not a new concept. In some parts of the world this is the way they eat everyday. But because this country began as a country of mostly Europeans, we adopted their ways and in part we still do. The three heavy meals per day really became popular as the population became more industrialized. As more and more of the population worked in factories and other types of production jobs the 3- meal plan was adopted. People got use to eating before and at mid-day and in the evening, after work and around the work schedule. That meal plan worked because the population was more active. Today we life a different lifestyle and it's not hard to see the big di...

Maybe it's time to do a little reading. I tried for more than 10 years to lose body fat and while I could lose weight, I couldn't keep it off. I spent years yo-yoing up and down. I'd lose a few pounds, sometimes even 20 pounds but after I few months I'd start to gain it back. I finally got tired of spending the money on gym equipment and low-cal frozen dinners. I wanted to find out how the body works and what I was doing wrong. I finally learned that if I wanted to keep the weight off I had to lose my body fat. Food is Health; Exercise is Fitness The way I see it is this; Food is Health, Exercise is Fitness. You need both. It's simple really. Eat good food everyday, move your body every day and health can be yours. Remember that little (yet extremely powerful) saying from Hippocrates, "Food is Thy Medicine?" Well, I've seen it first hand in my life. When I began to change my diet many years ago and eat healthy, it changed how I felt phys...

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. This food pyramid shows you what to eat and drink and how often. You can find the food pyramid online. When I gave up on diet plans 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. 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. ...

Have you started a new diet plan? Maybe you're struggling with a weight loss program that seems to be dragging. Whether you've set short-term weight loss goals or committed to long-term wellness, there are ways to make your diet work better.  And the good news is that it takes just 20 minutes of your time. Set Short-Term Weight Loss Goals Research into weight loss has revealed that goal setting is one of the most important steps in the weight loss process. Why? Because setting short-term diet goals provides a road map for long-term health and wellness.  For example, your long-term goal might be to lose 50 pounds. Losing that amount of weight might improve your health and change the quality of your life. That's exciting! But if you lose weight at a reasonable pace, it might take 6 months to a year to reach your goal. It's hard to stay motivated for that long.  But if you set short-term weight loss goals along the way, you'll have reasons to celebrate du...

Is skipping breakfast really a big deal? What the difference? If your trying to lose weight, I think that breakfast is important. It all goes back to the basic reasons for eating. If you want to stay healthy, you eat for the sake of your body. In other words, I Eat first thing or the first hour I’m up to give my body the fuel I need to concentrate, to give me strength to workout or to get to work and to be productive. When I was younger, I didn’t think about those things. When I was younger I still had the stored up nutrition that all of us are born with, but as you age you use up that nutrition and you start to lose your edge. Your not as sharp. It happens over many years and most people don’t realize it until they’re in their 40’s. By that time they caulk it up to aging or the fact that their out of shape, but the truth is they have spent their adult life eating wrong and not replacing that nutrition (vitamins and minerals) that they use up everyday. We get in the habit of e...