Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

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. 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 than 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. The idea is to only eat enough to stop the cravings. Of course, you have to eat real food, not snac...

Many of us fail at weight loss because we are really serious about getting to a proper weight for our size and age. You should always start with a doctor visit.  This post first appeared on VeryWell.com and if you are one of the ones who have tried and failed to keep the weight off, maybe it's because you should always start with your doctor and explain you want to do this without pills. The last thing you want is to get hooked on diet pills. That's no way to restrict calories. The minute you stop taking diet pills you gain the weight back. If you are ready to see a doctor for weight loss, you need to go to your appointment prepared. There are several critical weight loss questions you need to ask. You may want to talk to your doctor about weight loss medication, about the risks of different weight loss programs and about the benefits of losing weight. Your physician will be able to give you answers that take your personal health history into account. T...

You want to lose weight but you've never been successful. Losing weight is a commitment to stop what your doing now and change your plan. I weighed about 180 pounds in high school and that's good for a kid 6 foot tall. After about 10 years in the workforce and at the age of 32, I still weighed 173 to 178. In those days I was working construction jobs, very physical. Now 30  years have gone by and I still weigh 177 pounds. Now though I have to work at it. It's not like I never had a weight problem, at one point I was 220+ pounds. I owned a restaurant for more than 5 years and my weight inched up and I didn't really realize it. I was in my 30's and gaining weight didn't bother me. I could still run, swim and play basketball. I still had energy. After I passed 40, then I noticed myself getting sluggish.  I knew I had to lose weight, the extra weight was affecting my performance. I joined a health club, started to play racketball, and use a rowing machine. I ...

This is the question that you can find a thousand answers to. But I discovered a simple formula that gives you the answer. I've been reading about diets and fitness, losing weight, and building muscle for more than 10 years and I've found several theories about diet and protein. I'm sure you've heard that by eliminating red meat from your diet will reduce your body fat, but then how do you get protein? I get protein from Chicken breast, tuna and other seafood, peanut butter, plain Greek Yogurt, black beans, chick peas, eggs, protein powder, and Almond milk. The only dairy I eat is the Greek Yogurt for the protein. I also drink protein shakes. I make a shake with some Greek Yogurt to thicken the shake, protein powder, almond milk, and frozen blueberries. As you can see there are dozens of ways to get protein without eating red meat. The trouble with red meat is the animal fat that comes marbled in the meat. Animal fat is the one type of fat the body can only proc...

I found this article and it's one you should read. Sugar is an additive habit that hinders your ability to lose weight and is bad for your health even if your not losing weight. Learn how to break free of the constant cravings and finally take sweet control of your diet. By Maura Kelly So Long, Sweet Tooth I consider myself a pretty healthy eater. I chow down on a variety of fruits and veggies, lean protein and whole grains, and I do my best to keep my sweet tooth in check. So I never really worried about how much sugar I was getting -- that is, until I recently heard one doctor say that high doses of sugar were poison and another that he was eliminating the refined sweetener from his diet. Uh-oh. Was the sugar I sprinkled on my oatmeal and stirred into my coffee -- and okay, the occasional cookie or three -- hurting my health? If I'm eating too much of the sweet stuff, I may have reason to be concerned, doctors say. Sugar is made up of roughly equal parts glucose and ...

This is a great article, it confirms the same things I write about. Losing body fat is a big part of being healthy and doing exercise while you diet can speed up the weight loss and I've wrote about this before, exercise has a two fold purpose. Your speeding up your metabolism when you exercise and your increasing your muscle mass. Now increasing muscle mass does two things. First your body burns calories even if you do nothing. Muscle mass will burn more calories than fat. So by increasing your muscle weight and reducing the weight of your fat you actually will burn more calories just doing your normal routine. And as this article explains the more muscle and the less fat you have, the longer you'll live. HealthDay Reporter The more muscle older adults have, the lower their risk of death, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from more than 3,600 older adults who took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1988 and 1994. Th...

Good for you: You’ve achieved your desired weight. Next up? Keeping it off. Yes, you can! Have a positive attitude. The changes you made can stick. Most people who have lost weight put the weight back on, and that’s why they lose the will to diet again. Even those who diet again and again always seem to put the weight back. You can keep the weight off. People who gain the weight back are those who return to their old way of eating. They seem to thing this time they can beat the odds. This time they can keep the weight off. You can but there’s some simple rules to follow. Use these five tips to help you stay on track: Don’t skip meals. Skipping meals can slow your metabolism down; that means you'll burn less calories.  Skipping meals can also cause overeating later in the day. Weigh yourself daily. A daily weight-in may seem like overkill but research shows the method is more effective than getting on the scales less frequently. If  your keeping a record of your weig...