Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

People are attracted to a low-carb way of eating for a variety of reasons: blood sugar control, to lower blood pressure, and to improve many other health indicators. But there's no doubt about it: most people try cutting carbs in order to lose weight. So, is losing weight different on a low-carb diet? And what can you realistically expect when it comes to weight loss? How Is the Low-Carb Weight Loss Experience Different? Before you read further, I want you to know low-carb is my favorite way to lose body fat but I did combine low-carb with low-fat because adults don't need the fats from dairy products. We can get fats into our diet by eating nuts and seafoods. If you don't have enough fats in your diet your body will burn stored body fat. Your body isn't fussywhere the fats come from but it will use the fats that are the easiest to burn and the easiest to burn are the fats that you just ate. You may be surprised to hear that on a low-carb diet, weight loss main...

I’ve wrote about The Mediterranean Diet several times and I still think it’s the best way to eat. I wrote about saturated fats and that minds are changing and that in moderation saturated fats aren’t harmful. Of course, everyone doesn’t go along with that, but most all research shows that the diet or the way people eat in the Mediterranean region of the world could be the healthiest diet. Inspite of body fat, these people have managed to avoid heart disease and any other types of coronary diseases. When your eating a Mediterranean style diet you won’t be counting calories. You’ll be swapping bad fats for good ones like olive oil instead of butter. Fish and poultry instead of red meat. Fresh fruit instead sweet desserts. You’ll be filling up on veggies and beans. You can snack on nuts instead of candy or chips.  The idea is to eat thinks that are nutritious, thinks that add value to your diet.  Stay away from processed foods. Eat real food and not manufactured food. I...

When you’re trying to lose weight or keep off extra pounds, can diet soda help? While it has fewer calories than regular soda, some studies show it fuels your sweet tooth. Which means it makes you crave sweet foods or drinks. It's one more way the food industry has to try and keep you wanting more. But it is true that if you start drinking calories you can lose weight. But I'm not sure that drinking diet soda is the way to lose weight. I'm not a fan of artifical sweeteners. I'm in the camp that thinks that diet drinks can do more harm than good.  Also, are artificially sweetened sodas good for your health? Several studies this year continue the debate. My personal feelings is that the chemicals used to make artificial sweeteners can't be good for you. The Food And Drug Administration has the same old reasoning for allowing it, "It's such a small amount, it won't hurt you."  Of course, if you drink six a day, then it's not a small amount an...

I found this testimonial on line and it should be inspirational for everyone. There’s no magic pill or trick to losing weight, you just do it cold turkey. We all have the power to do it, you just have to make up your mind to start. This girl decided to run and change her diet and that’s the fastest way I know to drop body fat, but not all of us can do that. I like the walking method. It takes longer but if your not young anymore walking is easier on your body. Read her story and be inspired yourself. I’ve been heavy my entire life. Even in my kindergarten photos, I was chubby. In late high school, I gained more weight. In college, I reached 260 pounds — I think because I was on my own. I had a driver’s license, a job. I could go out to dinner, eat when I wanted. Nobody was watching over me. Being heavy didn’t make me feel bad, though. I was pretty confident. I didn’t realize I was as big as I was until I started looking at old photos a few months ago. It was pretty shocking. Abou...

This is worth a read, this author thinks the same way I do. You've heard it before: "You have to make your new way of eating part of your life." "It can't be a 'diet,' or you'll go off it." "The reason people regain weight is that they go back to their old way of eating." All true. But much easier said than done! How can you transition from a "diet" to a "better way of eating?" Here are tips to help you on this path. Who knew that you don't have to starve to lose weight. 1) Find the Right Amount of Carbohydrate for You The idea of carb reduction is that eventually you will figure out what carb level keeps you at your best—high energy, low hunger, lowest sustainable weight, and stable blood glucose. Ideally, the amount of carbohydrate you eat will be low enough not to be flirting with the side effects of high-carb eating too often, but this is different for every person.  Once you find your carb level...

I wrote a post about quiting sugar and I received emails and comments that totally agreed with me. So today I want to add a few more words about refined sugar and refined flour. Actually both white sugar and white flour have been processed to the point where most all the nutrients have been stripped away. When this had become common knowledge the manufacturers changed their product to an enriched white flour by adding chemicals to substitute for the nutrition the product was missing. The changes were made several years ago before we now know that chemicals in food not only don't totally get absorbed into the body but can actually be harmful to the body. Not everyone has the same ability to fight off the affects of chemicals in the body. White sugar in the body isn't real sugar from sugar cane. Sugar cane or sugar from sugar cane isn't white it's more brown in color. In the process of making granulated white sugar the crystals have to be bleached white so whatever n...

A great deal of research has looked at, and found, a connection between chronic stress and weight gain. Over time, this can lead to overweight and obesity in previously normal-weight individuals. Craving Comfort Food As it turns out, that craving we sometimes have for “comfort food,” also known as emotional eating, has a biological basis. Researchers have found that a chronic stress-response network gets activated by our bodies within a matter of days when faced with perceived stress, whether that be emotional, mental, or physical stress or a combination of the above. As part of this response, biological pathways involving stress hormones and stress-related factors are activated. One category of stress-related substances are glucocorticoids, a form of steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal glands; these play a particular role in food cravings. High concentrations of glucocorticoids can motivate consumption of “comfort food,” which is often high in refine...