Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

With all the attention kids' weight issues and childhood obesity are getting these days, it can be hard to maintain your perspective. How can you move past self-blame to take action if your child is overweight? How can you help your child make healthy changes without making her feel judged or hurting her self-esteem? And how do you help her realize that, because she is overweight now, she will have to be thoughtful about how she eats and moves -- but she can do it? Here are eight ideas to improve your child's health. 1. Shift the Focus Off Your Kid's Weight, On Lifestyle "Most overweight children feel ashamed of their size," says Michelle Van Beek, MD, a pediatrician at Sanford Children's Clinic in Sioux Falls, S.D. And low self-esteem about their bodies does not help kids make healthy choices. How you communicate your feelings about your kid's weight to her -- as well as any concerns about your own weight -- may have a profound effect on your child.

We all lose weight for different reasons. Some lose weight for health reasons, your doctor is pushing you. Maybe like me your spouse is pushing you. Maybe you feel funny at work because your co-workers stare, talk behind your back. Or maybe you just want to wear the same clothes others wear. I lost weight because I became out of shape, out of breath when I was working outside or just vacuuming. My clothes didn't fit I had to buy pants with a 38 inch waist, and then finally I said "stop". I have to stop this insane way of over indulging. That's exactly what was happening. I was in my 30's and owned a restaurant that was doing well. Success was going to my head, and all I thought about was the business and shopping for things I wanted but couldn't afford before. My wife was power walking everyday and wanted me to join her, but I always had an excuse. I stayed at the restaurant about 14 hours a day. I'd take some Sunday's off, when I'd spend time

Fasting is a much talked about quick way to lose pounds and inches but I don't recommend it. Personally I never knew anyone who kept the weight off. And if you read below those who did lose weight temporarily gain it back and more. And yes I think it's dangerous for some people, it depends on your health. Having said that, I think you can use fasting to detox your system and yes after 2 or 3 days you will weight less but don"t thing you can keep it off. By next week the weight will probably be back. Read what I've found and you decide. Most religions use periods of fasting as a means of demonstrating faith or penitence, and an opportunity for spiritual reflection. Fasting has also historically been a means to express political views and a form of protest. Though it may not be the most practical -- or safest -- diet, some people use fasting as a way to lose weight or to cleanse the body of toxins, although some experts say our bodies are perfectly equipped with organ

Weight cycling is the repeated loss and regain of body weight. When weight cycling is the result of dieting, it's called "yo-yo" dieting. A weight cycle can range from small weight losses and weight gains (5-10 lbs. per cycle) to large changes in weight (50 lbs. or more per cycle). This is something we're all have don't. If you have gotten past this, you've conquered the biggest problem a dieter has.  Some experts believe that weight cycling may be harmful to your health and that staying at one weight is better than weight cycling, even for those people who are obese. However, there is no convincing evidence to support these claims, and most obesity researchers believe that obese individuals would continue trying to control their body weight despite some weight cycling. Yes that's true, but having the cycling problem is a big cause for failure. Dieters want to avoid cycling if at all possible. Most of the time your not losing body fat when you lose, b

My last post was about heredity and how some weight conditions can be caused from your family genes, but I believe it's more about your family history. The food you ate the first few years of life. We don't really know how much a child is affected by his informative years. What if the foods or maybe the sugar or fats that you consumed during those informative years created a pattern and gave you the cravings you have today? The good news is that we can correct those cravings, change them and even ignore them. I don't think food gets boring. If I think I could lose weight eating 1600 calories a day, then I would surf the web for foods I liked and foods that would work for me. I don't eat out much. I use a crock pot to make a meal for that evening but before I eat dinner, I divide the meal so I have enough for lunch the next day. And you might think you don't have time in the morning but you can prepare the dinner at night, put it in the frig and then fill the crock

The following is part of an article I read in the WELLBLOG in the NY Times. It’s totally factual and is well worth reading. This will explain what people go through when trying to lose weight. Some people just can’t do it and some can. I say if you want it don’t give up. I have always felt perplexed about my inability to keep weight off. I know the medical benefits of weight loss, and I don’t drink sugary sodas or eat fast food. I exercise regularly — a few years ago, I even completed a marathon. Yet during the 23 years since graduating from college, I’ve lost 10 or 20 pounds at a time, maintained it for a little while and then gained it all back and more, to the point where I am now easily 60 pounds overweight. I wasn’t overweight as a child, but I can’t remember a time when my mother, whose weight probably fluctuated between 150 and 250 pounds, wasn’t either on a diet or, in her words, cheating on her diet. Sometimes we ate healthful, balanced meals; on other days dinner consiste

Chia Seeds are a seed that the ancient Aztec’s ate for nutrition. The Aztec’s started farming Chia seeds about 3500 B.C. It actually grew wild but after discovering the benefits and the fact that it has a shelf life of two years they farmed Chia and eat the seeds on a daily basis. You see Chia was the food they needed for long journey’s and hunting trips. They would eat the seeds dry and then drink water. The seeds gave them the nutrition to keep going and would fill their stomach so they wouldn’t get hungry. You see Chia will absorb 12 times its weight in water and stick together like a ball to fill the stomach, but it will dissolve in the stomach the same as food and has several benefits. Naturally they brought other things to eat, but without a way to keep food fresh and the fact that some food is too hard to pack on trips, seeds, nuts and jerky are the only practical things to carry. After a few thousand years Chia just disappeared and other foods became more popular. Farming b