Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

By adopting sensible eating habits and practicing portion control, you can eat nutritious foods so that you take in as many calories as you need to maintain your health and well-being at your ideal weight. Often, weight loss occurs on its own simply when you start making better food choices, such as avoiding processed foods, sugar-laden foods, white bread and pasta (substitute whole-grain varieties instead), foods with a high percentage of calories from fat, alcoholic drinks or any drinks that have calories. While nothing is absolutely forbidden, when you do succumb to temptation, keep the portion size small like a fist full of nuts. By replacing some unwise food choices with healthy ones, you'll be cutting back on calories. If you add some moderate physical activity by simply walking more you have the perfect weight-loss plan without the need for special or inconvenient (and often expensive) diet plans. A 45-year-old woman complains that she has gradually put on 12 pou

Look, the way I see it is; Food is Health, Exercise is Fitness. You need both. It's simple really. Eat good food everyday, move your body a lot every day and health can be yours. We eat the wrong foods and we aren't active enough so we gain weight; it's that simple. Most people put the blame on their parents or their too busy to exercise, but you don't have to do any more then be active when your not working. Being active burns calories and eat fresh foods and stop eating junk food (frankenfood) as it was coined a few years ago. Also stop drinking calories. Don't drink calories, that's worse then eating calories. Remember that little (yet extremely powerful) saying from Hippocrates, "Food is Thy Medicine?" 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 physically, my energy levels went through the roof and I was sleeping better and had more balanced moods. Don't know

Forget counting calories. Your ticket to a lean, healthy body is “eating clean,” says Tosca Reno, author of The Eat-Clean Diet series. She means eating foods -- like lean protein, good-for-you carbs and fats, fresh fruits, and vegetables -- six times a day in the right amounts. Do that, drink lots of water, and exercise regularly, and Reno says you’ll turn your sluggish metabolism into a fat-burning machine. Dedicate yourself to the clean eating lifestyle, and you’ll lose about 3 pounds a week, Reno says. The benefits go beyond weight loss. You'll stay healthy and have more energy. Your eyes will look bright and alert. Your teeth and gums will be healthier. Your skin will glow. Oh, and did we mention you won't be hungry? “When you Eat Clean, the benefits are visible (and perceptible to you on the inside, too) from the top of your head to the tips of your toes,” Reno writes in The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged! The Eat-Clean philosophy is that nutrition is far more important

Yoga is a great way to work on your flexibility and strength. Just about everyone can do it, too -- it's not just for people who can touch their toes or want to meditate. Yoga is exercise and anything that's going to increase your activity level will help your body. Some  types of yoga  are about relaxation. In others, you move more. Most types focus on learning poses, called asanas. They also usually include attention to breathing. Yoga for Flexibility Yoga poses work by  stretching  your muscles. They can help you move better and feel less stiff or tired. At any level of yoga, you'll probably start to notice benefits soon. In one study, people improved their flexibility by up to 35% after only 8 weeks of yoga. Strike a Pose for Strength Some styles of yoga, such as ashtanga and power yoga, are very physical. Practicing one of these styles will help you improve muscle tone. But even less vigorous styles of yoga, such as Iyengar or hatha, can provid

It's not a weight-loss plan, it's the way the Mediterranean people have been eating for thousands of years. Back in the 1980's the medical community became very interested in the Mediterranean people. They had less health problems than other Europeans, Americans, and the rest of the Western World.  At first, they thought it might be the wine they drink every day. Like the French, they have far less cases of cancer and heart disease. So if it's not the red wine what is causing the difference. Now we know it's the diet, that makes the difference. Yes, red wine is good for your blood but it's the whole diet that gives them the good health they enjoy. There’s no calories to count or cutting out major food groups. You swap the bad fats for heart-healthy fats like olive oil. You’ll eat fish and poultry instead of red meat. And eat fruit instead of fancy desserts. You’ll eat more veggies and beans. Nuts are a mainstay, but only one handful a day. You can also

Did you know that there are 3 letters on food labels that you MUST avoid, especially if they're at the beginning of the list of ingredients? Those letters are OSE. Let me explain. You see, spotting sugar on food labels isn't quite as easy as it once was. Yep, now that food manufacturers are aware that consumers of the current day are much more discerning than those of yesteryear, they're doing everything they can to disguise sugar on their lists of ingredients. These days, it's not likely that you'll see "sugar" at the forefront of an ingredients list, but instead you'll see these code names: fructose maltose glucose sucrose And the worst of the worst, high fructose corn syrup. If you see any of the above -ose words in the first 3 or 4 ingredients on a food label, rest assured that product is LOADED with sugar and you should be avoiding it. The reason to avoid them is because these are sugar substitutes and there a lot more dangerous to yo

Exercise is a big part of losing weight, but I don’t mean you have to sweat it off. You can lose weight without any exercise just by maintaining a proper diet. But if you don’t want to look like a pear, you need exercise, not any large quantity, but 30 minutes every other day is good. Losing weight is still 80% diet, 20% exercise. Exercise helps you to keep your strength. Losing weight can sap the energy from your body and exercising can keep that from happening. Without exercise you will lose your muscle tone along with some fat. Usually about 50% muscle and 50% fat. That's the reason professional trainers want you to eat a high-protein diet when your trying to lose weight. It helps you retain muscle, but you still need some exercise to keep your muscle tone. Your muscles will burn body fat. Losing muscle mass when you diet will only work against you. There are plenty of ways to be active in summer, fall and winter, even if the weather turns cold. You can stay in shape and hav