Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

Yes, it's true most people that try and lose weight have no good plan to follow. That's one reason all the diet programs that advertise on TV, in Mags, and on the internet are making a fortune. It all a scam to get your money. It doesn't cost money to lose weight. 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

Do you want to start losing flab very quickly? You don't have to count calories or follow some complicated diet plan; all you have to do is cut out these 3 foods from your diet. 1. Processed foods. If it comes in a box or a package with a laundry list of ingredients, eliminate it. Instead, concentrate on eating mostly whole, natural foods. 2. Soft drinks, juice, and other sweetened beverages. Drinks sweetened with sugar or high fructose corn syrup actually increase your hunger while feeding you loads of empty calories. 3. Alcohol. Alcohol is calorie dense and further wreaks havoc on your fat burning hormones, increasing your belly fat and making it harder for you to lose that pesky flab. Want to get a flat belly fast? Simply follow the above 3 rules. You will automatically eliminate a massive amount of calories from your diet and you'll still be able to eat until you're full while achieving rapid results. Put them in place today! This is from a newsletter I go

I know we’d like to put the blame on someone else, and in fact it is somewhat your parents fault, and I say that because they train you how to eat and what to eat, but in defense of your parents and/or other relatives, they eat the same way their parents taught them. I’ve outlined five myths about eating habits. 1. No snacking! You'll ruin your appetite! Actually, snacking can be healthy, as long as you choose wisely. A healthy snack serves many purposes. I eat a little smaller breakfast because I know I’ll be eating again in 3 hours. I’m not as hungry at lunch because I ate three hours ago and I’ll be snacking again in about three hours. My dinner will be smaller because I’m not as hungry, I just ate something three hours ago. And if I’m going to be up more than four hours after dinner, I’ll snack again about three hours after dinner. I know that you’re thinking, all those calories, but it’s not that much, snacks can be healthy. My general rule is never go four hours with

Losing weight is about losing body fat. The best way to lose body fat is to trick the body into using stored fat to create energy. We all have stored fat but what ever we do it never seems to shrink. Your body is using the food you're eating at the moment to create the energy you need. Because of your eating habits it's just easier for your body not to burn stored fat and the body will always take the easy way because the body is always trying to conserve energy. When I decided that I had to find a new way to lose my body fat, I tried a low-fat diet. The idea is that the body has to burn a combination of 30% fat, 20% protein, and 50% carbs to create energy. The body will get the fat wherever it can and food source is the easiest. But if you don't eat enough fat then the body has to use stored fat. In 2 months I lost about 10 pounds of fat or 2 pants size. In one more month I lost another 5 pounds of body fat. I had been trying to lose fat for more than a decade and s

Maybe a little more walking everyday is just as good. We are only talking about extending life not losing weight. Physical activity promotes health, and for years, several public health bodies –- including the American Heart Association, US Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization –- have recommended getting 30 minutes of moderate exercise, 5 or more times per week. Surprisingly, though, only a couple of more recent major studies have examined how exercise relates to longevity, and how much you should do to lengthen your life. The research : In 2007, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) looked at more than 250,000 men and women between the ages of 50 and 71, and confirmed that the standard exercise recommendations did in fact improve subjects’ longevity. An average of 30 minutes of moderate activity, 5 times or more a week, gave participants a 27% lower risk of dying during the study period, while more vi

The Connection Between Salt and Weight By  Matt McMillen  We know those food manufacturers put salt in everything and we thought it was just to add flavor, but is there a hidden reason behind the sodium push. If you read the labels companies even put sodium or salt in candy. What going on? They claim it's a preservative and they need it to give the food longer shelf life. But why is that so important. I read on some labels that the food is good until 2025. Is that really necessary to manufacture food that good for several years? Conventional wisdom has long held that salty foods boost our thirst and lead us to drink more  water . But can salt also lead us to eat more, as well? Researchers have begun to explore salt’s previously unknown role in  hunger  and  weight gain . Several recent studies shed light on why salt may encourage us to overeat. “Until now, we have always focused on the effect of salt on  blood pressure ,” We have to expand our conceptions of salt and

Trying to lose weight? If you’re a more-meat-than-potatoes kind of person, two new studies should encourage you. That’s because both concluded that a low-carbohydrate diet appears to be at least as effective as a low-fat diet, challenging the long-held notion that eating fat is what makes you fat. One  study, in the  Annals of Internal Medicine , randomly assigned 148 men and women to follow either a low-carb or low-fat diet. After a year, the people on the low-carb diet had, on average, lost nearly 8 pounds more than those on the low-fat diet. The low-carb dieters also saw more improvement in their blood cholesterol levels than the low-fat dieters. The other study,  in the  Journal of the American Medical Association , pooled the results of 48 randomized trials, involving nearly 7,300 people, of brand-name diet programs, such as  Atkins ,  Jenny Craig ,  Weight Watchers , and the Ornish diet. It found that all of the diets, whether low-carb, low-fat, or somewhere in between, le