Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

I found this post on WebMd and for those who overeat, this read is a must. Think back to the last time you ate when you felt absolutely stuffed. Were you tearing into a huge cake to celebrate a friend’s birthday? Loading up on turkey and sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving? Or were you at home alone, maybe at the end of a tough day? How did you feel afterward — simply annoyed that you gave yourself a stomachache? Or were you tormented by guilt or shame? For me, it was the guilt and shame that I couldn’t control myself. But compulsive eating is not just binge eating. It’s more than that. It’s anytime your eating just because you want to eat. This type of eating has nothing to do with nutrition, it’s a habit a person develops when they have nothing better to do. Eating too much every once in a while is normal. So is eating for emotional reasons. “From the moment we’re born, we’re nurtured with food, rewarded with food, and so emotional connections to food are normal,” says Michelle May, MD. P

Getting there is easier than staying there. I hope that makes cents. Everyone has a method of losing weight that worked for them in the past but the weight always comes back and you end up with more fat than before. Think about changing everything you’re doing and try something new. Try throwing away all the foods in the kitchen that you like and start over. Try eating fresh and eat clean and just drink water or coffee plain, or tea plain. Get radical, read about healthy eating, and see what it’s going to take. Think about this for a second: No condiments, no salt or sugar, no sauces or gravy on your food. No Lattes, or any drinks with fat, sugar, or calories.  A no-fat diet means no dairy, no red meat which means no hamburgers, no starchy foods, no cheese or milk. Now, what you can eat This is called the Mediterranean diet or the foods of the Mediterranean people. If you noticed, you can eat cheese and yogurt but only non-fat dairy. It says you can eat sweets and meat but only seldom.

I normally  write about losing weight and why it’s good for you to weigh less, but today I think I should discuss the Healthcare problems that we all face in this country. It’s almost scary to think about the problems we have in the healthcare system and all the different theories out there about healthcare. The one I think is the scariest is the one I heard on the radio last week. The commentator was talking about the Constitution and that people are not guaranteed healthcare, that healthcare is not a right that is guaranteed by the Constitution. In other words he claimed that 80% of people are happy with the status quote and why should the government be spending taxpayer’s money to try and rebuild a system that most people are happy with. Talk about living in denial, taxpayers today are spending 26% of their income on health care and by 2025 they’ll be spending 42% of their income. O.K., you might say, I’m not paying 26%. Well some of that is direct cost and some is indirect which me

Reasons Why You Need to Eat a Better Diet I reblogged this article from VeryWell.com. By Shereen Lehman, MS  A Healthy Balanced Diet Eating right is good for your health. This is so critical that you can just about blame all your health problems including a weight problem all on your diet.  Yes, if you’re more active it’s better for your heart and your joints, and even your brain because your circulation will improve the active you are. Eating a healthy balanced diet isn’t all that complicated. Just choose a variety of foods from all the major food groups including fruits and vegetables, meats or protein sources, dairy or calcium, grains and cereals, and healthy oils and fats. It also helps if you also want to consume the right amount of calories to maintain a healthy weight and cut back on all the unhealthy junk foods. Sometimes the question isn’t about what makes up a healthy diet; it’s about why should a person eat a healthy diet. So, in case you’re wondering, here are my top ten re

Can counting calories only on certain days of the week help you lose weight?. I don’t think so.  What happens to most people is that they tend to go overboard on the other days. You end up with no weight loss. But I do think that the evening meal should be the smallest meal of the day and the only thing I eat after that is a piece of fruit. Among the many strategies for losing weight and aging well – following a low-carb diet, eliminating gluten, getting more exercise – there’s one that’s consistently recommended by researchers: calorie restriction. When you take in fewer calories than you require to maintain your current body weight, you’ll lose weight. There is a new theory that the fewer calories you eat the longer you will live. Now, this doesn’t mean you have to starve yourself. It means that it’s better to eat food that’s low in calories. And what does that? It means that you should make better choices buying food. Don’t buy frozen food if you can get the same thing fresh. Don’t

This is a little different post than I usually write. I want to thanks the hundreds of people who bought a copy of one of my ebooks. I’m not a professional writer, I just like to write and a friend of mine once told me if I’m going to write I have to write about a subject I love. A subject I can write about every day. A subject that I have personally experienced. I picked weight loss because I have A lifetime of experience. I started wrestling in school when I was 12 years old. I was in 8th grade when the high school coach came to my school and talked to us about joining the wrestling team. I was a big kid, better suited for football, but I want to do both football and wrestling. The coach would come to my school after classes and taught us how to wrestle. We learned the rules and some of the moves and the strategy. By the time I was a Sophomore I was put on the Varsity team. My best year was my Junior year when I when to State. That’s what we all competed for, just a chance to go to t

This is a great post. Almost no one eats enough  fruit and vegetables. The vegetarian craze did open people's eyes to the nutrition in plant foods but it also opened our eyes to the importance of protein to the body. Reading this post might change your views. By Robert Preidt   HealthDay Reporter Want to be good to your ticker? Load up on veggies — especially beans, Italian researchers recommend. They've published a comprehensive review of research on eating habits and  heart disease  that provides consistent evidence that eating less salt and animal  proteins  and more plant-based foods are associated with a lower risk of heart disease.  Those good-for-you foods include  whole grains , fruits, veggies, legumes, and nuts. The researchers also recommend replacing butter and other animal fats with non-tropical vegetable fats, such as olive oil. "A mistake we made in the past was to consider one dietary component the enemy and the only thing we had to change," said study