Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

The restaurant scene is a hodgepodge of thousands of different types, different names and different cuisines all fighting for your business. They have to make good tasting food at a reasonable price. It’s only recently that healthy foods have become important to the consumer. So important that restaurants have to put something healthy on the menu. The problem or better yet the challenge for restaurants is to make healthy food taste good. The problem with healthy food has always been that it’s bland, not much flavor. You can’t cream it, or sauté it, that wouldn’t be healthy. You can’t tenderize the meat, that would add calories. So restaurants have come up with a small amount of foods on the menu that are healthy and that gets them off the hook. They can still offer the standard menu of tasty entrees with 1200 or 1500 calories but critics can’t say there’s no healthy food on the menu. Many restaurants offer delicious, heart-healthy meals. These tips will help you make eating out healthy

I think we all take our health for granted until we finally realize you’re going downhill. You have to do something and you know it. The problem is most people wait too long, and then they have a big job ahead of them. These last few years we should have all learned a valuable season. Many people got Covid and many people died, but the ones that suffered through the illness should know now how important it is to keep the body healthy. Most illnesses and even Covid can be only a mild cold if your body is healthy enough to fight off germs and other illnesses.  I'm sure you see these people at work that never seem to get sick and never seem to miss a day. How do they do it? you might ask. Healthy people have to work at staying healthy. It's not just good genes. Living a healthy lifestyle is not just the way you're born. It's more than that.  When you’re young and athletic you can take your good health for granted. You don’t have to work at it, your active athletic lifestyl

This is a frequently asked question. The answer is different for everyone. If you are only 20 pounds or so over your goal weight, then a 200-pound man can expect to lose about 2 pounds a week. If you’re a woman who weighs about 140 and wants to lose 20 pounds then 2 pounds every week might be too much to expect. And it also depends on your age. For instance, a young woman who has had a baby recently will lose 20 pounds faster than a woman in her late 40s who has carried the extra weight for a few years. If you have been overweight for some time, it will take longer to lose it. Losing fat depends on training the body to burn body fat instead of the food you eat.  So several things being considered, 20 pounds may take 2 months for a new mom to lose, or it might take a man 200 pounds age 65, one year to drop the weight. This is what you need to consider; your weight and your age, what kind of physical shape am I in? The better the condition the more exercise you’ll be able to do. How moti

You might want me to explain the title of this post. New studies have proven that sitting 8 hours a day can be just as bad for your health as smoking. If you sit for more than 30 minutes at a time you put your body into hibernation mode. In hibernation mode many of your normal body functions slow down to give the body time to repair itself. That means that your body will burn fewer calories in hibernation mode. That means that your body will store more calories than if you were moving around. The body only has one way to store calories by turning those unused calories into fat and storing the fat in fat cells.  This just happened to me last week. My neighbor volunteers at a non-profit that grows plants to raise money to fund their projects. My neighbor does maintenance work in the greenhouses. He asked me to help him install a new irrigation system in one of the new greenhouses. I said okay, I need a little physical activity after the holidays. The project took 2-4 hours days, and I lo

Yes, I’m one of those who receive AARP mags every month. For the first couple of years, I never admitted it but now I’m coming out of the closet. In December the mag had this article about meat in your diet. It’s important because we all eat meat but if you're one of those meat eaters you want to read the article. For years the Food and Drug Administration has been preaching to cut back on red meat or beef in general. They always maintained that cardio diseases, type 2 diabetes, colorectal cancer, and several other types of cancer including Breast Cancer in women are caused by eating red meat. This most recent study didn’t refute the claims but said we can go ahead and eat red meat anyway. Since the study was published doctors have come out against the study and said that the new study red meat with a method called GRADE which was designed to be used in drug trials and not food. Doctors refute the results and argue that the study isn’t valid. So I conclude that the Mediterranean-st

Tired. Drained. Pooped. No matter how you phrase it, you’re beat and need to drum up some energy. Generally reported by more women than men, sluggishness can be caused by many things. But experts say poor nutrition is a big culprit. “Food is truly our body’s fuel,” says Cindy Moore, director of nutrition therapy for The Cleveland Clinic. “What we choose as our fuel is going to absolutely impact the performance of our bodies.” Here’s what the experts have to say about making sure your body gets the right fuel when it needs it. The Forgotten Meal At the beginning of the day, most people dash off to work or school without a thought to their body’s dietary needs. Who has time to eat in the morning anyway? Mary Ellen Camire, Ph.D., professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Maine says, “Breakfast is an easy meal to forget. But if people are skipping breakfast and find they’re tired by midmorning, then it’s time to re-evaluate breakfast.” Research shows breakfast impr

I was at a basketball game at a local high school with my daughter and I started to talk about a friend's new diet. I was skeptical because it goes against all the diet plans I write about. I always believed that you should eat most of your calories as early in the day as possible. This gives you time to burn them before dark when the body goes into hibernation mode. Hibernation is necessary to give the body time to heal itself. The man sitting next to me was on this same fasting diet and had lost 30 pounds and actually had to stop because he was losing too much weight. He explained that he only consumed calories between 4 pm and midnight. The rest of the time he only drank water, black coffee, and black tea. He didn’t consume any calories between midnight and 4 pm the next day. In a couple of months, he lost thirty pounds. So I read about this type of diet and found that it’s very popular right now. Humans and animals have been eating this way for thousands of years. The article w