Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

This is the most frequently asked question in my Inbox. The answer is that it all starts with your diet. You can go to the gym every day but “you can’t exercise away a bad diet”.  The problem that most of us have is that we think we have a good diet. If you have added weight to your body over the last 10 years, your diet is the problem. Most of us think that we can fix our diet just by eating less food. Not really. The problem is the food we are eating and not so much the quantity. When you eat fresh food the urge to keep eating will disappear. So what does fresh eating mean?  I found this food pyramid on the internet. This is a good example of eating fresh. This pyramid explains what you can eat every day, What you should only eat weekly, and what you should only eat once a month. You should drink water or other drinks that have no calories. The only exception is one glass of wine either before or after dinner. I live by this pyramid every day. You can eat all you want, as long as it’

I found this post on WEBMD and thought it was worth reblogging. There’s good information here and at the end I added a paragraph of my own. 1. Change the way you describe your goals. “ Call it whatever you want, but don’t call what you’re doing a  diet, ” says David Grotto, RD, author of The Best Things You Can Eat.  When you're trying to lose weight, you’ll never keep the pounds off permanently if you think about this as a temporary problem that you can fix in a couple of months. The problem with  d iets   is they  have a beginning and an end. You will only succeed when you make a lifelong commitment to a healthier lifestyle.  I call it “my new meal plan”. The Doctor has a point, using the word  diet  and convincing yourself that “this is just a diet and I’ll get back to those desserts after this is over”  is  not a good way to look at your weight problem. I liken a weight problem to a person who has a problem with  smoking.  Once you give it up you can’t go back  to your old ways

  Eating too much of the wrong foods gets all of us in trouble, but we love to indulge ourselves. In other posts I’ve written about the genetic causes of overweight and the addictive causes, I touch on the emotional ways we cause our own weight problems. Bad eating habits are easy to pick up. We get some of these bad habits at home. When I was growing up in a German household, we eat plenty of good wholesome food but it’s what we add in to give the food the extra flavor that adds the pounds. As families became more prosperous, we became more indulgent. Potatoes, for instance, are a good wholesome food with plenty of nutrition but when we add all that butter and maybe some sour cream and bacon bits, well now that nutritious potato is about 800 calories or half of your daily calorie allowance. We usually had broccoli on the table, but everyone liked it with cheddar cheese melted on top. There’s nothing wrong with cheese, but it does add calories. Milk was on the table for every meal. My

Did you know people in some European countries are thinner than us, on average.  When I was in Europe I didn’t see a low-calorie food. Restaurants had no diet food or low-calorie meals. But no one was what we call obese. I’ve personally been to more than 15 European countries and normal people are in better shape than American. I read a non-diet book last year “The Secret of Eating” where the author explains that diets don’t work. This is a weight loss book about how this woman had gained 20 pounds while going to school in the States and then lost the weight when returning to France, her home country. She goes on to say that in France women don’t get fat. In the States when she was going to school the portions of food were too large and foods were too sweet. When returning to Europe she returned home and returned to eating the way she grew up. In Europe, women eat sensibly. Good food of very high quality and eaten in small portions. Good food does not mean good tasting, it means food o

  I read several posts every day and the one I thought was the best one I read recently was on WordPress.com. The author Banded Girl writes about her battle with weight and her post is worth a read. “Your pants Don’t lie” and I copied a small part: so,  after all these things happened,  I gave up,  i started eating more,  drinking more,  not exercising,  eating more than i know is right,  and stopped believing in  myself,  what is the end result? My pants not buttoning do NOT lie, it speaks the truth. I started eating more, drinking more, not exercising, more than i know is right, and I stopped believing in myself. What was the result? My pants not buttoning do NOT lie. My pants speak the truth. It is UP to me to get back on track, I can say and write what i want, but until I do, actually do something about it, my pants will continue to tell the truth. The post she wrote is really about her facing “reality”. She doesn’t need a scale to know she has gained too much weight and until her

Humans developed a natural urge to eat too much but have no built-in control to keep from becoming overweight or obese, according to researchers from the University of Exeter in England. That’s because being overweight was not a significant survival threat to our ancestors while being underweight was dangerous. And the compulsion to maintain body fat is even stronger in the winter when our ancestors typically had trouble finding enough food, the study authors explained in a university news release. The investigators used computer modeling to predict how much fat humans and other animals should store. Their findings were published Jan. 5 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. “You would expect evolution to have given us the ability to realize when we have eaten enough, but instead, we show little control when faced with artificial food,” study lead author Andrew Higginson, of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, said in the news release. “Because modern food today