Deciding on the best weight loss program for you can be confusing. You need a healthy weight loss program that will allow you to lose weight safely, but there are so many diets out there today; it’s hard to know what the best one really is! It’s no wonder that time after time, your diet fails and you’re right back where you started, or worse, you put on extra pounds. Each new diet is advertised as the best out there, but they don’t put the emphasis where it should be – on a healthy weight loss program that lets you lose weight safely. Why do so many diets fail? Why is it so hard to find the best weight loss program that will help you lose all the weight you want? The answer is simple – diets fail because they’re too restrictive. We need to eat a variety of foods to survive. When you break a diet, that’s your body’s way of telling you to take care of yourself! The best weight loss program isn’t a crash diet. It’s not one of those diets where you deprive yourself of your favorite foods. The best weight loss program won’t make you feel hungry all the time. It is one of those diets where you still get to eat your favorite foods. It will let you eat enough that you don’t feel hungry every minute you’re awake. The best one is the one that allows you to lose weight safely. That’s what it comes down to – the best weight loss program is a healthy weight loss program. It doesn’t cause you to lose weight too quickly, and it allows your body to get all the nutrients it needs, so that you don’t feel hungry all the time. It is one where you don’t feel like you’re even on a diet! So – what is a healthy weight loss program? One where you can lose weight safely and naturally? Does it even exist? It sure does. And it is really simple. There are no gimmicks, no fad foods, and you don’t have to spend hours a day in the gym. If you want to lose weight safely, the best weight loss program is simply a combination of eating a balanced diet, portion control, and exercise. Why is it the best? Because it’s healthy and will let you lose weight safely, at a moderate pace. Losing a lot of weight very quickly isn’t good for your body, and when you lose weight too quickly, you’re more likely to gain it back. On the best weight loss program you still get to eat your favorite foods, so you’re not depriving yourself of anything. Fad diets tell you what to eat and when to eat it. The best weight loss program is the one that lets you eat when you’re hungry, because starving yourself makes you more likely to overeat. By adding some gentle exercise, such as walking, you’ll feel healthier and burn extra calories. That’s the best weight loss program. It’s a healthy one, and you can lose weight safely. No special exercise equipment to buy and you don’t have to starve yourself!
Friday, 23 September 2016
Sunday, 18 September 2016
The most practical diet you ever try
Americans lose millions of pounds a year - only to gain most of it back within a year. You've probably heard over and over again that the real secret to losing weight permanently is to make permanent changes in your eating habits and lifestyle. Throughout decades of high protein, low protein, Air Force diets, Atkins, Scarsdale diets, cabbage diets, eat-all-you-want-and-still-lose-weight diets that is the one piece of advice that has remained strong. No matter what the latest diet craze, over and over throughout the years, the one "diet" that effected a long-term, permanent weight loss was the 'eat a well-balanced, portion-controlled diet and exercise regularly'. Why are fad diets so popular? Diets feed our need to be actively doing something. Weighing, measuring, counting - whether its calories, exchanges or carbs - all give us the feeling of gaining control over our bodies and our weight. In the long run, though, all the measuring and obsession with what, how much and when we eat becomes overwhelming. When we stop living by strictly controlled guidelines set out by other people - the latest diet guru - the weight comes back. There is a practical way to lose weight that doesn't involve arcane combinations of foods to set up an ideal balance of foods that burn more than they give, or that promise to 'turn your body into a fat-burning machine'. It is to simply eat a healthy balance of all types of foods in portions that are reasonable for your body, while at the same time raising your activity level to burn more calories than you take in. Below are some practical guidelines to help you adjust your diet and lifestyle to help you lose that weight - and keep it off permanently. 1.Adjust your attitude. You're not going on a diet - you're eating what your body needs. To maintain your weight loss, you'll need to maintain your new eating habits for the rest of your life - and that's a far easier prospect if your diet plan is one that makes sense and is easy to maintain. 2.Think square when you plan your meals. Like a square has four corners, so should your meals. At every meal, include a protein, a healthy fat, a grain/legume and a fruit/vegetable. 3.Eat three squares and at least two snacks every day. Your snacks should be in the grain/legume or fruit/vegetable corner. 4.If you're under stress, eat something every two hours. Your body sends out distress signals when you're putting it under stress. Give it healthy fuel to keep it working right. 5.Aim for no more than 60 grams of carbohydrate per day at first. Spread the carbohydrates over the course of the day - 15 at each meal and 7 at each snack. 6.Limit dairy products to 3 or less daily. 7.Completely avoid soft drinks - even the diet ones. 8.Drink 6-10 glasses of water each day. 9.Eliminate 'white foods' from your diet. Do away with white sugar, white flour and white cereal products. 10. Take a nutritional supplement - at least a good multivitamin daily.
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
5 Simple steps to losing weight
If you are carrying around a few (I use that term loosely) extra pounds like most of us are, you all know all the reasons why we should take the weight off. It will reduce stress on our heart, reducing the chance of heart disease, cancer, possibility of diabetes; feel better, look more attractive, etc. There are 101 reasons why, but it can be a real pain to finally get that weight off. You push really hard, make a little progress, get side tracked, and bam you are heavier then you started. It’s maddening. Enough with that hassle, I have put together 5 simple steps to actually losing weight and keeping it off. These steps can be applied to anything, but we are focusing on weight loss here. 1. Know What You Want 2. Know Where You Are 3. Track Your Results 4. Make Course Corrections 5. Being held Accountable Now all your extra weight will effortlessly melt off. Yeah right! A simple list of 5 items is not going to do it, so let me explain the intricacies of the 5 items and where the hang up normally occurs when applied to losing weight. 1. Know What You Want This one is dead simple. Most people that want to lose weight have an idea of how many pounds they would like to lose or how they would like their body to look. I think we can safely say if your body started looking the way you wanted it, you would know, even if you didn’t have it completely mapped out and detailed. 2. Know Where You Are This is the big trip up. It is almost always overlooked and is the number one reason for the up and down Yo Yo effect we experience with losing weight. We are unhappy with how our body feels and how it looks and it is painful to zoom in and get an accurate picture of where we are. Unfortunately, we have to know where we are, to be able to accurately judge the results we are getting. You are on a trip to San Diego, California. You would like to start your trip from Phoenix, Arizona, but you really don’t know where you are. No problem. You get an Arizona/California map and find that a simple 6 hours trip west on interstate 8 will get you to San Diego. 6 hours later, you have no clue where you are and it is definitely not warm San Diego. You feel defeated and you want to give up! Do you blame the car? The stupid maps? San Diego? Yourself? Now what if I told you, you were actually in New Your City, not Phoenix, Arizona. A 6 hour car ride west from New York City will never get you to San Diego. If you took the time to accurately find out where you were, you would have been able to choose the appropriate means to get to San Diego and have an expectation as to how long it would take. This is the same with weight loss and our personal physical condition. In our minds, we think we are starting in a different physical condition then we really are. When the results don’t follow the illusion in your mind, we get upset. 3. Track Your Results This is conceptually simple. If we have no clue as to WHAT we are doing, how do we know what is working? It might be a simple to do, but is also simple not to do. In the end, most people never track their results. 4. Make Course Corrections We love to do this one. We have it hands down. It is like step 1 of knowing what you want. We try the new food diet, the super sit up machine, and the cardio hip hop power energy yoga fat burner class. We might be great at switching it up, but without knowing where we are starting from and a history of tracked results, we have no clue as to what we should change or even which direction we should go. 5. Being held Accountable No, not accountability! That is an evil word. I don’t want someone to know what I am doing, or more importantly what I am not doing. So, why do we resist accountability, your secret weapon to weight loss? Because it works! If you know someone is going to be watching, you would follow through or at least feel very uncomfortable not following through. Accountability when used wisely is the ultimate turbo booster to your weight loss. Since you are going to be accountable anyway, you might as well get something out of it. Using accountability up front, you can achieve the body of your dreams. If you let your body hold you accountable, it will throw on fat in places you don’t want it to be. The biggest obstacle to weight loss is not taking any action. It doesn’t matter how good the plan is, it is worthless if you don’t follow it. So what do I do now? First and foremost get Accountable. Forward this article to someone you respect and care about and tell them I want to be accountable to finally taking off my extra pounds. When they agree to support you, start working through Steps 1 – 5.