Weight Loss
Anyone Struggling to Lose the Last Few Pounds?
I’m still struggling to loose the last 15 pounds I want to get rid of. I can’t believe it’s so hard for me to lose 15 pounds. I have been trying so hard for about 1 year now. I’m doing exercise regularly 4-5 days a week and am watching what I eat. But it seems I can’t lose that stubborn 15 pounds. Help!!! What’s wrong with me? I’m not sure why.
My weight has been stable for about 3 years. I want to achieve my desired goal of weighing 100lbs but it seems so hard. The reason why I want to loose 15 pounds is because I’m not that tall. I’m only 4″11 and I think 100lbs is the best weight for my small frame. What do ya’ll think? Read More
Reasons To Create Your Own Diet Meals
Did I tell you that I quit the Nutrisystem program a few weeks a go. Why? not because the program was bad, but because I want to challenge myself. I found interesting that the food provided by certain diet programs was actually similar to the food that I eat regularly. So I’m thinking why I need to spend money while I can find my own way and create my own diet meals. Okay I confess, the honest reason is actually because I’m too stingy to spend money. It hurts my heart when I have to pay $300 a month just to get the same food that I believe I can make it my own.
Its a lot cheaper and you can be more fun because you won’t get bored to eat the same food over and over for a year. If you eat the same food all the time, like vaccines, your body will be immune. In that case, YES! you will loose weight, not because of the program, but because you are tired of the food and you don’t want to eat it anymore. Just to see the food makes you lose your appetite (heheeh…… that’s my theory ). Read More
10 Powerful Tips to Lose Extra Weight Fast
To lose extra weight fast, it doesn’t require miracles, potions, and secrets. All it takes is the proper mindset that you CAN do it and understanding simple principles that are very easy to adapt to. Here are 10 powerful tips to lose extra weight fast.
- Do not focus on REDUCING the amount of calories you take in. Focus on BURNING off calories in order to lose extra weight fast. Dramatically reducing the amount of calories your body needs will slow down your metabolism…which will then lead to stored fat.
- Don’t jump in to a healthy lifestyle full speed ahead. Learn and comprehend everything first dealing with getting your body in better shape. Know what is right for YOU and your body.
- Focus more on building muscle as building lean muscle will burn more calories…even while you rest.
- Eat 6 small healthy meals daily.
- Exercise first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Read More
Nutrisystem Review
I joined Nutrisystem weight loss program 3 months ago and I will give Nutrisystem a big thumbs up. Believe it or not, in 5 days, I lost 5 pounds. And in 2 months I lost 10 pounds. The combination of less calories, well proportioned food from Nutrisystem and a 5 times a week work out speed up the weight loss process. The process of joining Nutrisystem is hassle free. All the information can be found in Nutrisystem user friendly website. Nutrisystem is divided into 7 programs where you can select the one that suit you best. The programs are :
- Women’s Program
- Men’s Program : A program that is tailored for men
- Women’s Silver Program : A program that specifically for older women who want a convenient way to slim down
- Men’s Silver Programs : A program that designed to help older men shed pounds simply and conveniently
- Women’s Diabetic Program : A program that designed specifically for women with Type 2 Diabetes.
- Men’s Diabetic Program : A meal plan for men with Type 2 Diabetes
- Vegetarian Program : A program for vegetarians Read More
My Favorite Weight Loss Workouts
I learned that dieting alone is not enough. Combining your diet with the right exercise will absolutely help increase your metabolism and speed up the weight loss process. Not only does it help you shed the unwanted pounds but it also gives you more confidence. You will feel good about yourself, healthier, stronger, happier. You will have more energy to face your daily life.
Doing an exercise doesn’t mean that you need to hire a professional trainer, go to the gym or join a yoga class. You can do exercise anywhere, anytime on any budget. The only thing you need to have is “will.”
If you do your exercise, do not focus too much that your do it because you want to loose weight. Don’t pressure yourself too much. Do your exercise in happy way and enjoy it. Believe me you will feel good about it. Do your exercise because you “want to” and not because you “have to”. Read More
Diet Exercise
Diet and exercise go hand in hand when it comes to healthful weight loss. Many of us know this to be true yet have a difficult time incorporating both into our lives. We live busy hectic lives and sometimes eating properly is replaced by eating whatever we can find in a hurry. We know that taking the stairs or parking farther away from the store can be great ways to burn a few more calories on a daily basis, but with tight schedules, we may not be able to do this.
Coming up with good ideas for a diet exercise plan can be difficult, but I’m here to help! Here are some rules that will help you incorporate proper diet and exercise into your life and set you on a path to better health, energy and weight loss.
Rule Number One
- Plan ahead!
In order to eat properly throughout the day on a consistent basis, you need to get in the habit of planning ahead.
There’s nothing worse than setting out to make a healthful meal and realizing that you are missing one or two ingredients. So close, yet so far! To avoid this, make sure you plan your menu for the week and make a shopping list based on the menu. Try to plan for five days at a time which will allow you to keep fresh produce on hand at all times.
As well, keep a magnetic pad on the fridge with a pencil handy so that you may write things down as you run out. When you make the actual list, categorize each section of the store which will make shopping a breeze. Don’t you just hate having to go back and forth across that giant super center when you’ve missed something important on the list? Of course, I suppose this could be considered exercise. Read More
The Zone Diet
About the Zone Diet
The Zone Diet (www.zonediet.com)
was developed by Dr. Barry Sears. The diet itself is set up to give moderate amounts of the three major nutrients: protein, fat and carbohydrate. By doing this, Dr. Sears believes that the zone diet will balance and stabilize the three major hormones or hormone types: insulin, glucagons and eicosanoids. In addition, Dr. Sears believes that zone diet food is capable of controlling gene expression by turning on or off particular genes.
- The Plan
The basic concept is that based on your daily protein needs, to stay in the diet zone you will eat a balance of protein, fat and carbohydrate throughout the day using three meals and a few snacks. These are measured in blocks. A block of protein is roughly 1 ounce of meat. As a rule of thumb, women will have three blocks, or three ounces of lean meat and men will have four ounce of lean meat per meal. You then use equal blocks of fat and carbohydrate. Read More
Pack That Fat! Why Weight Loss Is Important
In Helen Fieldings’ cult novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, frustrated singleton Bridget Jones seems to wage an endless battle against the bulge, and if you will permit me to quote a longish paragraph, sums up very nicely what it is that most of us hate about being fat. Here it is: “I hate communal changing rooms. Everyone stares sneakily at each other’s bodies, but no one ever meets anyone’s eye. There are always girls who know that they look fantastic in everything and dance around beaming, swinging their hair and doing model poses in the mirror saying, ‘Does it make me look fat?’ to their obligatory obese friend, who looks like a water buffalo in everything.” Read More
Diet Plans: Which Is The One For You?
Whenever I think diets, I can’t help thinking of Bridget Jones (I know I’ve mentioned her before), Helen Fielding’s scatterbrained singleton heroine who obsessively counts calories and is yet constantly unable to reach her dreamed of weight loss goal. At the end of Bridget Jones’s Diary, we learn that Bridget has consumed, in a single year, 11,090,265 calories. That is by her own admission, and Bridget’s mathematical skills may not be the strongest, but even so, she has consumed close to 30,000 calories per day, whereas the recommended daily count for a woman her age (early 30s) would be 1,940. As for her alcohol consumption, the count is a staggering 3,836 units per year, which means more than 10 units per day. Is it any wonder she leads a dysfunctional life? Read More
Natural Weight Loss: Will It Work For You?
For Terence Flanagan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, losing weight was not a matter of choice, but a medical necessity. At 23 and a full six feet, he was touching 400 lbs, and doctors were warning of severe consequences if he didn’t get his weight under control. “Back in 2003, I was an obese wreck,” says Terence. “I was embarrassed to go out and meet people, and my job as an estate agent meant that I was constantly having to do that. It got to a point where I seriously wanted to give it up and just hide in a dark corner.” Read More
Weight Loss Diet Pills: The Debate For And Against
Marisa Scott Prentice is a 31-year-old kindergarten teacher in Orlando, Florida. Two years ago, and at 5’5”, she was tilting the scales at 250 lbs. “It was excruciating, and going to school was a nightmare. Children can be unwittingly cruel about people they perceive as being out of the ordinary, and questions about how fat I was were regulation,” she says. More importantly, her physician warned her about potentially fatal consequences if she didn’t do something about her weight, soon. In desperation, Marisa turned to weight loss diet pills, which she saw as the quickest route to a slimmer her. What followed was “catastrophic”, in her words. Read More
Green Tea: A Weight Loss Miracle Aid?
Okay, this is going to be one of those ‘did you know’ beginnings. Did you know that a lot of the tea that was dumped into Boston harbor during the Boston Tea Party was, in fact, green tea? This is because until the early decades of the 20th century, green tea was a far more popular import into the United States than black tea. And of late, the wheel has turned full circle as the popularity of green tea as a weight loss aid gains ground, making it the beverage of choice in large parts of the Western world, whereas earlier, its consumption was more widespread in the Far East.
In fact, in many Asian cultures, green tea has a proud tradition as a healing beverage. There is archaeological evidence to prove that green tea has been consumed in this part of the world for close to 5,000 years, and that India and China were the first countries to grow it. Traditional texts indicate that green tea has been medicinally used in countries like India, China, Japan and Thailand to help everything from healing wounds to regulating blood sugar and promoting digestion. Spot the green tea-weight loss link here? Happily, modern science has started to recognize these properties too, which has led to widespread research on green tea, adding to its popularity. Read More
