Archive for December, 2007
Following these 7 Tips will help you get going on your new diet!
This low calorie, low fat recipe is a great treat. Not only does it satisfy that sweet tooth but the banana has great nutritional value.
Ingredients:
1 small peeled banana, sliced
6 Tablespoons of Fat Free Whipping Toppings
Add a little Splenda for more sweetness, or if you are a chocolate nut like me, drizzle a small amount of Chocolate syrup.
This sweet treat has only 200 calories.
Breakfast
- Hot Peanut Butter Flax Cereal
- 1/4 cup frozen blueberries (thawed) on cereal
Lunch
- Salad made with 4 cups chopped romaine or other dark green lettuce (i.e. not iceberg), half an avocado, and 4 oz cooked chicken meat, with Vinaigrette dressing such as Sweet and Sour Lime Dressing
When selecting a menu to lose body fat, make sure you are consuming a balanced and complete diet. Your should try to set realistic and attainable weight loss and diet goals. Once you have started your diet, don’t get discouraged, one step back is just that, not a reason to quit.
You can start by following the simple guidelines below.
Nutritional and Diet Menu Guidelines:
- Commit to consuming 4 – 6 small meals and snacks everyday.
- To succeed, you must plan ahead by packing your foods the night before. Thus, you should always have fresh and low-fat foods around. Read the rest of this entry »
In this article we’re going to cover a little known type of fraud, though becoming more and more common and a bigger problem each year, this is diet fraud.
The fact is, a great number of people in the world and especially in the United States are overweight. It is one of the largest growing health concerns in this country and getting worse every year. Because of this problem, diet programs are everywhere. Many of them like Weight Watchers have been around for a very long time and are reputable companies. Unfortunately, there are a great number of diet plans out there that are flat out fraudulent in that they promote a weight loss program that doesn’t work or is just plain dangerous.
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The Kimkins diet was founded by Heidi Kimberly Diaz, a 49 year old woman who became extremely popular after apparently losing a whopping 198 pounds.
Both the Kimkins diet and Heidi Diaz, however, have come under some intense scrutiny recently, with the former being called a scam and the latter a fraud.
Is there any truth to either accusation?
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Moderate exercise may not do much to help you lose weight, research shows. But even intense exercise is no guarantee of weight loss, according to a new study from the University of Leeds in Britain.
Thirty-five overweight men and women took part in supervised exercise designed to burn 500 calories a day on treadmills, bikes and rowing machines. By the end of the 12-week study, some exercisers had lost a staggering 32 pounds. But five of them actually had gained weight — as much as four pounds, according to the researchers, who published their findings last month in the International Journal of Obesity.
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If you are serious about trying to shed those extra pounds every little piece of help is wanted. Here are some foods that can help you in your mission.
Granted you can’t gorge yourself on apples and see the pounds float away. Getting in shape means you need to have an overall good diet and regular exercies. These are just some helpful foods to help shed those unwanted pounds of fat.
Lose your extra pounds with these easy pro tips
1. TIME YOUR PRE-MEAL SNACK
Eating a low-carbohydrate protein bar 90 minutes before you work out will enable you to exercise longer and harder (and burn more calories) than you normally would, says Steve Zim, author of Hot Point Fitness. However, that 90-minute mark is crucial. Eat any closer to your workout, and blood will rush to your stomach, actually diminishing your performance.
2. BREATHE THROUGH YOUR NOSE
Inhaling and exhaling through your nose, rather than your mouth, helps stabilize your heart rate and (like the pre-workout snack) increase your endurance. The result? You work out longer and burn more calories. But don’t get discouraged if it feels unnatural at first — it takes about six to eight workouts to perfect.
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Are you trying to lose that annoying Belly Fat? I’m sure you have heard that sit-ups and crunches are the way to do it, because those exercises make use of the abdominal muscles. However while it is absolutely true that sit-ups will strengthen the abdominal muscles and make you stronger in that area, and you may look thinner because your improved muscles hold in the fat better, this does not actually reduce belly fat in itself.
For a complete and long lasting solution to how to lose belly fat, we need to look at how the body works and how it is able to actually lose weight. The simple fact is that if you are going to lose weight – from any part of your body – you need regular exercise. The fact that the most obvious and visible area of excess fat in your body is your belly does not alter this fact. When you do not exercise enough, or over-eat for a protracted period, one of the areas which naturally shows this excess more than others is the belly. Similarly if you start to exercise and lose weight, it will disappear quickest from the same belly area. So no special “belly exercises” are actually necessary – just healthy exercise!
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