One of the first rules to remember is that you are not on a diet, but you are starting lifestyle changes, instead. If you think that eating fewer calories temporarily is all you need to do, you will find yourself slowly gaining back any weight you lost.

This is because you need to make long-term changes, which is why most fad diets do not work. Eating nothing but grapefruit for a week may help you lose a few pounds, but there is simply no way to keep that up forever, and you will gain the weight right back the minute you eat normally again.

Instead, just concentrate on eating less, and eating unhealthy foods in moderation if you must have them. If you make a few lifestyle changes, such as avoiding eating fast food, as well as cutting back on soda and fried products, you will see a change in your weight that will stick around for years. Read the rest of this entry »

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When you ignore your health and eat unwisely, what you do is nothing but “a rape” you commit on the body that is gifted to you by God.  You should immediately undo the mistake you committed and lose your fat quickly.

To lose fat quickly, you should eat the right kind of foods. The results are achieved by a combination of the right foods and the right exercises, food regimen outweighing the exercises regimen in results.

Your intake of food should consist of proteins to the extent of 40%, good carbohydrates, another 40% and good fats, only 20%. Read the rest of this entry »

Burn The Fat, Feed The  Muscle is a best seller with significant proof that it works. It will probably appeal the most to the kind of women whose goal is to lose weight build lean muscle.

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It takes effort and a significant time investment.  It trades focus, dedication and hard work to get significant, permanent and natural fat loss (as opposed to some rapid fat loss programs where youre required to take drugs or supplements and where the weight is a lot more likely to come back). Read the rest of this entry »

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What you eat and what you do can influence your hormones dramatically. When this happens you can either gain weight or lose weight. Avoid these key areas to make sure you lose weight with your healthy weight loss diet. Don’t take for granted just how powerful hormones like these are in determining your weight loss success.

This one hormone that can cause so many problems is called Cortisol. Excess cortisol will stimulate your appetite and prompt more calories to be stored as fat, so it is very influential in your weight loss plan. These are 2 things you don’t want when trying to follow a healthy weight loss diet.

Cortisol also increases protein breakdown within the muscle, which means a slower metabolism and less calories burned. A key to successful weight loss is keeping your metabolism running at a fast rate so that you are always burning calories.

It decreases glucose utilization and increased insulin resistance, which means the glucose or sugars in your body are not used for energy as much as they should be. Instead they float around and eventually get stored as fat. This is strike two against your healthy weight loss diet and healthy eating plans.

One thing that directly increases cortisol is stress. Stress is the culprit in increasing cortisol levels and resistance to insulin and leptin. Stress can come from work issues, family issues, medical problems and even unhealthy foods. Read the rest of this entry »

You can move from being a comfort eater to being someone who eats a healthy diet with ease. The problem many people face when they eat for comfort is that they are using the food to push down uncomfortable feelings. This works temporarily but that feeling will spring up again making it necessary for the comfort eater to overeat again.

The challenge most comfort eaters face is that they are scared of facing the uncomfortable feelings. It actually feels safer to eat than to let the uncomfortable thought fully develop in their head.

What you will actually find however is that most uncomfortable feelings break apart and lose their power when you simply allow them to play through in your head. For instance, you might fear that your boss is going to give you too much work and overwhelm you so in order to avoid this uncomfortable thought you eat and the foods you choose are quick carbs such as a baked good or refined carbohydrate.

An option is to ask yourself if you absolutely know that it is true that your boss is going to give you too much work. The reality is that at this moment you really don’t know what your boss will do and you are creating the whole scary scenario. This understanding can calm you down and allow you to consider what you might do if your boss does give you extra work and how you might handle the situation in a better way.

With practice you will find it easy to defuse your need for comfort eating by allowing the uncomfortable thought to play out. When you do this you will find that you are finally free to move into a healthier eating pattern and easily avoid comfort foods.

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There are various weight loss trends out there that aim to reduce calorie intake to such low numbers that failure is inevitable. Starving the body is not the optimal way to lose weight.

Real weight loss starts with a healthy body and with old eating habits filling the colon with toxins and built up food, a colon cleanse is a start in the perfect direction. People tend to think a colon cleansing is all about relieving constipation, but this is not the sole benefit of a cleanse. When food builds up in the intestine, absorbing vitamins and nutrients becomes harder and health is negatively affected.

What types of Foods Build Up in the Colon to Stop Weight Loss?

A long time ago, diets consisted of foods that could be grown and prepared naturally. The body easily digested these foods and the colon could process the food and eliminate it from the body without trouble.

With the introduction of processed foods and fast food, the colon could no longer work effectively and old food was left stuck to the sides of the intestines without being eliminated. In regards to weight loss, reducing calorie intake is not enough to get the colon back on track. Read the rest of this entry »

As almost everyone is aware, obesity is increasingly an issue in many parts of the world, and not just in Western countries. Sometimes it seems as if there as many theories about causes people to be overweight as there are overweight people.

There are various answers to the question as to what leads to the matter of getting overweight. For some it’s more a matter of genetics and for others it’s more a matter of diet and/or lifestyle. Regardless of the reason, there is no easy, sure-fire way to lose weight.

One of the alternative therapies promoted as a way of restoring one’s digestive system to good health and lose weight is colon cleansing. Colon cleansing is not a “quick fix” solution to a weight problem. However, adherents believed that it will over time it will unclog the colon and make the digestive system more efficient.

Adherents of alternative medicine believe that there is too much focus on artificial methods of weight loss. Instead we should be focusing on finding natural and healthy ways of restoring a clean and efficient digestive system. This will then lead to the body weight of an overweight person gradually returning to normal. Read the rest of this entry »