I’m on the dance team, and my weight is not acceptable. Whilst others were getting their perfect dancing figures hardened this summer, I munch munch munched my way into 10 pounds over what I was last year (over weight). I know that it’s unhealthy to crash diet, or to go ana and all—but I REALLY REALLY need to fit that fricken leotard. I’ve got…hmm, two weeks?
The best tips that really worked for me are
1. Drink a glass of water before your meals, this will help you feel full, the result: you will tend to eat less.
2. Drink cold water during cold days: your body will work hard and burn lots of calories trying to regulate your body’s temperature, and
3. To counteract a binge, keep your body’s fat-burning furnace running on full blast by drinking Green Tea.
Green Tea contains caffeine and the antioxidant epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) , which is proven to boost metabolic rate. In fact, in a recent 3 month study, participants who took Green Tea extract lost 4.6% of their body weight without changing their diet. To get the benefit, drink at least 3 cups a day.
Drink oolong tea. The proof: Women in a Chinese study who drank 32 oz. of oolong tea daily (four large mugs) lost three pounds a week.
4. Feel full on less food.
Apples are rich in pectin, a soluble fiber that slows the digestive process, so you’ll feel full on less food.The result: You’ll eat just enough food to make you happy, reducing calorie intake.
5. Fill up on Fiber – Foods rich in fiber will make you feel satisfied and help curb your appetite, helping you to lose weight fast and safely – so make sure to pack your diet with fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
For even faster fat loss, place one bag of oolong tea and one bag of green tea in a mug of hot water. The epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in green tea revs metabolism, so the body burns two-and-a-half times more calories per day.
http://bestfoodstoloseweight.blogspot.com/
I’m working on getting a six-pack and I’m trying to go on a good diet so I can lose stomach fat if there is such thing.But I also want to gain weight because I’m under weight so please answer this question soon.
You should limit you’re cardio (running/ aerobics/ dance/ etc ..) and focus on stretching/ strength exercise to gain muscle instead. I recommend checking out this website below. It has tons of helpful tips about how to gain weight and build muscle fast. Hope this help. 
http://buildmuscle2.blogspot.com
It’s 11:30 AM. You’ve been up since 5 o’clock and the hunger meter is on high. “What to eat?” you think to yourself.
You pore over the menu for the deli downstairs but nothing you can allow yourself looks that good. Sure, you could go out for fast food but there’s a meeting coming up and you don’t really want to move your car and then have to find a new parking spot when you return.
So you decide not to go out. That leaves eating in.
You look at your choices, wishing you’d had the foresight to bring something from home. There’s the vending machine in the break room, filled with plastic-wrapped, rubber-textured sandwiches, bagels, muffins and Danish. Ugh, you keep spinning the carousels, hoping that by some miracle, there will be a vegetable snack plate or something half-way decent. You narrow down your choices to a cup of noodle soup or a chicken breast sandwich.
Now you have another choice: eat something to take the edge off or power through the minutes of temptation until you are sitting in your meeting and eating is out of the question. After an hour of dreary, repetitive discussions, your hunger may have calmed down.
How you handle it each day, depends on your mood. Often, if we can get through that one tempting half hour, we’re set for the afternoon and can easily wait for our well-planned light dinner. On other days, you know in your heart that if you don’t eat something, you won’t be able to concentrate on your work because all you can think about is food while you try to conceal the embarrassment of a gurgling stomach.
On those days, take the chicken sandwich, remove the bun, and microwave the miniscule piece of chicken provided. Then cut it into tiny pieces and eat slowly with a plastic knife and fork. If you can make the pea-sized pieces last for 15 or 20 minutes, you’ll feel like you’ve actually eaten an entire meal and be on your way to a pleasant non-food-focused afternoon on a very limited caloric intake.
If you truly want to control your weight, you can do it anywhere. The key is never to eat until you’ve had a lengthy internal dialog with yourself that forces you into a full awareness of your food intake and then select the lesser of all evils and consume it as slowly as you can manage.
Even trapped in the office with nothing more than a killer vending machine, you can turn bleak choices into a self-esteem building triumph.
Virginia Bola
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/diet-facing-lousy-choices-23421.html
These days, Corporate America is losing weight. Seriously. After the Enron scandal and compliance and immigration issues, corporate America is gearing up to fight a different sort of battle – the battle of the bulge. And for the first time since any epidemic, individual health is gaining major concern. This is because big and small businesses, have come to realize that the individual health of their employees can have a major impact on their own financial health.
This is not something that the corporate world has woken up to overnight. The movement has been slow and laborious and fraught with difficulties, but the powers that be have come to the conclusion that unless they take some drastic steps to maintain the individual health of their employees, they will pay a much heavier price in terms of lost days due to sickness, bigger and more expensive medical bills and general illness that threatens to engulf all productivity. And especially in the case of C level executives, who control the bulk of the decision making power of large organizations, individual health becomes a matter of companywide concern.
After all, the country has a lot to worry about. Nearly one third of the country is made up of individuals who are clinically over weight, obese or suffering from lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension. And the ranks of the corporate workers, who do little more than eat and sit at desks all day, are swollen with such statistics. Pun intended. Experts believe that unhealthy eating habits, the rising prominence of junk food and even the sedentary lifestyles that most of us lead are only worsening the situation of individual health.
Now that some employers, notably IBM and WalMart have taken concrete steps to help their employees fight the battle of the bulge, it is expected that other firms too will begin to pay attention to the individual health of their employees. And if one were to follow the old adage of prevention being better than cure, it does not take much to ensure that the individual health needs of employees are well taken care of. Subsidized gym allowances and fees, a nutritious canteen menu and some planned group activities along with moral support from an understanding employer can go a long way indeed. And the results. Well, if corporate America continues to be this focused on individual health, we may soon expect to see a lean, mean and fighting fit economy as well.
Ann Marier
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/individual-health-problems-can-occur-through-poor-diet-122625.html
Is this some kind of joke? I’m a breeder and feed my dogs and puppies excellent human-grade food. The Vet himself told me my current litter is beautiful and so healthy then he turns and asks me what I feed the mother. I told him and he went on to tell me that I should be feeding Hills p/d because it has everything a nursing dog or puppy needs.
He didn’t know the brand of food I feed and asked what it was. I said it was high in protein. He then went on to tell me that dogs don’t need a high protein diet and that high protein can even cause kidney damage. (oh yeah all the wolves out there have kidney damage…did you know?)
I asked what Hills had that my girl needed? He said it was high in protein… LOL.. yes, and high in calcium. I looked at the ingredients. Here they are:
Hills p/d Ingredients:
Ground Whole Grain Corn,
Chicken By-Product Meal,
Pork Fat,
Corn Gluten Meal,
Dried Beet Pulp,
Brewers Rice,
Chicken Liver FLAVOR,
WHY would I want to feed my nursing dog and then puppies that?!!
He knocks the food I’m feeding, and goes on to tell me how Hills and Iams and Eukanuba are the only companies that do true research on dog foods.
Is he on drugs or something? I know that corn, by products, and no meat is NOT good for dogs.
So do you think Vets really believe what they tell us when they tell us to buy the food they sell? Or is it just to make the 40% profit off Hills??
LOL Kevin.
Add:
I sometimes feed raw, when I can afford it. Imagine if I told the Vet that?
LMAO at least 40%. Seems all Vets are in the dog food business these days.
I also find it funny the first ingredient listed is CORN. Ya, you do see a lot of
wolf packs hanging out in the corn fields of Iowa just munching down on some good
ole ears of corn. I wonder if the prefer it on the cob or like to have it cut away so it
doesn’t get stuck inbetween their teeth. I assume the Beet pulp and Liver FLAVOR
or kinda like desert after of course getting rid of all that corn. Funny humans
don’t digest corn all that well either
Who else is finally ready to lose real weight in 2009? If you are anything like the majority of women I speak to online, you TRULY want this year to be the very FIRST time you’ve managed to gain control of your weight, and finally get the bodacious body you deserve. The simple truth is, for MOST of us, dieting is constant and never-ending companion that follows and haunts us through most of our lives. The fact remains that obesity issues contribute to MANY millions of unnecessary and untimely early deaths, debilitating depression and simply ROBS many of us of the best years of our lives to boot.
Fact: You CAN turn your life…AND body around in a hurry if you know the right strategies to do it!
With that in mind, let’s look at few VERY simple things you can do, in combination with a powerful weight loss program, that WILL help you get the body you deserve BACK, and in a hurry!
Tip #1: Diversity is Key
Yes, it’s important to mix up your diet, AND it’s important to cross train your exercise to boot. There is lots of anecdotal evidence that supports keeping a hydbrid selection of dietary choices in your menu is a FAR faster way to drop weight rapidly…and do it safely.
Tip #2: Keep Fluid Levels UP
We’ve ALL heard this one before, right? Well, it’s TRUE…and NOTHING will help your digestive system, (or your weight loss goals) better than a fluid heavy diet. Highly recommended and a big part, obviously, of the diet we recommend as the best choice for women 20 pounds overweight or more.
Tip #3: Make Protein Your Prince
It’s a fact that diets higher in protein, seem to facilitate FASTER weight loss. And that’s what we all want, right? But even better is the fact that protein rich diets support lean muscle mass in ways that diets rich in fats, or carbs can accommodate. So STICK with the protein baby, and add a bit of exercise to your efforts and simply WATCH that bod start to shine!
Tina Bardo
http://www.articlesbase.com/women’s-health-articles/medifast-diet-tips-for-women-unhappy-with-their-body-lose-weight-in-2009-716051.html
I often seem to get water infections is there any connections with getting this on a low fat diet thanks
I have no clue about what is a water infection.
Fat is essential to good health. (not including transfats) & supports a strong immune system & helps hormones to function properly. Fat tempers the devastating health effects of carbohydrates. Fat is needed to make the vitamins & minerals in your foods (like calcium & vit.D in milk or alpha and beta carotene and lycopene in vegs) bioavailable so they can be incorporated into the body structure. Most people do better with a higher level of fat than with less, even if the body is being fueled by carbs & not fat.
The body can not release body fat stores until the bloodstream is clear of insulin. Carbs greater than 9grams per hour trigger insulin. Insulin is the only fat storage hormone. As healthy as fruit may be, fructose the sugar in most fruit is the most lipogenic (fat producing) carb.
from the article posted below:
Another study done a few years ago at Ohio State University showed that salad dressing with oil brings out the best in a salad when compared to no-fat, low-fat dressings.
When the seven test subjects consumed salads with no-fat dressing, the absorption of carotenoids was negligible. When a reduced-fat dressing was used, the added fat led to a higher absorption of alpha and beta carotene and lycopene. But there was substantially more absorption of the healthful compounds when full-fat dressing was used.
Study researchers say they were not only surprised by how much more absorption occurred with fat added to the meal, but they were taken aback at how little the body absorbed when no fats were present. "The fact that so little was absorbed when no fat was there was just amazing to me," says Dr. Clinton.
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/archives/2006/08/ill_have_mine_w.html
SEVEN REASONS TO EAT MORE SATURATED FAT -
1) Improved cardiovascular risk factors
Saturated fat in the diet reduces the levels of lipoprotein (a) abbreviated Lp(a)—that correlates strongly with risk for heart disease. The only dietary means of lowering Lp(a) is eating saturated fat. Eating fats raises the level of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol.
2) Stronger bones
Saturated fat is required for calcium to be incorporated into bone – According to expert in human health, Mary Enig, Ph.D., as much as 50 percent of the fats in the diet should be saturated fats.
3) Improved liver health
Studies show that saturated fat encourages the liver cells to dump fat content. Saturated fat has been shown to protect the liver from the toxic insults of alcohol & medications and even to reverse the damage.
4) Healthy lungs
For proper function, the airspaces of the lungs have to be coated with a thin layer of lung surfactant. The fat content of lung surfactant is 100 percent saturated fatty acids. Replacement of these critical fats by other types of fat makes faulty surfactant & potentially causes breathing difficulties, collapse of the airspaces & respiratory distress.
5) Healthy brain
Your brain is mainly made of fat & cholesterol. Though highly unsaturated essential fatty acids found in cold-water fish (EPA & DHA) are important for brain & nerve function, most of the fatty acids in the brain are actually saturated. The brain needs saturated fats to function optimally.
6) Proper nerve signaling
Certain saturated fats, found in butter, lard, coconut oil, & palm oil, function directly as signaling messengers that influence the metabolism. Without the correct signals to tell the organs & glands what to do, the job gets done improperly.
7) Strong immune system
Saturated fats found in butter & coconut oil (myristic acid & lauric acid) play key roles in immune health. Loss of sufficient saturated fatty acids in the white blood cells hampers their ability to recognize & destroy foreign invaders, such as viruses, bacteria, & fungi. Myristic & lauric acid have potent germ-killing ability. We need dietary replenishment of them to keep the immune system vigilant against the development of cancerous cells & infectious invaders.
Plaque build up in the arteries is more attributable to carb consumption than dietary fats, which seems to be the conclusion of the following study. Carb consumption raises triglycerides & VLDL (bad cholesterol). Fats raise the HDL (good cholesterol). High triglyceride levels & low HDL levels are an indicator of plaque & glycation – the precursors to a heart attack & heart disease.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/after-eating-effects-carbohydrates-vs.html
study from the Oxford group examining the postprandial (after-eating) effects of a low-fat vs. low-carbohydrate diet. (Roberts R et al, 2008)
The Atkins diet hit the diet scene in 1972 when Dr. Atkins published his book, “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution”. And the Atkins diet was really revolutionary. Most diets of the day focused on counting calories and maintaining a low fat diet. Calories were felt to be the enemy and the fewer you ate, the better off you were. Dr. Atkins paid less attention to calories in his diet and more to reducing the number of carbohydrates in the diet. To followers of his diet, the carbohydrates were the problem. The diet promoted the use of lots of protein and a moderate amount of fat with the idea that your metabolism will cause you to lose weight on this diet.
The Atkins diet was not taken very well by many nutritionists who were promoting diets low in fat and protein. This was about the time that the four food groups turned into the food pyramid. Fruits, vegetables and grains were near the bottom and should be consumed the most. Unfortunately for the Atkins diet, these were things that were to be avoided on the diet. Near the top of the food pyramid are fats and meat proteins. We weren’t supposed to eat many of these types of foods on a healthy diet and yet they were prominent in the Atkins diet.
The Atkins diet included menu plans high in bacon, fried meat and even fried pork rinds. While there were some salad greens on the diet plan, you were allowed to add fatty dressing to the diet plan. The Atkins diet plan really promoted eggs, cheese, meats at every meal and, in some cases, protein bars or protein drinks. This was a time when cholesterol and triglycerides were being better understood and their role in heart disease was made more clear. Experts felt that the Atkins diet plan was too high in cholesterol and other fats, making one’s risk for heart disease greater. Dr. Atkins continued to promote his diet plan, amid a great deal of controversy.
The Atkins diet also included some Atkins products, like Atkins hot cereal, Atkins protein shakes and Atkins protein bars. Instead of having regular hot cereal, you would choose the Atkins variety of hot cereal. The company made money off of these specialized products and still does, but to a lesser degree. As long as carbohydrates were counted and Atkins products used, the diet was expected to help you lose weight.
It’s unclear how successful people were in losing weight on the Atkins diet. If dieting is truly based on calories, the Atkins diet certainly weren’t lacking in them. Since the origin of the Atkins diet, more is known about the effects of cholesterol (from meat protein) and triglycerides (from other fats) on things like stroke, peripheral artery disease and heart disease (coronary artery disease). Doctors are more likely to check cholesterol and triglycerides in patients and doctors are active in putting people on medications to lower these fats in the blood. Few doctors would recommend such a high content of cholesterol and fat for patients at risk for heart disease. Few would recommend this kind of diet for even normal people. Still, there are those who still go on the Atkins diet in the hopes of losing weight.
Michael Webb
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/the-atkins-diet-104417.html
OKay, i do not want a big diet! I am trying to stay away from junk food and candy but it’s kind of hard. Is it possible for someone to give me a diet to go on?. I am starting to exercise but I think that I may also need a diet, help please!
Breakfast: A big meal.
Lunch: A moderate meal.
Dinner: A little snack.
Trust me, this works.
Weight loss seems to be on everyone’s mind during those post-holiday weeks in early January, and who can blame us all for worrying? It seems like the entire month of December is spent on one nonstop smorgasboard of fattening, sugary, salty foods.
Sure, they taste good, but we end up paying in pounds (on our body, not the British currency) later on, and we all know that especially the older we get, those pounds go on easy, but become much harder to take off.
However, even if you think you have the most stubborn body fat, and you feel like losing weight takes more time than you’d like to waste on eating salads with no dressing and lean meats, rest assured that there are diets out there that anyone can lose weight on.
It just depends on what is the least painless for you personally. Do you hate carbs? Go on a low carb diet or carb conscious diet like the Zone or the South Beach Diet.
If you don’t care for meats and proteins, you may want to opt for a vegetarian based diet, or even a vegan diet for that matter. These types of diets tend to rely mostly on whole grains, nuts and other sources of fiber and substance that don’t involve any type of animal meat of animal byproducts.
What about those diets for people who don’t like to cook, and need to have portion control and calorie control? Well, in this day and age of everything you could possibly want at the click of a button or movement of a computer mouse, you can even get healthy, reduced calorie, and portion controlled meals sent right to your door.
Although these options may not be something that some people consider cost effective, if you really stick to the menu of foods that are shipped to you, and don’t veer off the menu and start spending money on fast food or restaurant foods, then you actually should find that you’re spending about the same amount as you would have on the groceries and restaurant meals that you normally would be eating anyways.
For those that are a little more adventurous and not averse to the more “extreme” diets, there are fasting diets that some swear by not only to jump start their weight loss, but also to give them an internal “cleansing” of sorts.
Although these types of diets are criticized for their extremism, and some even decry them as harmful to the health of anyone who does them, there are devotees that believe these types of deprivation diets give them their health back, and more importantly, take the focus off food in their life for a while, allowing them to channel their creative efforts everywhere else.
There are always those good old stand by diets that I think everyone and their brother has tried at some point, like the cabbage soup diet, which is famed for it’s use as a medical weight loss tool for those that are going to undergo some sort of surgical or medical procedure in the next few weeks.
It is known for it’s quick results, but a lot of people complain that it not only gives them zero variety since that’s all they can eat all day, but also that it gives them excess gas (which is of course embarrassing and not a desirable side effect of any diet).
My personal recommendation is that no matter what the type of diet you decide to try in 2009 to help you attain and maintain your ideal weight and gain your health back, you may want to buy a good set of self hypnosis CD’s for weight loss.
These can not only help you to get the internal willpower you need to lose weight and keep on losing weight, but they also work on such a subliminal level that you don’t even notice that you’re exercising the correct behavior that allows you to lose weight, keep on losing, and maintain your ideal weight.
Danna Schneider
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/best-bets-for-weight-loss-in-2009-714159.html