Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at
4:11 am
The question remains: what does the water do to help you in reducing weight?
As you might say, water blocks out hunger more similar to ephedrine, the substance in fat reduction pills that makes the person curb her appetite by being able to repress the urge to eat. However, water works in a different way. Water does not curb your appetite alone instead, it satisfies your hunger, deceiving it to feel that it's already stuffed. This is known to bury a person's pressing need to eat.
Water, in fact, is a key component in a popular 3-day diet plan circulating on the internet, where the person will be required to fasting in 3 days, taking in nothing but water during that period. Water is expected to supply the nutrients that the person should receive, at least for the 3 days involved in the program.
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 at
4:08 am
With so much conflicting "information" circulating out there, it's no wonder people don't know where to turn to lose weight properly and in a healthy way. The fact is many people assume they are eating healthy although it's closer to the truth that many of them don't even come close to eating a balanced, nutritious diet.
The reason for this is mostly due to the fact that they are guiding themselves with false information propagated by fad diets put out there by weight loss companies. Most of these diets are leading people to believe that cutting out certain nutrients is what it takes to properly loose weight. Nothing can be further from the truth. Here are five common diet myths which lead many dieters to take the wrong road to try to find their weight loss salvation.
Diet Myth #1 – You have to starve yourself to lose weight
- Fact: This is probably the most commonly heard and longest running myth about weight loss out there. The fact is, if you don't eat enough, your metabolism will slow down greatly making your body want to store fat thus making most of your initial weight loss come from water and muscle. This makes your body-fat percentage go up, meaning you are losing weight, but you are actually getting fatter!
The average woman should not eat less than 1000 calories per day and the average man should not eat less than 1200 calories per day unless under the direction of a physician. If you eat 5-6 smaller meals a day verses 3 bigger ones within a proper calorie range, you will never feel hungry and you will lose weight while staying healthy.
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 at
4:08 am
You may ever wonder why your friend eats same portion of meals as you a day but stays slim, while you gain weight fast? It is the metabolism in your body that makes the difference. Metabolism is measured by metabolic rate, the rate at which we ‘burn up’ our food, and by increasing this rate, we can lose weight more quickly, easily, and safely. Increase the metabolism is a way to lose weight.
If we go on a diet by decreasing calorie intake too drastically, it can cause our metabolism to slow down, hence it makes progressively more difficult for us to lose weight. That is why most diets fail, yet we continue to try one after another, always hoping that each new regime will provide the ‘magic’ solution. Sounds like your problem? There may be a simple answer. Let’s look at why most diets fail, and how strength training, combined with a healthy food intake can speed up your metabolism, making it easy for you to lose weight.
When we drastically cut our food intake, our body’s natural instinct is to switch to a ‘starvation response.' The fewer calories we consume, the more our bodies become efficient at using these calories - leading to slower weight loss. This was once a useful mechanism for our ancestors when food supplies were less predictable, but this ’vicious circle’ can make life almost impossible for the modern dieter.
When the body is persistently kept short of calories, it breaks down muscle tissue to use as fuel. Our body, using water from our tissue cells, quickly washes this away causing an instant reduction in weight through water loss. However, this weight loss will be short lived, and will quickly be regained when we take in water and the muscle we have lost will slow down our metabolism in the long term.
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010 at
1:54 pm
There is a vivid picture of weight loss and nutritional considering their facts on myth and truth. According to the myth, the Vegetarian insures weight loss and healthiness, all dairy products are unhealthy, skipping meals is a great way to save calories and lose weight, eating after 8:00pm is a sure way of weight gain, fat-free means no calories, herbal weight-loss products are safe and effective, weight training isn’t a good idea if you are trying to lose weight. Find below what is the truth about these myths.
Myth #1: Becoming a Vegetarian insures weight loss and healthiness.
- Truth: Research has proved that those who follow a vegetarian diet plan eat less fat and fewer calories than those who are non vegetarians. Vegetarians also tend to have lower body weights because choosing a vegetarian diet plan with low fat content is helpful in weight loss. However vegetarians can make poor food choices that contain high amounts of fat and calories with little or no nutritional value.
Myth #2: All dairy products are unhealthy.
- Truth: Dairy products contain many nutrients your body needs including protein to build muscles and help organs work properly. Dairy products also contain calcium to strengthen your bones, and fortified with vitamin D to help your body utilize the calcium. Fortunately low-fat and fat-free milk, yogurt, and cheese are just as nutritious as whole milk products.
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Nutritionists measure the energy content of food in "calories" (sometimes capitalized and abbreviated as Cal or sometimes C, or abbreviated kcal as if small calories were being used), where each food calorie represents 4,186 joules. This is equivalent to 1000 of the calories used in chemistry, and thus the food Calorie would be called a kilocalorie if small calories were being used. However, in chemistry calories have been deprecated as a scientific unit of measure in favor of joules, and therefore in common modern usage the word "calorie" usually refers to a food calorie.