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Posted: March 19, 2012 at 5:20 am
Managing your calorie intake, along with regular exercise, is absolutely necessary for healthy weight loss. And when you combine the two, you can lose weight and keep it off permanently.
But how do you get yourself to consistently cut calories to lose weight while eating healthy?
Here are some proven tips you can put to work immediately to start cutting hundreds of calories a day on a healthy diet and begin losing weight right now. Remember, every calorie counts.
Cutting Calories to Lose Weight
For a start, use smaller plates or bowls for all your meals and measure your portions by the cupful. This simple step will help you cut back on calories and still eat healthy foods.
Also, never ever eat any food straight out of the box, bag or container. Thats the easiest way to go totally unconscious about what youre eating and how many calories youre consuming.
And, if you want to lose weight fast and safe and stay healthy, you definitely need to be conscious of how many calories youre eating and know how many calories to lose weight.
You can also cut hundreds of calories a day by drinking nothing but pure, clean water rather than fruit juice, sweetened iced tea or sodas (whether theyre diet or not). For example, a 12 ounce can of soda has ten or more teaspoons of sugar adding up to 150 calories per can.
And did you know that sugary drinks dont really quench your thirst? Theyre diuretics that cause excess urine elimination, which only makes you thirstier. Sugary drinks also dull your taste buds, which makes you crave more sugary drinks. In other words, sugary drinks are addictive.
So, since sodas contribute to emotional eating and overeating, its best to stick with water.
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Posted: March 18, 2012 at 8:25 am
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Dr. Mark Vierra is a board certified general surgeon and specializes in bariatric surgery.
Bev Schiavoni wasn't the typical patient walking into the office of a weight-loss surgeon.
She wasn't focused on losing weight as much as removing 40 pounds of skin from dropping a great deal of weight through nutrition and exercise.
Yet for Dr. Mark Vierra, Schiavoni was just the kind of patient he needed. Vierra, who helps run the bariatric surgery center at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, wants patients to understand that proper nutrition and exercise are key to keeping the weight off.
"He was my hero, and I was his," Schiavoni said.
Nutrition became integral to Vierra's treatment for his patients when he started in metabolic surgery at Stanford University in 1990. Many of his patients had a "complicated nutritional background" from cancer treatments or injuries that left them unable to absorb nutrients. He helped them gain weight through nutritional counseling.
At the same time, he started fielding patients who wanted to lose weight through surgery.
"I learned a lot about weight control because of studying the extremes," he said.
One-third of Americans are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Though we spend significantly more on diet foods and diet programs than other countries, "We are getting fatter and fatter," he said.
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Posted: March 17, 2012 at 5:23 pm
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Posted: March 17, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 17, 2012
Easy weight loss diets and exercise tips make up the main content that has gone into the new easy weight loss guide from Health hound Ltd. The new guide is available to download on the site right now.
Sam Kenny, one of the Directors on the site said that this Easy weight loss guide is mainly geared towards people who want to lose weight with the minimum of fuss and effort. The weight loss tips inside the guide are designed to be easy to follow and to stick to long term and the easy weight loss diets contain meals that are easy to prepare and that one can stick to long term. We have put a lot of time and effort into this guide and we really hope that people will use it to improve their lives and their health.
There is a special forum that is attached to the health hound site that is mainly concerned with looking at different ways to lose weight easily and this new guide has become a central topic for discussion on this new forum. Many of the people discussing the easy weight loss diets and weight loss tips inside the guide have been very positive about what the team on the site has achieved. Many of the commentators are saying that they are looking forward to seeing more reports like this come out in the future.
The team at Health hound Ltd. have come up with something else week in addition to the new guide that will interest people who want to lose weight.
For a limited time only the team on the site are giving away some free information on quick and easy ways to lose weight.
The information is available from free download right now at http://www.healthhound.org/3217/easy-weight-loss/.
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Posted: March 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm
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Posted: March 17, 2012 at 6:35 am
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Posted: March 17, 2012 at 6:35 am
Weight-Loss Apocalypse: Emotional Eating Rehab Through the hCG Protocol presents an intriguing, yet complex, solution to obesity. Author Robin Phipps Woodall has spent years studying the work of the late Dr. Albert T. W. Simeons, who pioneered the use of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to trigger extreme weight loss. The hormone is found in the urine of pregnant women. Dr. Simeons, who died in 1970, wrote a book called Pounds and Inches which detailed his theories regarding the injection of hCG to treat obesity. To work successfully, the injections must be accompanied by a very low calorie diet.
Woodall explores and expands on Simeons' ideas throughout Weight-Loss Apocalypse. She emphasizes that regardless of diet industry attempts to market the hCG protocol, this isn't a fad diet. Administered in two tightly controlled phases of several weeks each, the protocol must be monitored by a doctor in order to be successful. The hormone must be prescribed, though doctors are generally skittish about granting patients request for this therapy. The FDA isn't in favor of it either, which only makes things more complicated.
Woodall seems to have done her research, breaking down the science behind the hCG protocol in terms the layperson can understand. I'm not even going to try to outline it in detail, but Woodall's writing is clear and easy to follow. In short, the daily injections of hCG stimulate the protein hormone leptin, which regulates appetite. The stimulation of leptin staves off symptoms of starvation, allowing the patient to eat a maximum of 500 calories per day during treatment. Excess body fat is consumed as an energy source, rather than muscle tissue. Woodall outlines what kinds of food and beverages are allowed during the protocol. As one might imagine, it is very limited. Strict followers of the protocol report dramatic weight loss, with dozens of pounds disappearing in a matter of weeks.
To those desperate to lose weight, this all might sound like a miracle. But Woodall doesn't shy away from detailing the extreme self-discipline necessary for the protocol to work. Cheating with disallowed foods, even minor slip-ups, will ruin the results. It's all very interesting, but ultimately most people wil never have the chance to try it. Again, without the go-ahead from a licensed doctor, hCG cannot be legally obtained. Homeopathic hCG was readily available until the FDA ordered its removal from the market. But that's a good thing, as Woodall explains, because the homeopathic products were a scam to begin with - free of anything but trace amounts (if that) of hCG. With hCG so difficult to obtain, the protocol isn't an option for the average person. And for those who do manage to get a prescription, few of them will have the will power to stick with the low calorie diet.
The most applicable aspect of Weight-Loss Apocalypse, for most people anyway, is the way Woodall tackles the issue of emotional eating. Woodall discusses the need for people to change their relationship with food if they expect any weight loss, hCG-induced or otherwise, to be permanent. Her warning that the hCG protocol is not a magic bullet for maintaining lifelong physical fitness applies to all methods of weight reduction. The yo-yo diet effect will occur after following the hCG protocol if a person returns to their previous eating habits. From what Woodall says, patients following the protocol are facing an even more immediate and drastic weight gain if they haven't changed their ways. As an eye-opener to a little-understood weight loss therapy, Weight-Loss Apocalypse: Emotional Eating Rehab Through the hCG Protocol is worth reading. Even if it doesn't send you to your doctor, begging for hCG injections, it may at least provoke some thoughts about changing the way you think about food.
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Posted: March 17, 2012 at 6:35 am
As anyone who has ever lost a lot of weight (like 20 pounds or more) will tell you, the first five come off easily and the last five are the toughest! You're still doing all the right things -- eating less and moving more -- but all of a sudden it stops working. The scale won't budge. No matter where you are in the process, hitting a stubborn weight loss plateau is frustrating. But don't let it erode your resolve. Here are three ways to break through the plateau.
Tip#1: Calorie Cycling
In order to lose weight, you need to cut back on your calorie intake. But if you do that for a sustained period of time, your body may play a nasty trick on you: It may start conserving energy by lowering your metabolic rate. The result? You don't burn as many calories and your weight loss slows -- or stops altogether. Although this feels like the worst kind of sabotage, your body is actually trying to look out for you. Your lizard brain has noticed that food supplies seem to have been scarce for an extended period of time. It's trying to increase your chances of survival in case the famine continues. Of course, when you're trying to lose weight, this is not very helpful.
You're stuck between a rock and a hard place: You could try eating even less in order to nudge off more weight, but that just confirms your lizard brain's suspicions about the dwindling food supply. Or, you could eat more in an effort to restore a more robust metabolic rate -- but that's hardly going to help with weight loss. There's a way to outsmart old lizard brain: It's called intermittent fasting, or calorie cycling.
What is Calorie Cycling?
Let's say you've been eating about 1800 calories a day and steadily losing weight. Now suddenly, it's not working anymore. Rather than trying to eat even less every day, try alternating high and low calorie days. For example, you could alternate between 2000-calorie days and 1200-calorie days. Over the course of a week, you'd trim an extra 1400 calories but the higher calorie days should help keep your lizard brain from panicking -- and your willpower from flagging.
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What are the Advantages of Calorie Cycling?
First of all, the higher-calorie days keep your metabolism from slowing in response to sustained calorie restriction. Secondly, many people find that intermittent fasting feels easier than constant restriction. Although you may feel hungry on your low-intake day, you'll always have a higher-intake day to look forward to.
In fact, you could even try alternating higher and lower intake days without reducing the total number of calories for the week -- alternating 2000-calorie days with 1600-calorie days, for example. Even without a net reduction in calories, the switch-up might be enough to knock you out of a metabolic slow-down.
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Posted: March 16, 2012 at 4:46 pm
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Posted: March 16, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Special to The T&D The Times and Democrat | Posted: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:00 am |
S.C. States Brooks Health Centers annual Minority Community Health Summit on Saturday, March 24, will feature Dr. Ian Smith, a weight loss guru who is the host of his own nationally syndicated radio show, HealthWatch.
The theme of this years summit is: It takes a Village to Fight Health Disparities: Believe in a Healthy Blood Pressure. It will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the first floor of M. Maceo Nance Jr. Hall on the university campus. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
According to http://www.cdc.govhttp://www.cdc.gov>, the top 10 health disparities that affect minorities are: heart disease; cancer; stroke; diabetes; unintentional injury; homicide; chronic lower respiratory disease; HIV/AIDS); nephritis, an inflammation of the kidney; and septicemia, a multiplication of the bacteria in the bloodstream producing a powerful toxin.
The summit will address some of those health challenges and examine current efforts to improve access to quality health care in the Orangeburg area.
Pinkey Carter, director of the Brooks Health Center, said the mission of the summit is to educate our students and the local community so that we can fight health disparities among our campus community.
Throughout the Minority Community Health Summit, an array of health disparity workshops will take place, such as: Diabetes: Its More than Sugar, Lets Get Moving, Lips, Hips and Fingertips: You are what you eat, Basic HIV 101: Understanding and protecting yourself and Believe in a Healthy Blood Pressure.
Smith will be the speaker for the summit. He has served as the medical/diet expert for six seasons on VH1s highly-rated Celebrity Fit Club, the creator and founder of the 50 Million Pound Challenge and the Makeover Mile, and as medical contributor on the nationally syndicated television show, Rachael Ray. Smith is also the host of HealthWatch on American Urban Radio Networks. He is the former medical correspondent for NBC News and for News Channel 4 where he filed reports for NBCs Nightly News and the Today show as well as WNBCs news broadcasts. Smith has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, The Tyra Banks Show, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360 and Showbiz Tonight.
He was recently appointed by President Obama to the Presidents Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. He has also written for various publications, including Time, Newsweek, Mens Health and the New York Daily News, and has been featured in publications including People, Essence, Ebony, University of Chicago Medicine on the Midway, Cosmopolitan and Black Enterprise.
Smiths work has been honored by several organizations, such as the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, for his coverage on the momentous events on Sept. 11, 2001. He is very active in charitable causes, currently a national advisory board member for The Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity. He has also served on the boards of the American Council on Exercise, the New York Mission Society, the Prevent Cancer Foundation and the New York Council for the Humanities.
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