Weight Loss Tips

What with all the calories that we take in everyday, with all the junk and fast foods that we eat as well as the caffeinated beverages that we drink. And in our desperation to trim down excess fats, we are always seeking for weight loss tips and different means to loss weight.

There are lots of tips available for you when it comes to losing weight. Books and magazines about weight loss as well as other essential things in losing weight are now within your reach. Visit your favorite bookstores and magazine shops and you’ll surely find them.

Do-It-Yourself Weight Loss Tips

As there are a lot of tips on how to trim down excess fats and shed extra pounds that have been published, you can now easily find a set of procedures fitted for you and you lifestyle. However, the best procedures to losing extra pounds are those which you can do even when you’re all by yourself; those which don’t require you to go and consult a clinic or a weight loss expert.

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Healthy Family Meals

Planning
Plan your week’s meals one week in advance and prepare as much as you can ahead of time. By following this practice you’ll find that healthy meals can be just as easy as processed or ready meals. You’ll want to plan your meals before you shop. By doing this you’ll only be purchasing what is required for your week’s meals and therefore will spend less time and money on impulse purchases. Meal planning also creates more variety in your diet. When your write down your meals for the week you’ll be able to see what you’ll be feeding your family that week so you’ll avoid making snap decisions which can cause you to eat similar meals two or three days in a row.

Preparation
You can cut down on the time it takes to prepare your evening meals by spending some time on the weekend on food preparation. Precook chicken or other lean meat to add later to salads, pasta or stirfrys. You can also precut vegetables to keep in the fridge as a convenient addition to meals. Precut vegeta



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More Fibre, Less Weight

Benefits
Fibre is typically low in fat and has fewer calories than refined or processed foods. You’ll also consume fewer calories on a high fibre diet. The reason is that eating more high fibre foods makes you feel full faster meaning you’ll consume fewer calories by cutting out seconds or snacks between meals.

Another advantage to eating high fibre foods is that they help to stabilize blood sugar levels, thus preventing glycemic peaks and valleys. That means a high fibre diet is good for those at risk of or already battling diabetes. High fibre diets have also shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

Using high fibre diets as a weight loss or weight management program is not something new. Many well known and successful weight loss programs, including Weightwatchers uses a high fibre approach to meal planning. To see weight loss results with a high fibre diet you should increase your fibre intake to 50 grams per day.

High Fibre Foods
Fibre found in fruit, veg







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Children’s Diets

If you do choose to put your child on a “diet” it’s important to not use that word when describing their nutrition. The word “diet” has so many negatives associated with it and we don’t want our children to grow up thinking that dieting is healthy. Instead focus on nutrition and healthy eating. Never try a fad diet on your child or yourself.

Get involved in your child’s life so you are more aware of what they are eating both at home and when they are at school or with friends. Due to increased media attention school cafeterias have made major changes to what they will serve students for lunch. They have added more healthy options but your child still has a choice of what they will eat. By educating them at home to choose the right types of food you’ll set them off on the right foot when they have to make the decision on their own at school. A better option is to make a healthy lunch to send with your child to school.

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Portion Sizes

A portion control diet is the easiest type of diet to follow because you’re not restricting your eating to any particular type of food, you’re just eating less. Portion control is not a fad, a detox or a quick fix. It is a method of achieving weight loss and creating a healthier lifestyle.

Why do we eat more? Mostly because it’s put right in front of us. Dinner plates are larger, restaurant portions are larger and we have it instilled in our brain that we must finish everything on our plate. Next time you’re in the grocery store or in the kitchen preparing dinner read the labels on your food. All food labels break the contents down into portions. These portions are broken down into individual serving sizes based on what is required to sustain us. By following these guidelines you’ll notice a huge difference in what is recommended and what you have been giving yourself and your family.

Downsize
Start by using a smaller plate and think about what you’re putting on it. 50% of




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Breakfast is for Champions

Reasons to eat a healthy breakfast

Would you start your car in the morning without putting any fuel into? Probably not. So why does it seem okay to start our own day without putting the proper fuel in our own system? There are certain nutritional requirements that our body needs to meet each day to work properly. By skipping breakfast your setting yourself up at a disadvantage to reach those nutritional needs. It will be more difficult to hit all the nutritional targets if you’re missing meals. Your body needs nutrients in the morning to perform its tasks.

Eating breakfast, not skipping breakfast, will actually increase your chances of reaching your weight loss goals. If you’re not adding fuel, through food, to your system, your body will burn calories more slowly because you don’t have enough stored energy. Eating a well balanced diet will increase your metabolism so you burn calories more efficiently throughout the day. By eating breakfast you are also less likely to sn



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Can Healthy Also be Fun?

Alternative Sweet Treats

Cut the refined sugar and stick to other sweet goodies like dried fruit and sugar free candy. Although it may be more expensive, organic chocolates and candies have fewer negative health implications than conventional candy and won’t leave your kids feeling like they’re missing out. Dried fruit is great on its own because it’s sweet and chewy like candy of mix it with granola for that extra crunch. Sugar free gum is also a great alternative because it doesn’t contain the sugars cause hyperactivity and chewing it can also prevent tooth decay and cavities. Candy apples have always been a popular Fall treat and can be adapted to be healthier. Instead of the traditional caramel or candy coating, dip the apple in honey instead and cover with crushed nuts or graham cracker bits. Use your imagination and the healthy possibilities are endless.

Throwing in your chips

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Keep Strong Through Cold and Flu Season

Although a healthy diet and exercise are important all year round, there are a few tricks to follow in the Fall and Winter to keep you and your family healthy.

What to avoid

Diet is the easiest and probably most effective way to keep your immune system strong and similarly an unhealthy diet can make you more prone to catching a cold. Although anything in moderation is acceptable there are a few things that should be cut back or avoided.

• Minimize your caffeine intake. Caffeine causes dehydration and depletes the level of minerals and vitamins in the body.
• Cut out or reduce alcohol consumption. Alcohol has the same effect as caffeine on the body and should be avoided to strengthen the immune system.
• Eat less sugar. A high sugar diet adversely affects your immune system and can drain you of the energy needed to fight a cold. Sugar leaves you more vulnerable to infections because it inhibits the white blood cells ability to fight bacteria.

Food to make you stronger

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[audio] Insane amount of free diet information!

[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

Scott Colby, CPT just interviewed me recently for “Fit Pros Against Cancer.” My job: Help give away a TON of free fitness information to his listeners as they called into the show.

And I think I did a pretty good job.

You tell me… ; )

Here’s what we cover in just about 30 minutes…

1. How much fat can you burn (and inches can you lose) in just 6 days?…
2. How to make fatloss “easier” (not ‘easy’… but easier!)…
3. What to do about perimenopause and menopause stress and the fat-gain that comes with it… AND…
4. The “Stress-Free” dietplan for women who fight the “pooch” or who are going through perimenopause or menopause!
5. Is exercise worthless if you sit down while you work?…
6. What about fitness for “seniors”?… Can you gain muscle and shed fat past the age of 60?
7. An inhome exercise that lasts 7 minutes but that can increase the lifespan of women by up to 60%! …
8. The shocking truth about whole grains and disease…
9. The “myth” of shaping/building muscle AND dropping bodyfat at the same time… hear the TRUTH about this once and for all! …
10. How you can have your cake (literally!) and eat it too (i.e. get all the fatburning benefits while still enjoying desserts)…
11. How to “reboot” your key fatburning hormone using nothing more than the food in your refrigerator!…
12. This freee substance uses 90% or more of your calories… and you need more of it… find out what it is!…
13. The “Food Purist” versus the “Food Rebel”… which one are you?…
14. The one thing you can to TODAY without hardly any effort to improve your appearance and your health!…
15. 2 simple exercises you can do at work to remove back strain and improve your abs (yes… ABS!)…
16. Why the “baby boomer” generation is literally being left out of most fitness plans… and a plan that’s perfectly suited for all boomers!…
17. The 1 trick I use to workout without nagging injuries! …
18. Why exrercise decreases 1 critical sex-hormone… and what you can do to prevent it (even increase it!) …
19. The importance of strength over the age of 30 (it’s not what you think… and it’s VITAL!) …
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The “Cost” of Eating Healthy

[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

One of the biggest myths out there is the myth that eating healthy costs too much.

Just the opposite… and I’ll prove it to you in three ways.

#1: Cash

Here’s some sample figures courtesy of my friend Scott Tousignant’s fitness blog…

2 medium size sweet potatoes $1 or… small fries from a fast food joint

2 red peppers $1 or… a can of pop

Bowl of oatmeal with fruit & protein powder $2 or… large bag of chips

6 Chicken Breasts $10 or… a sub combo from a fast food joint

18 eggs $3.50 or… a burger from a fast food joint

2 salmon fillets $15 or… large pizza

Loaded chicken salad (homemade) $3 or… bag of cookies

Large bag of oatmeal $3.50 or… 4 chocolate bars

Not much of a comparison, it is?

Yet the foods on the left would feed a family of two or more for 4-7 days… the foods on the right? 2-3 days if you live through it.

Tips to make the most expensive part of eating healthy — the cost of quality meats — go further include…

1. Use tofu fillers in chicken and beef recipes. Even if you hate tofu, you can barely taste the difference when combined properly.

2. Buy your meats in bulk online. You can find less expensive grass-fed beef and naturally-raised chicken and have it delivered to you if you live near a large city. If not, check the local farmers.

3. Eat meat only 3-4 times per week and use black beans with rice or inexpensive tuna for your other days. I eat tuna cooked in a skillet with lots of veggies and some olive oil almost every night and I LOVE the taste!

My book The Every Other Day Diet has over 40 pages of recipes in it to help you eat healthy and cheap… and you can still eat out and consume your favorite foods several times per week.

#2: Your Health

Do we ‘really’ need to talk about buy new (usually larger) clothes every year or two? Or about the health care costs associated with being even 20 pounds over your ideal weight, let alone more? How about the time you miss from work with excessive colds?

Eating healthy and taking care of your body adds years to your life… and for the record, the years eating poorly takes away from your life, on average, costs each American over 80,000 in medical expenses.

Want to add that to your food budget?

#3: The Big Picture

Anyone who has been fit knows the joy it brings… the freedom you feel from wearing whatever you want… the productivity you see from increased energy… the pace at which you move during the day.

Not only are these gifts priceless, but they are also massive cash-savers. Your productivity alone can add thousands to your bottom line each year, well off-setting any costs associated with eating quality food.

The Bottom Line…

Like any good accountant would suggest, you need to look at your ROI (return on investment) if nothing else.

What does investing in a better body, greater health, and vibrant energy do for your life? How can that actually translate into more income AND less expense?

You will be surprised.

Remember:
Don’t Quit. Get Fit!

P.S. If you want some tips on getting started with shedding that excess weight… go here for a short video… and prepare to take some notes! …

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