Lifestyle change for life
To lose weight and to keep it off, it is vital that you are motivated, really want to lose weight, and want to improve aspects of your lifestyle. Some people lose weight by strict dieting for a short period. However, as soon as the diet is over, they often go back to their old eating habits, and the weight goes straight back on. Losing weight, and then keeping it off, needs a whole change of attitude and lifestyle for life.
From calories to protein to vitamins, all the information you need to know about your favorite packaged foods is right on the Food Label.
You see them all the time, but do you know how to read them … or what the information means?
The information that has the most to do with weight management is located at the top: Serving sizes, calories and total fat. Serving size is the key.
Once you know a given serving size (and abide by it!) you can easily track your calorie and/or fat intake to lose weight.
Other diets may require you to track your carbohydrate and protein intake, which can also easily be identified.
Health-related data such as saturated fat and cholesterol content can be found, too.
Summertime is officially here, and you’re probably ready to kick back with your favorite cocktail or anything that’s on ice! But don’t let summer beverages sabotage your diet goals and weight loss efforts. Be savvy about what you’re sipping; choose refreshing low-calorie, low-sugar drinks that quench your thirst, cool you down, and satisfy your taste buds all in one.
Atkins, food combining, Protein Power — what really works? Furthermore, what kind of diet will help you to not just lose weight, but decrease your risk of cancer and other chronic diseases? Find out more from The American Institute for Cancer Research below.
Weight loss is a tricky topic. Lots of people are unhappy with their present weight, but most aren’t sure how to change it — and many would be better off staying where they are. You may want to look like the models or actors in magazines and on TV, but those goals might not be healthy or realistic for you. Besides, no magical diet or pill will make you look like someone else.
Jump-Start Your Metabolism: How Diet & Exercise Increases Your Metabolism
10 Jul
Posted by Inna Korshunova as Weight Loss
What is metabolism?
Metabolism is the body’s process of building molecular structures from nutrients (anabolism) and then breaking them down for energy production (catabolism). Simply stated, metabolism is the chemical and physiological processes whereby the body builds and maintains itself by breaking down food and nutrients to produce energy. Chemical processes distribute the nutrients that are absorbed into the blood after digestion. When you increase your metabolism, your body burns more calories and you experience higher energy levels.
What is obesity?
Obesity is a heavy accumulation of fat in the body’s fat cells to such a serious degree that it rapidly increases the risk of obesity-associated diseases and mortality.
Successful Weight Loss: Top 10 Tips On What Works & Why
09 Jul
Posted by Inna Korshunova as Weight Loss
For many people weight loss is a chronic endeavor. All too often the shedding of pounds is a temporary event followed by a steady regain of lost weight. Most popular diets are unsuccessful in the long run because they fail to address the multi-faceted nature of what successful, permanent weight loss entails. Luckily, research has revealed many invaluable strategies which can help increase your odds of permanent weight loss.
A visitor from a far-off planet observing the way we behave could easily assume that dieting is a very good idea. We do it all the time.Dieting is so popular that in the past 10 years it’s estimated that around 70 per cent of the adult female population and 30 per cent of all adult males have been on one.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s the Atkins diet or liquid diets, people will try almost anything in their frantic desire to shed a few pounds.
Unfortunately, the results are usually the same. Although diets do produce results in the short term, very few dieters maintain their weight loss, no matter which diet they try.
Diet Success Stories: Real Life Strategies For Sustainable Weight Loss
07 Jul
Posted by Inna Korshunova as Weight Loss
Everybody knows someone who has lost a substantial amount of weight. But how much of that weight did they actually keep off? Here are three real-life anecdotes from “successful losers†who maintained their weight loss for 6 months or more.
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