Author: Janice Elizabeth Small
Although there’s no easy “one size fits all” weight loss program, there is such a thing as a weight loss program which makes it easier for you personally to lose weight than others.
This is the program which fits your lifestyle so well that you are happy to adopt it and live with it permanently.
1. Decide which foods to include in your diet.
Which healthy foods do you like? Which ones do you tolerate? And which do you hate?
Build your meals around those healthy foods which you enjoy. After all there is no point in eating a meal and hating it.
The exception?
If you hate a whole food group, and your diet would be unhealthy without it. In that case, adapt your diet to include the elements you need in a palatable way. For example, if you hate vegetables serve them in a way that you can’t taste them. Puree them and include them in soups, stews or pasta sauces. If you hate or have an allergy to dairy products, choose other foods to give you alternative rich sources of calcium and protein.
2. Decide which junk foods [...]
Copyright 2006 Paul Costelo
To help with weight issues and for overall improved health, many people turn to diets. In fact, government statistics show that while about 65 percent of Americans are overweight, 38 percent are actually doing something about it. That leaves 27% who aren’t !
And according to a recent survey by the National Health Institute, about a third of overweight Americans who are trying to lose weight, are doing so by eating less carbohydrates (carbs) largely because of the huge popularity of fad diets like Atkins Diet and the South Beach Diet.
Although there have certainly been other low-carb or low-sugar diet plans before, and more will come out in the years ahead, let’s take a look at the basics behind many of the major plans.
And let’s take a look at how they fit into the real world today. Because while it might be great to lower the body’s sugar content and be healthier wouldn’t it be great to learn how to do that quickly ??
In the world of instant messaging, quick Internet interaction and the already multi-faceted day-to-day hectic schedules, dietary food budgeting, planning, preparing and shopping are issues that can become [...]
You may have heard that to increase muscle and to lose weight you need to increase your protein intake. When I first heard that I thought…wait a minute the same thing that is going to make you bigger is supposed to make you ‘smaller’…I asked the trainer this question and he looked at me dumbfounded but it left me to thinking…”besides sounding absurd, will this method actually be safe?”
Although we all know we require a certain quantity of protein every day to be healthy and because of propaganda to this effect, a lot of people view the daily consumption of high-protein foods such as meat and dairy as highly beneficial. However, judging from the failure of most if not all the people I have personally known attempting to lose weight on a high-protein, low carb diet, it may be time to revise our ideas about protein.
>From what I have seen (upwards of six cases I have been able to observe among friends, family and co-workers) it will be safe to answer the question heading this article with a simple No!
Not only is a diet high in protein NOT the best at all for weight loss, [...]
