Archive for the ‘Nutrition’ Category

Habits Make You Fat

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Overeating is the result of habits and if you can target those habits and resolve them, then the overeating and subsequent weight gain will be a thing of the past.

Humans are habitual beings and most things we do in life are the result of habits.

The problem with habits is the fact that they generally start with very small changes in our life and more often than not, we don’t even notice them. Once they becomes habits, it is very hard to break the cycle and make changes.

Many people who are overweight have a number of habits that all combine to create the state that they find themselves in.

Any what makes matters even worse when food is involved, is the way that it reacts with our body, in particular, those foods that are low in nutritional value causing hunger and the need for ever increasing quantities in an attempt to keep us satisfied.

How often do you find yourself eating due to the particular emotional state of mind that you are in? It is common for people to eat when they are feeling sad, depressed, lonely, happy and so on, as all these emotions can triger the desire for food.

These emotional related eating ‘habits’ are very often difficult for people to break simply because most of the time we are unaware of the fact that they are present.

Sure you can see the pattern when you think about it or when it is mentioned to you, but most of the time you don’t even consider these habits, as the focus is directed on the need to feel better and the belief is that food will bring about that change.

Unfortunately this is not the solution and all it does is lead to more problems that in turn continues the cycle of overeating and weight gain.

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Retaining Your Muscle Mass

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Retaining your muscle mass, while on a weight loss program, is one of the most important aspects that you need to concentrate on, as this will help you to keep your fat percentage down long-term.

On the ultra low calorie diets, the body begins to cannibalize its own muscle tissue as its defense mechanisms come into play.

An example of this is shown with some of these apparently slim fashion models who have quite high levels of body fat in proportion to their overall size.

The reason for this is the fact that they haven’t done any form of exercise or resistance training to maintain any reasonable level of muscle mass and this is only made worse by the fact that they are often eating a very low quality diet and nutrition is lacking.

It is not uncommon to see skinny models with cellulite and that is a sure sign that they are retaining fat in a higher percentage than they should be.

They would find that if they added a little bit of resistance training or even some form of decent exercise to their daily routine, they would be able to still retain a slim figure but the body fat percentage would be considerably lower and they would look a lot more toned and healthy.

And healthy is what you should be aiming for when you go on a weight loss program and not simply losing weight, as actually improving your overall health and well-being will help you to live a better lifestyle for a lot longer.

Increasing your muscle mass also improves your metabolic rate whereas body fat has a very low level of metabolic activity. Nutritionists regard muscle as the furnace that burns in the body and this is what you should be aiming for.

If more weight loss programs focused on retaining muscle mass, people would be unlikely to put the weight back on rapidly once they finished the program.

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But I Still Like Chocolate And Alcohol

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

If there’s one thing that you need to understand, it’s the fact that changing your diet to a better, more balanced one that will help you to lose weight and eventually live longer, doesn’t have to be a struggle.

It takes most people years to get to the stage of being obese, and even to the stage where they are carrying just a little too much body weight, so you can’t expect to reverse any long term habits overnight.

Even making a few small changes to your diet can have a dramatic effect on your weight when viewed over a longer period of time.

Just the reduction of a hundred or so calories a day will amount to a very large reduction in calories over the term of one year and that will also amount to a sizeable decrease in body fat. This can be done by simply removing a small portion of the amount of food you consume at each meal.

If you find that this is causing more than normal hunger, then have a glass of water a half hour or so before each meal and you will be less inclined to feel like you require more food.

You can replace a similar quantity of low value food with good food and this will also reduce hunger and will help you to lose weight.

By doing it in this manner, you will find that you will begin to enjoy the ‘new’ foods in your diet just as you learned to enjoy the poor foods that you have been eating up to this stage of your life.

Many people become apprehensive and find it hard to accept that they will be able to get the same enjoyment out of the foods that they know they should be eating because they are accustomed to the tastes of the food they eat at the current time.

A good example of this is the reaction people have to drinking a cup of tea with sugar in it after they have stopped having sugar for a while. Most people find it difficult to drink the tea as it seems too sweet after having been without if for a period of time.

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