Keep Alcohol in Control

Excessive Alcohol is Bad For Weight Control and Nutrition

When trying to lose weight, or maintain a healthy weight, an excessive alcohol intake makes it harder to ingest adequate nutrition while remaining within your calorie allowance. Meaning: drinking alcohol when following a weight loss diet is bad, either because you eat too many calories and gain weight, or because the non-nutritional calories in alcohol are likely to cause you to go without essential minerals and vitamins.

 

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Weght Loss Tips - Never Skip a Meal

To lose weight quickly, never skip a meal. Your first meal after waking starts your metabolism. Your metabolism then speeds up for about eight hours and then starts slowing down until you go to sleep when it goes to low until you wake and eat and start the cycle again. Skip breakfast and your metabolism doesn't get started until lunch time. You've just missed three or four hours of fat burning time. When you skip meals during the day, your metabolism also slows down. Weight loss through the burning of stored fat is all about eating enough of the right kinds of foods so you stay full and your metabolism stays as high as possible. Remember, if you feel hungry, your metabolism slows down. Stay full with healthy, nonfattening foods and your metabolism will continue to burn your stored fat as fast as your body will allow.

 

 

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9-to-5 Diet Strategies - 7

Work out with friends.

Get your co-workers in on the weight-loss game. That way, you can encourage each other throughout the day, have healthy lunches together and exercise together on breaks. Try organizing an at-work exercise or diet group. See if your company is willing to give you space and even funds for equipment (mats, weights, etc.).

 

 

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9-to-5 Diet Strategies - 6

Exercise during off hours.

Get in exercise before and after work to offset all that sedentary time at your computer. If you don't live too far, think about walking to work. If that's not possible, instead of spending an extra hour sitting in traffic, find a gym near your office and go there instead. Once you're done exercising, rush hour will be over and you'll still be home at the same time.

 

 

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9-to-5 Diet Strategies - 5

Move!

Even if it's just 10 minutes of exercise at a time,get up and move whenever possible.
Eat your lunch at a park a few blocks away, and walk there instead of driving.
Walk to a colleague's desk rather than e-mailing or calling.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
Park as far away from the front door as possible.
Include exercise breaks in your calendar. Treat them just as you would any other appointment — you have to be there!
Place your wastepaper basket far away from your desk so you'll have to move to throw away garbage.
Place your phone out of reach so you'll have to stretch or even get up to answer it.

 

 

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