Eat Often Burn More Calories (and Fat!)

The calories in the food we eat provide vital fuel energy to maintain our basic metabolic needs, and to power muscles.

To ensure our metabolism has all the fuel it needs, our brain constantly monitors our calorie intake and expenditure, and will - if it thinks there is a shortage of food energy - intervene to conserve energy for survival purposes. So long as we continue eating regularly, there's no problem: we burn calories at our normal speed, and if we create a calorie deficit we will burn stored body fat and thus lose weight. However, if we go too long without eating something, our brain intervenes to reduce our rate of calorie-burning (our metabolic rate). Result? Fat burning slows down or stops.

More calories are needed to maintain muscle tissue than fat tissue. So if our calorie deficit persists and we require more energy, we stop burning fat and start burning muscle tissue instead.

 

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Antidote to Fix Bad Habits

Antidote :

 

1)  Put your fork down between bites of food so that you eat more slowly – your body needs at least 20 minutes before your brain registers that you are full.

2) If you start to feel uncomfortable or full halfway through a meal, stop eating, no matter how much food is left – you've had enough

3) Remember that you don't have to waste leftovers. They can always be frozen or reheated the next day.

Fix Bad Food Habits

" Clean your plate" and "Waste not, want not."

"Although applied to children with the best intentions, this food lesson teaches us to ignore our body's signals about feeling full, which can cause overeating,"

Weight Loss Tip - Stretch Your Meals !

Stretch your meals to, at least, 20 minutes or longer. Your stomach, mouth and brain are all connected and it takes 20 minutes of chewing before your stomach signals your brain that you are full. To feel full and successfully lose weight on any weight loss program, you need to eat slowly for 20 minutes or longer.

 

 

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Diet Tip - Weigh Yourself

An important first step, when starting a diet, is to get on the scale, see what you weigh now, and then define your goal weight. You will know where you are now and where you want to be. Then, the only challenge is filling in the middle, but it's important to define the journey before you take on the challenge. 

 

 

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Weight Loss Tip - Stay Fuller with Fiber !

Eating more fiber is a great way to feel fuller throughout the day. Your breakfast can pack a fiber punch. Make sure you use whole wheat bread for toast. Choose a high-fiber cereal like raisin bran. Enjoy some fruit with its skin such as an apple.

 

Not only will the carbs give your energy level a boost, the fiber will give your meal extra staying-power and get you closer to the 25 grams of fiber we're all supposed to get each day.

 

 

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Weight Loss - Why Men Gain Weight

Why Men Gain Weight

1. Drink. 2. Less Exercise 3. Eating Red Meat

 

Problems :

Alcohol enhances impotence,

Lack of exercise enhances heart disease &

Too much red meat does both.

 

Better approach :
1.   Be moderate about alcohol. You don't have to give up.

2.   Take some regular exercise. No need to get tired jogging & exercising.
3.   Eat less red meat.

 

 

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Diet Tip - Switch to Diet Soft Drinks

If you haven't done so already, switch to diet soft drinks. An average 12 Oz can of regular soda contains around 120 calories, while the diet version usually has one or zero. If you drink 3 cans a day, you'll be saving 360 calories right there. Now multiply that by 7 days a week, 30 days a month and 365 days a year... You'll be saving a lot of calories!

 

 

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Diet Tip - Try Mustard !!

Use mustard on all your sandwiches instead of mayonnaise. Mustard has no fat and very little calories while Mayo, on the other hand, is loaded with fat.

 

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Diet Tip - Stay in Motion !

Remember that starting your diet is the hardest part and it does get easier after that. You know the saying: "Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, objects at rest tend to stay at rest." This applies to dieting as well. Once you build up a little momentum and start living healthier, you'll automatically start making healthier decisions.

 

 

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Types of Diets - I

Weight-loss diets restrict the intake of specific foods, or food in general, to reduce body weight. What works to reduce body weight for one person will not necessarily work for another, due to metabolic differences and lifestyle factors. Also, it's important to note that short-term dieting does not necessarily lead to weight loss in the long term. Reducing the body's food supply causes it to stockpile excess fat as a starvation response once normal eating is resumed - meaning crash dieting leads to small short-term weight loss, then an increase in weight shortly afterwards.

 

 

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Does Dieting Lead To Weight Gain? - IV

Effects of Repetitive Low Calorie Dieting on Metabolic Rate

If we lose weight, we always lose a little muscle tissue. And if we follow very-low-calorie diets, this loss of muscle increases. In either case, our metabolic rate tends to fall, making it easier to gain weight in future because we now need fewer calories.

 

Now when we stop dieting and revert to a higher calorie-intake, it's common to regain weight. This weight gain is exclusively fat.

 

Thus as you can see, while dieting typically leads to a loss of fat AND muscle, weight regain is

just fat. Therefore, if we engage in yo-yo dieting (weight cycling), gradually our body fat percentage gets bigger, our muscle percentage gets smaller, and our metabolic rate gets lower and lower. This means our calorie-needs get smaller and smaller. So each time we quit dieting and return to eating, we are likely to gain weight.

 

 

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Does Dieting Lead To Weight Gain? - III

Losing Muscle Tissue Lowers Metabolic Rate

Metabolic rate is the speed at which we use calories to fuel resting body functions, such as temperature maintenance, heart-beat, circulation, breathing and the millions of other biochemical functions which occur around the clock. Now, as stated above, our body needs more calories to maintain muscle tissue than fat tissue, so the more muscule we have, the more calories we burn, and therefore the higher our metabolic rate.

 

 

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Does Dieting Lead To Weight Gain? - II

Some Dieting Methods Lead to Extra Muscle Loss
Some types of diets can increase loss of muscle, as opposed to fat. For example, if we try to reduce weight too fast (by following a very-low-energy diet), our brain may think that there is a food shortage, and try to conserve calories. One method it uses to achieve this calorie-conservation, is to burn muscle instead of fat. Why? Because, compared to fat, muscle requires fewer calories to maintain.

 

 

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Does Dieting Lead To Weight Gain?

Yes. Under certain circumstances, repetitive dieting may lead to weight gain.

 

We Don't Just Lose Fat

Typically, when we reduce energy-intake (by following a calorie-controlled diet) and increase energy expenditure (by taking extra exercise), we create a calorie-deficit and thus lose weight. This weight loss typically comprises fat, but includes a small proportion of muscle tissue as well.

 

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Weight Loss Tip - Food is Good for Weight Loss - II

What Foods to Avoid

For optimum weight control, the foods you should avoid, or eat sparingly, are the "melt-in-the-mouth" type foods, that are easily eatable even when you are full! Foods such as: creamy desserts, regular soft drinks, ice cream, cakes, fatty take-outs, fried food, fatty breads (muffins, donuts) - you know the sort of foods we mean! Many foods which are super-tasty are likely to be high in fat or sugar, or both. That's what makes them so yummy. Of course, you can safely eat any food occasionally, but if you have difficulty saying No to these foods, avoid them until you have lost weight.

 

 

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Weight Loss Tip - Food is Good for Weight Loss

The greatest danger is hunger. Go hungry, and you need superhuman willpower to avoid temptation. But if your stomach is full of healthy food, you won't be tempted by high calorie junk food and the like. Even if you need to eat a few extra calories, it's worth it to stay in control of your appetite.

What Foods To Eat

If you want to lose or maintain weight, the best foods to fill up on, are fruits, vegetables, beans, chewy carbs like whole wheat bread, brown rice - or anything that takes time to eat. No one is overweight because they overeat on these foods. They are rich in dietary fiber, low-GI and will keep you full for longer.

 

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Weigth Loss Tip - Starvation Causes Muscle Loss

Starvation Causes Muscle Loss Not Fat Loss

When food is scarce, our body conserves energy and goes into "starvation mode" which slows down weight reduction. If we continue to eat too little food, our body typically conserves fat and burns muscle instead. This is because less energy is needed to maintain fat stores. In other words, if our diet contains insufficient calories, either we stop losing weight, or (if this calorie-deficit continues) we lose muscle tissue instead of fat. This is bad news for weight loss, as the higher our body fat percentage, the fewer calories we can eat before we gain weight.

 

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Weigth Loss Tip - Too Few Calories Causes Slow Weight Loss

Too Few Calories Causes Slow Weight Loss

Many dieters see food and calories as the enemy of weight loss. So they think the fewer calories they eat, the more weight they will lose. One reason why fad diets like the Cabbage Soup diet and Grapefruit diet are so popular. Unfortunately, although we do need to restrict calories if we want our body to burn its stored fat, we can't afford to eat too little. Why not? Because this sends a signal to our brain that food is scarce and convinces it to conserve calories. As a result, we stop burning calories as fast as normal, which leads to slower weight loss.

 

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Health Tip - Causes of Liver Damage - II

Remaining causes for Liver Damage ( Part II )

 

5.    Consuming too much medication.                              
6.    Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.                                            
7.    Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best

       cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very 

       fit.                                                   
8.    Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver. 

9.    Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.