Selfish Reasons For Losing Weight Are Essential

And it's no good trying to reduce weight or develop a flat stomach to please someone else. Reasons like: "My doctor wants me to lose weight" or "I'm dieting to please my partner" are no good. You must only lose weight to please yourself. Because when you want that high calorie creamy dessert, or that extra slice of pizza, other people suddenly stop being relevant. To motivate yourself to restrict your calories, you need to do it for yourself !

 

 

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Weight Loss Tip - Eat Only when Required

Try to focus on your internal hunger signals instead of external stimuli telling you to eat. Don't eat if you are not hungry, even if that is the time you normally would eat. You can resist cravings for foods in between meals by doing something to take your mind of eating. Try taking a walk or doing something active to distract yourself until the craving passes.

 

 

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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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Weight Loss Tip - Stop Worrying!

Stop worrying about shape, looks, status and a thousand other things.
Whisper to yourself these 3 magic words : NO - MORE - WORRIES

I've helped loads of teenagers to lose weight so I know what I'm talking about.

Worry is a complete waste of your precious time.

 

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Getting Enough Water Daily

To make sure you're getting enough water:

• Track your water intake. Try recording every glass of water or other beverage you drink.
  
• Drink more water and fewer caffeinated beverages and alcohol. Both substances are diuretics that are less hydrating than water. After your morning cup, stick to decaffeinated beverages for the rest of the day. Drinking water or seltzer between alcoholic beverages can help you stay hydrated — and save calories, too, by filling you up.

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Benefits of consuming Fenugreek

The chemical compunds found in fenugreek (methi) have the ability to aid the digestive process. Consequently, when taken with meals it is believed that fenugreek is able to slow down the rate at which sugars are absorbed into the body, whereby regulating blood sugar levels. Additionally, studies indicate that fenugreek may induce or promote the production of insulin when blood sugar levels are elevated.

 

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Exercise Cuts DIABETES Risk in people with BIG WAISTS

Exercise can help people with large waistlines reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Scientists found that people with large waistlines who exercise were less likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes than their less active counterparts. They found that physically inactive people with large waistlines had a 5.5 times greater risk of suffering from diabetes than active people with small waists. They added that 30 minutes of exercise five times a week could help people with large waists lower their odds of suffering the illness by 4.2 times. This can be achieved through a healthy diet and regular physical activity.

 

 

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Diet Tip - At First Dieting is Easy

Starting a new diet is easy. We are full of enthusiasm and motivation to lose weight. But two weeks later it's often a different story. Our desire to reduce weight has diminished, our diet-plan has become boring and our weight loss goals seem as faraway as ever. Indeed, after 14 days of counting calories and eating only healthy foods, we often find ourselves yearning for a high-calorie pizza or carton of ice cream.

 

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Effects of Dehydration

If you're not properly hydrated, you're apt to suffer from dehydration, which can cause symptoms such as headache and fatigue. Drinking enough water — six 8-ounce glasses each day at a minimum — may also help you avoid overeating. If you're hit by a craving, try drinking some water, seltzer, or juice and seltzer mixed. This will hydrate you and help fill you up.

 

Being even slightly dehydrated can also make you feel irritable and cranky — a mood that leads many of us to eat unwisely.

 

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Why Men Gain Weight ?

Be moderate about alcohol.
You don't have to give up.

Take some regular exercise.
You don't have to jog your butt off.

Eat less red meat.
You don't have to eat lentils.

 

 

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Wegith Control Tips - Why Drink Water ?

Water doesn't seem to contribute much to your health. After all, it has no vitamins. No fiber. No protein. No carbohydrates. So why bother drinking it? The truth is, water is vital to your well-being — and staying adequately hydrated can even help you control your weight.

Water is needed for every cell in your body, Water helps your body maintain its optimal temperature. It also helps your body digest food, convert it to energy, get rid of waste and avoid constipation.

 

 

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Limit & Measure Your Food

Try to limit your serving size and actually measure out the portions of food you are going to eat. It is very easy to overestimate how much you are eating. Keep measuring cups and spoons at the ready

 

 

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Diet Tip - Choose Low Calorie Foods

Choose low fat, and  low calorie foods.  Eat grilled fish instead of fried fish;  instead of  french fries, have a baked potato (without all of the butter and sour cream).

 

 

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Managing Food Binge

An occasional food binge does not usually lead to significant weight gain and therefore won't destroy your diet.

 

 

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Weight Loss Tip for Women

Throw Away Your Weighing Scales!!

Forget about what you weigh and instead, concentrate on improving your eating habits
You see a scales makes you think SHORT-TERM THOUGHTS
Like - 'how much do I weigh THIS week?'

Whereas, you should be thinking LONG-TERM THOUGHTS

Like...
'How much am I going to weigh in three months.'
Or...
'I'm going to slowly change my figure and my life. Even though this may take a while.'

 

 

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Diet Tip - Low Fat Diets

Low fat diets reduce the bad, LDL, cholesterol while low cabohydrate diets have no effect on the LDL levels. However, low carbohydrate diets raise the good HDL cholesteol and lower triglycerides and improve control of the blood glucose (sugar) level whereas as low fat diets actually lower the HDL level and raise the triglyceride level.

 

 

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Health Tip : Humor to deal with Stress

Humor is a good way of dealing with stress. Having the ability to find humor in a stressful situation and being able to laugh about it, releases all the tension that is building inside. Even if the situation cannot be made light of, think of something else that will make you laugh.

 

 

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Weight Loss Myth - Late Night Eating Leads to Weight Gain

LATE NIGHT EATING DOES NOT LEAD TO WEIGHT GAIN

Our body metabolises food in the same way, whether it's midday or midnight. So late-night eating is no more likely to damage your weight loss or lead to weight gain, than mid-morning eating.

The truth: It's not WHEN you eat that counts - it's WHAT you eat. So although eating high-calorie foods like cookies, ice cream and cakes in front of the TV can lead to weight gain, this is because of the high-calorie nature of the foods, not because it's late in the evening.

 

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Adopt Sensible Eating Habits

Weight regain typically occurs when we quit a fad diet, a very-low-calorie plan, or any very short term diet that causes us to adopt unrealistic eating habits. So when choosing a weight loss diet, choose one that encourages the adoption of sensible eating habits which are easier to maintain after the "diet" ends.

 

 

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Benefits from drinking Coconut Water !

The highly mineral-charged coconut water acts to detoxify the kidneys, which indirectly affects its neighbours, the reproductive organs. Healthy kidneys are believed to promote a vibrant, healthy attitude. Coconut's amazing healing properties are also attributed to reducing the risk of cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes.

 

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