http://addblogurl.com Your Source for Social News and Networking Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:21:44 -0500 en http://addblogurl.com/Physical-Health/food-calorie-counters-help-shed-the-weight/ http://addblogurl.com/Physical-Health/food-calorie-counters-help-shed-the-weight/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:21:44 -0500 sunny Physical Health http://addblogurl.com/Physical-Health/food-calorie-counters-help-shed-the-weight/
Frankly, it's a miracle that anyone ever manages to lose weight and, not surprisingly, most people don't. You can, though, and food calorie counters can be a real help in getting you there. All it takes is a little knowledge, a little willpower and some help from one of the food calorie counters.

Essentially, all diets work under the same premise. They may claim to have special biological properties or work by some strange mixture of foods, but really, all any diet does is cause you to eat less. Eat enough less, and you will start losing weight. It really is that simple.

Most diets work by omitting one of the three macronutrients, usually either fat or carbohydrates. If the diet restricts carbs, the natural satiating properties of fat and protein will keep you fuller and reduce your calories. If they reduce fat and have you focus on complex carbs, the sheer bulk of the food will automatically reduce your calories.

This can be effective, but it necessarily means that you have to omit a lot of foods you really like, and this is something that food calorie counters can help you avoid. They allow you to have the knowledge of calories and nutrients that will allow you to lose weight permanently, quickly and easily.

Food calorie counters are pretty much exactly what they sound like: books or computer programs that allow you to look up the caloric content of any food you eat. With the arrival of the internet, this has become much easier than it ever was before. Now all you need to do is select your foods from a pulldown menu and the food calorie counters will calculate the levels for you.

This allows you to lose weight by putting the power in your hands. What you have to do is take in fewer calories than you are burning. The easiest way to do this is by making certain food substitutions. If you know, for example, that the mac and cheese you're eating contains 700 calories, the food calorie counters can tell you about a number of alternate foods that can half that amount.

The food calorie counters can also allow you to tailor your portion size. By properly adjusting your meals, you can have the best of both worlds: you can eat what you want and still lose weight. The thing to remember is that it doesn't take a huge amount of calories to lose weight; even dropping 200 calories from your daily menu will have you losing 20 pounds over the course of the year. If used properly, food calorie counters can be a powerful weapon in the war against fat.


16 Vote(s) ]]> http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/fast-food-for-fast-weight-loss/ http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/fast-food-for-fast-weight-loss/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:19:51 -0500 sunny Fitness http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/fast-food-for-fast-weight-loss/
One of the biggest hits McDonalds has taken in the eyes of dieters was the movie Supersize Me, a documentary about eating nothing but McDonalds for thirty days. The movie's director and nominal star ate nothing but McDonalds for the duration, without the benefit of a McDonalds calorie counter.

Eating McDonalds for three meals a day, he managed to gain better than twenty five pounds and pretty severely impacted his health. Needless to say, this didn't do wonders for McDonald's business, and it scared away even more dieters from eating at the fast food giant and led to the widespread availability of the McDonald's calorie counter.

But it doesn't have to be that way. In the wake of Supersize Me, several people took up the challenge of eating nothing but McDonald's food for a month and not gain weight or even lose weight. Which, according to popular thinking, should be impossible.

But, as it turns out, it's entirely possible to eat nothing but McDonalds or any other fast food and lose weight. What you need to know is what you're eating and what you can eat, which is where the McDonald's calorie counter comes into play.

McDonalds, like most fast food restaurants, has made the McDonalds calorie counter freely available online and at most of their restaurants. Since the food is all standardized, you can pick one of them up and now that what you get is going to very close to what the guides say.

Since you can do that, you can use the McDonalds calorie counter to figure what foods you can eat, and in what amount. You can eat there and still lose weight; all it takes is proper planning and the right choice of foods.

This doesn't just mean eating salads and diet soda. You can have chicken McNuggets and hamburgers and fries and even milkshakes. What you can't do is have them all at once or all the time, or at least not as much as you want all the time.

With the help of a McDonalds calorie counter, you need to select foods that fit into your diet scheme. Which is basically saying that you need to make sure your daily calories fit within a range that is going to let you lose weight. As long as you're inside that range, you can eat whatever you like.

This does mean that, unfortunately, if you eat at McDonalds three times a day, you can have two double quarter pounders with extra large fries and a milkshake at every meal. You can go all out as an occasional treat, if you really need to, but you need to keep your calories within a reasonable range. But usually, you just need to consult your McDonalds calorie counter and find foods that you can enjoy and lose weight with.


13 Vote(s) ]]> http://addblogurl.com/Physical-Health/body-colon-cleanse/ http://addblogurl.com/Physical-Health/body-colon-cleanse/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:16:05 -0500 sunny Physical Health http://addblogurl.com/Physical-Health/body-colon-cleanse/
One body colon cleanse is called the lemonade diet. It was created by the late Naturopath Stanley Burroughs. It consists of fasting to rid the body of toxins, created by improper diet, lack of exercise and negative mental attitudes.

The body colon cleanse will dissolve and eliminate toxins and congestion. It will cleanse the kidneys and digestive system. It aims to purify glands and eliminate waste and hardened materials in the joints and muscles. You'll start to build a healthy bloodstream which in turn leads to developing optimal blood pressure

Also, the body colon cleanse will help you lose weight. Most people lose about 2 pounds a day with no harmful side effects.

The lemonade diet should be followed for exactly 10 days. During this period, you will not eat anything and you will only drink a specially formulated lemonade. You need to drink at least 10 servings of the lemonade a day, which can be difficult to manage without discipline.

The recipe for the lemonade is as follows: fill a one gallon water jug with the juice of five lemons, 1 and ¼ cups of Organic Grade B maple syrup (no substitutes), 1/10 tsp. or more of cayenne pepper, and fill the rest of the jug with purified or spring water (do not use fluoridated tap water.)

When you get up each morning that you are on the body colon cleanse, you need to do a salt water flush. Mix two level teaspoons of unionized sea salt with a quart of lukewarm water and mix. Drink this all right away.

Then in the evening you'll want to take an herbal laxative tea which you can find in most grocery stores.

You should be prepared to need to use the restroom a lot while on the body colon cleanse. Specifically, that means that you should be prepared to go every 15 or 20 minutes. If you have a job or other activities that will not accommodate this need, you may want to consider putting the program off until you can use the facilities whenever you need to.

You may think that drinking only lemonade, saltwater and tea with no food for 10 days is dangerous. Well, you are certainly not going to die on this diet, but you will be hungry. Surprisingly, you will probably find that you have more energy as the diet goes on, despite the lack of food.

At the end of the body colon cleanse, you can expect to have lost anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds (this is mostly water weight and will be quickly regained if you don't follow a reasonable eating and exercise plan), feel increased energy, have an increased desire to eat healthy foods, and feel somewhat different about life in general.

Those who make it through a body colon cleanse are generally very glad that they did it.


15 Vote(s) ]]> http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/3-day-diets/ http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/3-day-diets/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:13:03 -0500 sunny Fitness http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/3-day-diets/
The general promise is six pounds over the course of the diet. Since most people struggle to lose a pound a week, the promises of the three day diets are very appealing. But these diets do raise two big questions; do they work and are they safe?

Do they work? Yes and no. If you need to drop some pounds quickly to look your best for an event, then these three day diets can be extremely effective, because if followed as instructed, they will help you drop pounds and inches.

The problem is that they aren't really designed for long term weight loss, which is why they are three day diets and not thirty year diets. They work mostly by causing a very rapid loss due to low carbohydrates and low salt content. Which is fine, because if you're using them as a quick fix, that's exactly what you want them to do.

But the weight will come back almost immediately when you resume normal eating habits, which is true of pretty much every diet. The three day diets are also, by their nature, very low in bulk, which means that your midsection will slim out quickly because there's not much in your intestines.

The three day diets do lead to actual fat loss as well, since by their nature they are low in calories and they are short enough that there is no metabolic slowdown as you would get if you stayed on the program longer. Depending on your size and activity level, it's unreasonable to expect to see from one to three pounds of actual fat loss.

Are they safe? Yes, usually. Frankly, a lot of people worry about the safety of diets a lot more than they really should. The human body is an immensely adaptable machine, and you can eat pretty much anything foodwise for short periods with no ill effects, or nothing at all.

Certainly, most of the three days diets are perfectly safe for a normal person who doesn't have a preexisting illness. You can't develop nutritional deficiencies over the course of three days. In addition, most of the three day diets actually have you eating healthier than the average person does normally.

Typically, the diets have you eating mostly meat, vegetables and fruit over the course of the three days, and elimination starches and sugar. This is actually a big improvement over the way the normal person eats, and the chance of you becoming deficient in vitamins or nutrients, even over the long term, is virtually non existent.

The problem with three day diets is that they are also extremely low in calories, typically below 1000 calories, and often much below. This is simply not enough calories even if you are trying to lose weight, and so you can't say that the three day diets are safe for extended use.

What you can do is do a three on, four off version of the diet. In the three day period, do the diets exactly as planned, but for the next four days, eat the same foods without limiting portions. This will prevent metabolic slowdown and help make the three day diets work for you.


7 Vote(s) ]]> http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/burn-500-calories-a-day-to-lose-a-pound-a-week/ http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/burn-500-calories-a-day-to-lose-a-pound-a-week/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:10:55 -0500 sunny Fitness http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/burn-500-calories-a-day-to-lose-a-pound-a-week/
The most important thing you need to know about calories & weight loss is that you need to burn 3500 more calories than you take in to lose 1 pound. You can do this by exercising, dieting, or a combination of both.

The easiest way to break this down is to think of it on a daily basis. You need to burn 500 more calories than you eat each day.

An inactive or lightly active man weighing 150 lbs, will burn roughly 2000 calories each day. If he weighed 200 lbs, he'd burn around 2300 calories each day. On the other hand, a 150 lbs. woman will burn about 1700 calories a day.

Why do men and women of the same weight burn different calories? Most of it has to do with the fact that men have more muscle mass which allows them to burn more calories at rest. This should also encourage you to put on muscle, whether you are a man or a woman.

So, going back to calories & weight loss, if you are a 150 pound woman and you don't want to do any exercise, you need to eat no more than 1200 calories a day.

However, if you are willing to put in some work, you can eat a little bit more. For instance, even housework can increase your eating ability. Heavy cleaning burns 432 calories an hour. Do that for 70 minutes a day and you'll have your 500 calories. Mowing the lawn for an hour (with a push mower) burns 324 calories an hour. But there are fun ways to burn calories too. An hour of singles tennis burns 549 calories an hour. And, an hour of skiing burns a whopping 740 calories.

If you are serious about controlling calories, weight loss will follow. One way to do this is to control your portion sizes. Meals, both at home and at restaurants have been growing in size for decades. For instance, in the 1930s, the average dinner plate size had an 8 or 9 inch diameter. Now, the average diameter is 10 to 12 inches. Switch to salad plates for dinner and watch the pounds disappear.

It's no secret that restaurant portions have grown. For instance at Romano's Macaroni Grill, a seemingly good for you Teriyaki Salmon dinner has a whopping 1240 calories. If you are eating out, either split the meal with someone else or ask for a take home box at the start of the meal. Then, place half of the food in the take home box before you start eating. That way you can still "clean your plate" without taking on the additional calories.

There calories weight loss formula is calories in-calories out. Make sure that there is a differential of 500 if you want to lose one pound.


5 Vote(s) ]]> http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/weight-loss-for-the-obese/ http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/weight-loss-for-the-obese/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:08:45 -0500 sunny Fitness http://addblogurl.com/Fitness/weight-loss-for-the-obese/
Some people have been able to have a significant weight loss pounds through diet and exercise. This is made popular by television shows such as The Biggest Loser.

These kinds of people are able to change their attitude and lifestyle for life. They realize that they're not on a temporary diet. To weight loss pounds, they must change how they view their body and the food they eat.

This means they change the types and quantity of food they buy. They change the types of meals they eat. They change the size of the meals they eat. They change the frequency of the meals they eat.

And, they begin to exercise. Because they may be unable to do vigorous activity, they may have to start slowly. But, morbidly obese people should choose to exercise at least 30 minutes a day in whatever form is possible. As they develop strength and endurance, they should kick this up to 60 to 90 minutes.

But some people feel they can not change their habits on their own. The weight loss pounds is not realistic with just diet and exercise. That is why Bariatric Surgery has become so popular in the last few years.

With this procedure, also know as Gastric Bypass, the stomach is made significantly smaller and the food bypasses part of the small intestine. People who have undergone this surgery find that they feel full with very small portions of food.

In a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (the most common kind), the stomach is made smaller by creating a small pouch at the top of the stomach using surgical staples or a plastic band. The smaller stomach is connected directly to the middle portion of the small intestine bypassing the rest of the stomach and the upper portion of the small intestine.

Gastric bypass surgeries may cause what is known as the "dumping syndrome." This happens when food moves too rapidly through the stomach and intestines. Symptoms include nausea, weakness, sweating, faintness, and sometimes diarrhea shortly after eating. These symptoms are much more severe when the person has eaten highly refined, high-calorie foods, especially sweets.

There are a number of weight loss pounds conditions that have to be met before a doctor can perform Gastric bypass. For instance, the person has to have been obese for at least 5 years. He or she cannot have an ongoing problem with alcohol or have untreated depression. Most candidates are between 18 and 65 years old.

Most people who have gastric bypass surgery quickly begin to lose weight. They tend to continue to lose weight for up to 12 months. One study showed that most patients will lose about one-third of their original body weight in 1 to 4 years. However, if the recommended diet is not followed properly, the patient can begin to stretch their stomach and weight may be regained.

Strict lifestyle changes and gastric bypass surgery are two options for quick weight loss pounds.


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