5 Tips to Avoid Food Rewards and Stay on Your Calories Loss Diet

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
by Rowena French

Eating food as a way of rewarding yourself is a real challenge faced by many people who really want to experience permanent weight loss. For many years our social gatherings including birthdays, weddings, retirements and bar mitzvahs have all included a large component of eating and drinking. This celebration food is not always the kind that is ideal for losing weight and would rarely be found on a healthy calories loss menu.

Can you think of occasions when you celebrated recently at work or at home? Birthdays, engagements, promotions or any of a wide range of other reasons to celebrate, punctuate our lives as often as once a week. It comes as no shock then that rewarding ourselves for planning to get married, earning a raise, living another year or even a successful project at work can happen over a meal or a drink with food.
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A Look at Diabetic low Fat Diet

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
by Lindelwa Maseko

If you suffer from diabetes you may feel that you cannot eat good food but that is not the case, there are many excellent diabetic recipes nowadays. Being in control of your diet is imperative in reducing the effects of diabetes and can also help lower the chances of you contracting it. It is not difficult; by sticking to your diabetic diet the chances are you will have a much more normal life.

Weight is generally a problem when you are a diabetic and the goal is to get that weight off and keep it off. Another important thing to remember is to eat a healthily from all four food groups and keeping to you diabetic diet.
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The Online Diabetic Diet Plan

Monday, November 10th, 2008
by Lindelwa Maseko

Diabetes may be a culinary inconvenience but you can still enjoy fine food it’s just there are a few rules about what you can eat. An excellent method of reducing the symptoms of diabetes is by controlling what types of food you eat, this is also a good method if you want to avoid diabetes in the first place. If you are living with diabetes, one of the best ways to fight this disease is with a diabetic diet plan.

One of the hardest things to do will be to shed those unnecessary pounds as maintaining your weight is extremely important when you’re a diabetic. In addition to this is to follow your diabetic diet and balance your intake so that all four food groups are catered for.
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Goal Setting Secrets to Avoid Sabotaging a Calories Loss Diet

Saturday, November 8th, 2008
by Rowena French

One of the most common mistakes that people make when it comes to weight loss is setting unrealistic expectations about how much weight they need to lose and how fast they can lose it. Setting unrealistic weight goals is really sabotaging your calories loss diet and your efforts to lose weight. That is why it is important to have some tools you can use to set realistic weight loss goals for yourself.

The end product of losing weight is a re-shaped body and to reach this goal, weight loss professionals have established one or two pounds a week as a healthy weight loss rate. Unrealistic weight losses like five pounds a week or sixty pounds by the end of winter are not only unhelpful but also potentially medically dangerous. These goals can cause disappointment and lead to you quitting the calories loss diet that drives your weight loss, so consider the tools below to make sure your weight loss goals are achieved.
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How a Calories Loss Commitment Makes You Last the Diet Distance

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
by Rowena French

When you start a new diet it is always exciting and easy to ‘commit’ to a daily calories loss menu and regular exercise. You tell yourself that this time you are going to stick with it, this time will be different, this time you are really committed. But do you really stick with the diet or do you go back to your old eating habits and end up with no weight loss and sometimes even a weight gain?

The truth is that this does happen more often than we would like because dieting is tough sometimes and making changes to our lifestyle can be tough too. If you want the changes you make to your eating habits and exercise to be effective over the long term, you will need to commit seriously to making sure that this happens. Looking great and feeling healthy always starts with a genuine commitment to this goal through a calories loss diet and daily exercise.
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Motivation Tips for Weight Loss, Week by Week

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
by Rowena French

Whenever you start a new diet, you are usually very upbeat, focused, positive and eager to get on track, lose weight, and get fit. But as the months go by and weight loss week after week becomes more challenging, it can be very difficult to stay motivated, continue exercising and make healthy eating choices. Here are some tried and true ways that you can use to stay on track with your weight loss.

Sort through old photos of yourself. Tape the one on the refrigerator that you absolutely hate; a picture taken when you were at your heaviest weight. Tape it on the refrigerator or the cupboard where you will see it every time you go looking for a snack. Every time you see the picture tell yourself that you will never look like that again and this will help motivate you to not have that extra snack.
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The Truth About Type 2 Diabetes Cure

Monday, November 3rd, 2008
by Andy Rowde

Have you just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? Are you looking for a type 2 diabetes cure? Find out the truth about type 2 diabetes cure.

Type 2 Diabetes
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The Inside Secret to Calories Loss and a Healthier Body

Friday, October 31st, 2008
by Rowena French

To enjoy successful, long term weight loss you need to change your perspective on how to lose weight and consider how to modify your lifestyle rather than how to go on (another) diet. This can be easier said than done for many ‘dieters’ who have carried excess weight for years and tried varied approaches, including a calories loss food program. To regain their body shape and good health they need to modify their lives not just the food they eat and see their body as a friend that needs to well cared for.

For the likelihood of a longer life and happier disposition, you will do well to spend time and effort now, developing a healthier body. The best foods to eat come from each of the major food categories and are there is enough variety across these to make your new meals and snacks sufficiently different and interesting. The benefits of eating well from a calories loss menu are many but some of the shorter term benefits include better sleep, more energy and a boost to your metabolism where the calories you eat are processed more efficiently.
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What is Cholesterol? Understanding its Nature!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
by Dane Masters

If you have found out that you have really high cholesterol levels and are wondering why this is the case. You are probably also asking how you can lower these levels, what the risks are, and just plain, what is this? Many people with high cholesterol levels focus on trying to lower these without actually understanding the nature of cholesterol. While it is not imperative to know, it is a good idea to have some insight into just what is cholesterol. Understanding more about cholesterol will help you to understand why you should keep cholesterol levels low.

One way of answering the question, what is cholesterol? Is to look at it from an organic chemistry point of view, although this might appear complex to a lay person, it is really quite easily understood. Cholesterol is an aerobic chemical compound that is hydrophobic in nature. Still sounds complex doesn’t it?
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Guaranteed Weight Loss needs both Calories Loss and Food Fuel

Saturday, October 25th, 2008
by Rowena French

If you want to enjoy permanent weight loss and remain healthy there is only one sure way to go about this. Follow a calories loss eating program and eat food containing fewer calories than your body would generally use in the course of your everyday living. To use more of your stored fat and to enable your body to operate in peak form as it should, take part in a healthy exercise program as well.

Adult eaters eat on average something like 2,000 calories in the course of a day and this is what our body needs as energy to carry out our daily activities. We need to create a deficit in the calories equation through a calories loss food plan and allow our body to use the energy stored in the excess fat we carry around. An achievable goal would be the reduction of our calorie intake to 1,500 calories and the use of the equivalent energy found in 500 calories from our fat supply.
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