We can do it together
As a dieter you are always on the look out for natural foods that contribute to your weight loss. If you keep the calorie count low and exercise often you will reach your weight loss goal eventually, but it’s always a bonus when you can add natural foods to your diet that will help you win the battle.
Here are some natural foods taken from Health.india.com that are your weight loss allies. Add them to your diet for that extra boost. [Read more...]
Eat your vegetables they are good for you. How often have you heard that? I bet ever since you were a child, and I bet you’re now telling your children the same. We all know that vegetables are good for us, it’s been drilled into us our entire lives.
But when you’re trying to lose weight you want to minimize the calories as much as you can. Now all veg are good for you and provides their own source of nutrients that benefits your health in some way or the other. So you should never consider cutting any of them out before speaking to your doctor.
But if you’re trying to cut back on calories, maybe you could eat more of the non starchyveg as appose to the starchy veg. Vegetables come in two categories and the non starchy has less calories. [Read more...]
It’s week three of the New Year and for most of us the festive season is nothing but a distant memory. Life is now back to normal, or is it? If you are one of the many that chose to over indulge on alcohol and fattening foods during the festive season, you might still be suffering the side effects.
You might even be finding it hard to resume the normality you want. You know you should start eating healthy, but the fatigue and sluggish feeling you’re experiencing is preventing you from moving on. “I’ll start next week” is probably your plan of action.
Let’s take action now, let’s restart your body and give it the kick-start it needs. [Read more...]
Early this year I did a short course on behavioural patterns, what I learnt was that 80% of the decisions we make are based on past experiences. When we are confronted with a situation for the first time a new pattern is created, after we follow the pattern a number of times, it becomes habit and our subconscious mind acts accordingly on our behalf. It’s a built in survival mechanism that we all adhere too.
The problem is, some of these deep engraved patterns we can do without. The good news is, we can change and program ourselves with new patterns, patterns that we are more in favour of.
For example, if you eat junk when you are stressed, because it calms you down, that’s a behavioural pattern. Stress is what triggers the pattern, your mind then sieves through your memory bank for the best solution, and uncovers the pattern you have always used when dealing with stress, and that’s to eat junk food. Unless you recognise and do something to break this pattern, junk food will always be your comforting answer. [Read more...]
The majority of us never leave home without our mobile phones, it’s become such an important gadget in our lives, it’s hard to live without it. Your phone can now be used for a lot more than just making calls, you can take pictures, connect on social media sites, plus track and aid your weight loss activity.
Yep that’s right, it really is a smart phone! You can download apps to your phone for almost anything, and there is no shortage of weight loss apps available to you. There’s a high chance you already have some sort of weight loss related app installed on your phone already.
But does it really work, can mobile apps really help you lose weight, or are they just more time wasting gadgets? To get the answer to that question, let’s hear what the result was from a study carried out at Northwestern Medicine. [Read more...]
Recently there has been much debate around the subject of fat. Some argue that fat makes you fat and you should avoid it at all cost. Some follow a high fat diet, and believe fat is the answer to a healthy slim body. Whiles others, including myself believe that some fat (good fats) are necessary for the human body to function at it’s best.
However I have always felt that you should cut back on the saturated fats. I mean you don’t have to have a PHD to realize that a diet full of cakes, crisp, deep-fried foods etc, is going to do more harm to your body than good.
To reinforce my believe, the Mail Online recently published the findings that prove, just cutting back on the fat can lead to a healthier, slimmer you. [Read more...]
Every so often someone claims they have uncovered the magic weight loss formula, most times it comes in the form of a pill or some wacky dieting regime. Then eventually the dust settles and the weight piles back on, and the so call magic formula gets a slaughtering from the press and medical experts. Just like the recent publication of the 5 most harmful diets.
Now a new weight loss drink has been concocted in the labs of Oxford University, and I must say even I a true believer of healthy eating and exercise to lose weight, am gagging for a sample. [Read more...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have no doubt seen the many celebrity-endorsed diets this year. Most had some underlying theory that is harder to swallow than the tapeworm diet, yes that was a real diet that emerged in the 20’s where you swallowed a pill containing a tapeworm that would eat all your food for you, and bizarrely enough this too was endorsed by celebrities.
Anyway, you would naturally think if a diet is being endorsed by a celebrity then it must hold some merit, right? After all they have some responsibility to lead us in the right direction, I mean we can trust in them, can’t we? It’s just natural right to think if a celebrity is doing a particular diet then surely, surely it must be safe for me and you to do too, no matter how bizarre it might sound.
Okay, back to reality, both you and I know this is hardly ever the case, in fact our list of harmful diets to stay clear of in the New Year, have all been endorsed and used by celebrities. No it was not I that came up with the list, even though I could have easily told you that these diets would do more harm than good.
No it was the British Dietetic Association themselves who released this list as a warning to those who might be looking for a quick fix to the body mass expansion caused by the Christmas indulgence. [Read more...]
