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Cool Secrets How To Loose Weight And Maintain It

HealthyGal | July 20, 2010

The main trick to become slim is to take fewer calories than your body can use during a day. Diet is a good thing but do not fall in starvation or some kind of crash diet. You’d better to change your regime and start eating healthy food and never eat to excess. This new habit you should keep during your lifetime but it does not mean that you will never have you favourite cakes anymore.

First you should set reasonable goals for reducing your weight. Keep in mind that you neither lose nor gain weight during nights. The best option is slow and steady weights reduce which is about 3 pounds per week. In this case you have some time for changing your eating habits and what is more it is good for your health. These habits can become part of your life. Those people who try to grow thin quickly and without changing their habits will surely receive weight gain. Set your goals and write them down. Control your progress weekly. Checking your weight daily can disappoint you because weight can vary. It’s better to check your weight at the same time and wear same clothes each week.

Drink more cold water. For example ice water is the best option. In this case metabolic rate of your body will be stable because your stomach will make water warm before processing it. Try to reject all kinds of sodas including colas. Fizzy drinks contain sodium which will lead to water-retaining effect and it is no good when you try to become slim.

Have more broccoli and lettuce including such raw vegetables as cauliflower, celery etc. They contain fiber that helps us to avoid constipation and also they make your body work harder in order to stomach them so just eat them straight.

Make production out of eating and set regular lunch breaks. Do not use big plates because they make portions look smaller and do not do anything else while eating at the table including reading or watching TV. Try to concentrate on eating. Before you start your lunch have a glass of cold water. Drink one more cup while you are eating. This will help your stomach to fell full and surfeit will be avoided.

Never eat one or two large portions per day. You’d better to break then into four smaller ones. In this case blood sugar levels will be stable and more even. Hunger will be reduced. You will also have higher metabolic rates because you eat more often.

Always check products that you buy. Term dextrose is used for table sugar. Remember that fructose is like dextrose. Lots of products dulcified by fructose and later labelled as sugar free. In fact they are just dextrose free. Any word with ending “-ose” is a kind of sugar, like maltose and lactose. Also beware of unrealistic packing sizes which most people will have at a time but in fact serving size contains more than two portions.

It’s a good idea of having some soup before main meal as a snack. You will feel full and not much of calories will be added. Water based soups will be good option. Tomato or vegetable soups should be used instead of cream ones.

A sane diet will help you to reduce weight but it will be difficult to establish this eating habit. When you succeed you will be able to keep it forever. After loosing several pounds you should continue with your eating plan. Sometimes you will have a desire to increase your food portions. Always remember that you can receive a good bonus of your diet which brings you good overall health.

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Sue | October 23, 2009

New Exercises Added

With the weather getting colder and wetter I wasn’t able to get outside and exercise as much, so had to start training inside. I went out and got the 30 day shred DVD and boy does it give you a workout. I watched it all the way through and it didn’t look that hard. Of course doing it was something else and I was sweating and hurting pretty fast. I followed it all the way through the first level and did the 30 minutes, had to modify a few things towards the end but didn’t want to give up. I am all ready feeling the burn and am looking forward to working out tomorrow some more.

Food wise I am really making the effort to keep my food journal and track everything I eat. My weight loss has slowed down in the last couple of weeks but haven’t gotten out on my bike as much either. My stair climbing has started to bother my knee a bit so have slowed down on that for a few days, but I was up to 64 times.

From all my reading I am learning that I need to eat 1200 calories a day to get to my target weight of 170 lbs, but that I also need to burn that many calories per day. I am having trouble with that, my morning walk burns about 300 calories and the DVD burn 279, so that doesn’t even get me half way there. Will have to do some more research and see what else I can add in to burn those calories!

Trying to do incorporate as much fresh food as possible and use the least amount of canned food and sauces. Today for lunch I had a turkey and lettuce sandwich, I used a nice spicy mustard on the rye bread instead of any margarine or mayo and it tasted good. Tonight we are having homemade pizza and I can have a nice slice without feeling guilty. For the weekend I plan on cooking spaghetti, but I will use spaghetti squash instead of noodles and am loading it with tons of fresh peppers and mushrooms…am looking forward to it.

Off to take the dogs out and have a herbal tea.

Sue
New Exercises Added