I know you are making these fat loss mistakes because I did too! Based on my experience from losing over 80 pounds and finally keeping it off, here are some tips for avoiding these common dieting mistakes.YOU ARE TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH TOO SOONTrying to go from Sedentary Slob to Super Dieter on a Monday morning? Not so smart. It is a great way to ensure you will be back to the couch by mid-day Wednesday. You can't expect to undo years worth of...more
Positive affirmations are a really great tool that you can use to help you lose weight. It can be challenging at the best of times when you are trying to lose weight, especially when you have depression or you don't feel that good about yourself. Being overweight can cause all sorts of negative emotions that make it harder to stay motivated. Whatever you say to yourself has a great impact on your situations and circumstances. Yes most people have...more
Pressure on the body from a weighted blanket can relieve anxiety at the dentist's office. For years, many people have enjoyed the weight from the heavy vest worn while getting x-rays at the dentist's office as commonly known from a multitude of subjective accounts. Now they can get that relaxing feeling by wearing a weighted blanket.A media release about a new study to be published in the Journal of Pediatrics says that a relaxing environment, including weight on the body, significantly relieves stress at the dentist's office. Dr. Michele Shapiro of the Issie Shapiro Educational Center and colleagues from Hebrew University in Israel studied the effects of the sensory environment on a child's anxiety levels during two separate routine cleaning visits to the dentist.The release reads, "For many children, a trip to the doctor or dentist is a stressful experience. The sensory environment (i.e., the sounds, smells, and lights associated with the clinical setting) can cause a child's anxiety levels to rise. This is especially true in children with developmental disabilities who may have difficulty understanding the unfamiliar clinical environment."This reaction is similar to Sensory...more
Most people forget to include weight training to lose fat in their daily workout regime. This is the main reason as to why they take a longer time to burn fat than those that use weights regularly. Also, cardio workout is mostly to make you burn calories fast and get rid of the water retention in your body. This does nothing to your muscle fat...more
This article was written to warn those looking to lose weight and bodybuilders alike that Soy and Tofu is far from a health food and why your efforts to lose weight will actually backfire. Don't be fooled by the fancy marketing and believing that soy and tofu is healthy for you.There was a time when people in the entire world and also in Asia were...more
You Can Eat Meat While Losing WeightMany people do not understand. Yes You can eat meat and lose weight. As a matter of fact we should eat some lean meat for regularly health and nutrition purposes. A healthy diet should include some lean meat for iron, protein and other nutritious reasons. The problem is in our society most meat is not lean and most people overeat. Too much of a good thing is not good at all. So the question is how much is too much? Better yet, how much lean meat can I eat and still lose weight?Today we consider a healthy diet should be include at least 1500 calories for women and 1800 calories for men. At these levels most people would lose weight because the average woman consumes more that 2000 calories per day, while the average man is over 2500. To lose weight we simply need to burn more calories than we consume. The nutritional information on food packages assume the average diet is 2000 calories per day. If we are burning and or eliminating 2000 calories per day then we we should lose weight reduce our eating to 1500 to 1800 daily. That seems logical but is not always true.What You Eat CountsThe question still remains, how much lean meat can I eat and still...more
It's a tough concept to grasp, but dieting can actually make you fat! It all starts out innocently enough. You've put on a few extra pounds, your jeans are suddenly WAY too tight and your husband starts hinting that you could stand to lose a couple...more
If you are fed up of trying out your current weight loss program and have felt this way about the previous ones as well, then you are not the only one with this problem. Losing weight quickly is what everyone wants to experience. However, they fail...more
Recently in the news and on channels such as CNN, there have been numerous people claiming that you can use an alkaline diet for weight loss. Is this really true? Can a person really begin to experience weight loss simply from changing their diet to...more
There are many activities you can do every day, some of them being jogging, playing tennis, golf and so on. But when it comes to weight training, the best and usually the most convenient schedule is to work out three times a week. Your time is not...more
We have all seen them. The huge guys at the gym, lifting huge stacks of plates and grunting and sweating like their head is about to explode. Their arms are busting out of their shirts and their legs look like they belong to a horseĀ a muscular...more
Everyone likes to talk about 'weight loss' but what type of 'weight' are people actually losing? In this article, readers discover the truth about the term collectively known as 'weight loss'.In 2003 I attended a seminar entitled 'Fat Loss not Weight...more