You are overweight for the most simple of reasons -- because you're eating the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories per meal, and you're also eating meals in the wrong patterns each day.
Think closely about what we're about to tell you, since it's going to change the way you think about dieting...
FOOD is more powerful than any prescription weight loss pills, because the FOOD that you eat can either make you THIN or FAT. You don't get fat because of a lack of exercising, that's a myth. You get fat because you don't eat the right foods at the right intervals each day.
Also, the pattern that you choose to eat your meals each day is more powerful than any prescription weight loss pills. This is true because your body is like an "engine" and it only needs certain foods at certain intervals each day, and if you don't eat the right foods at the right times then it won't burn those calories -- and you'll wind up storing those calories as fat tissue. (Hint: You need to eat more than 3 times per day to lose weight, but we'll show you the details later).
You have gotten overweight by eating the wrong foods, that much is a fact. And guess what? You can get SLIM by eating the RIGHT FOODS at the RIGHT INTERVALS each day.
It's not really any more complicated than that, and the way to start losing weight has nothing to do with starving yourself or jogging.
The reason you cannot lose weight by starving yourself (using a low calorie diet) is because your metabolism will detect any major drop in calories and it will then ADJUST ITSELF by burning fewer calories each day.
For example:
If you begin eating 2,500 calories per day then your metabolism will adjust itself so that your body begins burning 2,500 calories per day.
If you try to starve yourself by suddenly eating 1,000 calories per day then your metabolism will again ADJUST ITSELF so that your body begins to burn only 1,000 calories per day. That's why you have failed in your past dieting attempts, that's why you always seem to fail when you try and starve yourself.
Now you know the reason why you can eat 1,000 calories per day and not lose any weight while your friends can eat 2,500 calories per day and not gain any weight.
Also, virtually every person in today's society is buying mostly "low fat" or "non fat" food at the grocery store, everybody is conscious of the "fat grams" inside the food they buy. However, people are getting fatter than ever by doing this and people are not losing weight by switching to the "low fat lifestyle".
Those ridiculous "low carb" diets have certainly become popular in recent years, but of course those are just thinly disguised starvation diets. If you don't think so then check out these facts below about Atkins....
The Atkins Diet limits your carb intake to ONLY 20 grams of "net carbs" per day during the first phase of the diet......which means that you cannot even eat a single large apple during the first phase of the Atkins Diet (since even a large apple has more than 20 grams of net carbs).
...And if you want to continue through all of the phases of the Atkins Diet, then it will take another 4 MONTHS (16 weeks) before you'll be allowed to eat just 400 carb calories per day -- and any typical restaurant meal has more carbs than that. So this is really just another form of starving yourself (and making yourself MISERABLE), which is not the answer.
NOW you know what doesn't work. To find out what does just go to...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
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Control Dieting Weight - Stop The Cravings
Control Dieting Weight - Stop The Cravings
By Eric Head
Losing weight is actually a very simple process, but we make it difficult, because our emotions or cravings get involved. Our cravings for eating delicious foods are our worst enemy when it comes to losing weight. So to lose weight effectively, it is crucial that these cravings become decreased or eliminated all together.
The million dollar question is: “How do we reduce or eliminate our cravings?”
The answer is actually simpler than you might expect. It can be summed up in three words:
“Plan your day”
When you plan your day, or create a schedule of what you are going to eat, you are essentially creating organization to your diet regimen that will allow you to combat any possible cravings that may arise later in the day.
One of the main reasons that people fall victim to cravings is that they don’t write out ahead of time what and when they are going to eat.
When you try to work out what to eat in you head, you are bound to forget to eat at a certain point in the day and this will later result in feelings of hunger. That hunger will then turn into cravings and you will find yourself deviating from your diet and eating inappropriate foods that go against your food intake goal for the day.
So to remedy this, it is very important to work out what you are going to eat on paper. Write it out so you can see it visually. Define what you are going to eat and schedule it to regular intervals throughout the day. By doing this, you can plan ahead so that your body continually remains full and as a result you will no longer suffer cravings.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
By Eric Head
Losing weight is actually a very simple process, but we make it difficult, because our emotions or cravings get involved. Our cravings for eating delicious foods are our worst enemy when it comes to losing weight. So to lose weight effectively, it is crucial that these cravings become decreased or eliminated all together.
The million dollar question is: “How do we reduce or eliminate our cravings?”
The answer is actually simpler than you might expect. It can be summed up in three words:
“Plan your day”
When you plan your day, or create a schedule of what you are going to eat, you are essentially creating organization to your diet regimen that will allow you to combat any possible cravings that may arise later in the day.
One of the main reasons that people fall victim to cravings is that they don’t write out ahead of time what and when they are going to eat.
When you try to work out what to eat in you head, you are bound to forget to eat at a certain point in the day and this will later result in feelings of hunger. That hunger will then turn into cravings and you will find yourself deviating from your diet and eating inappropriate foods that go against your food intake goal for the day.
So to remedy this, it is very important to work out what you are going to eat on paper. Write it out so you can see it visually. Define what you are going to eat and schedule it to regular intervals throughout the day. By doing this, you can plan ahead so that your body continually remains full and as a result you will no longer suffer cravings.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
Control Dieting Weight - Still Eat Your Favorite Foods
Control Dieting Weight - Still Eat Your Favorite Foods
By Eric Head
Sometimes when we are trying to lose weight, we tend to make the whole process out to be worse than it really needs to be. A lot of this has to do with the negative stereotypes that people have placed on the concept of a diet.
For example, you will often hear people describe dieting as “a struggle” or that it is “tough”. Even the famous cartoon fat cat, Garfield, describes DIET is “Die” with a “T”.
The truth is that losing weight doesn’t have to be a difficult process. What it really all boils down to is organization and creating a schedule of eating the same thing everyday. The keyword here is “planning” and the best part is that when you apply a schedule and plan to eat the same thing everyday, you can eat your favorite foods and still lose weight.
Our weight often fluctuates, increasing and decreasing, because we eat so many different foods at different times of the day. This unorganized way of eating can cause an imbalance and as a result, we fall into this trap of yo-yo dieting.
So by following the procedure below, you can easily see that through just some simple planning, you can lose weight and still eat your favorite foods.
To begin, follow these initial steps.
1. Get out a piece of paper and a pen.
2. Write down all the foods that you love to eat and title this your “Favorite Foods List”.
3. Then write down next to those foods how many calories each of those foods contains.
4. Assign those foods to the three meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
5. Make sure that the calories of you schedule is lower than your daily calorie maintenance level.
Let’s look at an example of my “Favorite Foods List” and their calories.
Snickers Bar = 350
Dr. Pepper = 150
Large Burrito w/sour cream = 700
Fruit Loops Cereal w/milk = 400
Cheeseburger = 500
Now, let’s look at how I have assigned those foods to my three meals of the day.
Breakfast
Fruit Loops Cereal w/milk = 400
Lunch
Cheeseburger = 500
Dr. Pepper = 150
Dinner
Large Burrito w/sour cream = 700
Dr. Pepper = 150
Snack
Snickers Bar = 350
As you can see from my schedule, if you total all the calories, this comes out to 2,250 calories for the total amount of calories that I will have consumed during the entire day.
I have already predetermined that my daily allowance of calories to stay at the same weight is 2500 calories. This is called my “daily calorie maintenance level” and it means that if regardless of what foods I eat, if I consume 2500 calories, I will neither gain, nor lose weight. I will stay at the same exact weight.
So you can see that when applying my eating schedule from above in comparison to my daily calorie maintenance level, I am consuming 250 calories less. The result of this is that I will, in effect, lose weight over an extended period of time.
If my daily calorie maintenance level is 1800 calories, then I could easily remove the Snickers Bar as my snack and replace the Dr. Pepper with Diet Dr. Pepper. This would then reduce my daily calorie intake to 1600 calories each day and I would be 200 calories under my daily maintenance calorie level allowing me to still lose weight.
Now you can see that losing weight doesn’t have to be so difficult. It’s really all about assigning a schedule to your day based on the calories of your favorite foods. By simply adjusting the portion size of your favorite foods, assigning them to the three meals of the day, and then following that schedule everyday, you are well on your way to losing the extra weight.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
By Eric Head
Sometimes when we are trying to lose weight, we tend to make the whole process out to be worse than it really needs to be. A lot of this has to do with the negative stereotypes that people have placed on the concept of a diet.
For example, you will often hear people describe dieting as “a struggle” or that it is “tough”. Even the famous cartoon fat cat, Garfield, describes DIET is “Die” with a “T”.
The truth is that losing weight doesn’t have to be a difficult process. What it really all boils down to is organization and creating a schedule of eating the same thing everyday. The keyword here is “planning” and the best part is that when you apply a schedule and plan to eat the same thing everyday, you can eat your favorite foods and still lose weight.
Our weight often fluctuates, increasing and decreasing, because we eat so many different foods at different times of the day. This unorganized way of eating can cause an imbalance and as a result, we fall into this trap of yo-yo dieting.
So by following the procedure below, you can easily see that through just some simple planning, you can lose weight and still eat your favorite foods.
To begin, follow these initial steps.
1. Get out a piece of paper and a pen.
2. Write down all the foods that you love to eat and title this your “Favorite Foods List”.
3. Then write down next to those foods how many calories each of those foods contains.
4. Assign those foods to the three meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
5. Make sure that the calories of you schedule is lower than your daily calorie maintenance level.
Let’s look at an example of my “Favorite Foods List” and their calories.
Snickers Bar = 350
Dr. Pepper = 150
Large Burrito w/sour cream = 700
Fruit Loops Cereal w/milk = 400
Cheeseburger = 500
Now, let’s look at how I have assigned those foods to my three meals of the day.
Breakfast
Fruit Loops Cereal w/milk = 400
Lunch
Cheeseburger = 500
Dr. Pepper = 150
Dinner
Large Burrito w/sour cream = 700
Dr. Pepper = 150
Snack
Snickers Bar = 350
As you can see from my schedule, if you total all the calories, this comes out to 2,250 calories for the total amount of calories that I will have consumed during the entire day.
I have already predetermined that my daily allowance of calories to stay at the same weight is 2500 calories. This is called my “daily calorie maintenance level” and it means that if regardless of what foods I eat, if I consume 2500 calories, I will neither gain, nor lose weight. I will stay at the same exact weight.
So you can see that when applying my eating schedule from above in comparison to my daily calorie maintenance level, I am consuming 250 calories less. The result of this is that I will, in effect, lose weight over an extended period of time.
If my daily calorie maintenance level is 1800 calories, then I could easily remove the Snickers Bar as my snack and replace the Dr. Pepper with Diet Dr. Pepper. This would then reduce my daily calorie intake to 1600 calories each day and I would be 200 calories under my daily maintenance calorie level allowing me to still lose weight.
Now you can see that losing weight doesn’t have to be so difficult. It’s really all about assigning a schedule to your day based on the calories of your favorite foods. By simply adjusting the portion size of your favorite foods, assigning them to the three meals of the day, and then following that schedule everyday, you are well on your way to losing the extra weight.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
Control Dieting Weight - Eating Less Than Your Daily Allowance
Control Dieting Weight - Eating Less Than Your Daily Allowance
By Eric Head
The concept behind weight loss is so incredibly simple, yet it remains such a major obstacle for many of us who are trying to shed the extra pounds. We all know the simple mathematics behind it.
Find out what your daily calorie allowance is, eat less than this, and then the weight will come off!
This is all very fine, but the problem is that the mind gets in the way. As humans, we have a hunger drive, which results in cravings. These cravings make the above simple rule go from a simple mathematical formula to a major hurdle.
There is good news however. As humans, we are also intelligent, which means that we can take the necessary steps to create a plan of action in order to combat our cravings.
To eliminate our cravings, it is crucial that we make sure that our body is properly filled throughout the day. This means that we will need to use our "intelligent mind" to create a schedule with time intervals during the day in which we must eat.
All that is required is a piece of paper and a pencil. By simply writing down at what times we are going to eat during the day and then sticking to eating at those times, we end up calming the hunger drive which causes cravings. The only catch is that we must make sure that we evenly spread our daily allowance of calories over those scheduled eating times throughout the day.
Once we have our schedule in place, we can then eat at the scheduled times, regardless of whether we are hungry or not. This is important, because if we wait until we get hungry, then there is a greater chance of overeating.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
By Eric Head
The concept behind weight loss is so incredibly simple, yet it remains such a major obstacle for many of us who are trying to shed the extra pounds. We all know the simple mathematics behind it.
Find out what your daily calorie allowance is, eat less than this, and then the weight will come off!
This is all very fine, but the problem is that the mind gets in the way. As humans, we have a hunger drive, which results in cravings. These cravings make the above simple rule go from a simple mathematical formula to a major hurdle.
There is good news however. As humans, we are also intelligent, which means that we can take the necessary steps to create a plan of action in order to combat our cravings.
To eliminate our cravings, it is crucial that we make sure that our body is properly filled throughout the day. This means that we will need to use our "intelligent mind" to create a schedule with time intervals during the day in which we must eat.
All that is required is a piece of paper and a pencil. By simply writing down at what times we are going to eat during the day and then sticking to eating at those times, we end up calming the hunger drive which causes cravings. The only catch is that we must make sure that we evenly spread our daily allowance of calories over those scheduled eating times throughout the day.
Once we have our schedule in place, we can then eat at the scheduled times, regardless of whether we are hungry or not. This is important, because if we wait until we get hungry, then there is a greater chance of overeating.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
Control Dieting Weight - Creating a Weight Loss Plan
Control Dieting Weight - Creating a Weight Loss Plan
By Eric Head
Losing a lot of weight can be a daunting task, especially when it feels like the end goal is so far away. Whether your goal is to lose 10, 20, 50, 100 or more pounds, the journey towards this goal can sometimes seem overwhelming. This is why a weight loss plan or schedule is so important to include in the process.
One way to make a large weight loss goal possible is to break the goal down into smaller manageable steps. If your long term goal is to lose 100 pounds, you should consider setting ten small term goals of losing 10 pounds. A goal of losing 10 pounds is much more realistic to the mind than trying to tackle a goal of losing 100 pounds up front. In addition, you gain confidence in the belief that you can achieve the goal when it is broken down into a smaller goal.
When setting your weight loss goals, a weight loss schedule or plan is important. When you have a visual plan that shows you how to break up your smaller goals into manageable steps, as well as illustrate your long term end goal, then you create a visual picture of what is in store for you on your path to losing weight.
One popular method for creating a weight loss schedule is to use an excel spreadsheet. You do this by creating a line graph showing your weight loss progress. On the left side of the spreadsheet is your "Weight" and on the bottom of the spreadsheet are the "Days" of the month. Each day, you can monitor and track your progress creating downward slope in the line graph as you lose weight.
Many self help gurus have pointed out that setting goals is crucial to success in anything you undertake. This same principle applies to weight loss too. So before you start your diet, get out some paper or use computer software and create a visual plan that you can see and follow. Your rate of success will increase as a result.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
By Eric Head
Losing a lot of weight can be a daunting task, especially when it feels like the end goal is so far away. Whether your goal is to lose 10, 20, 50, 100 or more pounds, the journey towards this goal can sometimes seem overwhelming. This is why a weight loss plan or schedule is so important to include in the process.
One way to make a large weight loss goal possible is to break the goal down into smaller manageable steps. If your long term goal is to lose 100 pounds, you should consider setting ten small term goals of losing 10 pounds. A goal of losing 10 pounds is much more realistic to the mind than trying to tackle a goal of losing 100 pounds up front. In addition, you gain confidence in the belief that you can achieve the goal when it is broken down into a smaller goal.
When setting your weight loss goals, a weight loss schedule or plan is important. When you have a visual plan that shows you how to break up your smaller goals into manageable steps, as well as illustrate your long term end goal, then you create a visual picture of what is in store for you on your path to losing weight.
One popular method for creating a weight loss schedule is to use an excel spreadsheet. You do this by creating a line graph showing your weight loss progress. On the left side of the spreadsheet is your "Weight" and on the bottom of the spreadsheet are the "Days" of the month. Each day, you can monitor and track your progress creating downward slope in the line graph as you lose weight.
Many self help gurus have pointed out that setting goals is crucial to success in anything you undertake. This same principle applies to weight loss too. So before you start your diet, get out some paper or use computer software and create a visual plan that you can see and follow. Your rate of success will increase as a result.
Are you trying to lose weight? Consumer Product Watch reviews the latest products in dieting and weight loss. Visit http://www.consumer-product-watch.com/content/fat-loss-4-idiots to see our latest reviews of new strategies for losing weight or click here on Consumer Product Watch - Weightloss Reviews.
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