A blog about my life battling weight lose and how you can lose weight and keep it off. It might be easier than you think.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Do You Read Those "Healthy and Fitness" websites
Friday, February 15, 2019
Brisk Walking Will Keep You Thinner
Does Brisk Walking Beat Other Physical Activity for Staying Thin?
Study Finds Brisk Walking Associated with Lower Fatness Measures
- walking at a fast or brisk pace
- sports or exercise including swimming, cycling, gym workouts, dancing, running/jogging, football, tennis and other racquet sports.
- heavy housework
- heavy manual activities
Who Benefits the Most from Brisk Walking?
- People over age 50 regardless of gender
- People who are pressed for time.
- People who are unable to do conventional exercise
How to Start Brisk Walking
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
The Secret To Losing Weight, "Don't Diet"
Monday, February 11, 2019
How Should I Track My Weight Loss?
Take Your Measurements
- Bust: Measure around the chest right at the nipple line, but don't pull the tape too tight.
- Chest: Measure just under your bust.
- Waist: Measure a half-inch above your belly button or at the smallest part of your waist.
- Hips: Place the tape measure around the biggest part of your hips.
- Thighs: Measure around the biggest part of each thigh.
- Calves: Measure around the largest part of each calf.
- Upper arm: Measure around the largest part of each arm above the elbow.
- Forearm: Measure around the largest part of the arm below the elbow.
Use Your Clothes
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Friday, February 8, 2019
Losing Weight Is All About The Food You Eat
This is a common mistake many people make. I want to lose weight so I'll go on a diet. My friend went on a 1000 calorie a day diet and lost 20 pounds in just a few weeks, I'll try that. So I'll have coffee and toast for breakfast, for lunch I'll have a salad with bottled dressing, I like that low-cal french. And for dinner I'll go to Subway and get a foot-long. I think that's under 1000 calories, I'll do that.
Okay that's under 1000 calories alright, but you have very little nutrition. Yes, you made a good choice with the salad if it has the right veggies like Kale, tomatoes, beans, spinach leaves, cucumbers etc. Just a pile of lettuce and a couple cherry tomatoes isn't a salad. It just looks like a salad and use some olive oil on that salad. Just because lettuce is green doesn't mean it's loaded with nutrition. Toast and coffee has no nutrition and you can't lose weight if you're going all morning without eating any protein. And as far as that foot-long sandwich, that about the same as lunch, If you eat the right sandwich you can keep the calories low, but if you want to stay on this diet for any long period of time, you need to pack more nutrition in those 1000 calories.
This is the typical mistake people make when they are new at dieting or their not taking the diet seriously. 9 out of 10 people who start a diet end up quitting. 9 out of 10 people who try to lose weight will quit. So what's the problem? Most people don't do their homework and are not really serious about lose weight.
If your really serious you'll first either do some homework and change the way you're eating, or get some professional help. We are a country that loves to eat out. Restaurants will have some healthy food on their menu, but their real goal is to make food that tastes good. Restaurants have to take care of their customers, so popular food items will never go away. But because of public opinion restaurants are putting healthy food choice on the menu and if they become popular then they'll stick around.
It's going to be the consumer that will change the grocery stores and restaurants. If we don't demand better quality foods we will only get what the manufacturers can produce at the highest profit margin. So until we can buy already prepared foods that are healthy we need to buy fresh and eat clean. That means we'll be preparing a lot of our own meal and trying to make some healthy choices on the salad bar.
So if your ready to get serious about losing weight you need to do some homework and learn what you can eat and more important the foods you can't eat.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
How Many Calories Do I Need?
The Most popular plan trending now is the "16/8 plan". You can pick any 8 hour period during the day and consume all your calories during those 8 hours. I picked 11am to 7pm. The other 16 hours I don't eat or drink any calories. The theory is that after the 8 hours that your eating it takes 12 hours to process and burn those calories and the other 4 hours which is 7am to 11am, in my case, your body will burn your stored fat. I was a skeptic but after a couple weeks I started to lose weight.
This diet is so popular because it's easy. I just skip breakfast and start eating at 11am what ever I like about 3 hours later I eat again and then about 6pm I eat my last meal, finish with dessert and by 7pm I stop eating. I restrict red meat for my health. If you eat quality food and fast for 16 consecutive hours you'll lose weight. You have to stick to it until your body adjusts to the new meal plan. I lose about 3 pounds my first month
This should provide a general guideline for the number of calories your body needs to maintain its current weight. To lose weight, you need to decrease that number by roughly 500-600 calories per day.
Cons: Requires tedious recording and may not be accurate if you aren't specific about measuring and recording your food portions.
The formula is widely recognized by experts as a reasonable estimate for daily caloric need. However, it is only as accurate as the information you provide and the answer is based on general guidelines. Daily activity level, for example, varies widely from person to person and there is no way for a single formula to accurately predict the metabolic impact of your specific activity level.
Cons: Only based on general guidelines and estimates
Cons: Expensive and not widely available and some say that results are not as accurate as advertised.