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.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Do Carbs Make You Gain Weight
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
How To Lose Body Fat
The whole idea is to give your body time to burn the fat as fuel. So how do we do that? I eat and drink all my calories for the day in 6 or 8 hours. That means the rest of the day I don't consume any calories. It's a 16 hour fast. I can drink water, tea, coffee or any drink with zero calories. And how does this work? It take your body 12 hours to use up the food you ate and then the remaining 4 hours it has to burn body fat to maintain your body functions.
Your body has no way of storing energy. It burn the calories you eat as fuel as you need the fuel. When you sleep it burn very few calories because the body is resting but during the day it burn more calories because your active. For most of us, we spend too many hours resting and not enough hours being active. Think about the hours in a day and how many of those hours you spend at a desk, how many hours you spend sitting in front of the TV, sitting while your eating, and how many hours you spend lying down. Some of those hours might be productive but your not burning a lot of calories.
So how many calories are you burning in a day? You can add body fat because your body is accustom to the same amount of food or calories every day but you don't burn the same amount every day. So when you eat or drink more calories than you burn you add body fat. Your body stores excess food as fat in your fat cell. All excess food is stored as fat. Your body will process all the calories it needs to provide the fuel that you need at the time you need it. So if I'm writing or reading all day and working at my desk and not being active, I know I can't eat much. I will increase the fasting hours and decrease the hours I spend eating. I can eat two meals in 4 hours and fast 20 hours. If I'm very active, hiking, biking, or doing a heavy workout, I'll eat three times in 8 hours and fast for 16 hours.
You might think that you won't have any energy during the fasting period remember 8 hours or half that time your sleep or resting and after you start moving around most people skip breakfast anyway, so most people on this type of meal plan will eat between noon and 7pm and then fast. The more of your workday you fast the more fat you'll burn if you can mix in more active with work.
I know someone who has a lot of success with this plan and he only follows the plan 4 days a week. He will fast at night and during the day and eat meal from 4pm to 8 pm so he fasts from 8pm to 4 pm the next day. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday he eats 3 meals with the family.
You want to eat healthy foods and avoid sugar as much as possible. Eating fresh foods like fruits, vegetables and fresh meat will give you the nutrition your body needs.
If you really want to lose your body fat than look for my e-books at the websites listed below. You'll get information on Healthy eating, exercise, and diet. Instead of spending hours on the internet reading dozens of posts, you can save time by picking up one of my e-books.
There are two e-books. “How Bad Do You Want To Lose Weight?” is available at all the online bookstores selling for $1.99. Go to any of the websites below and search the title to find my e-book. This book gives you all you need to lose weight without spending money on gym memberships, diet plans or meal plans. Look for my book. at Amazon.com, B&N.com, iBooks, Kobo.com, Scribd.com, or Gardner Books in the U.K.
My new e-book is available on Smashwords.com, just type “getting to a Healthy Weight” in the search box at the top of the home page.
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
If you really want to lose your body fat then look for my e-books at the websites listed below. You'll get information on Healthy eating, exercise, and diet. Instead of spending hours on the internet reading dozens of posts, you can save time by picking up one of my e-books.
There are two e-books. “How Bad Do You Want To Lose Weight?” is available at all the online bookstores selling for $3.99. Go to any of the websites below and search the title to find my e-book. This book gives you all you need to lose weight without spending money on gym memberships, diet plans, or meal plans. Look for my book. at Amazon.com, bn.com, iBooks, Kobo.com, Scribd.com, or Gardner Books in the U.K.
My new e-book is available on Smashwords.com, just type “getting to a Healthy Weight” in the search box at the top of the home page.
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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.