There are several types of diets and supplements available which promise you the moon. If you have used any of these products, I am sure you have experienced their true nature. Fad diets restrict your calorie intake to such an awfully low level that eating is not much different than staying hungry.

There are some other diets which make you eat like a baby. These diets, while helping you lose a few pounds of weight in the first few days, fail to offer you permanent weight loss. In this article I will tell you of a better way of losing all those extra pounds.

Have you ever wished you could eat and still lose weight? If yes, this article is for you. In this article I will tell you about 5 weight loss foods which would literally force your body to burn fat like crazy.

Garlic: I love garlic a lot, mainly because of its aroma. However, a lot of people hate it because it causes bad breath. Now, if you are one of these people, you need to decide which is more important to you: do you want to maintain a ‘clean’ breath or lose weight? If you want to lose weight, then you may need to make a small ’sacrifice’ in the form of bad breath. Read the rest of this entry »

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It is well known that in order to lose fat, you must make every effort to enhance your metabolic rate. However, if you follow wrong diets and workout routines in order to lose weight, you will lose more lean muscles than fat.

With the three easy weight loss tips that I will tell you about in this post, your pounds will start melting away in no time.

Believe it or not, some of the most popular weight loss programs out there make you follow such unhealthy weight loss techniques that you lose more muscles than fat.

When that happens, your body looks like a small figure with the same big fat belly and huge flabby arms you had before! Not a pretty sight, is it? That is why it is important to make sure that this doesn’t happen.

Drink only pure water to increase you metabolic rate

Why do I stress on the word ‘pure’? While water can be acquired in various forms (such as alcohol, soft drinks, soda, coffee, etc), only pure, clean water can help you burn fat and lose weight! So water is the only drink you must drink throughout the day. Read the rest of this entry »

I just caught an article in a Hartford newspaper that talks about how dangerous the Biggest Loser TV show is for people that are morbidly obese or at lease sedentary with no fitness level because it would encourage them to exercise hard. The article made me mad because discouraging exercise is in itself irresponsible..

Who’s The Loser?: ‘Biggest Loser’ Workouts Questioned — Courant.com.

Well I was a little shocked although I am not sure if I really should be. This is the time for the backlash against the Biggest Loser. The Biggest Loser has now been on for a few years and the ratings are falling so why not say that the show is irresponsible and dangerous to copy. Read the rest of this entry »

We are only a couple of days away from Halloween Candy which I think of as the start of the holiday weight gain season.

Treat yourself better than that idea. Take care of yourself in all ways, mind, body, and spirit.

Did you know that people diet and exercise less during November and December than at any other time of the year? That people tend to gain 5 to 10 pounds just during the holiday season?

Well for all of the fun of the holiday season I think that this is easily the best time of year to work on yourself and to lose weight - not gain weight. Below I have 10 tips that will help you avoid holiday weight gain but first want to tell you why you can and should avoid gaining weight and lose instead.

The holiday season is a time when we interact with more people, we get to be more social and to eat great food often and to celebrate. The other thing that many people do is to reflect on the year and their lives so far and take the opportunity to make some real and lasting changes. This is the idea behind New Years resolutions but it could be so much more.

Don’t fall into the trap of gaining weight! Read the rest of this entry »

I have been seeing a lot of info today on something called the morning banana diet. The idea of the morning banana diet is that first thing in the morning you eat a banana and a glass of water and somehow miraculously you will lose weight. does this even make sense?

Well first of all bananas are a fairly low water fruit and therefore have a lot more carbs then most other fruits for the same amount. Actually triathaletes and other distance type athletes have been eating bananas for many many years to get energyt in the middle of a race.

Just because of this I have to doubt that eating a banana in the morning is going to spur weight loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Most experts would tell you that there is no other way to lose weight except by starving for days! Now if you have ever starved you know only too well that it is easier said than done! Even if you are able to keep up with the hunger pangs, your body won’t tolerate it.

If your body notices that it is not getting enough nutrition, it will store existing fat (instead of burning it) for the purpose of energy production! This is the reason that you don’t lose much weight with starving, and you gain back whatever you have lost once you get back to your normal eating habits!

Fortunately however, you don’t need to starve at all in order to lose weight. There are five special foods out there that can help you lose weight easily and quickly! If you can lose weight by eating, then why starve? Read the rest of this entry »

Weight loss is a billion dollar industry. And why not? After all, everyone, including you, are crazy about weight loss. There are several reasons why more and more people are trying to lose weight!

1. The first and foremost reason is of course that of looking good. If you don’t look healthy and fit, the society won’t respect you: that is the cold, hard truth! And the only way to get healthy is by losing those extra pounds. The magazine covers these days are cluttered with photos of sexy models, which is making people across the world all the more motivated to fight obesity

2. Another reason behind the sudden craze of weight loss is that more and more people are becoming aware of the various maladies that can affect an obese person. Obesity is not only the root cause behind physiological conditions such as heart disease, stroke, inactive thyroid, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, but also psychological problems such as depression, fatigue, loss of energy, trauma and hypertension. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe you have heard of lapband surgery or maybe not. Actually lapband gastric surgery simply put is a method to squeeze the stomach so that you would feel fuller and not eat as much. The surgery is less invasive, I guess, than Gastic bypass but is still full of complications and often needs to be either adjusted or removed althogether.

In a surgical procedure, the band is placed around the upper part of the stomach, creating a small pouch that can hold only a small amount of food. The narrowed opening between the stomach pouch and the rest of the stomach controls how quickly food passes from the pouch to the lower part of the stomach. The system helps the patient eat less by limiting the amount of food that can be eaten at one time and increasing the time it takes for food to be digested.

Depending on the patient’s needs, after the device is implanted the narrowed opening between the pouch and the lower part of the stomach can be adjusted in size by inflating or deflating the hollow band. Inflating the band makes the opening smaller, causing food to pass more slowly. Deflating the band makes it wider, causes food to pass more quickly. This adjustment is made by adding or removing fluid inside the hollow band. The doctor does this by injecting or removing the fluid through a small button-like part called the access port. This access port is placed under the skin in a muscle in the chest wall. The port is connected to the band by the tubing. Read the rest of this entry »

Regardless of the number of fad diet pills and supplements coming up in the market, the rules of weight loss have not changed over the years! The basic rule of weight loss is still the same: follow a healthy, balanced diet and exercise regularly. If you want to do something that breaks this basic rule, you will be in for trouble.

Do you want to lose weight quickly by following a fad diet program? No matter how expensive and popular the diet program is, you won’t be able to lose weight permanently if you try to get rid of fat by any unnatural means.

Diet Pills and Weight Loss?

Some of the diet pills out there will take you through a rapid cycle of weight loss. No sooner have you finished smiling at the dipping scale than you will notice that the scale is going upwards as fast as it had gone downwards. In simple terms, you will gain weight as quickly as you had lost it.

There is a reason why this happens. It is all okay as long as you follow the diet, but there is no fad diet in the world which is not a bit over-the-top in terms of food restrictions,. These fad diets restrict your food intake in such a way that you end up craving for your old, favorite junk foods. You start by binge eating: that is, taking one bit of your junk food everyday. Soon it goes out of your control, and you won’t even realize when you have cheated on your diet program, quit it and got back to your old lifestyle.

Diet change needs to be permanent

As soon as you return to your normal eating habits (that is, eating more and more junk foods), you end up gaining a lot more weight than what you started with. Read the rest of this entry »

I just found a story at People Magazine that Baron Davis, the 6′ 3″ L.A. Clippers guard, is on Jenny Craig.

What a strange story that a weight loss program that is built for normal people, and maybe even some people that get no exercise, is now being use by an NBA player in the off season to get in shape.

Inspired by current spokeswoman Latifah, Davis, 29, started the plan at the beginning of August to get in shape for basketball season.

“I know Queen Latifah, and when I saw her out there using it, I thought maybe I could use it, too, to work on my health and fitness goals and inspire others,” he tells PEOPLE.

During the NBA off-season, Davis let his fitness slide. “In the off-season, it’s kind of hard to maintain day-to-day,” he says. “I don’t want to get up and cook. And when I pig out, I’m the type of person where there’s no limit to what I can do.” Read the rest of this entry »