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For a considerable time, several weight loss experts have recommended the calorie shifting diet as the next best weight loss solution. While it is true to an extent. rarely do those experts recommend the ideal foods for the diet in the same vein. This leaves the common people confused.
If you already know about the benefits of the calorie shifting dieting program but have no idea of what to eat and what not to eat, this post would be the perfect read for you. For the five minutes you spend in reading it, you would collect some great recipe ideas that could form an integral part of your life.
Definition of Calorie Shifting diet
The name ‘calorie shifting’ itself is pregnant with meaning. You can easily figure out that this diet recommends “shifting” your calorie consumption levels instead of restricting yourself to a low-calorie or low-carb meal. Read the rest of this entry »
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A common mistake most people make is that of trying to lose a lot of weight at once. They think that fast weight loss is possible, thanks to the hyped and empty promises most fad diets make. However, the truth is that even if you are able to lose weight too fast, your body would put back all those ‘lost pounds’ on you as soon as you quit dieting. Remember that if your aim is to get rid of fat once and for all, you should lose weight slowly but steadily!
As a matter of fact, weight loss is not about following this or that fad; weight loss can be achieved only by making certain drastic changes in your lifestyle as well as committing yourself to following a healthy lifestyle for the rest of your life!
That said, it is not possible to get rid of your old habits too fast, as it usually takes one at least two1 days to make or break a habit! Start making small but significant changes in your lifestyle, and don’t stray! Over time you would be successful in replacing all your bad habits one by one with good and healthy habits. However it won’t happen in a day!
For example, most diets would either restrict your junk food intake severely or ask you to discard them altogether! However, if you have been eating junk foods for months, or worse, if those foods have formed integral parts of your diet, it won’t be easy for you to get rid of them so easily!
Once again you can start off by getting rid of one junk food at a time. Alternatively, you can make it a point to keep yourself away from junk foods except on certain ‘cheat days’ when you would be free to indulge yourself the way you want! As your taste buds become more and more accustomed to healthy and natural foods, you would lose your junk food cravings altogether!
The same rule of ’slow and steady weight loss’ applies to exercises too! If you have never exercised before, it is natural for you to panic in fear if someone says that you should run 10 miles per day or do weight lifting for hours in order to lose weight!
But how does the prospect of running only one mile or lifting weights for just five minuets per day sound? I am sure you would be able to manage that much. Over time, as your body grows accustomed to your new active lifestyle, you would be able to increase the intensity of these exercises easily!
To conclude, you needn’t be afraid of either dieting or exercising. Remember that while the journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step at a time, it is important for you to take that ONE step right NOW!
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Don’t deprive yourself but control your portions: Many people think that avoiding or depriving themselves completely of their favorite foods is the surefire way to avoid weight gain! If you too think this way you cannot be further from the truth!
If you deprive yourself of your favorite foods, your food cravings would increase all the more and a day will come when you would gorge on junk foods like a hungry wolf, thereby adding several pounds to your body in an instant! So a better option is to eat your favorite foods at least once every week! But at the same time you should monitor your food intake.
A good way to make sure that you don’t gain weight by eating your favorite foods is by exercising the trick of ‘portion control’! When you eat slowly and in small quantities, you would become satiated even by eating very little food. This way you would not only be able to satisfy your junk food cravings but at the same time keep your weight under control!
2. Smash all your beer bottles: Yep, you heard me right: open your cellar and throw out all the beer and soda bottles from there! Then promise yourself never to touch them again! Why would you do so? Quite simply, alcohol is high on calorie and sugar, both of which are bad for your health, especially when you are struggling hard to keep your weight under control! With alcohol and soda out of your way, you will find it easier to keep the pounds away and stay fit during the holiday season!
3. Buy tighter clothes: You might hate me for this advice, or think that I am crazy, but the fact remains that this is a good way of reminding yourself that you need to lose weight urgently! Think about it: how often have you promised yourself that you would lose weight before the next Christmas, and how many times have you failed to keep that promise!
It is no wonder that many people fail to lose weight because they simply don’t make weight loss their number one priority! I know that wearing tight clothes would make you feel uneasy, but it is this very uneasiness which would propel you towards the path of weight loss! The more uneasy you feel, the harder you would try to lose weight and become slimmer! This way you would reach your weight loss goal quite fast!
And by the way, don’t you want to be able to fit yourself in your favorite clothes? Make your dream a reality by doing this right now and eventually you will see that you are able to wear your favorite clothes without any feeling of uneasiness!
And that day would come soon!
Tags: christmas, food cravings, food intake, junk food cravings, little food
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There is hardly anyone who doesn’t take one resolution or other during the New Year, and one of the most popular New Year resolutions is the weight loss resolution. Every New Year, millions of people resolve to shed the extra flab and get slimmer, and just a few weeks after that, most of them break their resolutions and get back to their normal (read unhealthy) lifestyle! The result: nada, zilch!
This year too would be no different either. Many would take the same resolution they have probably taken countless number of times before, and once again only a handful people would make it to the slim figure! But why should you follow their trail? In this article I am going to tell you about some of the tools and strategies I used to lose weight successfully!
Yeah, I too had taken countless weight loss but they came to nothing until I started doing the following things!
1. I cleaned up my kitchen and refrigerator: No, I didn’t make them completely empty; rather, I emptied all the junk foods out of them! When the culprits aren’t around the corner, there would be less of a temptation to eat them. Think about it: when are you more likely to eat gobs of ice cream: when it is not at your home and would need to be fetched from a store which is a couple of miles away, or when it is conveniently seated in your refrigerator?
When you would have to make a great effort to indulge in your junk food cravings, you are less likely to eat them and more likely to opt for healthy foods which should already be stocked in your home!
Oh, I totally forgot to tell you: once you clean your kitchen of all the junk and fatty foods, buy lots of natural fruits and eatables and stock them in your kitchen and refrigerator! I have found that this has helped me a lot in killing my junk food cravings!
2. I started keeping a weight loss journal: To make sure that I was really doing things which were conducive to my weight loss goal, I started keeping a journal in order to keep tab on my daily lifestyle. These days, most weight loss programs automatically offer you a journal for free where you could record all the detailed statistics about yourself, including but not limited to what foods you are eating and what not, what workouts you are doing and how far they have helped you with weight loss, whether you are eating something you shouldn’t, etc., and many other such tidbits.
You can also use it to keep a tab on your body weight, so that you know how far you have progressed and how many more pounds are left to shed! Some people prefer to maintain separate weight loss journals, each for food, exercise, etc., which is fine as well.
The rationale behind maintaining a weight loss journal is that it would act as your moral police by keeping you on the right track, and at the same time would act as your guardian which would lead you towards the path of weight loss success!
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There are a gazillion weight loss programs, fad diets and diet pills which would promise you fast weight loss. If you think that these promises are hollow, you are right. The truth is that most of these weight loss products thrive on false hype and empty promises, and once you use even one of them, you are sure to become disappointed and frustrated.
While most of these products would fool you by making you lose a few pounds initially, that is just water weight loss which you would gain back as soon as you begin eating normally. So is there any better way to lose weight fast?
Basically, when people are faced with the challenge of weight loss, they are left with two options. The first, and popular option is to go after fad diets which make tall promises but deliver zilch. Most of these diet programs are not only useless but also expensive.
These diet programs have been created keeping in mind your wallet instead of health; the creators of the fad diets are more concerned with burning your money than fat. Sure there are a few good ones out here too, but finding them is like trying to find a diamond in piles of trash; in other words, an extremely difficult task.
The second option is to consult with a doctor, which many feel is better than the ’self-help’ options. However, most doctors are good only at treating diseases and the like; they know very little about nutrition basics. While obesity is a disease, it is not the kind of disease which a doctor could cure.
Myths and misinformation make matters worse for weight loss aspirants. There is a popular myth preached by several weight loss experts that in order to lose fat, all you need to have is the necessary willpower and self-discipline. However, the fact remains that willpower would come to nothing if you are unable to rein your subconscious mind with it.
You maybe trying to use your willpower to control your junk food cravings, but you are sure to eat them at some point of time or other since in your subconscious mind you always believe that you need to eat more and more of them.
The part of the subconscious mind which propels you to eat is termed by weight loss experts as “Eating control center”. Experts believe that the only way to tame this part of the subconscious mind is by using a special type of hypnotic therapy known as Biocentrix. With the help of the Biocentrix method of self-hypnosis, you will be able to lose weight within just three weeks. If you wanted to lose weight quick and fast without much effort, then this is the perfect weight loss tool for you.
Once you are able to control your subconscious mind with the help of this therapy, weight loss would become much easier for you. You would find it easier to kick out junk foods from your life without any sense of deprivation, as well as adopt yourself to a lifestyle of healthy eating and exercising.
Keep in mind that following any single fad diet won’t help you lose weight permanently; only controlling your “eating control center” could help you achieve that end. Once you are under the Biocentrix therapy, you won’t hate healthy foods such as raw fruits and vegetables, whole grains, etc. Sounds too good to be true, but this therapy is really effective and has worked for many people.
If you have tried out every single available weight loss options out there and still had no luck, I suggest that you try out the Biocentrix therapy. It is not only effective but also 100% safe and risk-free, and anyone can go for it.
Tags: hypnosis, junk food cravings, obesity, weight loss products, weight loss tool
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