Health and Wellness – Weight Loss

March 20th, 2010

Simple steps to achieve weight loss. As you put your new knowledge to work and embark on a comprehensive weight-loss method, there are several things you can do. The goal is to maximize your knowledge so that you are prepared to make informed decisions for your best approach.

• Consult with your doctor before starting any weight management program. It is a good idea to get a complete physical before beginning a diet and/or exercise program to rule out medical limitations.

• Ask your doctor or pharmacist if any of the medications that you’re taking might affect your weight-loss success by increasing your appetite or slowing your metabolism. The good news is that in almost all cases other drugs are available that treat the same condition but do not affect weight. It is worth finding out whether a simple change in your medication can remove this potential obstacle.

• Think about weight-loss methods that you have used in the past. How many of the factors that predict successful weight loss and sustained weight loss were part of these methods? Are there things that you could have done differently to include more factors?

• What do you see as your “happy” weight and when do you see yourself achieving it? If your answer is a weight that is less than 90% of your current body weight and your time frame for reaching that weight is in less than six months, rethink your expectations. A reasonable goal is a loss of 10% of your current weight over six months. Start with that goal you may very well surprise yourself by exceeding it!

• Identify at least three people you know who have successfully lost weight and are keeping it off. Find out about their experience what method they used, what strategies and approaches they took to make it work for them, and what they are doing to sustain the weight loss. Compare what they tell you about the factors of successful weight loss, the factors for sustained weight loss, and the basic components of a weight-loss program.

• Remind yourself often and with confidence that sustained weight loss is possible.Your body will not undermine your achievements by slowing metabolism so that you gain the weight back.

If you have gained weight as an adult, you are not alone.There is no way that any of us can turn back the hands of time. That does not mean, however, that the extra pounds should be accepted as part of the aging process. Every year you carry the extra weight means a higher risk of developing several diseases. Losing the weight will bring those risks down. Now is the time to do a weight and health check to find out where you are so that you can make decisions about where you want to go.

• Think back to your 18th birthday. Do you weigh the same now as you did then? If you have gained weight, how many pounds have you gained?

• Determine if you are at a healthy weight, overweight, or obese by finding your BMI. • Take your waist circumference. Is it over the recommended measurement?

• If you have not done so in the past year, schedule yourself for a complete physical. Ask you doctor what impact, if any, your weight has on your current health status. Find out and make a record of your blood lipid levels, blood pressure, and fasting blood sugar.

• Set a realistic weight goal.

• If you are at a healthy weight and have not gained weight as an adult, a realistic goal is to prevent weight gain.

• If you are currently gaining weight, a reasonable first goal is to hold your weight steady to stop the gain.

• If you are ready to lose weight, aim to lose 5% to 10% of your initial weight. Once that is achieved and celebrated, set another goal or a series of realistic goals until you reach your ultimate goal weight (a weight within the healthy BMI range).

• Choose a weight-loss method and approach that leads to sustained weight loss.

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Health and Wellness – Weight Loss Pills

March 19th, 2010

Are you looking to lose weight? If you are like many other individuals who are hoping to lose weight, there is a good chance that you may turn to weight loss pills, also commonly referred to as diet pills. Although weight loss pills are a great way to help you lose weight, you need to be cautious when using them.

If this is your first time attempting to use weight loss pills, also commonly referred to as diet pills, to help you lose weight, there are a number of important factors that you should first take into consideration. These factors may help to make it easier, as well as safer, for you to find and buy weight loss pills. Just a few of the many factors that you should take into consideration, when looking to buy weight loss pills, are outlined below.

One of the many things that you need to take into consideration, when looking to buy weight loss pills is that of cost. Weight loss pills, as you will soon find out, are sold in a wide range of different prices. It is common to find weight loss pills that sell for as low as twenty dollars, but others that can sell for three or even four hundred dollars. It is important that you find a weight loss pill that you can afford to buy. If you cannot afford the cost of weight loss pills, you may want to examine more natural ways to lose weight.

The manufacturer of the weight loss pill in question is another factor that you should take into consideration. The manufacturer and their history can give you great insight into a weight loss pill, like if it is one that truly works or not. If a company regularly has a bad reputation of selling weight loss pills that do not work, there is a good chance that you should stay away from that manufacturer and all of their products. Although weight loss pills are often associated with poor results, it is also important to remember that the wrong weight loss pills may also put your health at risk.

Together with examining the reputation or history of the weight loss pill manufacturer in question, you are also advised to examine all of the weight loss pills that you would like to try. As previously mentioned, there are many weight loss pills that work great and others that do not work at all. To save yourself time and money, you will want to try and find the weight loss pills that have been proven successful. One of the best ways to go about doing so is by visiting online weight loss websites or message boards, reading product reviews, or by first consulting with a healthcare professional.

It is also important that you first examine the ingredients in a weight loss pill before you make your final purchase. Most importantly, it is important to determine whether or not you are allergic to any of the ingredients. It is also important to see if any of the ingredients in your preferred weight loss pill are dangerous or if they have been recalled. The best ways to find out this information is by consulting with a healthcare professional or by performing a standard Internet search. You may want to perform an individual standard Internet search with the name of each ingredient.

Another factor that you should take into account, when looking to buy weight loss pills, is your point of purchase. Weight loss pills are sold by a number of different retailers, both on and offline. If you are shopping online, it is important to make sure that you are doing business with a reputable and trustworthy retailer. If you are shopping locally, it may be a good idea to avoid buying weight loss pills from dollar stores or discount stores.

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Health and Wellness – Weight Loss

March 18th, 2010

Many People are fascinated with weight loss, some for health reasons and others to improve their body shape. No matter the reason, many people try strict diets that never work, hard exercise regimens that result in injuries or other weight loss program that end without success. The reason that none of these weight loss methods seem to work is because in order to stay with a program, you have to enjoy it. Not only that, but it has to be safe as well.

Below are 5 genuine tips to weight loss, you have probably seen them before in my other posts, but they are simple and easy. Anyone can do them, without tossing out their favourite food or spending every spare minute in the gym. Realistically, any weight loss program will take time. If anyone promises you different, they are either not being completely honest or are simply uninformed. Follow one single weight loss program for 30 days, whatever it may be, and see if you have results. If not, move on to something else. In the meantime, check out several tips to getting started today.

Tip 1 – Walking. If you can set aside 30 minutes every day to enjoy a leisurely stroll, you will be strengthening your legs and your heart while burning some calories in the process.

Tip 2 -Use a mini cycle. These portable little exercise units offer the look of bicycle pedals set up on a metal bar, but without the high price or weight of a standard exercise bike. With a mini cycle, you can pedal at your desk, on the couch or anywhere else that you can comfortably set and reach the pedals.

Tip 3 – Walk or take the stairs instead of an elevator. This is a terrific weight loss exercise without even noticing the extra effort. Something as simple as a few extra steps every day can go a long way where weight loss is concerned. The next time you go to the store, park in the middle of the parking lot and walk to the store. Avoid parking in the closest spot to the door, which is tempting, but opt to walk instead.

Tip 4 – You don’t necessarily have to cut out all of your favourite foods, but you should eat them in moderation. There is no single food that will completely hinder your weight loss attempt but, if consumed excessively, it may. For instance, simply limit your intake to one candy bar or, if you are being really careful, a miniature candy. There is no reason to cut out your favourite food when a conservative amount of the things we love can still have a place in our lives, including during the times that we are focusing on weight loss.

Tip 5 – Whatever your exercise routine, set aside a certain time each day to do it. Individuals who set a routine are much more likely to stay with it and find success than those who simply exercise whenever they have time. The goal to successful weight loss is to make time.

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Health and Wellness – Weight Watchers Endorse McDonalds

March 17th, 2010

According to McDonalds in New Zealand, three products, Chicken Nuggets, Fillet O Fish , and Chicken Wings have been endorsed by Weight Watchers and given a points value of 6.5 to entice people to eat at its fast food stores.

This might be great publicity for McDonalds, but does not mean that the food is healthy and in fact the Weight Watchers programme allow people to eat between 18-40 points value a day to reach their target weight., but do not guarantee weight loss.

It seems now that even McDonalds is trying to deceive people just as clothing manufactures increase their standard small medium and large sizes as people are getting fatter.

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Health and Wellness – Being thin is not always healthy

March 16th, 2010

 

You need to take care when you diet, because patients with anorexia and other eating disorders can develop life-threatening conditions such as heart and renal failure, or permanently damage their capacity for reproduction.

If you have dieted yourself into scarecrow mode, your body will probably also have few reserves left to fight infections and your immune system will be functioning at a sub-optimal level, which will make you particularly vulnerable to H1N1 and TB.

To function properly, your body needs an adequate energy supply, otherwise you’ll always be exhausted and your brain, which requires a constant supply of glucose to function properly, won’t be able to cope. So make sure that even when you’re attempting to lose weight that you still have a good supply of energy available in the form of carbohydrates (the body’s preferred fuel).

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Health and Wellness – Being overweight is not always unhealthy

March 15th, 2010

Individuals who are a few kilograms heavier than they should be, are not necessarily less healthy than their slimmer counterparts, particularly if they’re fit and do plenty of exercise. Although researchers have not yet come to a final decision about the question of being “fit and fat”, there’s no doubt that if you’re moderately overweight and exercise every day, you may well have a stronger cardiovascular and respiratory system than a skinny couch potato. The risk associated with being overweight also depends on where fat is stored in the body. Pear-shaped people with fat depots on their hips, buttocks and thighs (usually women) tend to have a lower risk of diseases of lifestyle than individuals who have fat depots in their abdominal areas (usually men with beer bellies and women after menopause). Furthermore, overweight or obese people with fatty liver deposits are also believed to be exposed to a greater risk of diseases than fat people without liver involvement.

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Health and Wellness – Weight Loss

March 14th, 2010

 

Take Care on what weight loss method you use. If you use starvation or unbalanced diets that exclude whole foods groups or expose you to the risk of high fat intakes (i.e. variations of the Atkins diet), you may lose some weight, but at an unacceptable cost to your health.

Starvation diets can cause vitamin, mineral and protein deficiencies and strain your heart. Highly unbalanced or crash/fad diets can also cause deficiencies or expose you to unacceptably high intakes of total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol (high-fat, high-protein diets), renal problems, bad breath and constipation.

The endless variety of slimming pills and potions mentioned above are also not a good idea. In addition, rapid weight loss brought on by starving yourself or existing on proteins only, is usually unsustainable in the long run and can result in you regaining all the weight you have lost, plus additional weight, so that you land up in the vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting.

Then there is the danger of perpetual slimmer’s falling into the trap of anorexia or bulimia or even orthorexia. Losing weight can become an obsession that can ruin your health and your life. Rather stick to a sensible approach to weight loss by using a balanced, energy-reduced diet and exercise

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Weight Loss – Visualisation

March 13th, 2010

I am sure many of you have definable, concrete goals that you’d like to accomplish within the next few months, 6 months, or year and beyond. Whatever the time frame, I feel that goal setting is important because it gives you a clear idea of where you’d like to be in a given amount of time.

Even when one has achieved his or her ideal weight or body shape, setting a goal (i.e. completing a 5k, mini-triathlon, learning how to surf, etc.) can keep you on track, motivated, and get you out the door when you just don’t feel like exercising. Sometimes exercising for health reasons alone just isn’t enough.

Once you have determined your short term and long term goal/s, what’s next? A map of how you’re going to get there! If you haven’t mapped out exactly how you’re going to accomplish your goal, it is all too easy to skip a work-out, or decide that you’ll do it at a later time (which all too often, doesn’t happen). A clearly defined map, a daily schedule, even a work-out log will keep you on track and more likely to stick to your plan.

For example, take the marathon or half-marathon. Is it possible to run one without a schedule of daily workouts necessary to complete before the big day? Yes, but it’s quite hard to wing these types of training plans. To do so will leave you feeling unorganized and most likely, under-trained. But if you follow a detailed, organized schedule (many are available online), you are more likely to be well-prepared and ready once the big day arrives. Instead of thinking about what type of work-out you’re going to do from day to day, all you have to do is take a look at your schedule, and your work-out is already there. No thinking about it, it’s already set in stone for you!

Weight loss is no different. If you have a goal to lose 20 pounds before a certain date (say 4 months), you must have a defined plan of how you are going to achieve this-weight loss is NOT easy and you must be CLEAR and DEFINED in your goals and how you are going to go about your weight loss efforts. You must plan your workouts like you’d plan a dinner date or dentist appointment, and you must stick to them.

Also, you will need to take some time to prepare your food in advance, what you are going to eat from day to day, when and where your indulgences will be. You must decide what you are going to cut out, what calorie range you want to stick to in order to lose this weight.

If you do not do this, then as I stated above, it will be much, much easier to fall off track, indulge when you didn’t expect to or miss a workout. If mapping out a plan seems too tedious and you don’t feel like taking the extra time to do so, then you might be making a mistake. There is power in clear goal setting and tracking your progress!

Visualization is also a wonderful tool in the goal setting process. When I was a navy athlete, I used to visualize my races, and get good results, I began to realize that the subconscious mind is a powerful tool in driving behaviour-it does not know the difference between something real and something vividly imagined.

Keep visualizing your goals in full detail, whatever they may be, and FEEL yourself being where you want to be. No more negative thoughts, words, or actions. All too often we beat ourselves down, and we are much too critical of our physiques. If you keep thinking negative thoughts about yourself, pretty soon you will believe these affirmations as if they were 100% true. Be kind to yourself, stay focused on the positive, and visualize what you want as if you were already there.

Get serious about goal setting, planning, and visualization! They are great tools that you may need to take you to the next level!

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Health and Wellness – Weight Loss

March 12th, 2010

Americans spend an average of $30 billion dollars a year on weight loss medications and products. Some of them are effective while others are not. There are many different types of prescriptions and over-the-counter weight-loss drugs on the market today. Obesity, like other long-term and chronic conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes often utilize the benefits of a prescriptive drug in its treatment, but like any medication or drug, side effects from weight loss medications do occur.

Always discuss the benefits and drawbacks of weight loss medications with a professional healthcare provider. Your doctor should ask you whether or not you suffer from any allergies, if you’re pregnant, or what other types of medications you may be taking. Pre-existing medical conditions will also affect the benefits or drawbacks of taking weight loss medications, especially individuals who suffer from kidney disease, heart disease, diabetes, glaucoma, or other medical conditions that may affect your body’s ability to benefit from weight loss medications.

Talking with your doctor about weight loss medication treatments or any weight loss procedures such as lap band surgery, sleeve gastrectomy, gastroplasty or other forms of bariatric surgery will ensure that you receive the best treatment for you that offers the most effective and beneficial results.

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Health and Wellness – Drinking water to lose weight

March 11th, 2010

The more water you drink, the more weight you’ll lose. Drinking copious amounts of water, at temperatures ranging from icy to boiling, will speed up weight loss.

Having a reasonable liquid intake of approximately 2.5 litres a day is an excellent idea for adults, but this doesn’t mean that you should literally drown yourself by drinking 7 litres of water every day in addition to your intake of other liquids like tea, coffee, fruit juice, cold drinks, etc.

Excessive liquid intake can result in a condition called ‘electrolyte imbalance’, where your reserves of potassium and sodium are depleted to such an extent that you may develop water intoxication. Ironically, one side effect of electrolyte imbalances is that you may retain water and thus weigh more, even if you’re losing fat.

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