Many overweight or obese people are having a hard time to get significant results of their acquired diet plan. If you are one of them, you should not get frustrated because there are many other things that you can do to enhance the weight loss processes in your body. […]
According to a number of surveys, one of the most common New Year's resolutions in the US is 'to reduce weight and to start living a healthy lifestyle'. This can be related to the studies showing that a huge part of the country's population can be considered obese. […]
With busier lifestyles, eating out is becoming very common, and so is obesity. Unfortunately, the two usually go hand in hand. Restaurant meals and fast food are served in gigantic portions and are loaded with calories. However, eating out and weight loss are possible at the same time, if you are willing to be smart and exercise portion control. Here are a f […]
"Buy this brand new thing-a-ma-bob and you'll have six pack abs in no time... for only 4 easy payments of $39.95"! LOL! Aren't you tired of seeing these freaking commercials promoting all of these weird ab contraptions?! Well, if you are, that's a good thing, and that's because THEY DON'T WORK! To flatten your stomach and l […]
This article summarized the importance of dietary fiber consumption and suggests daily amount of fiber intake and its good sources for weight loss and good health. An appropriate amount of dietary fiber consumption along with adequate water intake helps to lower cholesterol, normalize bowel movements, and promote weight loss. […]
To most, losing weight every day seems incredibly impossible. And to others, it seems incredibly unnatural. Well, I say HOGWASH! It is possible and you can do so 100% naturally. In fact, the tips I'm about to share with you has nothing do with buying crazy things, doing crazy things, or doing some type of complicated weight loss "trick". These […]
When I was growing up in England, there was a road safety campaign for kids called 'stop, look and listen when you cross the road'. These were the three things that were drummed into me at both home and school. I thought of this phrase again today in regards to motivation for weight loss and getting to your ideal weight. […]
This article gives you 7 tips on how to reach your weight goals, each of them informed by my book-writing month in 'NanoWrimo'. By using my journey of writing a book in a month, I show you a unique way of looking at how to reach your weight goals with these 7 great tips. […]
With all of the diet fads out there, pills, detox, no carbs, low carbs and so on, how do you know what diet is actually healthy? The truth is restricting calories, taking pills, limiting food groups, or cutting them out completely, is not a healthy, long-term weight-loss plan. Actually, these plans can sabotage your long term goals. One of the most effective […]
Two blondes decided to share a can of diet soda. One blonde opened the can, poured half the contents into her own glass, and the other half into her friend's glass. […]
A friend and I had joined a Weight Watchers group. At the first meeting the lecturer asked members which food or department at the supermarket was the most tempting to them... […]
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Increase your metabolic rate and burn of more calories – find out how.
You can make weight loss quicker and easier by increasing your metabolic rate and burning more calories
– here’s how:
Metabolic Rate is the rate at which the body burns up
calories. A body that consumes 2500 calories a day, and burns
2500 calories a day will stay at the same weight. A body
consuming 2500 calories daily but burning only 2000 will gain
weight at the rate of about 1lb a week.
This explains why that ‘lucky’ person across the table from
you doesn’t get fat from all that junk food.
You can do quite a lot to speed up your metabolism – the
secret of burning calories lies in knowing what determines your metabolic rate and
what you can do to influence it.
We are living in an age which seems to be dominated by health issues and we are continually bombarded by what we should or shouldn’t eat or drink; what is a healthy amount of alcohol to consume, how many pieces of fruit is good for us and how much exercise we should be having. Our BMIs have become as much a measure of our worth as our salaries and the length of our cars. Before anyone starts jumping down my throat accusing me of justifying fatness, I am not, I am noticing how powerful our attitudes are and how programmed we have become to hate flesh and therefore hate ourselves.
But there are more subtle and corrosive attitudes which are driving our health consciousness and they are far more dangerous to our health than our weight. The message seems loud and clear – fat is bad, thin is good.
My wife and I watched a brilliant film the other night called ‘The other Boleyn Girl’ about the sister of Henry Vlll’s wife Anne Boleyn. What hit me immediately was King Henry’s stature. The actor who played Henry was Eric Baner, a slim muscled, hansom American Actor. Now, as I remember it Henry Vlll was a fat geezer and my guess is that his women were curvaceous women and not holywoodesque skinnies. Undoubtedly Natalie Portman and Scarlet Johansen play their roles superbly; I just wonder whether the real Boleyn girls looked quite as perfect.
I highly recommend this film; however, I am upset that we have to have stereotypes in the lead roles of films so somehow we will all feel inclined to see it. The implication therefore, is that fatties aren’t attractive enough and may even put us off seeing a film. This is the same nonsense that our fashion industry slaps us around our fat bottoms with. Thankfully, from time to time, I see an advert for cloths with real people wearing them.
Yesterday was a hard day – hardest so far. Went to Camden Market to see my Children which was really great. The place was so overcrowded and by the time we arrived it was lunch time so I was hungry. Have you ever been to Camden Lock? There are more food stalls than you could shake a stick at. There are hundreds of them and every way I looked were people suffing themselves out of silver containers of chinees, japanees. indian, mexican, french, turkish, pizza, chips; the list goes on. So I manged to get through that and had a greek salad in a quiet pub. Then in the evening we had a friends 50th birthday, really nice to be there all dressed in 50′s clothing – Pink laddies and Darren out of Bewitched and women dressed like adverts on TV in that era when women did the housework in their best frock – you know the kindof thing. The food was hard, burgers with bacon, cheese, mushroom, onions, egg and so on. Party sausages, sausage rolls and a chocolate fountain; spare ribs and barbecued chicken. Arrgg. Made it home safely – Will power was all that got me through. I’m staying at home for a month now.
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We are living in an age which seems to be dominated by health issues and we are continually bombarded by what we should or shouldn’t eat or drink; what is a healthy amount of alcohol to consume, how many pieces of fruit is good for us and how much exercise we should be having. Our BMIs have become as much a measure of our worth as our salaries and the length of our cars. Before anyone starts jumping down my throat accusing me of justifying fatness, I am not, I am noticing how powerful our attitudes are and how programmed we have become to hate flesh and therefore hate ourselves.
