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Reflections for losing weight and maintaining an ideal weight

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Before thinking about how to lose weight and maintain an ideal weight, it is important to reflect on how you went up in weight. For those extra pounds you have in your body does not appear out of overnight.

Do you have in mind to lose weight and achieve and maintain an ideal weight? If this is your case, you might have happened if you look back, most likely not remember when was the last time you did some exercise.

Reflections for losing weight and maintaining an ideal weight

If you open your refrigerator, for sure you will find that half the food that the fill is not the most suitable for a balanced diet, and many are actually snacks against which you could not hold back (we all do). You can even check on the calendar how long you’re eating and acting the same way, and surely you realize that you take so many weeks or months. Some people find that they take years as well.

Your body is the result of your lifestyle, how they move, how you care and how you feed. And if you can not change that way of life that led you to gain weight, will be very difficult to attain weight loss and maintaining an ideal weight.

Do not lie. Do not pretend extra find a quick solution to your excess weight, either through extreme diets, magical products or beauty treatments. First, these solutions do not always guarantee you lose weight. (more…)

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Lose Weight Without Surgery (II)

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

foodsThe success of weight loss surgery patients will tell you these are the four rules for living that gastric bypass is only a tool to facilitate mindful behavior for better health. It will confirm that weight control, even with surgery, has a lifetime of diligent attention to their bodies and behavior. They assure you that it is not easy, but the results are worth the effort.

Rule 3: No Snacking

Gastric bypass patients are instructed to avoid snacking. No exceptions.

Snacking is the worst possible thing WLS patient can do. If patients snack they cease to lose weight and may regain weight. Besides gastric bypass snackers risk severe swings in sugar levels and blood glucose overdose, not to advance to healthy living that makes surgery possible. They feel like failures when the WLS does not result in weight loss.

The nature of gastric bypass surgery gives patients an advantage over the beating snacking habit. When a patient eats three protein-rich meals a day in which the body’s fuel requirements are met and satiation results. Hunger does not occur if water is sipped throughout the day. If a patient is taking vitamins will not be nutritionally wanting. Given that, patients are able to do so snack out of habit that contributed to obesity. (more…)

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Five mistakes to avoid if you want to lose weight

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

lose weightMost people feel their weight loss efforts do not yield the results we should make allowances, follow tips and even start to exercise, but soon give up.

The first thing we must realize is that if we gained weight has been through a process that has taken time, we do not win 5, 10 or more kilos from one day to another, so too will take time to lose. The key: consistency and patience.

To help in the work here is a list with five of the most common mistakes that comment when trying to lose weight, avoid them to ensure success.

Drastically reduce calories
One way of achieving the reduction of fat stored in the body is to have the body for energy use to achieve that is necessary to reduce caloric intake. But beware, if you reduce the calories of your meals so you do over your metabolism becomes slower to fill this gap.

What is appropriate is to bring gradually adding nutritious diet and avoiding those with excessive calories. The reduction should be gradual and sustained eltiempo. Never make a drastic reduction in calories because you’ll get the opposite effect.

Skip breakfast
Breakfast is the main meal of the day, with the replaced nutrient levels after several hours of sleep. Will provide all the energy you need to start the day.

Must be a full meal that includes protein, carbohydrates and fats, plus micronutrients essential for the organism. Dedícaletiempo and never skip it. Good breakfast every day is one of the best ways to increase metabolism.

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