Fat Loss Tips
Loosing fat is about burning more calories than you take in. However, Fat Loss can be accelerated if you adopt a Weight Loss Lifestyle.
If you would like to significantly accelerate your fat loss program, there are a number of changes you need to make to your lifestyle, these are:
- Give up Alcohol
Alcohol acts as a prohibitory in your bloodstream, stopping your body
burning fat as fuel. Alcohol also leads to muscle loss, which
results in the lowering of your metabolic rate.
- Eat fresh fruit rather than fruit juice
Although fruit juice is healthy, it is not recommended due to its sugar and the excess calories.
Its much less fattening, and healthier, if you got your vitamins
and minerals from the actual whole fruit rather than the fruit
juice.
- Stop eating out
When we eat out, we have very little control over
the ingredient used in your order. In addition, we tend to
try to finish our plate when we eat out. However, when you
cook at home, you not only know exactly what ingredient is
used, you also tend to eat smaller portions.
- Eat food with low Glycaemic Index (GI) value
Using Glycaemic Index for weight loss is a very safe and effective way of loosing weight. Refined foods such as white bread, white pasta, white rice etc. have high Glycaemic Index (GI) value which means you will feel hungry soon after you have eaten. This means you will get a craving to eat more often which effects your daily calorie intake.
- Do not eat carbohydrate after 5PM
Most people tend not to exercise enough in the evening, and considering the metabolic rate slows down in the evenings, eating carbohydrate after 5PM is not a good idea. This is because the energy in the carbohydrates would not be used up (as it would in mid day when you are still active) before you go to bed. This therefore will result in the excess energy being stored as fat.
- Eat often and a little
The best and the most important fat loss tip is to eat often but a
little. This will result in your body speeding up its metabolic
rate and burning the stored fat. So loose weight by eating
often and a little! It also puts less of a strain on the digestive system.
- Eat a healthy breakfast
Research has shown that the people who skip breakfast tend to find it hard to shift their stored fat. This is because eating a healthy breakfast will help to speed up your metabolic rate.
- Drink iced water
Drinking iced water will help you loose weight in several ways. Firstly,
your body needs to burn calories to heat up the iced water
to your body's temperature. Secondly, quite often people feel
hungry not because they are hungry but because they are thirsty.
Thirdly, it helps to keep the kidneys functioning properly
which stops the liver working over-time to help the kidneys
function properly.
- Exercise before a meal
By exercising before a meal, you will speed up your metabolic rate, which will result in your body not storing the calories you are about to eat as fat.
- Drink Green tea
Research has shown that drinking Green Tea will slightly increase your metabolic rate. Its therefore good idea to drink green tea half an hour before a meal.
- Relax
Stress produces the hormone Cortisol, which causes the body to store fat.
- Exercise often and regular
- Stay away from ready made meals and junk foods which effect weight loss!
- Eat weight loss foods.
Weight loss foods are foods that promote weight loss by speeding up your metabolic rate.
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 Children & Obesity
In simple terms, obesity is caused when the body stores excessive calories.
Obesity in civilized countries is reaching epidemic proportions. What
is worrying is that the children too are now more obese than ever before
in the history of man kind!
Child Obesity and Weight Loss
 Calories and Weight Loss
Weight loss depends on the amount of calorie intake. Calories are used by the body to perform its day-to-day functions. However, when the calories taken in is greater than the energy burnt, then the excess calories are stored as fat. The most common reasons for excessive consumption of calories are:
- Psychological
- Emotional
- Lack of knowledge
- Habit
calories and weight loss
 Weight loss plans
There are a number of VERY dangerous diet plans used to target weight loss. A dangerous, or misleading, diet is one which provides "rapid" result. Remember, in order for a diet to be effective and safe, your body needs time to adjust to the change in your lifestyle. This is because rapid dieting will almost always have health consequences, and in fact research has also shown that as soon as your body adjusts to the diet, you will start to put on weight at even a higher rate than before.
Weight loss diet
 Weight Loss plans to be avoided
For legal reasons we are unable to actually name dangerous or misleading
weight loss diets, however, the following is a list which should help
you identify these diets for yourself.
- Any diet that cuts out any essential food groups (Specially carbohydrates!)
- Any diet that promises or guarantees fast result
- Any diet that involves you drinking only liquid food.
- Any diet that involves you buying processed and ready made "food
substitutes".
Weight loss diets
 Diet
The food you eat is the single most important factor in your
weight loss program. Weight loss is only achieved through
a healthy diet.
Weight loss diet and health
 Exercise
Exercise is vital not only to a safe weight loss plan, but, is also crucial to the general operation and well being of the human body.
Weight loss exercise
 Measuring Body Fat
Measuring the Body Fat is a much more accurate way of measuring
how your weight loss program is going than using a bathroom
scale. The bathroom scales are highly misleading!
Measure Body Fat
 Swimming
Swimming is a VERY effective and safe way of burning calories. Its one of the safest ways of exercising as you do not put any excessive force on the joints.
Swimming
 Walking
Walking is one of the safest form of exercise as you burn those calories without excessive wear and tear on the joints.
Walking
 Pilates and Yoga
Pilates and Yoga are important to any weight loss program as they both encourage good body posture and alignment.
Pilates
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