Weight Loss - craving sugar

Craving for sugar makes any weight loss program near impossible to sustain. Foods high in sugar provide your body with empty calories which gives you a sudden rush in energy, but soon after leaving you physically and mentally drained and wanting more calories to recover. This causes a vicious circle which then leads to obesity.

How to reduce your craving for sugar?

There are basically several things you could do to reduce your craving for sugar:

Latest research has shown that people who crave for sugar often are simply deficient in Chromium. deficiency Chromium has been shown to destabilise the blood sugar levels.
If you get a craving for sugar try eating a plum instead. It contains Xylitol which has a fraction of the Glucose Level of sugar or honey and so won't increase your blood sugar level's by a great deal.
Don't let yourself get too hungry. Eat a healthy meal little and often.
Never go shopping for food on an empty stomach as you are guaranteed to reach for a bar of chocolate or something sugary.
Recognise that when you eat sugar you take in calories and very little else. Calories that are not burnt will turn to fat!

IMPORTANT - if you have a medical condition why you crave sugar then you must follow your doctor's advice and medication.

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 to the weight loss programs as a whole. 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