Archive for March, 2008
March 22nd, 2008 -- Posted in Diet, New, weight |
Ultimately, if you want to loose weight and keep it off, you should be exercising and there is plenty of advise to help you do it. If the idea scares you, immediately makes you feel time pressured, The way in which exercise makes us stronger is by creating tiny little tears in the muscle, which the body then repairs- just as it does a cut in your skin. This rebuilding, combined with the extra oxygen, blood and other fluids flowing in and oout of the muscles post-exercise, all keep your body up well after your workout is over.
March 19th, 2008 -- Posted in Diet, New, food, low fat, weight |
Avocados:
The essential fats found in avocados actually rev up metabolic rate, speeding fat burning. Avocados are also the primari food source of a vital liver-boosting antioxidant called glutathione, and it’s the liver that controls how fast fat is burnt in your body.
Breakfast cereals:
Our bodies have to work hard to break down fibre. Every gram of fibre eaten takes 7 calories to process, so eating more high-fibre foods like breakfast cereals aids weight loss.
Chilli Pepper:
Chilli causes the release of the hormone adrenalin, which increases metabolic rate by roughly 25 per cent. Chilli is also an appetite suppressant, helping you feel fuller after each meal.
Dried fruit:
Dried fruit is high in iron, which is essential in metabolic terms, When your iron levels are low your whole body slows down, including the rate of which you burn calories. Iron is also responsible for retaining adequate blood oxygen levels and just as fire can’t burn without oxygen , neither can fat.
Grapefruit:
Grapefruit lower levels of the fat storage hormone insulin, helping promote fat burning. Having half a grapefruit or a glasses of grapefruit juice before meal caused volunteers to loose 4-5 kg in three months, without changing any other part of their diet.
March 7th, 2008 -- Posted in Diet, New, food, low fat, weight |
Digesting food is an energy-intensive process-chewing ,producing digestive acids, moving things around the system and absorbing nutrients all takes effort. The result is that 6-10 percent of our daily calorie expenditure is taken up simply by converting the food we eat into something we can use. We can use this process to boost weight loss.
Eat little and often
Eating little and often is the key to losing weight successfully. This may go against what many of you have done in the past, but it really does help your metabolism and prevent the hunger pangs and sugar cravings that derail many normal diets.
Balanced sugar levels
Glazing also works because stops you craving diet-busting foods like chocolates, confectionery and sugar. Our body produces energy from the food we eat by turning it into the sugar glucose that it finds easy to use to fuel. When levels plumment it starts to panic and sends out signals that we need more glucose -and fast. To you, these panic signals feel like sugar cravings and the next thing to you know, you’re eating chocolate and your diet is doomed.
These are the two main reasons why glucose levels can fall-you leave too long between meals, or you eat too large a meal in one go, which causes a surge of clucose in the blood that the body then also panics over. shuttling it rapidly into the fat /muscle stones. Eating little and often. however, prevents both these potential sugar disrupters and keeps your energy on an even keel.
