Life and Losing Weight Blog

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Losing Weight And Me

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:43:09 GMT

This page gives you a glimpse at how Iosing weight helped my life...but not the way you probably expect.

10 Healthiest Foods OR The Big Picture

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:54:27 GMT

Are there 10 healthiest foods that are the answer to long term weight loss? Is there 100 healthiest foods?

How Do I Lose Weight For Life The Answer Is With 5 Keys

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:41:58 GMT

How do I lose weight and keep it off? Really, how? If you've tried losing weight before, succeeded, but then put it back again, you are missing the 5 key elements to making it last.

Tricked into dieting

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:07:36 GMT

I’m going to mention Healthy Eating and you’re going to want to click to another site...Wait!

Read every word of this and you’ll learn one of the biggest reasons why you’ve had so much trouble with long term weight loss, and why diets are still so popular.

It’s all in the way diets, and healthy eating, are marketed and sold.

Think about it for a minute, you know that healthy diet and healthy eating is the best way to lose weight, and maintain it.

You also know that it’s the best way to feed your family.

So why don’t we all just do it?

Because we’re pulled towards things that are ‘fast’, and ‘easy’ and these are not things we associate with healthy weight loss and eating, these are words we associate with dieting!

Lose 20 pounds in just 6 weeks! Following a six week plan is enticing, and the kind of thing you’ll see advertising a ‘diet’.

We don’t mind changing our lifestyle and buying strange foods and drinking only tea, because it’s only for 6 weeks.

Healthy eating on the other hand is marketed as something for life, and that sounds like forever.

How are we going to do this forever? Oh my god! That’s not fast, that’s not easy!

And that’s why we’re having so much trouble ditching diets.

We’re scared off by the way that healthy eating is portrayed:

for life - sounds like a prison sentence
slow steady long term weight loss - we read the ‘slow’ and ‘steady’ and our brains have already turned off!

Compare that to diet terminology

in 6 weeks - that’s quick. It doesn’t really matter what we have to do, for 6 weeks who cares?
’fast’ and ‘easy’ - we read ‘fast’ and ‘easy’ and again, we don’t see the rest, we’re already sold! That sentence could say anything it wants...wouldn’t matter, we have read everything we want to read.

But...

You can lose 20 pounds in 6 weeks eating healthy

You can actually choose to do it for 6 weeks, or 2.

Weight loss success with (dare I say it) healthy eating even for 6 weeks will still be a great improvement on 6 weeks dieting or doing what you are now.

It’s not just about fruit and vegetables...and even if it was, if you’re willing to only eat white foods, or only protein and drink tea for 2 weeks or 4 weeks or 6, then why not fruits and vegetables?.

But wait, there’s more...

’Diets’ market themselves as guaranteed success, millions of people have lost weight on diets!!

This true, and millions more have kept the fat off with a healthy diet and healthy eating and some of them have never even got fat!

Ultimate Weight Loss Plan How Do I Choose An Effective Easy Weight Loss Program

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 02:47:56 GMT

What should you be looking for in the ultimate weight loss plan? Find out here what makes successful weight loss programs for permanent weight loss.

Benefits Of A Healthy Diet A How-To Guide

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:31:30 GMT

Achieve the benefits of a healthy diet with this easy to follow, family friendly handbook.

Are we missing the effects of fast food? Or, Let's Make Our Children Fat!

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:09:49 GMT

Recently I saw a thing on television that there’s a thick shake out there, that contains a whopping 1680 calories.

And that people are buying it, for their children!

I’m all for convenient and fast, and even for fast food, occasionally (really home is faster and cheaper)!

Currently, on this site are articles that say don’t abandon fast food, you can still have it, use common sense and moderation, and so on.

This has been written by me.

I even write that fast food is not bad.

As an adult we make our own choices as to what we do with our bodies, as long as that choice doesn’t inflict pain on someone else.

As parents we make choices for and on behalf of our children. They too can have fast food, but as parents we have the power (and should be using it) to teach them about ‘limits’ - how much is enough, how often is often enough.

So, it’s okay to give our kids some fast food, it’s part of their culture...it’s part of our modern lives (we could of course show them how to make fast food at home), but whether we do this or not...

It’s not okay to give a child a shake that contains 1680 calories!

Let them make that choice for themselves later when you’ve given them everything they need to have a healthy diet, to be fit, and to feel good about themselves.

That’s nearly an entire days worth of food and nutritionally questionable.

It’s okay to have fast food, it’s okay to give your kids some fast food, but we need to apply some limits.

Limits on how often, and limits on how much!!

Incredible, I’m still flabbergasted, parents allowing their children to have, and buying for them, a processed shake with 1680 calories in it. Speechless.

There are alternatives, lets make fast food at home. I don't think it would even be possible to cram that amount of calories in a reasonable size shake made with fresh ingredients, and all in under 2 minutes. And it would be a lot better for our kids, and us too, we wouldn't then be helping them get fat and unhealthy.

A Safe Weight Loss Plan Easy Weight Loss Programs

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:06:28 GMT

A safe weight loss plan for quick healthy weight loss that's family friendly? Does such a thing exist?

Food Serving Sizes And Portion Control Tips

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:21:44 GMT

Reducing your food serving sizes, or simply and easily changing your food portion size, can achieve a smaller dress size

Food Serving Sizes News From the USDA

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:02:50 GMT

Recently the USDA released a new food serving sizes initiative, 'MyPlate'. It's not so much that it is 'new', using your plate as an easy guide to consciously thinking about the quantities you eat has been around for quite a while. And there are some great ways that make it family-friendly and simple to use. What is good and new is that the USDA is promoting simple, effective ways to lose weight. Counting calories to determine food serving sizes and using the food pyramid haven't been particularly successful for many people, simply because there is a lot involved in actually doing it. What is a serve anyway on the food pyramid? and counting up calories can be laborious to say the least. It's good to see the endorsement of a much simpler, less time consuming and easier way to monitor your intake at a meal. You can also use some other very simple methods in conjunction with the plate portion size, or by themselves. Monitoring how much you're consuming and then making adjustments to this as necessary is one of the easiest ways to lose those pounds. And if you keep practicing at it, you'll keep those pounds off too. For more helpful food serving sizes tips click the link below

Our jobs and exercises for losing weight...what's the link?

Tue, 31 May 2011 22:22:24 GMT

What's the link between exercises for losing weight and the job we do? Well recent research in America has found that workers need about 100 calories less a day to do their jobs than they did in the 1960's. One hundred calories may nor sound like much but over 180 days, 100 calories can be the equivalent of 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms) of stored fat! Over a year that's 8.8 pounds! Now most of us love our technological advancements that make life easier, especially at work. But in reducing the amount of incidental moving and exercise we do with all these great devices is contributing to our increasing girth. All moving is important, all moving helps. It's not just the conscious 'exercise' programs that we do, but the little bits of daily activity that can help us conquer our weight and maintain it. That's at work too. So how can you move more at work? How can you move more getting to and from work? The more ways we come up to move the better. Have you heard the saying 'move it or lose it', well in terms of long term maintainable weight loss it should be: 'Move it and Lose it'

Plan your List of Healthy Snacks...Be Prepared!

Sat, 28 May 2011 06:23:52 GMT

It's easy to get caught unawares by hunger. One minute your okay, the next you're trawling through the cupboards and the fridge looking for something to snack on...and this is when you don't usually make good choices for losing weight! So follow the boy scouts...be prepared. If it isn't in the house, or the car, or the gym bag, then you can't choose it! Then you're stuck with whatever there is available. A list of healthy snacks as part of you're grocery list helps, make sure you put something snacky and healthy in the cupboard each time you shop. Then you can grab something quickly on the way to the car, or the couch, but you'll have good choices available. It's always better to think and write your list of healthy snacks when you're not starving, otherwise you'll find some items creeping in that in a less weak moment, you wouldn't have considered. Here's some more things about healthy snacks

Correct Weight For Height And Losing Weight

Thu, 26 May 2011 01:21:37 GMT

What is the best way to work out correct weight for height? Are body weight charts effective for goal setting?

Getting over Crash Dieting Eating Healthy And Losing Weight

Mon, 23 May 2011 23:47:31 GMT

Eating healthy and losing weight is still running second to crash dieting. It was European Obesity Day on May 21 and to mark the day Slimming World (UK) released figures concerning yo-yo dieting. It found in its survey that 21 percent of women have yo-yo dieted at least 5 times. And 11 percent have done it more than 10 times, 6 percent have dieted and regained 20 times. I don't doubt those figures, based on my own experience. Putting aside the issues of increased weight, the most debilitating thing about yo-yo dieting is the mental strain. You get the weight off, that feels great, but as it creeps (or rushes) back, you just feel bad, a failure, that something is wrong with you, that you just don't have the willpower. Eating healthy and losing weight is different. It's true that it's not always as fast, but it lasts longer. It's maintainable, and it feels better long term. It may not feel great every day, but nothing does. Some days you love you're job, some days it's just a chore. Crash dieting is no great shakes either. I don't think there's anyone that can say that every day they're following some fad diets that they feel great. Make changes step by step, get used to eating healthy and losing weight will come. Ditch the yo-yo diets, ditch the negative feelings and positively move towards a leaner healthier you.

Low Calorie Low Fat Diet Low Fat Low Calorie Diets

Thu, 05 May 2011 13:00:37 GMT

A low calorie low fat diet can get you losing weight, but there are considerations with a calorie restriction diet.

Easy Ways To Loose Weight Top Tips to Loose Weight

Wed, 04 May 2011 04:23:39 GMT

There are easy ways to loose weight (lose weight). Pick and choose some tips to develop easy weight loss programs for yourself.

Calories In Fat Calories Per Gram Of Fat

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:30:13 GMT

There are more calories in fat than in any other food. Use this simple way to calculate calories from fat and just as simply lose weight.

High Protein Low Fat Foods For Losing Weight And Hunger Control

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:12:06 GMT

Why high protein low fat foods, and what ones in your low fat diet plans?

Effects of Fast Food Keeping The Positives Without the Calories In Fast Food

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:54:01 GMT

We like the positive effects of fast food, the convenience and ease, yet we still want to be losing weight. How can we have both?

Budget Meal Planning Inexpensive meal Ideas And Losing Weight

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:20:46 GMT

Losing weight and budget meal planning go well together. Preparing meals on a budget doesn't mean that you can't lose weight.

Loose Skin After Losing Weight Including Those Flabby Upper Arms

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:44:58 GMT

You can have some loose skin after losing weight, it can be contained if you incorporate exercise and losing weight

A 7 Day Meal Planner With A Difference

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:00:08 GMT

Here's a different way of using a 7 day meal planner to help you take the actions you need to lose weight.

5 Food Groups As A Tool For Long Term Weight Loss

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:59:03 GMT

The 5 food groups are an easy tool to losing weight and keeping it off for life.

Diets For Kids - Facing The Issue

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:19:16 GMT

It's sad that we need to consider diets for kids, but we do. While we have so much more than previous generations, this 'more' is proving detrimental to our childrens health, but we can help

Fast Food Calorie Count The Calorie Content of Foods

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:05:28 GMT

Surrounded by the information on fast food calorie count, the calorie content of foods, and healthy eating, we're still putting on weight, we're still feeling crappy about ourselves. How do we actuall

Losing Weight And Fat Lose Fat Not Muscle To Feel Good

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:01:05 GMT

You want to be losing weight and fat, but you want to lose fat not muscle, why?

Eating Healthy and Losing Weight No More Crash Dieting Ever

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:44:59 GMT

When you're eating healthy and losing weight you actually find that you eat more and weigh less, and you can give up crash dieting forever

Exercising But Not Losing Weight Getting Past This

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:27:43 GMT

f you're exercising but not losing weight here some things to try with your diet and exercise plan.

It's all in the size

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:21:42 GMT

I've recently be catching up on a television show from the UK that just goes to show how food serving sizes are our biggest problem. In this show, our lovely host goes into the houses of overweight families and eats the way they do for a day, then he tells them how they're going to eat. The thing is though, there's not a lot of showing these families how to cook healthy, or even eat necessarily anything other than they already are. He focuses on getting them to eat less and move more. The food serving sizes that these people are eating is amazing. In some cases over a weeks worth of food in one day. He's right though...to start, or continue losing weight, you have to eat less, less energy, less amounts. And move more, to get the fat moving. Even if you do nothing else about what you eat, cutting down on the high energy, high fat and high sugar foods, and moving more will have you losing weight, and lots of it. Last night the father in the family lost 48 pounds in 12 weeks! And so did his wife!

Zumba

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:26:29 GMT

I have started using the Zumba DVD's. As I'm quite unfit at the moment, I find that they're great because they have slow periods and fast periods. There's

Are we serious??

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:43:26 GMT

I don’t believe that we’re not aware of the detrimental effects of fast food. Assuming that I’m right and that we’re all aware that fast food is making us fat - and by fast food I include here all the processed and packaged foods that we purchase from the supermarket, as well as the takeaway - then why are we still eating it in the quantities we are? Because we value what we get from fast food! What is it we get? We get easy, we get convenience, and we value these things more than we value losing weight, or our health, even the health of our kids. If we’re serious about losing weight, and serious about looking good and feeling better, then we’re going to have to face a couple of facts. 1. We need to put fast food back into it’s place, as an occasional food, fortnightly or monthly. 2. We have to stop buying into the advertising that fast food is the only way to have ease and convenience. I’m not sure whether we know it’s possible to produce faster and more convenient foods at home, that are also better for us. But I do know that right now, we’re not only getting fatter on fast food, we’re also heading ourselves, and sadly, our children, to earlier graves. There are alternatives, you’ll be surprised at just how easy a better and faster meal is.

At Home Weight Loss Equipment and At Home Workouts Reviews

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:51:02 GMT

Review your favourite at home weight loss equipment and at home workouts. Let us know what you think.

Losing Weight Tips And Information For Successful Weight Loss

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:39:40 GMT

Providing valuable losing weight tips and information doesn't just come from one source, here you may just find the help losing weight that you need

A Recommended Calorie Intake That Makes Sense

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:42:36 GMT

Have you been trying to work out your recommended calorie intake to lose weight? Here's a realistic way to do this on a daily basis

Overweight Celebrities Aliens or Kindred Spirits

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:38:06 GMT

Are articles on overweight celebrities helpful and inspiring or do they leave us feeling alienated and alone

Cause and Effect of Obesity The Negatives and Positives

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:59:15 GMT

The cause and effect of obesity for me had both positives and negatives. It's put me in a much more honest place.

An Overweight Calculator That Applies To You

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:38:27 GMT

What is the right overweight calculator for you? There are many ways that we weigh up our weight, but what are they really about?

Best Weight Loss Foods Fact or Fooey

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:03:27 GMT

Are there best weight loss foods? Is there some great food for losing weight, or are we missing the point and focusing on the wrong thing?

Aquatic Exercise Routines For Losing Weight and Living Well

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:02:32 GMT

There's more to aquatic exercise routines than lap swimming and water aerobics. Delve into the things you're putting off until you lose weight, and start doing them now to help you lose weight.

Goal Setting Strategies for Successful Weight Loss

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:45:48 GMT

Here’s how to use action goal setting strategies for successful long term weight loss.

The Fat Loss Secret Is The Secret to Everything

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:27:37 GMT

The fat loss secret is no different to the secret of everything you've ever learnt and accomplished, do you know what it is?

Why Is Exercise Important The Research Is Confusing

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:07:06 GMT

It's one big question, why is exercise important. It isn't helped by conflicting research, but it all comes back to your ultimate goal

Foods Increase Metabolism And Other Ways to Increase Metabolism and Lose Weight

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:31:39 GMT

Your insides need good fuel, foods increase metabolism, your digestion engine, and there are other ways to increase metabolism and help you lose weight healthily and long term.

15 Fat Burning Foods Is It Too Good To Be True

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:07:54 GMT

There's lots of it about: 15 fat burning foods, 101 fat burners, foods that have you losing weight. But how much weight, and does this mean you can eat as much of them as you like?

All About Fun Food Facts And Weird Food Facts All About Food

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:10:38 GMT

Are all these fun food facts about fantastic ways to boost weight loss helpful? All the things we read about food, the seemingly weird food facts that promise better results, how do we decide what to

Keep It Real

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:41:51 GMT

Coming up with a list of healthy snacks is not difficult. Keep it real!

Yep, real food. That's what you need. Snacks don't have to be something labeled "snack", snack just refers to the amount. Something small, something real.

The shorter the ingredient list the better: apple, banana, rye cracker with some tomato and cream cheese, nuts (unsalted), real food.

Keep a list on the fridge, or the pantry door of all the options you have from your last shopping trip. This can save you fossicking through cupboards, where you may also come across things like chips and lollies that you're keeping for occasionally. Better to not fossick, better still to not have them in there, but hey, we are talking about losing weight and life here, there are going to these things in there sometimes.

You can have a boiled egg, steamed beans and corn with pepper and lime juice. These can be snacks too, just have a few.

Anything real can be a snack. A small left over piece of skinless chicken breast with a couple of lettuce leaves.

A list of healthy snacks can include anything you would eat at any time of the day, focus on keeping your snacks as real food.

If you are having prepacked snacks, like muesli bars, look for ones that don't have many numbers in there ingredient list, that have lower sugar and fat levels.

So the three main things to remember for healthy snacks:

Keep it real food
Small quantities, it's a "snack"
A list of healthy snacks can include anything you'd eat at any other time

The Dangers Of Childhood Obesity And Making Changes

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:10:17 GMT

Combating the dangers of childhood obesity and reducing the number of overweight children needs to become a priority over making 'easy' choices, is we want this generation of children to live long liv

Resetting your food ideas

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:44:40 GMT

What is the point to having a list of healthy food? I know what healthy food is!

It's true that most of us 'know' what healthy food is. If you asked us whether what's healthier an apple, or a bag of potato chips, we 'know the answer, the potato chips. No, only joking.

We get into bad habits though and over time even though we 'know' what we need to do, we stop thinking about it, and it's very hard to make better choices so that we cut our intake of high energy, low nutrient foods so that we can lose weight.

By doing a list of healthy food, we remind ourselves of the way that we need to eat to keep losing weight and to maintain it.

The very act of writing it down allows us to reset our food ideas. It doesn't mean we're instantly going to make the change, but we've planted seeds in our mind.

The other thing a list does, is save us thinking time. We can look at the list, we don't need to think about it too had, it's there right in front of us.

Our occasional foods have become daily foods, our rarely foods have become daily foods too, yet what we should be eating everyday has somewhere disappeared into the ether.

A list of healthy food has you resetting, reminding, and readjusting the way you think about food, each time you look at you bring it out of the back recesses of your mind we're you 'know', and into the now, where it matters.

Start your list of healthy food today, put it somewhere you can see it, put it on your computer desktop, and everytime you have a minute or two, or you're looking for something to eat, have a look at it, over time you'll find that you need to look at it less.

What is my ideal weight? Well, that depends on who you talk to..

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:07:24 GMT

I surreptitiously checked my weight on the doctor's scales a couple of days and then raced home to check the latest magazine to see if "what is my ideal weight" was actually what I weighed.

I was a little deflated when I discovered that no, I wasn't. According to the all-knowing chart of charts, for my height and frame size I should be about 3 pounds lighter.

Now, I shouldn't be deflated, I know that its all fooey, yet it just shows how easy it is to get caught up in what we read and see.

What is my ideal weight?...Well, it's where I am now. At this point in time I like the way I look, I've got great amounts of energy, I'm eating healthy (a little less wine wouldn't hurt, but hey, I'm working on it), and I'm enjoying my life.

I'm active, healthy, happy and if I took any notice of other charts I'm in a healthy-weight range.

My doctor says I'm in great shape too. When I went back to get the results of my routine tests, he pronounced me healthy (although he recommended a little less wine too), when I asked if he wanted me to weigh in, so that he could check on that, he gave me a queer look and pronounced that I looked great, I could maybe put on a little weight as my face looked a little sunken (that's actually the sleepless nights of worrying about drinking less wine), but otherwise he didn't see the necessity, why, he asked, did I think I needed to know what I weighed?

No, I didn't.

In, fact I wish I hadn't. from the looks of me today, the doctor thinks I need to put on, the magazine all-knowing chart thinks I should lose some, and I feel great, thankyou, right where I am.

If you honestly feel overweight, or not happy with where you are, by all means get an idea of a healthy range from one of the charts, and make some changes to create the body and lifestyle that you want.

If you honestly feel good about where you are, and the doctor pronounces you fit, healthy, and firing on all cylinders, then like me you can answer the question "what is my ideal weight?", with "right where I am!"

It's easy to get caught up in what we see written or what we hear, we just however need to question whether it is actually of any use to us, and if not, do what I'm doing with those 2 pages in that magazine...discard and forget!