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Obesity is the most commonly found word in health magazines nowadays and is no secret that many people all over the globe are getting more concerned about their body fat and flab. There are many diseases that kill people and we do know about these diseases. Till a few years back, few people knew that body fat too was a silent killer, lurking in the body of countless people. Research has shown that most people who are fat beyond a certain limit are prone to getting heart attacks apart from a myriad of other diseases, making obesity the biggest killer worldwide, only behind cancer and aids. This is just the tip of the iceberg and in the near future this problem might well become the number one killer worldwide unless steps are taken to control it.
You might not agree, but maintaining a healthy body is now a must. Most people are afraid that if they go in for various treatments they might loose their health and hence they do not bother to go about for a specific fat loss regime. Did you know that if you just walked briskly for a few minutes every day, it helps you remove the extra flab in your body and this is a healthy fat loss method for you exercise the other parts of the body too? There are people who go in for sauna treatment to reduce the excessive fat in their body. Though this does help, this is not the ultimate and should be followed up with other exercises too. The eating habits, too, should be changed.
The modern generation has grown up eating fatty food. The potato chips that you eat every day are one of the major sources of body fat as are the other fast foods that you consume. Taking a proper diet helps a lot to ensure that body fat does not build up. It makes no sense to go in for fat reducing exercises or consuming fat loss pills and at the end of the day eating food that replaces back the fat that you have lost. Reducing fat is not tough and a few simple routine exercises that can be fun too go a long way in helping you to maintain a slim body. Just jog for a few minutes in the morning. This is one of the best ways to burn away the extra fat in your body.
This is best done in the morning. You can follow this up by walking briskly for a few kilometers in the evening. While there are pills and supplements that help you to reduce your body fat, there is nothing that can replace the natural method of reducing fat. Ask your physician and they will help you to chart out a proper exercise routine. Prevention is better than cure, hence try to reduce your body fat when there is still time and age is on your side. Later on it might become too late.
Fast Fat Loss A Warning
Have you seen those fast fat loss claims “60lbs in 30 days”? I might be possible for you to lose that much weight, that fast but I don’t think you would want to, your doctor definitely won’t advise it. If you do lose 60lbs in 30 days how much of the weight you lose is going to be body fat? Its fat you want to lose isn’t it, fat makes you unhealthy doesn’t it?
If you manage to lose more than 2lbs a week most of the weight you lose is only going to be water and muscle. Losing a lot of water and muscle does nothing to improve your looks or your health, what losing muscle does is slow down your metabolism.
A slow metabolism = more fat on you
If you are trying to lose fat for good, improve your health and look your very best you definitely do not want to lose any muscle. Every time you lose muscle your metabolism slows down. A slower metabolism makes it easier for you to gain weight when you stop dieting. As a matter of fact you may be one of those people who gain weight very easily. The reason for your easy weight gain is that you probably don’t have that much muscle to begin with, when you crash diet you are only going to lose more muscle making it very easy for to gain back all the weight you lose and more!
If you want to lose weight for good, look your best and keep your metabolism burning at a steady rate, you need some patience you’ve got to lose weight at a much slower rate than the crash diet products claim. You need to try to lose no more than 2lbs a week, losing 2lbs a week is a lot simpler than trying to lose 10lbs a week. A few things you can do to start losing 2lbs a week is to substitute the higher calorie foods you eat with lower calorie foods, increase your intake of fiber. Fiber helps block the fat in your diet.
A simple way to cut calories is to replace all your fizzy drinks and juices with water. Water also helps you feel fuller for longer, in fact we often confuse hunger with thirst so next time you feel hungry try drinking some water before stuffing your face.
Increase your daily activity, not necessarily by pounding away on the treadmill for hours below is three simple and very gentle ways in which you can increase your calorie expenditure. Increased calorie expenditure means less calories stay on you.
Park in the back of car parks so you have to walk more.
Take the stairs instead of the lift.
Play golf or play with your kids more often.
Some exercise is the main thing you’ll start to feel healthier and have more energy for it, after a few weeks you can start jogging or cycling. Healthy sustainable weight loss takes time and work, if you follow the lose weight quick plans you’ll become disheartened and put on more weight than you have now.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and yet around 40% of adults don’t eat it, why don’t people eat breakfast? Is it because they don’t have time or do they think it will help reduce their calorie intake and help them lose fat?
Eating breakfast if you don’t already is probably the quickest boost you can give your fat losing efforts.
Why does breakfast help fatloss?
1. Eating breakfast stops you pigging out mid morning on crisps and chocolate bars from the work vending machine, if you don’t eat breakfast you will feel hungry later in the morning when all you can get is junk.
2. Eating breakfast speeds up your metabolism, its true eating more regularly makes you burn more energy. Eating smaller meals more often as oposed to just 2 big meals a day also puts less strain on your stomach meaning it won’t stick out a much.
This does’nt mean you should stop off for McMuffins on your way to work everyday however, try eating some low GI breakfast cereal like Allbran or Special K, Porridge and unsweatened Muesli are also good sources of low GI breakfast Carbs. Other foods you could try for breakfast are eggs (poached or scrambled), grilled bacon, toast without too much jam or butter. Even if you just have some fruit in the moring its better than having no breakfast at all.
The Glycemic Index
Carbohydrate is the human bodies primary energy source but not all sources of carbohydrate are the same, the glycemic index ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on blood glucose levels.
Low GI Carbs can aid weight loss, reduce your risks of heart disease and improve all round health. Low GI Carbs can aid weight loss becuase they realease energy slowly, unlike simple forms of carbohydrate which give you lots of energy all at once raising blood sugar levels and making you tired and hungry for more.
The glycemic index range is as follows:
Low GI = 55 or less
Medium GI = 56 - 69
High GI = 70 or more
Low GI Foods include:
Natural Muesli
Porridge
Whole Grain Bread
Onions
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Alcohol contains no fat but its does contain carbohydrate and very few nutrients, the carbohydrate is stored on your body as fat.
The sugar raises your insulin levels making you crave junk food.
To lose weight you should cut down your alcohol consumption, below is some of your favourite alcoholic drinks starting with the least fattening lowest calorie drinks first.
Gin 25ml – 40% Alcohol 55 Calories
Vodka 25ml – same as gin
Whisky 25ml – same as vodka
Kaliber Alcohol 0% Calories 79
Michelob 5 % alcohol, 155 calories
Budweiser (Bottle) Alcohol 5%, Calories 145
Carona (Bottle) Alcohol 4.6%, Calories 139
Peroni (Bottle) 6% alcohol, 170 calories
Guinness 1 Pint – 4.8% Alcohol 170 Calories
Champagne 1 Glass 240ml – 18% Alcohol, 180 Calories
Bud Light Alcohol 4.2%, Calories 227
Stella Artois Alcohol 5.5%, Calories 256
Fosters Alcohol 4.9%, Calories 298
Now you know where the term “Beer Belly” comes from, the lowest calorie drink you could have and still get drunk would probably be Vodka and Coke 40% Alcohol 55 Calories.
Dietry fiber is the indigestible portion plants, found in their cell walls, dietary fiber comes from plant foods like grains, beans, fruits and vegetables. Fiber comes in two forms, soluble and insoluble. Soluble Fiber is very potent as a cholesterol reducer and helps to regulate blood sugar. The insoluble forms of fiber are potent laxatives.
A diet consisting of more fiber can help weight loss by blocking more of the fat you eat.
Most dietary fibers have no calories in them. They have low sugar and fat content. When you fill your stomach with fiber rich foods, there will be less space for fat and sugar rich foods. Dietry fiber requires longer to digest so you do not feel hungry after eating it.
Fiber also slows the production of insulin after a meal helping to keep your blood sugar in check. Fiber helps regulate cholesterol as fat is it blocks fat in the intestine.
Why do you need Fat?
Dietry fats provide your body with energy (calories). Fat is usually stored by your body for use as energy later, the problem with living in the 21st Century is we never use this energy, it gets stored up the abodomen and backside being the most common fat reserves.
Eating fat plays a vital role in your health, fat should not be excluded from your dieti but consumed within moderation. Fats provide 9 kcal of energy per gram of fat in contrast to carbohydrates or proteins that provide only 4 kcal of energy. Besides energy, fats supply a mode of transport for fat soluble vitmamins A, D, E and K. Fats support vital organs in your body like the heart, kidneys and the intestine. Fat under your skin acts as an insulator against cold. The best thing about Fat is it makes food taste better.
Thats why you need fat in your diet.
