Weight Loss Myths
Weight Loss Strategies
If you are wanting to lose weight, you should never skip meals, especially breakfast, and you should watch out for “hidden” calories that you either add to your food or that you drink, such as soda or juice.
Another key strategy to losing weight is making yourself feel full. Try drinking a glass of water just before you
begin eating. By doing so, the water is occupying space in your stomach. You will feel full faster. Most
importantly, eat foods high in fiber.
Foods that are high in fiber (such as fruits, whole grains, and vegetables) contain bulk with considerably
fewer calories-to-volume-of-food. Fiber is a substance that your body does not use as a calorie source. Yet,
it occupies space in your stomach which in turn makes you feel full faster.
Most fruits and vegetables are excellent choices when you are looking for a food low in calories. Watch out for avocados and coconuts. Both are high in fat, thus high in calories. Including a rich amount of fruits and
vegetables in your diet not only makes sense for a weight loss plan but for any diet plan. To promote good health, you should always incorporate a variety of fruits and vegetables.
Should a weight loss plan be fat-free?
No. A sensible weight loss plan will include fat, 15 to 30% of the calories from fat. Your body does need fat, so it is not a good idea to omit it from your diet. It is also not a good idea to eat too much fat, more than 30% of calories. Serious health problems can occur as a result of eating a diet rich in fat.
When a product states that it is fat-free or that it is lower in calories than the original version, be sure to
read the label. Always check the number of calories and know the serving size. Many fat-free versions of some of your favorite foods are not necessarily lower in calories.
Final comment, there are no “magic” foods. Eating grape fruit religiously, while it is a healthy food choice, do
not expect this practice to burn any extra calories.
Slurping down cabbage soup, sorry to say, will not produce any wonderful results either. Simply put, use
your head when you hear or read some quack’s new revolutionary diet plan. Nope, combining foods a certain
way is not going to make you drop the pounds either -
Double-Whammy From Fatty Foods
They Not Only Add to Your Waistline, They Can “Trick” You Into Eating More, Research Shows
Once you get started eating ice cream, do you feel like you could eat the whole carton? Or maybe polish off that second deluxe cheeseburger?
Turns out there may be a medical explanation for binge eating.
On “The Early Show” Wednesday, CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton reported on new research suggesting the answer may lie in certain saturated fats that, in essence, trick the brain into eating more.
The study, done at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, found that certain fats interact with, and actually change, your brain chemistry, Ashton said.
The fats at fault — particularly palmitic acid, found in milk, butter, beef and cheese — tell the brain to ignore hormones involved in the regulation of food intake. So you wind up eating more.
And the research shows it can take anywhere from three to five days for the brain to wash out misleading signals spurred by the fats and start responding properly to the weight regulation hormones again.
check out the entire story here
Weight Loss Myths
Myth #1 – You Have to Do Cardio in the Morning on an Empty Stomach in order to Burn Fat
There is no fat loss magic to doing cardio on an empty stomach. In fact, most trainers “in-the-know” are using intervals instead of slow, boring cardio to help their clients burn fat fast. Plus, who wants to be doing boring cardio at 6am while their stomach is rumbling? If you could find better home fitness workouts to burn fat, wouldn’t you do those instead?
Myth #2 – You Have to Do Cardio in the Fat Burning Zone
By exercising in the fat burning “Zone”, as some folks like to call it, you only burn a few extra calories than if you weren’t doing any exercise at all! Slow, boring cardio workouts are not the best way to lose belly fat. If you truly want to change your body, you need to use short, burst exercise home fitness workouts.
Myth #3 – You Have to Do Cardio 7 Days Per Week
You don’t need to workout everyday. The truth is, you only need to do 3 short home fitness workouts per week of 45 minutes.
Myth #4 You Have to Do Cardio for at Least 20 Minutes Before You Start Burning Fat
We’re burning fat all the time, even while you sit here and read this message. Sure, exercise increases our fat burning, but it’s not as though the first 20 minutes of any workout don’t burn fat. That makes no sense at all! I’ll show you how the short, burst exercise system helps you achieve more fat loss in less than half the time of a regular cardio workout.
Myth #5 – You Can’t Lose Fat and Gain Muscle at the Same Time
Scientific research and my experience says, “Yes, you can!” A recent study found that men and women can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time if they use a component of my Turbulence Training system.