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Thyroid Weightloss Diet: The Effective Way to Shed Pounds

January 30th, 2010 admin

Patients suffering from hypothyroidism usually find it hard to lose weight. This is because their endocrine system is not working at optimum levels and their body’s metabolism rate is very slow. Most thyroid patients lose hope as far as losing weight is concerned. But there’s one effective way to shed pounds – the solution is a thyroid weightloss diet.

To induce weight loss amidst thyroid health issues, these diet tips may help:

1. Eat reduced amounts but more frequently everyday.

Thyroid problem is a tricky disease. It is a type of disease least diagnosed by health experts although a lot of overweight patients are suffering from it. Worse, not even their doctors realize that it is the main reason why they can’t seem to lose weight despite their momentous efforts. The thyroid gland controls the body’s metabolism. And one way to improve your body’s metabolic rate is to force your system to process the food that you eat everyday. Skipping meals and following an irregular eating habit is a sure-fire way to lower your metabolism.

2. Lean meats.

Meat is a good source of protein. However, you have to limit your intake to the lean parts alone. Protein can help you build muscles. When eating meat, make sure that you strip away the fatty parts. You’ve got to help yourself achieve a zero cholesterol diet to initiate weight loss despite your thyroid problem.

3. Uncooked fruits and vegetables are healthy.

Uncooked food such as fruits and vegetables would do your body a lot of good. Raw vegetables have all the nutrients intact, which is perfect because you are going to need them to process the fats inside your body. With the nutrients in place, fats are burned instead of stored in the blood stream. Fruits are known to be anti-oxidants as well. They contain lots of vitamins and minerals that can satisfy even the biggest hunger but won’t make you fat. There are many vegetables that are rich in fiber too. Fiber can help greatly in flushing away toxins, bad cholesterol, and triglycerides inside the body.

4. Eat healthy snacks.

If you have been depriving yourself of food but are not improving at all in the weight section, you have to check the type of foods that you are eating. Maybe you’re not choosing healthy foods at all. Your snacks should be well-monitored as well. Instead of fries and chips, choose the healthier options such as roasted nuts. Try to change your coffee habit into a tea habit as the latter is more natural, has less caffeine, and contains loads of nutrients that can help your body.

5. Watch your every bite.

If you’re suffering from thyroid problems, it is very important that you take caution in every single food item that you put inside your body. If you can, you must estimate the calorie content the food you have eaten and see how much you’ve gone overboard. When you do go overboard, be sure to burn the excess fats through regular exercises.

These five simple tips can help you greatly in losing weight even if you have thyroid problems. Follow a thyroid weightloss diet religiously and you’ll see positive effects in your body shape and frame in as little as four weeks.

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A Dietitian's Approach Towards Fast Weight-loss Programs

January 24th, 2010 admin

Weight Loss Quickies

When trying to lose weight, it is normal for typical programs to set goals of weight loss between 1 and 2 pounds per week (~ ½ to 1 kg ). This may not seem like a lot but this type of weight loss actually helps keep the weight off on a more permanent basis. These types of programs help the body maintain a proper metabolism and retain necessary muscle mass.

This isn’t to say that fast acting weight loss programs don’t exist, but for people who are not clinically obese, these programs are not healthy and are strongly recommended against. The fact is that if you are just looking to lose 25 pounds or less, then a fast weight loss program is NOT for you.

Do these rapid weight loss programs work?

The fact is there are numerous amounts of fast acting weight loss programs that exist in the market today. Most of these programs try to incorporate healthy balanced diets while still retaining the fast acting result obtained by low calorie consumption. One of these programs is Medifast, which has been used by medical professionals for a long time. This program promotes a 2- 5 pound per week loss.

These diets are all very similar and consist of very low calorie consumption. This is why they fall under the category of a VLCD (very low calorie diet). These diets only allow a consumption of 800 calories or less. Popular diets in this category like the Optifast or the Cambridge Diet, should never be done without the medical supervision of a healthcare professional and are only meant to be short term.

What’s there to worry about with rapid weight loss?

Since rapid weight loss diets are mostly all based on low calorie consumption, the potential to have a nutritional deficiency as a result of these diets is very evident. If there is not proper caution taken to balance these types of diets, health problems may develop.

The body was not made to last that long on low calorie consumption and it is normal for people to feel irritable and fatigued. Other side effects may include constipation as a result of inadequate fiber absorption.

Another thing to worry about with these types of diets is your metabolism. The body naturally prepares itself for life threatening situations. During these low calorie diets, the body may actually believe it is in danger and kick into starvation mode where the metabolism slows down to protect the body. Since you are really not starving but merely dieting your body goes into a yo-yo affect once regular food is reintroduced. Also, when rapid weight loss occurs it can often eat at your muscle mass (catabolism), which is something you definitely do not want.

Who are meant for these programs?

These programs were actually designed for the obese, which by definition is someone with a BMI of over 30. If you are someone who just struggles a little with your weight and are slightly above your ideal, these programs are not recommended as they can cause potential problems long term. You’d rather think of other weight-loss methods, for example exercises and healthy food.

A few of these VLCD’s need a physician’s approval, although programs do exist that may be done without it, such as Medifast.

What about fad Diets?

Fad diets like the famous Atkins or South Beach Diet are mostly all based on an introductory phase where weight loss is significant. These diets, however, have many strict restraints on food elements such as carbohydrates and weight loss with these programs is actually really due to loss of water weight.

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A Dietitian's Approach Towards Fast Weight-loss Programs

January 24th, 2010 admin

Weight Loss Quickies

When trying to lose weight, it is normal for typical programs to set goals of weight loss between 1 and 2 pounds per week (~ ½ to 1 kg ). This may not seem like a lot but this type of weight loss actually helps keep the weight off on a more permanent basis. These types of programs help the body maintain a proper metabolism and retain necessary muscle mass.

This isn’t to say that fast acting weight loss programs don’t exist, but for people who are not clinically obese, these programs are not healthy and are strongly recommended against. The fact is that if you are just looking to lose 25 pounds or less, then a fast weight loss program is NOT for you.

Do these rapid weight loss programs work?

The fact is there are numerous amounts of fast acting weight loss programs that exist in the market today. Most of these programs try to incorporate healthy balanced diets while still retaining the fast acting result obtained by low calorie consumption. One of these programs is Medifast, which has been used by medical professionals for a long time. This program promotes a 2- 5 pound per week loss.

These diets are all very similar and consist of very low calorie consumption. This is why they fall under the category of a VLCD (very low calorie diet). These diets only allow a consumption of 800 calories or less. Popular diets in this category like the Optifast or the Cambridge Diet, should never be done without the medical supervision of a healthcare professional and are only meant to be short term.

What’s there to worry about with rapid weight loss?

Since rapid weight loss diets are mostly all based on low calorie consumption, the potential to have a nutritional deficiency as a result of these diets is very evident. If there is not proper caution taken to balance these types of diets, health problems may develop.

The body was not made to last that long on low calorie consumption and it is normal for people to feel irritable and fatigued. Other side effects may include constipation as a result of inadequate fiber absorption.

Another thing to worry about with these types of diets is your metabolism. The body naturally prepares itself for life threatening situations. During these low calorie diets, the body may actually believe it is in danger and kick into starvation mode where the metabolism slows down to protect the body. Since you are really not starving but merely dieting your body goes into a yo-yo affect once regular food is reintroduced. Also, when rapid weight loss occurs it can often eat at your muscle mass (catabolism), which is something you definitely do not want.

Who are meant for these programs?

These programs were actually designed for the obese, which by definition is someone with a BMI of over 30. If you are someone who just struggles a little with your weight and are slightly above your ideal, these programs are not recommended as they can cause potential problems long term. You’d rather think of other weight-loss methods, for example exercises and healthy food.

A few of these VLCD’s need a physician’s approval, although programs do exist that may be done without it, such as Medifast.

What about fad Diets?

Fad diets like the famous Atkins or South Beach Diet are mostly all based on an introductory phase where weight loss is significant. These diets, however, have many strict restraints on food elements such as carbohydrates and weight loss with these programs is actually really due to loss of water weight.

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21 Things You Should Know About the Changing Signs & Times of Obesity & Weight-loss

January 24th, 2010 admin

Obesity: A Shifting Paradigm

21 Things You Should Know About The Changing Signs & Times Of Obesity & Weight-Loss

#1Obesity increasing in industrialized nations
# 2 One billion people globally are considered overweight
# 3 When you take people from a rural area and put them in an urban area obesity levels go up
# 4 It seems the start of the current obesity epidemic was 500 years ago during the European colonization
# 5 On a global scale we’ve become so reliant on technology…everything is done for us
# 6 The industrial revolution changed the world
# 7 The ancient genome which was protective has become a liability
# 8 BMI doesn’t take body composition into consideration
#9  We can’t just look at BMI by itself
#10  Fat localized to the belly region is implicated in a cascade of metabolic diseases
# 11 Its possible to not be obese on the BMI scale or even body composition measures, yet if the concentration of body fat is located in the belly region accompanied by habits that are contraindicated to health we could be predisposed to health risks
#12  People can carry body fat and still be healthy
#13  The weight loss agenda
# 14 Calories in vs. calories out
# 15 Making small changes we can live with
#16  People who are upright and gravity bearing can lower body weight and improve their health
#17  The tread-desk improved entire metabolic profile
#18  Does the media contribute to or help the obesity problem?
# 19 The secret is there is no secret
#20  As a fitness professional I am an educator
# 21Re-educate and re-frame

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Tips for Healthy, Safe, and Fast Weightloss

January 23rd, 2010 admin

Many people think that fast weight loss is difficult or dangerous. The truth is, it’s neither-if you do it properly. There are a number of ways to lose weight. Some are easy and some are hard. Some are fast, while others take a while to yield results. Most are perfectly safe, but some wrong approaches can be very dangerous.

Hopefully, you’re interested in an approach to weight loss that’s fast, simple, and safe! If so, you’re reading the right article!

The typical weight loss “expert” will tell you one of two things:

1. That your diet must be structured around one specific food or type of food. Only eat protein! Only eat cabbage soup! Only eat peanut butter! These are marketing gimmicks and you should ignore them.

2. That the only way to lose weight is to exercise regularly and eat a pristinely healthy diet-usually it’s mostly fruits and veggies.

I’m not going to say that #2 doesn’t work. It works just fine. However, it’s not fast, and it’s not easy. Weight loss is not a monotheistic religion. There isn’t just one way. The old saying, “Work smarter, not harder,” comes to mind.

So how can we work smarter and speed up the process? Is there really a safe approach to fast weight loss?

Calorie cycling is an approach to weight loss in which you eat more calories on some days, and less on other days. It causes your metabolism to speed up, even though over the course of a full week, you’re still eating the same number of calories as normal. The result is that you immediately start burning more fat, and there are none of the risks or side effects associated with reducing your caloric intake (which is how most people try to diet).

Calorie cycling is a new technique designed specifically for fast weight loss, and there aren’t a lot of diet plans that employ it on the market yet. The king of the hill is FatLoss4Idiots, which advertises that you can lose 9 pounds in 11 days. Responses to my FatLoss4Idiots review indicate that this degree of weight loss really is possible, if that’s your goal. With a custom meal generator and 8 week satisfaction guarantee, FatLoss4Idiots is a powerful program that can help you burn more fat without risk or radical changes to your life.

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