Time flies!!

I can't believe how quickly the time goes. The summer is almost over, the weather worldwide is causing havoc, the UK experienced terrible floods, now Greece has these terrible fires. It seems to put everything in perspective that life is so precious.

This brings me back to the problem that so many people neglect themselves by over indulgence, whether it is food or drink.

It seems that all my adult life I have been on one diet or another. We all have our favourite food, mostly of course the 'junk' variety. However I can honestly say that my whole attitude to food has changed.

As I mentioned in my last post I had at long last reached my target weight, it is now over 2 months. In the past I would have at least put some of that weight back on. My determination to keep focused is winning. So far my weight is static which is where I want it to be.

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My goal reached at last!

Today is a day of celebration, I have just reached my goal weight. to say I am thrilled is an understatement.
My leader Annette, has been fantastic during my weight loss journey. Last week she informed me that I had to lose just 200 grams to reach my goal, it doesn't sound a lot does it but when you have visitors and eat out at various restaurants,and cook meals that are suitable for everyone, it might as well have been 5 pounds!!
I increased my exercising and tried to keep within my points. Anyway it worked because today I lost 400 grams.
In the past I have yo-yo dieted. This time my mind set was right. I had recovered from my cancer treatment,however I still suffered with high cholesterol and blood pressure, I knew I was a walking time bomb. It was the time to change and get my life back.
In the past I had always like Slimming World, ther wasn't a class here in Spain, then one day I met a friend who had lost a lot of weight, she was attending a Weight Watchers meeting near by.It was then I made the decision to join Weight Watchers. This was the best decision of my life, my cholesterol and blood pressure are now all normal.

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Time flies!

I can't believe it is over a month since I last posted on my blog. It only seems a short time ago it was Xmas, now we are a day away from 1st June!!
I have been very busy working on my websites, I am so pleased I decided to go ahead with this business simply because it has given me a real interest. 12 months ago I didn't even know what a blog was, and as for getting involved with losing weight issues, the only person who needed to lose weight was me!
How wrong I was. Since attending Weight Watchers and reading and learning as much as I could about the subject, that I realized there are so many different diet and weight loss plans, to some it would be very confusing. Hopefully what I am attemptingto do is to cover as many plans and diets as possible on the website, enabling people to see what type of diet would be suitable for them, however this does take time.
As I have mentioned in an earlier posting, I have found that Weight Watchers has worked for me, I am just 1 pound away from my goal weight. For a while I wasn't doing so well, after discussions with my leader it was decided that I should switch from the core or no count plan to the full choice,this is where everything I ate had a points value, and I was allowed 21 points a day. What a difference that made, all of a sudden I was eating foods that I had avoided for months. A sandwich for lunch was fantastic, I have even had some chocolates and did I enjoy them. The irony is though, I lost more weight each week by counting my points then I did the other way. What I was doing was not eating enough!! My metabolism was slowing down and the weight loss got less and less each week.
I am pleased to say i am now back on track.
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Negative Calorie Foods.

I recently came across a very interesting book called "Negative Calorie Foods and Recipe EBook".
All foods have some calories. No food is actually "negative calorie" food. But the overall effect of certain foods in our body is that of "negative calories". Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories the foods actually contain! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to breakdown and process. In other words, the body has to work harder in order to extract calories from these foods. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage, and are also known as fat burning foods.
A piece of dessert consisting of 400 calories may require only 150 calories to be digested by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat! According to this theory, for example, if you eat 100 calories of a food that requires 150 calories to digest, then you've burnt an additional 50 calories simply by eating that food. Typically, a 25 calorie piece of broccoli (100 gram) requires 80 calories to digest, resulting in a net loss of 55 calories from the body fat!! Thus, the more you eat, the more you lose weight!!!
I must say I am fascinated, it makes sense though that there are a variety of foods that have a negative colorific value. I guess by eating these negative calorie foods you can burn more fat thus losing weight.
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South Beach Diet.

South Beach Diet was created a well known cardiologist, Dr. Arthur Agatston. He developed this diet for his cardiac patients after a lot of scientific dieting research. The best thing about this diet is that you will get your three, normal size meals everyday and you can even enjoy your snacks and deserts.
According to Dr.Agatston, when you consume bad carbohydrates especially those found in foods with a high Glycemic index, they create an insulin resistance syndrome which is an impairment of the hormone insulin's ability to properly process fat or sugar and not only this, bad carbohydrates also increase the chances of getting cardiovascular disease.Therfore his diet includes the consumption of good fats and good carbohydrates.
This diet works in phases, the first two for a specific timeframe and the third phase for life.
This diet puts emphasis on changing your way of eating and variety of foods. It discourages eating of very refined processed foods, high-fat meats, and saturated fats in general. Agatston says that you should eat until you are satisfied and you do not have to count calories. You just have to eat the right food that is good carbs and fats. By decreasing the intake of bad carbs, it will help you metabolize what you eat more effectively and improves insulin resistance as well leading to weight loss.
Jeffrey Meier of Jam727 Enterprises offers more detailed information on the South Beach Diet at http://www.jam727.com/southbeachdiet.htm The website has many other easy reading articles on a wide range of topics as well.
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Another Week

I can't believe how quickly the weeks are passing. Today was my weekly visit to my local Weight Watchers meeting. It is great to see people come back week after week and to see their bodies shape altering.
I have to admit that of all the so called diets I have tried over the years, nothing comes close to the Core Plan in Weight Watchers. I can honestly say that it doesn't seem to me that I am on a diet. By making healthy eating choices I eat almost everything, except of course food that are high in fat or sugar.
As you are aware I have a website www.losingweighteasily.com I often read the content on the site since there are several topics covered.
Today I read the section Historical Appraoches to Weight Loss and healthy eating. In modern society, more of us have weight problems and become ill or even die from conditions related to being overweight than ever before!
Maybe it's just possible that we have something to learn from the way that people ate in the past throughout much of human history. People in most ancient societies and right through the Middle Ages and Renaissance did not follow the advice that most nutritionists would give today. They hardly ate any breakfast at all, though we are often told that breakfast is the most important meal'. In fact, they were likely to eat only one large meal a day or two at the most, in which case one would be larger than the other. And here's another thing that would make modern nutritionists shake their heads in despair quite a lot of the time, it seems, that one big meal was eaten rather late in the day often after the sun went down and the day's work was done!
This information facinated me, I intend writing another article about this subject, when it is completed I will add it to this blog.
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My Published Article

Today I received confirmation that this article had been accepted for publication. I wanted to share this with you.

Diets are hard. It’s a simple fact of life that the majority of dieters will never achieve success because they simply cannot stick to a diet. Easy weight loss is a distant promise to the average dieter.

The reason easy weight loss diets tend not to work isn’t because they aren’t nutritionally sound (although many diets lack the necessary nutrition) but because they deprive us. Human beings are not very good at resisting temptation and when you aren’t allowed to eat starch or sugar, it suddenly begins to look even more appealing!

Many easy weight loss diets require such drastic reduction of portion size, that the average overweight person is still hungry after eating a meal. Resisting hunger pangs is difficult enough, but when more food is right in front of you, as it is everywhere in our society, the temptation is pretty much irresistible. Easy weight loss becomes impossible when faced with the stomach-twisting pangs of hunger.

So, how do you achieve easy weight loss? Without the deprivation and starvation? With the rule of three diet!

The idea behind this easy weight loss diet is not deprivation but balance. You can eat whatever you wish, but it must be part of a balanced meal. This way your body gets all the nutrients it needs, not just empty calories.

No matter what you feel like eating, you include a same-size portion of two other foods, a protein and a fruit or vegetable usually. For example, let’s say you are dying for a slab of chocolate cake. You can have your cake, but along with it, you need to eat a piece of chicken (of the same size) and a pear, for example. You can mix and match the foods, but the concept is the same.

With the base of a protein food and a vegetable or fruit, you can make the third item anything you like, be it bread, pasta, rice or a sweet dessert. When planning snacks or meals, be sure to include the three ingredients. This recipe for easy weight loss seems too easy, but it really does work.

So, how does the easy weight loss rule of three work? Sweet foods and fatty snacks tend to cause your body to release a blast of insulin. The sudden rise in insulin, followed by the sudden drop of the same can cause you to feel hungry and want to eat more, as well as stimulating the body to store the food as fat.

Eating a protein like chicken, cheese or tofu, balances out the glycemic levels of your body. The only trick is to eat it at the same time as the fattening food. It is impossible not to eat sugars at some point and the addition of a protein balances out the potential damage of that chocolate bar you just inhaled.

By adding a fruit or vegetable, you automatically balance out your nutrition and you can’t help but feel full and satisfied after consuming three different types of food! Easy weight loss is within reach. You might start your diet off by eating the same amount as before, but as your body adjusts to a new method, you’ll find yourself eating less of the sweet, fatty stuff because you feel full and satisfied.

Easy weight loss is far easier when you aren’t battling starvation and temptation. With the rule of three diet, you can eat as much as you need to while still dropping the pounds.

Mary Lewis, director of
M and L Promotions Ltd.

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