Weight Loss Information and tips on getting started
Calories per Hour offers the following tips to help you lose weight to look better, feel better and live a healthier life. These tips are short and sweet, and are intended as a starting point or quick reference for those seeking to lose weight with the help of resources offered on calories per hour. Read the relevant sections of the tutorial to learn more about the topics discussed in these weight loss tips
How did I get here?
You just need help to learn how to eat better? Probably. But if you eat poorly as a result of emotional, mental or spiritual problems, they may have to be addressed before you can make any real progress with weight loss.
Even people who do not believe they are eating disorders often turn to food for comfort. To learn how to eat well and exercise regularly, you may also have to learn to cope with the challenges life throws at you, not turning away from healthy eating and exercise.
Be especially careful about all-or-nothing thinking. The general trend when they stopped on a diet to abandon it altogether. Instead, try to learn from their mistakes and do better in the future.
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Are you dieting? Again?
Diets entice us with promises of quick weight loss. But focusing on quick weight loss can lead to unhealthy eating and only short-term success.
While most diets produce quick weight loss at the outset, they often cause your metabolism to slow down. The result is that you have to eat less and less to keep losing weight. You quickly become discouraged, give up, and start eating like you used to. But now, with a slower metabolism, you regain all the weight you lost and more.
Instead, focus on improving your health, and you will become slim and healthy.
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Take control of what you eat
There are a few things that we have complete control over, but what we put in our mouths is one of them. We must not lose control in a restaurant or at a friend, and we do not have to eat everything put in front of us.
Consider this: We love fat because it carries flavor, and restaurants are not so interested in whether we will be in 30 years, we will be back next week. And what about our friends?
Eat often and eat slowly
It is important to understand what happens when you skip a meal or go on a diet. When you skip a meal your metabolism slows down to conserve energy. And when you lose weight too quickly, within a few days, your body thinks it is threatened with starvation and goes into survival mode. He fights to keep your fat stores, and any weight loss comes mostly from water and muscle mass.
Never skip meals, especially breakfast, and eat healthy snacks between meals. Food is often prevents hunger and binges that follow, provides consistent energy, and may be the most effective way to maintain metabolism efficiency.
Eating slowly gives our bodies time to tell us they are full before we eat more than we need.
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Eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains
People who eat healthy, mostly unprocessed foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and limited amounts of lean animal protein, often find that they can eat as much as they want without gaining weight. If they go with a diet containing lots of processed foods, they find that they can eat more yet consume fewer calories - and they lose weight.
Historically, ate mostly rice and Chinese vegetables with a small amount of lean meat for protein and flavor, nothing like the American Chinese food restaurant deep fried sweet and sour pork. A step back to more natural products to improve our health and waistline.
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Eat more fiber
Fiber makes us feel full sooner and stays in our stomach longer than other substances we eat, slowing down our rate of digestion and keeping us feeling full longer. Due to its high fiber content, a single serving of whole grain bread can be more filling than two servings of white bread. Fiber also moves fat through our digestive system faster so that less of it is absorbed.
Refined grains like white rice and those used to make white bread and sugary breakfast cereals have had most of their fiber and nutrients are discarded. They are converted into sugar (glucose) so quickly that the sugar itself, they can cause splash our insulin levels. This tells our body that plenty of energy is readily available and that it should stop burning fat and start storing.
Eating foods with lots of fiber will help keep our blood sugar at a stable level.
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Cut back on sugar
Be careful of sugar in coffee and soda pop. It can add up quickly, and these drinks are not filling.
Watch out for "hidden" sugar in processed foods like bread, ketchup, salad dressing, canned fruit, applesauce, peanut butter, and soups. And be careful with "fat-free" foods. Sugar is often used to replace the flavor that is lost when the fat is removed. Fat-free does not mean calorie-free.
Great concern about the release of insulin (see above) is not what he says our body to start storing fat. Everything we eat and do not burn up eventually gets turned into fat anyway.
The greater concern is that the insulin spike is accompanied by a decrease in insulin levels, which makes us feel tired and hungry and the desire to eat more. Unfortunate result of this scenario is that it makes us want to eat something else with a high sugar content. When we do that, we start the cycle all over again.
Regulation of blood sugar levels is the most effective way to maintain your fat burning capacity.
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Too much of a bad thing
Foods like cheese stand out as one of the most saturated fat, with a lot of calories from fat basis. But as important as the choice for healthier foods, it is also important to consider how they are prepared.
Fried foods, especially deep-fried, contain a lot of fat. While chicken and fish tend to be poorer than beef or pork, they may contain more fat when they are fried. See, as the number of grams of fat in chicken breast varies depending on how it is prepared:
"Fried foods? Everything I eat salad and I still can not lose weight!"
Be careful with salad dressings, mayonnaise, and other high-fat. They greatly increase the amount of calories and can negate the healthy aspects of food. Replace mayonnaise-based condiments with fat-free alternatives like low-fat yogurt, mustard, ketchup and barbecue sauce.
And remember gram of fat contains more than twice as many calories than gram protein or carbohydrate.
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Too little of a good thing
But do not try to eliminate fat in general, as dietary fat is necessary for maintaining a healthy body. It is a vital component for building body tissue and cells, and it aids in the absorption of some vitamins and other nutrients. Many people eat too many bad fats, but also eat too little good fats are necessary for optimal health.
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Exercise regularly
People who exercise regularly not only lose weight faster, they are more successful, keep it. Exercise allows you to create a calorie deficit and lose weight without starving your body and your metabolism slows down.
At home, in the gym or playing sports, participate in aerobic and strength building activities on a regular basis. Not only is the exercise itself burn calories, but your body will continue to burn calories at a higher rate, even after you are done exercising.
If walking is all you can do, then walk because it's healthy for you. But Muscle burns more calories than fat, so put on a little muscle if you can, and you will burn more calories just sitting there ... look good.
But do not sit too long. The human body is good at adapting. If you dig ditches without gloves, you will develop calluses to protect your hands. If you sit too long, you will develop extra padding to keep you comfortable!
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Take it easy
If you are not happy that after a very specific diet and exercise plan, do not try to change too much too quickly. If you have been eating poorly and not exercising, your body and your mind will be a lot of regulation to do so.
All sugar and fat were actually quite pleasant, and sitting on the couch did not feel too bad, either. If you try to change things too quickly odds are greater that you will feel bad, get discouraged and give up. So be patient.
There will come a time when a healthy snack will taste as good as junk food you felt bad about the food, and you will look forward to your regular exercise.
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You can achieve your goals, but it is unlikely to happen as a result of the next fad diet. Alternatively thereafter.
Learning to eat well and exercise is the only solution for long-term weight loss.