Healthy Weight Loss
If you have determined to lose weight, you must make sure of reducing it in a healthy way. There are instances when people lose considerable amount of weight and then again gain it. This process of rapid reduction and increase of the weight is known as yo-yo weight, which might lead to many health risks. In fact you should be highly careful while selecting the ideal weight loss regime for you. Many of the regimes instruct dieters to go for crash diets and rigorous schedule of exercise which might not keep the dieter motivated for a prolonged period of time. In case you are willing to reduce weight in a healthy way try out the following weight loss tips.
Healthy Weight Loss Tips
Before going for a healthy weight loss schedule you must be aware of the fact that our body responds well with slow changes. You must take up steps that promote weight loss at slow pace.
Activity Levels
Try to increase the activity level of your body. You can reduce weight considerably if you perform exercises regularly even without lowering the quantity of food you take in. The more you exercise the more amount of calories or fat you burn and hence, your weight gets reduced. In case you hate going to gyms a short but brisk walk for about 20 minutes would help your body get rid of extra weight.
Calorie Intake
You must stress on the ways to reduce the intake of calorie. The following are some food items that you must avoid in order to stay away from calorie consumption.
Avoid drinking carbonated or fizzy drinks and drink water or fruit cordials instead.
Go for semi skimmed or skimmed milk.
Maintain consumption of small quantity of food as lunch. You may have one or two pieces of sandwich in lunch. But you must avoid adding butter or margarine to them. Have home made sandwiches as stored ones for sale often contain large quantities of butter.
Do not have large meals after huge time gap. You would rather end up eating less in case you take in small meals within small intervals.
Do not opt for sugary treats. In fact you are advised to add no sugar in tea or coffee.
Keep checking your weight from time to time. You must be patient and focus on the weight loss schedule with full enthusiasm. After attending your ideal weight you should make sure of following a regime of proper diet and exercise for maintaining the right weight.
Jennifer Lawson, an expert in weight loss is associated with many weight reduction programs. She also provides effective weight loss tips that would reduce weight safely.You may search out for a good medical guide in the internet that would provide you authentic information on healthy weight loss.
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Weight Loss Teas
When it comes to losing weight and being just darn good for you, tea is at the top of my list. Both green tea and oolong tea are great for weight loss. I try to have a pitcher of one or the other in my refrigerator at all times! Instead of reaching for the coffee, now I have a glass of iced tea with lemon. I pack a thermos of iced tea and make this my drink of choice throughout the day. It definitely helps – I can feel a difference when I drink it.
Both green and oolong are ancient teas dating back 4,000 years in traditional Chinese medicine. They both come from the same plant…the camellia sinensis. The difference lies in the way the leaves are processed. This is also the art of tea making.
There are different types of green teas. The difference lies in the oxidation of the leaves. Green tea leaves are only partially fermented, hence, the grassy flavor. Green tea is much lower in caffeine than black tea, and extremely rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants prevent free radicals from damaging healthy cells. It also contains catechin polyphenols, flavonoids, theanine, and tannins.
Theanine is an amino acid that is very calming and protects you against daily stress. Flavonids are found in the pigment of the leaves and are known to guard against infection. Polyphenols protect the body from heart disease and cancer.
Studies show Asian men living in the Far East have much lower heart disease and cancer rates, although they smoke heavily. They drink a lot of tea in China. It also helps keep them trim. Green Tea enhances the metabolism – helping your body burn calories quicker.
Oolong tea, sometimes known as wu long, also helps your metabolism. It is hyped as the “weight loss tea” for this reason, but in truth, it is exactly the same as green tea. Remember, they are made from the same plant. And they both are filling, low calorie teas you can have on a daily basis that will improve your health. Oolong tea is often scented with jasmine flowers and contains less caffeine than green tea. Although both teas enhance metabolism, you still need to eat a clean diet and exercise regularly to see the benefits of weight loss. My theory is, you need to drink a lot of water to lose weight, you might as well flavor it to make it the best it can be! Oolong and green tea taste great with a squeeze of fresh lemon on ice! Here’s to your health!
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MCTs and Weight Loss
As much as we work hard in the gym to burn fat and stay in control over our diets, we will lose fat, but I am always looking for ways to ease the process, aren’t you? That’s why I find the scientific studies on medium chain triglycerides and weight loss to be so intriguing.
Research has reported that the fatty acids from MCTs in coconut oil (CO) are not easily converted into stored triglycerides, and so they cannot be readily used by the body to make larger fat molecules. Instead, it is readily absorbed and goes right to the liver where it increases themogenesis. One animal feeding study evaluated body weight and fat storage for three different diets-low-fat diet, high-fat diet containing long-chain triglycerides (LCTs), and a high-fat diet containing MCTs and after 44 days, the low-fat diet group had stored an average of 0.47 grams of fat per day; the LCT group stored 0.48 grams/day, while the MCT group deposited only 0.19 grams of fat per day, a 60% reduction in the amount of fat stored.
This shows that when MCTs are substituted for LCTs in the diet, the body is much less inclined to store fat. AND, when we eat sensibly, a diet containing MCTs is more effective than a low-fat diet at decreasing stored fat!
Another human study, showed that the MCT-containing meals caused an average 12 percent increase in basal metabolic rate as compared with a 4 percent increase with the LCT-containing meal. So how do we get MCTs in our diet? Well CO is nature’s richest source of MCTs. Believe it or not, the medium-chain fats in coconut oil are similar to fats in mother’s milk. Coconut oil can be used as an addition to your post or pre workout shake.
More ideas for using coconut oil:
Stir-fry or sauté veggies, eggs, poultry, fish with coconut oil for a health-conscious light flavor
Make your own mayonnaise with coconut oil
Use it on your salads
Try it on popcorn instead of butter
Kurt Nimmo is a health specialist and exercise guru. For more tips and advice by Kurt, visit http://www.kurtnimmo.com
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