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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Facts and Mindsets for Quick Weight Loss

By Curt Joel

The biggest problem with fast weight loss is that if you lose it fast, it will come back fast. Dieting slows metabolism, among other things. Therefore, to lose weight and keep it off forever, it is important that you keep some things in mind. First of all, realize that permanent weight loss requires a permanent shift in your attitudes, habits, and lifestyle. The best place to start with some small changes. The first change? Reduce your fat intake. If you just consume 500 fewer calories everyday you will reduce your body weight by 1 pounds in 1-week. One pound of fat is 3,500 calories (7 days X 500 calories per day = 3,500 calories = 1 pound of fat).

1. Here is a great place to start. Eggs. If you normally eat the entire egg, you are choosing to triple the number of calories you are ingesting. A simple fix is to eat only the egg white of the egg. This is a great way to get high quality protein without unnecessary counterproductive egg yolks.

2. If you're over fat, you became that way because of your habits, tiny daily actions. It was your lifestyle that caused it to happen. The obvious solution then is to change your lifestyle. This requires a life change. Part of that life change is the foods you currently choose to eat.

3. It is not that difficult to learn to like new foods. Some simple shifts to different, fat-loss friendly foods, foods that will be kinder to your waistline and hips. For example, if you want to alter the appearance and taste of skim milk, you could add condensed skim milk to it. This contributes just a few extra calories of protein and carbohydrate, but no additional fat calories.

3. To lose body fat successfully, that is, to rid the body of fat and keep it off, you must change what you enjoy eating. This is an integral part of the commitment to changing your life-style. If you don't do this, you will never rid the body of unwanted fat. Consider this, if you simply ate five hundred fewer fat calories per day (that's five tablespoons of butter or margarine), you could probably lose one pound per week of fat (and probably more than one pound per week of total weight).

4. Now cheese and nuts. These are very popular party foods. Why? I have no idea. If people took a minute to think about where on their body that cheese was going they definitely wouldn't eat it. Sure, cheese and nuts have received some acclaim as health foods - but not as weight loss foods. Don't eat these if you wish to lose weight.

Most cheese gets an abundance, more than 75% of total calories from fat. They are far NOT "health" foods. They can be eaten in small doses as part of a healthy diet; but remember the very high saturated fat content and total fat content. High fat foods are easily stored in the body. Stay away from them.

6. Portion size should also be a consideration. The amount of fat you eat every day is cumulative. So, if you eat small portions of foods containing fat all day, although the fat count could be low, the total fat consumed adds to your daily total calorie consumption total. - 17273

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