Sunday, 6 July 2008

You Want To Lose Weight ?

Do you simply need to learn how to eat better? Maybe. If eating poorly is because of an emotional or stress problem, you need to address that before you can make decisions about weight loss.

Even people who don't have an eating disorder often turn to food for comfort. To learn to eat well and exercise regularly, you may also have to learn to handle the problems life throws at you without turning away from healthy eating and exercise.

Be particularly careful about all-or-nothing thinking. A common tendency when failing to stay on a diet is to abandon it altogether. Instead, try to learn from your mistakes and do better in the future.

Most diets produce quick weight loss at the start; they often cause your metabolism to slow. Resulting you have to eat less and less to keep losing weight. You 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.

Focus instead on improving your health, and you will become slim and healthy

What we put in our mouths, we should have complete control over, we don’t lose control at a friend’s house or at a Restaurant and you don’t have to eat everything put in front of you, personally this is something I have mastered after many years of if its
on my plate – it’s in my mouth

Another thing I do is eating less, but more frequently small snacks, including raw carrots, peppers, cauliflower, and other vegetables.

It is important to understand what happens when you skip a meal or go on a crash diet. When you skip a meal your metabolism slows to conserve your energy. And when you lose weight too quickly for a few days, your body thinks it is threatened with starvation and goes into survival mode. It fights to conserve your fat stores, and any weight loss comes mostly from water and muscle.

Never skip a meal, especially breakfast, and eat healthy snacks between meals. Eating frequently prevents hunger pangs and the binges that follow, provides consistent energy, and may be the single most effective way to maintain metabolism efficiency.

Eating slowly gives our bodies time to tell us they are full before we've eaten more than we need.

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