Lose Weight With The Glycemic Index May 14, 2009
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There are lots of different diet plans available that can help you to lose weight in a variety of ways. Some cut out certain food groups, while others restrict calorie intake. Here we’ll look at one form of diet plan that makes use of the glycemic index to help that excess weight to drop off.
Glycemic Index Diet Plan
This is basically a diet that is based on the GI of carbohydrates. It works by providing you with certain foods that your body is not so fast to convert into fat that gets stored. A GI diet plan goes towards providing you with a set of low GI carbohydrates to make this happen and in doing so it reduces stored fat in your body. Of course, this is a good way to stop weight gain and when you combine it with some light daily exercise it will lead to weight loss.
A low GI diet plan avoids foods based on refined flour like white bread and pasta, as well as cakes, biscuits and pastries. Instead it concentrates on including healthy alternatives made with wholewheat flour. The reason for this is refined white flour is composed of high GI carbs and that’s why things like white bread, pastries, pasta, cakes and biscuits all cause weight gain.
Cakes and biscuits are also composed of high levels of trans fats and sugars, which are also very bad for anyone wanting to lose a few pounds! Consequently, wholewheat food products tend to contain more low GI carbohydrates which are better for you as long as they’re also low in trans fats and refined sugars.
One really good, low GI food is porridge which is made from rolled oats. If you want a high powered breakfast to get your body going for the day ahead, then porridge is definitely that. Oats are made up of very low GI carbohydrates and are extremely good for you. They act as a diet aid and also as a health booster. They help to reduce the bad LDL cholesterol, promote good HDL cholesterol and normalise your blood sugar levels. At the same time they boost your metabolism which means you will burn more calories. And we know what that means… a reduction in weight.
If this alternative type of diet plan interests you, then its also a good healthy option which can benefit you and your health in many ways.
Five Weight Loss Facts March 26, 2009
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Here at Weight Loss Top Tips, we’re always on the lookout for some helpful weight loss tips that are easy to understand, easy to put into practice and easy to obtain some benefit from. So with this in mind, here are a short list of five weight loss facts that will go some way to improving your own chances of beating the bulge!
The sheer quantity of people from all walks of life who embark upon a weight loss program on a daily basis is unbelievable. Similarly, the amount of them that will be defeated by their own attempts equally fantastic. So what causes this crazy number of failures, when there is so much good, proven information in the guise of some excellent slimming tips that are at everyone’s disposal?
The principal reason for that defeat in losing any weight is simply because the sweeping bulk of people who endeavour to lose weight merely give up too soon. There are a lot of reasons for this, nonetheless one of the worst excuses is haste. People are generally in so much of a scramble and expect to manifest results too rapidly and when that crops up, they simply give up, certain that it has been unsuccessful for them. So here are five facts surrounding weight loss which might cause you to amend your own strategy when it comes to losing weight.
1. Everyone’s body is designed to be at the proper weight for its build and height and if that shifts out of alignment because of abuse, a slight shift in how you treat your body will render it back into alignment and return back to the exact weight.
2. Undertaking to lose weight too rapidly by crash dieting might be highly harmful to your health. Your body simply resists your efforts to do this by reining in your metabolism by attempting to counteract the withheld nutrients, thereby decreasing the potency of the diet. When you halt dieting and recommence eating as usual again, your body will store food as fat in preparation for another time of starvation, so you will become even heavier than before.
3. Embarking upon overmuch strenuous exercises may cause excessive stress on your muscles when they’re unfamiliar with it. This can result in muscle and ligament damage which could have a injurious effect on your endeavours to lose weight.
4. Taking things more serenely will bring too many profits to a weight loss program. Commence an exercise program slowly and lengthen the time you spend exercising as well as the measure of exertion. Always stretch ahead of and following a work out to provide your muscles with more flexibility and lessen the chances of straining them.
5. By decreasing your intake of calories through food so that it is just less than the quantity of calories you burn through exercise, you should lose weight until a perfect balance is reached. This is the simplest truth about weight loss.
Once you know about these few golden nuggets of information and can include them in your own battle plan, you’ll possess a far more improved chance of victory where without them you could possibly have failed. But the bottom line is don’t sweat it. Weight loss works best when its fun and stress-free, so take it as it comes without worrying over anything and you might e pleasantly surprised what happens when you stop stressing over it!
Quick Weight Loss Tips February 9, 2009
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Quick weight loss tips come in several flavours, but I’m only going to concentrate on what is safe and natural in this post. Back in my last post “Weight Loss Diets”, I touched upon some diet information that is helpful when losing weight whilst keeping a healthy outlook and making sure you only lose weight steadily.
So what are these stunningly incredible methods of losing weight fast that don’t involve costly and potentially dangerous surgery or taking any pills or drugs of any kind?
Well, the natural way is best in my book, so here are a few natural ways to lose weight fast.
First of all, while I do not endorse any form of crash diet, or starvation diet as these are clearly dangerous and will not be successful in the long term, there is a form of short term quick weight loss diet that will help you to lose weight fast as long as you stick to it. It centre’s around a type of soup that you will need to eat every day for a week and if you can stick to this, you will lose a few pounds and that, in the natural order of things is pretty fast weight loss.
The soup consists of cabbage mainly, with turnip, onions, carrots, celery, parsnips, broccoli and tomatoes. You can add as much garlic, black pepper and fresh herbs as you like but be frugal with the salt. I personally have added several curry spices such as coriander, cumin, cardamom and fenugreek to give it a more tasty flavour and also chilies to spice it up. How you flavour it is up to you, but you can’t add any potatoes or meat or fish and no bread is allowed either. You can’t have any dairy produce or eggs and definitely no cakes, biscuits, chocolates or sweets.
You eat this twice a day in place of main meals, although yo can have a decent breakfast of cereal, oats, muesli etc with yoghurt or even dry wholemeal toast. You can eat as much fresh fruit with your breakfast and after eating the soup as you like, although avoid bananas. No fried foods!
This is fairly nutritious soup and it will fill you up although you must stop the diet and return to more wholesome food after a week or you risk suffering from malnutrition!
This soup is used for heart patients to get some weight off fast before being prep’d for heart surgery.
So there you have it – a really natural and fast way to lose a few pounds in a week, but do not continue it past a week. You can go back to normal food for a week or two then return to this diet for a few days at a time, but it’s not to be used as a regular diet. You have been warned!
Weight Loss Diets November 3, 2008
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Following my last post “Stretching for Weight Loss”, it seems you can’t turn a page in a glossy magazine nowadays without being bombarded by this or that great new diet that is guaranteed to help you to lose so much weight if you follow it to the letter.
Well, diet is of course vitally important to any weight loss procedure, but you shouldn’t rely solely on creating gaps in your nutrient intake just to shed a few pounds. It is common knowledge now that dieting alone is not a good long term weight loss strategy as you need to also work on improving your metabolism and body strength to take full advantage of the process.
That said, when the right exercise and diet are combined in any weight loss process, then a person is almost guaranteed to lose weight as long as they stick with it. But those weight loss oriented last words will ring on for a long time fading only gradually as with the best will in the world you may start out and be a real champion at it, but then something will invariably happen to knock you off balance and your routine becomes interrupted and then has to be put on hold.
If this happens, its not the end of the world. You can have a few day’s break from your routine and still get back to it without losing much headway. But its in times like this that following a good diet can see you through longer spells when you either cannot exercise or your routine cannot be resumed for a period of time.
At least your body will have built up a faster and more efficient metabolic rate through your earlier efforts with regular exercise so it will be used to burning off the calories that your take in with food. By keeping up a good diet through these times, you allow your body to continue its pattern of calorie consumption so you don’t start to gain weight.
But whatever happens, you must resume an exercise routine before too long or your muscles will begin to weaken as they’re not being used, causing an eventual slow down in metabolism and then the weight will begin to come back.
So there is the weight loss top tip of today. It might seem like common sense and you probably already knew that, but it always helps to read it again to refresh your mind that you know what it is you’re supposed to be doing! See you all again soon!
Terry Didcott
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