Weightloss for Life

We tend to look at the visual weight loss goals of our plan and by doing so we let the bathroom scales dictate our success and failures in this journey. Depending on how hard we are working out if at all we may be replacing body fat with muscle so the scales may not tell us the truth as we are looking for it. Another way to look at weight loss is by inches or really how our clothes feel. If our pants etc. are starting to feel loose then perhaps we are being successful after all. I like to say we must have a long term outlook and it takes time to learn new habits and we are creatures of habit. Remember you have spent many years developing the eating habits you have so why do you think you can change them in a matter of a few days. Yes of course you are going to fall off  your diet sometimes, guess what your human. We must learn to forgive ourselves for our little failures and celebrate our achievements instead, we are simply too critical.

We have great intentions when it comes to dieting but the best intentions don’t cut it if we do not follow through. It seems we always have some excuse or a way of procrastinating simple a decision although life changing they may be. What could be so difficult as to drop a few pounds or more, lack of knowledge on how to, lack of will power, fear or many other obstacles that are too numerous to count. I will say that many so called “fad” or whatever category they fall into “diets” seem to offer quick solutions and fast acting etc, etc. Dieters have so many things or programs to look at when it comes to weight loss, I like to compare them to trying to find a cell phone provider with the minute and extras package that is right for you, way too many choices. Sometimes we make it more complicated than we need to in order to lose the desired weight. Do you realize that if we just wanted to drop 20lbs over 90 days that it’s only about 1.7 lbs a week. How hard would you have to try to lose 1.7 lbs a week. We often look at the big picture and get that overwhelming feeling but if we break things down to small goals and start to create a new vision for ourselves of how we would look just losing 20 lbs. It may not seem like much but if you can start small and celebrate the little accomplishments over time many little achievements can add up to a much bigger victory in a couple of years.

When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it “the SUV diet.” On the first day of spring, 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon (bios)   chose to confront this unsettling statistic with a simple experiment. For one year, they would buy or gather their food and drink from within 100 miles of their apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Since then, James and Alisa have gotten up-close-and-personal with issues ranging from the family-farm crisis to the environmental value of organic pears shipped across the globe. They’ve reconsidered vegetarianism and sunk their hands into community gardening. They’ve eaten a lot of potatoes.

Their 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted. Within weeks, reprints of their blog at thetyee.ca   had appeared on sites across the internet. Then came the media, from BBC Worldwide to Utne magazine. Dozens of individuals and grassroots groups have since launched their own 100-Mile Diet adventures. The need now is clear: a locus where 100-milers can get the information they need to try their own lifestyle experiments, and to exchange ideas and develop campaigns. That locus will be here at 100MileDiet.org—turning an idea into a movement.

My question for the audience is “Do we have any idea how many diets or weight loss programs are on the market today? Better yet do we have any history of when the first diets started?
Also what is the success rate of these programs and what kind of cost?  Feel free to leave a comment below.

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There are many great things about starting an aerobics program for your body.

While you are building up a sweat and working on your heart rate, all of your muscles are also getting great things out of the aerobics work that you are doing. As you bring new blood and oxygen to all of your body systems, you are going to find that you are giving yourself the best chance to really get rid of all that unwanted fat as you go along.

When you body is in constant motion, all of the body systems are working hard to maintain body functions at a normal rate. Because your heart has to work harder your lungs need to work harder to provide your heart with the oxygen that it needs to keep pumping. All of these things are going to work in tandem with each other to make a situation in which you are really getting the most out of your entire work out.

There are a number of very dangerous eating disorders that effect people of all ages, races, sexes, and economic statuses. While you may hear a lot in the news about anorexia and bulimia, one of the lesser-known weight loss disasters sweeping the nation is binge eating. Binge eating is very bad for your body and can cause heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other medical conditions, which actually could result in death. Therefore, it is important to learn about binge eating and to seek help immediately if you think this could be a problem for you.

Binge eating is basically a form of overeating at its worst. There are times when we all overindulge in good foods, such as at a holiday or when eating out at a restaurant. However, a binge eater faces overeating problems more than a few times a week. Binge eaters often find themselves overweight and unhappy, which can make the situation worse.

 Binge eaters will overeat to the extent that they feel sick. In many cases, they will eat thousands of calories in one sitting, and many of the foods they are eating are not very nutritional and include comfort foods. Binge eaters may enjoy sweet or savory foods, and may also have a problem with alcohol. In one day, a binge eater may eat more than the normal person will eat in a week. Foods that a person will binge eat vary and can even change for a particular binge eater from day to day.

Unlike people who are suffering from bulimia, binge eaters will not induce vomiting in order to rid themselves of the food they’ve eaten. Therefore, binge eaters tend to be overweight. In some cases, a binge eater may eat non-stop for an entire day, but then spend the next three or four days starving him- or herself and exercising vigorously in order to stay at the same weight if possible.

Binge eating goes hand in hand with a number of other physical diseases, but it can also effect a personal mentally and emotionally. Man binge eaters star because they turn to food for comfort as a way to work out their problems, which is unhealthy. Binge eaters are also usually very emotionally charged about their body weight and may experience depression because of it, regardless of if they are overweight or not. Binge eating is not only dangerous for the binge eater, but can affect everyone in his or her life. If you or someone you know is suffering from this disease, it is important to seek help as soon as possible. This is not a good way to lose weight.

Fad diets have been around for many decades now and there has been just about everything you can think of from pills to potions, lotions and powders with still more to appear. Folks have been swindled, pilfered, cajoled, stung and had the wool pulled over their eyes more times than fleas on a camels back. Still we continue to pull out our credit cards to try the next one because they say it will work. I guess we always will as long as we think it’s the one that is going to turn our life around. “Just a soon as I lose all this weight I’m going to feel more confident and things are going to be better”. Oh by the way they have a pill for that too. It’s called a confidence pill, take one in the morning and one before you go to bed and your self confidence will magically appear.

Quick, easy, painless and effortless that’s the key, that’s what will work for you.

I don’t know if the medical profession has records of how many patients they get from the diet industry or as we say the latest fad diet. Often there are side affects that are overlooked by the consumer and this can lead to severe health problems if not treated properly. What drives us to risk our health all for the sake of looking slimmer?

Perhaps one things is the pictures of ultra slim starlets and stars that are promoted to us on a continuous basis so much so that some of our young are afflicted with eating disorders in order to try and look like those trendy star images we see on TV.

We see these images and then we get hit with the promotion of how would you like to look like that in just a very short time etc, etc.

One simple answer is we are looking for something easy and that’s just what the advertisers are going to tell you. They know how to hit every hot button on you and the next thing your pulling our the credit card and making the purchase. Heck they even have

“Testimonials” My god actual people telling us how good this new one is and how easy they lost their weight with just 15 minutes a day. I’m not writing this to embarrass anyone but to point out that “IF IT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE , THEN IS PROBABLY IS” .

The truth of the matter is that losing weight takes effort, discipline and sacrifice to really lose weight the right way and learning to do the right things for the long term health benefits. We look for the external to fix the internal and in reality the internal must create the vision of what it wants in order for the external to appear.

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard people say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, that doesn’t stop millions of Americans, and people around the world, from skipping breakfast or opting for only a drink of coffee. The truth is that breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, and you will have a much more healthy diet if you include it in your daily life.

Breakfast is rightly named—break fast. When you sleep, you are not eating for 6 to 9 hours at least, and more if you haven’t eaten since the night before. Therefore, breakfast is the first time you’ll be eating anything for a very long period of time. Some nutrients, like proteins, cannot be stored in the body and are therefore not present, so the body needs you to replenish the “low” levels of such nutrients. Breakfast is like the match that lights the fire. It truly is a very important source of energy for your body in the morning.

Eating breakfast in the morning also helps you avoid some illnesses and disease. For example, your sugar levels are probably out of whack from not eating for many hours, so having breakfast levels out the amount of sugars in your body, helping to prevent diabetes. Eating a healthy breakfast also helps you to provide food to your stomach so that you don’t overeat at lunch because you are so hungry. Overeating leads to obesity, which comes with a whole host of problems, including heart disease.

Healthy breakfast foods, like eggs, fruit, or bran cereal are also a good source of many of the vitamins and minerals a person needs during the day. If you don’t eat these things in the morning, it will be hard to make up for that loss later in the day. Remember that without the proper amounts of nutrients, you body will not function correctly. When you eat a healthy breakfast, it also makes you choose healthier foods during the rest of the day, so that you continue to get the proper nutrients needed for your body.

Setting aside 15 minutes in the morning to eat breakfast every day can truly make a great different in your diet. In the best case, your breakfast will include foods from at least three different food groups. For example, you can have whole grain toast (bread food group) with peanut butter (protein food group) and a banana (fruit food group). Top that off with a glass of milk to drink, and you’ve even hit a fourth food group. Breakfast does not have to include a heavy pancakes and sausage meal every day to be healthy, and even grabbing a single piece of fruit or a muffin is better than skipping the meal completely. Breakfast is important to your health!

In todays society we are conditioned to think short term , not long term. We have companies that report quarterly profits or losses and professional sports teams that fire coaches for not winning in their first season, we have buy now ad’s for every consumer item that you can think of and we have a million diet promotions that offer fast and often easy results. We have enough fast food to feed entire nations and in the mean time we condition them to our fast and easy way. No wonder most diets fail before they start because they didn’t work like magic in just a few short weeks. Now I will say there are some fantastic programs that will do wonders for you in the short term like Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training.  

Now Craig is well known for getting great results and can put you on a program that will knock your socks off. The key is after the initial few weeks or months go by is to stay hungry in the long run. How do you maintain this drive 1 year or 2 years from now. I believe that you have to have a long term vision about how you want to look and what are you willing to give up in order to achieve those results. Now those goals you set for yourself need to be attainable and realistic. You need to be forgiving as well since you have spent perhaps many years with eating habits that brought you to this decision in the first place. When we undertake the challenge to eat better it can be daunting to say the least but understand that this takes time as well.  Often we hit sticking points in dieting and we tend to just grab whatever because we starving like we have always done before but that’s not when you should pack it in.  You can always look at your goals of what you want out of this diet and exercise program and start the next day with those in mind.  We are not perfect and sometimes we stumble but the most important thing is to begin again.