Although it may seem impossible, salt can be very harmful and it contributes to putting on weight, therefore you should decrease the amount of salt you consume, if you are serious about weight loss. Water is essential and you should consume high amounts of it. It is not a good idea to skip meals. It is important to have breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Sport is also essential. You need at least ten minutes of sport per day. You must not eat late in the evening, and after dinner, you should go for a walk, instead of sitting in front of the TV or lying in bed. You should drink a lot of mineral water between meals. The dishes you eat should be light so that you can eat high amounts of them in order not to feel hungry. This helps a lot in weight loss. The slices you cut must be thin and you should stripe the lettuce leaves so that they absorb less oil. If you need to eat dessert, it should contain beaten egg white and fruit juice or fruit. At the beginning of your meal, you can eat two hard-boiled eggs, which contain 160 calories, two boiled potatoes, or potatoes baked in the oven, which contain 100 – 150 calories, carrots, or grated celery.

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Posted on December 6th, 2007 by admin
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Atkins Diet is the high-protein, high-fat but considerably low carbohydrate course of therapy related to the weight loss. This diet plan focuses on meat, cheese and eggs whereas discourages foods like breads, pastas, fruits and sugars in any form. Atkins Diet is almost the type of ketogenic diets. Basically this is the quick and significant weight loss diet. It helps the body burning more stored fats through controlling the carbohydrate intakes. There is no specific restriction on the quantity of calories or food quantity permitted on the diet, but there is slight appetite between meals. As per Atkins, the diet can ease symptoms of conditions like fatigue, irritability, headaches, depression besides certain kinds of joints and muscle pains.

The diet is the low carbohydrate or ketogenic type diet, signified by the faster weight loss primarily, especially because of loss of water in the body. Excessively minimizing the quantity of carbohydrate ingestion affects the loss of liver and muscle glycogen that has strong but transient diuretic effects. However, the extended weight loss develops due to the consumption of reduced amount of carbohydrate forcing the body to burn out stored fats for required energy levels.

Atkins Diet is the four step diet plan which initiates with the two week induction plan which is intended to rebalance the metabolism. There is no restrictions on fat or protein intake but the carbohydrate consumption is however limited to just 15to20 grams per day. The other foods permitted include butter, oil, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese and cream. The daily quantity of permitted carbohydrates is equivalent to nearly three cups of salad vegetables like lettuce, cucumbers and celery.

There is no advance preparations required for initiating the Atkins Diets , yet like any other diets, it is widely suggested to consult the doctor for having the physical evaluation before going for it as the nutritional treatment. Necessary examinations such as blood tests for ascertaining cholesterol levels, triglycerides, glucose, insulin and uric acids are required to be done, besides the tolerance test for the glucose. So far side effects are concerned; Atkins states that this diet plans does not have any such effects reported as yet.

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Posted on September 14th, 2007 by m.jane
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The South Beach Diet has been designed and developed by Dr. Arthur Agatston who is recognized as the prominent cardiologist and the Director of the Mount Sinai Cardiac Prevention Center in Miami Beach . In fact, the Dr. had initially desired to design an eating plan for improving the cholesterol and insulin levels of his parents. But to his utter surprise his parents also lost some weight due to his eating plan. Hence after further studies, Dr. Arthur Agatston contacted Marie Almon – RD, the Chief Clinical Dietician of the same hospital, in this context and requested him to help in developing the effective and ideal diet plan. Thus the South Beach Diet plan was created.

The South Beach Diet is the three-staged carbohydrate restraining diet plan which accentuates the foods having lower glycemic index – GI, having lower saturated fats that include lean meats, vegetables, cheese, nuts and eggs. The South Beach Diets are said to encourage good carbohydrates like grains and fruits dissimilar to the various other carbohydrate restraining diet plans like Atkins or Zone diets.

During the initial two weeks of taking the South Beach Diet is believed to be noticeably beneficial since it exhibits the faster and remarkable weight loss

like 8 to 13 lbs i.e. 4 to 6 kg. However, after the initial couple of weeks too, the weight loss continues at the slower rate at an average weight loss of around 1 to 2 lbs or 0.4 to 1 kg every week. Besides losing weight, the diet also helps reducing cholesterol and insulin levels resulting in the minimized risk of diabetes and heart ailments. The diet is so designed that it eradicates s hunger or eating desire besides having more flexible food options following the initial couple of weeks.

In the South Beach Diet book, the creator writes that the typical diet is neither low carbohydrate, nor low fat whereas the diet is intended to emphasize on the ‘good’ carbohydrates like fresh fruits, vegetables as well as whole grains, besides good fats such as olive oil and nuts instead of completely discarding them from your routine diets.

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Posted on September 7th, 2007 by m.jane
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Weight Loss Diets for Obesity

Obesity, over weight and Weight Loss Diets are perhaps the most commonly heard terms in the world today. More and more people are reported to gain excess weights due to changed lifestyles for various reasons. Gaining weight may yet be easier but losing the excessive weight is hell of a job, we all know. Weight Loss Diets are generally based on the pharmacological treatment strategies that emphasize to decrease and control the body weight. Since the Weight Loss Diets are designed to change one of the basic processes of the human body, these are medically prescribed especially in typical cases of morbid obesity where the weight loss becomes life saving aspect.

It has been found that almost all types of the Weight Loss Diets work on some or the other features such as: suppressing the appetite to help eating lesser foods, enhance the metabolism processes of the body, hindering the body’s capability of absorbing the exclusive nutrients in the foods – for instance, blockage of fat break-down and thereby avert the fat absorption in the body, the OTC fiber supplements and guar gum slow down the digestive process as well as reducing calorie absorption.

Generally any weight loss is affected due to the lower calories intake in the diets. In absence of the necessary minimum routine exercises, the diet with 1400–1500 kcal every day, regardless of macronutrient composition, would conclude in weight loss. Persons ingesting high-fat, low-CHO diets may lose weight as protein and fat consumption is self-restricting and in general, calorie ingestion is also minimized. Ideally losing weight gradually in natural process is better than any other option. Increasing the routine activities or exercises and simultaneously restricting the food habits with balanced nutritional diets would help you lose weight naturally.

Rapid weight loss therapy or diet plans may give the adverse affects to the body leading to various serious ailments. Reformed lifestyles and proper diet plans accompanied by sufficient activities and necessary rest etc may help you achieve the targeted results in due course. The good diet plans may help you losing weight but no Weight Los Diets in fact does any wonders on its own.

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Posted on June 29th, 2007 by admin
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