Posts Tagged ‘diet’

Tips and Tricks

Okay now you know the basics of weight loss, energy in < energy out. You will soon find you naturally start selecting foods with less sugar and fat so you can feel more full. Heres a few items that helped me. Sugar free lollies or mints, i always keep a packet spare for whenever i […]

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21 Ways to Make Your Diet 100% Easier

Small tweaks to your diet can make a huge difference — and these 21 painless fixes will make weight loss even easier. Diet Drinks, Scheduled Eating We’re with you: Dieting is no picnic. But here’s a little secret — it’s not nearly as hard as most of us think. “A lot of women believe they […]

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Good Fats

You hear the hype about good oils all the time. Transfats and all the gobbldegook inbetween on diet programs on tv. And to be honest. I never ate ANY oils unless it was chippies or chocolate or some form of crap food when i was losing my weight. When it came to donate my kidney […]

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10 Diet Myths and Facts

Low-fat! Low-carb! Eat all day! Don’t eat after eight! Finally, the honest to goodness truth about how to keep your weight under control (please note that the weight measurements on this page are in US pounds) Myth No. 1: Don’t eat after 8 p.m. The Theory: You burn up the food you eat earlier in […]

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The Plateau: How to get past it and avoid it

Okay we’ve all had times that we stop loosing weight. Sometimes for a week which is not so bad, sometimes longer. The problem is that either your body gets used to the diet and exercise you’re doing or you are eating too few calories. Try changing your exercise so instead of running you are swimming, […]

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Biggest Loser Techniques

Your Daily Calories Calculate your calories by taking your present bodyweight (in lbs) and multiplying it by 7. If you’re not sure what your weight is in pounds, just multiply your weight in KG by 2.205 For example, if you weigh 100kg, that would convert to about 220lb. Multiply that by 7 and you have: […]

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Dieting During Pregnancy

Although I dont advocate dieting during pregnancy, there are times when it may be required for both the mothers and the babies health. Having had several bad pregnancies with the last ones being very complicated i only wish I had lost weight before it got so bad. Being overweight during pregnancy can be the difference […]

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Negative Calories

There is much debate over ‘negative’ calories. I have included this page purely because these foods should be eaten with any diet – no matter what the truth is ! Theory All foods have some calories. No food is actually “negative calorie” food. But the overall effect of certain foods in our body is that […]

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5 Rules of Success

1. Breaking habits. This is breaking the “bowl of Ben & Jerry’s for Must See TV” on Thursday night, or “all you can eat night” at the local pizzeria with the gang. 2. Environment. If your significant other or friends eat like a horse around you, maybe you should not be around them so much. […]

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Top 5 reasons for diet failure

ONE STRIKE, YOU’RE OUT A problem that many challenged dieters experience is falling off the wagon when they make just one diet slip-up. You’ve gone a week without indulging in any fried fast foods, and you break down and go to the local burger joint for some fries and a burger. Then, you figure, since […]

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