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Eat More Healthy Foods and Lose Weight

Written by MJ Dee /// Find in Health Articles

The key to losing weight is to eat a correct and healthy food. Crushed diets won't help. It will worsen the situation. Dietitians and health experts agree that the best way to keep your body beautiful is simply to eat more food. When you eat more healthy foods the proper way, this could even result to weight loss. Yes, it is true that you can lose weight without crash diets, diet pills, and even exercise.

Don't be confused why eating more can make you weigh less. Just to be clear, you cannot eat whatever you want and expect your body to compensate for the extra calories. What is meant by that "nutritional paradox" is eating more of the healthy foods and eating at the right time. Having a balanced diet and eating at regular intervals is crucial so that your body will not be missing the nutrients that it needs for it to be functional.

One common mistake in conventional dieting is that once we are tricked by the sudden drop of our weight due to crash diet (which happens only initially), we think we are successful already and doing something highly effective.

"When a person starts a crash diet, initially they will lose weight, but they will lose muscle mass as well," Kidd said. "Muscle is a high metabolic tissue. During a crash diet your body adapts to the change, it tries to supply the missing nutrients that are caused by not eating well. This slows down your metabolism. When your metabolism slows down, you lose that tissue, and eventually you will gain back fat mass when you stop the crash diet.

"This is why people who stop dieting suddenly so often gain back the 10 pounds they just lost in a short amount of time, and usually, that gain is nearly all fat."

The secret to weight loss is to trick our brain into telling our body when we full so that we won't overeat while burning fat and tasting great. And to do that we need to eat to keep us full. Eating at the right interval speeds up metabolism and of course we have to choose the food that we are going to eat.

There are so many foods that will help healthy weight lose. These are also the foods that will keep our body functional. While we are eating we also get the nutrients from the food at the same time burning the calorie. Here are some of the healthy foods you can include in your diet;

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NY FitLife with Joanna White

Written by Marea Munro /// Find in Health Articles

Fitness and healthy eating is a major part of life. Sometimes we may want that extra cookie or sneak away with that slice or pizza, but ultimately fruits and vegetables is what keeps our bodies up to par. Joanna White has a lot of experience with leading a healthy life and training others to do the same. Find out what you can do to lead a healthy life and exercises that will leave you looking fantastic.

Diary: MLD's Journey to a Healthy Weight & Life

Written by Empress Magazine /// Find in Health Articles

I would consider myself an attractive, fun loving, ambitious, stylish young woman- who happens to be obese (morbidly obese, to be exact). I guess you can say my journey began about a month ago after a routine check up at my primary doctor’s office. I’ve always been a little thicker than my friends and family, but never at the level of obesity. After all these years, I am finally ready to change. For most of my high school years I was up and down between size 8 and 12.

Even through the first three years of college I was a solid 10/12. It wasn’t until my senior year of college when I quit the dance team and struggled with depression that the weight began to creep up. At first I was ok at size 14. Then, once I graduated and got settled into the working world of a 10 hour desk job and no exercise, I quickly moved up to 16. Now, at size 18 I am ready to say- “enough is enough”.

I know this will be challenging due to the time constraints of my lifestyle and the fact that I don’t know how to cook- but I am confident that I’ve reached my turning point. I will have to wake up at 5:15 in the morning instead of 6:00, cut back on dining out from 7 nights a week to 1 or 2, and build up my endurance from zero to 160!! It won’t be easy, but it is definitely doable!

Through this process, I will be updating you guys with how I am doing. This will make me not only more accountable to sticking with things but maybe I can encourage others out there to change their life and start living more healthy.

Wish me luck! -MLD

About me - The Basics

Age- 26

Height- 5’ 5”

Weight- 253

Mobility Level- Sedentary (Sedentary lifestyle is a medical term used to denote a type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity a.k.a. couch potato)

My Goal: According to my doctor, I need to lose 80 lbs. Ultimately, I would be happy losing between 65 and 70.

My Process: The process consists of a 3 day cleanse during the first phase. The second phase consists of diet and daily exercise. (I bought a treadmill, so there should be no excuses) - see below for details.

Where I am Now (3/8/10) : I am on Day 4 of my process- I had to skip the weekend because my mother was in town, but I am going back to the regimen today!

The Process

Cleanse (Days 1-3)

Meditate 15-20 mins

Breakfast: Fruit Smoothie

Snack: Fresh Fruit

Lunch: Salad

Dinner: Meat with Veggies

Snack: Cashews

125 fl oz of water

Exercise (Days 4-30)

Power walk on treadmill 30-45 mins daily

Diet (Days 4-30- weekdays)

Breakfast: Fresh Fruit or Fruit smoothie or oatmeal or egg white, small meat, and 1 slice of wheat toast or Slimfast shake

Snack: Protein Bar or Slimfast bar

Lunch: wheat wrap w/ grilled meat or salad w/ grilled meat or small soup w/ salad

Snack: Cashews or protein bar or Slimfast bar or yogurt

Dinner: Sensible (portion control)

Snack: yogurt or apple sauce

125 fl oz of water

Diet (Days 4-30- weekends)

FREE: Calorie Counting 1800 calories per day

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