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Weight Loss

The Zone Diet plan

The main goal of the Zone Diet plan is to control the protein-to-carbohydrate ratio every time you eat. Once you have controlled this ratio for about five to seven days, the Zone will become immediately and constantly accessible. The dieter can choose from three methods to put together a balanced Zone meal.

The Hand-Eye Method relies on your hand and a plate, with no math or measuring necessary. You visually divide your plate into three sections. One third of your plate, on the Zone Diet plan, is for lean protein and the remaining two thirds are for favourable carbohydrates such as fruit and vegetables. Meats should be about the size and thickness of your palm. Once you have filled your plate with the required foods, add a touch of beneficial fat such as avocado or olive oil.

The Zone Counts Method offers a more exact method for calculating carbohydrates. Here, you add up your carbohydrates based on the Zone Counts values. Women can eat 15 Counts per meal, men 20 Counts per meal, and 5 Counts for snacks for either gender. A Zone Counts Index is available online or from the numerous books published by Dr. Barry Sears.

The Zone Diet Meal Planner can also be used if you have Internet access. Zone-balanced meals can be automatically planned for your wants and needs.

Hundreds of quick and easy recipes can be found and substitutions are easy to make if you are not happy with the one you were assigned.

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Weight Loss Pills

Advantages

• They’re painless. Unlike exercising weight loss pills don’t cause as much pain as exercising. All you have to do is pop one in your mouth and you’re done, you don’t have to build up a sweat like in exercise. • They don’t consume time. If you work 9-5 you will know that going to the gym or exercising on a regular period can be a problem. Some days you don’t have time to go to the gym and you end up storing the calories instead of burning them. With weight loss pills, they don’t take as much time as going to the gym do they? It takes about 5 seconds to have one. • You can’t injure yourself. Going to the gym or doing any exercise can have a risk of an injury and that injury would put you out of exercise, which means you will start putting on weight while recovering. With weight loss pills injury risk is virtually non existent.

Disadvantages

• They stimulate water loss. This means for every pill you take you lose a certain amount of water. This is not advisable as you will start getting dehydrated and also with the water loss, you will lose potassium which will start making you feel weak. • They help you lose your appetite. By not eating as much you risk having health problems and soon your muscles will start feeling weaker and you will have a higher blood pressure. • You can become addicted. Having pill after pill can get you addicted. This can cause severe health problems including diarrhoea and insomnia.

On the face of this information you may decide to use weight loss pills as a short term fix, but there is another alternative and that is to use a fat burning pill which will reduce fat rather than water in system. Getting rid of fat is your ultimate goal. Taking pills will start you in the right direction but you will need to change your diet and start exercising to improve your health and fitness in the long term.

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Weight Loss Pills 

People are often tempted to use Over The Counter (OTC) medications and weight loss pills to lose weight fast, but need to realise that there is no magic formula or magic wand for losing weight. Healthy eating, low-calorie foods and regular physical activity are the only effective ways to lose weight and keep it off.

Remember that even if you take weight loss pills it will be necessary to consume low calorie diet. Also remember that you cannot take pills forever as is neither practical nor safe.

Here is some information about the more common weight loss pills.

• Clenbuterol - This drug has been in the news recently under its nickname Size Zero Pill or Size 0 pill. It has earned the nickname because of the extremely undernourished and starved look of some of the fashion icons in Hollywood who have been using this pill. This drug is not meant for human consumption; it is a FDA approved drug for treatment of horses. This drug increases heart rate and body temperature thus help burn fat; it suppresses appetite for as long as nine hours after its consumption. It is an extremely unsafe drug.

• Alli - is not a medicine; it is a fat burner or fat blocker. It is a FDA approved OTC weight reduction product. Weight gain is caused by excess calorie intake, and consumption of fat is the main cause of excess calorie intake, Alli blocks about 25 % of the fat consumed from being digested; the undigested fat passes through the body in the natural way. Since the fat is prevented from being digested, Alli is effective in weight loss.

  When you use Alli you are required to limit your meals to 15 gms of fat each, failing which you are likely to have extremely unpleasant side reactions such as bowel movements, loose stools, very frequent visits to the toilet etc.
  Since even a popular burger exceeds Alli’s limit of permissible fat content, it is a serious limitation the dieter has to contend with.

• Xenical - Alli and Xenical are similar; their composition is the same so their limitations and usefulness (!) will be similar.

• Ephedra - (ephedrine alkaloid)also known as Ma Huang, the Chinese name for Ephedra. It has been banned in USA) used in dietary supplements suppresses the appetite. Many popular products used for weight control were found to be using Ephedra at one time. However, it has now been totally banned due to safety concerns. In spite of the ban many ephedra products are still sold on the Internet. Many athletes considered Ephedrine as a performance-enhancing drug. Due to safety concerns it has been prohibited in most competitive sports.

• Bitter Orange - This non-prescription OTC product is claimed to increases the number of calories burned and thus help weight loss. It is being sold as a substitute for Ephedra. It may also cause health problems as Ephedra does. Its long term effects are not known.

• Hoodia - This is an extract from a cactus-like succulent plant from deserts of South Africa. It is being sold as natural appetite suppressant. This has not been evaluated for safety, effectiveness, or purity by the FDA and it is a potentially risky product for weight loss.

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Food to Speed up your Metabolism

We all know about foods that are good for us and have various proven benefits. But many people aren’t aware that there are actually fat-burning foods, which help kick-start your body into shedding excess weight. These wonder-foods can increase the number of fat calories your body burns, stimulating your metabolism. They are known as ‘free foods’, and as you’d expect they are low in calories.

However, some of them actually have ‘negative’ calories, meaning that your body burns more calories metabolising the foods than it absorbs from the food itself. Add them to your diet and see the effect for yourself The great news is that such ‘super foods’ contain real health benefits in addition to their amazing weight loss assisting properties. These benefits make them ideal components in any weight loss programme.

You normally think of chilli as being found in traditionally unhealthy meals and snacks, but it contains capsaicin, an active ingredient which as a thermogenic agent helps to increase metabolism and the burning of calories and fat. Capsaicin is unsurprisingly found in many natural weight loss formulas – it is believed to be an appetite suppressant.

Cayenne was shown by two Japanese studies to increase metabolism of dietary fats in women – it also showed a modest reduction in appetite. Capscaicin does even more than this – it has been shown to relieve sinusitis, psoriasis, migraines and arthritis, improve circulation and stomach conditions and even inhibit the growth of cancer cells. It also works as a good all-round painkiller.

Then there’s bee pollen. It’s a virtually complete food with an amazing composition of nutrients, enzymes and phytochemicals as well as being 40% protein. It’s meant to stimulate the metabolism as well as helping to flush fat from the body due to its high lecithin content. Pollen also makes for a good appetite suppressant, but has no negative side effects.

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Watch what you drink

You could eat a perfect diet and exercise until your face turns blue and still have a difficult time losing fat if you’re not careful with your alcohol consumption.

Did you know that alcohol has 7 calories per gram, almost as much as fat (9 calories per gram), and almost twice as many calories as a gram of carbohydrate or protein (4 calories each per gram). So even just a couple of drinks can set you back 300 - 400 calories.

In addition, when you consume alcohol at the same time as food, your body tends to burn the alcohol first, before burning fat.

Suppose, for example, you cut your calories from fat down to a recommended 20 percent. That’s great. But if you consume 10 percent of your daily calories (approximately 2-3 drinks) from alcohol, it is as though your diet has 40 percent fat, proportionate to calories.

Furthermore, studies show that alcohol makes people hungrier; and at the same time, it lowers their inhibitions, so they are more likely to binge. The more you drink, the less you care about what you are eating and how it might be sabotaging your progress.

As you can see, fat loss is not nearly as easy or effective if you drink too much alcohol. This is not to say you have to cut out alcohol altogether. Alcohol, just like fat, cholesterol, salt, and sugar, may be consumed in moderation.

If you drink on a regular basis, try cutting back to one glass, or a glass every other night, or just on the weekends. Also, try a light beer with fewer calories. And when you have a cocktail, use diet soda or Crystal Lite as the mixer. you may be surprised with your weight loss result.

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Weight Loss

We all have the same problem: Fat amasses very easily and it is hard to lose.

Storing fat used to be essential for survival, and fat is a great storage medium for energy. Throughout history, we have relied on our body fat to survive numerous famines and starving periods of time.

Nowadays, the ability of our bodies to store fat easily can defeat permanent weight loss. Let’s understand how fat cells work and why it is so difficult to lose weight permanently.

Existing fat cells fill up when your body takes in more energy than you spend. And it does not matter if you are eating fat or starch or sugar: All extra calories go into fat storage. When the fat cells you already hold are filled, the body develops new fat cells, a natural process with no limits.

Especially if you are stressed, building up fat cushions is often comfortable. But the most serious threat to permanent weight loss is: Existing fat cells won’t be destroyed. You can reduce the quantity of fat stored in fat cells, but you cannot reduce the amount of existing fat cells.

A Neuropeptide called Leptin is sent to your brain when fat cells are full. As long as the Leptin level in your blood is high, your brain receives the message "no need to eat". When your body’s fat cells become exhausted, the Leptin is gone - and you become hungry.

Let’s be responsible and face the truth: If you want to lose weight permanently, you’ll have to live with a light feeling of hunger most of the time. This might be a challenge for some people and you need to remember the goals you have set yourself

So, when you start planning your lifestyle changes to lose weight, keep balance in mind to keep you healthy both physically and mentally.

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