Do you have to prepare yourself emotionally to lose weight effectively?

Someone told me, I know I'm overweight, but I have to be ready to lose weight.  As I focus on the thought, I realize it's true, you have to make a decision to go an effective weight loss program.  Why is that so?

•  Emotional eating is easy
•  Fast food is cheap

Emotional eating:-
Do you know why we put something in our mouths when we are emotional?  Think about this, have you noticed when a baby is crying, the first thing the mom does is to stick a pacifier in the baby's mouth?  We are creatures of habits, so what is the first thing we do when we are hurting?  We eat.  For example, I had a slice of pie with whip cream for dessert, but after a slice, I desired another slice until the pie was finished.  Do you think after the first slice, I was eating dessert.  No, I was eating to satisfy a need.

Fast food is cheap:-
Fast food is very popular, and it's very convenient to purchase.  They are very low in cost and are highly processed with additives.  They don't satisfy the body's need for building blocks or nutrients, but it satisfy the immediate hunger, and cravings.

For these two reasons alone, it's a very difficult decision to lose weight effectively.  Why?  We'll have to face the emotions we were trying to avoid, and we'll have to learn other behaviors to deal with those emotions.  Let's face it, fast food taste good.  The alternative would be to learn how to prepare your own healthier choice of meals, and after a long day at work, who needs that right?

With 50% of the heart diease, cancer, stroke, or diabetes deaths are diet related, doesn't stand to reason that we should change the way we look at food today?

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Calories to lose weight

Do you know how to adjust calories to lose weight each week?  Today, there seems to be allot of talk about weight loss to confuse anybody.  With the increase focus of carbohydrate and dietary fat, concern over calories has been left out.  It's a shame with that because the fact that whether you focus on dietary fats or carbohydrates, or weight loss drugs, you'll simple gain weight if you take more calories than you burn.

To lose a pound, you need to create a deficit of 500 calories per week.  Therefore, here are some suggestions to substitute.

Instead of : Bagel and cream cheese and coffee with cream and sugar use Bran flakes cereal with skim milk, and not dairy creamer

Instead of:  20-ounce soda, one cup orange juice, and second glass of wine use water, unsweetened teas

Instead of: Candy bar, chips and 20 oz soda use baby carrots, and an apple

Keep a food diary as a written log of what you eat as a powerful eye opener.  When you write down what you eat, you eat less...

If you need more information, I'll be glad to assist....

Water for weight loss

We know we need water to survive, but most of us take it for granted, and don't drink enough of it.  There are studies which show in addition to  hydration, drinking water help speed up weight loss. 

What's make it so special?

1) Water is essential for your body
We've heard our bodies are 70% water, so it makes sense that we need more of it.  Water is essential for every part of your body, from cells to body functions.  It flushes toxins from our body, prevents fatigue, and accelerates weight loss.

2)  It increases  the rate people burn calories
There are studies which shows drinking cold water increase weight loss because the body burns calories to heat the water to a usable temperature.  The Berlin's Franz-Volhared Clinical research center said metabolic rates increased by 30% for men and women within 10-40 minutes of drinking about two glasses of water.

3)  Helps you to stay hydrated:
When your body is dehydrated, it makes up for it by storing in the water for later, and of course we know it could be in our legs, ankles, lungs and abdomen.  What most of us don't know, the way to reduce this storage is to drink more of it.

How can you increase the water consumption?  Good question, I'm glad you asked it..
Rehydrate each morning.  Have water with meals instead of other beverages.  Thirst is a signal that you are dehydrated, so get enough water before you feel thirsty.

Hope this little tip helps you in your weight loss goal...

Burning desire as a secret in an effective weight loss

One of the first step to achieve success in weight loss is to develop a burning desire to lose the weight.  The burning desire becomes your WHY, and it's not necessarily for you to look good, but it could be a desire for you to become healthy, to get off the medications from the doctor.  If the burning desire is not strong enough, then you will not accomplish your goals.

I know allot of people say diets don't work, and to some degree I agree with the statements.  A prescribed one diet plan fits all doesn't work.  We need a program tailor made for us:  the individual.  The specialized plan plus a strong enough why, and you will accomplish your goals.

What prevents failure in weight loss?  Unbelief...If you don't believe what ever plan you are working with won't work, then guess what?  It won't work.  Unbelief drives indecision to get up another day and work on your good health plan.  Unbelief will allow you to talk yourself out of the WHY which will cause you to procrastinate in  your good health plan.

Here is what I will suggest to stop unbelief...Create smaller goals..Yes, you would like to lose 50 pounds, but you and I know you won't lose it tomorrow or next week if you just start your program.  However, if you have a small goal of fitting in the dress in the closet you haven't worn for a month because you gained 10 pounds and accomplish that goal, then  it will drive unbelief from you.  Continue in that trend,  create smaller goals to wear something, and you will wear it, and bit by bit you will accomplish your weight loss goals.

Hope this helps...

Improving Weight Loss Success By Putting Focus On Immediate Health Benefits

Most weight loss programs try to motivate individuals with warnings of the long-term health consequences of obesity: increased risk for cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and asthma. New research suggests the immediate health benefits - such as reduced pain - may be the most effective motivator for helping obese individuals shed extra weight and commit to keeping it off.



In a pilot research study, University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers found that 21 percent of participants in a local dietary weight loss program reported significantly less pain in the lower extremities and back after losing an average of 10 pounds. Additionally, study participants reported a 20 to 30 percent reduction in overall bodily pain after weight loss.


Researchers say their results indicate that even small weight loss can relieve pain and reduce the burden excessive weight puts on the musculoskeletal system.


"By focusing on an immediate benefit that can be felt - like pain reduction - instead of the future health impact of obesity, weight loss programs may be able to inspire overweight individuals to lose weight," says Susan Kotowski, PhD, study collaborator and director of the Gait and Movement Analysis Laboratory in the UC College of Allied Health Sciences.


Kotowski and colleague Kermit Davis, PhD, report their findings in the August 2010 issue of the journal Work.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 44 million Americans are considered clinically obese. Since 1975, the number of obese Americans has risen from 47 percent to 66.3 percent. Previous studies have estimated obesity-attributable medical expenditures in the United States at $75 billion, with half of these costs financed by Medicare or Medicaid.


"Obesity has become a national health crisis, but compliance for weight loss programs is notoriously poor. One potential reason for this is that current programs target long-term diseases, with little direct relevance to the person's current health status," adds Davis, senior author of the study and director of the Low Back Biomechanics and Workplace Stress Laboratory at the UC College of Medicine's environmental health department. "Our study results challenge people to rethink the way they structure weight loss programs."


For this pilot study, UC researchers partnered with a Cincinnati-based weight loss clinic to recruit study volunteers. Thirty two women between the ages of 22 and 76 participated in the study and data was collected over the course of a 12-week dietary weight loss regimen.

Researchers collected baseline individual weight and musculoskeletal pain data related to nine body regions: neck, shoulders, elbows, hands and wrists, upper back, lower back, hips, knees and lower legs and feet. Participants were then tracked each week to record any weight loss and asked to rate their pain on a scale of zero to 10 every other week.

Significant associations were found between weight loss and overall pain reduction, as well as pain reduction in the elbow, hip region and upper and lower back.

Researchers say these preliminary results could have ramifications for companies with a high prevalence of overweight workers with musculoskeletal problems - particularly in industries that require manual or repetitive weight-bearing labor.

"From an ergonomics perspective, we can only do so much to alter the work environment to remove body stressors," explains Kotowski. "Excess weight adds additional stress to the musculoskeletal system and that can only be relieved through weight loss."



Source:

Amanda Harper

University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center
 
 
My comments:  I agree with this post...The little changes with pain your body plays one of the greatest part in the weight loss regimen...No more pains in knees especially when walking up the stairs...WOW!!!

Here's A Quick Way To Create An Effective Weight Loss Plan

In today's society,  to maintain a healthy body weight has become one of the greatest challenges.  We have become accustomed to our sedentary lifestyles, the fast food industry, stress, and other factors which affect our health, and weight.  However, barring specific medical conditions, a weight problem is a combination of 3 things: 

•  Nutritional Intake
• Calorie intake
• Activity level

For any weight loss plan to be effective, it must have the correct balance of the the three.  Why?  I don't know if you have noticed, we are all different people in our own rights.

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Latest Increase In US Obesity Rate Will Mean More Cancers, Experts Warn

According to just-released figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2.4 million more Americans became obese between 2007 and 2009. Approximately 26.7 percent of the US adult population, or 72.5 million people, are now obese. Experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) said today that this increase may well result in a corresponding increase in the national cancer rate in years to come.

The AICR experts pointed out that those 72.5 million Americans face an increased risk for colorectal cancer, postmenopausal breast cancer, kidney cancer, esophageal cancer, endometrial cancer, pancreatic cancer and gallbladder cancer.

"Obesity plays a central role in many cancers," said AICR Director of Research Susan Higginbotham, PhD, RD. "Its links to heart disease and diabetes are well-known, but Americans need to understand that more obesity today means more cancer tomorrow."

AICR currently estimates that excess body fat causes approximately 103,600 cases of cancer in the US every year, and warns that as the percentage of the population who are obese continues to increase, this number will rise.

The 103,600 estimate was calculated by combining projected cancer incidence for 2010 with data on the prevalence of obesity and its impact on cancer risk found in the AICR/WCRF report, Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, released last year. That report estimated the percentage of various kinds of cancer that are attributable to such risk factors as poor diet, lack of physical activity and excess body fat.


According to AICR, the estimated number of US cancers that are currently linked to excess body fat include:

Estimated Cancer Cases

Percentage Cancer Site Cases Per Year

49 endometrial cancers 21,300

35 esophageal cancers 5,824

28 pancreatic cancers 12,079

24 kidney cancers 13,978

21 gallbladder cancers 2,050

17 breast cancers 35,540

9 colorectal cancers 12,831

TOTAL 103,602



"It's clearer than ever that efforts to prevent obesity also help to prevent cancer," said Higginbotham. "The need for action has never been more urgent."

Source:

American Institute for Cancer Research


My comments : I found this information in agreement to this post....Obesity is not a direct cause of cancer. However, as we age, the fat stores in our body - the little cells that sit for so long - begin to change and go rancid. These cells begin searching for other cells to collect with, which begins a mutation process that can lead to cancer.


When a person has an overabundance of free radicals roaming throughout the body, this heightens the probability for developing cancerous conditions.

Email me at angtotalhealth@gmail.com for free wellness evaluation, so this information will not be true for you.






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