Your weight loss Efforts

The following health tips may help your weight loss pursuit:

1.  Do not diet but eat differently and exercise.
2.  Do not skip breakfast as it does not save calories but eating a healthy breakfast stops you from overloading on calories later in the day.
3. Add at least one serving of fruit to your breakfast and lunch, and one serving of vegetables to your lunch and dinner.
4. Stick to your food plan. Be disciplined.
5. Take an active role in the way your meal is prepared. Mind the quantity and the quality in terms of your body requirements.
6. Weigh yourself at least once a week but don’t step on the scale too often. 
7. Endeavour to cook your food. Cooking at home is the only way to control the ingredients in your meals. You never know crave inducing composition that is served out there.
8. Banish temptation. Do not keep food that will tempt you in your fridge.
9. Do not eat your meal while relaxing in front of the TV. People tend to consume more in that relaxation mood.
10. Have a realistic goal to reduce your weight. The weight did not get to that level one day but gradually. In the same manner, your weight reduction should follow suit. 

I hope this helps. Be determined not to starve. It is well. 

Benefits of losing weight

Obesity is simply described as a condition of being overweight. In technical terms, it is defined as a condition where a person has accumulated so much body fat that it might have a negative effect on their health. If a person's body weight is at least 20% higher than it should be, he or she is considered obese. If your Body Mass Index (BMI) is between 25 and 29.9 you are considered overweight.

At the extreme, this is evident in the massiveness of the individual and excess flesh all around the body presenting a picture of a shapeless individual. This comes with various health problems which may include serious heart conditions, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, osteoarthritis, back pain etc.  The danger to health and quality of life is better imagined. 

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No statement can be truer than this statement from Youthhealth.com, “"If you don’t have your health it’s very hard to have anything else, or appreciate anything else so to speak. If you’re ill it doesn’t really matter how much money you’ve got because you won’t appreciate it because you’re ill".   So being healthy should be everyone’s concern.

Other benefits include:

Absence of aches and pains in your body. A state of wellness.

Having good sleep and waking up and feeling good and in high spirits ready for the day’s activities. I mean ready to hit the road and be on the move.  Another benefit of good body weight is availability of energy to carry out one’s assignment quickly and confidently.

With good body weight, breathing is done effortlessly and no struggle for life. Also, embarrassing snoring at night is none existent. People do not have to avoid sleeping by your side and neighbors need not know that you are sleeping.

Also, your movement is not impaired. So you can go wherever you want and whatever pace you choose and do physical exercises and outdoor games of your choice. In one word, you are ‘fit.’

Very important too, your body can fight diseases and sicknesses easily because your body’s improved immune system as a result of your being active physically,

Becauseof your athletic shape, you have confidence in yourself and attract more friends to yourself.  You gain acceptability in your circle. Why?  You are more handsome or beautiful as your dresses are more fitting and better appreciated.

Health And Fitness Through Weight Control

More and more people are now into controlling their weight because of the hazards that obesity brings to their overall health and fitness. One most common form of controlling weight these days is dieting.

Through the years, dieting has become one of the most popular means of controlling weight to most overweight people in the world. Although there are seemingly countless testimonies of its effects, many experts agree that there are also side effects when controlling weight is not administered properly.

What you need to know about diet and dieting

Dieting refers to the practice of eating or drinking in a regulated manner in order to achieve a specific short-term objective of gaining and or losing size or weight “diet,” on the other hand refers to the habit of nutritional consumption and focuses more on a long-term goal.

Studies show that the most common objective of dieting is for a person to lose excess body fat. But, there are also kinds of diet that are prescribed in order to achieve a particular medical objective while some dieting are actually designed and prescribed to increase body fat or add up to muscle weight gain.

Diet is actually categorized into two: the weight-loss diets, which restricts the intake of specific foods or food group in order to reduce body weight and the weight-gain diets, which are usually self-imposed in order to achieve a higher weight class.

Aside from that, special cases also require diets especially when it is related to certain medical conditions. Special diets usually include, exclude, or regulate a set of certain chemicals especially from the foods that contain them and are given to people that have chronic diseases such as diabetes and other illnesses such as epilepsy, cardiac disease, kidney diseases, and also those who are lactose-intolerant. Other specific types of diet to control weight include low-fat diets, low-carbohydrate diet or Atkins Diet, natural diets, vegetarian diet, and very low calorie diet.

People who are controlling weight should also seek professional help in controlling their weight because dieting lead to prolonged hunger, depression, reduced sex drive, fatigue, irritability, fainting, sinus problems, muscle loss, rashes, bloodshot eyes, gallbladder diseases, and loose folds of skin among others.

Tips managing weight

One of the effective means of achieving health and fitness is for a person to know how to manage or control his or her weight. This is because a controlled weight simply means that one is able to eat balanced meals, healthy foods, and have a regular set of exercise needed to stay fit and healthy. The following are some of the ways that one can control his or her weight:

1. Load up with lots of fluids, especially water. Dehydration makes a person lose appetite and can make him or her lose so much weight which can be harmful to one’s overall health. In order to prevent dehydration, a person is advised to drink lots of fluid, especially water.

2. Don’t rush when eating. Taking your time while eating can help you relish the food’s flavors well and also helps your body to adjust to the food eaten. Once the satiety signal is sent to your brain, you can now eat smaller amounts of food.

3. Eat more at daytime and eat less at nighttime. To achieve optimum health and fitness, it is best if you develop the practice of eating bigger meals daytime to have enough time to burn the whole day. At nighttime, people who are controlling their weight should eat smaller meals at nighttime so you can balance the body’s metabolism and burn the unwanted fats and calories.

Achieving Health And Fitness Through Healthy Diet

Many illnesses and chronic diseases have in recent times been occurring among people. This have made it imperative for more individuals to pay more attention to their health and fitness because these would help them combat certain medical conditions.

Today, one of the major reasons why people are overweight or suffer from minor and major health risks is that they don’t practice having a healthy diet.

Effective formula for a healthy diet

Healthy diet, which includes eating balanced amount of food from all food groups, along with exercise or regular physical activity can lessen people’s inclination to health problems. Doctors say that though basic principle of healthy diet is simple, there are those people who are having a hard time sticking to it. The major reasons behind this include a super busy lifestyle, work that causes a lot of stress or even an environment that is not conducive to having a healthy diet.

Despite hectic schedules and busy lifestyles, people can start and maintain a healthy diet if they really want to. Experts say that nothing is impossible to formulating an effective diets plan if one really wants to achieve a healthy mind and body.

For starters, experts advise a mix up of food choices from each food group. Eating a large variety of foods and veggies can also serve as a warm up in avoiding the foods that contribute to drastic weight gain. Having a balanced intake of calcium-rich foods, whole grains, and protein-rich products will also keep you in track. To be able to maintain eating a healthy diet, you must also know your restrictions of fats, salt and sugars levels, and intakes. Lastly, you must monitor your body weight regularly for you to determine if your body is absorbing all the nutrients that it needs.

When do you know if your diet is healthy?

Being free from any illness or medical condition is the major determinant that a person is healthy. For those who are having a hard time identifying what is healthy on their diet and which are not, here are some tips for you. Experts say that a diet is healthy if it is:

- based on starchy foods such as bread, cereals, rice, pasta, and potatoes because they are a good source of energy not to mention being the main source of a range of nutrients of a person’s diet like fiber, calcium, iron, and vitamin B;

- loaded up with a lot of fruits and veggies such as orange, apples, celery, broccoli, carrots, beans and peas because eating at least 5 portions of any variety can provide the vitamins the body needs and it also satisfies hunger without having to worry about fats and excess carbohydrates;

- filled with fish dishes that have high amounts of fish oil because it can provide protein, vitamins, and minerals that are not available to other food groups;

- low on saturated fats and excess sugars such as meat pies, sausages, hard cheese, butter and lard, pastry, cake, biscuits, cream and the others because they are high in complex calories stored in the muscles and sugars that can cause tooth decay.

- less in salt content because experts believe that foods that are high in salt or meals that use too much salt can raise the person’s blood pressure which can lead to more complicated diseases especially those related to coronary illnesses; and

- high in water content because experts believe that for a person to achieve optimum health and fitness, he or she should take in lots and lots of water and foods that are high in fluid content to keep the body well-hydrated.