Dieting - Share Your Experience

Kacy Carr asked:


Did you ever hear the likes, a “chocolate diet?” Brace yourself because you hear right. Chocolate acts as a vitamin replacement; if this is true then healthy benefits derived from this particular diet may not be so bad after all

The chocolate diet is just one of many fad diets which include you eating favorite foods. While consuming your specified amount of yummy allowance keep in mind it is supposed to control high blood pressure and prevent heart disease. Although encouraging reasons for using the diet, what of rotting teeth and the people who bang weight on if they as much look at a bar of chocolate.

The diet mainly consists of fluids. Powder or supplements are given to the dieter to mix with milk or water. Is this not cocoa as we all know it?

Chocolate contains anti-oxidants that help prevent arteries clogging. Does this not leave the dieter in a catch 22 situation after being advised to avoid sugary foods because of fattening issues? Weighing up the good and bad is it not healthier to carry a little excess weight to avoid pores clogging or having a heart attack. Chocolate prevents heart disease and obesity increases the risk of heart disease. Is obesity not the same as fat? I am confused.

Chocolate powder shakes are not for replacing or substituting meals, but designed as healthy snacks to stop a rumbling belly. Is this diet so bad when the sugar supply gives us that much needed energy boost?

The question is does the chocolate diet work.. It’s not clear that chocolate stimulates metabolism or helps the fat burning process. Beyond that, too much of anything can be bad. While chocolate does have health benefits, a diet with an emphasis in chocolate may not be the best way to lose weight. To shed pounds stick with a sensible eating plan.

Diet - Throughout the day you can munch two 40 gram bars of chocolate and drink sugar-free coffee with non-fat milk. Make eating exciting and appetizing, mix chocolate chips with strawberries in a glass bowl. Glass allows visibility of the delicious filling which guarantees lip licking. Slice a couple of bananas and drizzle melted dark chocolate over them. You have to take the chocolate diet for 5-7 days and no longer. After one course take a break for 3-4 days. The chocolate diet is a decreased calorie diet that centers on drinking liquid diet shakes to fill the gap. People use it as a replacement for food and if you consume less food this clearly indicate fewer calories.

I am not sure I agree this can be called a sensible diet when evidence proves different i.e. pounds piling on instead of dropping off and decaying teeth. Before dieting speak to your doctor or dietician

The sensible thing to do is ignore fad diets and embark on the sensible by following a sensible eating plan. Choose the wrong diet can be dangerous - seek expert advice. The best way to evaluate a diet is by the promises made. Overnight weight loss or miracle cures are promotional pledges you should snub.

Crash dieting is unhealthy. Weight loss is for more than just losing pounds. Exercise for skin and muscle tone is just as important. Exercise is necessary but it won’t replace a diet. A combination of both is ideally the key source to losing weight. Give yourself time to adjust and not to lose focus when you begin your first diet.

Consider a low-key diet that aims at healthy foods:

1 Choose an apple over a chocolate bar.

2 Cut out cordials and drink water.

3 Walk rather than use the car or bus.

4 Limit portion sizes of what you eat. It is easier than counting calories and carbohydrates.

5 Use a smaller plate to serve dinner on.

6 Replace sticky puddings for pieces of fruit

To lose weight, fewer calories have to be burned off than what you take in. Skipping meals and eating fewer calories can cause severe consequences; it can lead to binge scoffing later because of low energy and blood sugar levels. A sensible and healthy eating plan will include between 1200 and 1400 calories daily for women and 1500 to 1800 calories for men. Breakfast being the most important meal of the day is one you must not skip. Eat 4 to 5 times a day but in moderation.

Chicken breast is a good source of protein also low in fat. Two recipes below cooked in 15-30 minutes, low in fat, and under 400 calories a serving

Chicken & Vegetable Kebabs

4 Blocks of egg noodles

2 Skinless chicken breasts

1 Jar/195g yellow bean sauce

3 Button mushrooms

1 Medium courgette

½ yellow & red pepper

1 tbsp olive oil

4 spring onions

1 red chilli

Wooden skewers

Method

1. Fill large pot with water - bring to the boil, add noodles, return to the boil and simmer for 4 minutes.

2. Dice chicken breasts and place in a bowl. Add ¾ jar of yellow bean sauce and stir coating the chicken.

3. Preheat grill.

4. Prepare mushrooms into quarters; slice courgette; deseed. Slice peppers into squares. Size is up to you.

5. Skewer a mushroom quarter followed by chicken, courgette, pepper and so on.

6. Place kebabs on the grill and cook for 10-15 minutes turning frequently.

7. Heat some oil to smoking point in a wok, add spring onions chilli and stir fry for 60 seconds. Add noodles and remaining sauce - stir to coat. Heat through.

8. Serve kebabs over noodles.

Chicken Pancakes

Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil

3 Skinless chicken breasts

Jar hoi sin spring onion stir fry sauce

Spring onions, sliced lengthways

1 Cucumber

8 Chinese pancakes

Method

1. Slice spring onions lengthways into 3″strips. Cube cucumber and slice into thin batons.

2. Thinly cut chicken into strips.

3. Heat oil in wok till piping hot, add chicken and stir fry for 7- 8 minutes

4. Preheat Chinese pancakes as instructed on packet.

5. Add stir fry sauce to cooked chicken - coat and heat through.

6. Serve chicken spring onions and cucumber onto pancake - roll and serve

Enjoy stay slim and healthy

 



Lillian

Elle Nash asked:


I wanted to take the time to share with you some of my female bodybuilding diet tips. I’ve been doing training in this sport for almost a decade now and I’ve really learned a lot. Since I was a female in a male dominated sport, I had no information to help me along the way. I was forced to learn through trial and error, so I’m going to share some of what I learned with you.

Tip: You’re faced with a challenge when you sleep. Obviously, you want to have a full 9hrs of sleep, but you don’t have any nutrition coming into your body to help you build muscle. There’s a problem here, but I’ve figured out the solution. Eat fat before bed slows down the digestive proccess, so if you eat a combination of protein and fat, it will slowly digest itself throughout the night. This allows you to get your sleep and the nutrients necessary to build muscle.

Tip: My other female bodybuilding tip is to start eating smaller meals about every 2-3hrs. The reason for this is simple; to give your body a constant flow of nutrients to repair muscles with. Your body doesn’t immediately repair muscle tissue. It takes roughly 48hrs after you work them out to fully repair themselves. That means during that time you’ll need to have a constant flow of nutrients.

If you follow these you will have great results. You’ll notice that very little of what you do in the gym will make up the results. Your diet will determine how well things are going to go. That’s why you need to follow all these bodybuilding diet tips.



Brandon

Linda Bruton asked:


Many people search for a magical weight loss diet tip that will help them shed the pounds and keep them off. But is there really any such thing? If all the best information could be packaged into one workable piece of advice, then maybe that would be the magical tip people yearn for.

The soundest weight loss advice can be summarized as this weight loss diet tip: do not eat processed foods. That includes any white flour products and any sodas, including diet sodas. That’s it. That one tip could reverse the trend of increasing obesity in America and begin to restore people to normal balance.

The reason is that the standard American diet (SAD - and it is) is very high in simple carbohydrates that convert quickly to blood sugar. This forces the pancreas to produce more insulin. Eventually, the pancreas gets worn out, the insulin receptors on the fat cells stop working properly and people develop obesity and related illnesses such as diabetes.

This is the only weight loss diet tip that will work for the long term and not only allow the body to lose weight but also reverse diseases like diabetes and reduce the risk of heart disease. Of course, the amount of food eaten is going to impact your weight, and if you decide to replace our SAD diet with loaves of whole grain bread, you may be healthier but you’ll probably still be overweight.

If you want to lose weight, you need to burn more energy than you take in through food. Increasing exercise can certainly help you do this and avoiding fast and other processed foods will make it easy to decrease calorie consumption as well as avoiding foods that elevate your blood glucose levels.

The more natural your diet, the more active your lifestyle, the more you drink adequate amounts of pure water and the more you can avoid chemicals and other toxins, the better your chances of being restored to a healthy weight and the easier it will be to stay there.

Any weight loss diet tip that doesn’t prescribe lifestyle change isn’t worth listening to. Do yourself a favor and reject artificial, mass-produced food products. Go back to a more natural way of living. Eat living foods that will impart to you some of their own vitality. Food is fuel. If what you are eating is not good fuel for your body, it is best to avoid it. This is the one magical weight loss diet tip that works. Why not put it to the test?



Leah

David Timms asked:


Okay, for many people this is a big problem. Water does not taste all that great generally because water does not really taste like anything. Drinking water 8 to 10 times each day gets easier the more you actually do it. It is simply a matter of conditioning your taste buds, and yourself, so that it becomes easier to do. Once you get started, you will begin to crave water.

To begin with, you should drink a glass of water in the morning first thing, before you eat. This is probably the easiest glass you will drink all day and it will help you remember to drink water all day long. Better yet, why not drink two glasses?

If you really cannot bear the taste of water, try using a water purifying pitcher or filter. You can also add a few drops of lemon or lime to your water but no sugar or sweetener! Ice also helps. Check out flavored waters on the market, too. Just keep an eye out for additives.

Second Tip Eat breakfast Do not skip breakfast. If you need to go to bed a little earlier so that you can get up 20 minutes earlier each morning do it! Breakfast is so important to your good health and to weight control. According to Dr. Barbara Rolls a professor of nutrition at Penn State University, “Your metabolism slows while you sleep, and it doesn’t rev back up until you eat again.”

Eating breakfast is not only good for overall weight loss, it will help you stay on track with your diet the rest of the day. You are more likely to binge on something sweet and in the bad group if you skip breakfast.

You can always keep a couple of hard-boiled eggs in the fridge or some high-fiber, low starch fruit around. If you plan to eat fruit at all during the day, breakfast is the perfect time to do it.

Third Tip Eat at least 3 meals and snacks each day This can be one of the hardest adjustments to make. After all, you are busy! You already have a full-plate. When do you have time to worry about filling your plate with more frequent meals? Just like eating breakfast will increase your metabolism, so will eating more often. This will also help you curb your bad-carb intake by making sure that your snacks are planned and occur regularly throughout the day.

Really, it will just take a minimal investment of planning time at the grocery store and at home each morning before you head out for the day to make some healthy food choices and prepare a few healthy snacks and meals.



Julius

Syed Rishad Mustafa asked:


Here we are going to introduce you to few healthy weight loss dieting tips. If you are on look out not for just weight loss but rather healthy weight loss then you are on the right track – this tips should really help you.

TIP #1

First thing you should do is to drink lot of water while you are on dieting. The reason for this is that while you are on quick weight loss diet you lose lot of water instead of fat. This is an ideal weight loss technique. You aim is to lose body fat and not water. Drinking lot of water would give you an idea of what actually you are losing is body fat or water.

There are other benefits of drinking water too. Increase in intake of drinking water increases one’s metabolic rate. The rate at which body burns calories is what known as metabolism. Thus drinking lot of water helps you reduce weight through your metabolism rate. If you digestion is proper then you have less chances of gaining fat.

Some people’s obesity might be due to more retentiveness of water in their bodies. The more water you drink the lesser your body retains. Our body has the mechanism of retaining water in the body when we drink less and it expels out when we drink more.

Tip #2:

Moderate levels of exercise combined along with diet plan is a secret of good health. Hence it is not very easy to keep off the weight just by sticking to a starvation diet. You need to make sure that your daily routine has a sufficient physical activity so that you can remain fit and lean in the long term.

Walking, jogging, swimming, gardening etc are some pleasant activities which are not very tiresome and also could help you provide the amount of physical activity required for you body. These activities helps in building up the tone of your muscles and thereof minimizing the accumulation of fat in the body.

Perform any of the above mentioned activities moderately without giving much strain to your body, especially in the beginning. Keeping oneself physically active not only keeps one’s body but also mind fit. It keeps you away from diabetic and other bone related problems such as arthritis as well.

Tip #3:

The last but not least diet tip I would like to give you is to eat lot of raw fruits and vegetables which indirectly acts as source of water in your body. The good thing about them is that they have very less fat. While dieting you might be depriving your body from essential nutrients thus by increasing the intake of lot of raw fruits and vegetables you could minimize this problem to a certain extent.

Serving yourself with fresh vegetables and fruits before every meal can fill your belly that you can eat much less. The fiber present in vegetables and fruits is very good for digestion. For example when you feeling like having snacks you can munch on carrot , apple or fig instead of items which adds to your body fat without supplying any potential nutrient.

Conclusion:

Additional to the above diet tips you should remember to keep yourself away from diet pills and keep yourself away from embarking on difficult diet programs which demands you to starve yourself. They can be very bad for health because in reality most of them which show up a quick weight loss is only temporary. That is in reality only water is lost and not the real fat which your body holds. So stick to above mentioned weight loss advice.

The above 3 mentioned diet tips seem to be very simple and easy but they are very effective when it comes to lose weight in a very healthy manner and on long term basis. This tips can prevent you from any type of deficiency which you might face otherwise while taking up a difficult diet plan. It also prevents your body from losing unreasonable amount of water. Therefore it is a permanent solution and not temporary for weight loss.

Here is a very useful link for those who are looking forward for a healthy weight loss plan :

www.healthy-weight-loss-plan.info



Robert

Phil Hixon asked:


he Idiot Proof Diet you WILL come upon and need to use one of these 5 tips below.

Tip 1. Follow The Program Exactly

Do not eat anything not on the menu or mix foods from meals after the diet has been generated Make sure to avoid the 10 foods mentioned in the Diet Handbook

Do NOT skip meals. This is very important. If you miss meals it lessens the effectiveness of the calorie shifting system. This will help.

Tip 2. Cheat During The 3 DAY Cheat Cycle

This is in the top 3 questions. Everyone says I just lost 8 pounds in 11 days and now I’m supposed to cheat for 3 days straight!” Most peoples logic and emotions are telling them that since they had so much success they will keep dieting for those 3 cheat days and lose even more weight. Or they don’t want to gain back the weight they lost. TRUST ME! You aren’t going to gain it back.

Cheat for two days if 3 feels like too much.

Tip 3. Moderately Exercise to Accelerate Your Weight Loss (optional)

This can be a big one in increasing the amount of weight you lose. Exercising builds more muscle which in turn burns fat. Your body obviously will also look much more toned and fit. You don’t have to use weights. When I was calculating how people who exercised lost more weight this included people who just walked or jogged regularly at least 4 times per week.

Tip 4. Change Around the Menu

Some people are not choosing the maximum amount of food choices from each side of the Diet Generator. Some lose interest in their original food plan and don’t realize they can get a whole new menu made with different foods! If when you make a new food plan you start from the same point as before it is fine.

Example: you are on day 6 of your 11 day diet cycle. You are getting tired or don’t want the food you originally picked. You can go pick new foods and generate a new menu. After the new plan is made you would resume on day six! Its that simple. So remember choose the required amount of food and make sure you stick to it!

Tip 5. Only Weigh Yourself at the End of the 11 day Cycle

This one is a tough one. The first thing we want to do when we start feeling better is start weighing ourselves every chance we get. Try not to fall into this trap. There are MANY variables that can affect weight loss in a short timeframe. You may weigh 3 days into the diet and you’re down 3 pounds and weigh yourself on day five and only be down 1. This is NOT an accurate reflection of your weight loss journey. So if you want to save yourself from unnecessary dissapoinment wait until the 11th day like you’re supposed to and weigh yourself then.



Jack

Ramone Stevenson asked:


Unlike other elements of our bodies - a big belly, flabby arms etc., skin is one feature of our appearance that is impossible to hide. But by following a few simple diet tips for healthy skin, you can proudly and confidently show off your glow with the best of them.

See Results with Vitamin C

This nutrient provides an excellent, natural source of healing that helps keep skin looking clear and bright. A great diet tip for healthy skin is to eat foods rich in Vitamin C like strawberries, tomatoes and/or citrus every day.

Vitamin E for Acne and More

Vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects our cells from the distress of free radicals. It is a natural healing and smoothing agent that is widely-used in the treatment of skin disorders - acne in particular. A diet tip for healthy skin is to include Vitamin E-rich foods such as avocados, carrots, chickpeas, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, soy-based products and cheese - especially parmesan and cheddar.

Vitamin A to the Rescue

If your skin tends to be more oily than normal, a great diet tip for healthy skin would be to ensure you’re getting the right amount of vitamin A into your diet. It helps to maintain and repair our membranes and tissues, as well as minimizing the production of sebum which is the oily substance that secretes into our skin from the hair follicles. Foods with a high content of Vitamin A include eggs, apricots, cantaloupe and spinach.

‘B’ on Your Way to Beautiful Skin

Vitamin B is another fantastic nutrient essential for the road to healthy skin. It helps to retain moisture, assists in the prevention of skin cancer and has anti-aging abilities that can reduce fine lines. Another diet tip for healthy skin is to eat plenty of Vitamin B-rich foods such as seafood, poultry, beans and peas.

Carbs are Cool!

Forget about all the hype around reducing the amount of carbohydrates in your diet. Yes, too much of good thing can be bad in any situation, but our bodies - including our skin - need carbs to stay healthy. Keep this excellent diet tip for healthy skin in mind: A lack of carbohydrates in your body will result in a decreased amount of antioxidants which play a huge role in fighting the negative effects of free radicals. A diet that includes whole-grain carbohydrates such as wheat bread, pasta and rice will help to prevent the pre-mature aging that occurs when there is a lack of this nutrient in your system.

Water, Water Everywhere

One of best diet tips for healthy skin is to drink at least 8 ounces of water 6-8 times a day. It will keep your body as well as your skin hydrated and also rejuvenate your cells while helping to flush out toxins.

Sweet Dreams

Make sure you get enough rest because while you sleep, your cells regenerate. It’s another important diet tip for healthy skin as it prevents early aging while reducing puffiness and dark circles around your eyes.



Austin

abhijith s asked:


As the air starts losing the cold bite of winter, you are happy in anticipation of the summer. You start planning holidays to sea resorts with friends and family. Until that fateful moment when you realize you have been too lax with your body and you are not in shape for the summer activities and swimming trunks or bathing suits cannot accommodate your body any more!

Still don’t despair! Summer weight loss is still possible. Remember that losing weight is influenced to the extent of 70% to 80% by what and how you eat and the balance by the physical activities and exercises. Cut down intake of excess calories which increase fat in the body and exercise the body which will help in to burn body fat and to lose weight.

The following simple natural weight loss suggestions if implemented can help you with summer weight loss and shape up your body to face summer with confidence in a matter of three to four weeks.

Drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of water per day.

Water plays very important role in our body functions. Body fat and bones account for 20% of water each, lean muscle tissues are 75% water and over 80% of our blood is water. Water helps kidneys remove toxins allowing liver to metabolize more fat. It works as a natural suppressant of appetite;

Put alcohol on highly restricted list if you are serious on losing weight. Alcohol helps body in storing fat by slowing down metabolism;

Main culprits causing excess weight are saturated fats. Saturated fats and sugar are strictly no-no for weight watchers. Avoid desserts, ice creams, etc;

Include low fat milk products such as yogurt, skimmed milk, cottage cheese in diet; they contain “good proteins” which help suppress cravings for food. They are essential in building muscles;

Vegetables, beans, whole grains and fruits contain “good” carbohydrates which are moderate on calories and fats, they are consumed slowly by the body and thus they help suppress hunger naturally;

Omega 3 fatty acids increase metabolism and energy levels of the body. Eat fish such as Mackerel, Salmon, Sardines and Herrings; they are rich Omega 3 fatty acids which help prevent blood clotting, regulate blood pressure, and lower risk of heart failure. They are helpful in weight loss;.

Eat four or five meals of smaller portions instead of the normal three meals. Smaller meals at shorter intervals help metabolism and burn fat; it helps to lose weight;

Eat adequate fiber food. Fiber food is more filling and it suppresses hunger. It takes longer in digestion and passing through the body it attaches to some fats and proteins in our food and thus keeps them from being digested. Whole grains, brown rice, figs, Apples, broccoli, peas, lentils, beans, fresh vegetables and fruits and nuts are high on fiber content;

Spices such as ginger, mustard, pepper, cinnamon, clove, bay leaf, etc decrease sugar cravings and are helpful in weight loss;

Avoid late night meals within the two to three hours before going to bed. Allow time for digestion of the meal before going to bed.

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Janet Sommers asked:


Diet tips especially on how to lose belly fats are everywhere. In fact there are so many literatures published whether in the internet or books printed about best diets tips. Getting rid of belly fats is not just a fad but a health issue. There are many obese people in this world. The need to lose this fat is quite increasing due to the risks it brings to our lives. People seem to go by trial and error with their exercise regimens or what not just to lose fats. From rigid exercise to strict food diets yet fats especially belly fats will not simply go away.

It seems like it has a mind of its own that simply stay in your belly for good no matter how you try to shed them away from you body. But really, how do we get these belly fats that despite how hard you try to get rid of it, still it keeps coming back. Many believed that belly fats are due to lots of beer intakes or cold water and juices. Many thought that eating fats from pork meat double your belly fats. Though it holds true that belly fats are gained from not eating the right kind of foods, it is not the only basis. Belly fats are also caused by stress hormones and health related problems. Cortisol, a stress hormone, triggers your body to gain body fats. Whenever you are stress, this hormone signals your body and causes it to store belly fats. So how do we lower stress? The irony of it is to eat more and not abstain from food.

Eating the right kind of food can lower down stress. Healthy foods improve your metabolism and help it burn your calories. Example of healthy food that helps metabolism is food with high protein. So here is how to lose weight. Whether eating lifestyle or behavioral factor is causing you to store belly fats, this diet tips help you lose it. First, your eating habits must be corrected. Starvation may help you lose weight for a period of time but big chances that you will triple what you lose in a month time also. So never opt to skip food. Eat more instead but this time, eat healthy foods such as more green leafy vegetables and high protein food. Substitute rice or carbohydrates with potato or sweet potato since it is fibrous, it helps clean your stomach. Wheat bread is also an option. Second, do exercise since controlling your calorie intake will not work alone, but avoid extensive exercise. Surprisingly research shows that long exercises raise stress hormone level up thus make you rather keep your belly fats than rid it. Instead make your exercise routine short but regular. This will help your metabolism burn more calories and belly fats. Combining right food intake and proper exercise do not complete the tips. But the discipline and right attitude to do it make things done. I wish you the best of luck down the path of weight loss!



Conchita

Boris Tomson asked:


Ignore the Diet Rules - A Diet Tip

After giving it much thought, I decided it is time to get serious about losing weight. This tip is one of a series I intend to write - about diet ideas that worked for me.

Simple idea - ignore the extraneous advice and do it my way.

The first idea I had was to weigh myself every day. Sure, I know you are thinking, all the so called experts advise that you should weigh yourself only once a week at most. Why? Because they think you will get “discouraged” if you weigh too often and don’t see results from your diet.

My problem with weighing only once a week? I don’t get feedback from my efforts (or failures) fast enough.Visit to : http://lose-weight-quick-365.blogspot.com

Feedback is the Key

By weighing myself every day, I learn immediately whether my actions and eating pattern from the previous day were successful or not in trying to lose weight.

A key to the usefulness of this feedback is using a high quality reliable scale and weighing myself at the same time every day - for me it is before breakfast, right after I have gotten out of bed. The high quality scale is the first thing I bought when I started the diet. I spent about $150 on the scale - it looks like the one you see at a Doctor’s office. With my scale, I feel confident that the results I am seeing aren’t because the scale is giving me different readings every day.

This feedback shows me the effects that eating a fast food burger with fries at lunch can have on my weight. It shows that I truly will lose weight if I stay on the diet and I can generally see actual results every couple of days.http://lose-weight-quick-365.blogspot.com

A week is just too long for me to be able to know what I am doing right and wrong. Weighing each day lets me see the results quite quickly.

Daily weighing can be tough to do - especially when I know I haven’t been “good” the day before. However, even this bad feeling about myself provides a limiting factor to my behaviour the next day.

I recommend trying this tip if you are having a hard time losing weight. http://lose-weight-quick-365.blogspot.com



Riley