Eight Diet and Weight Control Tips For Shedding the Extra Pounds and Keeping
it Off
These diet and weight control tips are for the man who wishes
he could go
check his mailbox by the gate without his shirt on...
That's something you shouldn't try if, when you look down you
can't see your toes!
Again, these weight control suggestions are for the
lady who wishes she could look like the girl she was in her high school picture
album...
Wouldn't that be nice! Well, you can.
I also have some dieting suggestions weight control for
kids who do not want to lower their self esteem nor miss the joys of their
childhood years by being the "sumo" figure among their peers.
Many kids need to stop growing horizontally more than they do vertically! Oh my,
we're killing our youth!
Anyways...
Proper Diet and Weight Control Tip #1
Using diet to control your weight is not a hard concept to understand,
but it is difficult to put into practice. You've got to admit that first.
Bad habits
are hard to break. Some of us are literally food addicts. We go for
the taste more than the nutritive value. Am I making sense?
I bet you know what I'm talking about! Ok, here we go...
Diet and Weight Control Tip #2
Eat at regular times. Try
not to skip your meal. Regularity re-tunes your biological clock. Some of us need only two
meals per day, but most of us have three.
No problem. Just keep it regular. Personally, I do a 6-12-6
thing and it's great. Now, get this next very important one.
Diet and Weight Control Tip #3
Eat your largest meal in the morning.
Don't frown at this, however unusual it sounds. Do you just want to lose some weight
or do you really want to control your weight?
To have your biggest meal at the end of the day - especially
later than 6 or 7 pm - is the sure way to setup yourself, not only for being
fat, but for other lifestyle diseases as well. So, here is tip no. 4...
Diet and Weight Control Tip #4
Never eat between meals.
Why? Your food takes approximately 4 hours to completely digest, and your
stomach - an important organ you have only one of - needs to rest between meals.
Furthermore, snacks are usually high in calories.
"But I am a diabetic," I hear you say. Or, "What if I can't
eat early in the morning?" Well, both situations are abnormalities. Do you
remember our proper diet and weight control tip #1?
If you are a diabetic, have high cholesterol, or have
hypertension, this principle still applies and is especially important.
I am not kidding. My dietician put me on a meal plan some
months ago and had me eating 6 or 7 times per day. Not only did that waste my
time, but I had to depend on medication to regulate my glucose levels. With the
help of a natural tea called Milagro de la
Selva, I gradually weaned myself from that diet.
Now my fasting and postprandial readings are normal and the
last batch of medication is part of some landfill, somewhere in Georgia!
Thanks to proper diet and exercise!
Diet and Weight Control Tip #5
Cut out foods that are high in fat
and sugar. Use whole grains, fruit, and vegetables instead. Better
still, go total vegetarian. Send me an email, I'll
tell you how to do that.
It takes hard work and determination to quit smoking, for
example. It's
even more difficult for some of us to exercise regularly, regulate our diet, and
to control our weight.
You see, we don't need to smoke to live, but we must
eat to live! And the many junk food ads on television don't make it any easier
either.
But you've got to shed those pounds. You've got to
take control of your life and really live! So...
Diet and Weight Control Tip #6
Go on a regular exercise program.
I encourage you to do what I am doing. It's cheap, there's no fitness club
membership fee and it is very effective.
Walk for at least one hour every day. Start small. It may be 10
minutes the first time. Or it may be three 10-minute attempts with rests
in between.
Talk to your doctor on this one. In fact, it is advisable to
work with your doctor on all these suggestions, especially if you have related
medical conditions.
When I reversed my diabetic symptoms, I knew that my doctor
and some diabetes supply merchants would be losing revenue, but I have got to
put me first!
Listen to your doctor, but know that he or she may not
be interested in encouraging you to use other methods to reclaim your health.
Walking for at least an hour each morning tones your muscles.
It is wholesome aerobic activity. Walk at a pace
that will get your heart rate up to between 123 and 133 beats per minute.
Note that if your heart rate is more than 133 you may need to slow down a
bit. The first few days or weeks will be the hardest, but do it. You will have a
story of victory to tell later on.
Diet and Weight Control Tip #7
Get adequate amounts of rest and
sleep. How much sleep is enough? Really, there is reason to be more
concerned with the quality of sleep than the number of hours you sleep.
It is said that each hour of sleep before midnight is worth
twice each hour after midnight. Studies have shown that the body benefits more
from sleep in the pre-midnight hours than later.
Oh-oh. TV. Well, it's your choice. Read tip number one again.
If you wake in the mornings and you still feel like you haven't slept enough
or if you have to depend on caffeine to function during the day, you may not
be getting enough rest.
Diet and Weight Control Tip #8
Avoid the Low Carb and 'Magic' diets.
They will give you "quick" initial results, but this is often dangerous. Here's
why...
Your cells need energy to grow and function. Energy is
derived from glucose, which can come from carbohydrates, the glycogen stored in
your liver, or conversion of body fats.
The low carb diets force your body to convert its energy
stores into energy - fat burning. Soon the body begins to resist the unnatural
changes that deplete it's energy reserves. This same thing happens during
starvation. Your body will go into a conservation mode.
Exercise causes your muscles to use up this fat to provide
energy. Starving yourself by going on these high protein low carbohydrate diet
is a temporary fit. Can you be on such a diet for the rest of your life?
Physical exercise, diet, and weight control go hand in hand.
Exercise tones the muscles. You not only lose weight, you will stay in shape
(appearance and stamina) as well.
Start changing your life now.
I have a friend who was about a hundred pounds overweight, a
type 2 diabetic, hypertensive, high cholesterol, and being crippled by arthritis
at the same time.
His medication cost him close to three hundred dollars per
month. He followed these steps, which were physically and mentally challenging
at the same time.
He started only a few months ago, and now he is off his all
medication and has lost more than 50 of his extra pounds! His doctor has lost a
little revenue, but that's alright.
Weight control is possible through diet and exercise alone.
No magic diet. No weight loss pills.
Warning!
Twenty-first century people are programmed to think that
relief comes in tablet form. We don't remember that drug side effects are the
5th leading cause of death in America.
Have you heard of safe dieting and weight control killing
anyone?
You will find lots of advertising about how to loose weight
nowadays,
but the weight loss programs seem little interested in explaining how to control
or keep off the excess pounds... it's a business. Do you get my drift?
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