I had always wondered why people that had recently lost weight most of the time end up gaining back the pounds that they had lost plus some more. I have done some research and found that when people gain weight their fat cells grow in size and number. When you lose weight your fat cells decrease in size but will never decrease in number. That is one of the reasons why it makes it much harder to keep weight off once someone has lost it. The more fat cells someone has the harder it is to keep the fat amount out of the cells. Coupled with this Many of the people that lose weight have a hard time keeping it off because of the temptations they are faced with in everyday life.
When losing weight the best way is to couple good nutrition with low impact cardio and weight training. On average the best way to lose weight is to lose between one and a half to two pounds a week. This does mean a longer period of weight loss but it is the more healthy and creates better results in the end when compared to rapid weight loss. Also this way of weight loss creates more of a habit and a way of life rather than rapid weight loss. Rapid weight loss is less healthy and does not create a way of life like slow weight loss does.
In the end when lossing weight someone should choose to lose small bits of weight over a long period of time. This creates a way of life of eatin healthy and working out. It also ensures less weight gain in the future and less rapid relapse of fat growth.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
When to stop eating?
I can speak from experience about this problem that many people face when it comes to food. I find myself after meals still craving for more or when something that looks delicous is put infront of me I just want to eat it. Like the other day I finished with eating at e hall and then not even an hour later my friend brings over cup cakes. What do I do? Eat them of course. My excuse was that I didnt want to make her feel bad by turning down her food even though I know I shouldnt of eaten them.
This is a big problem when I comes to dieting and nutrition people know when they have hit capacity and reached their limits but they keep on eating no matter how bad it makes them feel. I like them experience this problem at times when the food looks so good you cant help but go for another plate. Although it may seem like a small thing at the time most of the snacks that we enjoy after meals are sweets. Like others I have a sweet tooth and crave that after dinner cookie. It used to be so bad for me to the point where I couldn't sleep well at night if I didnt have my sugar fix after dinner. It has gotten much better since that point in my life but I still find myself craving sugar like many others on this campus and around the country.
This sugar need is a huge problem and is the reason why people cannot step away from the sweets. For the most part people can put down the ice cream after one bowl but others take it to extreme and in some cases eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting. This is one the reasons why there is such an overweight percentage in America people do not know when to walk away and have to much of a good thing. So the next time you find yourself in this position think of something more healthy to meet that sugar fix. Don't grab a cookie or cake eat some fruit and remember that it is for a good cause.
This is a big problem when I comes to dieting and nutrition people know when they have hit capacity and reached their limits but they keep on eating no matter how bad it makes them feel. I like them experience this problem at times when the food looks so good you cant help but go for another plate. Although it may seem like a small thing at the time most of the snacks that we enjoy after meals are sweets. Like others I have a sweet tooth and crave that after dinner cookie. It used to be so bad for me to the point where I couldn't sleep well at night if I didnt have my sugar fix after dinner. It has gotten much better since that point in my life but I still find myself craving sugar like many others on this campus and around the country.
This sugar need is a huge problem and is the reason why people cannot step away from the sweets. For the most part people can put down the ice cream after one bowl but others take it to extreme and in some cases eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting. This is one the reasons why there is such an overweight percentage in America people do not know when to walk away and have to much of a good thing. So the next time you find yourself in this position think of something more healthy to meet that sugar fix. Don't grab a cookie or cake eat some fruit and remember that it is for a good cause.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Does Nutrition Automatically Make you Skinny?
With the new fad of being ultra skinny or ultra ripped, many people will asking the question does eating right or in some cases not eating at all lead to these conclusions? I believe the answer to this is that not all people can and will be ulta skinny or ripped beyond belief unless taken to extreme measures. This is due to the fact that all peoples body compositions are different and make our bodies different than anyone else. For example between me and my mom we could eat the same meals and same amounts of these meals but her at my age would just be smaller becuase of many factors including her metabolism and bone structure. These factors are what in many cases lead to eating disorders.
Many women and even some men would admit that were at one time or another victims of an eating disorder. This is how many women get down into shape in their minds by being ultra skinny, but they are ruinig their health. Women if having experienced an eating disorder record having some physical problems after their experiences and in all cases mental disorders because now a days eating disorders are classified as mental disorders. This is the problem with todays society they advirtise skinny unobtainable bodies that women starve themselves for instead of following a healthy diet. Good nutrition is improtant in all people even if you dont look like the magizines. A persons nutritional health cannot always be seen from the outside but only seen from what they eat everyday. People born naturally skinny can still be in bad health with their eating habits but still be skinny while larger people could be healthier in the way that they eat even know you wouldnt be able to tell from the outside. This all depends on a persons body composition and food works in peoples bodies in different ways and in extreme cases some will resort to anything to have whats in their opinions "a perfect body."
Many women and even some men would admit that were at one time or another victims of an eating disorder. This is how many women get down into shape in their minds by being ultra skinny, but they are ruinig their health. Women if having experienced an eating disorder record having some physical problems after their experiences and in all cases mental disorders because now a days eating disorders are classified as mental disorders. This is the problem with todays society they advirtise skinny unobtainable bodies that women starve themselves for instead of following a healthy diet. Good nutrition is improtant in all people even if you dont look like the magizines. A persons nutritional health cannot always be seen from the outside but only seen from what they eat everyday. People born naturally skinny can still be in bad health with their eating habits but still be skinny while larger people could be healthier in the way that they eat even know you wouldnt be able to tell from the outside. This all depends on a persons body composition and food works in peoples bodies in different ways and in extreme cases some will resort to anything to have whats in their opinions "a perfect body."
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Is cheating the best decision?
No im not talking about the kind of cheating that we see on tests or homework or heaven forbid cheating on a significant other, Im talking about the cheating that some dieters experience I was sitting watching a new episod of I used to the be fat a new reality television series on MTV when I realized how much of a problem this is for dieters. This episod featured a young girl that during the summer before she starts college wants to lose weight and get down to a healthy range and to do this she is given a trainer who also doubles as a nutritionist. Her nutritionist shows her what to eat and how to prepare this food to get to her goal, but for some reason she believed that it might be benefical for her to take her diet into her own hands.
This girl planned her own cheat days where if she believed she had done good with her workout and diet the whole week she would endulge in a pasta dish or desert to reward herself, or in some cases make herself feel better for the hard times she had been going though mentally and physically. What she did not realize is that she may have done a good job the whole week but this one cheat meal was just negating every bit of energy and hard work she had put in the whole week. Within the first month of her diet she had only lost around five pounds of the sixty pound goal due to these cheat days.
I wanted to write and warn about cheating on diets because to me it is one of the biggest problems seen today with the average dieter. You could eat a salad everyday all week and keep your calorie intake down but right when you put that pasta or chocolate cake in ur mouth it just sparks a craving for more, which leads to another and maybe even bigger cheat the next time or even next meal. Those on diets need to realize that their hard work of giving up food and working out will all be wasted if they participate in on of the biggest epidemics in the dieting world, the cheat day.
This girl planned her own cheat days where if she believed she had done good with her workout and diet the whole week she would endulge in a pasta dish or desert to reward herself, or in some cases make herself feel better for the hard times she had been going though mentally and physically. What she did not realize is that she may have done a good job the whole week but this one cheat meal was just negating every bit of energy and hard work she had put in the whole week. Within the first month of her diet she had only lost around five pounds of the sixty pound goal due to these cheat days.
I wanted to write and warn about cheating on diets because to me it is one of the biggest problems seen today with the average dieter. You could eat a salad everyday all week and keep your calorie intake down but right when you put that pasta or chocolate cake in ur mouth it just sparks a craving for more, which leads to another and maybe even bigger cheat the next time or even next meal. Those on diets need to realize that their hard work of giving up food and working out will all be wasted if they participate in on of the biggest epidemics in the dieting world, the cheat day.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
They Say
Critics of nutrition will tell you that you can eat whatever you want and just work out to keep your weight or lose weight but I am here to say that this is not the case. Nutrition is the key component to losing and maintaining weight. The reason why what they "the critics" say will not work is becuase in a most cases if you were to eat whatever you choose you could not work out enough to burn the excess calories that you are putting in your body. Lets say I were to eat a cheeseburger and then go to the gym and run. Even if I were to run for an hour straight I still could not burn the calories that I have just put into my body, and that is just one meal. This is the reason why nutrition is a key component to losin and maintianing weight even though some may say that working out is a main part of losing weight.
They may say that all there is to losing weight is working out and nutrition plays no key component but I disagree. I say that a good and healthy diet is the largest part in a goal of weigth loss but this is in best cases combined with a workout regimine that will burn of a little more calories then what you have put in your body. So in the debate of they say, I say, they may say that working out is the larges part of weight lose but I believe that a nutritious healthy diet combined with a workout routine will do the best job for a weight loss goal.
They may say that all there is to losing weight is working out and nutrition plays no key component but I disagree. I say that a good and healthy diet is the largest part in a goal of weigth loss but this is in best cases combined with a workout regimine that will burn of a little more calories then what you have put in your body. So in the debate of they say, I say, they may say that working out is the larges part of weight lose but I believe that a nutritious healthy diet combined with a workout routine will do the best job for a weight loss goal.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Importance of a Nutritional Breakfast
Big Breakfast May Make you Fat After All
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41177896/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/
By Linda Carroll
1) This article is aimed at readvising dieters that have in the past been told by nutritionists to eat a larger breakfast to lose weight. A new study within this article proves that in most cases even when someone eats a larger breakfast it does not reduce the size of their lunch and dinner portions. This in the end will a majority of the time have an adverse effect and increase their caloric intake resulting in weight gain.
2a) The assumptions that can be gained when reading this article are that dieters have been told in the past by nutritionists that eating a bigger breakfast will help them lose weight. Also we can assume that the best way to lose weight is to eat smaller meals not to cut out breakfast or eat a large breakfast.
2b) When reading against the grain in this article one thing stuck out as a point that the auther may have sublimitally mentioned is that one diet may work for one person but not for another so the nutritionists may have been giving good advice to a small percentage of dieters but for others this does have an adverse effect.
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41177896/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/
By Linda Carroll
1) This article is aimed at readvising dieters that have in the past been told by nutritionists to eat a larger breakfast to lose weight. A new study within this article proves that in most cases even when someone eats a larger breakfast it does not reduce the size of their lunch and dinner portions. This in the end will a majority of the time have an adverse effect and increase their caloric intake resulting in weight gain.
2a) The assumptions that can be gained when reading this article are that dieters have been told in the past by nutritionists that eating a bigger breakfast will help them lose weight. Also we can assume that the best way to lose weight is to eat smaller meals not to cut out breakfast or eat a large breakfast.
2b) When reading against the grain in this article one thing stuck out as a point that the auther may have sublimitally mentioned is that one diet may work for one person but not for another so the nutritionists may have been giving good advice to a small percentage of dieters but for others this does have an adverse effect.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Why?
I decided to write about nutrition becuase I believe that everyone has the right to be healthy and eat healthy to keep their bodies in shape and live a long healthy life. I think that everyone should know more about what they are putting into their bodies and how it is effecting them and the life that they are living. I want to discus what foods should be eaten and for what reasons as well as how the foods that most americans rely on such as fast food is effecting their bodies. I think everyone should know the best way to live a healthy way of life and to me this starts with the right foods.
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