The Obsession of Counting Calories

We have somehow convinced ourselves that calories are the worst thing that has happened to the human body in a long time. We spend millions trying to work out methods of reducing our calorie intake and we stop to enjoy life because there might be too many calories in the wine. There are people who seem to be unhappy that they have been invited to a party because it will involve eating certain foodstuffs. This type of obsession is never healthy and it is actually reducing the quality of life for a significant proportion of the population. People are so determined to remain on the right side of the dieting industry that they have forgotten the commonsense approaches that might have made it easier for them. We are now caught up I a trap that refuses to let go because of the problems with the dieting industry.

Calories were originally meant to be healthy for the people that consumed them because the biology teachers told us how they were nutrients that saved lives. Now the dieting industry is telling us that calories are very bad and that we should eat foods that deal with calories by excluding them from the general diet. The practice of calorie counting has taken hold and these days’ people are always making the effort to work out what their calorie intake is like so that they might be able to reduce the intake that they take. This is a problematic area because it does take into account the fact that we need those calories if we are going to lead a healthy lifestyle. The only issue that really warrants concern is that of over consumption. Like anything in life, the over consumption of calories can cause some problems.

Rather than completely removing calories from the diet, the people should try to control their intake so that they have a balance that will eventually enable them to control their weight. The use of the calories as a means of getting out of weight problems is known but the way that people use it will differ depending on their understanding of the body and the use of food. What one should be aiming for is balance and control of the senses so that they do not eat too much but can burn the calories that they accumulate on a regular basis. That is the foundation of good dieting.

The Regime that You Would Expect From the South Beach Diet

Although it is a relatively simple diet that you can get through with minimum effort, there are still some minimum requirements that you have to fulfill. It is important to remember that nothing ever comes easy no matter what other people may say. Initially you need to be very clear about the things that you are not allowed to eat. There has to be a decision as to whether you can tolerate this kind of deprivation on the basis that the final results will be worth the efforts that you put in. Diets always demand a lot in terms of our patience but if we are organized and determined, we can step up to the plate. That is the same methodology that is used by the South Beach diet. The list of forbidden foods will include poultry products such as chicken, eggs and turkey. You will also not be allowed to eat ham, cheese and vegetables. This can be a very hard task for people who are used to eating good food and some of them end up giving up altogether because it would appear that they can never win this particular battle against the dieting system.

In the initial phase, you will be required to eat three meals per twenty four hour period along with some salads that use olive oil as the dressing. This will be the first of three distinct phases that will ultimately lead to weight loss. You have to cut out foods that have high sugar content such as cakes. Alcohol is also forbidden but you also have to stop eating ordinary things such as rice, pasta and potatoes because they contain lots of carbohydrates.

You will need to work out a method of transferring your cravings away from the less healthy foods towards the more healthy foods. This is easier said than done because by their innate nature, cravings are usually for foods that are forbidden under strict diets. If cravings were for calorie deficient stuff such as water, then we would not have all the problems with diets. However if you somehow manage to re direct your cravings then the next stage will be that you become immune to the unhealthy foods and will not even want to eat them. At this point your diet will be well on its way and you will have a very good chance of succeeding against all odds.

The Belly that Refuses to Budge

If you ask the majority of individuals who participate in weight or fat controlling programs of one sort or the other which part of the sum of sum of anatomical parts that make up the body parts they would like to lose fat from, many of them would answer that it is the fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of. Unfortunately the fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of is one of the most challenging places to effectively lose fat. You can end up losing fat all over your sum of sum of anatomical parts that make up the body parts and gaining a reasonable weight but the fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of will still show.

That is why young individuals who participate in weight or fat controlling programs of one sort or the other are always advised never to get a pot fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of because it will be almost impossible to get rid of it. The problem with fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of fat is that if you concentrate on just the fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of it does not seem work. You seem to get better results if you are working the whole sum of sum of anatomical parts that make up the body parts.

Most food experts or people who have an interest in the diet industry agree that the key to fat loss on the fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of is to have a full sum of sum of anatomical parts that make up the body parts work out. The more excess calories that you are carrying, the more it is likely that you will have a pot fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of. If you just concentrate on doing sit ups all the time and hope that the fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of will disappear then you are only going to be up for disappointment. In fact any person once told me that sit ups only increase the strength of the muscles in your stomach. They do not necessarily reduce its size. Thus you will end up with a fat strong fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of that is still protruding right out of your sum of sum of anatomical parts that make up the body parts frame.
Physical activity that is undertaken with the view to burning calories or building muscle tissue, particularly is it those that put an extra burden on the heart function but not so strenous that it causes a heart attack bases, will be a powerful tool in fighting the pot fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of. You might think that you are not doing anything to the fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of but as you do your workouts, the general size and shape of your sum of sum of anatomical parts that make up the body parts will change for the better.

Physical activity that is undertaken with the view to burning calories or building muscle tissue must always accompany changes in your diet. After all the formula for all fat loss is simply that you use up more than you take in. If you do plenty of diligent physical activity that is undertaken with the view to burning calories or building muscle tissue but then you are still carrying on with the unhealthy habits that plagued your before, then you will not see very good results from your efforts.
We then turn to the contentious issue of weight control medication which is sold on the premises that it will somehow resolve the weight issues of the person who ingests it.

As I said before, some individuals who participate in weight or fat controlling programs of one sort or the other seem to are convinced by them and they continuously try to work out means of increasing the variety and volume of the intake. This is not a healthy way to lose your pot fatty slab that clutches onto the mid riff and is very difficult to get rid of.

The Role of Support Literature When Undergoing a Diet Program

Assuming that you have been on a meal scheduling system for a long period, then you will know about all the literature that is marketed on a regular basis to help people lose body size. This literature will contain experiences of other body size control cases as well as advice from exercise experts who know about the whole meal scheduling experience. They may also include funny stories which might help break your repetitive routine.


This literature can cost quite a bit of funds so you really want to be sure that you are purchasing something that will help you in the long run. In any event you can look at the purchase as some sort of payment for benefit with the guarantee being your body size. Assuming that you look at it in purely monetary terms, you might come to the conclusion that you are being fleeced by the retailers who are peddling their ware to desperate people who will buy anything as long as it promised to help them to control their body size.

Some periods we forget that the meal scheduling systems are just profit making arrangements without any sentimentality towards their customers. Because we are so caught up in our personal body size problems, we forget to account for the fact that the majority of people do not really care about our body size problems. They are simply there to make funds and assuming that they can sell you literature to do so, they will. It is up to you to have the wisdom to choose which literature you think is suitable and which you do not think will provide good value for funds.

Remember that you have to be able to read the literature for it to give you any insight at all. Assuming that you buy too much literature which you clearly cannot read, then you are simply giving away your funds and you will end up disliking the meal scheduling system process anyway. Purchasing literature in itself will not help you to control your body size. It is all about how you use the literature that you have bought. This means reading it and having the diligence to follow the advice that has been provided for you.

The literature will keep coming out because the creative people need to make plenty of funds. Do not become the sucker for people who are exploiting other people’s desire to control their body size. Some of these so called creative people are without scruples to such an extent that that they will even print inaccurate literature within days of one another and yet claim to be neutral observers of the body size loss industry.

Is it Better to keep your Fridge Empty?

Desperate times call for desperate measures. You might begin to believe that the presence of food in your fridge is hindering your efforts to lose weight. If you are one of those people who simply cannot control their appetite when food is available, then you might be well advised to think about the types of food that you keep in your fridge. Even if the temptation is there, you need to be able to limit the impact the food will have on your body. This can ordinarily be achieved by ensuring that only the foods that you have accepted into your regulated diet are kept in the fridge or even the locker.

The way our brain works can be a real handicap when you are trying to manage your food intake. Even if you know that something is not good for you, once it is available, you will somehow find excuses that allow you to consume it, even that consumption might end up putting you in danger as well as shortening your life. It is amazing the amount of excuses we can conjure up if we really want to be able to consume something against the advice of our diet.

However this does not mean that you have to go extreme and ban all foods from your diet. All you are trying to do is have a balanced and reasonable diet. You are not trying to starve yourself to death. In any case, if you tried to pull this stunt all you would get is cravings which lead you to eat even more than you did before. It is better to have a balanced diet rather than striving to achieve the impossible.
Yes there is scope to improve your diet by cleaning out some of the terrible sins that you keep in your fridge. For instance there has to be a really good reason before a weight watcher can justify the presence of lard in their fridge. These are the kinds of food stuffs that really have no place in your life once you start to seriously contemplate managing your weight.

I know some of you might argue that if you completely exclude a lot of the foods that you enjoy from the diet, you end up having a very poor life indeed with limited scope for enjoyment. My response to that is that strict dieting is a gradual process and you can get used to it if you have really made a commitment to make a lifestyle change.

Fat Loss Speed Update on Weight Control

Hi guys. I hope you are o.k. continuing on the theme of losing weight in the modern world: We all know that these days we lead a somewhat sedentary life. Technology has completely transformed the way that we do things. Automatic and work aids are the norm. Only the people who do physical work such as manual laborers experience how it used to be like in the old days of non industrialization. Unfortunately the creature comforts come at a remarkably high price…that of personal health. People are growing fatter and fatter especially in the developed world where hunger is no longer an issue.

For dieters the first inspiration comes from the realization that you are actually overweight. If you look at yourself naked in the mirror, you will be able to see the flab in its full glory. If anything is going to make you try to lose weight, this is it. Most of us have romanticized versions of our bodies within our heads and it must take us to look directly in the mirror to see the work that we need to do to get ourselves back on track. When you look at your profile, you will certainly see the bumps and stretch marks. Some people prefer to go on the scales in the bathroom. This is good once in a while but it can become an obsession where even the gain of a few pounds will cause some kind of emotional breakdown.

Did you know that there are certain sitting positions that encourage laziness and weight gain? If you are sitting in a chair, try to sit upright rather than slouch. This is likely to reduce the incidence of back problems and puts you on alert to get going with your exercise. If you tell your body that you are in the mood and position to put on weight, the body will act accordingly and grant you your wish. However if you tell your body that you are ready for action, it will also try to grant your wish. Remember that once this becomes a routine the body will get used to it and even remind you if you are not performing.

Controlling your weight is a personal responsibility. All that other people can do for you is give you advice and hope that you will be in a position to achieve your objectives. If you are unhappy about the way you look, it is entirely up to you to change the circumstances. Otherwise you may end up losing self esteem.

Working to Loss Fat at Great Speeds

I welcome you to the fat loss speed blog. This is the place where we do not guarantee miracles but work together to share experiences and information about how we have fared in our quest to find body contentment. Nothing will be easy but I believe that if we work together, we can end up improving our knowledge of both our bodies and the ways in which we can look after them. As always I welcome contributions from anyone interested. The contributions do not have to be positive or negative. I just want people to share their knowledge in this area. I will continue the themes of going over some of the key tips that are need in order to lose fat at greater speed.

It is a good idea to check your weight especially when you are about to embark on a new diet or are about to start an exercise regime. This initial weight check enables you to asses where you are in terms of your weight. It is a starting point and we all need a starting point before we can move on. Do not be too alarmed by what you see on the weighing scales. That is you ate this moment but it is not the place that you will be when you complete your program. You can then establish an informal routine for checking your weight. You should not get too obsessed about it as this can cause you to experience long lasting emotional problems. As you lose the weight you will find that your motivational levels are going through the roof. Sometimes you might even forget that you have doing exercise.

When you start getting results from your weight training program, find ways of rewarding yourself without using the habits that got you into the problems in the first place. It is very foolish to reward yourself with a calorie filled chocolate bar after you have just finished an intense week of exercise that has enabled you to lose a few pounds. You might end up piling the pounds straight back on and returning to the very same position that you wanted to avoid. You can reward yourself with spending some quality family time with the people you love or participating in certain activities that you enjoy such as going to the movie or playing a sport that you like but cannot afford on a regular basis.