How to start getting rid of the stomach fat is a question which seems to be more complicated than a long mathematical equation. And it may get complicated and difficult to solve just like a mathematical equation IF the rules applied are not correct.
The quickest and Easiest way to lose fat is relative to what you consider quick and easy. While there are no true fixes, there are definitely strategies and rules that you can apply to get your goals the best way.
First of all lets start off with the first rule..
1. To lose weight you must create a caloric deficit in your body.in simple words, you must eat less calories than you are burning in a 24 hour time period.
2. Get good at rule number 1 and you wont need anything else.
Calories are burnt doing everything and anything. Working, walking, brushing your teeth, typing on your keyboard,sitting idle... EVERYTHING. Even thinking burns calories.Thought requires glucose transfer and neurochemical production and synapses to fire. All require calories to be burnt to make it happen.
This does not mean that I recommend thinking your way to lose fat. Although you are burning calories when thinking, its not an efficient way to lose fat. Efficiency is time spent vs. results received.
There are two ways of creating a caloric deficit:
1) Increase activity
2) Lower calorie intake
Although you can use either method mentioned above, it is better to use a combination of both.
I am giving you a few tips on how to use both to do so...
1) INCREASE ACTIVITY First of all, you need to get moving. Do high intensity exercises, high intensity exercises has been shown to beat the pants off low intensity, long duration carsio. it quite simply gives you the most calorie burn for the time you spend exercising.
A person preforming 20 minutes of high intensity exercises will burn more calories than someone performing low intensity exercise at the end of a 24 hours time frame. This is due to metabolic changes in the body, including exercises post post oxygen consumption. Basically this amounts to a higher metabolic rate all day long. At the end of the day you can easily create an extra 300-500 calorie burn through high intensity exercise. Add to this the deficit we are going to create with lowering intake, and you"ll be ready for swim suit season in no time.
Lets take a look At a second way of creating a caloric deficit.
2) LOWERING CALORIE INTAKE- Now, depending on your personal experience, this may seems like the tougher of the two ways to create the deficit. What I"ll do here is give you the easiest and most effective way to lower calorie intake. Lowering calorie intake does not mean suffering. It means making wiser choices about your total intake. This could be as easy as exchanging regular sugar filled beverages for the diet versions.
A pound of body fat is equivalent to about 3,500 calories. So if you cut 100 calories a day by reducing the intake of calories plus the 300 approx. calories burnt by working out for 31 days, you're cutting 12,400 calories--or about approx. 4 pounds. WOW!
Losing 4 pound a month doesn't require drastic changes in your eating habits. It can be as simple as eating two egg rolls with your Chinese stir-fry instead of three. Here are 100 painless ways to cut 100 or more calories a day. As a bonus, they all reduce fat or sugar, which means, calorie for calorie, you're getting more vitamins and minerals.
1. Spread 1 tablespoon of all-fruit jam on your toast rather than 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter.
2. Replace 1 cup of whole milk with 1/2 cup of nonfat milk.
3. Eat 2 poached eggs instead of 2 fried eggs.
4. Replace 1/2 cup of granola with 2 cups of Cheerios.
5. Instead of using whole milk and eggs to prepare 2 slices of French toast, use nonfat milk and egg whites.
6. Snack on an orange and a banana instead of a Snickers candy bar.
7. Munch on 35 pretzel sticks instead of 1 ounce of dry-roasted peanuts.
8. Replace 1 cup of sweetened applesauce with 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce.
9. On your lamb-and-vegetable kabob, replace 2 of the 4 chunks of meat with fresh whole mushrooms.
10. Dip an artichoke in 1 tablespoon of low-fat mayonnaise instead of 1 1/2 tablespoons of regular mayonnaise.
11. Steam your asparagus rather than sauté it in 1 tablespoon of butter or oil.
12. Instead of a 5-ounce glass of wine, opt for cherry-flavored sparkling water.
13. For a chewy snack, have 1/2 cup of dried fruit rather than 9 caramels.
14. Replace 3 slices of bacon with 3 slices of Light & Lean Canadian bacon.
15. Eat a Lender's egg bagel instead of a Sara Lee egg bagel.
16. Select 1 cup of home-style baked beans instead of an equal serving of baked beans with franks.
17. Replace 2 biscuits with 2 dinner rolls.
18. When making a sandwich, use 2 slices of Roman Light 7-grain bread instead of Pepperidge Farm wheat bread.
19. Eat 1/2 cup of steamed fresh broccoli instead of 1/2 cup of frozen broccoli in cheese sauce.
20. Make a burrito with 1/2 cup of fat-free re fried beans and 1 ounce of nonfat cheese instead of the same amount of traditional re fried beans and cheese.
21. Replace an apple muffin with a high-fiber English muffin.
22. Reduce a typical serving of chocolate cake (1/8 of a two-layer cake) by one-third.
23. Switch from 1 cup of whole-milk hot chocolate to 1 cup of steamed 1% milk flavored with a dash of almond extract.
24. Replace 1 cup of caramel-coated popcorn with 2 1/2 cups of air-popped popcorn.
25. Switch from 1/2 cup of yogurt-covered raisins to 1/2 cup of plain raisins.
26. Snack on 1 cup of nonfat plain yogurt instead of 1 cup of custard-style yogurt.
27. Top your celery sticks with 2 tablespoons of fat-free cream cheese instead of 3 tablespoons of regular cream cheese.
28. Replace 2 fried-chicken drumsticks with 2 roasted drumsticks and a cup of peas and carrots.
29. Instead of eating 5 chocolate-chip cookies, savor the taste of 2.
30. Lighten your 2 cups of coffee with 2 tablespoons of evaporated nonfat milk instead of 2 tablespoons of half-and-half.
31. Replace a 12-ounce can of cola with a 12-ounce can of diet cola.
32. Thicken your cream sauce with 1 percent milk and corn starch instead of a roux of butter and flour.
33. At the appetizer tray, choose 4 fresh raw mushrooms instead of 4 batter-fried mushrooms.
34. Use 2 tablespoons of fat-free sour cream instead of regular sour cream (on baked potatoes or in stroganoff). If done twice in the day, 100 calories will be cut.
35. Reduce the size of your steak from 4 1/2 ounces to 3 ounces.
36. Grill a cheese sandwich with nonstick cooking spray instead of margarine.
37. Replace 1 cup of chocolate ice cream with 2/3 cup of nonfat chocolate frozen yogurt.
38. Snack on 2 ounces of oven-baked potato chips instead of regular potato chips.
39. Instead of topping your salad with an ounce of croutons, get your crunch from 1/4 cup of chopped celery.
40. Instead of 1 cup of macaroni salad, eat 3 1/2 cups of spinach salad with 2 tablespoons of low-calorie dressing.
41. Cut the peanut butter on your sandwich from 2 tablespoons to 1 tablespoon.
42. Serve your turkey with 1/4 cup of cranberry sauce instead of 1/2 cup.
43. Order a sandwich on cracked wheat bread instead of a croissant.
44. Complement your hamburger with 1 1/4 ounces of oven-baked tortilla chips instead of a side of fries.
45. Split an apple Danish with a friend rather than eat the entire thing.
46. Order 2 slices of cheese pizza instead of 2 slices of pepperoni pizza.
47. Grab a Dole Fresh Lites Cherry frozen fruit bar instead of a Sunkist Coconut frozen fruit bar.
48. Snack on 1/2 cup of fruit cocktail canned in water instead of 1 cup of fruit cocktail canned in heavy syrup.
49. Switch from 1 cup of fruit punch to 1 cup of sparkling water flavored with 2 teaspoons of concentrated orange juice.
50. Instead of eating garlic bread made with butter, spread baked garlic cloves on French bread.
51. Rather than snack on 1 cup of grapefruit canned in syrup, peel and section 1 small grapefruit.
52. Dip your chips in 1/2 cup of salsa instead of 1/2 cup of guacamole.
53. Switch from 1/2 cup of Frozen Glade butter pecan ice cream to Brewers butter pecan ice cream.
54. Use 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise in your tuna salad instead of 2 tablespoons.
55. Hold the tartar sauce on your fish sandwich, and squeeze lemon on it instead.
56. Replace 3 fish sticks with 3 ounces of grilled halibut.
57. In sandwich spreads or salads, use 3 teaspoons of mayonnaise instead of 4 teaspoons of mayonnaise.
58. Use 2 tablespoons of light pancake syrup instead of 2 tablespoons of regular syrup.
59. Top your pasta with 1 cup of marinara sauce instead of 1/2 cup of Alfredo sauce.
60. For each serving of pasta salad you make, reduce the oil or mayonnaise by 1 tablespoon.
61. Replace 1/2 cup of peaches canned in extra-heavy syrup with 1/2 cup of peaches canned in water.
62. Prepare 1/2 cup of steamed peas and cauliflower instead of frozen peas and cauliflower in cream sauce.
63. Cut back on sampling during cooking. The following "tastes" have 100 calories: 4 tablespoons of beef stroganoff, 3 tablespoons of homemade chocolate pudding, 2 tablespoons of chocolate-chip cookie dough.
64. At an Italian restaurant, snack on a large bread stick instead of a slice of garlic bread.
65. Eat a 3/4-cup serving of pudding made with skim milk rather than a 1-cup serving of pudding made with whole milk.
66. Choose 1/2 cup of brown rice instead of 1 serving of frozen rice pilaf with green beans or 1 serving of frozen Oriental rice and vegetables.
67. Compliment your sandwich with 3/4 cup of split-pea soup instead of 1 cup of chunky bean and ham soup.
68. Replace 3 tablespoons of strawberry topping on your ice cream with 3/4 pint of fresh strawberries.
69. Pass on the second helping of mashed potatoes.
70. Eat 3 grilled prawns with cocktail sauce instead of 3 breaded and fried prawns.
71. Make a pie crust with 1 cup of Grape-Nuts cereal, 1/4 cup of concentrated apple juice and 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, instead of using a traditional graham-cracker crust. You'll save 100 calories per slice.
72. Replace 8 sticks of regular chewing gum with sugar-free chewing gum.
73. Snack on a papaya instead of a bag of M&Ms.
74. Substitute 3 ounces of scallops for 3 ounce of lean beef in your stir-fry.
75. Rather than spread 4 tablespoons of cream cheese on two slices of raisin bread, dip the bread in 1/2 cup nonfat apple-cinnamon yogurt.
76. Munch on 1 cup of frozen grapes instead of an ice cream sandwich.
77. Rather than drink a strawberry milkshake, make a smoothie of 2/3 cup of low-fat milk, 1/2 cup of strawberries and 1/2 a banana.
78. Replace 2 brownies with 2 fig bars.
79. Eat 2 meatballs instead of 4 with your spaghetti.
80. On a hot day, quench your thirst with a glass of ice water with lemon or mint instead of a can of light beer.
81. Eat 1/2 cup of black beans instead of 3 ounces of roast beef.
82. Replace 1 1/2 tablespoons of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spread with 1 1/2 tablespoons of Nucoa Smart Beat margarine.
83. Choose 1 serving of vegetarian lasagna instead of lasagna with meat.
84. Eat 2 Kellogg's Nutria-Grain bars instead of 2 Kellogg's Pop-Tarts.
85. Drizzle 3 tablespoons of low-calorie French dressing on your salad instead of 2 tablespoons of blue cheese dressing.
86. Replace 1 large flour tortilla with 1 six-inch corn tortilla.
87. Eat a turkey sandwich instead of a chicken salad sandwich.
88. Choose 4 1/2 ounces of tuna packed in water instead of 4 1/2 ounces of tuna packed in oil.
89. At Burger King, have a Whopper Jr. Sandwich with regular fries instead of a Whopper With Cheese Sandwich.
90. Order your Quarter Pounder without cheese.
91. At Jack in the Box, eat a regular taco instead of a super taco.
92. Fix 1 cup of turkey chili with beans rather than regular chili with no beans.
93. Use 1 cup of fat-free cottage cheese instead of regular cottage cheese.
94. Order a sandwich with barbecued chicken instead of barbecued pork.
95. Replace 1 cup of corn with 1 cup of carrots.
96. Reduce your helping of turkey stuffing from 1 cup to 2/3 cup.
97. Have a single scoop of ice cream instead of a double scoop.
98. Replace 2 ounces of corn chips with 2 ounces of SnackWell's wheat crackers.
99. Eat 1 hot dog at the baseball game instead of 2.
100. Shred 2 ounces of fat-free cheddar cheese on nachos instead of regular cheddar.
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So You Want to Lose Weight? A New Perspective on Weight Loss, Diets and Lasting Change
0 comments Posted by Dehaas at 5:49 PMIf you are heavier than you want to be, you probably think that you want to lose weight. Think again. If you truly desire to permanently transform your body into a slimmer, more compact vehicle in which to experience life's journey, there's a good chance your real desire isn't to lose weight. It's to weigh less.
One of the most common reasons people seek out the services of a nutritionist is for weight loss. This certainly is true in my holistic nutritional counseling practice, and it's part of what I love best about my work. Helping people take control of their food consumption and release unwanted pounds is a privilege that gives me great satisfaction. However, what I really love best is not helping my clients transform their bodies for the short term, but for the long haul. My aim is to empower my clients with the experience and understanding needed to make lasting changes that bear fruit year after year.
If you are overweight, you are well aware of how the extra pounds you are lugging around place a burden on your body, your health and your self-esteem. Wanting to drop that padding is a sign of wanting to be healthy and love yourself more. But think about this. Is losing weight your ultimate goal? Or is it something else?
Let's put it this way. If you had a choice between losing weight and weighing less, which would you choose?
When I ask my clients this question, it becomes clear that the goal is not simply to succeed at "losing" weight. The goal is to become a different size person altogether, to inhabit a leaner and lighter body for life.
Achieving this goal entails more than going on a diet. Deeper, long-lasting changes are required. These include changes in the daily choices you make about what foods to put into your body, changes in the way you relate to food overall and changes in the level of physical exercise you engage in on a regular basis.
If you make these changes properly, you are guaranteed to lose weight - almost as a side effect, a bonus - whether or not you ever go on a diet again. In fact, going "on" a diet implies that one day you will go "off" it, setting you up to regain the pounds you so diligently shed through hard efforts, once you return to "normal" life. (We've all been there and the jury is in: diets don't work.) You don't need to "go on a diet," you need to transform your diet, as a whole, in order to achieve long-term physical transformation.
Body weight is a direct result of eating and exercise habits. Even if you have a thyroid problem or other medical condition that affects your metabolism, to a large degree your food and fitness choices are still driving the results reflected by the mirror and your waistline. You know this. If you want a lighter body, your eating and exercise habits must change at a fundamental level, individualized to your needs.
A lighter body - YOUR lighter body - is sustained on a different quality and amount of food than your heavier body. Your lighter body also engages in a greater amount of physical activity than your heavier body. That's the bottom line.
Along with moving your body more, if you want to weigh less than you do now, you need to eat differently than you have been up to now. This is the only way your shape and size will change for good. To think otherwise would be insanity. Did you know one definition of insanity is "to keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result"? Not going to happen! If you continue your old habits, nothing will change.
The way to weigh less is not to go on a diet but to change your diet. And this means changing your relationship to food. Because ultimately, your weight is not just a function of the kinds of foods you eat, but also a function of the way that you eat them: when and how and in what feeling state of mind. That's where, in my work, the counseling component of "nutritional counseling" takes on a fuller meaning. Helping my weight loss clients understand and heal the roots of their emotional eating is of great benefit in supporting their recovery and transformation. When it comes to weight, emotional factors are at least equally important as biochemical factors.
Addressing the biochemical piece is where cleansing comes in. Cleansing, which entails removing all artificial and processed foods from the diet and replacing them with fresh, water-rich fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds, is different from dieting which focuses on calorie restriction alone. I believe it is critical to remove certain sub-optimal substances (such as food additives, wheat and sugar) from your dietary repertoire for a period of time, in order to break free of physically needing them.
Yes, I said physically needing them. It's not all in your head: many, if not most food cravings and addictions are real, biochemical responses. You're not just "weak" when you can't resist buying and eating that cupcake or pint of ice cream or fast-food burger or entire bag of spicy tortilla chips. These foods contain chemical ingredients and specific combinations of flavors that trip the pleasure pathway in your brain - the dopamine pathway - which is your biological trigger for addiction.
What foods trip the dopamine pathway? Refined sugar, in all forms. Wheat, especially in white flour form, and other grains that contain gluten (rye, barley, spelt). Food combos of fat+sugar (candy bars, cookies, pies) and fat+carb+salt (pizza, french fries, chips). Numerous man-made additives and flavor-enhancers. Human beings are neurochemically wired to respond to these substances with an intense pleasure response, followed by craving for more....and more...and more! The result: substance abuse, presenting as food abuse. Food abuse takes many forms: compulsive eating, bingeing, overeating, eating to soothe emotions, eating to numb stress or unpleasant feelings, continuing eating even when part of you wants to stop, etc.
Food addiction is, perhaps, the most insidious addiction in our society. Because despite the fact that so many people suffer from its consequences, consuming junk food, processed foods and, indeed, overeating on any food (big gulps, big grabs and all-you-can-eat buffet, for example) is accepted, promoted and condoned. After all, we have a food industry to support! And believe me, food scientists are hard at work every day creating new "designer drugs" to keep you hooked for life. Big Macs, Doritos and Snickers bars were only the beginning.
However, take heart and know this: you are not a helpless victim. Far from it. In spite of all the temptation and media messages urging you to succumb, you still get to choose what you put into your mouth every day. With the proper education, information, support and resolve, you can turn your diet, your health and your weight around at any time. Yes, you can!
Doing a cleanse provides a break from old habits and teaches you how to "just say no" to your food addictions. A dietary detox or cleanse re-educates your taste buds, your brain and your entire body, showing you by example how brilliantly fresh, natural foods revitalize your system, give you energy and make you feel good. When you eliminate all processed, fake and industrial foods from your diet and spend a period of time eating only real foods that grow in or on the earth, you will start to see results in just days. After a few weeks, the results will be profound, even life-changing. You will learn by experience that the foods which nourished your ancestors - not just for centuries, but for tens of thousands of years - are the same foods upon which your body is designed to, and will thrive. You will start eating to evolve.
There are plenty of cleanses out there, some more extreme than others. I recommend choosing a program that feels doable to you, because the only cleanse that will work is the one you complete! I suggest that you avoid strict fasts like the Master Cleanse that start and end without safely transitioning you back into eating. Those programs can help you lose weight but usually don't support "weighing less" for the long term.
The program you select may be a juice-rich program like (my new hero) Joe Cross's fabulous reboot, or it may be something that gives you wider food options. I offer my clients two fantastic cleansing programs: the popular four-week Ultimate Detox Diet developed by my mentor, the late Teri Kerr, and my own 21-day Rainbow Cleanse™, which weaves principles of color healing and chakra awareness into a gorgeous diet of fresh, nutrient-dense foods. In addition, I provide coaching for people interested in following the protocols of my friend and colleague Natalia Rose, author of The Raw Food Detox Diet and Detox For Women.
All of the above recommended cleanse programs are geared towards making the lasting changes that ensure permanent results, long after you have left the actual cleanse behind. Like a diet, cleansing will help you to lose weight - most of my clients release ten pounds on average over three to four weeks. But, even more importantly, cleansing will teach you how to practice and embrace new healthy diet-lifestyle behaviors. Reshaping your relationship with food and eating is what takes you to the final goal that lies beyond losing weight: weighing less, for life.
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Deep fried candy bars sound mouthwatering to some people and rather unappetizing to others. Whether or not you have tried this unusual treat, it might interest you to learn a few facts about this dish, as well as its history.
Candy bars can be fried in the batter you normally use for fried chicken recipes, fish, or sausages, or you can use a coconut batter instead. Candy bars are chilled before they are battered. This stops the chocolate from melting into the hot fat.
This dish originated at a fried fish shop in Scotland as a novelty item but it soon because really popular. The Haven Chip Bar in Stonehaven is said to have invented this recipe in 1995. Stonehaven is near Aberdeen on the northeast coast of Scotland.
Three hundred fried fish shops were interviewed in 2004 and twenty two percent of them sold fried candy bars. An additional seventeen percent had sold them in the past.
Three quarters of these shops had only been selling them for the last three years and average sales were twenty three bars a week, although ten outlets sold between fifty and two hundred every week. The average price was one dollar and three quarters of the purchasers were children.
Deep Fried Candy Around the Globe
A British cafe called "Oh My Cod" in Bangkok, Thailand, lists this delicacy on their menu. This item was added to the menu as a joke at first but soon became very popular with locals and tourists. Reiver's Fish Bar in Scotland sells deep fried Easter eggs and along with Snickers bars cooked this way and they are very popular in the United States.
You can get deep-fried candy bars at the Bondi Surf Seafood Fish and Chip Shop in Sydney, Australia. The chocolate bar is coated in coconut batter, deep fried, and then sprinkled with powdered sugar.
New Zealand also has a number of outlets selling them. You can get deep fried Mars bars in Auckland's Bonzo Burger and deep fried Moro bars in the Acropolic fish and chip shop in Wellington.
New Zealanders love deep fried confectionary, especially Moro bars, which are sold in most fish and chip shops where there are a lot of tourists or a university nearby. Dunedin is the area in New Zealand with the most fried fish stores offering deep fried candy and they have been sold there since the late 1990s.
Recipe for Deep Fried Candy
Combine a cup of sifted all purpose flour with a teaspoon of salt and three quarters of a cup of water until the mixture is smooth. Let it stand at room temperature for half an hour. Stir quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder into the batter.
Heat some peanut oil in your deep fryer until it reaches 350 degrees F, then dip four caramel-covered candy bars into the batter and fry them in the hot oil for a few minutes, or until they are golden brown and crispy. Drain on paper towels and serve warm.
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Snickers, at 6 days old, chirping at Cookie for a feed!
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