Can adding steps really help you lose weight? It certainly can. Let’s say your weight is currently Stable – neither increasing nor decreasing – but you feel that you’re 10 pounds overweight.
By maintaining your current activities and diet and adding 2,000 steps a day (about 7 miles, or roughly 700 Calories a week), you could lose up to 1 pound every five weeks. That’s as much as 10 pounds in a year. Although this pace may seem glacial, remember that the weight came on slowly and if you want to lose it for good, it should come off that way, too.
After all, the typical American gains one to two pounds a year for most years of adult life – simply reversing that to a modest yearly loss would be a great success.
The proof is in the long-term results. By studying
As I sit here writing this, I’ve just crammed a fatty philly steak sub down my throat, along with a few strips of a cheesy garlic bread. It’s football sunday, and although I don’t watch football per se, it’s fun to get together and stuff my face with fattening salty snacks and an indulgently fattening lunch (actually it’s more like lunch/dinner time).
We all do it once in a while. We’re only human. The key is that you do NOT eat like this most of the time. It’s only expected that people indulge in their most fattening fantasies once in a while, but the problem with indulging too often is that your body becomes used to the explosive flavor and addictive qualities of a lot of fat, salt and sugar.
Once it becomes used to this, it’s almost like beating an addiction, because once you stop eating like this, your body literally screams for it. A salad with oil and vinegar dressing? Your body will scr
04 Oct
Posted by James Parker as Weight Loss Consultant
A new plant, which incidentally I talked about on this blog a few years ago, and I also incidentally found it online and bought some to try, is now being seriously studied as a new natural appetite suppressant and mood booster called sceletium tortuosum.
This natural plant which is found in Africa and used by the San bush people, just like the other infamous natural appetite suppressant Hoodia Gordonii, has been used by the san people for it’s mood boosting and appetite and thirst satisfying qualities for years. They would chew on the plant to get the natural organisms and essence of the plant in their blood stream, and apparently experienced a nice “buzz” and mood boost, and well as a noticeable reduction in their appetite.
That could be a billion dollar marketing idea, for sure, if it works like they say it might. I act
How you answer this question really should depend on a few things. Obviously, if you’re standing in a local fruit and veggie stand, then you are going to buy fresh – because you know it’s just that – VERY FRESH. And there are really zero chances that the fresh piece of fruit of the fresh veggie you just picked up has been irradiated and is actually twelve days old or something to that effect, as when you go to any old grocery store.
What a lot of people don’t know is that a lot of times frozen fruits and vegetables are often just as nutritious, and sometimes maybe more nutritious, than their fresh counterparts. The key is that it really depends on how fresh your fresh produce is. If it rea