Archive for October, 2007

Reducing Colon Cancer Risk With Diet

Monday, October 8th, 2007

There are several reasons for weight gain and each is rather simple, but surprisingly very few people are aware of them. People do not gain weight for not exercising, although this can contribute to the cause. The true reasons for weight gain include eating the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories per meal, and eating in the wrong patterns of the day.

The food that you put into your body can either make you thin or fat, it is up to you. It may seem too simple to be true, but it really does boil down to this. If you get on the proper diet and put the right kinds of nutrients into your body, you can avoid weight gain altogether.

Another factor that plays a role in whether or not you gain weight is the amount of calories you put into your body each meal. It is better to eat several small meals than it is to eat two or three large meals. The reason for this is because it gives your body time to digest the food and break it down. By overwhelming your digestive system with two or three large meals, it will not properly break down the food.

This is something that many people do not realize. You need to be eating more than three times per day to lose weight. When people go on diets, they feel the need to starve themselves. This is the last thing you want to do. By eating several times a day with small portions, you can burn the calories much quicker and far more efficiently.

The last reason you may gain weight is due to the pattern you eat your food in. It is vital that you spread your meals throughout the entire day. Getting up and skipping breakfast is one of the worst things you can do for yourself. You want to start the day off right and give yourself a healthy and nutritional meal. From there, you will want to eat something every few hours

Starving yourself and jogging more is not going to help you lose weight. If you really want to lose weight, you have to eat the right foods at the right times of the day. By doing this, you will be able to burn the calories better and digest your food properly. All you have to do is reverse the cycle that you have going for yourself right now. You can get slim by eating the right foods at the right intervals.

What Is Responsible For Weight Gain?

Monday, October 8th, 2007

There are several reasons for weight gain and each is rather simple, but surprisingly very few people are aware of them. People do not gain weight for not exercising, although this can contribute to the cause. The true reasons for weight gain include eating the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories per meal, and eating in the wrong patterns of the day.

The food that you put into your body can either make you thin or fat, it is up to you. It may seem too simple to be true, but it really does boil down to this. If you get on the proper diet and put the right kinds of nutrients into your body, you can avoid weight gain altogether.

Another factor that plays a role in whether or not you gain weight is the amount of calories you put into your body each meal. It is better to eat several small meals than it is to eat two or three large meals. The reason for this is because it gives your body time to digest the food and break it down. By overwhelming your digestive system with two or three large meals, it will not properly break down the food.

This is something that many people do not realize. You need to be eating more than three times per day to lose weight. When people go on diets, they feel the need to starve themselves. This is the last thing you want to do. By eating several times a day with small portions, you can burn the calories much quicker and far more efficiently.

The last reason you may gain weight is due to the pattern you eat your food in. It is vital that you spread your meals throughout the entire day. Getting up and skipping breakfast is one of the worst things you can do for yourself. You want to start the day off right and give yourself a healthy and nutritional meal. From there, you will want to eat something every few hours

Starving yourself and jogging more is not going to help you lose weight. If you really want to lose weight, you have to eat the right foods at the right times of the day. By doing this, you will be able to burn the calories better and digest your food properly. All you have to do is reverse the cycle that you have going for yourself right now. You can get slim by eating the right foods at the right intervals.

You Can Lose Weight with Yoga

Monday, October 8th, 2007

As a Life Coach I am constantly looking for new and innovative ways to help my clients “Ride from the ordinary to the “Extraordinary”. As a Yoga enthusist I was impressed with a recent book titled “The Yoga Weight Loss Secrets”.

Can you lose weight with Yoga? Maybe the best way to answer that question is by another question. Have you ever seen a fat Yoga practioner? Although exercises burn fewer calories than say jogging this is only part of the story. Yoga is really about a life style change. No I don’t mean you have to move to India and spend all day comtemplating you naval.

Let’s look at some facts:

* Most weight loss diets only bring temporary results.

* If you take some diet pills, you may lose weight because your appetite is temporarily suppressed.

* When you stop taking the pills your appetite will return and you will be faced with the same problem.

* Diet pills are a short term solution, and in some cases may even be harmful to you.

* If you adopt an extreme weight loss diet you may get dramatic results while you stay on the diet, but if you live a normal life, surrounded by your family and friends, you probably will not be able to stay on that diet for a long time.

* As soon as you quit the diet and return to your old ways, you will gain weight again.

* Many weight loss diets, are not healthy and can even be harmful.

For long term weight loss you need to go to the root of the problem and make changes in your life and lifestyle. Excess weight in our society is mostly due to a sedentary lifestyle and poor selection of food.

Why? Because yoga is not a conventional sport or exercise. Yoga is a system of personal transformation on all levels, physical, mental and spiritual.The effects of yoga is to make deep rooted changes in your inner being.

If you learn how to apply yoga to your life you will get a long term solution to the problem of achieving self control and self fulfillment. Without any special equipment you will be able to do exercises that keep you in shape, you will learn how to do meditation that will put your mind at peace, you will become internally balanced, and you will make the choices that are right for you.