DietMotion

Fad diets promise you will look better, lose weight in only a few days and that you will never regain your lost weight.

Many people fall in this trap and I’m sure you tried or know someone close who tried The Cabbage Soup Diet, The Grapefruit Diet, The Dissociate Diet or The 90 Days Diet. The results are the same, almost all the time:

• you lose weight, but that is mostly water and muscle tissue;
• you feel weak because your body lacks minerals and vitamins;
• you have unexpected craves; (more…)

The weight loss process can be accelerated if you can find methods to increase the body’s fat burning processes. You can do that by using fat burners (which is easier, but unhealthy) or you can do it through old, healthier ways.

Here are 15 ways to increase the body’s fat burning process, except your regular exercises.

1. Reduce your calorie intake with 10%-15%

The formula is simple, you eat less = you weight less, but be careful and don’t exaggerate! (more…)

Yesterday at my local gym, I was doing my regular exercises, minding my own business, but there was a man of about 45 years old “coaching” (I mean supervising not to hit anyone) his son of 10. OK, this is strange too, but there is something else I want to talk about.

This man was watching me and kept telling me all the time “that’s not good for you”, “you’re waisting you’re time”, “you’re pushing too much”, “don’t stay like that”, “do like this”. The bottom line was that he wanted to tell me that no matter what I do there (in the gym) I will not lose weight unless I will eat exclusively chicken sup for as long as it takes to lose all the fat. (more…)

How calories work?

I have briefly talked about how calories work and what’s the chemistry behind losing weight, but some of you asked me to try to explain it in another way.

This is simply mathematics. One kilogram (2 pounds) of fat is 7000 calories and according to the First Law of Thermodynamics, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only converted from one form to another. This means that you have to find a way to transform the 7000 calories (more…)

Skip the bagel this morning. Eggs, which are full of protein, will help you feel fuller longer — a lot longer. A multicenter study of 30 overweight or obese women found that those who ate two scrambled eggs (with two slices of toast and a reduced-calorie fruit spread) consumed less for the next 36 hours than women who had a bagel breakfast of equal calories. Other research has shown that protein may also prevent spikes in blood sugar, which can lead to food cravings.

“While it’s been well-established that foods such as eggs that contain the highest quality protein help people feel full longer, we were surprised at how definite these findings were,” (more…)

American Dietetic Association has recently published on their official web site the fad diets list throughout the years.

• 1820 – Vinegar and Water Diet – Made popular by Lord Byron, it says to take one, two or three teaspoons of apple cider vinegar with a glass of water before every meal
• 1825 - Low Carbohydrate Diet – First appeared in The Physiology of Taste by Jean Brillat-Savarin
• 1830 – Graham’s Diet – Only legacy: Invented Graham crackers (more…)

What is a fad diet?

There is a lot of misinformation out there when it comes for nutrition and diets. A fad diet is supposed and promoted to improve health but may do nothing at all, or even have the opposite results if it is nutritionally unbalanced and unconfirmed by scientific studies. You need to be careful, because fad diets can be harmful to your health and your wallet.

Fad diets may:

• Promote quick weight loss or make unrealistic promises.
• Suggest special products or require dietary supplements.
• Require certain foods be eaten at particular times of the day. (more…)

The cut down calories plan for him will be personalized for my boyfriend who needs 2700 calories (according to Nutrition Data) in order to maintain his current weight of 84 kg (185 pounds).

His diet will be based on 1200 calories menu sample but with an extra of 500 calories/day.

The meal plan

Day 1

Breakfast:

• 1 cup low-fat yogurt or milk with
• whole wheat cereals
• black coffee or herbal tea (more…)

The cut down calories plan for her, meaning for me, will start with the previous mentioned order:

1. starting weight: 66 kg (145 pounds)
2. 145 pounds x 15 = 2175 calories
3. 2175 calories – 1000 calories = 1175 calories , but I will not eat less then 1200 calories. The rest it will be from fitness.

The meal plan

Day 1

Breakfast:

• 1 cup low-fat yogurt or milk with
• whole wheat cereals
• black coffee or herbal tea (more…)

The cut down calories intake diet (or plan) is purely mathematics! 1 kg (2 pounds) of body fat has around 7800 calories, so in order to have a healthy weight loss of 1-2 pound/week you should reduce you calorie intake with 3600-7800/week. If we divide this by 7 it will result 514-1114, but let’s not get dizzy with all those numbers and stick to 500-1000 calories deficit.

I mentioned before how to set a realistic weight loss goal, so all you have to do is:

1. get a scale and see how much you weight; (more…)