Goals

Whatever dieting goal you are trying to achieve, be it losing weight, eating less high calorie foods, or exercising more, there are three objectives to have in mind:1.) the goal must be measurable e.g. how many pounds do you want to lose, 2.) the goal must be timely e.g. I will lose the 30 pounds in 60 days, and 3.) the goal must be realistic e.g. the goal must fit in with your lifestyle e.g. don’t expect to run 7 miles a day if you work 10 hours a day. There isn’t enough time in the day, never mind calculating your exhaustion level.

Rewards

To help keep your motivation, reward yourself when you make your dieting goal. Match the reward to meeting your goal.

For example, if your large dieting goal is to lose 30 pounds in 60 days and your initial goal is to lose 10 pounds in 21 days, and you meet that goal, reward yourself with perhaps a new carrying case for your iPod. When you reach your ultimate goal of losing 30 pounds in 60 days, reward yourself with a greater reward, such as a night out at the movies, or a body massage at the local spa.

Just be certain that the reward is not splurging on a favorite food, and that you do take the reward. Rewards are important for keeping the motivation alive.

Steps you’re going to take

Accomplishing your dieting goal needs a plan. The purpose of the plan is to take the large overall goal and break it down to manageable, incremental steps.

It’s much like taking control of the initial goals, tracking their progress with the smaller goals and ultimately reaching the defined larger goal. Certainly, losing 30 pounds cannot be done overnight. But breaking it down to smaller goals, say losing 10 pounds every 3 weeks, and making those small goals will bring us ultimately to meeting the larger goal of losing 30 pounds.

What will you do when you have setbacks?

Setbacks will happen to most people, just like bad days will happen. It can be extremely helpful to plan how you’re going to handle any setbacks.

No matter how healthy you are, you will always be susceptible to unhealthy things inside of what you eat such as pesticides, preservatives, artificial additives, hidden sugars, salt, and unknown fat. If you add in the other things that you purposely add in to your body such as caffeine, alcohol, and prescription drugs you may not have the healthy body that you think you do. With all of this stuff, it is amazing that we can function at all quite frankly.

These toxic substances affect the liver as well as the digestive systems, putting it through a vigorous workout just trying to get rid of it all. We all have pretty much accepted this and most likely we’ll so used to it that we have no idea what our body would feel without all the toxic substances in us. That is why it is up to us to get rid of these substances so that we can have clearer skin, a cleaner body, as well as properly functioning organs.

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You probably have heard of the cabbage soup diet. It really is a fairly easy way to drop several pounds in a week. The plan is simple since you get specific foods to eat each day and none of the foods are expensive or hard to get.

All during the week of the diet you can eat all the cabbage soup you want. But it’s not like that’s all you can eat. That would be rough, right? The cabbage soup is to fill you up and keep the hunger down. And cabbage soup can be delicious too!

The diet is a low carb diet and protein is restricted somewhat too. So it is something of a fad diet but it will let you drop some pounds very quickly and fairly easily too. Sometimes losing a few pounds fast is just the motivation you need to tackle the longer project of getting in shape and controlling your weight.

I’ve followed the plan several times and it’s not too bad. Not only is it a diet to lose weight, it’s also a cleansing diet too. You’ll see no processed foods, just simple basic foods less the breads and sweets. Yes, no chocolate chip cookies or candy bars.

Here’s what you can eat: fruit one day, vegetables another day, fruit and vegetables another, bananas and milk on the fourth day, beef and tomatoes the fifth day, beef and vegetables, then finally brown rice and vegetables.

You get a specific plan for every day and as you can see there are many foods to choose from for the week but different foods each day. What makes it easy to do is the variety of foods. It’s only seven days so there is no feeling of being deprived like so many food plans.

Now is this a solution to how to eat long-term? No, it’s a short-term plan to drop about ten pounds. Follow this up with a sound plan for eating and exercises to raise your metabolism and in a few weeks you can make great improvements in how you look and feel.

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The key to lasting success with whole food dieting is to develop personal trust about having the ability to make a permanent change. Then you must seek to understand the dynamics of how you change and what leads to personal success. Can you clearly imagine seeing yourself having an explorative adventure with food? Forget about results in 30 days. Can you imagine a sleek healthy slender body for the rest of your life, and you experiencing the best health as you age?

To get to this point, you might have to think about new menus with exciting new foods to make you and your grateful body feels special. But can you suspend your present eating habits in order to give this idea a permanent place in your life? For instance, everyone thinks of spinach as a diet food…. However, I served calllaloo, a Caribbean soup made with spinach and ochre to my dinner guest last week. Of course, I added herbs like rosemary and thyme to boost flavor. I also served it with crab cakes made with claw crab meat; and one of my grateful guests sent me a note thanking me for the exciting gastronomic experience. This is the kind of gratitude your body will feel just because you decided to make a whole food dieting change.

Be cautious of recipes that have you preparing your whole food diet with ingredients that are known to be detrimental to your health, like excessive saturated fat and sugar. Do read recipes and look at TV shows like ‘Napa Style’ or ‘Reservations Required’ to cement your appreciation for fresh whole food. This will lift your spirit and help you see the possibilities of control of your own destiny, delight and direction where food is concerned…

Think in terms of doing something extraordinary for your body, like boosting your immune system. Then go out and develop a snacking habit with nuts with names like Brazilian and seeds like flax and pumpkin that have properties that will make you declare the extinction of your fear of cancer. Then your race for the cure will be to your favorite whole food store…. This can take you clear out of the path of developing cancer or any other immune dysfunction that happens as you age. You will also be supporting your quest for whole food dieting.

Take a whole food dieting cooking class and get over your fear of preparing dishes with fresh food. Avoid looking at TV shows that show competition with food or shows where the cooks are anxious or upset about the outcome of their actions. This just helps to seal in your mind that there is something difficult and daunting about adding ingredients to a pot and allowing the heat do its thing.

It also sets you in competition with your body instead of having concern and compassion for the overall experience of your new approach to your whole food dieting life.

We really do not know about all the factors that cause food cravings. More research is needed to help us understand more about our appetites and satiety. Many researchers state that a decrease in blood sugar stimulates hunger. This may explain cravings for high carbohydrate foods, which are a quick energy source.

Studies advocate that there is a “mind-mood-food connection” link with the brains chemical serotonin (sair-oh-TO’nin). Serotonin helps a person feel less pain, anxiety and stress, so it improves mood by increasing relaxation and calmness. Some experts think that people who crave carbohydrates have low serotonin levels. Others caution that these cravings may just be an emotional/feeling issue.

A controlled carbohydrate diet has many benefits to your health and fitness.

There are a lot of potential benefits to a controlled carbohydrate meal plan. People who are more sensitive to carbohydrates are probably more likely to receive the most benefits. Recent studies state that most people have a low tolerance level for carbohydrates.

Here are the benefits:

Fat loss (even when not restricting calories)
Improved triglycerides (cholesterol)
Reduced blood sugar levels.
Increased HDL (”good”) cholesterol.
Improved insulin sensitivity.
Decreased blood pressure.
Lower blood insulin level.
Less muscle lost.

But how do we control the cravings we get for sugary, processed, starchy foods? Eat more protein! Protein fills you up and keeps you fuller longer and this decreases the chances of bingeing on sugary processed carbohydrates.

These are some of the most commonly reported benefits that a controlled carbohydrate produces. Results may very from individual to individual.

You energy increases.
Cravings for sweets virtually disappear or become less noticeable.
Your IQ increases! No really what happens is your mental focus increases and brain fog disappears.
Your mood and emotions improve.
Your relationship with food improves and less “emotional eating” occurs.
You smile more! Your dental hygiene improves and you get less dental plaque and your gums become healthier.
Less frequent headaches.
PMS symptoms reduced.
Less gastrointestinal issues and less heartburn occurs.
Your skin glows!

Why Is The Cookie Diet A Bad Idea?

First of all… any diet that is “short-term” does not make sense when translated into real life. Sure, eating cookies is great for now… but how many people are going to be able to stomach eating cookies every day for the rest of their life (really think about that before you answer!)? Besides, as of right now, there are only five different flavors. Even people with the biggest sweet tooths are not going to be able to eat five flavors for the rest of their days.

A diet should allow you the flexibility to eat what you want.

Next, people don’t get to eat very much on the diet. They eat six cookies throughout the day and a dinner. This is a very restrictive way of life that is bound to greatly interfere with social life, events, and work.

A diet should fit in with your lifestyle.

Third, the diet is not very nutritious. As mentioned, one has to eat six cookies throughout the day and a dinner. Unless someone gets in all of their nutrients via vitamins and one heck of a filling dinner… it will be very hard to stay truly healthy.

A diet should allow you to eat healthily.

Fourth, there’s a high cost associated with buying these cookies. They’re not just any cookies - they have high fiber content in them as well as specific ingredients. You should not have to spend extra money to be on a diet.

Situations like the above are common when you try out the latest fad starvation diet. Your stomach doesn’t get enough foods to digest so it reminds you constantly that it wants more!

I used to think that situations like these were a must when dieting. That along with feeling like crap, hissing at the kids and getting angry over nothing. They were all receipts that the diet was working. Tormenting oneself is required, and it simply means that you are doing the right thing? -No.

In the last year or so I learned that this is not the way to go at it, doing good should also mean feeling good. If you are overweight and trying to lose some of the excessive pounds should make you feel good and you shouldn’t be craving foods, your stomach is meant to be at peace.

Several diets have the purpose of starving out the fat, while others exclude certain groups of foods. Living without carbohydrates for example. I bet you never ever crave an apple more then when you have been on a non-carb diet for a week or two. I believe that means that your body wants some carbohydrates and that it isn’t a natural thing to exclude carbohydrates. You know our brain, the substance in your head? Well, it wants carbohydrates. Those is the premium fuel for it. When you don’t eat them your brain will run on fat. That ought to be a good thing, right? We are trying to lose fat. That is our purpose with dieting.

Well, at least I wouldn’t agree. Although the brain runs nicely on fat (or ketone), it isn’t performing as well as it would with glucose (carbohydrates). Why do you think that top-fuel cars runs on nitro instead of low grade petrol? I want my brain to perform well so I eat carbohydrates. Besides, if you don’t eat carbohydrates, your body goes into ketoacidosis, and your breath start to smell like nail-polish remover, and how cool is that?

A diet that makes you lose weight should be all-round. You should eat from every group of foods including fat. You should be able to eat until you are not hungry.

Ok, that sounds like a utopia right? It is. You have to do some changes because otherwise you won’t lose weight. Of course you could start taking some pills, like orlistat or something. But that also isn’t a natural thing, and you could get worse side effects than a mumbling stomach!

The calorie shifting diet means that you shift calories. And you shift calories from all food groups. Now, this diet is promoted like it’s a brand new discovery, but in fact it is one of the oldest tricks in the dieters bible. I can’t remember the first time I heard of it but of course it wasn’t referred to as calorie shifting.

The basic theory is based on the fact that you metabolism is pre-programmed for this day (today). It is programmed from the previous 2-3 days. The theory is that if you ate something during these 2-3 days, your metabolism figure that you will eat the same today.

But, you shift calories and that confuses the metabolism and it goes into a supercharged mode because it believes that it need more energy. It takes this energy from our energy-reserve. How do the body store energy? In fat. So your metabolism will increase the release rate of fat meaning that you burn the fat for energy. At the same time you eat a more healthy diet which keeps your insulin level low and this, my friend, means that your body will not be able to put as much fat into the cell again creating a deficit.

I was reviewing some weight loss programs when I came across Zone Diet. Although, I was new to Zone Diet, I cannot deny the fact that I was impressed by what I saw.

Zone diet is a refreshing change from the fad diet programs that offer you spot reduction and recommend you to stop eating carbohydrates for a period of a couple of weeks. It can give you your favorite foods without you having to worry about gaining weight.

How it works

For years we have heard about the importance of a balanced diet. A balanced diet is the one which has the right amount of nutrients, carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

Well, zone diet gives you a diet that has these nutrients in the right proportions. Another excuse that I have often heard obese people citing is that they are unable to find time to prepare these meals themselves and hence rely on junk food.

But zone diet has eliminated this problem too with lot of web site available on Internet, with a delivery system which guarantees that 4 to 5 balanced meals prepared by the best and most experienced chefs will be delivered to your doorstep. Now that leaves you with very little to be worried about.

A healthy change

Once you are used to the zone diet method of eating, you will automatically see the scales dropping down and believe me, it will be a refreshing change. It will bring about a complete change in your eating habits. Look at it as a long term healthy lifestyle rather than a short term weight loss diet.