Losing weight can seem so difficult at times. There are highs and lows, peaks and troughs. Some weeks you will lose a few pounds and then you seem to hit a plateau and weeks have passed with the scale hardly budging. So, how can I stop eating so much and get my weekly weight loss to be a steady and regular amount?
Here is a top ten countdown to number 1 that will help you do just that.
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What if there was a way that you could lose weight fast without requiring masses of will power, a way that didn't mean giving up your favourite foods? A way that actually encouraged you to snack on things such as potato chips and candy, would you be interested in that?
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New studies have suggested that drinking V8 100 per cent vegetable juice may be a simple way for people to increase their vegetable intake and may help them manage their weight. read more
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Well, it could be difficult, particularly if you live in the US, where it is added to many of the foods that are on the supermarket shelves.
What is High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)?
It is a sweetening agent that is used to sweeten foods. It started to be used in the late 1970's and is a combination of glucose and fructose which is extracted from corn and then highly processed to give a substance that is far cheaper than sucrose and also far sweeter.
What are the concerns with HFCS?
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What is emotional eating? Emotional eating can be said to occur when we eat to satisfy a desire other than physical hunger. Emotional eating usually takes place when a person is depressed or angry, stressed or vulnerable. It can be triggered in response to some distressing news, an argument with a loved one or simply boredom. There are any numbers of reasons that can send us heading straight for the cookie jar...
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A superintendent at Scotland Yard is considering hiring a hypnotherapist, in a bid to tackle obesity levels among police officers.
Superintendent Raj Kohli is thinking about using a cognitive hypnotherapist, to carry out weight loss hypnotherapy as part of a pilot scheme for 20 overweight officers in Camden. Around five per cent of staff at Scotland Yard are thought to be overweight, which is the equivalent of nearly 2,000 officers.
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A 20-stone man is desperately trying to gain weight after doctors told him he was too light for weight-loss surgery.
Diabetic Darin McCloud, 45, was denied a gastric bypass by his local NHS Trust in Portsmouth who will only consider him if he is 21 stone.
Now he says he is determined to reach this weight to give him the chance to have the drastic and potentially risky surgery.
Bulimia nervosa has been classified as an eating disorder only since the late 1980’s. Bulimia comes from a Greek word and means ravenous hunger but that certainly does not describe how I feel.
My name is Kim and I can’t stop binge eating and purging. I binge/purge most days and sometimes when I get really down I do it several times in a day. That seems to be the worst time, when I get down. Something just seems to come into my head, it’s usually about my ex and then I will ask myself why he left me. What is it that is wrong with me? I’m only a few pounds overweight…I’m not fat…am I ugly then? When I think about it I realise that I started the binging after he left me.To see the rest of this article go here
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Controlling your calorie and fat intake requires some thought particularly when you are new to a diet plan, but how do you control the calories when you are dining out?
Your daily calorie allowance should be known to you. If you don’t know what it is then you are shooting in the dark with your healthy eating plan. You can calculate your allowance online but it is far better to ask your doctor and explain your weight loss intentions before you begin any kind of weight loss plan.
It is likely that your calorie limit will be somewhere around the 2000 mark. It could be as low as 1500 depending on your start weight and daily activity level. I would advise you never to go below 1200. Below this amount there is a danger of going into starvation mode and thus slowing your metabolism.
The RDA, recommended daily allowance of fat is 65-70 grams and with some meals in certain restaurants you could meet this or even pass it with just one meal so a certain amount of care is required.
Eating out can be a nightmare of indecision. Deciding what to eat and determining the calories contained in your choice of meal can be difficult....
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January 1st begins the year in our western culture and January was named after Janus, a mythical Roman king. He was a king of beginnings who was also the guardian of doors and entrances…perhaps, a kind of mythical ‘bouncer.’ Depicted with two faces, one which looked backwards and one looking forwards, the Romans saw him as reflecting upon the old year and looking forward to the new.
Of course this is something we all continue to do to this day, many of us tend to look back at the past twelve months and reflect upon the highs and the lows, our achievements and our disappointments alike and we look forward to the new year and often feel full of hope for new beginnings and new opportunities.
The Romans believed that Janus could forgive them their wrong-doings and so, many gave gifts and made promises, believing that Janus would then bless them throughout the coming year.
This tradition continued and became what we have today where many people make promises to themselves and to others. These promises consist of such things as stopping smoking or to see more of the kids or to lose weight…and a thousand other things.
We now call them resolutions and the unfortunate thing about resolutions is that most people fail at them. Research shows that only 8% of people are successful at converting their resolutions.
Did you make any resolutions last year? Did you stick to them? More than likely not, I’m sure. Was one of these resolutions to get fit and lose x amount of pounds? You were going to start jogging right? You may even have bought the running shoes and track suit or maybe you paid a subscription to the local gym? Be honest now…how long did it last? One month, maybe two? And now at the end of that year when you were going to achieve so much, so many things that you were going to change about your appearance and life-style; how did it end up? Did you lose that weight? Do you have that six-pack that you so desired?
I hope the answer is yes…but unfortunately statistically, the likelihood is that the answer is no.
Let me tell you where you went wrong.
Resolutions! Do not make them! Most of us hate feeling compelled to do something even if it is from our own compulsion. When you make resolutions you only put yourself under unnecessary pressure to perform and then you broadcast it to all your friends and acquaintances. Being motivated is essential and of course you must have goals if you are going to achieve anything in life but new years resolutions are not the way.
You stand a far better chance if you decide positively that you are going to lose that weight or drop two dress sizes or whatever it is…and then just do it! Tell your partner or perhaps a sympathetic friend if you must but do not broadcast it around as a resolution, because the problem with resolutions is that when your best friends give up on theirs, or your partner stops doing what they were so going to keep on doing forever; then you may feel inclined to give up too.
Follow us here at how can I stop eating and we will do our best to guide you and encourage you through your weight loss battle in 2011.
Let’s make this the year when you achieve your goals.
We wish you luck and success and every happiness in all of your endeavours throughout the coming year and beyond.
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The drug is called liraglutide and it is already in use in the treatment of diabetes. Liraglutide helps to lower blood pressure, helps to raise ‘good’ cholesterol levels in the body, and can help prevent diabetes. However slimmers have also said that it also produces a ‘feel-good’ factor when taken regularly.
Danish firm Novo Nordisk are the manufacturers of liraglutide and they are currently in the middle of a large scale slimming trial following 5,000 obese men and women, the results of which should be available in 2013.
Liraglutide tends to be injected from a pen. It is based on a gut hormone that tells the brain it is time to stop eating. Usually, this hormone is quickly broken by the body however the injected drug stays in the body for hours.
Preliminary trials on 550 patients have shown that the drug is better at helping people lose weight than one of the other most popularly GP-prescribed weightloss drugs, orlistat. Of the 550 participants, some were given placebos, some were given orlistat and some were given liraglutide.
28 percent of those on the highest dosage of liraglutide lost at least 10 percent of their body weight – almost three times the number of those achieving the same with orlistat. Those who were given liraglutide were also shown to have lost an average of a stone and a half over six months, around double as those on orlistat. The average women on liraglutide lost three inches from their waistlines over the six month trial period.
Of those who took liraglutide for a further 18 months, their weight loss tended to stay off. However many of those who were taking orlistat found that some of the pounds crept back on.
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Most of us at some time overeat.
It is so easily done.
For some perhaps it isn’t too extreme and may occur only occasionally. But for many others it is extreme and unfortunately all too regular.
There are many labels applied to the various forms of overeating. You may be familiar with some of these terms: compulsive eating, binge eating, emotional eating, comfort eating; even bulimia.
You may consider that you fit into one of these categories; trapped in the black- hole of despair and self-hate that they hold you in.
But please despair no longer. Help is at hand.
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