Lose It For Ever – Dave Elger

“  -Dieters across America are turning to a Japanese lunchbox, called a bento as an innovative way to help with counting calories and weight loss -everydayhealth.com,

MY COMMENT:  I was a regular at the small roadside family bento stand near my house in Okinawa- stopping there for take out breakfast on the way to work.

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“The alcohol calories probably don’t count as much as calories from a Hershey’s bar.”

-cnn.com

Now don’t go start drinking to lose weight! I find it shocking that the women who drank moderately actually ate fewer calories from carbs. I wonder if this applies to men as well?

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“I was a late-night eater,” confessed Villanueva. “I’d go to fast-food places and get a burger and fries. Now when I eat a snack, I make sure it’s healthy.

“I went to a sports nutritionist back home. I started eating on a schedule. I tried to have less carbs as the day goes on. It was hard the first couple of weeks, but now it’s constant every day.”  -jsonline

MY COMMENT:  I am still in shock that professional athletes have 20 pounds to spare!  What are they thinking?  Better yet, for what they pay these guys, what is the team thinking?

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“I followed the Weight Watchers plan,” she said. Breakfast is a veggie omelet and fruit. Lunch is raw veggies, yogurt, fruit and lean meat. Dinner is grilled vegetables and salad with lean meat.

Exercise routine: “I walk 45 to 60 minutes seven days a week,” she said. “I work out on a circuit three times a week for 30 to 45 minutes at Curves.”

-Tammy Todd of Taccoa Loses 132 Pounds  

MY COMMENT: Not many people can do this.  Congratulations Tammy!

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This study demonstrates that, despite inducing a moderate energy deficit, an acute bout of subjectively paced brisk walking does not elicit compensatory responses in acylated ghrelin, appetite, or energy intake. This finding lends support for a role of brisk walking in weight management.  -Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Subjects who walked briskly for an hour, burning just under 500 net calories (total-BMR) did not compensate by eating more.  Appetite was not affected.   This study contradicts the theory proposed in the recent Time magazine feature Why Exercise Won’ t Make You Thin.

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Eat to Live is a plant-based diet- the bottom line is we are getting way to many calories from oil, meat products, and processed foods. 

Author Dr. Furman lays it out plain and simple.  Eat your fruit and vegetables!   (drfuhrman.com)

His Intense Six Week Eat to Live Plan:

•       1 pound of  raw vegetables daily!
•       1 pound of cooked green vegetables daily!
•       4 fruits daily
•       1 cup beans, legumes, or sprouts daily
•       eggplant, mushrooms, onions, and other non-starchy veggies

     (Not more than one serving):

• cooked starchy vegetables OR whole grains–Maximum 1 cup per day (butternut or acorn squash, corn, sweet potato, brown rice, cooked carrots, whole grain breads*, whole grain cereals)
• raw nuts and seeds (1 oz. or 28.5 grams a day) or 2 ounces avocado
• ground flaxseed (1 tablespoon a day)
• soymilk, low-sugar preferred–Maximum 1 cup a day -avoid breads and cereals as much as possible

OFF-LIMITS:

• dairy products
• animal products
• between meal snacks
• fruit juice, dried fruits  
• salt, sugar

NUTS and RAW SEEDS, are optional for obese or overweight persons while they follow this weight loss plan.  People who have difficulty losing weight may also eliminate the starchy vegetable/grain.

Since reading Eat to Live, I’ve cut back on cooking with oil, bought some ground flaxseed, added more servings of vegetables, and making more of an effort to eat fruit.  I’m going to continue with my weekly lean steak, periodic chicken, and other meat in some of the Korean food I eat for lunch.    

Order Eat to Live  today!

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Some athletes even sleep in high-altitude simulation tents while at sea level, Kram noted. “It would be interesting to see,’’ he said, if a similar method could be used for reducing appetite — and losing pounds.   -Losing the weight war? Head to the mountains. 

MY COMMENT:  Life is more strenuous at high altitude.  Zugspitze is 9,700 feet, and subjects that spent a week there lost an average of 3.3 pounds- it’s more difficult to move around and they probably ate less. 

It might be something for a company like Colorado Altitude Training to look into.

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At the end of the 12 weeks the researchers found that those people who ate five servings a day instead of the normally recommended three servings lost more weight. In addition improvements in the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes were recorded.  -nutraingredients.com

MY COMMENT:  This has all the makings of a new best selling Dairy Diet!

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“If I had to pick one thing I could fix to stop diets from failing, it would be all-or-nothing thinking and all-or-nothing acting,”  - Martin Binks, PhD, director of behavioral health research at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center

-everydayhealth.com

MY COMMENT:  Nice article on overcoming mental barriers.

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Alley, who lost 75 pounds following Jenny Craig, gained all of that weight back and then some.  Now she is starring in a reality TV show as she attempts to lose it again.  Talk about pressure! 

Kirstie Alley

She’s also got another angle up her sleeve - if you go to her website (http://kirstiealley.com)  you’ll get the opportunity for a 10% discount on your inital purchase.  No mention of what you might be buying, but I suspect some super secret weight loss gimmick.  

What am I doing even looking into this nonsense?

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