Weight Loss Nuggets

5 Tips for Weight Gain Prevention During the Holidays

While celebrities have a staff to help them achieve fitness goals, we need to face our figures ourselves and take full responsibility for our eating habits during the holidays. Here are 5 ways to beat the holiday food rush: 1. Bag up healthy snacks and keep them at work so you won’t be tempted to [...]

While celebrities have a staff to help them achieve fitness goals, we need to face our figures ourselves and take full responsibility for our eating habits during the holidays.

Here are 5 ways to beat the holiday food rush:

1. Bag up healthy snacks and keep them at work so you won’t be tempted to snack on those holiday candies and cookies in the break room.

2. Purchase healthy choices for holidays –- for example, instead of candy, purchase pretzels.

3. Put the focus back on fun and away from food at the holidays by encouraging long walks, sleigh rides and snowballs fights so everyone is exercising rather than eating.

4. Eat a light, healthy snack before you attend holiday parties so you won’t be tempted by fattening appetizers or sweets.

5. If you really can’t resist temptation, have very small portions –- the same goes for alcohol, which can really pack on the pounds.

By having healthy habits and a bit of self-control, you can avoid unwanted weight gain during the holidays and still have a great time.

Avoid Weight Gain With A Desk Job

If your job requires you to sit most of the day, you may be packing on extra pounds. Research conducted by the University of Chicago showed people working sedentary jobs may wind up with a Body Mass Index that is 3.3 units higher than folks working active jobs — this can add up to 15 [...]

If your job requires you to sit most of the day, you may be packing on extra pounds.

Research conducted by the University of Chicago showed people working sedentary jobs may wind up with a Body Mass Index that is 3.3 units higher than folks working active jobs — this can add up to 15 extra pounds in just a few months.

Consider these ways to stay fit even if you sit all day at work:

Don’t forget to eat. Avoid fast foods with extra sodium and calories and opt for 2-3 healthy snacks during the day to keep your energy level up and your metabolism functioning properly.

Avoid office gathering places with food. Eating can become a hobby to combat boredom so steer clear of marathon snacking in the break room and keep healthy snacks in your desk to ward off cravings.

Recruit your co-workers into healthy activities. Instead of gathering around the coffee machine and noshing on goodies during break, take a short walk and share a healthy snack afterwards.

Use every opportunity you can to move. Take the stairs instead of the elevator or get that file yourself instead of buzzing your secretary.

Schedule exercise into your daily routine. Whether you decide to go for a brisk walk after work or take a trip to the gym in the morning, find a convenient way to fit twenty to thirty minutes of exercise into your routine at least three times weekly.

By making a few minor changes to your daily routine, you can survive your sedentary job without packing on unwanted pounds.

Plastic Surgery and Unhealthy Habits

Plastic surgery procedures to get rid of excess fat, including gastric bypass surgery and liposuction, continue to grow in popularity. When people realize they are carrying thirty, fifty or one hundred extra pounds, it can seem overwhelming to lose the weight. While plastic surgery can improve your appearance and give you a major kick start [...]

Plastic surgery procedures to get rid of excess fat, including gastric bypass surgery and liposuction, continue to grow in popularity.

When people realize they are carrying thirty, fifty or one hundred extra pounds, it can seem overwhelming to lose the weight.

While plastic surgery can improve your appearance and give you a major kick start if you are obese, there is no substitute for healthy eating and exercise.

In fact, once patients have healed from gastric bypass surgery or liposuction, cosmetic surgeons encourage them to eat a well-balanced diet and engage in regular exercise to maintain their new shape.

If a patient continue to overeat and fails to exercise, they will still gain weight and negate the effects of the plastic surgery procedure.

The key to looking and feeling your best is to eat plenty of healthy foods and exercise at least three times weekly.

A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meat, fish and dairy will give you more energy and endurance. Avoid fatty foods, sugary snacks and alcohol to stay trim. And work out regularly to relieve stress and look fit.

While plastic surgery may offer a partial solution for the obese, there is no replacement for healthy habits. Additionally, there are many risks involved with plastic surgery including infections and even death.

The bottom line is you need listen to the advice you got as a child from your parents and teachers — eat right and exercise for good health!

Low Carb Dieting With The South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet and low carb eating have been buzzwords for the past few years since the Atkins Diet began to phase out. Although no diet is a substitute for healthy daily eating habits, you can still walk away from any diet with improved skills for healthy living. Many people have failed at the [...]

The South Beach Diet and low carb eating have been buzzwords for the past few years since the Atkins Diet began to phase out.

Although no diet is a substitute for healthy daily eating habits, you can still walk away from any diet with improved skills for healthy living.

Many people have failed at the South Beach Diet because the diet features low calorie, generic meals that are somewhat low protein.

However, low carb eating such as the South Beach diet can teach us several relevant eating patterns, such as:

1. Keeping saturated fats out of our daily diet
2. Use cooking spray, fish fat and olive oil instead of vegetable oil or butter
3 Developing better eating habits everyday to look and feel your best

By choosing more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and proteins…and less fatty snacks, sugar, saturated fats and processed foods…you can build a lifetime of common sense eating for better overall well-being.

While a diet may not always succeed, consistent healthy eating habits are a sure road to nutrition success.

Caffeine and Weight Loss

If you are a coffee maniac, there is good news — you don’t have to skip your cup of coffee to get a good workout. In fact, caffeine and weight loss may go hand in hand. According to Lawrence Armstrong, professor of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Connecticut, “For [...]

If you are a coffee maniac, there is good news — you don’t have to skip your cup of coffee to get a good workout. In fact, caffeine and weight loss may go hand in hand.

According to Lawrence Armstrong, professor of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Connecticut, “For years, people have believed that consuming caffeine would dehydrate the body or result in electrolyte imbalance or that it might affect body temperature and have a negative impact on heat tolerance during exercise. Our research indicates that none of these concerns is valid.”

The research conducted by Armstrong and his colleagues, along with a review of over a dozen studies, revealed that moderate coffee consumption of up to around 500 milligrams daily did not have an adverse impact on exercise.

Even though coffee is a mild diuretic, it is not strong enough to interfere with working out.

Armstrong also believes, based on previous studies, that java may jolt performance and help fight fatigue. In fact, caffeine was once outlawed at the Olympics because of the performing-enhancing effects it has.

While this is not an invitation to start drinking several cups of coffee everyday, it is good to note that your morning cup of caffeine is likely to boost your weight loss efforts rather than inhibit it.