Showing posts with label body fat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body fat. Show all posts
It's
a fun time of year. And it's great to celebrate with friends. It's the season of office
parties, family get togethers and all those other drinking parties that make up
the stretch between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve.
Did you know that even moderate
alcohol consumption can seriously increase your fat storage and make it harder
to lose weight?
And did you know that even after just
a few drinks, your body's ability to burn fat can be totally shut down?
Did you know that one of your main fat
loss hormones can actually becompletely
suppressed by
drinking booze?
But
don't worry if you enjoy a cocktail, a beer or a glass of wine now and then.
The news isn't all bad.
In
this very short article you'll discover 3
simple strategies for enjoying Happy Hour without sacrificing
your weight loss goals.
in
an ideal world, if you want to have a magazine-cover body you'll probably have
to give up the booze.But for the rest of us, completely giving up social
drinking is just a fantasy. And as you'll soon discover, you can enjoy a few
drinks, avoid becoming a social outcast AND have a hot body by following 3
simple strategies.
These 3 strategies reveal the
things you absolutely MUST AVOID if you want to keep losing fat without giving up your social life or
your favourite drinks
Just follow these 3 simple strategies
and you'll discover which foods NEVER to eat with alcohol, what the worst drink is for weight gain, and which
mixed drinks will go straight to your belly fat.
1 # ELIMINATE fatty foods
Food and drink are a natural match.
But there's one food you must definitely avoid if your goal is to lose weight.
You see, alcohol has the unfortunate
effect of shutting down your body's ability to oxidize fatty acids. In other
words, it prevents you from using fat for fuel. So when you pound back a greasy
cheeseburger with your favorite drink, your body can't use the fat you're
eating. It gets stored in your fat cells instead!
But you can avoid piling on ugly body
fat every time you have a few drinks just by sticking to lean protein and
veggies. Order a steak and a side salad instead of a cheeseburger and you'll
wake up the next morning as lean as you are were when you took your first sip.
2# AVOID Sugary Mixed Drinks
You've probably heard of insulin. It's
your body's "storage" hormone. And with the right nutrition timing,
insulin can actually accelerate your fat loss by helping you maintain and build
metabolically active lean muscle.
But Happy Hour is NOT the right time
to spike your insulin, which is exactly what happens when you pound down a
sugary Margarita or a sweet Rum Punch. In this case, your insulin spike is
going to drive all those calories straight onto your love handles.
Don't add fat to your midsection while
enjoying yourself with friends. Skip the sugary mixed drinks and sip a glass of
red wine or a Scotch on the rocks instead.
One of the big reasons I recommend
drinks like this is that you won't be as likely to pound them back. These are
drinks that demand to be sipped. But I also like them because of some other
potential health benefits.
Research published in the European
Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that both Scotch whisky and red wine help
to protect against coronary heart disease by raising the body's level of
anti-oxidants.
3# BANISH This Popular Beverage
OK, I'm going to talk about one other
important hormone for fat loss. This one is responsible for causing excessive
lower body fat in women, and chest or belly fat in men.
You've probably already guessed that
I'm talking about estrogen. But did you know a certain alcoholic drink actually
contains something called "phytoestrogens" that mimic estrogen in
your body?
High amounts of phytoestrogens are bad
because they can lead to ugly and stubborn fat storage in some pretty
embarrassing places...
Unfortunately, the offender is a drink
that pretty near everyone loves — beer.
Now don't worry, I don't expect you to
give up beer. But I will recommend that you limit yourself to one or two beers
on each social occasion. And stick with my previous recommendations of wine or
Scotch for the rest of the time.
You might also want to try darker
beers instead. They usually take a little longer to drink, and they're full of
beneficial anti-oxidants. For the rest of the habits I use to avoid
alcohol-related weight gain
We have been given birth to along with lifted to be able to “eat anything about our own dish since there are starving children within Ethiopia“. These suggestions has become transferred from generation to be able to generation. From our own grandma and grandpa to mom and dad and after this to be able to us all.
The problem that we now face is that the
food quality is getting poorer nutritionally and if we follow this advice, it
will make us all overweight.
So how do you measure the portion size that
is right for you?
It’s simple…the size of your fist or the
palm of your hand is the proper portion size for you.
An example meal would be a small chicken
breast the size of your palm (6-8 oz), a medium apple and a small baked potato
the size of your fist.Something more should be preserved for ones future food or perhaps munch. One more place I'd like to produce can be of which natural veggies are usually exempt with this principle.
You can eat as much raw veggies and salad
as you can possibly handle. These type of foods are high in nutrition and not
in calories. Natures perfect food by a longshot!Below, I’ve listed a few tips
on how to control those portion sizes so that you can be satisfied all day long
and not be hungry.
1. Understand that there's a difference between staying full as well as gratifying your cravings for food.
You should never try to eat to your account usually are full. That is certainly certain fat wallets going straight to your sides, booty as well as stomach. Our
bodies weren’t designed to take in such a surplus of calories. This full feeling
that you get tells you that you have reached max capacity and it is time to break
the food down and store it as fat.
2. Be sure that once you take, always work with a smaller plate. Research demonstrates due to the fact we've been mentally reprogrammed you can eat almost everything upon each of our plate, a very important thing to complete is… get a smaller plate. This fulfills the actual desire.
3. Never supersize your meals if and when
you eat out. Fast food is devoid of nutrients and terrible for you. If you
“need” to eat out, then eat just a bit to satisfy you, not to get the most
value for your buck.
4. The reason that you are having extra
cravings and have to eat big portions is most likely due to the fact you are
eating the wrong food ratios. You may need to adjust your proteinà fatÃ
carbohydrate ratios. It might now necessarily be the type of food that you are
eating, but more along the lines of the amount of food that you eating. Make
sense?
5. Break your portions down to 6 smaller
meals a day. This is actually a golden rule. By eating 6 smaller meals a day,
you will not only stop your cravings and eat smaller portions, but you will
also give your metabolism a much needed boost. A higher metabolism means more
fat burning!
6. When making snacks for yourself, use
small baggies or really small bowls instead of eating out of the box , serving
bowl or jar.
7. When eating out, fill up on salad first,
(very small amount of dressing) before your main course.
8. Last but certainly not least… Eat to
live, do not live to eat. What I mean by
this is to practice mindful eating. Be conscious of what you are putting into
your body. Eat for your health and for energy. Not to satisfy a craving.
Food is overly plentiful in our society.
The problem lies in the quality of the food. It is much cheaper and easier to
find and prepare calorie dense foods. These have little nutrition and will
literally be stored as fat instantly. Eating these types of foods does not
satisfy your body because it doesn’t have the nutrients it needs. Your body
ends up craving more food.
It’s now time for you to take control!
Remember knowledge i s power. Let’s put
some action to it!
