Weight Loss Today
Weight-loss tips: Am I hungry?
Dr. Amy Zacharias, of Advocate Medical Group’s Integrative Health for Women, is a mother of four children who also teaches the Am I Hungry? non-diet approach to weight management. Here are some tips from Zacharias for people who want to lose weight:
Am I Hungry?
When you feel like eating, ask yourself, “Am I Hungry?” Consider drinking a glass of water first because you may be dehydrated.
Eat in moderation
If you’re truly hungry, eat something you enjoy but in moderation. Eat slowly and mindfully. Enjoy your food. About halfway through the meal, ask yourself “Am I Hungry?” If you are, eat until you’re full. If you’re no longer hungry, stop eating and get away from the table.
Respond to eating triggers
If you feel like eating but realize you’re not hungry, consider why you want to eat so you can respond to that trigger without food. If you’re upset, try to address the reason for your worry. If you’re stressed, breathe slowly and deeply, get up and walk around, exercise, phone a friend or pray. If you’re bored, get out of the house and do something, or stay home and clean house. If you’re fatigued, go to sleep. If you respond to triggers such as the candy tray on a colleague’s desk, avoid the trigger.
Fit in exercise
Look at your schedule and determine when you can fit exercise into your day. Consider that your health matters because you want to be there for your family for many years. On busy days when you can’t fit in 30 minutes of exercise, move for 10 minutes at a time three times during the day.
Weight loss tips from Weight Watchers ‘role models’
What was your weight loss wake up call?
When Aurora’s Sarah Vonhoff went through a divorce in 2008, she tried to eat and drink her way through the pain and the loss.
She wasn’t that big, she told herself. But her increasingly tight size 16 pants said otherwise.
Vonhoff, who was wary of diets, ultimately joined Weight Watchers on the advice of her mother, a lifetime member.
She dropped 75 pounds and was recently named the Weight Watchers Role Model of the Year for her efforts.
Today Vonhoff, the cover model in this month’s Weight Watchers Magazine, tells others who want to shed pounds to commit to a new way of life, make yourself a priority and then start by implementing small, manageable changes.
“I really took the time to adjust to the program into my lifestyle, so it didn’t feel like a diet,” said Vonhoff, a human resources executive. “Today I’ve been able to find a balance that works for me so I can enjoy things (such as wine and beer) you can’t normally have on a diet.”
For Catherine Parkinson, one of the finalists in the contest, the weight loss wakeup call came while she was watching the 2007 NFL draft on television. Parkinson, 29, realized she weighed more than all but a handful of football players.
“Celebrate the successes every step of the way,” advised Parkinson, who enlisted a team of friends to help her lose weight. “(My friends and I) told ourselves that no matter how long it took to lose the weight, we were going to do it.”
Obesity wake up calls come in many forms. Some women seek help when they realize they may not be able to have children at their current weight. Others are shocked into action by a number on the scale.
But perhaps the most powerful motivator is a picture. “It’s amazing how you really don’t think of yourself as “that big” until you see a picture and barely recognize yourself,” said Vonhoff, 30. “I still keep a few to remind me of how far I’ve come 75 pounds later.”
To kick off its third annual Lose for Good campaign in Chicago, Weight Watchers donated a garden to the Victor Herbert Elementary School in Chicago. The garden will be used for educational and nutritional purposes, though most school produce is forbidden fruit in Chicago Public Schools cafeteria.
Weight Loss Tips Do Not Have To Be Complicated
Weight loss tips that suggest limiting your intake of unhealthy fats, cholesterol and excess carbs can be beneficial for losing weight and maintaining an overall healthy body. A low cholesterol diets , can provide healthy weight loss and natural weight loss .
Weight loss tips for women do not have to be complicated. One of the major reasons why women remain at a heavier weight is because they do not want to starve or to deprive themselves of their coveted foods.
Weight loss tips are designed to help people get started with weight loss, but they are not something you should rely on. The information provided may not always be information that will work with your needs, so do not feel that the tips you receive are your only options for losing weight.
Exercise addiction are characterized by their compulsive exercise behaviors, an overinvolvement in exercise, and the presence of an activity disorder. Exercise addicts may be driven to work out despite exhaustion or injury.
Exercise is probably the most important key to increasing your metabolism and burning off excess fat. Research shows that you burn more stored fat for energy when you do aerobic exercises on an empty stomach than on a full stomach. Exercising, however, builds muscle mass, which is a good thing.
Muscle tissue is more metabolically active than other body tissue, so the more you have, the more calories your body burns at rest.