Diet and Weight Loss Tips

by admin on November 8, 2009

Weight Loss Information and Tips for Getting Started

Calories per Hour offers the following tips to help you lose weight to look better, feel better, and live a healthier life. These tips are short and sweet and are intended as a starting point or quick reference for individuals seeking to lose weight by using the resources offered on Calories per Hour. Read the related tutorial topics to learn more about the topics discussed in these weight loss tips

  1. How Did I Get Here?Do you simply need help learning how to eat better? Probably. But if you eat poorly as a result of emotional, mental, or spiritual problems, they may have to be addressed before you can make any real progress with weight loss.Even people who don’t feel they have an eating disorder often turn to food for comfort. To learn to eat well and exercise regularly, you may also have to learn to handle the problems life throws at you without turning away from healthy eating and exercise.Be particularly careful about all-or-nothing thinking. A common tendency when failing to stay on a diet is to abandon it altogether. Instead, try to learn from your mistakes and do better in the future.

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Weight Loss and Dieting As a Change in Lifestyle

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
General Weight Loss and Health Philosophy
Our concept of a “diet” is a change in lifestyle: Learning to eat well and exercise in a healthy way that you can enjoy for the rest of your life. The concept is not unique. It is one you will likely hear about from a health [...]

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Why Exercise Is Important for Weight Loss

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
Just as a car runs on gasoline, our bodies run on the blood sugar (glucose) circulating in our bloodstream. When we exercise enough to deplete the supply of blood sugar, hormones are released that instruct our fat cells to release fat into our bloodstream. The fat circulates to the muscles that [...]

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Good Fats and Bad Fats

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
One of the reasons we love fat so much is that it carries flavor. But if you are trying to lose weight, it is important to remember that a gram of fat contains more than twice as many calories as a gram of protein or carbohydrate. Also, as explained in The [...]

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Calories in Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates

November 8, 2009

Yes, each gram of fat you consume provides more than twice as many calories as a gram of protein or carbohydrate!

As an example of how these numbers are used, imagine a food containing 10 grams of protein [...]

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How Blood Sugar Levels Affect Weight Loss

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
When we eat, our body converts digestible carbohydrates into blood sugar (glucose), our main source of energy. Our blood sugar level can affect how hungry and how energetic we feel, both important factors when we are watching how we eat and exercise. It also determines whether we burn fat or store [...]

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How Fiber Helps You Lose Weight

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
Fiber is the part of plant-based foods that our bodies can’t digest. It passes through our digestive tract without providing nutrition or calories, and yet it is very healthy for us.
Fiber helps to keep our bowel movements regular and ward off certain diseases. Carcinogens in our intestines bind to it and [...]

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Why Healthy Food Makes You Slim

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
People who eat healthy, mostly unprocessed foods, including fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (lentils, dry beans and peas), and limited amounts of lean animal protein (reduced-fat dairy, fish, chicken, and lean cuts of other meats), often find that they can eat as much as they want without gaining weight. If they [...]

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Raise Your Metabolism and Burn More Calories

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
When our main source of energy, our blood sugar (glucose), runs low, the process of metabolism turns our body fat into energy. Conversely, when our supply of blood sugar runs high, the process of metabolism stores excess energy by turning it into body fat to be used another time. Or, all [...]

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Selecting a Diet Plan

November 8, 2009

Diet and Weight Loss Tutorial
Are you ready to diet? Again? Diets entice us with promises of quick weight loss. But the people we know who eat well and look healthy aren’t dieting at all. They have simply adopted good eating habits.
Diets can be so restrictive that they set you up for failure. Some are so [...]

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