This blog is not intended to treat, diagnose or mislead anyone concerning their health or weight.

This blog is not intended to treat, diagnose or mislead anyone concerning their health or weight.
These posts are merely a way to bring information, reviews and first-hand experiences to you.
Showing posts with label diet tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diet tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

yayFOOD versus Fat Loss 4 Idiots

yayFOOD and Fat Loss 4 Idiots both have pros and cons. I'd like to explore both of them here.

To begin with, Fat Loss 4 Idiots is undeniably the more popular of the two. It's been around a lot longer, and quite frankly is marketed a lot better.

However, does that make it better? Let's explore:

First of all - when you get inside the member's area for FL4I, you're greeted with what looks like 20 or so different pages. These are mini-articles. There's also a diet generator.

The basic concept of Fat Loss 4 Idiots is that you need to eat the same foods over and over - but they mix and match them so that you're eating different combinations. You can only eat the same 30 foods over and over. Some examples of these foods are garden salad with dressing, green and red vegetables, hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, green beans, fresh grapefruit, and broiled flounder.

When you get inside yayFOOD, the member's area is quite different.

There are calorie calculators, where you type in your height, weight, and exercise level. Depending on your specifics is how they tell you what to eat - which seems to make a lot more sense.

The first benefit of yayFOOD is that you can eat whatever you want - not the boring diet food - although they do give sample meal plans and meal ideas so that you can have some reference. There are even 7 day meal plans that Rachel herself eats. Members add recipes to the Recipe Database all the time, too - so there's no shortage of variety.

There are hundreds of articles, reports, and resources for you to use in there.

There's ongoing support, too - so that you can ask a question whenever you want and get a quick answer.

There's also a diet goal section where you can put in your weight, and it'll automatically email your friends and family when you reach goal (if you want). You can also keep a journal, a goal setter, and more.

There's also much more of a community with yayFOOD.

Overall, yayFOOD has much better value than FL41. The good thing about Fl4I is that it's a one-time fee, whereas yayFOOD is $19.95 a month. However, since you get so many extra benefits with yayFOOD, it might be well worth it for you. Also, there's an 8 week no-questions-asked guarantee, so it's risk free. See what you’re missing at http://tinyurl.com/yayFOODlifestyle

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Tips For Those Who Need To Lose Weight

If you’re looking for some weight loss tips, you will discover many different approaches in you research.

For example, you might read to drink more water, to avoid certain foods, and to be more active.

While I do agree with all of that, I think one of the most important weight loss tips is to maintain a positive outlook.

Once you have made up your mind to lose weight, you should make that commitment and go into it with a positive attitude. We all know that losing weight can be quite a challenge. In fact, for some, it can be downright tough. It takes time, practice and support to change lifetime habits. But it's a process you must learn in order to succeed. You and you alone are the one who has the power to lose unwanted pounds.

Think like a winner and not a loser - remember that emotions are like muscles and the ones you use most grow the strongest. If you always look at the negative side of things, you'll become a downbeat, pessimistic person. Even slightly negative thoughts have a greater impact on you and last longer than powerful positive thoughts.

Negative thinking doesn't do you any good; it just holds you back from accomplishing the things you want to do. When a negative thought creeps into your mind, replace it reminding yourself that you're somebody, you have self-worth and you possess unique
strengths and talents.

Contemplate what lies ahead of you. Losing weight is not just about diets. It's about a whole new you and the possibility of creating a new life for yourself.

Investigate the weight loss programs that appeal to you and that you feel will teach you the behavioral skills you need to stick with throughout the weight-loss process.

You can check out more about losing weight on my website at http://tinyurl.com/yayFOODlifestyle

Low Calorie Diet Plan - Be Careful, It Won't Work!

Even though most people tell you that a low calorie diet plan is the way to go, the truth of the matter is that low calorie doesn't always work successfully.

See... weight loss isn't as simple as keeping calories out all the time.

Sure, in the short term, you lose weight with that theory. You might even lose a bit of weight.

Eventually though, as any seasoned dieter will know, you'll plateau. Your body will get used to the amount of calories that you're putting into it, and your metabolism will adjust accordingly.

And if you're eating really low calorie it'll even go into starvation mode, holding on to fat storages for you. When it does that, not only will you not lose more weight... but you might even gain weight.

This might come as a shock since most people promote the low calorie diets... but think... most people promote low calorie, but one out of every two Americans is overweight. Obviously something's wrong with common knowledge (either that, or people aren't staying on their diets).

Calorie cycling is the answer to both of those answers. It goes against common knowledge because it allows you to have "cheat" days. This not only makes people like the diet (which means they stay on it), but it "tricks" the metabolism so that it can never adjust to a certain amount of calories. When this happens, weight loss continues to occur for long periods of time... unlike with the low calorie diet plan.

You can check out more about calorie cycling on my website at http://tinyurl.com/yayFOODlifestyle

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Extreme Weight Loss Tips When You Really Want To Lose Weight

Many people have heard about all types of extreme weight loss tips that are supposed to help them lose weight.

The fact of the matter is most of them are simply inaccurate. Let's explore some of
the myths.

Because we live in such a fast paced world, sometimes it's necessary for us to take what other people’s experiences at face value since we don't have time to check into everything ourselves.
However, be careful: there are many diet and weight loss tips out there that actually aren't accurate at all.

Extreme Weight Loss Tip 1: Avoid eating carbohydrates if you want some quick weight loss... right?

Wrong.

If you want to lose weight, you should cycle your calories (or carbohydrates). But cutting them out is not a good solution at all for long term weight loss.

Make no mistakes - you will lose weight if you cut out carbs, and you'll lose it quickly. However, you will, without a doubt, gain the weight back.

No one type of food group should be avoided in order to lose weight. Not only is this restrictive and emotionally frustrating to the dieter, but it isn't conducive to lifestyle changes. Once you eat low carbohydrate, your body will get used to it and expect you to continue to eat that way forever.

It's absolutely smart to look into more of the complex carbohydrates such as whole grains or beans versus the processed foods... but don't avoid carbs altogether.
Extreme Weight Loss Tip 2: It doesn't matter what you do... genetics will determine your weight! ... Or will they?

This is actually a myth.

Yes, biology studies have shown that relatives do usually have similar weights to that of their family. That doesn't mean that you're destined to be whatever weight your family is.

A good diet will help anyone even if they might take longer to lose weight than those people with faster metabolisms.

You should never allow yourself to give up with the excuse of genetics.

You can check out more about extreme weight loss tips on my website at http://tinyurl.com/yayFOODlifestyle