Saturday, April 7, 2007

Comments for My E-Book

Snacks and Fast Foods Out of Your Diet - Part IV

One important factor we must bear in mind is the fact that most of the time when we eat fast food, we do not take the time necessary to engage in enough physical activity to burn the calories. Therefore, it is inevitable that the body will store the excess calories as fat. Oh no!! What that means is added pounds.

Resolve to get rid of the snack food cravings and the desire to eat fast foods. Choosing not to do this may mean disaster for any weight loss plan you decide to embark upon. Always consult your physician before undertaking any diet plan or any drastic change to your daily meal plan.

Snacks and Fast Foods Out of Your Diet - Part III

Substitute those snack food cravings with fruits and vegetables. Fruits will offer you the energy your body needs for your daily activities. Vegetables give you many other nutrients your body needs for optimal performance, depending on the vegetable of your choice.

We all love to eat at fast food chains. But have you ever wondered how nutritious and healthy fast foods are? Do you know what nutrients your body is consuming? Do you realize that eating at fast food chains gives you very little control over what you eat?

We must substitute eating at fast food chains with the old-fashioned home-cooked meals. With home-cooked meals, there is no doubt prevalent as to what vital nutrients you are consuming and you have complete control over what enters your body. Counting the calories in fast food is very hard to do and it is harder to control your caloric intake.

Snacks and Fast Foods Out of Your Diet - Part II

Are you one of those people who crave snack foods? Do you crave a good chocolate bar to get through the afternoon at work? Do you crave popcorn when you sit down to watch that movie you rented from Blockbusters? If your answer to all or any one of these questions is yes, then you must find a way to get rid of these cravings. These snack cravings are one of the major factors standing between you and your weight loss goal success.

It is very difficult to restrict yourself from those foods and drinks you love, but it is imperative that you find the motivation and willpower to do just that. Most of the snack foods you crave have no nutritious value to your diet. If you want to be successful with your weight loss regime, your first and foremost focus must be on the health and nutrition of your body.

Snacks and Fast Foods Out of Your Diet

Gaining weight is an easy thing for a lot of us to do but what about losing weight? Losing weight without changing those daily habits that caused us to gain weight is impossible.

First, snacking has to be removed from your diet. Oftentimes, snacking is a way to eat non-nutritious foods and thus weight gain is inevitable. Most of the snacking we do is on salty or sugary staples. These snacks are great for adding pounds. Oh, but wait. We are not trying to add pounds.

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Weight Control

The changes in society today have contributed greatly to our weight status. The technological changes and the foods we eat have taught us to live sedentary lives. Women working outside of the home have contributed to more eating at restaurants rather than home cooking.

In order to gain control over our weight, we must start with realistic expectations. Rather than putting the entire focus on weight loss, we must look toward a healthier attitude when trying to gain control over our weight. A realistic goal for controlling our weight would be about ten pounds a month. With a diet and exercise program, this is a reachable target. We must remember that the weight did not appear all at one time, therefore, the weight will not disappear all at one time.

Another deterrent in weight control management is the media. With all the hoopla regarding the many diet pills on the market, it is difficult to concentrate and focus on a healthy regime when trying to gain control over our weight. The media presents many ways of getting the perfect body shape and looks by proposing new diets that will work miracles, not to mention the exercise equipment that supposedly helps do the work for us.

Deciding what to do to control our weight, we must weed through all the diet commercials and diet paraphernalia to find what will fit our needs. Researching the dozens of diet regimes on the market today takes plenty of concentration remembering what our specific needs are.

While trying to gain control over our weight, we must adhere to two main factors, diet and exercise. Diet and exercise is the means for losing weight and toning up at the same time.

In order to control our weight, we will have to change our lifestyle and we must concentrate on what we need to keep us aware of physiological and psychological effects of critical occurrences within our lives. To have success with a diet plan to control our weight means we have to make changes to our eating habits.

I am an avid proponent of health and nutrition for all people, young and old. I believe that children are our greatest assets and they are our future. We must focus on what we can do as parents to fight the weight loss battles in our society today to save our children. Follow me to a phenomenal product that will jump start your focus to www.marymshields.usana.com. You'll be glad you did.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Motivating Children to Lose Weight

The best way to motivate children to lose weight is to start doing fun things with them that will make losing weight interesting to them. If they see you doing it, they will follow suit. I am a believer that children emulate what they see and hear.

The Right Diet Plan

How do you choose the right diet plan that will provide everything your body needs for a healthier you? I found in order to find what is right for me is to get myself motivated to the point that weight loss does not rest in the back of my mind. Visit my website at www.marymshields.usana.com to discover what motivated me to my weight loss goals.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Erase Snacks and Fast Foods from the Diet

Gaining weight is an easy thing for a lot of us to do, but what about losing weight? Losing weight without changing those daily habits that caused us to gain weight is impossible. First, snacking has to be removed from your diet. Oftentimes, snacking is a way to eat non-nutritious foods and thus weight gain is inevitable. Most of the snacking we do is on salty or sugary staples. These snacks are great for adding pounds. Oh, but wait. We are not trying to add pounds.

Children and Nutrition

In the fight for prevention of child obesity, our children must be taught about nutrition. Parents know that the day will come when their child "will leave the nest," so it would be wise to teach the child all there is to know about proper nutrition.