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Thinking About Using The 1000 Calorie Diet? Take Care!

admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:56:35 +0000

There is a craze right now for using the 1000 calorie diet to lose weight quickly, but there are many warnings that go along with this diet. First of all it should be noted that 1,000 calories are not many for someone to live off, and even a small framed woman would struggle at this level if she were even just a little active. This means that if you do consider restricting your diet to so few a number of calories, and this is not recommended, then it should only be for a couple of days, and never longer than five days.

One of the problems with consuming so few calories is that your body decides it is in starvation mode, which it is, and starts to save as much energy as possible, which cuts down on the amount of weight that can be lost. It is best to vary the number of calories, so that your metabolism does not get stuck at any one level.

The 1000 calorie diet has very small portions for three meals and two small snacks a day - not recommended

It is recommended by many in the weight loss world that you only lose a pound or two a week, so that you have the energy to stay active, and your body doesn’t think it is being starved. Weight which is lost gradually has more chance of staying off too than weight which is dropped quickly. Trying to stay on a calorie reduced diet can be just too drastic for your body to cope with, as it is difficult to get the nutrients your body needs with only 1,000 calories a day.

However, should you decide to take this drastic action, then remember to make sure that your 1000 calories have nutrition in them, and are not empty calories, and also remember to drink lots of water too. By eating so few calories in a day, it is generally accepted that these will be spread out during the day, with three small meals and a couple of very small snacks, and the total number of calories consumed in a day being around the 1000 mark.

Depending how many calories you normally eat in a day, this diet plan could have you feeling exceptionally hungry, and grumpy too, and can easily result in binge eating, which is damaging in more than one way. Not only does it mean you are not stocking to the diet plan that you have chosen, but the chances are very high that you will end up gaining weight, and if by some chance you manage to stay the same or lose a little, by not sticking to the plan, you will probably not be feeling very good about yourself, and poor self esteem is not a good thing to have.

Naturally you should talk to your healthcare professional before you consider any diet plan or weight loss program, whether it is the extreme 1000 calorie diet, the water diet, the juice diet, or any other diet plan. After all, these professionals are supposed to know what is good for us.

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Juice Fasting – How To Follow The Juice Diet For Best Effect

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:57:39 +0000

The juice diet has been popular for a long time but many people just don’t understand how to take advantage of juice fasting to gain the best results for weight loss. It should be realized that the juice diet is used mainly for fasting, so it is not expected to be used long term. However, having said that, there are some reports that over 30 days people have lost 30 – 40 lbs on the juice diet, but that it is very much a diet of will power for this length of time.

Okay, so back to the basic juice diet which is basically used to detox the body after days, months or even years of eating all kinds of junk food that is bad for us. The juice diet is a fast way to reduced the amount of fat you have stored in the body. Now the length of time spent on this diet has been suggested as the number of days it takes you to get rid of the symptoms of detoxification, plus 2 days.For some people this will only be a few days, but for others the process may take a lot longer, but if you are considering this approach, talk to your doctor about it before hand, and if you are still on the diet after a couple of weeks, you might want to check back again, just to make sure all is still well with your health.

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The detoxification of this diet can lead to various unpleasant side effects, depending on the toxins that your body has to lose. Some toxins are lost through our skin, others from the lungs, and still others through the colon and urinary tract. Now the program doesn’t have to be followed all the time, it can be a few days of fasting, followed by 3 or 4 days, with healthy foods like fish, fruit and vegetables, so you do have a lot of choice on the diet, and your medical practitioner will be able to help you decide the best program for you.

So, what do foods do you need during a juice diet? Plenty of fruits and vegetables are used, usually turned into juice with the help of a juicer, not a citric juicer, but there are a few tips too. Grapefruits are not used, because often their content can upset the balance with certain medications, while beet roots are found to be good for detoxifying the liver.Note that the juicer is very different to a mixer or a blender. It literally does take the juice out of the food, and keeps the fiber in the juicer basket, while the juice passes out through the spout. There are a few different types of juicers too, but that is for another day.

One of the concerns with this diet is the large volume of fruit and vegetables that you need to make enough juice for each day, and that the juice is best made fresh. True, you are encouraged to drink plenty of water as well to aid the process, but the foods need to be of good quality, and some juice diets recommend using only organic foods.

There are many different recipes for juices to use during your juice fasts, so there is no need just to use one fruit for the juice. In fact, it is far better if you mix different juices together so that you can increase the nutrients that are available to you from the juice, although some ingredients are used mainly for their flavor, others for their color, and others for both the nutrition they provide as well as the flavor.

One of the advantages of the juice diet is that the nutrients from the fruits and vegetables used are more easily digested by the body after they have been through a juicer, so this gives the stomach a bit of a rest from having to digest a whole mixture of different foods.

So, whether you try the juice diet to do a little fasting is entirely up to you. I know I couldn’t handle having just juices for a few days, even if it is really good for me. I’d rather eat a good diet with all the healthy foods needed to give me the nutrients I need. I guess I just enjoy food too much! But if you do use the juice diet, remember to see your doctor first, before you start juice fasting.

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Is Diet Analysis Important For You and Should It Be?

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:48:04 +0000

If you are on a diet that is losing you weight, should you get a diet analysis of your daily food so that you know if you are missing any elements in your diet? This is one of those questions that only you can answer. You know whether you are eating all the foods that you need to every day to stay healthy. You know whether your weight loss is too extreme. Losing weight fast is a big concern, and in this case, if you are not eating well, it is very easy to cut out nutrients that your body needs. In this case you may want to have a diet analysis done for you, or you can do the analysis yourself, using some of the sites available online.

However, if you are eating a good diet, with plenty of vegetables and fruit, with proteins and a few fats, every day, then you are probably going to be all right. But, if you have any doubt, and you have the money to pay for diet analysis, then this may ease your mind, provided you take action on what is recommended.

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You can get a good idea by checking the foods you eat with the recommended daily allowances for someone your age, gender and height, and if you are missing anything, this will enable you to find it and add it into your diet. You could also see a nutritionist and find out from them if your diet is inadequate in any way. You certainly do have some options to help you. Your doctor could help you too, especially if blood tests show some numbers he is concerned with, so it is a good idea to have your annual health check and talk to your doctor about any concerns you have about your diet.

If you decide to go ahead with a diet analysis, then you are going to need to list the foods that you eat in a typical day, or over a few days, everything, so that the diet analysis is as accurate as possible for you. If you leave out anything, then it really isn’t worth doing the analysis. But of course the choice is yours. Diet analysis cannot do you any harm, and it may just pinpoint some area where your food intake is deficient, or some foods that you could change to make your weight loss more effective.

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Diets That Work Really Well – Which Are The Best?

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:05:22 +0000

As you probably know all too well, there are hundreds of diet programs, but which are the good diets that work well, and are there fad diets that work well too?
Right from the beginning, we’re not going to be looking at diets that involve drugs or pills, since this is not the healthiest plan to use. What we are going to be considering are plans that involve a way of eating for life. Yes, you can eat to lose weight, and that is the objective here.

First of all, let’s consider the human body, and compare it to that of a car. If you fill your car with milk instead of gasoline, the chances are that it will not run very well if at all, since it has been built to run on gasoline. The same is true of the human body, it has not evolved to run on junk food, no matter how much we would like that. It expects to get certain nutrients on a daily basis, and if it doesn’t get them, well, things go wrong.

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So, what are some good diets that work really well? One diet that is receiving great reviews at present is the food combining diet, although perhaps it is better to say food combining way of eating. It involves not so much a diet as a different way of eating, and it has produced some spectacular results both in terms of weight loss and health benefits.

One of the main differences with food combining is that fruits are never eaten with anything other than fruit. This is because of the way the body processes fruit, and it is much easier for the stomach to digest foods of the same kind, so eat all your fruit at one sitting, maybe as a breakfast, or a lunch, or even as a mid afternoon snack. It is healthy for you, and you may find that your body tolerates foods that it didn’t before as a result of eating this way. I know it has for me.

There are foods that you are encouraged to eat, like oatmeal, legumes or pulses as they are also called (dried beans, peas and lentils), and of course fresh vegetables. Those same foods are encouraged to help lower cholesterol, and play a part in a diet called the Zone.

For years now the Zone diet has got a lot of coverage, and for good reason. It is basically a balanced diet, that contains all the right food groups, (and no, junk food is not one of those!), with portion sizes that are not excessive. More than this, it encourages balanced meals, meaning that at each meal you eat a certain amount of protein, carbohydrates and fats.

You count the food you eat on the Zone diet in terms of blocks of protein, carbohydrates and fats, having the same number of each at each meal, usually 3 or 4, and each block contains a certain number of grams of food. It can be rather off putting trying to figure out what amounts you should be eating, but it is a very healthy diet, and it does produce good weight loss, provided you do not over eat.

Both of the diets mentioned above give great customer satisfaction.

I’ve tried them both, and they do work very well for weight loss, maintaining good health while losing pounds. Yes, they are two good diets that work well for every one, but you have to try them yourself to succeed yourself.

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What Is The 1200 Calorie Diet?

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:02:55 +0000

First of all, what is it about the 1200 calorie diet, and what is it about it that makes it so popular? Well, the 1200 calorie diet is a balanced diet, containing the proteins, carbohydrates and fats that your body needs to maintain its health. In some ways it is very similar to the Zone diet, as it promotes eating each of proteins, carbohydrates and fats every time you eat. So for example, lunch might be a turkey and cheese sandwich with lettuce and tomato, followed by an orange. The turkey and cheese provide the protein, the low calorie bread the carbohydrates as well as the tomato and lettuce and orange, and the cheese provides the fat.

However, this diet does involve the counting of calories, so that you try to keep to 1200 each day. Now, different people need different numbers of calories, so before reducing yours, you should really check with your doctor first to make sure that this is a safe number for you to consume. You may find that because of your metabolism you need more calories each day to stay healthy and at a good weight for you.

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Now, this 1200 calorie diet plan is good, although as mentioned, it may not be 1200 calories you need. Not only do you reduce your intake of food, but you eat a balanced diet, that is good for you, but also one that doesn’t leave you hungry. You are encouraged to eat small meals so that this enables you to eat a mid-morning snack, as well as a mid-afternoon snack, and a small snack in the evening.

Because your blood sugar is kept on a pretty even keel with this method of eating balanced foods each time, there are none of the intense hunger pangs that other diets have, and it is a much easier diet to maintain long term. In other words, it is a way of eating, more than a diet plan, and as such is more likely to succeed.

This diet encourages drinking plenty of water, but this is probably nothing new for you as most diets encourage this to flush out toxins, keep the bowels regular, and the bladder too. So, to conclude, balance your meals and snacks, by having good proteins, carbohydrates and fats for each meal or snack, and you will lose weight with this 1200 calorie diet.

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What Is The 1500 Calorie Diet?

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:56 +0000

There are many diets for losing weight, but a popular one right now is the 1500 calorie diet, where you stick to 1500 calories each day. This should be a balanced diet, with protein carbohydrates and fats eaten at each meal and snack, whenever possible. Now, 1500 calories may sound like a lot to some of you, but to others too few, so there are two things to remember first.

First of all, see your doctor before starting any diet, and even during weight loss to make sure all is going well as it should. Secondly, different people need a different number of calories each day, depending on their metabolism, and also on their activity level. If you lead a pretty sedentary life, then you will not need as many calories as someone who runs 10 miles every day.

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Okay, so on to the diet. What foods should you be eating within this 1500 calorie diet? Well, obviously, if you were to eat junk food, then you would only be having one meal a day! So, choose your foods carefully, so that you have a variety of different foods each day from the protein, carbohydrate and fat food groups. This will ensure that you get the nutrients that your body needs daily, and by having variety, you will not get tired of eating the same meal time after time. Choose the low fat varieties for fewer calories, and remember to eat fruits and vegetables as part of your healthy diet plan.

By eating balanced meals, your blood sugar leaves will remain more level, and not spike like they do when you eat a high sugar meal.It is the spike and sudden drop in blood sugar levels that leaves you feeling unwell and hungry all the time. This more balanced diet will not have the high and low swings in blood sugar, and you will not feel hungry, especially if you spread out your 1500 calories throughout the day, having 3 main meals, as well as a mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and mid-evening snack.

Count your calories carefully, and reduce portion sizes as necessary. And remember, that with a healthy diet, you also need to have some exercise so that your body becomes fit too. Exercising 3 or 4 times a week for about 30 minutes each time is good, but not always realistic.

Do not beat yourself up if you can’t manage to fit in that run after work. See if you can do a little more moving around at work. Maybe use the stairs instead of the elevator a little more.

And that is all there is to a 1500 calorie diet that will have you losing weight but staying healthy, without the use of diet pills!

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The Water Diet – Complementing Other Diets That Work

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:45:01 +0000

One of the many diets out there is the water diet, and the good thing about this is that, besides water being so readily available to most people, and it being so cheap, this water diet complements other good diets that work well.

So, how much water do you need to drink? This diet encourages you to drink 64 fluid ounces of water every day, and it can be tap water, or bottled water, as long as it doesn’t have anything added to it and it is 50 degrees or cooler in temperature. The temperature of the water is an important factor here, because this is going to burn up some calories, not a lot, but hey, every calorie lost helps with that weight loss.

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Now, the 64 ounces of water you need to drink should be taken over the course of a day, not all at once, so that equates to 8 glasses of water if the glass is an 8 ounce size. Now, an eight ounce glass is just one cup or half a pint, or 250 ml, which isn’t a great amount, but how this water diet works is that because the water is cold, remember it is 50 degrees Fahrenheit or colder, and the body is normally 98.6 degrees, then the body has to work to raise the temperature of the water so that it reaches the same temperature as the rest of the body. In doing this, the body uses energy, and if the rest of your diet doesn’t change at all, then you have just used up some calories that you will not replace. In other words, you have lost weight. Now do be aware that it takes about 12 calories to raise the temperature of 2 cups of water, so we are not talking about a huge number of calories here, but every few help, right?

On the other hand, maybe you could cut out that extra cookie, or walk an extra block every day, and you will use up more energy, but this water diet can be used along with other diets designed to lose weight, and as water is always said to be good for you anyway, it certainly shouldn’t hurt you.

So, if you are planning to lose weight, or you already are on a diet program, then you could add in the water diet and see whether it makes a difference to your weight loss, or to how you are feeling.

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