Real Weight Loss – Success is 85% in Your Head

The key to weight loss is mostly mental. It comes down to thinking before eating. There are so many tools that one can employ to assist in losing weight. There is no guess work to success. It is merely systematic, smart thinking that can make all the difference in the world. For example, the caloric numbers are either in plain sight or they are readily available by looking up the item in a publications or directory.

Once you become educated as to what foods are good and what foods are bad, the rest is up to your mind. For example, I can list dozens of foods that contain very little in the way of fat and plenty in terms of value. Let’s start with the first meal of the day. A simple unsweetened cereal with skim milk is certainly going to be more beneficial than a sweetened cereal with vitamin D milk. Additionally, if you are adding some form of bread to your breakfast, it would be advisable not to douse the item with butter. There are better, less fattening alternatives or even bread without any topping. Moving on to lunch, the same theory applies. A salad with some form of green vegetable or fish is far superior to a hamburger, fries and soft drink. Desert can be some fruit as opposed to chocolate, cake, or pastry.

Dinner is where the greatest progress can be made. For example, salad with tuna or fish of any kind, plus a vegetable is perfect. You can eat huge portions of quality choices and not feel the least bit guilty. On the other hand, if your dinner is comprised of fatty foods, fried foods, heavy foods, you will not be doing as well. Additionally, you should not eat dinner late, unless you are going to be up very late. It is preferable to eat an early dinner and eat nothing else between dinner and retiring.

Once you become trained to eat certain healthy foods, the non-healthy alternatives will become less and less tempting. Your eating habits will do attempt to avoid the unhealthy foods. However, you must train your mind to seek healthier foods and refuse to indulge in poor alternatives.

If you are still struggling to maintain a healthy diet, try to engage a coach or sponsor who can assist you. By having someone to guide you and someone to report to, you odds of success increase. There is absolutely no reason to not succeed.

Real Reasons for Breast Augmentation

If you have recently experienced excessive weight loss, have bore a child or have several children, or have decided for personal or professional reasons to restructure the contours of your chest, breast augmentation is a plastic surgery procedure that can help you get your body back in the shape is was before life happened. It can also take what nature gave you and create an improvement on your overall look. Many women struggle with their desires for “boob jobs,” as different influences from their lives tell them “it’s necessary” or “it’s demeaning” or “you’d look better.” It can be a confusing decision to make, but if you’re making the decision for the reasons you feel comfortable with, that’s all that matters.

Excessive Weight Loss

Perhaps you’ve already done a lot of hard work to transform your body through diet and exercise. Good for you! You’ve put yourself on a path of heath and wellness and you’ve achieved a lot of your goals without surgery. However, with excessive weight loss comes loss of weight in your breasts which can be disheartening. All this work to create and improved body and you now have small sagging breasts. Breast augmentation specialists in this case would suggest a breast lift as well. In one surgical sitting you can lift and resize your breasts to match your new body.

After Bearing and Breast Feeding Children

Bearing children puts your body through the ringer! It is very physically taxing to carry a child, bear a child, and breast-feed a child – let along several children! Although there are alternatives to breast-feeding, doctors still recommend it for the health of the baby. If you’ve had a child or several children, you have probably experienced a lot of change in your figure. Weight loss can be achieved with diet and exercise but changes that occurred in your breasts may not be resorted through natural means. A breast augmentation procedure is one that can. Doctors also recommend a combination of an augmentation and breast lift procedure.

Personal or Professional Reasons

In your chosen career you may be held to a standard of beauty. You probably get a lot of commentary on how the industry treats you but through it all it’s what you love. If your job demands a certain aesthetic you may be a good candidate for breast augmentation simply because you want to get the work done. Your reasons may completely personal! There is nothing wrong if you’re weighed the pros and cons of breast augmentation surgery and have decided that you’re making this decision for you, then who cares what other people think? You can work with your doctor to find out a healthy breast size to suit your body type and weight as well as explore what the best technique is to achieve your desired look.

A Quick Look at Some of Today’s Most Effective Diets

The idiot-proof diet is all about calorie shifting. That is, in this diet, you shift your food intake throughout the day instead of eating just 3 meals a day. The diet is popular because it’s actually very easy to follow and there are hardly any restrictions when it comes to the types of food you can eat.

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The Idiot-Proof Diet

The idiot-proof diet is all about calorie shifting. That is, in this diet, you shift your food intake throughout the day instead of eating just 3 meals a day. The diet is popular because it’s actually very easy to follow and there are hardly any restrictions when it comes to the types of food you can eat.

The ‘calorie shifting’ model takes place because you eat every two and half hours. The theory is that because your body is consuming calories (energy) constantly throughout the day, it’s always in ‘burning calories’ mode instead of the ‘saving calories’ mode.

When you sign up for the diet, you get access to a diet handbook, an 11-day diet-plan and a diet calculator. You get to pick what foods you like to eat so don’t think that you’ll be tarving in this diet!

NutriSystem

The NutriSystem way of dieting is all about proper meal planning. People love this diet because it takes away the burden of trying to figure out what to eat during their dieting phase. You see, a lot of people actually get confused as to what they can eat when they want to lose weight. That’s not really surprising because there’s so much information out there and for every yay sayer, there is a nay sayer so it’s really tough to know what to eat.

However, with NurtiSystem, they do all the meal planning and portion controlling for you. You just need to sign up to any of their diet programs (e.g., Women’s Program, Men’s Program, Vegetarian Program, etc.) and order a multi-day (usually for 28 days) diet program.

After you choose your diet program, a menu is presented to you and you simply choose what you want to eat. The meals are then delivered to your doorstep at various intervals during your diet program.

The South Beach Diet

The South Beach Diet is popular because the name alone conjures bikini-clad bodies! Add to that the fact that it was founded by a cardiologist, Dr. Arthur Agatston, then you have a sort of ‘doctor recommended, doctor approved’ seal on the diet as well.

At first glance, the South Beach Diet looks a lot like the Atkins Diet in the sense that it restricts carbohydrates during the initial phase of the program (there are 3 phases). The first phase (14 days) encourages ‘normal eating’ in the sense that you can pretty much eat whatever you want but you must NOT eat bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, or baked goods. Fruit is also not allowed. No sugar. No alcohol.

The second phase allows you to SLOWLY introduce these items back into your diet but at lesser levels that you consumed them before of course. The third phase is more about general maintenance.

Weight Watchers

Probably one of the longest running diet programs out there is Weight Watchers. It believes in the overall approach where food, exercise, behavior and support are addressed.

Weight Watchers is known for advocating a point system for foods. Using this system, one calculates the calorie intake of the foods he or she eats. The number of points you can have in a day varies depending on your weight. The beauty of the program is that there are no gut-wrenching food restrictions so you never feel deprived of anything. However, the point system teaches you how to balance your meals so that even if you indulge on one food item, you don’t go overboard and consume too much in a day.