Thursday, May 27, 2010

Here Is A Great Way To Loose Weight Fast

If you want to loose weight fast, the first thing you need to realize is that you probably aren’t going to lose weight quite as fast as you want to. For some people, 2 pounds a week is fast, I personally think it is too fast. To loose 1 pound of weight a week is better. So, if you are asking the question: "how can I lose fat?" you will have to be realistic about it!

What is certain is that losing more than 2 pounds a week is generally not considered healthy, unless you’re very overweight. If you have 15 pounds to lose and want to lose it all in two weeks, you’re going to have to adjust your thinking or you’re either going to be very disappointed, or you’ll resort to one of the Fad Diet Plans and risk making yourself sick.

Yet, if you need to loose weight fast over a period of a few days or a week just to fit into a dress for the weekend, for instance, and you realize that by dropping a few pounds quickly you’ll likely put them back on after the weekend is over, there are some things you can do to drop a few pounds right away.

When you loose weight fast, you’re losing water weight, not actual fat. (Have a look at all the Dangers Of Fad Diet Plans) So as long as you understand that your quick weight drop is really a very temporary thing that’s easily undone and you don’t risk your health to do it, you could be very pleased with the results.

First, stop drinking anything with calories in it. Just that alone can help you loose weight fast. No alcoholic beverages, no sugar in your coffee, no soda other than diet soda, and no fruit juice or flavored waters that have calories in them. Just this step alone can cut hundred of calories from your day. Replace those sugared beverages with water. Don’t drink 64 oz of water in one sitting—that can even be dangerous—but try to get that much in slowly throughout the day.

If you really want to loose weight fast, you can drastically cut back on your calories. While 1200 calories is really just above a starvation diet, if you limit yourself to that or fewer for only a very short time like a few days, it won’t harm you. But it is crucial to realize if you keep this up for more than a few days you are heading for a disaster!

We’ve all had those days where we’re sick with the flu or we don’t feel well and we eat very little. It happens from time to time naturally, so doing it on purpose for a short burst won’t hurt you either, just don’t decide to starve yourself as a method for long-term weight loss.

Stick to easily digested foods like vegetable soup with little fat in it. Soup can help you feel more full while you’re eating so little food and take away the growling stomach that will no doubt happen at least a few times if you cut your calories back drastically. Drink seasoned broth, or clear or tomato-based vegetable soups for best results.

Avoid potatoes and starches like corn and peas. Go for broccoli, lettuce, spinach, celery, and other greens. Oranges and strawberries can help your sweet tooth. And take a multivitamin, so you’ll still get important nutrients while you loose weight fast.

Each of these tips will help you loose weight fast. However, you should check with your personal physician to make sure you are physically fit enough to loose weight fast. For more permanent results having a look at some good lose weight diets may not be a bad idea!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Make Some Tasty Low Fat Smoothies That Will Not Ruin Your Diet

With summer coming you will want to enjoy some smoothies. Well if you have a blender such as the Cuisinart CBT 700 Blender than you can easily make yourself tasty, low fat and low sugar smoothies that will not ruin your diet.

In any healthy balanced diet, see How Can I Lose Fat, you will have skim milk, low fat yogurt and fruit, all you need to make a tasty smoothie. It will be a life saver when it is hot and you feel like something cold.

To start off with take your days allowance in fruit and chop it up into bite size pieces. Then you freeze the fruit in a flat layer. The reason for this is that you can break the pieces apart to use in your smoothie.

Now all you need to do is take some of your skim milk allowance, some of your fat free yogurt allowance and us much of your fruit allowance as you want and make a smoothie with it.

It is best to only add a little of the frozen fruit to start with and then you add the rest little by little until you get the consistence you want. If you cannot use a full portion you can simply use the rest in another dish.

Of course, if you do not have a Cuisinart CBT 700 Blender you can also use one of the Cuisinart 11 Cup Pro Custom 11 Food Processors or even a Cuisinart CSB-76 Smart Stick Hand Blender. It will be quite OK with any of them, but the Cuisinart CBT 700 Blender will the best and it will give you the best results.

So, now you can see how making tasty smoothies this summer does not have to ruin your diet. If you prefer a little more sweetness you can add artificial sweetener, but I do not recommend it as artificial sweeteners come with a lot of problem of their own.

To see what I means go to: Stumbling Blocks On The Road To Weight Loss Diet Sodas. The long term effect of sweeteners on your metabolism is not very good. So, I would avoid them if I can.