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This week we want to introduce to you a new weight loss solution called The Fast Fat Loss Plan. Are you tired of weight loss solutions that do not work or are too difficult to stick with? Are you bored of having to change your wardrobe twice a year because of weight fluctuations?

Low fat diets don’t work because not all fats are created equally. Some fats are good for you and actually help promote weight loss. If low fat products worked, there would not be so many overweight Americans.

Low carb diets don’t work because those diets are hard to stick with. Your body needs carbs to function properly. Carbs are not the enemy, as there are two types of carbs: good carbs and bad carbs. Bad carbs are the ones you don’t need. Certain carbs actually stimulate your metabolism and actually promote weight loss.

Low calorie diets don’t work because the body adjusts the metabolism when not much food is present in the body. It goes into starvation mode and actually burns muscle instead of fat so the body can adjust to the lack of food in the diet. You actually just get weaker and thinner because you lose muscle, and the body retains the fat so it can keep the stored energy to survive. Starving yourself is no way to lose weight. Besides, when you return to your normal number of calories, you’ll gain weight, and this time the extra pounds would consist mainly of fat. So, you trade muscle mass for fat, and this is not a good deal.

The Fast Fat Loss Plan teaches you the right carbs and fats to eat that actually promote weight loss and metabolism boosting. Learn how to eat up to 6 times a day, boost your metabolism naturally and lose weight while having the energy to do so.

We have worked with the author, Dan Burke the Figure Coach, to provide you a free preview of The Fast Fat Loss Plan for our members to download and preview.

Click on the link below and download your free preview of The Fast Fat Loss Plan. We highly recommend the program and think it is worthwhile for you to do so, in case your doctor also agrees.

How Many Calories Our Foods Contain?

We hear many times questions like: how many calories are there in a banana, or in a yogurt, or in a cup of sour cream?

The secret of cooking healthy eating recipes by counting calories lays in knowing what the foods are composed of: carbohydrates, proteins and fat. According to Sadava, David and Orians, Gordon H. Life: The Science of Biology , we can start our calculations from the following facts:

• Fat = 9.5 calories / g
• Carbohydrates = 4.2 calories / g
• Proteins = 4.1calories / g
• Alcohol = 7 calories / g

Knowing that the average human body of an average person needs about 1500 – 2000  calories (1.5 – 2 kcal) for supporting the daily routine activities, you can see for yourself how much you need to eat in order to maintain your actual weight, to lose or gain some pounds, according to your needs. So, losing weight becomes a matter of calculating the daily calories intake, and this is one of the weight loss tips that can secure a healthy slimming.

Calories and Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates, which in chemistry terms are called saccharides, are the food molecules which give us the most energy. Their molecules are very simple and they have an important role in supporting life.

A basic unit of carbohydrate is called by chemists a monosaccharide (CH₂O) such as glucose and fructose. Two combined monosaccharides are known as a disaccharide such as sucrose and lactose. Carbohydrates having between 3 and 6 monosaccharides are named oligosaccharides, while bigger formations are polysaccharides. Some examples of polysaccharides are starch, glycogen and cellulose.

Unlike proteins and fats, carbohydrates are not considered essential nutrients. The body can obtain all its energy by converting fats and proteins.Why then not give up carbs fopr good, and eat only foods based on proteins and fats?

Because fats and proteins are vital building components for tissues and cells, it is not wise to use them for producing energy for the body functions. Carbs and proteins provide the body with about 4 calories per gram while fats supply 9 calories, which is more than double. Put into in SI units, carbs supply  16.7 mega joule of energy for each kilogram. Although it seems like fats provide more calories per gram, it is better to consume carbohydrates for energy production purposes because they are abundantly available in foods like pasta, rice, bread, beans or cereals. They also require less water to be digested.

As you can see, there’s more philosophy behind healthy weight loss, rather than counting pounds, days and calories. This is why nutritionists can help and guide you through the process of getting rid of your extra pounds without suffering from major dis-balances of your body.

The Atkins Diet Reviewed

One of the most famous weight loss diets, all over the world, is the Atkins diet. In the years 1960, there was this doctor, Robert Atkins, who discovered a fantastic method for losing weight, while he was making attempts to get rid of his own extra pounds. When he discovered the diets that made him famous later on, he started to apply it on his patients, after he had seen the great results he’d obtained with it. Later, Dr. Atkins published his revolutionary diet in the book called Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution, somewhere in the 1970’s, and he published an updated version of the book in the late 1990’s. The Atkins diet did not only make its author famous and his patients happy and slim, but it also gave birth to a whole industry around the book, as many groceries started to offer foods specially prepared for those who wanted to follow the Atkins Diet.

The Mechanism of Atkins Diet

The main idea is to eat lots of high protein foods, while reducing carbohydrates intake to a minimum. The diet comprises four stages, which, in case of being followed strictly, promise a healthy, stable weight loss, and maintaining it for many years after.

Atkins Diet Stage 1: The Induction

This is the biggest challenge for dieters, because it causes a nutritional and metabolic shock which is not very well supported by everybody. In this stage, your daily carbohydrates intake must be lower than 20 grams, out of which, more than half must come from vegetables. You can eat as much fat as you want, as long as you restrict your carbs to this amount. Atkins advises that you also take some multivitamin supplement, especially if you live an active life and you need a lot of energy.

Atkins Diet Stage 2: The Ongoing Weight Loss

Now you measure your weight weekly, and if you notice a decrease, you are allowed to increase the carbs intake by two grams per each week. You can keep this on as long as you need, until you are happy with the weight you manage to lose, be it 10 pounds, 20 pounds or even more.

Atkins Diet Stage 3: The Pre-Maintenance

Now you can add to your diet 10 more grams of carbs each week, provided that you still lose or you maintain your weight. The purpose of this stage is to find out how many grams of carbs you can eat on a daily basis without gaining more weight. Then you need to stick to that carbohydrates quantity, and so you can remain at the same weight for a long time.

Atkins Diet Stage 4: The Maintenance

In this stage, you keep the carbs quantity constant, while making sure that you eat mostly natural products, you give up refined foods and sugars, and you don’t abuse deep frying.

Atkins Diet Side Effects

What the book doesn’t say but many people have experienced, are the side effects caused by this diet. This is what one Atkins dieter has to share with his readers:

Atkins leads you to believe that the presence of these ketone bodies indicates ongoing fat release. He also assures you that they feed the brain. That is partially true. Here are just a few of the issues he neglects to address:

1. Extended periods of ketosis may affect the chemical composition of the blood in such a way that you increase risk of cardiac incident (blood ketoacidosis).
2. In a state of ketoacidosis, carbon dioxide accumulates in the tissues. Oxygen delivery to the cells is impaired. This can lead to a wide range of disastrous consequences ranging from respiratory ailments to metabolic illness.
3. Toxic ammonia buildup resulting from severe cases of ketoacidosis can be lethal.

As the author says, this is not a must happen for every dieter out there, but if we add the more common potential side effects such as constipation and bad breath, we may come to the conclusion that something is wrong in Dr. Atkins’ diet plan.

Nevertheless, if you insist in trying this diet, please don’t forget to ask your doctor’s advice, to see if your health allows it.

Keep Healthy While Losing Weight

One of your main goals when losing weight should be to keep healthy. Nobody wants to get fit with the price of giving up health, at least this is what I like to believe.

Keeping healthy during weight loss diets is not as hard as you may be thinking. It requires only a little bit of attention to base your diet on healthy recipes, be them vegetarian or not, on healthy desserts low on sugar, and on respecting a few eating principles which are the key to a healthy nutrition and lifestyle:

1. Breakfast should be your main meal of the day. Never skip breakfast. Your body and your mind need energy to function well, and if you fail on supplying them with this energy in the morning, by 11 o click you’ll be already tired and not productive. Nothing compares with a healthy breakfast to start your day with.
2. It is better to eat five times a day in smaller quantities than eating only three bigger meals. If you eat only 3 meals, your last one would probably be around 7 o clock in the afternoon. If you like to stay up late, you’ll end up by getting to sleep in hunger or by eating at midnight. None of these is OK for a good night rest.
3. Healthy options for menus are not a difficult choice if you take into consideration that on average, a person needs between 1500 and 2500 calories to get energy for a whole day. The main three elements of all foods are carbohydrates, proteins and glucose. Proteins and glucose have about 5 calories per gram, while carbohydrates (or carbs) have on average 10 calories per gram. Keep healthy by eating a balanced menu each day.
4. Fruits should be eaten at separate meals, preferably in the first part of the day. This is because the time your stomach needs to digest fruits is different from the time needed to digest meat, for example. If you mix the two, by eating fruits at the end of a meat-based meal, those fruits would be required to stay in the stomach longer than they really need, leading to fermentation and causing you bloating and digestion troubles. Keep healthy by keeping fruits separate from other foods (half an hour pause after you eat the fruits would be OK).
5. Eat fish at least three times a week. Fish is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids, which are considered to be essential if you want to keep healthy. Fish oil stimulates blood circulation, increases the breakdown of fibrin, a compound with a major role in scar formation, and additionally has been shown to reduce blood pressure. There is strong scientific evidence that n−3 fatty acids significantly reduce blood triglyceride levels and regular intake reduces the risk of heart attack.
6. Exercise. There are many people who are very busy or just sedentary, who wish to lose weight by miracle, or by taking a pill, without any efforts. Exercising doesn’t mean that you really have to sweat every day in the gym and make your heart get tired. You need to adapt the effort level at your age and your health condition. A fitness trainer might be of good help here, if you want to keep healthy.

Weight Loss Methods Quick Overview

Since our modern society has altered the natural lifestyle of the human race, weight became more and more an issue for lots of people. Sedentarism and unhealthy nutrition had a heavy contribution to the increase of the overweight persons number, and this effect was observed mostly in well-developed countries.

Weight is more than just some extra pounds to be carried on your back: being overweight has implications upon the proper functioning of various body organs: the heart suffers if it has to pump blood in a much bigger body than it was designed for; your knees and spine suffer, like all other bones, when being forced to carry additional weight; your liver has troubles in processing the fat foods you give it; your arteries get clogged due to the bad cholesterol that adds up in your body in case of inappropriate eating habits. Besides, you may develop skin troubles such as cellulite, and you may soon find yourself in the situation of needing to follow a good cellulite diet for looking good again.

Fad Diets

This how the idea of weight loss appeared: people realized that something is happening with their body when getting a few extra pounds (or even more than just a few) and a new medical specialty was born: nutritionists. But going to doctors is not so much of a desired activity for many of us, so we started to believe that we can get the same results by following some common sense rules of losing weight, and so the fad diets appeared. Fad diets is the generic name for all weight loss diets which don’t have a scientific basis to support they supposed way of action. We will have the chance to tackle in detail all these popular diets, but for now, we are just going to enumerate few of them here:

• The grapefruit diet
• The cabbage soup diet
• The chocolate diet
• The lemonade diet
• The chicken soup diet
• The South Beach diet
• The Atkins diet
• The Hollywood diet
• The One good meal diet
• The 3 day diet
• The 7 day “all you can eat” diet
• The Weight Watchers diet
• The metabolism diet

Weight Loss Surgery

Slaves to cravings and to the eating pleasures, some of us got so fat that no diet in the world gave results anymore. Being so much overweight, workouts became impossible for those people. Sometimes, even simple walking became impossible, and thus, they were forced to lay in bed all day long and get their friends and family help them even with the easiest things like eating or washing, or even scratching a foot. For such situations, medicine was able to help only by drastic measures, like the gastric bypass, which is a surgery procedure that leaves the patient with a very small stomach, thus making eating possible only in very small quantities. There are lots of people who were saved by this weight loss surgery procedure, but they had to change their eating habits for the whole rest of their life.

Not everybody can be a good patient for undergoing gastric bypass, so the doctors run a lot of tests before deciding if an overweight person is a good candidate or not. The surgery is life threatening, and in case of patients with lots of complimentary conditions, it may not be a viable option. Anesthesia can be dangerous if, for example, you suffer from severe heart failures, thus making any major surgery practically impossible.

Weight Loss Pills

Some of us love eating so much, that they’d rather swallow a bunch of pills every day than trying to have a balanced nutrition and an active lifestyle. Drug manufacturers took advantage of this human weakness and developed weight loss pills that work by cutting down your appetite, or by fat-binding. Literally thousands of weight loss supplements have flooded the markets, promising people beautiful bodies without giving up the eating pleasure. Some of the claims of such food supplements are quite funny: for example, Spirulin is believed to have both increasing appetite and decreasing appetite properties, depending on the moment you take it (taken before meals it cuts your appetite, while taken after the meal it would make you wish to eat more). As funny as it sounds, there are people who actually believe this kind of things, and dream to get a quick weight loss without any sacrifice at all and without getting ill due to metabolism changes.

Weight Loss Calculators

Since science discovered calories, weight loss diets and plans started to get a scientific base. It has been proven that in order to function, our body consumes calories. Even simple activities like eating or brushing our teeth need a certain number of calories to run. The digestion process is run on calories. All life sustaining, involuntary activities, need certain numbers of calories to run.

Under these circumstances, the theory says that if somebody wants to lose weight, the number of ingested calories should be smaller than the number of calories consumed during the day. In reverse, if some person is trying to gain weight, then the calories intake needs to be bigger than the calories consumption. In this weight loss zone, the doctors have a word to say, because a wealthy nutrition supposes a balanced combination of proteins, glucose and carbohydrates, and not eating only one thing until you get metabolic troubles.

Fitness Models

Fitness models have been developed when people realized the importance of physical fitness in controlling their body weight. Consequently, a wide range of fitness equipment and workout machines were developed, some of them with the sole purpose of working out a certain group of muscles, like the ones for abs and stomach.

As we are social animals, we hate to do such activities like workouts by ourselves, hidden in our homes, and this is how fitness centers appeared. Besides the social component of such fitness clubs and centers, there is also a practical side: fitness equipment can be quite expensive and many times it is rather big, so it barely can fit in a normal home. Why have a treadmill of your own and dedicate half of your living room to it, when you can go to the nearest gym and get your daily workouts done under the surveillance of a professional fitness trainer?

For those of us who like to study, well-known personal fitness trainers have written books which can offer us a deeper look into the secrets of weight loss through workout programs.

Weight Loss Motivation

Motivation is an extremely important chapter in any weight loss adventure: many times, you need to have a very strong will in order to resist temptations. For instance, alcohol is well-known to be the enemy of any diet and fitness program, but how easy is it to refrain from it when you go out with friends, or when you go to a lot of parties and celebrations and you want to have fun?

One more example: if you are the only person on a weight loss diet in your family, how easy is it to open the fridge and not to take any of the goodies which other family members put inside for their consumption, but which are absolutely forbidden in your case?

There was a study done in the US which has shown that weight loss programs have more chances to succeed if all family members follow them in the same time. In this way, they can support each other and all temptations are removed from their fridge, as there makes no sense to buy foods that you are not allowed to eat.