WEIGHT LOSS ADVISOR BLOG

(Also called Protal for “Proteins alternatives” by the creator of the diet – Dr. Pierre Dukan)

Dr. Dukan’s book (original french title: “e Ne Sais Pas Maigrir” (”I don’t know how to lose weight”) is for all who’ve tried to lose weight, for all who’ve been losing weight - too frequently and unsuccessfully– and for all who need the guarantee that in return of their hard weight loss efforts they will be able to lose weight successfully and keep it off forever.

The Dukan Diet is a weight loss program and a weight maintenance plan for life developed by the French nutritionist and eating behavior specialist Dr. Pierre Dukan.

With more than 30 years of experience, Dr. Pierre Dukan is a trust worthy health professional, whose books and remarkable work in nutrition and weight loss fields have made him an excellent nutritionist and diet expert.

The Dukan diet itself is not just a simple diet, it is a complete weight loss program or regime (you name it) that has 4 distinctive phases:

Protal I

Attack phase – the “purely natural proteins” phase that is a kick-start to your quick weight loss in less than one week (usually 5 days).

Protal II

Weight Loss phase – the “alternative proteins” phase during which you alternate ‘proteins’ and ‘proteins with vegetables’; and you reach your goal weight. But it’s the nest phase you need to keep that weight down…

Protal III

Stabilization phase – the phase that keeps you from the negative Yo-yo effect of fast weight loss. This phase lasts 10 days per kilograms lost (so if you’ve lost 5 kilograms then this phase would last 50 days for you). During this phase many of the important foods are re-introduced to your menu (bread, cheese, fruits).

Protal IV

Cruise phase – the one that lasts for the rest of your life (sounds scary, isn’t it), but it is so simple, effortless and not to be missed if you want to keep your lost weight forever… All you need to do is pick one day of the week (every week at the exact same day) to do the diet (the Attack phase).

I love fruit drinks and especially smoothies, what about do you? I’m sure everybody does, but there is something that bothers me about those drinks – their preparation time. I know that even with the fastest smoothie blender or fruit press, it could still take about 5 to 10 minutes (depending on the quantity you wanna make).

Then I thought… What if you could have your favorite fruit drink or smoothie ready in about 1 to 3 minutes? I’d be great!

This is possible if you use WonderSlim Protein Smoothies and Fruit Diet Drinks and it gets even better for you to know that those protein diet drinks are actually WonderSlim Diet meal replacements.

WonderSlim Diet Smoothies are high in protein, low in fat, and full of essential vitamins and minerals. You can enjoy their rich and creamy taste all year long, anywhere you like. As they are well balanced and nutritious you can take them instead of your regular meals or just as a quick and healthy snack.

These protein diet smoothies are the perfect solution for any busy dieter on the go who doesn’t want to sacrifice taste or nutrition and yet gets everything they need to lose weight healthy way or maintain your lost weight.
They are the ideal supplement to your WonderSlim Diet plan.

Preparation is easy – poor the contents of one packet (100 calories) into a glass, shaker cup or blender. Add 8 ounces of cold water and stir or shake vigorously until dissolved…

…Or you can use both the Berry and Strawberry Smoothies to make a frozen pudding pops like Liz (one of the many happy users of these wonderfully flavored protein diet smoothies):
She combines fresh or frozen fruits, adds plain yogurt and blends. Delicious and nutritious these could be great frozen snacks for the hot summer days.

If you are an old friend of the Medifast diet then probably you’d be happy to hear about the new maintenance package Medifast has prepared for you. It’s called Momentum Maintenance Package.

All newbies to Medifast know it’s difficult to lose weight, but Medifast makes it easer for you with the 5 and 1 Meal Plan. And once you reach your weight loss goal, you will need a little help to stay there permanently. That is why Medifast prepared the new Momentum weight maintenance package to make that easier for you, too.

With this unique maintenance package you will say Goodbye to the yo-yo effect.

Medifast Momentum program is designed to energize both you and your new way of eating, with its special formulas it helps you maintain your new figure, healthier and significantly reduced weight. The frustrating ups and downs will be gone for good.

Momentum is a part of the Transition and Maintenance phases of your Medifast Diet. It can help you achieve entirely new way of life and discover the happiness of getting fit again.

There is no better way to start your maintenance phase but with the 28 day supply of great tasting Momentum Meals and Flavor Infusers:

21 Momentum Banana Creme Shakes

21 Momentum Cappuccino

21 Momentum Chai Latte

21 Momentum Flavor Infusers (1 box with flavor chosen by Medifast for you)

They are metabolism booster due to the unique contents.

What is so unique about Momentum products?

Each Momentum product contains 100 mg of Caffeine and 90 mg of Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), the most potent antioxidant found in green tea. This combination has been clinically proven to have the maximum effect on inducing thermogenesis.

So you want to lose weight and want to know how many calories you should eat in order to achieve that:

First of all let’s remind us the number of calories contained in fats, proteins and carbohydrates:

1 gram of fat = 9 kilocalories ~ 37 kilojoules

1 gram of protein = 4 kilocalories ~ 16 kilojoules

1 gram of carbohydrates = 4 kilocalories ~ 16 kilojoules

And some more calorie values:

1 gram of alcohol = 7 kilocalories

1 gram of dietary fiber = 3 kilocalories

Having all these values in mind you can easily calculate the number of calories in food you eat every day. And how much calories you need a day is another question:

How to estimate your daily caloric needs

You can estimate your daily caloric intake with the Harris-Benedict formula. It helps you calculate your basal metabolic rate (BMR), i.e. the optimum amount of energy your body needs to function.

Let’s calculate your BMR

To do that you need to use your current weight, height and age in step ONE. It’s easy:

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If you are searching for an easy to follow diabetic diet plan, then you are one of the few people searching for diabetic diets online. It’s not surprising, though…

Perhaps you either haven’t come across the Medifast Plus for Diabetics diet plan – the Diabetic 5 & 1 plan, or …

…because diabetes is a serious disease and people diagnosed Type 2 diabetes are more likely to use conventional medication and listen to their doctors’ advices.

Patients diagnosed Type 2 diabetes prefer to see face to face the diabetes specialists recommending them the diabetic diet menus and meal plans that they should follow, instead of reading some online reviews for miraculous and expensive diabetes cures.

It’s understandable why people don’t trust too much to the information on that topic – it’s unreliable and makes it really hard to separate the truth from the trash.
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What is Avatrim dietary supplement?

Avatrim is a new revolutionary weight loss product (diet pills). If you combine it with a healthy diet plan, it will become your new weight loss program that will save you hours of hard work out in the gym.

How - by taking one capsule of Avatrim dietary supplement twice a day. Sounds miraculous, isn’t it? But it’s not! Avatrim diet is not a hype, it’s reality.

Avatrim formula or what’s inside?

Avatrim dietary supplement has an exclusive formula of research-supported natural ingredients and is specially designed to support your healthy diet by increasing your body metabolism and your energy, and controlling your appetite.

Benefits of Avatrim diet

The way Avatrim affects you and your body probably reminds you of something, doesn’t it? Green tea of course and we all know how beneficial green tea extract is for our bodies. If you have forgotten some of the great benefits of green tea extract, you can read them here

As you are already guessing, Avatrim has many of the benefits of green tea combined with other natural and very beneficial ingredients such as Acetyl L-Carnitine, Alpha Lipoic Acid and Bioperine. You can see the full list of Avatrim ingredients here with detailed reviews about each ingredient.

Avatrim dietary supplement will help you:

- Increase Thermogenesis
- Enhance fat oxidation
- Burn fat safely and effectively
- Increase your energy and metabolism
- Control your appetite
- Lower cholesterol

This is pretty much the order Avatrim woks due the green tea extract ingredient.

To be completely honest with you, I will just say it straight out – Avatrim is pure green tea extract combined with some vitamins, amino acids and a few natural ingredients, which is actually the best thing about Avatrim. (more…)

It’s well known that today’s secret of most men and women for successful weight loss and maintenance is the Medifast weight loss program.

Its most popular and effective meal plan is the Medifast 5 & 1 weight loss plan that helps you lose weight quickly and safely - up to 20 lbs. in 30 days.

Read more about Medifast benefits in Medifast Diet Review

Let’s reveal the secrets of Medifast Diet meal plan to successful weight loss:

5 & 1 diet meal plan

Typical weight loss of 2 to 5 pounds per week while on 5 and 1 diet meal plan. The calorie count varies between 800 to 1000 per day and is recommended for most people who really want to lose weight.

Each day you eat 5 Medifast meals plus 1 “lean and green” meal. It is better to plan them 2 to 3 hours apart throughout the whole day – do not left all for the evening.

You can use any of the Medifast products to plan your own diet meals. However, the Medifast team offers you a list of example 5 & 1 meal plans, which you can download from their download section.

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Losing 20 pounds within a month is fast enough, that is why I think Medifast weight loss doesn’t really need to be speeded up. However you can speed up the weight loss process by following some simple rules. I am not the inventor of these rules; I just collected the information to offer it to you into digestible chunks.

Rule Number 1 – Avoid all tempting snacks and replace them with Medifast diet products

“Leave the chocolates alone and have a Medifast Chocolate Pudding instead, or a Medifast Hot Cocoa.”

That’s what Julie advises in her blog at Medifast official website. I could just add: or a Medifast chocolate bar.

As Valentine’s Day passed not long ago, and I’m sure you were so tempted to eat at least couple of yummy chocolates, right? My point is you should avoid tempting sweets and replace them with Medifast diet products every time you can. They are just as sweet and delicious as the original sweet products they replace.

Rule Number 2 – Set up small achievable goals. (more…)

Medifast weight loss program is an easy way to shed those extra pounds and get slim again.

Medifast liquid diet is one of the last unique weight loss programs that offers you everything you need to lose weight without shopping, cooking or counting. Medifast meals are nutritionally balanced, clinically tested and delivered directly to your door.

Medifast meals include all the food you need – Medifast shakes, bars, puddings, soups, drinks, snacks and many more Medifast products.

Medifast weight loss is simple - all you need to do is follow the Medifast low calorie diet plan and lose the extra pounds. (more…)

If you have been searching for a proven diet plan that you can completely trust, stop searching cause you’ve found it - the Medifast Diet is what you need. To gain your trust even more I will just say that Forbes selected Medifast as one of America’s 200 Best Small Companies and placed it at number 28 in the list.

Medifast diet is based mainly on clinically proven meal replacements, which are all low in calories, carbs and fats, as well as portioned controlled to supply you with all you need at one meal.

Medifast diet also includes many other prepacked foods and meals - Food Supplements, Creamy Soups, Fast Soups and Snacks, Supplement Bars, Lean Meats, Green Salads, Cooked Vegetables. With Medifast you will also receive an easy to follow diet meal plan.

The most popular Medifast Diet Plan is the “5 & 1″ meal plan, which includes 5 Medifast Meals plus 1 Lean and Green meal per day. That means you will eat 6 times a day on every 2-3 hours, so you will never get hungry or feel down even with 800 to 1000 calories. (more…)