WEIGHT LOSS ADVISOR BLOG

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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Do you know that a recent research showed that using artificial sweeteners might be related to weight gain? Amazing isn’t it?

The research was conducted by a team of scientists from Purdue University in USA and was published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience.

In the experiment were used two groups of rats - each fed with yoghurt. The first group was fed with artificial sweetened yoghurt and the second one with crystal sugar sweetened yoghurt. After that each group was given food - plenty of it. The results were amazing:

The group of rats fed with yoghurt sweetened with artificial sweetener gained more weight and put on more fat compared to the other group.

Imagine if you drink your favorite morning coffee sweetened with saccharin and then eat up a lot of the chocolates and sweets from the local vending machine. Eventually you gain weight, whereas your closest coworker drinks her coffee with sugar and stays the same weight. Sound terrible, but it could be true…

It is all explained by the theory for sweet expectations:

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When I started my cinnamon recipes section month and a half ago I didn’t expect so many people would show interest in it. Now a few weeks later I shall continue with more cinnamon recipes for tasty and healthy desserts.

Cinnamon Oranges

This is a very simple dessert that can be prepared easily any time of the year. Takes only 10 minutes to prepare and serve. As you might be guessing oranges taste best in the winter when they are at their peak, hence the cinnamon orange dessert will have better flavor if prepared in the winter. Lucky you, cause you can try it immediately and it will taste best.

Ingredients:
4 servings

4 navel oranges
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon sugar or (1-2) tablespoons honey
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation:

Peel the oranges and remove the white pith from them. Use sharp knife to cut each orange into 5 or 6 slices and arrange them on 4 plates. Mix the orange and lemon juices, add the sugar and cinnamon and whisk. Poor 1 spoon over each orange slice pile and you are ready to serve.

Variation:

Instead of 1 tablespoon of sugar you can use (1-2) tablespoons of honey.

Nutrition Facts:

This dessert is low in calories, sodium, and cholesterol with 86 calories, 2 mg sodium, no cholesterol, no fat, 1 g protein, 3 g fiber, and 258 mg potassium per serving.
Rich in Vitamin C - you get 150% of you daily value. Good for the heart.

Bon Appetit!

This is not a joke but a real British research conducted among 20 000 healthy British men and women from 1993 to 1997.

Participants were asked about their lifestyles and also have their blood tested, as well as their Vitamin C intake measured (Vitamin C is an indicator of how much fruit and vegetables people ate). All participants were middle-aged and older (45-79).

Here are the four small changes you need to do in order to improve your health and add 14 more years to your life:

1. Quit smoking
2. Eat fruits and vegetables - 5 servings every day
3. Exercise regularly
4. Moderate drinking

Quit smoking comes first as it has the greatest benefit - it gives up to 80 percent improvement in your overall health condition. Second is the fruits and vegetables consumption as it has the second great benefit to prolong your life.

Moderate drinking and exercising regularly have equal benefits and both share the third position. However, they are listed that way to keep the list simpler and clearer. This way you’d remember you have four things to pay attention to in order to change your lifestyle, not just three and to skip number 4 because it’s equal to number 3.

I hope next year we all will be healthier and happier with ourselves. I wish you need less weight loss products in the new 2008. However, if you do need a weight loss help, you know where you can find the solution - the quality weight loss and diet products we recommend. You will get advice and guidance as you have always had.

I wish you all the best for the new year!

Yours truly,

Galia

From the last couple of weeks Proactol free trial is no longer available.

It’s a bad new for those of you who are ready to try any new weight loss pills only for a couple of days and then claim they don’t work.

On the other hand Proactol Free Trial Discontinuing is good for people who are really determined to lose significant amount of weight for as long as it takes – a month or two, or may be more.

More details on Proactol and why you should give it a try here

Finally, a weight loss product that successfully binds fats and sheds pounds quickly and safely. No efforts are required from your side; just don’t forget to take your pill after each meal.

Proactol is a new weight loss product - fat binder - clinically proven to reduce nearly 30% of your fat intake, if you take 2 pills after every meal. It is 100% natural and organic product, containing a patented Proactol fibre complex.

Clinical tests and researches have proven that Proactol fat binder successfully suppresses appetite, reduces food cravings, increases energy levels and the most important benefit - reduces over 27% of your dietary fat intake. Proactol also reduces cholesterol levels and calorie intake, thus you start losing weight and feeling better and in shape again.

Diet experts and doctors highly recommended it. No wonder, though. While other weight loss products either burn fat only, or reduce cholesterol and calorie intake only, or suppress appetite and food cravings, Proactol combines all these benefits in one single product. You don’t need a bunch of different diet product to do each one of these, Proactol fat binder does them all - the complete system for weight loss.

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HoodiaX1 is a brand new herbal dietary supplement. Actually it’s the Number One Most Successful Appetite Suppressant available today that really contains pure extract from African Hoodia Gordonii.

If you are searching for a successful appetite suppressant that really curbs your appetite and helps you lose weight then HoodiaX1 is what you need. It is totally guaranteed to help you lose weight as this is what Hoodia Gordonii does best.

What makes HoodiaX1 dietary supplement the number one most successful appetite suppressant?

It’s all about the unique HoodiaX1 proprietary blend that includes Hoodia Gordonii, Green tea, Glucomannan, White kidney bean, Chitosan, Citrus Naringin, Vanadium, Chromium and other beneficial ingredients. Probably you are not familiar with most of the ingredients, except for the green tea and Hoodia, but that’s not what matters, does it?

What’s really important for you is what exactly can HoodiaX1 do for you?

• Curbs your appetite
• Helps you achieve fast and effective weight loss results - perhaps within a week or a few weeks (it’s different for everybody).
• HoodiaX1 helps you lose weight no matter how much pounds you want to lose - a lot or a little
• It works no matter your sex or age - practically everybody can lose weight with HoodiaX1

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TOFI stands for “Thin Outside, Fat Inside”, which in fact means that if you are a TOFI, then you are thin on the outside and fat on the inside at the same time. You may wonder how’s that possible?

“Being thin doesn’t automatically mean you’re not fat.” – That’s the answer of Dr. Jimmy Bell, who is a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College in London.

Dr. Bell and his team have been researching on that for more than 10 years now. They’ve scanned nearly 800 people with MRI machines and have created the so called “fat maps” that show where our bodies store fat.

Thin people probably don’t realize that they also have fat issues. This is due to the fact that their bodies do store internal fat around invisible to the naked eye organs, such as the liver or the heart. We’ve used to say that only the people whose external fat is stored underneath the skin (which is the largest organ in human body and is visible with naked eye) are really fat. I wish it was as simple as that.

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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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