For adults it takes about 20 minutes for the satiety center in your brain to register the feeling of fullness and to send out the signal to the hypothalamus gland *. After receiving the indication, the hypothalamus gland, which controls hunger, simply shuts your appetite and you don’t feel like eating or drinking anything more.

Here is the problem why we can’t literally eat like babies do – these 20 minutes for shutting down appetite are just too much for an adult. An adult, who by the way can eat, over eat and even over stuff oneself like a Thanksgiving turkey for those twenty minutes. For babies this reaction time is twice faster - about 5 to 10 minutes, according to my personal non-scientific observations on my children.

Babies Eat to Live, Adults Live to Eat

That’s it – I am 100 percent sure of that! Babies eat to live, and adults live to eat. Babies are in a hurry to eat and off they go to play again, while we like to talk, chat, text, browse internet, tweet, relax, stress out, watch movie or TV show, read the newspaper or book, etc. while still eating. Any of these “activities” can take you much more than 20 minutes, unfortunately so takes eating along with it.

It turns out that eating for adults is like escaping from everything else even for half an hour or less (work, stress, responsibilities are all gone so you can enjoy your lunch, for example).
On the contrary, eating for babies is like pulling them away from all the fun and interesting games, putting them in the high baby chair and stuffing them with a spoon full of some pureed soup.

How to train ourselves to eat as often as babies do and until we feel moderately full, not overwhelmingly fed up?

1. First: you should try eating at least 4 times a day – breakfast, lunch, afternoon meal and dinner.

2. Second: the size of the meal portions:

Breakfast – one medium sized cereal bowl of wholegrain breakfast cereals is great. OR one cup of skim milk and 2-3 wholegrain breakfast crackers is perfect. OR Medium sized sandwich with some lean meat like chicken, tuna etc or with low fat cottage cheese (my favorite). And a cup of juice and/or sugar free coffee is also served along with the breakfast But please try to not to sweeten your coffee even artificial sweeteners – trust me it’s for the best.

Lunch and dinner vary depending on where you are during the day – home, work, business trip, official dinner, etc. Remember one medium sized portion is enough, NO desserts, or at least no patisserie. You can eat 1-2 fruits depending on size and please wait at least 30 minutes to 1 hour before eating that fruit.

Afternoon meal – around 3 – 4 p.m. – that’s my personal favor…It should be one medium sized fruit like banana, orange, apple, etc. OR a handful or raw nuts OR a cup of yoghurt…

The afternoon meal is very important and should not be missed, because it helps you feel not very hungry for the dinner, so no dinner overeating is possible. And as a dieter you should know dinner overeating is one of the worst things to do while trying to lose weight.

3. Third: There is a popular game show called “A Minute Is Too Much”, well I’d paraphrase it to 20 minutes are too much for eating.

20 Minutes Are Too Much for Eating

That doesn’t mean you should run away from the table after 10 minutes without finishing your meal. NO! Here’s the key – you have a portion of meal and you know approximately how much calories it contains, and you eat it – nothing more, nothing less. Eating can take you 10, 20 or even 30 minutes if you talk to your table-companions, but as long as you eat your portion it’s OK.

Do not take an extra portion, do not eat a patisserie desert (one fruit is OK but wait at least half an hour after eating), no chocolate, no ice-cream, no any other junk foods just to keep you busy chewing something.

Eat like a baby to lose weight may sound a little bit crazy for some, a little bit too drastic for others, but please wait and you’ll see. The longer you stick to this regime the better the results will be and I promise you’ll feel the difference – firstly with your stomach, because you will never ever feel like you are about to throw up any second and then with your mind…You’ll reunite your body and mind and feel somehow peaceful. Your body won’t fight your mind anymore and vice verse. And the extra pounds – they’ll be shed for good.

* Hypothalamus gland controls hunger, thirst, and sexual activity.

Although I am not sure if it’s the tea or the healthier foods we are eating but I already lost 2 kilograms with minimum exercising.

The Weight Loss Herbal Tea

The tea itself has very strong and rich aroma. I can clearly sense and feel my favorite cinnamon flavor inside. I am drinking it with no added sugar, honey or any other sweeteners. And probably that’s why I find it a little bit bitter. But as long as it is for detox and weight loss, I am OK with the bitter-sour flavor.

Healthier Foods and Meals with Steam Cooker

I mentioned now we eat healthier foods…Well, we bought a new home appliance for the kitchen – a steam cooker. At first I was skeptical about the taste of the meals it cooks – no cooking oil is used – just pure steam. But from the very first bite of freshly steamed vegetables I loved it.

I love the taste of everything I cook with my steam cooker. The rice and potatoes are surprisingly tasty (I would never believe if someone had told me that steamed rice and potatoes can taste just as great as, or even better, than the old-fashioned baked potatoes and stewed rice). As or the steamed vegetables – no comments there!!! They are fantastic especially the broccoli and carrots.

I use fresh and frozen vegetables to make my own mixes of veggies with broccoli, carrots, beans, corn, cabbage, leeks, onions, peppers (green and red) and so on…The list is too long to count all vegetable. All I need to say is I’m very very happy we brought that thing at home. Now it’s my best kitchen-helper

For me steam cooking is a fantastic new way to cook healthier food for my family. With no added cooking oils and all vitamins preserved, with a lot less heat processing the vegetables, fish and all kinds of meats (chicken, turkey, even pork) remain healthier, crispy, juicy and twice more delicious.

Minimum Exercising

That’s something I am not very proud of, but that’s because I don’t have much time to exercise. Instead of 3 times a week, I did only once a week — 20 minutes on the treadmill. I am trying my best to exercise at least twice a week and last week I really did it.

My Healthy Weight Loss Program

Again, I am not sure if it is because of the herbal tea, the healthy home made meals, or the treadmill exercises, but I already lost 2 kilograms just like that. I drug myself into this healthy weight loss program and honestly I like it, I even enjoy it already, because it doesn’t cost me anything more than a little effort on the treadmill.

I am so inspired to continue with my weight loss plan. I am even planning to cook our traditional Christmas meals and New Years specialties in my steam cooker. If all turns out to be as great as I expect, I promise I will share the recipes with you next year here at my blog.

I did 20 minutes on the treadmill today and lost approximately 50 calories. I feel like walking 20 more minutes but it’ll be too much for a starter like me. I haven’t been exercising for quite long time and it’s not good to over exercise myself from the very first day.

Today I will also try a new weight loss herbal tea I just bought yesterday. It contains very rich herbal bouquet – 17 natural herbs. I hope it works and if it does I promise I’ll share all about my first herbal weight loss trial with you here at my blog.

I’m sure many things have happened since I am gone – new weight loss products, new diets. The new weight loss trend is probably rolling in the waves of the old well know weight loss knowledge and the latest fashionably new diet of someone famous such as a music, movie, TV or sports star.

Well, you know me I’ve always respected everything new in weight loss and I’ve always tried and tested everything I consider interesting for you. Shearing my experience and my weight loss knowledge with you is what always’s been important to me and I’ll do my best to keep doing it in the future.

I promise there will be no boring stuff, no too long and too hard to read posts. Just short, sharp and straight to the point ones.

Let’s have fun together and let’s lose weight together here at
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Protein Shake addict or just being on a Protein Shake diet?

If some of your friends are not aware that you are following a special diet plan like the Protein Shake Diet and yet they see you taking shakes all day long, then they might really think you are a protein supplements addict. Well, you probably would need to explain that you are not the newest bodybuilder on the block, and you are just on a meal replacement diet that replaces some or all of your daily meals with protein shakes.

If you are on a diet with shakes then it’s OK to take a few of them daily, but what about the other cases…
People take protein supplements because they think they don’t eat enough proteins, or because they like shakes’ taste and prefer to take one quick made shake instead of one healthy protein meal, or because they’ve heard from friends or read online that shakes are healthy and may help them lose weight easily, etc.

Protein Shake addict or just being a Vegetarian?

If you are a vegetarian, or for any reason you do not consume enough proteins from natural sources like dairy and meat then you might need some protein supplement for the day. Whether it will be a protein shake, drink, bar, cookie or else, it is a matter of personal choice.

Why Choose Real Food to Protein supplements?

Yes, you can replace one or two meals a day with protein supplements, but remember there is nothing healthier than the “real food” – balanced meals rich in proteins, carbs and fats. Do not resort to protein shakes only because you are lazy and don’t feel like making yourself some delicious meal with real food.

You can’t skip one or two meals everyday for the rest of you life and replace them with protein supplements. NO! But you can take one shake when you are on the go and really don’t have time for a real home made meal.

What about protein supplements for weight loss?

Some of you may have heard, read or even tried shakes, drinks, bars and other high protein and low fat supplements for weight loss. There are a few very popular weight loss programs (Medifast and WonderSlim) based on such supplements. They use them as meal replacements for one or more daily meals.

Even the greatest disbelievers can’t ignore the facts all over the Internet that such weight loss plan is very easy to follow and really help people lose weight with almost no efforts:

• no starvation
• easy to store and prepare shakes and other protein drinks
• reduced and controlled intake of calories and fats
• as surprising as it may sound, it turns that meal replacements are cheaper than the meals they replace

More details and benefits of WonderSlim diet and Medifast diet read here
If you wonder how to get started there are wonderful weight loss starter kits

My personal opinion

What I particularly like about meal replacement (protein supplemented) diet plans is the fact they do not cause mental or physical stress for the body by making you eat (chew) healthy foods you hate…even if you don’t like protein supplements’ taste (which I seriously doubt) all you have to do is to drink it and you won’t have a long bad taste in the mouth

Bottom line …

Well, protein supplements for weight loss work very successfully. They really can help you lose weight and maintain it afterwards, but they can’t do it all alone…you need at least one healthy real food meal a day and a well balanced physical activity at least 3 times a week. Not that you won’t lose weight without exercises, but with them it’s more natural for the body and much more quickly for you.

So you will be almost right to think that everything delicious in this world is high in calories.

That’s awful but I can’t help it. I order large French fries every time I order anything at Mc Donald’s. I know they are mostly fat and sodium – nothing healthy, but these are the facts – fast food restaurants are not offering healthy food. And that’s my opinion only I do not mean to offend any to the restaurants offering such food. It’s a matter of personal choice whether you dine at KFC or Mc Donald’s.

I think fast food restaurants are not the type of restaurants where you should have breakfast or lunch every day. If you are on the go, if you don’t have lunch or dinner at home – yes, you can have a Big Mac or a cheeseburger (it has fewer calories than the Big Mac according to the Mc Donald’s nutrition facts), otherwise – no.

I am sure if you had a comparison chart of all fast food nutrition facts of the most popular restaurants you would sit down a start calculating which one of your favorite menus has fewer calories thus you will decide whether you should dine at Wendy’s, Burger King, Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, etc. And don’t forget to enjoy your meal, because it’ll be your first and last fast food meal for the week.

A few years ago I read about a man, who lost weight eating only hamburgers at Mc Donald’s. That’s ridiculous! Even if this guy has lost some weight, I really doubt the hamburgers have helped Probably he’s been eating so much before this strange “diet” that the small portioned fast food meal has been like a diet for him.

I know that many celebrities like Amy Winehouse and Mily Sires enjoy fast food without caring about the nutrition facts behind every hamburger, sandwich or fries portion. And that’s an example you should not follow. Once a week on fast food is OK and more than that is just not recommended.

The low fat smoothie recipes I have listed below are really very quick to prepare – not more than 5 to 10 minutes – and do not require preliminary preparation of the ingredients (like boiling or else).

Here are a few low fat smoothie recipes you can easily prepare in no more than 5 minutes:

Acai-Blueberry Smoothie

Preparation time: 5 min

Servings: 4

Ingredients:
100 g frozen acai pulp (6 tbsp)
2 cups frozen blueberries
1 banana
1/2 cup low fat milk
1 1/2 cups low-fat yogurt (vanilla)
2 tbsp of honey
1 cup ice

Preparation:
Cut banana in half and blend all ingredients, except ice, in a blender until smooth. Add ice; blend again until the drink gets perfectly smooth. Serve immediately.

Pomegranate Smoothie

Preparation time: 5 min

Servings: 2

Ingredients:
1 cup pomegranate juice
1 carton fat free yogurt (vanilla)
2 tbsp of honey
1/2 cup ice

Preparation:
Blend all ingredients, except ice, in a blender until smooth. Add ice; blend again until the drink gets frothy. Serve immediately.

Low fat smoothie recipes you can easily prepare in 10 minutes:

The Perfect Wake-Up Smoothie

Prep. Time: 10 min

Servings: 8

Ingredients:
1 banana
1/2 cup blackberries (fresh)
1 cup apple cinder (chilled)
1 carton low fat yogurt
1 cup fat free milk
2 tbsp of honey
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

Preparation:
Slice banana and blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Serve immediately.

Mango-Ginger Smoothie

Calories: 142 per 2000 calorie diet. Saturated fat 1 gram. The smoothie does NOT contain Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated fats.

Prep. Time: 10 min

Servings: 4

Ingredients:
2 cups mango chunks (Preferably frozen for thicker icy drink, but if you can’t find any, seed and peel and cut 2 fresh mangos into chunks and freeze for about 2 hours)
1 cup fresh pineapple cut into cubes
1 carton low fat yogurt
1/2 cup fat-free milk
1/4 cup nonfat dry milk powder (optional)
2 tbsp of honey
1/4 tsp ground ginger

Preparation:
Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth.

From all recipes I’ve read, and 3 different I’ve cooked myself, I find this cabbage soup diet recipe to be the best one:

Cabbage Soup diet best recipe ingredients:

• 1 medium head cabbage
• 6 medium onions
• 4 sticks of green onions
• 3 carrots
• 2 red peppers
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• ½ bunch of celery
• ½ bunch of parsley

Season salt and black pepper to taste

If you like you can use vegetable or beef or chicken bouillon cubes to spice it up a little more (but honestly I prefer it without the meat bouillon cubes)

How to cook:

Cut all vegetables into small pieces. In a large pot poor enough cold water to cover them and bring to boil. Fast boil for 10 minutes and then reduce to simmer for about 15 minutes or until all vegetable are tender. Turn off heat, season the cabbage soup with the spices to your taste and remove it from the plate.

Tip:

Cool the soup and keep it in the fridge.
You can also freeze it if you make bigger quantity. This way you don’t need to cook every week – just defreeze soup for not more than 2-3 days, because once unfrozen it can’t last as long in the fridge as a freshly cooked cabbage soup.

You might say: “Hmmm, 3 day tuna diet….that sounds so familiar… just like any other 3 day ___ diet – just fill in the blank with any fruit, veggie or whatever food or meal comes to your mind.”

Anyway, don’t worry you don’t need to eat only tuna for three days. You eat mostly fruits, veggies, lean meat and simply add tuna to one the three daily meals. Drink water, tea and coffee without sugar.

You should be aware that the 3 day tuna diet is a very low calorie diet. It delivers less than 1000 calories per day, which is very likely to make angry any dieter who tries it. Starvation is part of the diet having in mind the portions and the calories per portion.

Clearly this is a fad diet and honestly we don’t know how many pounds you can lose for three days on the diet, but it doesn’t hurt to try it, right?

There are claims floating around the internet for people who have lost 10 pounds in three days and also for dieters who haven’t lost anything on the diet.

It’s all up to you if you are ready and open to try new weight loss techniques – diets, plans, meals and foods to lose weight.

Here is a sample day by day menu for the 3 day tuna diet:

Day 1

Breakfast
Tea or coffee (black) with no sugar or water
Half a grapefruit or equivalent in other juice
1 slice of toast with 1 tbsp. of peanut butter

Lunch
Half cup of tuna
1 slice of toast
Tea or coffee (black) with no sugar or water

Dinner
3 ounces of lean meat (if you don’t have lean meat use chicken)
1 cup of green beans
1 cup of carrots
1 apple
1 cup vanilla ice-cream

Day 2

Breakfast
Tea or coffee (black) no sugar
1 egg
Half banana
1 slice of toast

Lunch
1 cup of cottage cheese or tuna
8 saltine crackers

Dinner
2 beef franks
1 cup of broccoli or cabbage
Half cup of carrots
Half banana
Half cup vanilla ice-cream

Day 3

Breakfast
Tea or coffee (black) no sugar
5 regular saltine crackers
1 ounce of cheddar cheese
1 apple

Lunch
1 egg (boiled)
1 slice of toast
coffee or tea with no sugar

Dinner
1 cup tuna
1 cup of carrots
1 cup of cauliflower
1 cup of melon
Half cup regular vanilla ice-cream

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