2) Insufficient time to prepare healthy meals
One of the important things you can do for your overall weight loss and health is to eat healthy. Your diet affects your weight. It either increase or reduce it. Preparing a healthy diet is easier to say than to do because it is tempting to eat less healthy foods. For some busy people wanting to loose weight, it is a lot easier to reach out for a bag of whatever junk food is available than to prepare a balanced healthy diet.
What to do:
If you fall into this category, nothing to worry about. Preparing healthy meal is easy when you know what healthy foods are and its more easier if you have a meal planner to help you plan your meal.
Dietwatch, an online diet program provides a good meal planner that allows you to choose from several recipes or choose your own. You can also include anything you eat into your meal tracker to help you track your calories. This makes food preparation easy and interesting. Click here for the tool.
3) Am too old to exercise
If you feel you can’t loose weight again because of your age, you’ve got another thinking to do. It is never too late to loose weight. I have heard of a 62yr old man wanting to lose 60 pounds. You may be older than that, don’t allow your age to be a barrier to you losing weight. Shed off those pounds and look healthy/
4) No enough support
Support is very important in weight loss. It is one thing to buy a bunch of meals and hope you have the willpower to stay the course. It is a different thing altogether when you have a weekly weight in and another person to answer to. Support groups motivates you towards your weight loss goals, make you feel belong. Expert’s advice too is part of it. It can be discouraging if your enroll in a program where is no support or expert’s advice to guide you through the process. This is why I love online dieting, exercise and weight loss program of Dietwatch. It has excellent support group of experts and members who are too ready to answer your enquiries and lend you the support you need to lose that weight.
5) Not getting quick result
Some people give up easily on their goal of loosing weight when there is no significant change in their weight. Weight loss it not a short term quick result thing, it is a long term goal. How will you loose the weights you accumulated over a number of years in one month! You have got to discipline yourself to be consistent, have a positive thought towards it and be patient. Weight loss is a process.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
DIETWATCH REVIEW
DietWatch is one of the easiest to use and comprehensive diet service available on the Internet. DietWatch accesses weight loss and fitness by addressing food, exercise and support as the fundamentals in a successful diet programm.
They provide meal and exercise trackers as well as dining out guides and message boards—all to help you achieve your weight loss goals. This is one of the most informative services we reviewed; however, a customized workout program and virtual trainer would add to an already exceptional service.
DIET
There are several food options available with DietWatch. It provides a personalized yet simple approach to weight loss by providing a personalized meal planner for your need. Which can be suited according to your chosen life style. They include vegetarian meals, as well as low carb., low cholesterol or “no restrictions” plans, Heart – Healthy Mediterranean plan which focuses on incorporating healthy mono and polyunsaturated fats while limiting intake of saturate and trans fat. You may change your meal plans accordingly. You may choose from several recipe options or choose your own. However, be sure to include anything you eat into your meal tracker to help you track your calories and progress. There is also a dining out guide and “fast food quest” provide tips and nutritional facts and information to more than 40 fast food and chain restaurants.
DietWatch has a few unique features including a vitamins and minerals database that explains the nutritional values and functions of various nutrients.
Exercise/ Fitness:
Dietwatch provides a Personal exercise program and exercise tracker which has an interactive exercise and activity log. You simply type in the name and length of each activity you've done and the exercise log will calculate how many calories you have burned. DietWatch includes several types of exercise plans like aerobics, strength training and flexibility programs for you to follow. These are exercise guides to assist you when working out.
Support/Community:
DietWatch has a large and supportive community. It contains chat rooms, Blogs, message boards, find – a – friend, expert advice and daily tips. Your member profile allows you to find people online with similar goals and interests. You can meet new friends, infact you can choose by gender, age, marital status, astrological sign and location and most especially by weight or favourite exercise. You can also ask the experts questions bothering on weight loss and join in lively discussions. You will find encouragement, support and a place to call home.
DietWatch includes several additional tools to help you in your weight loss goals. They provide the usual weight tracker and customized shopping lists, as well as a diary and calorie counter. The calorie counter is included with its new program, the Nutritional Calculator. You can find out the number of calories in some of your favorite brand name foods.
Ease of Use/Support:
This was one of the most informative and easy–to–use services on DietWatch’s website. It has tutorial that explains many aspects of the program without forcing you to the payment screen. Some sections are accessible only to members, but many of your questions can be answered through DietiWatch’s help desk or email.
FEE:
DietWatch is one of the cheaper online diet sites found on the internet. However, they only have two plan options, weekly and annually. You are billed based on the payment option you choose. The weekly play is about $2.99 a week but you are automatically billed every 13 weeks for $35.88. The annual plan is $77 and billed once every 12 months. The weekly plan has a minimum required commitment of 8 weeks.
They provide meal and exercise trackers as well as dining out guides and message boards—all to help you achieve your weight loss goals. This is one of the most informative services we reviewed; however, a customized workout program and virtual trainer would add to an already exceptional service.
DIET
There are several food options available with DietWatch. It provides a personalized yet simple approach to weight loss by providing a personalized meal planner for your need. Which can be suited according to your chosen life style. They include vegetarian meals, as well as low carb., low cholesterol or “no restrictions” plans, Heart – Healthy Mediterranean plan which focuses on incorporating healthy mono and polyunsaturated fats while limiting intake of saturate and trans fat. You may change your meal plans accordingly. You may choose from several recipe options or choose your own. However, be sure to include anything you eat into your meal tracker to help you track your calories and progress. There is also a dining out guide and “fast food quest” provide tips and nutritional facts and information to more than 40 fast food and chain restaurants.
DietWatch has a few unique features including a vitamins and minerals database that explains the nutritional values and functions of various nutrients.
Exercise/ Fitness:
Dietwatch provides a Personal exercise program and exercise tracker which has an interactive exercise and activity log. You simply type in the name and length of each activity you've done and the exercise log will calculate how many calories you have burned. DietWatch includes several types of exercise plans like aerobics, strength training and flexibility programs for you to follow. These are exercise guides to assist you when working out.
Support/Community:
DietWatch has a large and supportive community. It contains chat rooms, Blogs, message boards, find – a – friend, expert advice and daily tips. Your member profile allows you to find people online with similar goals and interests. You can meet new friends, infact you can choose by gender, age, marital status, astrological sign and location and most especially by weight or favourite exercise. You can also ask the experts questions bothering on weight loss and join in lively discussions. You will find encouragement, support and a place to call home.
DietWatch includes several additional tools to help you in your weight loss goals. They provide the usual weight tracker and customized shopping lists, as well as a diary and calorie counter. The calorie counter is included with its new program, the Nutritional Calculator. You can find out the number of calories in some of your favorite brand name foods.
Ease of Use/Support:
This was one of the most informative and easy–to–use services on DietWatch’s website. It has tutorial that explains many aspects of the program without forcing you to the payment screen. Some sections are accessible only to members, but many of your questions can be answered through DietiWatch’s help desk or email.
FEE:
DietWatch is one of the cheaper online diet sites found on the internet. However, they only have two plan options, weekly and annually. You are billed based on the payment option you choose. The weekly play is about $2.99 a week but you are automatically billed every 13 weeks for $35.88. The annual plan is $77 and billed once every 12 months. The weekly plan has a minimum required commitment of 8 weeks.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
What to Look for in Online Diet Services
There are many programs available that offer incredible results in impossible amounts of time; however, those programs usually end up being too good to be true. A good online diet program should include resources on healthy eating habits, promote and encourage exercise and include additional support from experts and members, it should also include the followings:
Meal trackers
Meal planning can be a frustrating thing to do. Sometime after a hard days’ work, I find it stressful to think of what to eat. Online diet program provide a tool for its members where you can track and plan your meals. It makes it so simple. You choose your diet and plan it the way you want. It is so flexible.
Exercise
First–class diet services offer tools to inform members about physical fitness or promote regular exercise. Some of them like fitday provides activity log to track the activities and exercises you do each day. Your activity log will help you estimate how many calories you burn each day.
Community
Member boards and support groups encourage members to support each other and stay motivated. This also includes expert advice or dietary consolation which you can not get in a physical diet book. Most at least include a contact form so you can get a personal response to any queries or questions that you wants answered.
Extra Tools
Another good thing about online diet plan is that they offer services to help members follow their diet plans. These include weight trackers, calorie counters and newsletter or articles, diet generator application, a shopping list of your selection which you can print out.
Ease of Use
Information about a diet service should be easy to find and provide comprehensive details about what a subscription includes. They should also provide FAQs about the diet program as well as responsive email or telephone support.
Meal trackers
Meal planning can be a frustrating thing to do. Sometime after a hard days’ work, I find it stressful to think of what to eat. Online diet program provide a tool for its members where you can track and plan your meals. It makes it so simple. You choose your diet and plan it the way you want. It is so flexible.
Exercise
First–class diet services offer tools to inform members about physical fitness or promote regular exercise. Some of them like fitday provides activity log to track the activities and exercises you do each day. Your activity log will help you estimate how many calories you burn each day.
Community
Member boards and support groups encourage members to support each other and stay motivated. This also includes expert advice or dietary consolation which you can not get in a physical diet book. Most at least include a contact form so you can get a personal response to any queries or questions that you wants answered.
Extra Tools
Another good thing about online diet plan is that they offer services to help members follow their diet plans. These include weight trackers, calorie counters and newsletter or articles, diet generator application, a shopping list of your selection which you can print out.
Ease of Use
Information about a diet service should be easy to find and provide comprehensive details about what a subscription includes. They should also provide FAQs about the diet program as well as responsive email or telephone support.
Monday, January 19, 2009
How One Week Exercise Can Reduce Your Weight
The first week
1st Day: Take a long walk and stretch
The first day of the program involves a long and steady walk in a little over twenty minutes. After the walk, follow it up with a good stretch. This takes so little of your time for the first day. In less than an hour you have taken that first step to a weight loss program that could work to your advantage.
2nd Day: Upper body workout
By the second day, it is good to focus on an upper body workout. This maintains your strength to be able to go through the whole program for the week.
3rd Day: Brisk walk
On the third day, a brisk walk or jog for ten minutes is in order. For beginners, a lower body workout should be done in the evening.
4th Day: Good rest
In the fourth day, a good rest is in order, as well as a good stretch. This lag time should be used wisely though to sort out any negatives in your mindset.
5th Day: Take ten minute walk
The fifth day starts with a good ten minute walk. Exercise the lower body in four sessions of workouts, follow this up with another ten minute walk, and another four sessions of lower body workout.
6th Day:
The sixth day should be spent on a low impact exercise such as swimming. To avoid boredom, do not be afraid to try something new. The last day of the week is a time to solicit the support of the people you care about. Spend time with them or get them to be with you in your long walk. Again, follow up your walk with a light upper body workout.
This is just the beginning though. If by this first week you are able to stick to the program, you have a great chance to further boost your weight loss and stay with the plan until you achieve your desired result. Try as much as possible to be unlike the people who give up easily just because they could not see the result they want at the time they want – like this moment, today, now! Patience is a virtue. The same way it took your body time to gain all that weight, think about it as the time your body will have to exert just to get rid of it.
Tope Asaolu
1st Day: Take a long walk and stretch
The first day of the program involves a long and steady walk in a little over twenty minutes. After the walk, follow it up with a good stretch. This takes so little of your time for the first day. In less than an hour you have taken that first step to a weight loss program that could work to your advantage.
2nd Day: Upper body workout
By the second day, it is good to focus on an upper body workout. This maintains your strength to be able to go through the whole program for the week.
3rd Day: Brisk walk
On the third day, a brisk walk or jog for ten minutes is in order. For beginners, a lower body workout should be done in the evening.
4th Day: Good rest
In the fourth day, a good rest is in order, as well as a good stretch. This lag time should be used wisely though to sort out any negatives in your mindset.
5th Day: Take ten minute walk
The fifth day starts with a good ten minute walk. Exercise the lower body in four sessions of workouts, follow this up with another ten minute walk, and another four sessions of lower body workout.
6th Day:
The sixth day should be spent on a low impact exercise such as swimming. To avoid boredom, do not be afraid to try something new. The last day of the week is a time to solicit the support of the people you care about. Spend time with them or get them to be with you in your long walk. Again, follow up your walk with a light upper body workout.
This is just the beginning though. If by this first week you are able to stick to the program, you have a great chance to further boost your weight loss and stay with the plan until you achieve your desired result. Try as much as possible to be unlike the people who give up easily just because they could not see the result they want at the time they want – like this moment, today, now! Patience is a virtue. The same way it took your body time to gain all that weight, think about it as the time your body will have to exert just to get rid of it.
Tope Asaolu
How One Week Exercise can Reduce Your Weight
In this article, I am going to show you how to remove excess fat in your body through my one week plan. f you want to get result, practice all that is written there, otherwise nothing will be achieved. Of course, it is always advisable to visit your doctor for a check up before embarking on any weight loss program. Before we start the program, I want to first of all prepare your mind with this habit that you must imbibe, they are:
1. Be focused and dedicated
Success comes in life through focus and dedication, so is it with weight loss too, be prepared to loose that weight and be dedicated to the programme so that you can achieve your set objective.
2. Have a goal
Your goal in this programme should be clearly spelt out. You want to loose weight right? Then write down the amount of pounds you want to use.
3. Be positive
It is important that you develop a positive attitude towards weight loss. It is possible for you to loose weight, don’t do it to try, be conclusive that you can loose that weight and it will work for you as long as you stay put to the weight loss plan you are currently undergoing.
4. Be moderate
It is not advisable for you to work too hard on a weight loss plan. You must be moderate. Find the level of exercise and training that suits you. It should be enough for you to be comfortable in but not too convenient that it will not be much of a challenge.
Now having prepare you for the programme, let’s get started.
1. Be focused and dedicated
Success comes in life through focus and dedication, so is it with weight loss too, be prepared to loose that weight and be dedicated to the programme so that you can achieve your set objective.
2. Have a goal
Your goal in this programme should be clearly spelt out. You want to loose weight right? Then write down the amount of pounds you want to use.
3. Be positive
It is important that you develop a positive attitude towards weight loss. It is possible for you to loose weight, don’t do it to try, be conclusive that you can loose that weight and it will work for you as long as you stay put to the weight loss plan you are currently undergoing.
4. Be moderate
It is not advisable for you to work too hard on a weight loss plan. You must be moderate. Find the level of exercise and training that suits you. It should be enough for you to be comfortable in but not too convenient that it will not be much of a challenge.
Now having prepare you for the programme, let’s get started.
6 Advantages Of Loosing Weight
Loosing weight is not that easy but it has a lot of great benefits. Among the benefits are:
1. It reduces the pain of osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a condition of chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints; it usually occurs after middle age. Now, how does this relates to weight loss. When you are overweight, your joints in your knees, hips and lower back would exert double effort to carry you throughout your waking, walking and moving life. This could cause tension and stress on these joints which can result in Osteoarthritis. But when you shed those weights, it decreases the load these joints carry thus eliminating the pain.
2. It prevents type 2 diabetes
Diabetes type 1 and 2 are caused by being overweight which puts one’s life in danger because of the complications its brings.
If you are diabetic already, you can walk, jog to help get your blood steams moving as well as loose those unnecessary pounds. You can also exercise regularly to help in controlling your blood sugar levels as well as the medication you may be currently taking. Increase your physical activity.
3. It prevents heart diseases and stroke
Overweight people have a higher risk of contracting heart disease and stroke which can lead to chest pains and sudden death. This is due to high levels of blood fat and cholesterol in their blood stream. Heart disease and stroke has been known to cause disability and death in both men and women around the world. So if you reduce your weight, it could positively decrease the chances of you having these diseases.
4. It prevents high blood pressure
Being overweight can cause high blood pressure. But when you reduce the fats in the body, it reduces the fat that blocks the blood tissues, thereby reducing the pressure within the veins. This subsequently improve the blood pressure.
5. Weight loss helps reduce your risk for cancer
Being overweight is linked with a number of kinds of cancer. Specially for women, the common types of cancer that is associated with being overweight include cancer of the uterus, gallbladder, ovary, breast, and colon. This is not meant to scare you, this is only to keep you informed. Men are at risk too from developing cancer if they are overweight. These include cancer of the colon, prostate and rectum. Extra weight, a diet high in fat and cholesterol should as much as possible be avoided.
6. It reduces sleep apneaSleep apnea is a condition wherein one could temporarily stop breathing for a brief period and then would continue to snore heavily. This could cause drowsiness or sleepiness during the day and – because of being overweight – could result in heart failure. Shedding those excess pounds could help in eliminating this problem.
Tope Asaolu
1. It reduces the pain of osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a condition of chronic breakdown of cartilage in the joints; it usually occurs after middle age. Now, how does this relates to weight loss. When you are overweight, your joints in your knees, hips and lower back would exert double effort to carry you throughout your waking, walking and moving life. This could cause tension and stress on these joints which can result in Osteoarthritis. But when you shed those weights, it decreases the load these joints carry thus eliminating the pain.
2. It prevents type 2 diabetes
Diabetes type 1 and 2 are caused by being overweight which puts one’s life in danger because of the complications its brings.
If you are diabetic already, you can walk, jog to help get your blood steams moving as well as loose those unnecessary pounds. You can also exercise regularly to help in controlling your blood sugar levels as well as the medication you may be currently taking. Increase your physical activity.
3. It prevents heart diseases and stroke
Overweight people have a higher risk of contracting heart disease and stroke which can lead to chest pains and sudden death. This is due to high levels of blood fat and cholesterol in their blood stream. Heart disease and stroke has been known to cause disability and death in both men and women around the world. So if you reduce your weight, it could positively decrease the chances of you having these diseases.
4. It prevents high blood pressure
Being overweight can cause high blood pressure. But when you reduce the fats in the body, it reduces the fat that blocks the blood tissues, thereby reducing the pressure within the veins. This subsequently improve the blood pressure.
5. Weight loss helps reduce your risk for cancer
Being overweight is linked with a number of kinds of cancer. Specially for women, the common types of cancer that is associated with being overweight include cancer of the uterus, gallbladder, ovary, breast, and colon. This is not meant to scare you, this is only to keep you informed. Men are at risk too from developing cancer if they are overweight. These include cancer of the colon, prostate and rectum. Extra weight, a diet high in fat and cholesterol should as much as possible be avoided.
6. It reduces sleep apneaSleep apnea is a condition wherein one could temporarily stop breathing for a brief period and then would continue to snore heavily. This could cause drowsiness or sleepiness during the day and – because of being overweight – could result in heart failure. Shedding those excess pounds could help in eliminating this problem.
Tope Asaolu
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