If you want to lose weight, aside from exercise, the major components of your program should be diet. Diet entails managing, not restricting, the food you eat and that includes the nutrients and calories.
To manage the calories you consume so that you lose weight you need to monitor your calorie consumption or “count your calories”.
The [...]
Category Archives: Diet
Easy Way to Count Your Calories
February 17, 2010 – 10:18 pm
Week 6 – Update: Back on Track
February 16, 2010 – 6:13 pm
Finally! After 3 weeks of hitting a weight loss plateau, I was able to lose 1 Kg in a weeks time. As I mentioned in my previous weekly update, I will be sticking to the the fat burning program I’m using, and true enough, I was back in the game.
Diet
The biggest change to my lifestyle now [...]
Air France offers free second seat to obese people
January 22, 2010 – 1:57 pm
IF you’re obese, and you’re flying Air France, you can now book a second seat beside you so that you overflow your excess weight over to that. Funny right? but really this is how widespread obesity is.
BBC News – Air France offers free second seat to obese people.
In some airlines, if you can’t be secured [...]
What is Obesity? What is BMI (Body Mass Index)?
January 18, 2010 – 3:30 pm
If you’re curious what obesity means, and how BMI is related to it, you can check out this link:
What is Obesity? What is BMI (Body Mass Index)?.
It’s a good resource for understanding this condition. Here’s an excerpt from that resource page regarding obesity:
An obese person has accumulated so much body fat that it might have [...]
“Want some poop in your drink, sir?” – Think again
January 15, 2010 – 2:08 pm
I came across a very alarming article in CNN Health, about how researchers found “Nearly half of the 90 beverages from soda fountain machines in one area in Virginia tested positive for coliform bacteria — which could indicate possible fecal contamination.” Yup you read that right, “fecal” contamination. Bacteria in poop, sh*t, feces, whatever you [...]
Slow eaters don’t get fat
January 6, 2010 – 10:55 am
I read in the news today that researchers have found that by using a device to tell obese children to eat slowly, these kids lost weight and decreased their eating speed by 11%.
In a trial with 106 obese children the gadget showed promising results, the British Medical Journal reports online.
After 12 months of use the [...]
