Don't Eat Anything Fatty

Thinking of losing weight?

On a serious note, if you'd like to be closer to your ideal weight, think about cutting down on:

Sugar - chocolate, ice cream, lollies and confectionery of all types, biscuits and cake.

Wheat flour - bread, biscuits, pasta, cake ... Flour is quickly turned into sugar once it enters your body.

Milk - well, maybe not milk, it's already low fat, but not milk shakes. If you're worried about your calcium intake, just ask yourself, 'Where do cows get their calcium from?'

Cool drinks - too much sugar. The raging debate at the moment is whether to tax high sugared drinks. It sounds daft to me. It doesn't treat the heart of the problem. Legislation is required to gradually lower the added sugar content over a ten year period to less than 5%.

You ask, 'What about diet drinks?' My personal opinion is that artificial flavours don't do your body a favour. The other observation is that overweight people tend to drink 'diet drinks'. Sounds paradoxical doesn't it?

Alcohol - the health charities tell people to have a drink a day. A lot of people take that to mean one drink is good, two drinks is better and three is best. After that you may as well finish off the bottle! Strange as may seem the alcohol industry doesn't have to put nutrition panels on their labels to let people, know just how much energy they are consuming. A 750m bottle of wine contains over 600 calories - and that doesn't include the chips, nuts and dips that go with it.

Nuts - at over 500 calories in 100 grams, that's about a quarter of your daily food intake.

Anyway, if you want to trim the fat off your body, try that for a couple of months and see what happens. You won't die. All that will happen is you strip out of your diet the garbohydrates (yep that's a 'g' not a 'c').

You'll find you become creative in seeking out foods that are good for you. You might find yourself eating last night's left-overs for breakfast and lunch.

Thinking of exercising more?
 
Losing weight without an exercise program is a tough assignment. If you add aerobic fitness to your daily list of habits and strength training three times a week, plus cutting back on the foods the stack weight on, you'll have the perfect weight loss program.

Here are the aerobic exercise suggestions from the Aerabyte website.

Click here to visit the 1% Weight Loss program.

1% a week is a tough assignment. If you're not losing .5% you're not fair dinkum.

Now go and have a piece of fruit and a cup of green tea.

Regards and best wishes

John Miller

Daily Health Break

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