Weight Loss Tips and Information.

How to lose weight during the festive season.

It’s the time of the year again most people on any sort of weight management program dread: Christmas time. How are you supposed to stick to a diet when faced with endless rounds of parties, tables groaning with irresistible delicacies, limitless drinks for free and a general feeling of ‘Come on, it’s Christmas time!’

We are faced with more than one dilemma:

1. We attend more social functions per week (sometimes per day) than any other time of the year
2. The spirit of the season encourages eating large amounts of special Christmas food not available during the rest of the year
3. We get less exercise in the wintertime
4. It’s freezing outside and we are tempted to eat [ Continue Reading ]

I bet you already know all the health benefits for keeping slim. You have probably tried every diet; the Atkins, the Southbeach, the metabolic, the fruit, the water or just plain starvation. In fact, you may even have gained extra weight. You know all the intellectual stuff about keeping healthy, exercising and eating consistently. But you are still as heavy as ever.

How is it that all those intellectual knowledge is not driving you towards weight loss?

This is because the human body is driven by passion and not intellectual knowledge. Knowledge teaches us techniques; passion dives us to make it happen.

In this situation, external circumstances are not conducive in igniting our passion for keeping healthy and slim.

If we have failed numerous times in our [ Continue Reading ]

Obesity occurs over time when you eat more calories than you use. The balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person. Factors that might tip the balance include your genetic makeup, overeating, eating high-fat foods and not being physically active. It is an accumulation of excess body fat, to an extent that may impair health. It is different from being overweight, which means weighing too much. The weight may come from muscle, bone, fat and/or body water. Both terms mean that a person’s weight is greater than what’s considered healthy for his or her height.

Being obese increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis and some cancers. A crude population measure of excess fat is the body mass index (BMI), a person’s weight [ Continue Reading ]