January 2010

Food Rules for Weight Loss

The number one bestseller on Amazon right now is Food Rules
by Michael Pollan. It's a slim paperback and costs just $5.00

Here's one review from Amazon;

This book cuts through all the garbage health information out there and gets back to real food and real nutrition. The format is simple and so is the message: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. Our growing habit of eating packaged, processed foods has an impact on our bodies, our minds, and our planet, and Pollan outlines these while offering straightforward suggestions for getting real food back on the table. Great book.

Celebrity Alicia Silverstone, age 33, is a vegan and has written a book about her way of eating; The Kind Diet.

Here's the description on Amazon;

In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains how meat, fish, milk, and cheese—the very foods we’ve been taught to regard as the cornerstone of good nutrition—are actually the culprits behind escalating rates of disease and the cause of dire, potentially permanent damage to our ecology.

Yet going meat- and dairy-free doesn’t mean suffering deprivation; to the contrary, The Kind Diet introduces irresistibly delicious food that satisfies on every level—it even includes amazing desserts to keep the most stubborn sweet tooth happy. Alicia also addresses the nutritional concerns faced by many who are new to a plant-based diet, and shows how to cover every nutritional base, from protein to calcium and beyond.

Alicia knows that changing life-long dietary habits is a process, and that each person progresses at a different pace. For that reason, The Kind Diet encompasses 3 separate levels, from Flirting to Superhero. Flirts learn to dip a toe into the vegan pool, reducing their meat-eating and swapping out a few key foods for plant-based substitutes to see quickly how even small changes can reap big results. Vegans get to experience the life-altering effects of forgoing animal-products entirely, while still enjoying many convenience foods and meat substitutes in addition to the wonderful grains, vegetables and fruits that form the core of that diet. True enlightenment comes with the Superhero program, based on the principles of macrobiotics and built on a foundation of whole grains, vegetables, and other yummy foods that Alicia describes in detail.

Whether your goal is to drop a few pounds, boost your energy and metabolism, or simply save the world, Alicia provides the encouragement, the information, and the tools you need to make the transition to a plant-based diet deliciously empowering.

See the video below for an intro by Alicia;

This second video gives more detailed information about her book;

Here's a before photo of Max. He is 17 years old and has been overweight for many years. Last year he changed his lifestyle and lost the excess weight gradually. He lost an average of two pounds a week and went from 212 pounds to his current 160 pounds. See his photo at a fit 160 pounds and his story here.

Where Can You Find 100 Weight Loss Tips?

Welcome back and it makes good horse sense to look into the task of locating the right information that you need that will help you to get started on your own plan to lose weight and to stand a good chance of succeeding not only in the short term but also in the long term. This post reviews one of the primary online resources for dieters and slimmers everywhere in a website that is one of the premier repositories of weight loss information that you'll find anywhere.

If you really want the full collection of just about all the tips you are ever likely to need, there are actually very few good resources that will provide that information. Most of those will probably only give you a page with 100 headings and maybe a sentence or two about each tip. But there is one website that stands out from the crowd in this department, details of where to find it we will be including at the end of this article. But first a little information about the site itself.

Its called WeightLossGo.com and uses the title "Weight Loss Tips" as this is what it primarily provides its readers. You can usually find this site if you search Google for that term, sitting somewhere on the first page, which is a good indicator that it has been given a fair amount of trust and authority by that mighty search engine. When you visit the site, you'll see straight away that it is actually a blog, which means that it gets regular posts on a variety of topics related to losing weight. But its major winning aspect is a page that is labeled "100 Weight Loss Tips" and on this page you will find title links to its own full internal collection of those 100 tips. These links, unlike those you often find of lesser quality websites, do not link out to external sites. All those articles are published on WeightLossGo.com so you stay on the site when you click those links to whichever article you wish to read.

Each tip, therefore is a separate article in its own right. Most are over 500 words long and all provide a great motivational booster as well as good information on what the related tip is all about and how it can be used to your best advantage in losing weight.

As well as those incredible 100 articles, the blog also sports many regular posts that also deal with the vast array of concerns and items of interest all covering the huge subject that is that of losing weight. If you are a dieter and need information on one of the popular diets, chances are you'll find it there in this site's pages. They cover a wide variety of them and associated articles that deal with diet related problems and concerns. If you are into exercise or need more information about the kinds of exercising that can help you to shed a few pounds or help you attain a better level of fitness to promote a healthy body weight, they are there too! It also deals with the peripheral subjects surrounding this topic such as why certain actions bring about reactions either positive and negative. It even takes on some of the more controversial topics that other sites tend to shy away from and bring you useful viewpoints that can help you to overcome your own restrictive actions that may be preventing you from losing weight.

So how can you easily get to the site itself? Just for you, we'll provide a link direct to the site's home page so you can see it for yourself, here at: weight loss tips. Do visit the site and see for yourself how packed full of great information it is.

Weight Loss Tips

Max made the decision to lose some weight a few weeks ago. He has two toddlers and found it really hard to find time for exercise. But he's managed to do it and his belt size has already gone from 38 to 34.

See his story here.

Mirror mirror on the wall, what is the best diet of them all?

The Daily Beast has done a statistical analysis of the top 10 diets where clinical results are available and have ranked these diets in order of effectiveness. See their slideshow of the 10 best diets.

You may be surprised to hear that the #1 most effective diet is not Jenny Craig, not Weight Watchers or Atkins. It may be one you've never heard of. It's called Volumetrics.

This diet focuses on eating lots of foods which have a high water content. This means lots and lots of vegetables and soups.

With Volumetrics you can literally eat many pounds of food each day. What I had for dinner last night would be a good example. I was eating alone, so I steamed a big bunch of kale, then added a a can of broccoli soup (250 calories) to give it more taste. This was really nice as was, and I had two huge bowls of it (with a calorie total of probably less than 350?).

(Since some of you may consider this a bit too granola head overboard, i'll just add as a sidenote that in my case i also mixed in a couple of tablespoons of nutritional yeast (which is one of the most nutritious foods, and is quite a bit more tasty than Brewer's yeast. It has tons of protein and B Vitamins).

Check out the The Volumetrics book on Amazon. It sells for $6.99

Here's a neat idea for a weight scale. It's the first WiFi scale that connects to the internet to automatically register your weight, fat and BMI calculations.

We first heard about it via a Leo Laporte podcast. He was very impressed with it and has attached it to his tweets on Twitter so that each morning when he steps on the scale, an automatic tweet goes out about his current weight.

The scale is rated five star on Amazon, but it's not cheap at $159. See it here Withings WiFi Body Scale at Amazon.