Slow Carb Diet Tips
• Stay away from every food which includes any kind of sugar in it whatsoever. This means examining product labels and searching for words such as sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, fructose, honey... any variety of sugar is against the rules.
• Any food which is white colored, apart from cauliflower, ought to be avoided. This includes potatoes, noodles, rice, all but genuinely whole grain breads... For highest possible fat reduction, it's a wise idea bypass bread, however, if you consume bread, Ezekiel Bread is usually the best choice.
• Replace potatoes and also other food made of starch with beans. Black beans, pinto beans, butter beans, lima beans...and lentils.
• Eat lots of proteins and fats, nuts as well as nut butter, avocado, eggs, tuna fish, fish, beef, poultry, pork, tofu, Boca Burgers... Stay away from highly processed meat and many meat alternatives. Too many carbs in them!
• If you happen to be including fruits, keep the overall amount lower and make certain that the fruit you pick is a lower glycemic index fruit -- fresh and whole.
• NO fruit juices, carbonated drinks of any type, along with sugary flavored drinks. Drink water, tea, coffee.
• READ LABELS. Normally something such as a "Protein Bar" will have a gazillion grms of sugar! As a matter of fact, it is rather hard to find a protein bar that doesn't contain sugar. So be vigilant...
• Vegetables smothered in butter are excellent. Stay away from corn as well as carrots when you are in major weight loss mode.
• If you're a Vegetarian, you will have to carefully select your protein solutions so that you can stay away from the kinds with lots of added carbohydrates. Read Labels!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
BEFORE You Start Your Slow Carb Diet
Before you start a Slow Carb Diet plan program, it’s usually a really good idea to get old statistics and new numbers. And so when we're working our way psychologically toward altering the way in which we eat in order that the positive vision we have of our body and life can come to be, let’s gather some old numbers. The new ones are in the future and will be wonderful…
(1) Weight is easy. Step on the scale and weigh yourself. And be sure as we go along that you use the SAME scale to keep track of your progress.
(2)There'll be times when many of us won’t drop a pound yet we will get smaller. For this reason, taking measurements is truly important. For those who have someone to help you, an everyday tape-measure is fine. In case you don’t, the Myo-Tape, which you can get oneline, will work. You’ll want to measure your head (KIDDING!) - your upper arms, waistline, hips and mid thighs. You will see weeks when you don’t lose an ounce but the measurement will go down. That will make a nice difference and soften the lack of weight reduction for that week.
(3) The fact is, finding our body fat percentage isn't all that difficult any longer. You can obtain devices like these: Bodyfat Scale or Bodyfat Handheld Monitor. Or you can have that measurement taken in a fitness center or health club, in the event you belong to one. However you get it done, don’t skip this task. You will be astonished at how enjoyable it is to see this number decrease!
(4) And now…… we need a few of pictures, as in “how you look now.” This is going to be a part of the mental “facing the truth” that will spur you on to achieving success. So get out your camera or camera-phone when no-one is around and take a front and side snapshot of yourself in a bathing suit or underwear. Thanks.
(5) Now - make an appointment with a physician and have a few blood tests done. You are looking for a complete blood work-up, including fasting blood glucose levels, blood potassium level, liver and kidney function tests, uric acid as well as a lipid profile - triglycerides, cholesterol (HDL and LDL). It’s best if you get a Thyroid Panel done, as well - checking both T3 and T4. And lots of of us have low Vitamin D levels. Have that checked, too.
And while we’re on the subject of going to your physician, you might recognize from reading the news accounts other articles that the healthcare profession hasn't yet let go of their perception in “less calories, more exercise” as the technique for losing weight - nor have many physicians understood that eating fat does not cause clogged arteries. Saying you're going on a Slow Carb Diet may not go over well. Which means you may need to tread very carefully - depending on how easy it is to talk to your particular medical doctor.
NOW -- you'll be ready to begin!
(1) Weight is easy. Step on the scale and weigh yourself. And be sure as we go along that you use the SAME scale to keep track of your progress.
(2)There'll be times when many of us won’t drop a pound yet we will get smaller. For this reason, taking measurements is truly important. For those who have someone to help you, an everyday tape-measure is fine. In case you don’t, the Myo-Tape, which you can get oneline, will work. You’ll want to measure your head (KIDDING!) - your upper arms, waistline, hips and mid thighs. You will see weeks when you don’t lose an ounce but the measurement will go down. That will make a nice difference and soften the lack of weight reduction for that week.
(3) The fact is, finding our body fat percentage isn't all that difficult any longer. You can obtain devices like these: Bodyfat Scale or Bodyfat Handheld Monitor. Or you can have that measurement taken in a fitness center or health club, in the event you belong to one. However you get it done, don’t skip this task. You will be astonished at how enjoyable it is to see this number decrease!
(4) And now…… we need a few of pictures, as in “how you look now.” This is going to be a part of the mental “facing the truth” that will spur you on to achieving success. So get out your camera or camera-phone when no-one is around and take a front and side snapshot of yourself in a bathing suit or underwear. Thanks.
(5) Now - make an appointment with a physician and have a few blood tests done. You are looking for a complete blood work-up, including fasting blood glucose levels, blood potassium level, liver and kidney function tests, uric acid as well as a lipid profile - triglycerides, cholesterol (HDL and LDL). It’s best if you get a Thyroid Panel done, as well - checking both T3 and T4. And lots of of us have low Vitamin D levels. Have that checked, too.
And while we’re on the subject of going to your physician, you might recognize from reading the news accounts other articles that the healthcare profession hasn't yet let go of their perception in “less calories, more exercise” as the technique for losing weight - nor have many physicians understood that eating fat does not cause clogged arteries. Saying you're going on a Slow Carb Diet may not go over well. Which means you may need to tread very carefully - depending on how easy it is to talk to your particular medical doctor.
NOW -- you'll be ready to begin!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Slow Carb Diet
There are lots of interesting things to try this summer. If you failed to achieve that perfect bikini body this year, do not fret! There is always a next year. Maybe you just have the wrong formula. Why not try something new? Like this phenomenal slow carb diet.
So what is a slow carb diet? Otherwise known as the low glycemic-index diet, this kind of diet program will confine the carbohydrate consumption of a person. So you have to say goodbye to your favorite pasta and pizza. Instead, you will replace your meal with high protein foods, vegetables, and legumes. It may be very challenging at first, but you will surely enjoy the improvement in your body.
Slow Carb - Simple Carb
There is what we call a slow carb and a simple carb. So how are they different from each other? The slow carbs are those foods that are high in fiber and will provide the body with a stable energy. So you cannot just eat any carbs. There are categories of foods with low glycemic index that you have to strictly select in your menu in order to fully enjoy the benefits of this diet. You can have lean meats, cottage cheese, nuts, and many vegetables . You can even try to experiment with your salad by using nuts and vegetables. So if you think you are up to the challenge this time, then you can start going slow! Remember it is better to try a sure fire way to achieve that great body to flaunt this summer.
Did you know that the slow carb diet will lessen the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity? You can find research on this in the books of Gary Taubes -- How We Get Fat and Good Carbs, Bad Carbs.It seems that the "low fat" advice we've been given over the past many years was not backed up by research. And "eat less, exercise more" works for some people but not for many. For many of us, a Slow Carb Diet, high in protein and fats and complimented with vegetables and legumes works wonders!
Keep Yourself Honest!
For me, it is wise to plan ahead by preparing the food and making a menu list during my free time.That way I head myself off at the pass! Cheating becomes hard when all the food you're supposed to eat is ready to go!
So what are the other things that you have to remember when you decide to go slow? You have to stay away from sugary foods and drinks. That means no more soda, sweet yogurts, and chocolates. You have to set aside your sweet tooth! You have to be more particular in reading the labels of the food that you buy. When you are doing your grocery shopping, you have to read labels to avoid being misled with the wrong information.
Given all this, I still strongly suggest that you read Taubes' books and start eating this way if you want to lose weight and improve your blood test numbers. It's amazing how well it works!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Working Out With Weights At Age 67!
During the summer of 2009, I joined a woman’s health club and began to work out several times a week. I was really tired of seeing my muscle vanish through insufficient use. Little did I know when I started out, the amount of strength I had lost. That has been discovered as it came back.
I received a complete workup by an Exercise Physiologist and was not shocked, but was dismayed to learn that my body fat Percent was 44! I was chubby. Really chubby… And at 5’2? - well, a few pounds show. And I had much more than a few…
I began slowly with the weights, using the small ones that the trainer had shown me. Combined with that, I walked the fitness treadmill at my target heart rate for 30-40 or so minutes twice a week.
As the months passed I was really pleased to be upgrading to heavier and heavier weights with regularity.
I was also thrilled to discover that it seemed to be once again easy to get out of the car, walk up stairs and do normal things that had come to be difficult. Amazing.
At some point, I stumbled upon Tim Ferriss’ “work short and HARD” weight lifting suggestions and started to make use of them.
In March of 2010, I met with my sisters (who live a distance from me) to try on dresses for one sister’s wedding - a gala event scheduled for July and in which we were all taking part. My sisters were raving about how great I looked. I didn’t recognise that the changes showed - since I had been experiencing the slow improvement and the people I saw everyday were, too. However my sisters saw a huge difference.
The upshot was in fact - I didn’t drop any weight to speak of throughout the 1st nine months of training. Perhaps a pound or two. Yet I was SMALLER, and my body fat % had gone to 31! WOW.
Subsequently, I discovered the SLOW CARB method of eating and have shed more weight. I am pretty darned happy.
So my message right here is that for a female past 65 who's “let herself go,” there isn't any reason not to get into a gym and begin workouts using weights. You won’t get muscular. And everyone will quickly be telling you how fantastic you look.
I had read Miriam Nelson’s book, Strong Women Stay Young, and she is right! Having the capacity to do the everyday things that I used to find simple and easy has been more fantastic than I'm able to describe.
So go for it. And if you’re lucky, you’ll find a woman’s gym like I did which catered to older women - so
you won’t have to deal with nubile 20-somethings in tights! And I wish all of you the best.
I received a complete workup by an Exercise Physiologist and was not shocked, but was dismayed to learn that my body fat Percent was 44! I was chubby. Really chubby… And at 5’2? - well, a few pounds show. And I had much more than a few…
I began slowly with the weights, using the small ones that the trainer had shown me. Combined with that, I walked the fitness treadmill at my target heart rate for 30-40 or so minutes twice a week.
As the months passed I was really pleased to be upgrading to heavier and heavier weights with regularity.
I was also thrilled to discover that it seemed to be once again easy to get out of the car, walk up stairs and do normal things that had come to be difficult. Amazing.
At some point, I stumbled upon Tim Ferriss’ “work short and HARD” weight lifting suggestions and started to make use of them.
In March of 2010, I met with my sisters (who live a distance from me) to try on dresses for one sister’s wedding - a gala event scheduled for July and in which we were all taking part. My sisters were raving about how great I looked. I didn’t recognise that the changes showed - since I had been experiencing the slow improvement and the people I saw everyday were, too. However my sisters saw a huge difference.
The upshot was in fact - I didn’t drop any weight to speak of throughout the 1st nine months of training. Perhaps a pound or two. Yet I was SMALLER, and my body fat % had gone to 31! WOW.
Subsequently, I discovered the SLOW CARB method of eating and have shed more weight. I am pretty darned happy.
So my message right here is that for a female past 65 who's “let herself go,” there isn't any reason not to get into a gym and begin workouts using weights. You won’t get muscular. And everyone will quickly be telling you how fantastic you look.
I had read Miriam Nelson’s book, Strong Women Stay Young, and she is right! Having the capacity to do the everyday things that I used to find simple and easy has been more fantastic than I'm able to describe.
So go for it. And if you’re lucky, you’ll find a woman’s gym like I did which catered to older women - so
you won’t have to deal with nubile 20-somethings in tights! And I wish all of you the best.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
History of Information on Low Fat and Low Carb Diets
Dating back to 1825 (that is correct) professional medical professionals and others interested in excess fat gain had found that ingesting excessive fat is not really what makes people fat. There have been the “Atkins” look-alikes of the day and journals written to disperse this information to help people lose fat. First released in 1825, The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin, was republished in the us in 1865 and then re-named The Handbook of Dining, or Corpulence and Leanness Scientifically Considered. This particular guide, and also a pamphlet written in 1863 by William Banting (a former fatty) Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public, extolled the worth of consuming a low carbohydrate eating plan to lose excessive fat in order to get back to overall health.
In the intervening yrs there have been a host of additional articles and accounts which affirmed that it had been carbohydrates as well as sugars which precipitated excess weight - fat wasn't to blame. Even Dr. Spock, who taught parents within the mid 20th century the best way to raise the youngsters, cautioned against providing your kid an excessive amount of carbohydrate as well as sugary food in order to avoid extra weight gain. In the event that you’re sincerely interested in more details in relation to all this, they may be found in Gary Taubes book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, published in 2007. ( And please note that when I say “carbohydrates” I am not speaking about veggies - a most green vegetables are Slow Carbs!))
And then a change:
And then, in a astounding shift, public health representatives, the AMA and also the American Heart Association, realizing that persons with coronary heart disease experienced clogged arterial blood vessels, pronounced that fat within the eating routine seemed to be associated with coronary disease, and therefore, applying “common sense” rather than research, it was decided that fats seemed to be the actual enemy and all of these critical institutions ended up in favor of “low fat” diets. And so that became Common Knowledge for many people even as were living our lives.
Corporations jumped on this and started creating “food” for people which has been reduced in fat and, consequently, had a greater percentage of carbohydrates. We gobbled it right up. We checked our fats use. We all have been diligent. And the actual occurrence of coronary disease as well as morbid obesity in the us rose significantly over the following decades.
During this particular time period, quite a few people came out FOR higher fats, higher protein dining - most of us are likely familiar with Robert Atkins and Michael and MaryDan Eades, as an example. And there was clearly other people. But the big guys, the AMA, AHA, and the major public health associations cautioned us all in no uncertain terms that these diet plans would most likely be incredibly terrible for us. They were being called “fad diets” and also dangerous. And we continued to wind up being fat, or get fat, and end up having heart related illnesses, diabetes, and also all the various difficulties linked to excess weight.
You will discover a movement afoot currently to get the legitimate information out : that Slow Carb, Low Carb, and also fat and protein will help us reach a realistic weight as well as stay healthy.
http://www.slowcarbhq.com
In the intervening yrs there have been a host of additional articles and accounts which affirmed that it had been carbohydrates as well as sugars which precipitated excess weight - fat wasn't to blame. Even Dr. Spock, who taught parents within the mid 20th century the best way to raise the youngsters, cautioned against providing your kid an excessive amount of carbohydrate as well as sugary food in order to avoid extra weight gain. In the event that you’re sincerely interested in more details in relation to all this, they may be found in Gary Taubes book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, published in 2007. ( And please note that when I say “carbohydrates” I am not speaking about veggies - a most green vegetables are Slow Carbs!))
And then a change:
And then, in a astounding shift, public health representatives, the AMA and also the American Heart Association, realizing that persons with coronary heart disease experienced clogged arterial blood vessels, pronounced that fat within the eating routine seemed to be associated with coronary disease, and therefore, applying “common sense” rather than research, it was decided that fats seemed to be the actual enemy and all of these critical institutions ended up in favor of “low fat” diets. And so that became Common Knowledge for many people even as were living our lives.
Corporations jumped on this and started creating “food” for people which has been reduced in fat and, consequently, had a greater percentage of carbohydrates. We gobbled it right up. We checked our fats use. We all have been diligent. And the actual occurrence of coronary disease as well as morbid obesity in the us rose significantly over the following decades.
During this particular time period, quite a few people came out FOR higher fats, higher protein dining - most of us are likely familiar with Robert Atkins and Michael and MaryDan Eades, as an example. And there was clearly other people. But the big guys, the AMA, AHA, and the major public health associations cautioned us all in no uncertain terms that these diet plans would most likely be incredibly terrible for us. They were being called “fad diets” and also dangerous. And we continued to wind up being fat, or get fat, and end up having heart related illnesses, diabetes, and also all the various difficulties linked to excess weight.
You will discover a movement afoot currently to get the legitimate information out : that Slow Carb, Low Carb, and also fat and protein will help us reach a realistic weight as well as stay healthy.
Meredith Young has been researching obesity and weight loss for over 30 years, informally and now formally. Results of recent findings can be found at <a href="http://www.slowcarbhq.com">Slow Carb HQ</a> . This information will be especially useful for people looking into a <a href="http://www.slowcarbhq.com">Slow Carb Diet</a> .
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Slow Carbing It To Normal Weight
WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT FAT GAIN AND FAT LOSS?
Slow carb, low carbohydrate, low calorie, low fat, Atkins, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig… The list is endless. In almost all places we go on daily basis, on TV, in women's magazines, on the radio, on-line, and on the side of a bus, we are reminded that many of us should do something with regards to these excess pounds. Well, that’s about to end.
Yes, Virginia… there happens to be better information about this field. And it will be of great value for all of us who have struggled with extra body fat, along with, usually, poor health.
Therefore Slow Carb HQ is not just another healthy diet site… I know, I know, just about everyone tells you this. Nonetheless browse around and I think you’ll discover big differences.
Calories don’t count!
For quite a while, our press, our health professionals and nutritionists, our exercise instructors, in addition to our associates and neighbors have instructed us that the approach to unwanted weight is always to slash calories eaten and exercise a lot more than we have been. This really is now “common awareness,” even though the idea is NOT true. You’ll have a problem believing that, I’m positive. I mean, it’s just simply common-sense! You eat way too much food and you simply gain weight - you workout and eat a smaller amount of and you drop the weight.
Yet that’s definitely not what is actually happening. And just what is definitely happening (and comprehending that) will let individuals who've lost and gained weight forever, worried about our wellness, blood pressure, as well as cholesterol to ultimately get off that merry-go-round and live free from each of the psychological as well as actual physical problems that checking calories and jumping up and down on a trampoline have brought into our everyday life. It’s about Low Carbohydrate and Slow Carb. You may have said sometime, “I simply LOOK at food and I put on weight!” or ” Since I hit 50 I can’t find a way to lose weight like I did before.” This website gives you 70 years of research which was withheld from us for several reasons - positive and negative - and enable you handle this specific “fat” issue permanently.
It’s about Unwanted fat, not Bodyweight
Excess fat gain and fat loss are complicated operations that take place in our body as we process the particular food we ingest. It’s a lot more intricate than the “calories and exercise” tale we’ve been told. Genes, the body's hormones, your age, as well as other factors conspire to help make us a person who gains weight very easily and cannot lose it - or perhaps an individual that remains trim for a lifetime, without much, or any, effort. We don't like them, I know…
We will help you to stop counting calories and spending time in spandex and begin eating well and living well. Teaching you to eat well, and eat a lot of great food -- not low fat, but food with fat and slow carbs, with "fattening" foods we love on occasion, is why Slow Carb HQ exists. Long suppressed research on the incredible results of following a Slow Carb Diet is presented along with tips and tricks to happily eat your way to health.
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