How to Lose Weight with "Portion Control & Exercise"

How to Lose Weight with "Portion Control & Exercise"

One of the key ways to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight is through portion control. Research has shown that Americans often underestimate how many calories they are consuming each day by as much as 25%.  You may have been one of the millions who have tried the “Low-carbohydrate (diet) which has come and gone, but portion control is here to stay.

Portion control is key to weight control.  By cutting back on how much of each food you eat at every meal, your calorie intake drops. Instead of being overwhelmed by the idea of a diet and swearing off your favorite foods, strive to control the serving sizes of the foods you already eat.

“It’s an approach you can live with your whole life".

Eating out presents problems because of the trend to supersize serving portions. What to do? Request a half order or plan to take half your serving home for the next day.

In the United States, about 650 people out of 1,000 are overweight or obese. Healthwise, this means they’re more likely to suffer from life-threatening illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Practice portion control, and exercise!

Portion Control For Weight Loss

Dieting, but not losing weight?

Dieting, but not losing weight?

After a few weeks of dieting do you experience trouble losing more weight? 

 

Here are 4 reasons why the human body adapts to our workouts that can contribute to slow weight loss.

1.  Physiological effects: a decrease in metabolic rate after we reduce our calorie intake, caused from loss of protein & hormonal changes.

2.  Exercise effects, our energy system when we continually do the same exercise-less calories are burned because it’s no longer the same challenge as it was when we were first learning.  Now our energy expenditure is less and we burn less calories.

3.  Exercising too hard too soon forces cells to burn more carbohydrates and less fat.

4.  Rapid reduction of food intake triggers starvation mode lowers metabolism quickly Skipping meals too often may produce intense food cravings caused by lower blood sugar levels.

What are the Energy Drink Dangers?

What are the Energy Drink Dangers?

Do You Know Anyone That Uses Energy Drinks, Caffeine or Other Stimulants to "GET GOING"?

The caffeine that is found in energy drinks is dangerous enough on its own. Not only is caffeine addictive, it acts as both a stimulant and a diuretic. As a stimulant, caffeine can make you have anxiety attacks, heart palpitations, and insomnia.

There are two things that must be kept in mind when we are talking about the side effects of the energy drinks.


Side effects are caused by the combination of the ingredients used for making the drink. The Monster energy drink is also made of a certain combination.

This combination consists of carbohydrates that can cause the body absorption of nutrients and food into the bloodstream to become more difficult. This means that the person drinking too much of the energy drink can encounter gastrointestinal issues.

Second, not only nutrients are harder to be absorbed in the body, but also the fluids. This means that hydration cannot be made at the optimal rate, also causing health problems. This hydration issue must concern especially athletes, whose bodies lose an important quantity of water during training. They should be careful about the intake of this energy drink, especially since it is designed for them.

The Monster energy drink is also rich in sugar. Once in the body, the product brings a lot of sugar, which is transferred into the bloodstream. When the effect of the energy drink wear off and the sugar level in the blood drops, this can be quite visible and the person consuming the product can feel it quite well. Also, some laxative effect can occur.

Other side effects of the Monster energy drink is strongly related to the caffeine it contains.

Red Bull Can Give You a Stroke This Report May Surprise You!

It Did Me! Just one can of the popular stimulant energy drink
Red Bull can increase your risk of heart attack or stroke.

The effect was seen even in young people. The caffeine-loaded beverage causes blood to become sticky, a pre-cursor to cardiovascular problems such as stroke.

One hour after drinking Red Bull, your blood system becomes abnormal,

as might be expected from a patient with cardiovascular disease.

Red Bull is banned in France,  Norway, Uruguay and Denmark because of health risks. Energy drinks have been popping up all over supermarket and convenience store shelves in recent years, and have overtaken bottled water as the fastest-growing category in the beverage business.

No less than 3.5 billion cans of Red Bull were sold last year in 143 countries. Yet questions regarding the safety of Red Bull, as well as other energy drinks, keep cropping up at regular intervals.

Science Daily Reports that:

A ten-year study showed that girls who drank soda at age five had diets that were less likely to meet nutritional standards for the duration of the study, which ended at age 15.  Girls who did not drink soda at age five did not meet certain nutritional requirements, but their diets were healthier. 
Read the full report here.