Saturday, November 1, 2008
Best way to avoid saggy skin during a weight loss regiment
The Vitamins that directly affect skin health are...
http://www.vitaminlab.com/category.cfm?s...
Making sure you are taking these daily along with lots of water for hydration is VITAL to help your skin repair itself.
If you can stand to do it, you should replace EVERY FLUID in your diet with water--but make sure you don't drink too much. You need to keep your skin hydrated, but you can make yourself sick if you drink TOO much.
http://www.ultracycling.com/nutrition/dr...
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Reduce weight in natural way
An Ayurveda recommended diet for weight loss
- Early Morning Glass of warm water with half a lemon and a teaspoon of honey.
- Breakfast Wheat or Mung bean sprouts accompanied by a cup of skimmed milk.
- Mid morning A glass of pineapple, orange or carrot juice.
- Lunch Steamed / boiled vegetables or a raw salad containing such ingredients as
- carrots, tomatoes, cabbage and cucumber. Otherwise you can opt for whole grain bread or chapattis together with a glass of buttermilk. This diet herbal solution gives you the opportunity to even have another choice available for your lunch; roasted cumin seeds together with coriander leaves, a pinch of salt and grated ginger mixed in buttermilk.
- Mid-afternoon Coconut water, dry fruits, lemon tea, fresh vegetable soup.
- Dinner Whole grain bread or chapattis, steamed vegetables, seasonal fruit excluding banana and apples.
Tips to reduce Obesity
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Determine with the help of your physician how much weight has to be reduced.
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Set several short term realistic goals .
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Reward yourself each time you make progress (Not food items).( Like I will buy a new sandals if I reduce this much pounds or Kgs)
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Even small weight losses have shown to be beneficial.
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Make gradual changes in eating habits. (The human body reacts negatively when calories are reduced by slowing basal metabolic rate. This makes weight loss harder.)
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You will lose weight when you burn more calories than you consume. Hence eating less and being more active help in losing weight.
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Sound eating habits keep you out of putting on weight.
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Stay motivated to lose weight.
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Slow weight loss is the safest and most effective. ( one to one and half pound per week).
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Gradual weight loss, promote long term loss of body fat.