By Isabell Kratz
Carol, aged 52, needs to lose ten kilograms (22 pounds). She eats a lot of salads, lean meat and fish, but no bread, pasta or potatoes. She lost two kilograms in the first week of her diet, but three weeks later, her weight just won’t move any more. Although she feels hungry, tired and irritable most of the time, she doesn’t want to give up and return to her former eating pattern, which means no proper meals, but a lot of sugary snacks throughout the day.Carol feels guilty about eating sugar, but unfortunately she believes she has to cut all carbohydrates out of her diet. She believes high-protein diets are the only way to lose weight. Carol is right to worry about eating too much sugar, but she is wrong to condemn carbohydrates altogether.

Your metabolism can turn food into energy or store it as fat. It depends on the constant interaction of numerous substances in your body. Some of these active substances are hormones, and insulin is one of them.

Insulin enables the body to absorb energy from carbohydrates (starch and sugar). Glucose delivers energy, and it comes from carbohydrates. To utilize glucose, the body requires insulin, which is produced by the pancreas. Insulin allows glucose to enter body cells, where it is burnt for energy. Some of the glucose is stored in the liver for later use.

As your blood sugar rises after a meal, it triggers the release of insulin. Refined sugar enters the bloodstream almost immediately, followed by a quick rise in insulin. After an initial high, you might feel tired, dizzy, light-headed, unable to concentrate, and hungry. This condition is called hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar).

A slim person can tolerate the occasional sugary snack without any ill-effects, but overweight people need to be more cautious with refined sugar. The more overweight we are, the more harmful sugar is for us. We eat sugar, feel hungry soon afterwards, and want to eat more sugar. It’s a vicious circle.

Slow carbohydrates (like bread, rice, pasta and potatoes) act differently. They have to be broken down into simple components, which is why they are also called complex carbohydrates. The body takes a long time to absorb them and uses a lot of energy in the process. As a result, energy is released slowly and steadily into the bloodstream.

Complex carbs give you a constant supply of energy, and insulin production remains constant. This ensures an adequate blood sugar level, making you feel good. Complex carbs raise your blood sugar gradually, promoting the slow release of insulin. When we are healthy, insulin acts as a blood sugar regulator. Big fluctuations don’t occur. When most of our calories come from complex carbohydrates, we convert them into energy instead of storing them as fat.

Most of the foods rich in complex carbs are also rich in fiber, which is an advantage. Fiber slows the absorption of carbohydrates even further. A high fiber intake will make carbs an even more efficient fuel. The higher in fiber, the better carbohydrate foods are for you. Some “good” carbs are wholemeal breads, cereals (such as oats and barley), wholemal pasta, brown rice, pumpkin, potatoes, sweet potatoes, bananas and legumes (peas, beans and lentils).

With a diet rich in complex carbs, you can “trick” your body into losing weight, and you will feel terrific at the same time!

Strategies

- Avoid refined sugar;

- Eat foods rich in complex carbohydrates;

- Eat unrefined, wholegrain products;

- Eat plenty of fiber.

by Isabell Kratz

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By Zaza Lim
In many females after the age of 30, the cellulite problem appears. The reasons for appearing cellulite in their body may be many, like lack of exercise in their daily routine, strain and taking too much tension, age factor or alcohol and drug addiction. However it is very difficult to find the genuine causes of cellulite.

Let me throw some light on relationship between cellulite and your daily diet. This information would be especially helpful for those innocent people who blindly start to spend huge amounts of money on their diets with an aim to reduce cellulite without having any idea that whether their diet plan will give them positive results or not.

The water treatment is generally considered as a cure for this problem. However, just taking the plenty of water will not remove the cellulite. It will improve your condition by removing some toxins from your body. It is recommended to include good amount of natural and organic foods in your diet. You should also stop smoking and drinking. Stress and tension are also the main reasons which disturb your diet habits and digestion which increases the cellulite problem. So, try to be relaxed and take proper diet.

For those who are suffering from cellulite, it is always good to take healthy foods plus adding juices to their diet. Proper diet contains many vitamins and antioxidant substances which will remove the toxins from your body and will increase the strength of your body tissues. This will help in reducing the cellulite.

However, it does not guarantee you that using all this will erase cellulite from your affected areas like hips and thighs. But this type of diet would help in improving your blood circulation as well as providing nutritional health to your body. It means that proper diet may be helpful in cellulite but it cannot eliminate the cellulite.

If anyone is working on a cellulite reduction plan then he should consider the fact that diet is not essential for it. Though it would help him in his attempt to erase his cellulite but this will not give him the desiring results if no other treatment is used. Other treatments may include proper and regular exercise and avoiding alcohol etc. Taking regular exercise would surely remove toxins from your body. When you take exercise, your body releases sweat and it helps in removing good amount of toxins from the body. So it results in reducing cellulite and your skin becomes smooth.

If you are really serious about removing cellulite from your body, you should follow a strict plan to see the results. You are advised to take some professional help in order to make your diet plan. There are various physicians who offer their services, so you can consult them and they would guide you properly. They would tell you the reality of those fake companies who manufacture anti cellulite diets and claim to remove it completely.

Zaza Lim is a cellulite expert and has been advising readers on the right cellulite reduction treatment. Visit his website at http://www.bodycellulite.com for more cellulite tips.

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By Amy Hopper
Ask women and they’ll tell you that perhaps the most difficult of them all is to lose weight in the thigh and the hips area! It is an agony for women especially because of their genetic tendency to store more fat in these areas. This can lead to many psychological disturbances in them. But trust me, in order to lose thigh and hips weight you need to lose the overall body weight. Focusing too much on only one thing won’t lead you anywhere at all. These areas have to be worked upon a lot and overnight results don’t happen. You can adopt any cardio exercise like jogging, running, jump rope, climbing, jumping, cycling; kick boxing - anything which will increase your heart rate safely. These exercises have known to be very helpful in losing thigh and hips weight. Other than that try the following things;

1. Use the stepper as its focus is on gluteal muscle group which is perhaps the most stubborn of all muscles to burn.

2. You can take the help of weight trainers especially if you have already toned thighs. When muscle in your thighs is increased your body can take the pressure of extra exercise. So you can definitely burn more calories.

3. Stop eating those carbohydrates in the form of potato, rice, grains, pasta. Instead try to inculcate some brown carbs in your diet like sweet potatoes, whole grain bread not to mention a special focus on your protein diet that is chicken, egg whites, cottage cheese, protein shakes etc. Just try to eat as healthier as you can to lose weight on your thighs and hips.

Women complaint that as they grow older they tend to get heavier on their thighs and hips. Well that is just natural, what is happening is that you are just not accepting the fact that the easy going days of youth are far from over when all you had to lose weight was literally to eat more! Just accept it, and then work on it. Don’t expect that you will get your body back as it was when you were eighteen but it will definitely be more respectable. If you have a severe problem, consult your doctor though.

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