Slimming Down - Fast!

I’m willing to bet that most of you walk around with 2 huge misconceptions – er. Misconceptions that can make a big difference to your understanding of how weight loss works!

Why am I willing to make this bet? Because even though I studied the topic at Uni I too thought the same. Before I tell you the first one, here’s what I want you to do.

When I tell you the first big misconception I want you imagine me giving you £5 if I am right. Similarly, I want you to imagine receiving £10 from me if I am right. What is my claim? My claim is that I’m betting that you thought that “All Calories Are the Same” or put another way “calories are calories are calories”.

That is my claim but it is not true Not All Calories Are the Same!

To be fair I could have framed this better and asked you “Do you think that your body responds in the same way to all calories?” It is another way of asking you if you consider all calories to be the same. But now that you’ve thought of it for more than a second, I’m certain you can see that if you ate 100 calories of say potato mash (carbs) or 100 calories of prime Angus Steak (protein) or 100 calories of ice-cream that your body would deal each of them differently.

Naturally, things become more complex with real meals when you combine carbs, fats and protein together. What matters in real life is the ratio between the three types of calories, (the portion size of each kind), when you eat your meals, the efficiency of your digestive system, the extent to which you chew your food and how your body allocates those calories towards fat loss and muscle gain.

So what’s my point? For slimming down, losing weight or gaining weight it’s useful to understand some of the common misconceptions (in this case that all calories are the same) and how if not properly understood, they can lead you to sabotage your own goals.

To your greater weight loss

Dominic

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Have you ever wondered why there are 45,000 products in our supermarkets and  only a handful of these products don’t cause you to get fat?

I’m writing this post around the Christmas holiday time and no doubt many of you will resolve to get fitter in the coming year. It seems appropriate 
therefore, that I should give a few simple rules for really losing weight - starting right now – that will not involve making unrealistic and unnecessary sacrifices.

Stop being hostage to the food creators that are thinking more about themselves than about you. Take control yourself with these 7 guidelines to reduce your body fat naturally and relatively quickly. 

7 Easy Guidelines

1. Avoid Unnecessary Carbs. You do not need carbohydrates all the time so avoid most of them (bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, sugar (glucose, fructose, honey, jam)) and eat fruits only one day at weekends - instead of everyday – you don’t need the fructose (fruit sugar) on a daily basis unless you are really active. If you can’t do without fruit eat only strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries – these you can eat any day.

Of course, you don’t avoid want to avoid carbs forever. They provide ready energy. However, you use them to control your weight like a lever when you’re close to your ideal weight.

2. Eat Regularly - Don't leave more than 3 hours before you eat again if you can! Imagine your metabolism as a fire in a fireplace. To keep a normal fire burning you would stoke it with wood to keep it burning all day. Do the same with your body making sure that you eat small amounts - handfuls regularly - so that the fire never completely dies out. By small amounts I mean a handful of say Brazil nuts, or two spoons of peanut butter – try to consume about 170-200 calories each time.

3. Don't Drink Calories. Avoid high calorie drinks and fruit juices – (NB: Water has 0 calories!) - Why drink calories then go to the gym to burn them off!

4. Snacks - Snack on pure protein foods (salmon, bacon, eggs, ham, fish, legumes, peanut  butter, lentils  and nuts) often and drink plenty of water throughout the day.  Bear in mind that there are so many millions of protein options available to you that you don’t need to eat unnecessary carbs.

5. Cause Some Confusion - Switch your meals around. Have your dinner at lunch and have your lunch meal in the evening or your lunch meal in the morning and your breakfast meal in the evenings – This keeps your body guessing.

6. Remove Temptation - If you live alone remove the carbs from around you and replace them  with tins of tuna, salmon, crab and other fish. NB: This may be difficult for many because sugar and starch (especially sugar) is addictive – but starch is just a pointless filler for weight loss – in many cases.

7. Mix it up - Treat yourself 1 day a week, maybe at the weekends, just to mix things up for your body.

If you are able to follow these rules as well as regular exercise, over the course of a few weeks, (even though exercise is not necessary per se) you should begin to see a reduction in fat. The best part is that you probably won’t need to diet as such.

From this point forward, you should also be able to discern which of the 45,000 supermarket products to safely ignore.

To your greater health

Dominic

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Welcome to my first ever blog post.

You’ve probably guessed that my interest is about Health, Fitness, Nutrition and Well-being. That’s what this new blog is about.

For quite some time people in western countries have long had their basic needs met. We certainly have adequate warmth, shelter and food, plenty of food - so much food that we throw lots of it away. With our huge resources, until recently, food has become cheap and abundant.  Just think, McDonalds – you can get a Happy Meal for £2.00 or so.

At the same time, a large number of us have grown fatter as our job roles have made less physical demands on us, as we have successfully transitioned to a more service economy where we do less physical work. As a result of being more sedentary, (it’s not the only reason) obesity is fast becoming a big problem and many of us stand to not fulfil our destinies if we continue on as before – in other words, if we don't fix ourselves we’re gonna die prematurely because of our failing organs and over-fat bodies!

During the coming blog posts, I’ll share with you my experiences and encounters with Health, Fitness and Nutrition. That might be in the form of reviews of product that I consider useful or beneficial, it might be of food that I consider to worth of a mention, it might be an exercise program for those of you that might be short of time or it might be of books that I find of value or even of ideas I come across that I disagree with. Anything that I think is likely to help or be of value to you I’ll pass on from wherever I find it so that you don’t have to bother.

Additionally, I'll add information about things I discover that might affect your overall wellbeing - for example, I recently stumbled across some fantastic pillows that have changed my life - I'll mention those in another post.

So in this blog, I’ll do my best to tell you what works and what does not as best I can.

When you get a free moment why not drop me a comment letting me know what you think. Let me know if you agree or disagree with my views and have any views or recommendations of your own. Let me know if there is any information you’d like to see here.

Kindest regards

Dominic