If the thought of going on a diet gives you shudders, then it's time for a change of plan. Essentially, you need to change your approach to dieting. Dieting is never easy, just try these tricks to make it easier.

. Avoid overeating late at night. they say that late night foods are harder to digest, whether that's true or not, experts say that eating earlier in the day prevents you from getting too hungry losing control and overeating in the evening.

. Eating is a good pastime for a lot of people when bored. To get out of the habit, make a list of 10 non-food related activities to do instead of eating when you are bored, tired or anxious. Good choices include; going for a walk, writing a letter; knitting, sorting out your holiday snaps or phoning a friend.

. Every morning visualize the slimmer, trimmer, new you. It will help you start the day with positive intent and carry on the good work.

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. Drink a glass of fruit juice or eat a piece of fruit half an hour before meals. the sugar in the fruit will satisfy your calorie cravings and you will end up eating less.

. Learn to differentiate between real hunger and the hunger induced by stress, loneliness and fatigue. the se are amongst the common hunger triggers so before you reach out for the chocolate, work out if a nap, chat or a good cry are what you really need. It it is hunger go for raw vegetables rather than high-fat comfort foods.

. You know you are not hungry but that craving is about to get the better of you. try brushing your teeth instead. It can work wonders.

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. Try a turtleneck: They make your torso seem longer and your spine straighter. Wide necklines can emphasize slouch.

. Say no to shape-less clothes: Baggy T-shirts, boxy jackets and over large shirts can only drag you down. Instead go in for tailored jackets. Remember, best style follow the contours of your body, cutting in at your waist instead of dropping straight to the hips, and have a bit of padding in the shoulder

. Last but not the least, stand straight and don't over-accessorize.

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Are you ready to lose some weight? Perhaps you?re surfing for the magic pill that will vanish your weight away. Maybe you?re simply searching for the right information to help you lose and keep the weight off. Whatever the case, here?s some surefire tips to help you with your weight loss.

1. Do your homework. As you start your weight loss plan, take the time to carefully evaluate your situation. What caused the weight gain? Pregnancy? Inactivity? Overeating and binging? Emotions? There are many triggers in our lives that will cause us to gain weight. Some can be prevented or eliminated, some can?t. It?s important as you begin your weight loss to understand and come to grips with the cause of your weight. Be honest with yourself. Don?t cheat on this one. Obviously, you want to have your weight loss become permanent.

In order to keep off the weight in the future, you may have to make some lifestyle changes to stay slim. Don?t give up before you start. There?s usually more than one solution to any weight gain reason. Just remain open-minded, and be willing to change to get the results you desire. Don?t hesitate to read and learn as much as you can about weight gain. It?s really easy to understand, and you may be surprised at what you learn.

2. Avoid Hidden Calories. Here?s an over simplified version of weight loss and weight maintenance? if you eat more than your body needs, you gain weight. If you eat less (reduce calories) than your body needs, you lose weight! While it sounds simple enough, just eat less ?.Right? Basically that?s true. Yet, there are other things that come into play as one is trying to lose weight. One common mistake many people make as they diet is the fact they don?t really understand how much is provided by the food they are eating. This is especially true with eating out and eating snack foods and beverages.

A serving as defined by the scientific communities on weight loss and a serving that your local restaurant provides is most often very different. For example, one serving of bread is typically one slice. Yet, the average bun in a fast food restaurant is actually almost three servings. A single serving of French fries is 15 fries. Just take a guess at how many servings are in a ?Biggie? French fry container.

Also, don?t be fooled into thinking just because a bag of popcorn is small, that it?s a single serving. The same thing goes for beverages. The bottle may contain16 oz. Yet, the serving size may be 4 ounces. Pay attention to actually how many servings of food and beverages you are actually consuming. The amount may surprise you.

I?ll give you an example, my son-in-law who?s 28 was had put on several pounds. His favorite cola is Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew has higher sugar content than most other cola?s. He didn?t have a clue as to how may calories he was consuming by drinking 3 or 4 24 oz bottles a day. When my daughter told him, he was amazed. He replaced the cola with water and went from a 38? waist to a 34? waist in about two months. Be careful, you may be consuming more than you think.

3. Consider Diet Pills Carefully. Maybe one of your diet buddies has decided to buy diet pills, or maybe you've seen or heard a commercial for diet supplements promising easy fast weight loss. If so, please evaluate CAREFULLY! Even the most natural-sounding diet pills or weight loss supplements can be useless for weight loss, or dangerous, or both. Diet pills are very tempting things if you want to lose weight, especially if you have tried several conventional weight loss plans without success. The side effects and dangers of some diet and weight loss pills can vary enormously because many of these pills contain a cocktail of ingredients and because dosage instructions may be inadequate. Possible side effects include: nervousness, tremor, diarrhea, bulging eyes, racing heartbeat, elevated blood pressure even heart failure.

There are some instances when diet pills can be helpful. Usually these are indicated in the truly obese person. For the person wanting to lose 5 or 10 pounds, they usually aren?t necessary. So you may ask, how does the diet pills work to cause weight loss, while I continue to eat the same amount? In recent years, it seems everyone has the PERFECT answer to help with your weight loss. There are almost as many weight loss methods and diet pills available as there are people who want to lose weight.

There are diet pills that stop your hunger so you eat less and burn more fat. There are diet pills that cause the body not to metabolize all the food you eat, so it?s passed out of your system and not stored as fat. There?s combination of these two. As you begin your search for the perfect diet pill, be careful as some can have harmful effects on your body. Diet Pills work by shifting levels of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that control satiety (fullness) and desire for food. Some also slightly increase your metabolic rate - the rate at which your body burns calories.

Examples of weight loss diet pills include:
Diethylpropion hydrochloride (eg. Tenuate)
Mazindol (eg. Mazanor, Sanorex)
Phendimetrazine tartrate (eg. Bontril)
Phentermine hydrochloride (eg. Adipex-P, Ionamin)

4. Monitor/Increase Your Activity - Regardless whether you?re taking diet pills or not to help with your weight loss, it?s still important to maintain a regular exercise program. This is beneficial not only for your weight loss, but also for your overall health. In many ways we in the developed country have a much more sedentary lifestyle than our bodies need. Obviously it?s easier for us than in the era when people had to be very active simply to survive, yet it?s not necessarily healthy for us not to be active. Start and maintain some sort of exercise plan no matter what your age. Especially for the middle-aged and older people exercise play a very, very important role in the quality of health and staying within normal weight ranges.

5. Develop a Plan for Maintenance. Even if you?re taking diet pills to help with your weight loss it?s important to keep in mind, that once you stop the pills, unless you maintain a balance between your activity level and the food you eat the weight will come back. While it may take some time to become accustomed to a change in diet and activity, the rewards are well worth the time and effort spent to reach and maintain a healthy weight.

Hilda Maria is a freelance writer with 5 children who knows the importance of a balanced diet for them. She enjoys providing useful knowledge about weight loss and regular exercise to her readers as well as to her children.

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You may think it's strange to find a How-To article focusing on five easy steps for adding fat to your body. You might say that we already know how to do that: two thirds of the people in the United States are overweight, and one third are considered clinically obese. Obviously we've mastered this topic.

But I challenge that. I think even though we do tend to be overweight and obese as a nation, very few people are aware of how they actually got there. There's not a great deal of awareness of the steps it takes to actually add excess body fat. In other words, we're living with the effects of the obesity plan every single day in our own lives and in our society, and yet we're not really cognizant of the causes. This article is designed to help make you aware of the causes by presenting the topic of weight loss to you in a unique way.

Suppose a billionaire appeared at your doorstep and offered you $10 million if you could add 100 pounds of body fat in less than one year. How could you actually do it in 12 months or less?

Step one to adding body fat: Slow your metabolism. The very first thing you've got to do is slow your metabolism; by slowing your metabolism, you'll burn fewer calories when you're at rest and thus, even if you don't increase the amount of food you intake, you'll automatically add weight and store body fat. The easiest way to slow your metabolism is to stop all forms of exercise. Avoid walking. Spend a lot of time in front of the television. Take elevators instead of the stairs. And certainly don't sign up for any physical activities or spend much time outdoors.

Some of the best strategies for lowering your metabolism include getting a desk job, finding parking spaces as close as possible to the stores where you shop, so you don't spend much time walking across the parking lot, and of course purchasing one of those electric chairs or scooters so that you can get around town without having to walk at all.

Avoiding physical exercise has a second effect: it also causes your body to break down the existing muscle mass that you have today. And by breaking down muscle mass, your metabolism will be slowed even further. This will accelerate your weight gain efforts and allow you to pack on the pounds almost automatically.

Remember that when you don't use your muscles, your body gets rid of them. That's because your body adapts to the level and intensity of physical exercise you choose to pursue. The quickest way to get rid of the muscles that you don't want is to simply stop using them, and your body will take care of the rest.

Step two: Drink lots of carbonated soft drinks. Avoiding physical exercise is only the first step to gaining weight and achieving your goal of packing on extra pounds in 12 months or less. But it won't get you there all by itself ? you've got to assist that effort by altering your diet.

One of the very first things you should do is get yourself addicted to caffeinated soft drinks. You can start by purchasing a 12-pack of any soft drink beverage in grocery stores and consuming it at every possible opportunity, including breakfast. This is an absolutely wonderful way to pack on the pounds, because soft drinks are made with high-fructose corn syrup. When this ingredient is consumed, it spikes the blood sugar in your body. This sends an emergency signal to your pancreas, which produces increased levels of insulin in order to keep the blood sugar levels from going too high. This insulin signal is picked up by the cells in your body, which then remove blood sugar from your bloodstream and, through a somewhat complex biological process involving the liver, manage to store that blood sugar as body fat.

If you drink enough soft drinks with enough frequency, you will be well on your way to achieving your goal of gaining 100 lbs. in 12 months or less.

Step three: Choose high caloric density foods. While you're at it, be sure to purchase foods with very high caloric density. You see, raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables will fill you up before you get very many calories in your meal. For example, it's very difficult to eat 1,000 calories worth of apples at one sitting. Your stomach will simply fill up before you reach 1,000 calories and you won't feel like eating any more. But if you choose processed foods with ingredients such as white flour, hydrogenated oils or saturated fats, you can pack in a couple of thousand calories in one sitting without topping off your stomach. This is hugely important for achieving your weight gain goals.

Fortunately there are a great number of foods available at every grocery store in America that can help you accomplish this. It's very easy to buy them, as most are quite affordable. All you have to do is look for brand-name foods packaged in beautiful boxes with delicious-looking pictures of foods on the front.

If you read the ingredients label, you'll find these foods are made with ingredients like hydrogenated oils, white flour, sugar and other ingredients that have a very high caloric density. It is important that you eat these foods at every meal. You want to make sure your diet consists of things like cheese, fried foods and lots of white bread. As you probably guessed, pizza is an outstanding choice because it not only has a high caloric density from the cheese and whatever meats are on the pizza, but it also has the high glycemic index that accompanies the white flour crust. In a similar way, it's also a good idea to eat lots of sugary breakfast cereals with high-fat cow's milk. This will give you saturated fat from the cows' milk and the high sugar content of the breakfast cereals, thereby adding fat to your body through two different biological mechanisms: fat and refined carbohydrates.

Step four: Load up on junk foods. Junk foods are, of course, another outstanding choice for achieving your goals. A bag of potato chips provides an impressive quantity of dietary fats as well as refined carbohydrates ? and various nacho chips and other snack foods operate in much the same way.

You can also accelerate your weight gain goals by turning to fried foods. Fried foods have very high caloric density and the batter in which these foods are fried is normally made with white flour, so you also get the high glycemic index effects from the carbohydrates in the batter as well as the absurdly high caloric density of the fried fats.

Step five: Visit fast food restaurants frequently. If you had to name an ideal source for the combination of food ingredients that would rapidly accelerate your quest for obesity, you'd have to put fast food restaurants at the top of that list. The more popular the fast food chain, the faster their food packs on the body fat, it seems.

If you were to eat in fast food restaurants at least once a day, you would easily be able to meet your weight gain goal within one year and cash that $10 million check. Be sure to order the largest quantities of soft drinks, fries and hamburgers, because it's quantity that counts here. Aided by menu items from fast food chains, you can pack in as much as 2,000 calories in a single meal! This is going to rapidly accelerate your weight gain efforts, because the average adult human being needs only 2,000 calories per day.

If you can consume 2,000 calories at each meal while eating three meals a day, you can pack on an extra 4,000 calories a day! It takes about 3,000 calories to make one pound of excess body fat, so by eating 6,000 calories a day, you can achieve slightly more than one pound of body fat each day. This means in one week alone you can pack on 7 or 8 pounds of body fat, which would put you well on your way to achieving your weight gain goal. In fact, using this approach, you would probably be able to achieve your goal in 90 days or less.

The high price of weight gain success. Of course, by the time you actually win this $10 million, you will have suffered the devastating health effects of consuming these processed foods, junk foods, fast foods and disease-promoting food ingredients. Yes, you will be $10,000,000 richer, but if you don't reverse everything you've done over the last 90 days, you will soon learn that you can't take it with you. In other words, your life will be shortened if you don't put an end to this weight gain effort and get back to a normal body weight.

Fortunately, reversing your achievement is fairly straightforward. Simply do the opposite of everything that you've followed so far. In other words, start exercising, and increase your lean body mass by engaging in strength training. Spend time walking, swimming or cycling. Find ways to move your body at work, even if you have a desk job. Avoid all processed foods and foods made with high-fructose corn syrup, white flour, refined white sugar and other refined carbohydrates. Remove soft drinks from your diet, avoid all fried foods, snack foods, junk foods and any foods made by food-manufacturing corporations whose packaged foods line the shelves of America's grocery stores.

Once you do all that, your liver function will begin to improve quite rapidly; the hardening of your arteries that was taking place as your pursued your weight gain diet will begin to reverse; your cardiovascular health will improve dramatically; your brain function will even improve. Your pulse will slow, and your body fat will slowly begin to melt off. Your level of energy and vitality will gradually rise.

You will find it easier to sleep at night and get up in the morning. You won't get sick as often, and you'll find that your immune system begins to function the way it's supposed to in a healthy human being. In fact, every function of your body will steadily improve as you shift to a healthy, nutritious diet that avoids processed foods and all of those lifestyle choices you pursued to gain weight in the first place.

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It's amazing how one little innocent glass of Chardonnay or Shiraz can do so much damage to your waistline but it can if you don't take care. A small 125ml glass of wine contains around 100 calories - the equivalent of over 10 pounds of pure body fat being added to your body if you have one every day for a year.

Wine won't fill you up and it may even increase your appetite and lower your inhibitions so that you end up eating more than is good for you. Many people find that after a glass or two all caution goes to the wind.

If you do like a glass of wine with dinner then you need to make sure that you only have one and that you eat less or (preferably) exercise more to make up for those extra calories. When you find out you have to jog for an extra 12 -15 minutes a day to make up for each glass you might think twice.

As a compromise you may like to

• have half a glass to enjoy the taste without all the calories
• turn your wine into a spritzer to reduce the overall calories
• save your wine drinking for weekends or special occasions

This is a time to use a quality not quantity principle. Why not treat yourself to better quality wines and sip your glass slowly to get the full enjoyment?

And if you have friends round to share the bottle, remember champagne is no more calories than other wines, yet it's hard to feel that you're deprived and on a diet when you have a glass.

Copyright 2005, Janice Elizabeth Small

Janice Elizabeth is a weight loss coach, slimming club owner and author of The Diet Exit Plan, an 8 week coaching program for automatic permanent weight loss. Request her FREE 15 page report How to lose weight without dieting - 7 secrets the diet industry doesn't want you to know at http://www.SimplySlimming.com TODAY!

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Let me say, Hoodia Works, if it is not working for you there are some things that you can do to boast things along.

First, make sure that you are taking enough of the product. The product must be the real stuff. Don?t take the extracts. Take the whole plant. Experiment with the times of day that you are taking hoodia. Once the right amounts at the right times are going into you system, the appetite will calm.

Second, really watch the types of food you are eating and the times of day they are being eaten. Several small meals daily works best. Eat protein at every meal, such as lean turkey or chicken, fish, no fat cottage cheese and whey protein. Whey protein sweetened with stevia is best. Stevia is all natural and has no calories. I do not recommend soy protein. It can suppress the thyroid gland, which is the most important gland to maintain proper weight. Whey protein is 100 percent bioavailable to the body where soy protein is only 72 percent.

When eating carbohydrates make sure they are complex and low glycemic, such as brown rice, sweet potatoes, green vegetables and apples. You need carbohydrates, but not necessarily at every meal. When eating baked potatoes, the skin must be eaten as well to keep it in the low glycemic range.

Third, do not cut all fat out of your diet or your weight loss will come to screeching halt, as well as your over all health. Dropping dietary fat below 20 percent is not recommended.

Fourth, drink at least 8 glasses of pure water daily to flush toxins and distribute nutrients to cells. Alkaline water is best for weight loss.

Fifth, regular exercise is a no must if weight loss is to be maximized. Both weight training and cardio are needed.

Sixth, eat at least 35 grams of raw dietary fiber daily. Fiber is important to over all health and speeds up weight loss. Also eat a hand full of raw seeds or nuts daily. Both are high in good fats, but also high in calories, so do not over do it.

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Fat gain may not be a reason of depression for many. But sometimes there arises such problems which make you say ?God this is due to fat!? Due to fat gain you will find that your normal life is at stake and if you go on ignoring your increasing body weight, you are sure to become a base for various diseases and problems. Apart form various problems; one of the most significant problems that a fatty person confronts is that of sexual problems. This is one of the most serious problems in one?s life. Accumulation of excess fats in body makes the body lazy and due to which a person tends to tire out soon. This makes him or her ignore their partner?s sexual urges and gradually a relation seems to go astray.

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This drug Phentermine targets our hypothalamus gland present in our brain. Due to which, certain neurotransmitters get affected and gradually suppress our appetite. At the same time it manages our body metabolisms too. It is really very effective and one feels the difference within a period of 10-12 weeks. Approved by FDA way back in 1959, it is now readily available in the market.

Side effects like dizziness, dry mouth and constipation may visit your health initially but slowly and steadily as our body gets used to Phentermine, these problems fades. However it is wise to consult your doctor. Phentermine really works in a significant way and can help you a lot in bringing close to your partner and family as well.

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Safe weight loss is the safest and most effective approach and in order to acquire it naturally, perhaps the two most important factors are dieting and exercise.

Although dieting may be only half the program when it comes to a safe weight loss regimen, the kind of diet is what would make the whole process successful. Where can you find it? Right there in the produce aisle.

Now friends before we go further, let?s go over what a safe weight loss is. It?s about maintaining health while losing weight, it is not about losing weight rapidly; this has never worked and never will.

To acquire a loss of weight that will be effective and at the same time healthy for the body, as mentioned earlier, besides exercise, you need to choose the right substances for food. The very best choices are quite simply our fruits and vegetables.

There is a saying that is known to every culture which goes:? you are what you eat...? What you eat plays arguably the most important role on your overall health and fitness, thus PROPER DIET should be the most important factor of any and every health seeker.

It is well known that fruits and vegetables alone are the substances that possess the abilities to not only provide the necessary fuel needed for day to day activities, but play important and vital roles in

1. Providing the alkaline reserves in the body for balancing chemical metabolism within.

2. Cleansing the digestive and excretory tract as they act as the much needed intestinal broom to sweep these 'pipes' clean to function properly in their duties of nourishing and cleansing the body.

3. Keeping the body fit, trim and in shape WITHOUT the unwanted side effects of toxic and artificial substances such as pills and supplements.

Moreover, is it a co-incidence that these are the very foods divinely ordained as being the food for humans? Today science has verified the accuracy of the Biblical accounts of the dietetic habits of the first men on earth as recorded in Genesis 1:29: ?Every herb bearing seed?and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.?

No one is saying that diet alone will bring about desired results in regards to weight loss. However, it goes without saying that if one subsists on fruits and vegetables, when properly consumed, it will greatly augment whatever exercise one could and should be doing to lose weight.

As a matter of fact, I can go as far as to say you certainly can?t gain weight on fruit. Being proactive cleansers, by nature they would be more of detoxifiers first rather than body-builders for a while when one consumes fruits in large, yet reasonable quantities.

This explains why people lose a lot of weight on going on an all raw-diet. (No one is saying you must go that far, however, it should be food for thought.)

Nonetheless, if a safe weight loss is your goal, it goes without saying that you want to linger more in the produce section than in the snacks aisle or the candy section at the cash-registers. So instead of reaching for some junk food, grab an apple instead.

Our friend in the mirror will be glad you did.

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