Lose Fat – Keeping a Food Diary
Dear Diary
When you’re trying to lose weight, one of the smartest and easiest steps you can take is to keep a food diary. A food diary is just like what it sounds—a notebook in which you record your daily food intake. You can track of a number of things in your food diary or you can keep it simple, but in either case, this is a great way in which to help yourself stick to a weight loss plan.
There are a number of pieces of information you can record in your food diary. First, consider just listing your daily menu. This will help you actually see what you eat on any given day and notice patterns of unhealthy eating that you never considered before. Some like to also record calories, protein, fiber, fat, and other nutrients. Portion size may be recorded as well. If you truly want to use diary format, you can also list the reasons you’re eating other than hunger, the cravings you experience, and your feelings about your diet on any given day. It’s your diary, so do what is right for you.
When you start a food diary, keep in mind that you don’t have to keep a traditional journal by the bed with a lock and key. You can use whatever kind of recording and writing tools you like best. For some people, the traditional journal or just a plain notebook works fine. You can also keep a food diary on your computer. Simply open up a word processing program and keep the icon on your desktop. Others like to use Excel or other data entry programs, which help quiet a lot when it comes to adding totals at the end of the day. You can keep your food diary on a laptop or palm pilot, or slip a notebook into your bag during the day—whatever works best for your lifestyle.
Remember to update your food diary every day and review it at the end of each week in order to track your progress. You may wish to note in your diary when you hit certain weight loss goals or when you gain weight in order to look for causes. You can show your diary to professionals to make sure that you are staying healthy as well. Food diaries work great for many people, so you should consider starting one today in order to lose the most weight possible.
To Your Health
Diet~Activity~Rest~Exercise(DARe) to live life
How To Lose Fat – Does caffeine increase weight loss?
There are so many professionals and gurus that say it does and others that say it does not. There are no real clinical trials with this, but there are studies that indicate that caffeine can help in your weight loss efforts. This is how it can work and how you can use it.
First lets look at Caffeine. Caffeine is a stimulate found in plants and fruits around the world. The most common place for caffeine to be is in your coffee and teas. It moderation it is suppose to acts as a stimulate and diuretic. Wiki link to Definition
Now the top 3 things:
1. Water Loss. As mentioned above caffeine acts as a diruaetic. Draining the bottle of water. This can be good and this can be bad. If you carry exseive water weight then this can help you get rid of the water. If you are low in your water this can be harmful. The body needs water to maintain a healthy balance.
2. Acts as a stimulate. Caffeine will stimulate your system kind of like a kick start. It will raise your blood pressure and speed up your heart. In moderation this is OK. This is where you may see a little fat burning benefit.
3. Appetite suppression. Caffeine can suppression your appetite leading you to eat less and then maybe dropping a few pounds.
Again, the studies on caffeine are not vast. Some people use it and others do not and they both see the same results. I personally use if to wake up and get my self moving the the AM. The caution here is it is a stimulate and everyone reacts to them differently. If you are using caffeine increasing it will not make it more affective. You will just need more and in the long run put your body into a tail spin or restless sleep. Remember sleep is very important aspect of you weight loss goals.
Another point here is that a lot of drinks that have caffeine also have fats and sugars. If you are going to use caffeine as a diet supplement and you have not had caffeine before you should always check with your doctor first, and second, take it in small amounts at first. This is a stimulate and it can make you nevous and keep you up at night. The best time to use it is right before a work out to give you a little kick start.
Although I do not promote many supplements caffeine is one that if used properly can help. It is not a magic pill but if you have a hard time getting moving a black cup of coffee may help out.
To Your Health
Diet~Activity~Rest~Exercise(DARe) to live life
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