Metabolic Rate

Everyone talks about their metabolic rate being slow and thats why they are fat!!!!!!!

We all know some skinny winny who can eat what they want and still stay skinny. And don't we just hate them and we tell everyone we have SLOW metabolic rate hence I am fat.

Stupid really.

Everyone has a metabolic rate and YOU can change the pace of your metabolic rate so it burns fat all the time.

How do we do this?

Lets see as a fat person I don't like to do much but with some simple little tools I can increase my metabolic rate, get healthier and lose weight.

So here is the Metabolic Rate Increaser Tools:

1. Build Muscles

Muscles use energy even when they are resting. So if you develop some muscle groups on your body you will start to lose weight and increase your metabolic rate. Two step process, exercise by doing some light weight lifting for your arms, go for a walk and increase your leg muscles. By doing this you a) Burn fat b)Increase your muscles.

2.Increase you caffeine intake

Strange one I know but caffeine will increase you metabolic rate by 5-10% for two hours after drinking caffeine based drinks like coffee, tea and Diet Coke. Scientists are not sure why this occurs but they have tested and have seen the results.

3.Cool down

By keeping your house cooler your body will burn energy to keep you warm and the result of this is that your metabolic rate increases. I am NOT saying live in an igloo and get frostbit but turn the thermostats down a few degrees and make your body work a little harder to to keep you warm.

4. Short Walks

By going on a short walk, 15-30 mins long you will increase your metabolic rate again. You see your metabolic rate is like a car and when it is parked it doesnt do much more than idle but when you put it in gear and make it go somewhere it burns up energy and your metabolic rate increases.

So there is 4 tools to add to your warchest on losing weight and stop being a fatty like me. I am using these tools every day.

Tommorrow I will discuss how to avoind slowing down your metabolic rate.

Struggling with weight loss and sugar cravings

So after a few days I am hitting the wall in my fight with my craving monsters. Last night I had 3 pieces of cake, bite sized but I needed them. More like the craving monster won that battle BUT I will win the war.

As I have said before I am not a big sugar junky but I do get the sugar craving monster showing up every so often and last night I didnt have the tool to stop him in his tracks. The tool for fighting and taming the sugar craving monster is

"CHEWING GUM"

Sugar Free chewing gum is a god send for taming the sugar craving monster. I like Mint Gum by Orbit but there are loads of flavours and they are sweet and you can fool your sugar craving monster and your something in your mouth craving monster. It is an immediate explosion of flavour as soon as you put it in your mouth. Eat 1, 2 or 3 pieces at a time to get that fake sugar hit which can confuse your sugar craving monster. As soon as it loses its flavour if you need to spit it out and bang in some fresh chewing gum while you source a healthy filler to take away the hunger you might be having. This is the time to put on a cup of soup, get a piece of quiche out of the fridge or choose some fruit to munch on.

Confusing and faking out your craving monsters is how we beat them and we keep our weight loss and our eating habits on track. Having a pack or two in your pocket as you move around in life is an ideal way of dealing with the sugar craving monster. Once it learns you have a tool nearby that can stop it dead in its tracks you will find the sugar craving monster will retreat from the forefront of your mind and your problems with keeping to the NO SUGAR tool is supported even more.

I have sorted out my lack of chewing gum and I am now better prepared to move forward with my weight loss and eating habits.

So another issue for people trying to lose weight is eating something crunchy, so I have developed a small salad that you can eat with your meats and cheese.
Chinese Salad is my winner for adding something crunchy with my meal. Here is the recipe:

Chinese Salad
Slice up a quarter of a cabbage in to small strips
1.5 tablespoons of mayonaise
1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce

Mix it all in a mixing bowl and pop in the fridge for about an hour.
This salad is two portions of your suggested fruit and vegetable intake per day. The flavour is explosive in your mouth and it is super crunchy which is great when you are eating meats, cheese based meals and quiches. Adds a hell of a lot to a meal.


When you have a what you feel is a failure when trying to lose weight there is another tool you can use:
"Tommorrow is another day" 
This is a key tool you need to keep in your mind. You might go 3 days then fail, so what, start again and you will see you will last 5 days. Slowly but surely you will see that your new eating habits will start to last longer and before you know it you will go months and months without failure. This is the key to weight loss and changing your eating habits.

I failed to maintain after 9 days and I start again today. But my failure was 3 bite sized pieces of cake. Now I am ready to start again and this time I will go longer.

Alcohol is no good for weight loss

Drinking alcohol is a weight loss killer. Its totally empty calories made up of sugar. To truly lose weight alcohol has to be sidelined.

OK so we have put it on the table with dinner and lunch for years, wine/beer, and now it has to be taken off the table and taken off the menu totally. I am fortunate as I don't drink alcohol and have never drank alcohol, why, I simply can't stand the taste.

This is a tough step for a lot of people but this is an essential step in our lifestyle change. The amount of people that struggle with their weight also drink a lot of alcohol. As you can see I am talking about wine/beer because they are the sugar kings of alcohol and the craving monsters LOOOOVVVEE them. Look at all the tv shows that show white trash, trailer park people and in the men there you see a lot of them with big ol' bellies hanging over their belts. Calories from beer/wine go straight to your belly and STAY there and your body has real difficulties shifting that alcohol based fat build up.

I hear people screaming, I love a drink but I am not an excessive drinker! Any intake of wine/beer has got to be minimised at the very least.

Lets look at a popuar beer in the USA - Michelob

Michelob Amber Boch	Anheuser Busch	5.2%	166	15.0g
Michelob Beer	Anheuser Busch	5.0%	155	13.3g
Michelob Golden Draft	Anheuser Busch	4.7%	152	14.1g
Michelob Golden Draft Light	Anheuser Busch	4.1%	110	7.0g
Michelob Honey Lager	Anheuser Busch	4.9%	175	17.9g
Michelob Light	Anheuser Busch	4.3%	113	6.7g
Michelob Ultra	Anheuser Busch	4.1%	95	2.6g

 So this chart shows a 12oz beer - 355ml. Brand-Maker-Alcohol Content- CALORIES - CARBS

This is why BEER has to go from your diet.

Ok what can I drink when I am out socially?

Description

Serving Sizes

kCal

Fat(g)

Calories in Bacardi & Diet Coke	175ml	65	0.0
Calories in Jack Daniels & Diet Coke	175ml	64	0.0
Calories in Southern Comfort & Diet 7Up	175ml	48	0.0

If you need to drink socially you need to look at drinking Spirits as you can see in the chart above spirits will not pile on excessive calories or sugar. All you need to do is mix them with a sugar free mixer like Diet Coke or Diet 7Up.

When you are having a meal forgo the wine and drink water with your meal. I KNOW ITS HARD but of you are fed up being fat these are the steps that re required to alter your lifestyle and defeat the craving monsters which currently control your life and make you eat what you don't need.

Using the tool, DO I NEED TO EAT THIS , you simply adapt this tool slightly and use it as DO I NEED TO DRINK THIS and make yourself stop, consider and proceed in the RIGHT direction turning your back on your craving monsters which in essence are driving you to drink.

Each craving monster has to be cured one at a time, cured is not the right word, the craving monster has to be taught they DO NOT control you - YOU CONTROL THEM!!!

Lets look at todays craving monster, Beer/Wine Monster. He likes you to hang out with your friends or when you watch a ball game on TV suck down a few brewskis just to be sociable. He loves the sugar in beer and it makes him dance like a whirling dervish so when he sees you settle down on the Lazee Boy for a footbal game he is screaming in your brain for a brewski.

So we have to first of all tell him to shut up by drinking so me cold sugar free sodas, followed by a JD and Diet Coke. He will be pleased with the JD but little else. But this is the training programme he is now in, he demands but YOU CONTROL him. If you like the taste of beer imagine he LOVES the taste of the sugar in the beer.

So now we use the tools to defeat this particular cravings monster.

DO I NEED TO DRINK THIS? NO SUGAR-NO BREAD.

He will learn, it will take time but this craving monster can be trained and sent back to the dark recesses of your mind for good.

Did well yesterday, no bread, no sugar and walked 1km.

Using the tools just like you are learning.

Have a great day.

Gastric Band Operation - HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!

Gastric Band Operation.

Lets talk about one of the popular quick weight loss products that everyone is talking about.

What is a Gastric Band Operation?

A laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, commonly referred to as a lap band, is an inflatable silicone device that is placed around the top portion of the stomach, via laparoscopic surgery, in order to treat obesity. Adjustable gastric band surgery is an example of bariatric surgery designed for obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or greater—or between 35–40 in cases of patients with certain comorbidities that are known to improve with weight loss, such as sleep apnea, diabetes, osteoarthritis, GERD, Hypertension (high blood pressure), or metabolic syndrome, among others.

This is NOT what you need. Believe me. Once you have this operation you can only eat small portions of food and the side effects are awful. For the rest of your life you have to take pills because your body will not get sufficient nutrients to sustain itself because of what you are eating and the amounts you will be eating.

Potential complications

A commonly reported occurrence for banded patients is regurgitation of non-acidic swallowed food from the upper pouch, commonly known as Productive Burping (PBing). Productive Burping is not to be considered normal. The patient should consider eating less, eating more slowly and chewing their food more thoroughly. Occasionally, the narrow passage into the larger, lower part of the stomach might also become blocked by a large portion of unchewed or unsuitable food
Other complications include:

• Ulceration
• Gastritis (irritated stomach tissue)
• Erosion -The band may slowly migrate through the stomach wall. This will result in the band moving from the outside of the stomach to the inside. This may occur silently but can cause severe problems. Urgent treatment may be required if there is any internal leak of gastric contents or bleeding.
• Slippage - An unusual occurrence in which the lower part of the stomach may prolapse through the band causing an enlarged upper pouch. In severe instances this can cause an obstruction and require an urgent operation to fix.
• Malposition of the band - This can cause a kink in the stomach, or (rarely) the band may not encircle the stomach at all, giving no restriction to the passage of food.
• Band was not placed on the stomach - (very rare - especially with an experienced bariatric surgeon.) However, in two asymptomatic patients, the band had not enclosed the stomach but only perigastric fat
• Problems with the port and/or the tube connecting port and band - The port can "flip over" so that the membrane can no longer be accessed with a needle from the outside (this often goes hand in hand with a tube kink, and may require repositioning as a minor surgical procedure under local anaesthesia); the port may get disconnected from the tube or the tube may be perforated in the course of a port access attempt (both would result in loss of fill fluid and restriction, and likewise require a minor operation).
• Internal bleeding
• Infection

Here is how you can best the gastric band operation.

You can take in liquids that are high in sugar content and still NOT lose weight. Plenty of peole have had the operation and have lost weight. Great. The problem is the side effects outweigh the benefits ten fold.

Problems with the Gastric Band?

Band- and port-specific

• Band slippage/pouch dilation
• Esophageal dilatation/dysmotility
• Erosion of the band into the gastric lumen
• Mechanical malfunctions - port leakage, cracking of the kink-resistant tubing or disruption of the tubing connection from the port to the band
• Port site pain
• Port displacement
• Infection of the fluid within the band
• Bulging of the port through the skin

You are talking about clamping your stomach off from your mouth. BUT you still have to intake certain amounts of calories and your eating habits are not changed they are destroyed!!!!!

You can no longer eat like a normal person. EVER!!!!! You have to eat miniscule portions of food so you don’t throw up.

Plenty of people have had the Gastric Band fitted lose weight have the Gastric band loosened and put all the weight back on.

I personally know of one webmaster in the UK who lost 140lbs using the Gastric Band. Once he had it loosened he put all the weight back on again.

There is NO quick fix to losing weight. NO QUICK FIX!!!!!!!!!! NO MAGIC POTIONS OR PILLS!!!

Follow on with me and let’s change our eating habits. Lets change our lifestyle. Let’s eat more healthy. Let’s cut sugar from our diets. Let’s not eat bread.

Here is another tool to add to your tool box on losing weight.

Do I need to eat this?

That’s the tool right there. Every time you go to put something in your mouth ask your self that question. EVERY TIME!!!!!

You need to ask yourself that question every time you think of eating something. For breakfast today I had a bowl of cereal, Special K to be precise and for a mid morning snack I had 100g of salted peanuts. NO bread NO sugar. This is my mantra even though I saw a special offer at Mcdonalds that was almost too good too miss. But I swerved it and took the high road by asking myself the question, at 1030am do I need to eat a cheeseburger? Hell NO!!!!! But I said to myself we will get some peanuts to munch on in the office.