How to Successfully Get Slim - Understanding over-weight and

b>THE CAUSES OF ECCESSIVE WEIGHT

If you eat more nutrients containing energy than you need for your daily activities, for the internal processes of your body, and for the burning process that maintains the body temperature, the excessive nutrients can be transformed to fat and stored in the fat depots in your body. The causes of this occururing, and thus of overweight, are one or more of these factors:

-Consuming too much fat. Fat is the most energy-rich nutrient, and over-consume will cause the eccessive fat consumed to be deposited in the body.

-Consuming too much sugar, starch or other carbo-hydrates. Carbohydrats are also important energy sources. Over-consume of carbohydrates will cause the eccess to be converted to fat and stored in the body.

-Consuming too much alchohol. Also this substance contains energy, and result in fat stored in your body.

-Eating too much alltogeather. Perhaps you do not eat very much fat or sugar, but simply eat too much alltogeather. Also protein will be converted to fat if it is overconsumed.

-A still sitting life with little exercise so that you burn little fat and sugar.

-An abnormal appetite that urges you to eat far more than you need. This abnormal appetite may originate from psychological causes, an onsound diet or lack of exercise.

-Boredom in your dayly life. If you do not have much hobbies, or leasure activities you do together with other people, you may suffer form boredom, and eccessive eating may be your way of getting entertainment.

-The body has some capacity of burning some extra amount of sugar or fat. This capacity may be decreased because of lack of vitamins and minerals, and because of an unsoound diet.

ANALYZE YOUR OBESITY PROBLEM

Before beginning your weight reduction program, go through every possible cause of obesity listed above, and ask yourself for each of these factors, if it contributes to your weight problem. Go down to details: If you find you consume too much sugar, find out the exact food types contributing to your eccessive sugar consume. Write everything down.

MAKE A PLAN

By the analysis in hand that you now have done, make a plan for your weigh reduction. Decide one or more measures for each component contributing to your problem. Write down your plan.

HOW TO REDUCE WEIGHT

After having analyzed your obesity problem and made a plan , the time has come to begin your efforts of loosing weight. You must attack every component you have found to be a causing factor of your obesity problem. Here are the concrete mesures you can use, and put into your plan:

Eat less fat

If you eat much fat, you must reduce the daily intake of fat, to do so:

-Choese fish, pure meat/beef, chicken, turkey, mushrooms and other food sources with law fat content as the main component for dishes.

-Cut away visible fat from meat or other food sources.

-Do not add much margarine, butter or oil to your food.

-When you fry something, try to use as little fatty smear in the pan as possible.

Eat less sugar

If you eat much sugar, reduce your daily inntake of free sugar, or bounded sugar as in flour, potatoes and the like:

-Do not add much sugar to your food.

-You may also need to consume less bread, potatoes, peas and beens, if you eat very much of it, but do not stop eating these kinds of food, since they contain valuable nutrients. However, use bread made of full corn.

Avoid preprocessed food with added and often hidden fat or sugar

Some food contains a great amount of hidden fat or sugar, espesially fast food, snacks or preprocessed food.

-Therefore you should avoid eating much of products like: cakes, sweet drinks, snacks, choclate, icecream or fast-food.

-You should also buy all the food you use in a natural form, and make your dishes yourself. Then you achieve an absolute controle over the amount of fat and suger in your dishes.

Avoid eccessive alcohol consume

Alcohol contains energy, and will be transformed to fat, if you consume too much of it.

Eat less alltogeather, but do not starve yourself

Having reduced the amount of sugar and fat from your diet, you may fall from the temptation of eating more than before, beacuse the new composition of your food does not satisfy your hunger. You should avoid this trap.

-When trying to loose weight, you should reduce the total amount of the food you eat.

-If you have an uncontrollable appetite, some medicines to reduce appetite may help.

-However, you should not starve yourself. To starve will only make you tired and sick, and then make you interrupt your efforts to get slim. You should eat three or four meals each day.

Increase your daily physical activity

-Do some dayly exercises of a kind that increases energy consumption: Jogging, cycling, swimming, ball play, skiing, and so on.

-Do also som exercises to increase your muscular volume, since muscles will burn fat, for example weight lifting.

Find some new hobby or interest

If you find yourself some new hobby or leasure activity, you will avoid boredom and the temptation to over-eat because you are bored. The new activities will also give you less time to only sit eating.

Eat healthy food to increase fat burning It is not possible to loose weight without sticking to the above mentioned basic fat reduction principles, but you will also benefit from applying sume measures that will increase your ability to passivly burn fat:

-Eat as natural food as possible, avoid food that has been heavily cooked, heavily fried or chemically processed. Natural food has its content of protein, vitamines minerals and anti-oxydants intact, and these are necessary for the fat burning abilities.

-Eat some raw fruit and vegatables to each meal, since these contain vitamins, minerals and anti-oxydants you need.

-You may benefit from supplements of vitamins, minerals, herbs, anti-oxydants, as these will make your body more capable of burning fat.

-The little fat you use in your diet, should come from sources like olive, peanuts, canola, fish, nuts, sun-flower, etc. Then you will get a good balance between mono-unsaturated fat (olive, canola, peanuts), poly-unsaturated fat of the omaga-3-type (fish) and poly-unsaturated fat of the omega-6-type (sunflower).

-Consume whole cereals or bread made from whole unrefined cereals.

CARRYING OUT YOUR PLAN

Having made your plan for your weight reduction, the time has come to carry it out. After each week, go through the points in your plan, and evaluate how well you did. Also check your weight. Write down for every point in your plan how well you did.

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