Wednesday, July 23, 2008 

Lose Weight with HCG - Fact or FAD?

The use of hCG for weight loss is once again gaining momentum with the help of 7 millions sales of Kevin Trudeaus latest book, The Weight Loss Cure. Dozens of new websites including hCG Diet Info and numerous sub-sites to weight clinics and weight loss practitioners are springing up almost overnight. According to the editor of the hCG Diet Info website, their traffic levels have gone from a few dozen hits a week to several thousand a day almost immediately following Kevin Trudeaus nightly infomercials.

Fact or Fad? Well, the jury is still out. hCG manufacturers declare that the hCG fertility drugs such as Pregnyl which are described in Trudeaus book, have no effect regarding weight loss. On the other hand, long-term weight loss professionals and physicians offer thousands of hcg diet success stories. Research and reviews are posted on Dr. Belluscios website, hCG Obesity who also happened to have developed the highly demanded oral hCG pills.

The hCG weight loss protocol is declared to not only help an individual lose weight regardless if the dieter uses hCG injections or pills, but to perform a metabolic recovery, where the hypothyroid is said to be reset, boosting the metabolism and increasing the persons ability to burn fat at a much higher rate. hCG is also said to break down body fat, causing rapid weight loss by mass even before registering on a scale. Simultaneously, it is said to protect the endogenous fat and muscle which the body needs to stay healthy, but also avoiding sagging and loose skin known of excessive of weight loss.

The debate amongst practitioners of these protocols argues that the original hCG diet protocol developed by Dr. A.T.W. Simeons should not be modified, as suggested by many, including Kevin Trudeau. However, thousands of dieters are following Trudeaus advice, finding little wrong with adding large amounts of tea and organic foods to their menu as opposed to the extremely strict 500 calorie diet described in Dr. Simeons manuscript, Pounds and Inches (can be found at www.hcgdietinfo.com for free.) Dr. Belluscio, a devoted follower of the Dr. Simeons hcg diet protocol, reminds dieters of the extensive research that went into Dr. ATW Simeons work.

Claims of the diet being unhealthy are plenty, with questions on the use of natural hCG and the fact that its produced from the urine of pregnant women- however, most hCG on the market such as Pregnyl is actually synthetic. In addition, concerns that a 500 calorie diet is stressful to the body and specifically on the muscle tissue of the heart, are met with the explanation that the fat being burnt releases thousands of calories into the system before being expelled.

Regardless of these issues, hCG sales are spiking- not only for the substance itself but for related information and supplies. Unfortunately, along with this comes fraud- particularly from faux websites claiming to sell hCG and other prescription drugs. A warning from hCG Diet Info was released recently, after the editor was contacted by a woman who had wired $500 US Dollars through Western Union to a website claiming to be an overseas pharmacy offering hCG but never heard from them again. To avoid this, hCG Diet Info strongly advises hCG dieters to seek their hCG treatment through a nearby provider but if purchasing hCG on the internet, they warn individuals not to wire money via Western Union and to request reviews of sites before making a purchase.

A contributing author and editor to adclickology.com and insidepv.com, Christmas Jones is a travel and fitness writer from London but based in South America. Her pieces have been published in numerous international publications on a wide variety of topics including the use of hCG for weight loss.

 

What is a Calorie? And Do We Really Need to Count Them to Lose Weight?

The biggest buzz word in nutrition has always been Calories. The thing dieters' fear most is also the thing that makes us work. So what is a calorie? A calorie is the energy value of food, to be more precise it is the amount of energy it takes to heat 1 litre of water 1 Degree Celsius. It is the energy that gives us life so why is this vital energy the thing that is feared by all.

At the most basic level to maintain weight we need to take in as many calories as we will use, if we eat more we gain weight, if we eat less we lose weight. That's if we keep it basic, for those of you who have tried to lose weight know it is not that easy there are many physical and mental processes working against you.

Many of these processes come from the body's desire to save energy in case of famine. Throughout history the human race has been subject to periods of extreme famine and times of plenty, it is only through modern farming, the import and growth of crops in different areas, irrigation and food preservation techniques that now the western world has a constant food supply in fact we now have more food than we need.

If you want to gain fat, most people will find it quite easy (although not always healthy) just eat and do nothing and your body will store it. In the past people would eat more when it was available so that if they were hit by a drought and ran out of food, their body had enough stored energy to cope with the deficit until the food supply increased and the process would repeat.

These days unless you live in extreme poverty this is no longer a concern for you, although for your body thousands of years of adaptation have allowed the body to become very good at storing calories and your body will see a drop in calories as a possible famine. One of the big reasons dieting wont works is if the body will work to maintain its energy stores by lowering the metabolism (energy output) so that more is saved for the essential processes of the body. The body then sends us signals that tell us to eat, logical right? People starving for food can do very desperate things, in fact Australia was built by British people sent here as a punishment for small crimes such as stealing bread, hunger consumes the mind until the body gets what it needs: more calories to maintain your body weight or even extra calories to get you through the next famine.

So if this is happening how do people actually lose weight and keep it off? The answer lies in the following key areas:

- Don't over eat anything

- Exercise every day

- Eat good quality calories

Eating too much of anything, from fast food to tofu, will make you store fat. Listen to your body and don't listen to food additives, take care with foods with added chemicals, sugar, fats and salts as these will tell your body to eat more. Eat so you don't feel hungry but not so that you are full and lethargic after meals food should make you feel good not tired. You won't need to count the calories you eat just listen to what your body is telling you.

Exercise is the only way to lose fat, be healthy and maintain your weight long term. Once you are moderately and listening to your body so that your not hungry, never eat less than your body needs to keep your body functioning properly. Your body needs energy and essential nutrients to make you function properly eat less and you will feel tired and risk putting the weight back on. Exercising allows you to directly burn stored energy without taking resources away from the essential functions of your body.

The real secret in long term weight loss and being healthy is in the quality of the calories you eat. Every calorie you eat should be giving your body tools it needs use in your body, the nutrients you get from food allow your body to make everything that it needs to make your body healthy and function at its peak. Chemical preparation, preservation and refinement of food lowers the nutrient value of most foods. So you still get energy but without the tools your body needs to put it to use effectively. Always eat mostly unrefined food as close to its natural source as possible, lots of fresh, clean vegetables are always the best thing for making you feel your best, but also make sure your proteins (animal products, nuts and legumes) come from clean sources. Quality is the key!

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Overweight Kids - Helping Your Child to Lose Weight and Feel Better About Themselves

If your child is overweight, they may be in for a lifetime of health and emotional problems. It is far better to deal with the issue while they are young instead of letting them grow up overweight and unhealthy.

Whether your child has been heavy since they were a toddler or became chubby as they entered adolescence, they can successfully lose weight and keep it off for the rest of their lives. You will need to help them with this because they do not know what to do. Much of what children hear about being overweight is based on the media and their friends. This information tends to be misinformation and based more on rumor than on fact.

The majority of overweight children have at least one overweight parent. When you begin the process of helping your child lose weight you will also be helping the rest of your family. Here are some things to think about as you get started on a new way of eating and exercising to improve your child's help.

  • Take your child to your pediatrician or family doctor. Discuss the situation with them and make sure your child does not have any other health issues or diseases, such as a heart problem or diabetes.
  • Discuss the situation with your child. Make sure they understand that you love them no matter what, so that they will not feel worse than they probably already do about needing to lose weight.
  • Make the diet a family affair. Exercise and eat better along with your child.
  • Get your child involved with a sport or other activity that will be a fun way for them to start getting used to exercise.
It won't be long before your child begins to lose weight and feel better about themselves.

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3 Amazing Weight Loss Tips to Help You Lose 10lbs Fast

I get all types of clients trying to lose weight. Some are trying to get thinner for a wedding, and some are just trying to look good enough to get out to the beach and look fantastic. Either way there are some weight loss tips that really help you drop weight fast. Some of these techniques are rarely known but provide almost instant results. Here's 3 tips to help get you start and on your way to a great figure.

1. Start a Circuit Training Routine.

Circuit training is a wonderful way to get your bodies metabolism burning fiery HOT! You basically set up 10 or so different stations or have 10 different machines or lifts you are planning to do. You can spend a certain amount of time like 2 minutes at each station or you can do a pre-determined amount of reps at each. The key here is not to use insanely heavy weights when doing this so you can get an endurance effect out of this. This is sure to get you burning up and worked out in no time.

2. Start Using Calorie Shifting.

Calorie shifting is a newer technique that is used by many people to essentially "trick" the body into burning more calories then it normally would. Basically, your body burns calories on how much you ate a couple days before. So say you ate 3000 calories on day 1, by day three your body is expecting you to eat that much again, so it naturally will try to set your metabolic rate to burn the same amount. This cycling of calories allows you to actually EAT and lose weight at the same time. This is just a very basic outline of the calorie shifting method, but it's a proven technique that helps many people drop a ton of weight.

3. Start a Weight Loss Journal or a Blog.

The point here is to keep track of your progress and to publish your goals either privately or publicly. With this stuff written out somewhere you will have more motivation to achieve these goals. Besides that advantage you can record your progress and see how much stronger you are actually getting which really helps motivate you for future workouts.

These are just 3 of many weight loss tips you can use to get started.

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Weight Management - 7 Great Tips to Help You Lose Weight

So you've decided that you want to lose weight and get in shape. Now you need to structure a program that will help you lose the weight while toning your muscle. Easy said, however often we all have some questions that need to be answered before we begin our weight management journey. This article will answer your weight loss questions and give you a range of tools to get you on the right track.

1. Clarity is the key. Define your goals

The key to achieving any goal is to define what it is that you want. You need to create the vision for yourself. Whats your ideal weight? When do you want to achieve this by? Get this written down on paper and read these goals regularly.

2. Speak to your doctor

If you haven't been exercising for a long period of time, you first need to speak to your doctor and have a check up. It's better to be safe than sorry.

3. Establish a support system

People have a much higher rate of weight loss success when they have support. There have been many studies to confirm this. Try exercising with a friend, colleague or family member. Let this person know your goals! This will keep you accountable.

4. Mix it up!

Change your routines often. I recommend to my clients that they change their program every eight weeks to keep it fresh and help them stay motivated. I would particularly recommend this with a weights routine as your muscles get use to your work out after two months. You will get optimal benefit if you mix it up.

5. Buy something new

Try buying yourself a new pair of shoes, pedometer, exercise book or an mp3 player. Something like this can be very motivating.

6. Don't beat up on yourself

Remember that your weight management journey is long term and if you miss a work out there is no need to beat up on yourself. Make the decision to get back on track.

7. Reward yourself

If you stick to your program then it's time to reward yourself. Go buy yourself a new piece of clothing or a gift to show appreciation to yourself for your hard work. You deserve it!

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How to Choose a Successful Weight Loss Program

Many people who have sought to lose weight fail to do so not because their body refused to shed the extra pounds but because they choose the wrong weight loss program. There are a lot of weight loss program out there but getting the right one is important if you must lose weight. So how do you choose a weight loss program that work? Before joining a weight control program try to ask consider the following.

1. Does the program have qualified health care professionals like dietitians, doctors, nurses who will monitor you. Yes it is important to be checked by a doctor before embarking on weight loss program. The doctor should know your current medications, current medical conditions so as to effective control your weight loss efforts.

2. Does the program have varieties of foods and diets from which you can choose from? Some weight loss diets program can be restrictive in diets, and when they are, they should be able to provide you with varieties of options to choose from so that you don't end up feeling deprived and hungry which could be damaging to your overall well-being.

3. Does the program features a long term weight loss goal? This should be very important. Losing weight fast alone is not the issue but keeping the weight off for life is what should be of major concern. They should be able to help you change your behavioral pattern that is contributing to your excess weight and help you focus on physical activities that will help you lose the weight and remain fit .

4. Does the program incorporates exercise and physical activities? Always remember that you are fat not only because you eat too much but because you don't engage in physical activities. Therefore it is imperative to always engage in physical activities in order to lose weight. Even though choosing your diets will help you lose weight but engaging in physical activities will let you lose weight faster and keeping it off thereafter.

You should choose your weight loss program wisely in order to lose weight and stay healthy.

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Easy Ways to Lose Weight - and They're NOT Dieting!

What is easy for some is difficult for others, so Easy Ways To Lose Weight holds different meanings for different people. Let's take a look at what is definitely difficult for everyone. Fad diets. South Beach, Atkins, Weight Watchers, they all come under the heading of Fad Diet. There is virtually no evidence to show that following any of these diets is easy. Why? Because it is a well known statistic that 95% of all dieters fail to lose weight long term. If that wasn't true, you wouldn't be reading an article called "Easy Ways To Lose Weight"!

Why don't fad diets work?

  • They're miserable, demoralizing affairs.
  • They make you guilt-ridden
  • They are too restrictive

There are only three items on this particular list, there could have been many more, but aren't those three enough for you? Take the final point on the list: all of these diets are so restrictive that you're bound to fall off the wagon, and it's usually sooner rather than later. The irony is that whenever you have the audacity to err, the purveyors of these fine products try to make out that it's your fault. It's not your fault, it's the fault of the crazy diet. Now, you may say that if you had stayed on the diet you would have lost weight, so that proves it is your fault.

Not so! That only shows that you are in the permanent grip of the diet mongers. Look, here's a diet for you that has just been made up three minutes ago: drink nothing but water, and eat nothing but bananas , eggs and lettuce for a month. You're absolutely guaranteed to lose lots of weight if you follow it. What's that you say? You'd be crazy to follow that diet? Of course you would, and even if you did try and then failed, where would the fault for failure lie? With the diet itself of course. Today's modern diets are similar, with the twist that they are cunningly disguised to sound as though they are easy to follow. The fact is that they are no more easy ways to lose weight than the mad monstrosity described earlier.

So forget dieting, you don't need it, and it does not work anyway. Be happy, you can now make the decision to rid yourself of diets for good, how easy was that?

But if you are not dieting, how are you going to lose weight? Well the fact that you have stopped dieting is going to help in itself because you will rid yourself of the dreaded yo-yo dieting effect, you know the one - where your dieting falters, and you end up putting on more weight than you lost, so you start off on a new diet, and the whole thing starts over again.

Watch out for the next article which uncovers proven, sensible, medically approved methods of losing weight for good. It's true, there are such things as Easy Ways To Lose Weight, but one of them is not dieting.

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Lose Weight and Stay Fit For the Summer

The long awaited summer is almost here and soon you will be up and about and thinking less about eating healthy and more about just getting your fill on all the beautifully colored foods. But even though you are excited about summer remember that you do not want to erode the progress you have made in the long winter months.

Before you go out and ruin all the progress you have made on your weight loss goal, try loading up on some super foods that will keep you losing weight and keep you looking great.
What makes a food a super food. A super food is super because it makes you look better and live longer. It is unprocessed, fresh and filled with vitamins and nutrients. Examine these super foods against the foods that you should avoid which are processed foods which are not fresh and have no vitamin or nutrient whatsoever.

Summer is here and you should eat all the summer foods. But you should not only eat for summer but you should practice a seasonal way of eating. If you start this, you will be eating foods that are in their specific seasons , which will be fresh and filled with vitamins and minerals.

For the season you want to eat foods that are high in fiber . Such foods are fruits, vegetables, and whole grain. These foods will fill you up longer after each mean and you will eat less which will cause you to lose weight naturally. Weight loss will occur because you are taking in less calories and if you eat less calories, your body will be able to burn it off without having extra for storage which turns into unwanted fat.

For example when eating for weight loss this summer try eating a cereal rich in fiber in the mornings for breakfast. And because it is summer, all the berries are available to you in their freshest state. Berries such as strawberry, blackberry, raspberry and the best of the berries, blueberry. Get some blueberry in your meal at least once a day during this season. Studies have shown that these have the most antioxidants and they taste great too.

Again for example you when having your lunch or dinner you should be going for fiber and protein. By mixing both of these you will find that you will cause weight loss to happen much faster because they take the longest to digest and they contain fewer calories. Add corn, it is the season for it. Don't forget the tomatoes. These are delicious during the summer season.

Enjoy yourself this summer by going outdoors and having fun. One of the fun ways that you might enjoy this season, be outdoors and lose some weight is by walking. This is a great time for it and you will be able to enjoy the beauty of the time and all the while losing weight. You cannot get a better combination.

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Jackie Reid is a weight loss advisor who teaches people who want to lose weight how to use diet and exercise to create their ideal body weight through personalized classes and coaching programs.

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