Lose weight by cutting your fat and sugar calories.

Skip fried foods, strip poultry of its skin and choose the breast. Learn to get flavor from spices instead of sugar and honey.

It’s a plainer style of eating, for sure, but you can fill up on beans and rice, winter squashes, and lean cuts of turkey, chicken, and fish. Make fruit your dessert and opt for a low glycemic sweetener like stevia, which has zero calories. Beware that stevia can drop your blood pressure a few points, so choose another sweetener if your pressure already is low.

If you long for something creamy, treat yourself to a smoothie made with plain yogurt and sweetened with fruit, stevia or another low calorie sweetener.

Learn to grill your meats with a very small amount of oil. Dry grilling them is even better. Bake using an oil spray and saute your onions, peppers and garlic in water instead of oil. Eat soup to fill up, but make your own and cut all visible fat from your meat. Omit any added oil or butter from your recipe.

Read your labels and know what you are eating. One tablespoon of oil has 120 calories. Try non-fat cheddar, mozzarella and cream cheese. While nuts are healthy, they are high in calories so you may want to skip them or limit them for awhile.

Salads make a healthy lunch or dinner, but they could leave you hungry. So consider pairing salad with a bean soup or sweet potato. Hard boil eggs and remove the yolk for added protein without the fat. Top your salad with non-fat cheese and skip the regular salad dressing. Use lemon wedges or drizzle your salad with balsamic vinegar. Or make your own salad dressing with spices, garlic, vinegar or lemon and as little oil as your palette will tolerate. A turkey burger, salmon filet, or chicken breast also makes a fine accompaniment.

Skip sodas and other sweet drinks, opting for water and unsweetened tea or tea sweetened with stevia or another low calorie sweetener.

If you love ice cream, consider making your own low-fat, low glycemic version sweetened with fruit and stevia. Use plain cocoa rather than chocolate with added fat and sugar. Experiment with lower fat and sugar desserts by looking for recipes substituting apple sauce or plain yogurt for fat.

Why Exercise Is Important For Weight Loss Programs.

No one wants to be fat.

Being fat can lead to a wide variety of diseases attacking our bodies.

Getting old before your time is the fate of many people who suffer from an unhealthy lifestyle. To regain our health, we need to eat right and exercise our bodies.

Exercise improves heart and lung function among other things. Ever notice those people, and maybe this is you also, who are huffing and puffing after walking a flight of stairs?

You would think they had just run five miles the way they are breathing.

That is a sure sign that their body is not getting enough oxygen and their muscles that are out of shape.

The body learns to use oxygen more efficiently when we participate in a regular exercise program. By program I mean consistent exercise.

It could be walking around the neighborhood, jogging at the school track or working out at the local gym.

As long as you do it more than once a month, your body will begin to use less oxygen to accomplish that exercise. When that happens, it is time to increase the time and intensity of the workout.

It is necessary for the heart to pump blood throughout the body. The heart can do this more efficiently when the body is in shape. Tissues stay oxygenated and hydrated to the point that your skin will glow and your resting heart rate and pulse will be lowered as well.

People have all heard that exercise releases “feel good” hormones and it’s true.

Your outlook on situations will change when you have had a good run or walk to clear your head. Just the fact that you have completed the workout will make you feel better about yourself. If you want to keep those good vibrations, you have to continue to exercise.

Obesity is an epidemic among adults and kids in America.

Carrying extra weight leads to health problems that can include Type II Diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, and heart attacks. All of these are life-threatening conditions that should be prevented when possible.

The buildup of plaque in the arteries of the body can cause a heart attack or stroke to occur. At age thirty-five or forty, you don’t want to be worried about a heart attack.

If you are morbidly obese, things like a heart attack well before old age can become reality. Taking preventative measures such as exercising, will help to lessen your risk of facing serious health conditions like those mentioned above.

Exercise is a way to burn off extra calories and lose weight.

Combined with healthy eating, exercise helps the body return to it’s normal functioning state and thus help to lose weight.

This is important as we age. Our bones get weaker and more brittle. Our muscles begin to waste away to the tune of a pound a year after age forty.

Exercise strengthens the bones and builds up strong lean muscle therefore prolonging the aging process.

This is the only body we’ll get. Treat it to the best.

Exercise three or more times a week for improved health and it will help you to lose weight !!