Weight Loss, Low Blood Sugar and Diabetes

Among the weight loss hindrances, low blood sugar and diabetes are two culprits that are on the opposite end of the spectrum. Low blood sugar is when your sugar level is lower than is healthy, and diabetes is a sugar level that is higher than is healthy. The strange thing is that they both can make you gain weight.

Low Blood Sugar

Low sugar levels can affect your weight loss by causing a massive craving for food. When your sugar level drops too low, your body says, "I need sugar in my system!" And the way your body gets sugar is by you eating food that is converted into blood sugar. The big problem is that when your blood sugar drops, you will usually over react to the craving for food by packing away huge amounts of calories.

Some of the signs of low sugar are intense hunger, an intense desire for sweets or carbohydrates, headaches, irritability, and light-headedness. If you start to feel like this, start nibbling right away and try to resist the urge to binge.

If you are prone to low blood sugar, make sure you eat plenty of meat and fat at your meals. These foods will help keep your blood sugar at an even keel and prevent binging that hinders weight loss. It is also a good idea to keep snacks around to eat as soon as you start getting that "empty feeling." When it comes to low blood sugar, it is better to eat a lot of small meals than a couple of big ones.

Diabetes

People who are overweight are at high risk for diabetes. Unfortunately, they usually go together. This should be some pretty good motivation to lose weight. Diabetes is a dangerous condition that can greatly alter your lifestyle, so why not nip it at the bud if it's not too late. Get that weight off!

It is sad to say that the rate of type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing in the United States, most likely due to poor diet. Presently, 8-10 percent of the people in this country have type 2 diabetes.

So, my advice to you is to avoid it by eating a healthy diet, keep sweets to a minimum and exercise regularly. And, most importantly, stay on a weight loss program that will keep those pounds off!

One Week Is Enough To Lose Weight

To fight with excess weight is one of the oldest "women's sport". Especially this kind of sport is popular after holidays. And here we are now. Holidays passed and summer is coming closer.

If you will see that your summer wardrobe sit tight on you don't hurry to change it on bigger size clothes. The situation is quite corrigible. I would like to offer you the diet that helps you to get rid of 5kg (11lb) of excess weight during a week. The motivation is strong - size of your clothes must be not bigger than previous summer! Is not it nice to strike your friends and acquaintances that after all holidays and winter season you did not add any excess weight?! And this decision is the first step to succeed in weight loss. It will demand to make some efforts from you of course but they are worthy to do. Pointer of your scales will move to desired figures and after a week needed result will be achieved.

This undoubtedly will cheer you up and you'll want to strengthen achieved results and may be to go further.

Diet will help your stomach to get accustomed to smaller amount of food you need every day. It will decrease the whole quantity of consumed calories. Therefore after this diet it is easy to maintain balanced feeding.

Yes, to lose of 5-7kg (11-15lb) excess weight one week is quite enough. The diet is very simple. Your food during these days is fruits and vegetables. But you must not overeat them also, 1.5kg (3lb) of them a day is enough.

What you can eat for a day?

-apples

-boiled vegetables

-mashed vegetables

-oranges and mandarins

-kiwi

-fruit all sorts (not dressed)

-fruit puree (without sugar)

The main rule is not to eat more than 1.5kg (3lb) of foodstuff a day. What can you drink? It is tea (green is preferable), coffee (without sugar) and mineral water.

To make better your appearance choose fruits that suit to your skin. For dry skin it is ripe red fruits, for fat skin better have green sour-sweet fruits. For normal skin suit both.

But it is not enough to eat little! Have a strong shower every morning to push the process better. After such a shower your blood will go freely through vessels. Shower makes you cheerful and draws you away from foodstuff. Thus your breakfast will be smaller than usual. May be cup of coffee will be enough. But don't forget to add some not fat milk to it not to harm your stomach. That is proved method I use myself.
Hot bath with few drops of aromatic oil draws your thoughts away from appetizing foodstuff in the evening. It can be rosemary, eucalyptus, lemon, fir or other stuff that you like. You will switch to perception of fragrance that draws you away from food.

Don't lay in the bath without any movement. If your bath has hydro massage it is perfect. If not than try to do it yourself. Even simple massage can do miracle.

May be after 3-4 days you will be tired of fresh vegetables and fruits. Than begin to cook them! Don't be afraid to experiment. You may cook your day meal at once and divide it to portions. Remember the rule - not more than 1.5kg (3lb) of food a day. Vary assortment of vegetables. It may be:

-cauliflowers

-broccoli

-carrot

-haricot

-sweet pepper

It can be everything you like, all that suits you best.

There is another way to limit your portion of meal - decrease the salt in your meal or don't salt it completely. The taste of meal will be a bit strange. You will eat not much in this case. But that is all you need!

Recipes of meal from vegetables and fruits I will show you in the next article.
7 days after this diet you will be pleasantly surprised. Compare your weight with those you had before. You will be glad to have such results.

And if you want to strengthen achieved results you must know how to choose foodstuff for balanced feeding properly and how to cook them. Next article will be dedicated to this subject also.

Be healthy,

Nataly

Weight-Lifting Benefits All

Almost everyone should lift weights. Weight lifting strengthens bones, muscles ligaments and tendons; increases coordination for tasks requiring strength; and gives confidence and mobility to elderly or disabled people.

Just exercising doesn't do much to strengthen muscles. If it did, marathon runners would have the largest muscles. To become strong, you have to exercise your muscles against progressively greater resistance.

Just exercising doesn't strengthen bones either. Female marathon runners sometimes stop menstruating and lose tremendous amounts of bone, even though they may run more than 100 miles a week. To regain bone, they have to eat more food which will usually start them menstruating again, and include weight-lifting in their workouts. They may also need to take estrogen.

Many people with muscle or nerve diseases can also benefit from lifting weights. They may be unable to work out as long or as hard as a healthy person and they will take longer to recover from their workouts. However, if they stop exercising when their muscles feel heavy or hurt and they take off when their muscles feel sore, they can make dramatic increases in strength.

Anyone starting a weight training program should be guided by an experienced instructor. Exercise with several different machines two or three times a week, never on consecutive days. On each exercise, use the heaviest weight you can lift comfortably eight or ten times in a row without losing your form. Do three sets of ten repetitions on each machine. Then allow at least 48 hours for your muscles to recover. Do not lift again until the soreness is gone.