Weight Loss / Dieting -- Information & Resources
The Weight Loss section of NutrActive provides you with a vast amount of resources designed to help you lose weight the best known way -- Through self motivation and self discipline. An individual who is properly educated on how to lose weight can be successful long term. Check in periodically for new helpful dieting tools and valuable information all geared to help you successfully lose weight on your own.
FatSecret --
Fatsecret is a new place for people interested in diets to come and find out what works. With journals, food and exercise diaries, tips, recipes and plenty of advice from the community, fatsecret is your one-stop-shop for all things diet – the secret is out!
http://fatsecret.com
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leViv
--28-days of Healthy Meals Delivered--
Diets don’t work. Their very principle involves telling you what you can’t have and what you can’t do. If someone locked you in a room, your natural instinct would be to get out of there, right? Diets are like that – they give you the feeling of being locked into something. You spend the entire time working within a structure that is only comfortable for a short period of time – and after a while, you can’t wait to break free from it.
So then if diets don’t work, what does? Changing this diet mindset involves changing your definition of what being healthy is. It’s about leaving behind the idea that losing weight by any means is the sole way to find health. Rather, it’s about embracing the idea that true health and wellness comes when you find your own balance with food, physical activity and emotional well-being. It’s about finding out what works for you and you alone. When this is realized, weight loss is a mere (and probable) side benefit.
Finding this balance takes time and energy, two luxuries most of us are sorely lacking these days. But, there’s no escaping it. It took a lifetime to get to where you are today, and it’s going to take some time to get to where you want to go. Along with the successes will be setbacks, which is just a natural part of the process of change. If you become discouraged, start over fresh the next meal or the next day, always keeping your focus on how you want to live and how you want to feel.
Breaking free of the diet mindset will set you free from the cycle in which diets keep you, and lead you to a more balanced attitude towards health that has the potential to last a lifetime. Working the leViv program will steer you towards achieving this balance.
With leViv's meal delivery program, eating healthy is easy. leViv's approach is unique in that its focus is on health, not on just losing weight. Weight loss will likely occur as you progress through the program, but this is an added benefit instead of the only goal. The idea is to incorporate changes that will last for the rest of your life, not just for the lifetime of a diet. The meals provide and encourage healthy eating habits.
leViv provides you with two meals and two snacks per day for 28 days (what others consider 3 meals per day!). It's up to you to make one healthy meal for yourself every day. The goal is to teach you how to eat healthfully without meal support. leViv's team of acclaimed chefs and health care professionals focused on taste, quality, clean ingredients, caloric intelligence, balanced nutrition, fiber, antioxidant rich foods, phytochemicals, essential vitamins and more. They help teach you how and when to build a healthy meal, make great choices at the supermarket and in restaurants, and help you out in the kitchen with easy meal ideas and recipes.
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* leViv site includes valuable artcles, healthy resources and other useful information -- Visit leViv's Lifestyle section for more on articles and advice geared towards healthy weight loss and maintenance.
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Free Online Calorie Calculator
Below is probably one of the most comprehensive food and activity search engines on the web. Search from over 45,000 different fast food, brand name and generic foods and activities to get instant information on calories, carbs, proteins, sugars and other nutrients as well as calories burned.
It was developed and created with a simple mission in mind: To provide a free and valuable tool for anyone to use to promote a healthy lifestyle and well being. This is why NutrActive is endorsing its use and the site supporting the tool -- which, BTW, has many other helpful tools at your disposal at no cost.
To use the calorie calculator, simply type the name of the food or type of activity in the search box below. A separate window will open linking you to the host site's database. A list of the most likely options to the word you type will appear. Simply click on the link that most closely matches what you are trying to look up.
[Note: The window that opens up is taking you off NutrActive's site.]
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Lose Weight -- Maintain -- Gain Weight
No matter which of the above is your goal, you can figure out your ideal weight, and how to get there at the site link below.
Decide whether you'd like to lose, gain or maintain, then find out what you need to do to achieve your goal. You'll also see how many calories you burn doing the activities you love.
Get started at:
http://www.foodfit.com/tools/w8calc/default.asp
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Your health is affected not only by how much body fat you have, but also by where most of the fat is located on your body. Waist to hip ratio (WHR) analyzes the relationship between your waist and hip measurements to help you understand your body-type and current health status.
To calculate your WHR, click on the following link:
http://www.global-fitness.com/whrcalc.php
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Testimonial from a Subscriber :
Weight Loss While Breastfeeding
"I wanted to thank you for your help when I asked about breastfeeding and losing weight. I quit drinking sodas and eating sugar. I have been exercising regularly and I am only 5 lbs. away from my chart weight losing a total of 35 lbs." --- Anna Pettit from Alaska
Laura asked Anna to share what lifestyle changes she made. We hope you find this helpful:
"I have been doing a combination of exercise routines. I started by walking on my treadmill at 2.4 miles per hour, not very fast but it was a start. I would walk for 15 minutes at first. I slowly increased to 3.4 miles per hour fast walking - this took about 3 weeks.
After my treadmill walk I would do sit ups - approx. 50 to 100 crunches, then approx. 50 side to side crunches. I did a variety of sit ups. I did some basic leg exercises, laying on my side I started every other day and increased to daily (I used some of the exercises from your e-zine).
After 4 weeks of working out at home, I was ready for an aerobics class. It was hard at first. The class is almost 2 hours long. At first I could hardly lift my legs, but I hung in there and now I can do everything in the class. I have worked my way up to 4.5 miles per hour of jogging on my treadmill for 25 minutes (about 2.5 miles). Some days longer if I feel up to it. After this, I do some light weight work on arms and legs then some abdominal work. I have been going to the aerobic class 3 days a week and doing my treadmill 3 days a week at total of 6 days a week. I am going to add some aerobic videos to my routine in the next week for a change of pace - something new to keep my interest going.
I took it slow at first. I started mid-April and its now mid-August. It took 4 months to lose the weight and it came off slowly. I seemed to have a period were the scale was stuck, but in a week or two I would drop more weight. I have 6 children and they have been learning right along with me. My 2 year old puts on my shoes and a sweat band and hops on the treadmill - while its turned off, of course. She is already learning good habits by watching mom. My 10 year old daughter has come with me to aerobic class several times. She likes it and I think that's great. Kids today sit around too much so I am hoping this will teach them good habits later in life. I listen to my body if I am hungry I eat - but I eat sensible including frozen grapes, tuna sandwich, egg sandwich, lots of salad with light dressing and some croutons. I found that pumpkin seeds are a good snack, also. No chocolates, sugars, sodas, and lots and lots of water. I crave water now, not soda. These will be lifetime habits for me, even when I am done nursing.. Sure I will splurge occasionally but knowing that its only one or two times a month and not everyday. Your newsletters they helped me make good decisions on what kind of foods we should be eating. One thing we have done is switch from white bread to wheat bread. I buy wheat in everything I can now. Your newsletters are great and have great nutritional and exercise advice. "
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