Lost The Weight Now What?

Author: Christian Walker

I guy walks into a bar and the bartender says, “Hey, fella it looks like you lost some weight.”
The man nods and replies, “Yea I’ve been on the drinking man’s diet.”
“Yea, really”, says, the bartender, “what is that?”
“Well”, replies the man, “you can drink any kind of drink you want and as much as you like.”
The bartender looks puzzled, “and what d’ya eat?”
“Oh”, sighs the man, “mostly aspirin.”

Losing weight is tough, and when you have made a weight loss goal, how do you keep it off? Here are some good ideas:

Eating Habits
You know, when you get into a successful weight loss program you do it by strictly following certain guidelines. These guidelines should be a little healthier than those in our opening illustration. Hopefully you used a well balanced nutritionally sound approach to losing the weight. If you have, then you have half the battle won. Rule of thumb: stick to what got you where you are. Sure you will probably increase the amount of calories you take in, but keep the rest of the program. Keep drinking the water, keep doing the exercises, keep the portion control etc.

Correct Mindset
You have to reset your thinking when you begin a maintenance phase. Do not wonder if you will be able to keep it off, but determine that you will keep it off. This is the part in a weight loss effort where we often have to face our demons. Those things that drive us to overeat: stress, work, fear, childhood baggage or whatever. In my effort I have set an emergency weight limit. I weigh every day and if I stray above that weight I immediately go on a mini diet. It keeps me where I want to be.

Exercise
Lets face it, we should have been doing this all along. We need to exercise and the secret is to find something you like and look forward to. For me it was racquetball and golf. Yes, golf; I do not rent a cart anymore and I lug my golf clubs on my back around a very hilly course. After 18 holes I am pretty wasted–unless, of course, someone says, “How about another round?”

Support Group
I cannot tell you how helpful support groups are. For me my wife is my support group, but you could have s set of friends or a club you join. Guys don’t do so well in weight loss support groups so they might want to join an online group. Even ladies who do not have a support group could benefit from online forums–anything from a paid program to a free online forum.

Losing weight and keeping it off can be a thrilling experience. It can also be a defeating one depending on how you approach it. Personally I think that with determination and support you can accomplish your goals and live a long healthy life.

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The Cabbage Soup Diet Plan: Does it Really Work?

Author: Christian Walker

As I sit and write this article, I have lost 5 pounds in two days on the cabbage soup diet plan. So I can say that the cabbage soup diet plan works so far. The soup itself is pretty good at first, but eating it every day wears a bit thin and I do suffer from cravings—not hunger, just cravings. (Oh for some chocolate cream pie!)

No Restrictions

I was attracted to the cabbage soup diet plan because it had no restrictions on the amount of food I could eat as other diets that I have tried that left me hungry and miserable. Besides that, the cabbage soup diet plan promised a 7 to 10 pound fat loss. With the cabbage soup diet plan I knew I could always saunter over to the fridge and get another bowl full of cabbage soup goodness. This, by the way, is how I can tell the difference between cravings and hunger. If I want to eat a bowl of cabbage soup then I am hungry, but if the thought of a bowl of cabbage soup is merely an interruption on my mouth watering desires for a hot Krispy Kreme Donut then I know it is a craving. Man, if you are ever in North Carolina, find a Krispy Kreme outlet and get one of the donuts hot out of the oven—sigh!

Making The Soup

The cabbage soup diet plan starts off with making the soup. It is relatively simple to do—especially when you get your wife to make it for you. No seriously, I talked her into joining me on this diet.; she really didn’t need to but I thought that the soup would taste much better coming from her culinary hand than from mine—I was right!

The 7 Day Plan

Next you follow a 7 day plan, eating different foods for each of the 7 days along with the soup and there is never a limit to how much you can eat. There is one day where you eat bananas and skim milk all day long with the soup. (The cabbage soup diet plan is weird sometimes, but it is working.) This variety helps relieve some of the boredom that comes with any diet and it helps you stick with the cabbage soup diet plan.

The Right Choice

The cabbage soup diet plan is an excellent choice of diets for quick weight-loss under 10 pounds and for repairing holiday eating damage to your weight maintenance goals. You could also use it to get ready for a prom, or other special occasion. At the end of this article I will leave a free link to the cabbage soup diet plan.

About the Author:

For the complete diet plan visit The Cabbage Soup Plan.

See my website The Cabbage Soup Plan.

I was born to itinerate teachers February 16, 1960 in a tiny town, in a clinic beside a grain elevator, in eastern Washington. From there our family moved every two years around the state until I was 6.

At the age of 6 my parents moved to Nigeria, West Africa, where we stayed until I was 12. We then moved to New York City. After two years there We left after North Dakota and finally after that Maryland where I married the most beautiful bride and have been ever since.

I enjoy writing, making music, art, golf, and racquet ball.

Sharing the house with me and my wife is our youngest daughter, although she is gone quite a bit now–sigh, two dogs, Billy and Calvin, and two cats, Elvis and Felina Turtle Bean. (Don’t ask.)

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Why Diets Plateau and What You Can Do When Diets Plateau

Author: Christian Walker

What is a Diet Plateau?

Your cruising along losing weight on your new diet program, first day 3 pounds, second day 2 pounds, the third day 1½ pounds, and then the 4th day nothing. And that nothing continues on and on, maybe you lose a ½ pound only to see it come back the next day. You are stuck. What’s going on, you are eating the same food, doing the same exercises, and drinking the same water as you were when the weight was joyously falling off your body? You have hit the dreaded diet plateau! The conventional wisdom says that if you wait it out long enough, you will eventually break the diet plateau and begin to lose weight again, but you should expect several of these diet plateaus along your journey toward your goal.

The Problem

These diet plateaus are often so discouraging, that like a sailor in the Sargasso sea, you give up and abandon the diet. I know because I have been there many times. When I am dieting I look to the scales for my reward rather than the plate. When my diet plateaus, I get no reward from either plate or scales and I get discouraged and give up.

Why Diets Plateau? or We Are Not Ogg!

Our bodies are programed for survival which was good when humans were tromping around after wild game with clubs and rocks. If the wild boar where scares that year and Ogg couldn’t get enough food, his body relied on its stored fat; when the wild boar were plentiful, Ogg ate more than enough and his body stored the extra food as fat for use in the future. We are not Ogg! We usually have plenty of food around but our bodies still act like Ogg’s and when we eat more than we need to, it is stored as fat. When we try to lose that fat our bodies, like Ogg’s, goes into starvation protection mode by slowing down the metabolism and holding on to the weight—sigh.

There is Hope for Breaking Diet Plateaus.

The trick is to keep your body guessing, so avoid diets where you must eat the same thing over and over again. If you eat different things on different days you can achieve amazing results. I recently lost 10 pounds in one week on the Cabbage Soup Diet and my wife lost over 8. Even if you don’t like this diet you should check it out—its free and on the Internet—just to see how varying your daily eating plans can work. I never had a diet plateau There is also diets like “Strip That Fat” that allow you to make customized diets from the foods of your choice. If you do these diets wisely you can avoid the diet plateaus Best of luck with your weight loss goals.

About the Author:

You can find The Cabbage Soup Diet at my web site The Diet Clearing House.

I was born to itinerate teachers February 16, 1960 in a tiny town, in a clinic beside a grain elevator, in eastern Washington. From there our family moved every two years around the state until I was 6.

At the age of 6 my parents moved to Nigeria, West Africa, where we stayed until I was 12. We then moved to New York City. After two years there We left after North Dakota and finally after that Maryland where I married the most beautiful bride and have been ever since.

I enjoy writing, making music, art, golf, and racquet ball.

Sharing the house with me and my wife is our youngest daughter, although she is gone quite a bit now–sigh, two dogs, Billy and Calvin, and two cats, Elvis and Felina Turtle Bean. (Don’t ask.)

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A Quick Boost To Your Work Out.

Optimal Level

As you may or may not know, there are certain optimal levels of exertion in a workout that will burn fat. If you workout below these levels you will burn little or no fat and if you workout above these levels you will burn lean muscle tissue because the energy deficit in your body will be too big to allow your body enough time to convert the fat into energy. When this happens your body will switch over to burning lean muscle tissue because it can be converted to energy much faster than fat.

I good rule of thumb is to make sure you can hold a conversation as you are working out.

Resistance Is Not Futile

Resistance training will usually give you better fat burning results than aerobic training, but a combination of the two is the best.

Best 20 Minutes Of Your Workout

It usually takes at least 20 minutes of continuous aerobic exercise at an optimum level to start the fat burning process. In other words you will not start losing fat until you have been exercising for 20 minuets. That means that a 30 minute Aerobic work out only nets you 10 minutes of fat burning. A great idea would be to do 20 minutes of fat burning resistance training prior to your thirty minute aerobic workout. This way you will get the full 30 minutes of fat burning results from your aerobic workout because you entered your aerobic workout with the fat burning process already in operation.

Lose 2 – 3 pounds of pure body fat a week eating the foods you chose.

Lastly, mix it up, that’s right change your routines often or else you body will adapt and you will get minimal results.

Happy Exercising,
CW