New Year Planning
With the New Year nearly here, thoughts will soon be turning from partying and Christmas pudding to how can I lose these extra pounds.
New Year resolutions start out as well-intentioned statements of intent but all too often end up as forgotten and neglected bursts of bravado.
But to make sure that your well-intentioned statements of planned weight loss are not wasted I have compiled a short list of tips to help boost the likelihood of your New Year’s diet being a roaring success.
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The BBC reported that a forty year old mother living in Huddersfield, UK died as a result of drinking 4 litres of water in less than 2 hours.
She was attempting to lose weight and had started using a drastic diet plan that restricted her to 500 calories per day over a twelve week period and required a high intake of water.
The cause of death was given as brain swelling and the coroner recorded a judgment of accidental death.
The court was told that Mrs Henson was delighted when she managed to lose more than 11 pounds in her first week on the diet plan.
Her husband Brian said “I had no idea that too much water could kill somebody”. He said that she had returned home and started to drink water from a large 2 litre container whilst sitting down in front of the TV.
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Ok, last week we started to look at Fasting To Lose Weight. We looked at the 3 main reason why we fast, then we looked at the different ways of fasting. Today we are going to start by looking at the pros and the cons of fasting to lose weight.
Pros of Fasting To Lose Weight
- Rapid Weight Loss
- Detoxed Body
- Cleansed Colon
- Live Longer
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Know When To Stop!
Ever considered trying to lose weight by fasting? Well if you have or you just want to find out more about a subject I am getting an increasing number of questions on, then read on!
A complete fast in its traditional definition, is abstinence from all food and liquids except for water. Pretty drastic stuff!
On the face of it you would expect to lose a lot of weight by fasting, wouldn’t you? After all if you’re not taking anything in that’s half the battle won, right? Well yes and no.
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Facing Up To It
As we didn’t manage to finish everything last week, I’ll just take a quick second to recap on what we did cover.
We introduced the concept of diet sabotage; and how it can be the ones closest to you that do the most damage. Then we went on to explore why your nearest and dearest would attempt to undermine your commendable efforts and we ended up by covering the tell-tale clues that expose these diet saboteurs.
Like Wading Through Quicksand!
If you find that someone in your life fits these characteristics, it is likely you are dealing with someone who, consciously or unconsciously, does not want your weight loss efforts to succeed.
It is important to recognize if someone is making your weight loss efforts harder rather than easier; not acknowledging this will only lead to failure and resentment in your relationship. After all, weight loss changes a lot more than just your dress size and you may have to change the way you relate to your loved ones if this becomes a problem.
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Why Those Closest May Not Be The Help They Should!
I’m gonna touch on a touchy subject today. Are your friends and family being a help or a hindrance to your weight loss efforts?
Friend Or Foe?
I don’t have to tell you how hard it can be to lose weight, everything can seem to be stacked against you. Without a doubt your chances of success improve if you have supportive people around you. If you have good support from friends, have supportive colleagues at work and can go home at night to more support from your partner or family, then weight loss becomes so much easier.
It is so vital that you have every possible factor working in your favour to ensure your success and it would be reasonable to expect that our friends and family would support us in our efforts to lose weight and be healthier.
But sometimes, those closest to you, those you need and expect the most help from, may actually be trying to sabotage your weight loss efforts. Either without knowing what they are doing or more sinisterly, intentionally.
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