Diet on Vacation

Jul 26, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: About

Summer Travel Tips: Stay on Your Diet During Vacation

By Jennifer R. Scott, About.com

Updated: June 22, 2009

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You’ve packed your bags and set the itinerary … you’ve put the pooch in the kennel and cancelled newspaper delivery … but there’s one more thing you need to do before you hit the road: Figure out how you will stay on your diet during vacation!

Just like you wouldn’t leave home without doing those other things, if you are trying to lose weight, you will need to make some plans and set some guidelines so you don’t come back from a relaxing vacation with extra weight as your souvenir.

Check out these easy ways to stay on your diet during vacation:

Ease Up on Imbibing

It’s easy to give in to a few “adult beverages” on summer vacation, even if you don’t normally drink them. When it’s hot, they’ll cool you down and when you’re not quite in “vacation mode,” they’ll help you relax. But enjoying a few drinks can add up your caloric intake quite quickly. Case in point: A strawberry daiquiri contains around 250 calories. Down two, and you’ve taken in as many calories as an average meal!

Solution: Alternate drinks with plain water to cut back on calories (and to stay hydrated). Add cucumber or lemon slices if the water gets boring. Iced herbal teas, diet lemonade, and low-cal fruit-flavored waters are also refreshing, diet-friendly options.

More: Alcoholic Drinks Quick Guide

Do Restaurant Reconnaissance

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Weight Loss And Headaches

Jul 19, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: LifeTips

Many dieters experience headaches in the beginning of too restrictive weight loss programs or of plans that are too different from their habitual way of eating.

Reasons for this unpleasant complication are plentiful. For one t hing, migraine sufferers know that their headaches can be triggered by certain foods. sometimes they know these foods, sometimes they can be unaware of new food effects. Also, carbohydrate-rich foods can bring a short term relief but on a low carb diet, there is no carb-rich foods and no such relief.

On the other hand, this diet’s long term effect is often a complete disappearance of migraine headaches.

Headaches can be also caused by hunger and cravings that are usual on initial stages of any restrictive diet. Other than limiting your carbohydrate intake, you can fight these type of headaches by eating bulkier foods. These foods, ounce for ounce, have less calories than energy-dense foods and since your body judge when it’s time to stop eating by meal’s …
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Weight Loss Without Drugs

Jul 18, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: LifeTips

Unless your doctor prescribed you diet pills for your specific health condition, do your best to avoid over-the-counter weight loss drugs. It is possible and by choosing this drug-free way , you will avoid serious complications, sometimes even fatal. Side effects of such drugs may include fast heart beat, mood swings, sleeplessness, restlessness, high blood pressure, etc. Even the toughest weight losers like competing bodybuilders (if they are "natural" of course, and not on steroids) achieve very low body fat percentage by eating right and exercising a lot. Any diet can be right or wrong for you, the question is, which one to choose. Here are three things to consider.

If you are not an elite athlete or a heavy labor worker, a low fat diet is probably not your best choice. Research showed that low fat diets were inferior of low carb diets on both short term and long term plans.
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Volumetrics

Jul 17, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: About

The Volumetrics Diet: What You Need to Know

By Jennifer R. Scott, About.com

Updated: December 08, 2008

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What Is the Volumetrics Diet?

The diet is found in a book called The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan co-authored by Barbara Rolls, PhD, a nutrition researcher at Penn State University, and Robert Barnett, a nutrition writer.

Who Is Dr. Barbara Rolls?

In addition to co-authoring the Volumetrics book, Dr. Rolls has researched obesity for more than 20 years. She served on the advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Diabetes and Digestion and Kidney Disease as well as the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, for which she served as president.

What Is the Volumetrics Plan About?

The diet is based on the premise that it’s the volume of food eaten, rather than the number of calories consumed, that leads to our experiencing a sense of satiety (fullness). The plan promises that by eating foods that fill you up on fewer calories you will lose weight without feeling like you’re on a diet, being hungry, or suffering from a sense of deprivation.

You will see something called “calorie density” mentioned in this plan. The recommended foods on this diet have a low energy density, meaning they promote a sense of fullness; those to be avoided are energy dense, meaning they are higher in calories or you must eat a lot of them before you begin feeling full.

What Is the Evidence Behind This Diet?

According to the authors, we tend to eat roughly the same amount of food each day, regardless of the total number of calories consumed. If you eat about the same weight of food containing fewer …
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Very Low Calorie Diet

Jul 17, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: About

What is a Very Low Calorie Diet?

By Jennifer R. Scott, About.com

Updated: November 10, 2008

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What is a VLCD?

A very low-calorie diet — sometimes referred to as a VLC diet or VLCD — is a medically-supervised diet plan that produces rapid weight loss. VLC diets are used to help moderately to extremely obese people achieve significant, short-term weight loss as part of a comprehensive weight loss program that also typically includes therapy, nutrition counseling, and exercise.

How do VLC Diets Work?

VLC diets are designed to produce rapid weight loss at the beginning of an ongoing weight-loss program. Liquid shakes or meal replacement bars replace food for anywhere between several weeks to several months.

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