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Weight Loss Spa Treatments

 

Another easy way to get fast weight-loss results is to get beauty treatments specifically designed to help you shed inches quickly. By visiting a spa, sauna, or wellness clinic offering weight loss beauty services and procedures, you can have your pick of numerous beauty treatments and spa services that are designed to help you lose weight quickly or to alter your appearance by reducing bloating, tightening your skin, or removing body fluids.These processes only involve temporary weight loss, but the results are immediate and do not involve dieting or exercise.

1- Ask about a mineral body wrap. Some mineral wraps claim to help you slim down by literally making you “lose” inches off of your waist, thighs, and arms. The process involves a mineral-based cleanse that is supposed to detoxify your body, helping you shed weight, reduce cellulite (fat near the surface of your skin), and tone and firm your skin almost instantly.

2- Get a lipase body wrap. Lipase body wraps are another quick-slim beauty treatment that follow a two-step phase.

• First, an enzyme wrap is applied to rid your body of fat tissue near the surface of the skin.
• A second mineral wrap is then applied, designed to tighten and smooth your skin.

3- Get a European body wrap. European body wraps are another potential option for spa services aimed at dropping inches off of trouble spots. This procedure is supposed to firm and tone skin, reduce the appearance of cellulite or stretch marks, and temporarily promotes weight loss

4- Get a hot body wrap. Heat-based body wraps are perhaps a more well-known spa treatment, designed both to detoxify your body and stimulate smooth, toned skin. The heat and massage involved in most heat or steam treatments is targeted at improving circulation and helping your body slim down quickly.

5- Go to a sauna. Saunas may result in a loss of a pint of sweat in just a quarter of an hour.

6- Get a colonic. Some spas offer colonic irrigation treatments, which involve physically flushing your colon with large amounts of water to remove fecal accumulation.

• This process may help some people who suffer from bloating, gas, and constipation and claims to spur weight loss in some individuals.

7- Liposuction can shed pounds instantly. Liposuction is a surgical option for fast, targeted weight loss, generally only recommended for people with one or two specific areas of highly fatty tissue but otherwise relatively healthy body weight.

• Because it is a surgical procedure, it carries significant health risks and should only be performed by a licensed professional.

Healthy Eating Habits

1- Develop a healthy and personalized meal plan.
2- Plan your meals in advance.
3- Determine your daily calorie needs.
4- Keep a food diary: Write down every meal, snack, and drink you consume as well as the approximate quantities for an entire week.

• When possible, write down the number of calories in each food you eat as you eat it.
• Keep in mind that the recommended serving size is often considerably smaller than the serving you actually eat.
• Don’t forget to include coffee mix-ins, condiments, and other additions to your daily diet.
• Once you have done this, you should be able to estimate your typical daily calorie intake and compare it to your goal with an online calorie calculator.

5- Identify your food triggers and plan accordingly.
6- Watch your portion sizes.
7- Don’t skip meals
8- Select smart substitutes for unhealthy sources of fat, sugar, and calories.
9- Snack smartly: Swap potato chips and candy bars for snacks that are nutrient-rich and low in calories and fat. Avoid processed and packaged foods when possible, or buy snacks that have single-serving packets of 100 to 200 calories. Healthy and easy snacks include nuts, rice cakes, fresh or dried fruits, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, and so on. Vegetables are generally very low in calories, very high in fiber, and full of flavor and nutrition, but avoid fatty dressings or dips. Fruit provides a good source of soluble fiber, releasing energy more slowly and keeping you feeling full longer. Low-fat dairy products, such as yogurt or cheddar cheese, can also be healthy snacks in moderation. Try combining string cheese with a handful of grapes, spreading peanut butter on a few crackers, or dipping sliced red pepper into a few tablespoons of hummus
10- Sip on low-calorie 100% fruit juice, seltzer, or water instead of soft drinks, energy drinks, flavored coffees, and martinis.
11- Choose lean meats.
12- Replace high-calorie side dishes with healthier alternatives: For instance, exchange cheesy pasta or mashed potatoes with steamed vegetables or salad
13- Drinking water instead of soda, coffee, alcohol, juice, or milk may help you cut hundreds of calories per day.
14- Avoid tempting grocery aisles: Avoid the areas in the grocery store that stock sodas, cookies, ice cream, pizzas, and other fattening and highly processed foods, so that you are less likely to purchase unhealthy options.
15- Prepare your meals at home instead of buying fast food.

Healthy Monday Tip: Exercise After Eating

 

Most of us exercise before we eat. It's usually easier to work out without a gut full of food. But if you are going to eat a high fat meal, there may be a good reason to get some activity after your meal, as well. A new study found that when subjects performed light exercise after a high fat meal they had lower post-meal triglyceride levels.

Scientists only examined ten subjects in their study, so this research should not be used to justify eating high fat meals. Exercise won't erase the impact of a greasy burger and fries. But study authors did find that a brisk walk and some light resistance training was effective at lowering triglyceride levels when they measured them two, four and six hours after meal intake.

So why does this matter? For a long time, scientists have believed that atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries is a postprandial occurrence. That means it happens after your meal. If light exercise can lower triglyceride levels during that time, it may be reasonable to believe that it can decrease one's risk of atherosclerosis and disease.

Again, the study was very small. But, there are very few reasons not to add a walk or some light resistance training to your day after eating. At the very least, you'll burn a few extra calories, have quality time with your workout partner, and increase your chancea for a good night's sleep.

 

http://weightloss.about.com/b/2013/01/28/healthy-monday-tip-exercise-after-eating.htm



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Instead of...	Do this...
An afternoon Coke	Drink a glass of water. (calories saved: 97)
An Egg McMuffin	Eat a small whole wheat bagel +1 Tbsp of peanut butter (calories saved: 185)
Using your break eat sweets	Walk up and down a flight of stairs for 10 minutes (calories burned: 100)
Hitting the snooze button	Get up 10 minutes early and go for a brisk walk (calories burned: 100)
Watching TV after work	Do 10 minutes of yoga (calories burned: 50)

Healthful Snacks

 

 

 

 

 What many people consider a "snack"—an energy bar, part of a bag of chips, or side order at a fast-food restaurant—can actually have 400 or more calories, making it more like a meal. A true snack, says Melanie Douglass, a registered dietitian and personal trainer based in Salt Lake City, is about 150 to 200 calories. Here are several of her healthful snack suggestions that fit the bill.

1. A cup of high-fiber cereal (like Kashi Heart to Heart) and a small handful of pumpkin seeds.
2. One ounce of nuts, which is about 24 almonds or 15 walnuts.
3. One cup of bran flakes with half a cup of chocolate milk.
4. One handful of red grapes.
5. Skinny Cow brand ice cream treat.
6. Whole-wheat toast—be sure it's 100 percent whole-wheat—with a bit of peanut butter.
7. One stick of string cheese with a piece of fruit.
8. One whole-wheat tortilla with a few spoonfuls of canned black beans.
9. One serving of Greek yogurt with a handful berries.
10. Any fruit or vegetable.

My Morning

Healthy Morning

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                          Perfect Breakfast

You can safely lose 3 or more pounds a week at home with a healthy diet and lots of exercise, says weight loss counselor Katherine Tallmadge, RD.

Diets for Fast Weight Loss

Dansinger recommends eating a diet that minimizes starches, added sugars, and animal fat from meat and dairy foods. For rapid weight loss, he recommends focusing on fruits, veggies, egg whites, soy products, skinless poultry breasts, fish, shellfish, nonfat dairy foods, and 95% lean meat.
Here are more tips from Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, author of The Flexitarian Diet:

• Eat vegetables to help you feel full.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Get tempting foods out of your home.
• Stay busy -- you don't want to eat just because you're bored.
• Eat only from a plate, while seated at a table. No grazing in front of the 'fridge.
• Don't skip meals.

Keeping a food journal -- writing down everything you eat -- can also help you stay on track.
"Even if you write it down on a napkin and end up throwing it away, the act of writing it down is about being accountable to yourself and is a very effective tool for weight loss," says Bonnie Taub Dix, MA, RD, author of Read It Before You Eat It.
Besides jotting down what you ate, and when, you might also want to note how you were feeling right before you ate it. Were you angry, sad, or bored? We often focus so much on foods and calories, but our emotions are a huge part of our eating habits.
If you see a persistent pattern in your emotional eating, please consider talking to a counselor about it. They can be a big help in finding other ways to handle your feelings.