Area exercise and food specialists hear the same resolutions every year about this time. It’s a tradition that makes their jobs more difficult as they seek to accommodate those clamoring for their services.
David Townsend, a fitness director said his advice to people who desire to loose weight or improve their current fitness level in 2011 would be to remember that living healthy is a lifetime commitment. When it comes to working out, people should exercise at least 30 minutes three times a week. However, it is unfair to promise immediate results or even provide set numbers on how many pounds can be lost within a few weeks.
In anticipation of New Year’s resolutions, area grocery stores stocked up last week on frozen diet meals, low-fat yogurt, and fresh produce, three staples of diets this time of year.
It’s important to remember that to lose weight; the number of calories consumed must be less than the number of calories burned.
Low carb diets such as Adkins or South Beach promote an initial fast weight loss in the first two weeks of the diet with a 20-gram carbohydrate limit per day. These and other ‘fad’ diets sound like a quick fix to weight loss, but dieters generally regain their weight and sometimes more as they gradually add back the healthy unrefined carbohydrates.
Other somewhat misleading weight loss advertisements are those that proclaim dieters can lose weight by avoiding foods that raise the glycemic level. Prepackaged food diets based on the glycemic index ranks food items on how quickly they elevate blood sugar or glucose levels when compared to the same quantity of a pure glucose food, such as white bread.
These diets label certain foods as “bad,” and offer alternative food to keep the glycemic index low, thus promising weight loss.
However, these claims are unfounded, explaining why most dieters don’t experience the promised results.
Losing one to two pounds per week might seem slower than the weight loss promised by some of the trendier diets, but if a person’s goal is to keep the weight off, it’s best to do it slowly and in a safe manner. This lifestyle change will assure good health and well-being for a lifetime.
David Townsend, a fitness director said his advice to people who desire to loose weight or improve their current fitness level in 2011 would be to remember that living healthy is a lifetime commitment. When it comes to working out, people should exercise at least 30 minutes three times a week. However, it is unfair to promise immediate results or even provide set numbers on how many pounds can be lost within a few weeks.
In anticipation of New Year’s resolutions, area grocery stores stocked up last week on frozen diet meals, low-fat yogurt, and fresh produce, three staples of diets this time of year.
It’s important to remember that to lose weight; the number of calories consumed must be less than the number of calories burned.
Low carb diets such as Adkins or South Beach promote an initial fast weight loss in the first two weeks of the diet with a 20-gram carbohydrate limit per day. These and other ‘fad’ diets sound like a quick fix to weight loss, but dieters generally regain their weight and sometimes more as they gradually add back the healthy unrefined carbohydrates.
Other somewhat misleading weight loss advertisements are those that proclaim dieters can lose weight by avoiding foods that raise the glycemic level. Prepackaged food diets based on the glycemic index ranks food items on how quickly they elevate blood sugar or glucose levels when compared to the same quantity of a pure glucose food, such as white bread.
These diets label certain foods as “bad,” and offer alternative food to keep the glycemic index low, thus promising weight loss.
However, these claims are unfounded, explaining why most dieters don’t experience the promised results.
Losing one to two pounds per week might seem slower than the weight loss promised by some of the trendier diets, but if a person’s goal is to keep the weight off, it’s best to do it slowly and in a safe manner. This lifestyle change will assure good health and well-being for a lifetime.
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