All about Weight Loss

Almost everyone loves eating deserts. I know I do! However the timing of the consuming the desert may hold the key to not adding additional pounds.

Did you notice that after a dinner or lunch when we feel full we are surprised by the desert we have totally forgotten about. Hard to turn down right? I know I always try to justify by saying I left some space for desert. In reality when I am busy eating my mains I don’t say to myself I am leaving space for the desert and thus eat less main meal. It never happens.

This means that I am consuming excessive calories which is a sure way to gain weight. A trick I use is to eat my deserts about 30 minutes before my main meal. This means it does not spoil my appetite for my main meal and I tend to eat less of the main meal as I am already partially full. Net result less calorie intake and sure to prevent the desert weight gain.

Happy deserting 🙂

This is similar to margarine being healthier than butter myth. Margarine is been found to be just the opposite. Toxic and even cancer causing. People have been going in droves to eat butter and more natural produce,

The idea of waking up next to a fridge full of ready processed food instead of having to hunt and gather it is a relatively new one. Our ancestor did not have this luxury available and biologically and scientifically we are not build to have continuous easy to obtain meals. In fact the the trend is less is more and the take up of intermittent fasting. So skipping breakfast which the media tells us is the most important meal in the day may not be so bad to skip once in a while.

Skipping breakfast is the one of the easiest intermittent fasting to do. We then have out lunch being the main meal. Benefit is that intermittent fasting not only reduces our net caloric intake in resulting in weight loss. Intermittent fasting is also proven to an increase lifespan.

In the great depression the average lifespan increased more than 6 years or 10% in those days. A Harvard research confirms the link between reduced caloric intake such as intermittent fasting results in longer life ( https://newatlas.com/fasting-increase-lifespan-mitochondria-harvard/52058/ ).

I used to weigh almost 100kg (now only weigh 77kg) and did not feel very good. I suffered from low energy, my clothing was too tight and I had been diagnosed with pre-diabetics. My doctor said I have 2 options. One, do lots of exercise and another was to simply loose weight. I have tried dieting before and it was not good fun. In fact after dieting I always put back the weight. I need to have a life style change that I could maintain as in never give up. Welcome Intermittent Fasting!

Intermittent Fasting was basically 3 times 24 hours without food followed by eating anything I want. Usually my portion sizes were 20% more than normal but the net calories deficit meant I lost weight fast and blood sure level went down. My fasting days were Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So I always had a weekday break between fasting. However my biggest problem was my hunger.

I found myself drinking lots of tea and coffee on my fasting days which helped quench the hunger. The rules were the beverages needed to be consumed black (so no sugar of milk). I often drank weight loosing tea on my fasting days to further assist in the weight loss and not to drink too much coffee. The tea really helped suppress my hunger (which I really need help with) and it changed my metabolism to assist in loosing weight even faster. So a 2 in 1 solution.

It is very hard at the beginning and I took 2 months until I could do the fasting without breaking a sweat. And to this present day I am still doing intermittent fasting. It is part of my lifestyle and with my tea drinking this has become sustainable.

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This is officially the first post for my weight watcher blog. It is my aim to show people that to loosing weight is easy, fun and foremost achievable. I had several relatives that passed away from excess fat leaving behind their loving children and partner. Truth is I personally felt worst for the people left behind than the people who left!

This is a collection of stories of people and their weight loss journeys, as well as thoughts and published research on weight loss. I hope you enjoy this site as much as I enjoyed writing about it….