Before you embark on your low-dieting weight-loss program, you need to know that some medical conditions could prevent or stall your progress. If any of these apply to you, be sure to check with your doctor for advice.

Medications

Some prescription and over-the-counter medications can prevent or stall weight loss. They increase a person’s metabolic resistance. These include the following: Read the rest of this entry »

Drink Caffeine Cautiously

How caffeine affects your weight loss can vary. Some people can continue to drink a couple of cups of coffee or a caffeinated beverage every day and have great success on a low-dieting weight-loss program. Others may find that it slows down progress.

Caffeine all by itself, even without cream and sugar, can stimulate the production of insulin because it can indirectly raise blood glucose levels by stimulating the release of glycogen stores. And, as stated previously, this can increase fat storage and thwart fat burning. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing can be done about your age, so don’t worry about it. You simply are the age you are, and yes, your metabolism slows down accordingly. But all is not lost. You can rev up your metabolism in spite of your age, no matter what age you are. Here’s what to do beyond eating the low-dieting way.

Avoid Overeating

Low-dieting weight loss only works to the extent that you don’t overeat. When you overeat, your body’s insulin levels become elevated and your body starts storing fat. Read the rest of this entry »

Some people have such slow metabolisms that losing weight is very difficult. These people have metabolic resistance. This is often caused by having too high of a body fat percentage, but it can also be caused by other factors that include decreased mobility, genetic predisposition to insulin resistance, hormonal imbalances due to medications, poor sleep, and stress. Ideal body fat percentages are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

Although some people can keep their metabolism high throughout their lives, most can’t. Certain biological factors are, well, facts of life. After a person’s biological prime, say at about age 30 or 35, the body’s hormonal system begins to slow down and continues slowing down with every passing decade. As hormone production slows, so, too, does the basal metabolic rate. Read the rest of this entry »

The key to success with dieting index weight loss is simple: Eat within your dieting load allotment every day. Here are some guidelines for choosing your allotment. Start with these recommendations and then modify them if necessary. You may need to lower them if you aren’t losing weight, or raise them if you are losing too quickly.

• Start with a dieting load allotment of 60 to 75 per day, making sure to spread this out over the course of the day. You might have 15 at each meal and three snacks of about 10 each.
• A younger person needs to eat a higher dieting load than a person who is older, because metabolism slows with age.
• A person with a lower percentage of body fat can eat a higher daily allotment than a person with a high body fat percentage. Read the rest of this entry »

The dieting load is the key to knowing how much of a carb to eat. As you have already learned, the dieting index gives you information about the quality of a carbohydrate. The numerical value tells you how eating that carbohydrate will affect your blood sugar levels. The dieting index alone, however, doesn’t give you a guide for how much of any carbohydrate you can or should eat.

When the dieting index first became popular, many people assumed that as long as a food was low dieting, it didn’t matter how much of it we ate. Wrong. Indiscriminately filling up on too many carbohydrates, even low-dieting carbs, can cause weight gain. Read the rest of this entry »

Fragments of adipose (fat) tissue taken from the outer thighs of young subjects, obese adults and older subjects and then compared their physical and biochemical structures with those from women with cellulite. Read the rest of this entry »

The structure of cellulite tissue differs considerably in structure and chemical composition from normal fat. It also tends to develop in stages:

Normal Flesh — Skin on your thighs and buttocks is smooth when you are standing or lying down. When pinched it folds and furrows but does not pit or bulge. This is the normal skin of most lean and very healthy men and women. Read the rest of this entry »

Mood Management

Eating high-dieting food creates mood disorders. Your body reacts to these foods by increasing insulin levels, which then increases the level of stress hormones.

With elevated levels of adrenaline and cortisol, a person easily experiences anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. If stress hormones stay high over a long period of time, a person can end up medically diagnosed with a mood disorder. Read the rest of this entry »