Healthy Meal Ideas For Losing Weight

You know one of the questions I get asked a lot is what do you eat to lose your belly fat? What are the BEST foods to eat?… Well, there a loads of great foods to eat to lose belly fat. Here are some: Eggs (boiled, poached and even fried sometimes) Cabbage and broccoli Peaches, pears and pineapples Nuts So there you have it…..nah just kidding!!! I won’t just leave it like that… This post is about 3 types of food combinations that you can use right now to start burning belly fat. You can eat these any time in [...]

Want to comment?

Fatty sugary processed food - produces addition like symptoms

Apparently scientists have found that the way sugary food affects your eating patterns is very similar to what happens when you take cocaine! (Check it out here) This year there were over 25 papers all dealing with the growing observation that junk and processed food consumption can produce addiction-like symptoms. Some highlights from the piece include Rats having a field day with sugared water…and not with taking cocaine (free drugs and junk food is now the fashionable lifestyle if you are rat apparently ) Milkshakes numbing the pleasure centres in the brains of obese women – basically making them crave [...]

Want to comment?

As a man, talking about going on a “diet” or “having to watch what I eat” can be a little bit humbling. We often caveat it with some reference to the gym…to, you know, seem a bit more manly. “Yes…I’m going to be on the protein shakes and I’ll be hitting the gym to lose the fat” Or “I’m going out running for a 10K then I’ll be hitting the rowing machine…” Of course all the weight loss programs that we conjure up for ourselves usually have 2 elements: 1) They are just what you do now but super-sized – [...]

Want to comment?

Before even getting into the idea of controlling your blood sugar to lose fat, let me say that your body does a pretty good job on its own without you having to change what you eat that much. The process of digesting food and breaking it down into components such as fatty acids, amino acids and glucose. This is what provides fuel for your body and the ability to maintain its tissues and organs. Glucose is the main source of fuel and is basically “sugar”. So when you hear about blood sugar, it’s the amount of glucose in your blood. [...]

Want to comment?

There is going to be an occasion when you’ll be faced with eating some cake…and probably some nice cake… So what do you do? Well, you eat it Hang on…isn’t the whole idea to get a flat belly about not eating chocolate and cakes? The usual stuff you hear is about taking out all sugary foods and eliminating refined carbs… But actually the trick is that you don’t have to completely deny yourself sugary foods and beer or wine to lose stomach fat. You do have to learn to reduce eating things like fatty foods and cake and build the [...]

Want to comment?