Weight Loss Programs

Real and permanent weight loss often seems to be a goal as hard to achieve as an Olympic medal. But you can enjoy the benefits of juicing and also shed pounds with these juicing recipies for weight loss.

Drink one or two glasses of juice daily. In this quantity, you will consume the nutrients of about the amount of veggies and fruit that everyone has always recommended. The real advantage of juicing is the concentrated nutrient value, which even the very same commercially bottled juice will have lost due to oxidation and heat. Freshness, maximum nutrition, and convenience are three of the four juicing benefits.

The following recipes introduce you to the fourth juicing benefit: the unending variety available in juices you make yourself. Start with this one from the Great Juicing book:

Pineapple-Orange Rapture

4 oranges

2 cups pineapple

1 sweet potato

Process in juicer. Stir. This is very high in vitamins A and C — a great morning drink. Kids love it — just don’t mention all the ingredients. This juice by itself is very sweet, so use it mostly for flavoring other juices with a high vegetable content.

Do not get too enthusiastic about a juicing diet. Diets that claim to lose more than 1/2 pound per week are probably unhealthy. That includes a diet of just juiced fruits and vegetables.

You can start with a juice fast of 1-2 days to clean out your system and help you jump-start a juicing diet for weight loss, although it is not necessary, but do not continue without adequate protein and fats, as well as the carbohydrates the juices do not provide. And do not juice all the veggies you eat. You need plenty of fiber to keep your intestines working.

Drinking the 1-2 glasses of juice daily will provide you not only with many basic nutrients, but it can give you a great deal of sugar. Juices, especially those with a lot of fruit or carrots, can be very sweet. Diabetics or pre-diabetics need to be careful with these ingredients. Stick more to the vegetables — not bad advice for any weight loss plan. Vegetables, except carrots and sweet potatoes, are generally low in calories. Use the sweet ones more as condiments to add interest to the vegetables. Here’s another recipe:

Red Wonder Juice

3 carrots

1 apple, cored

1 cucumber

1 beet

1 stalk of celery

Juice. Include some fresh ginger if you think it needs a bit of a zing.

Starting from this recipe, try including more vegetables and less of the sweet stuff to further reduce the calories and the effects on your blood sugar.

You will win a gold medal when you apply your own program of juicing for weight loss. No matter how you do it, you will have weight loss along with all the juicing benefits of convenience, nutrition, freshness, and variety. Please mount the award stand now!

By Gladys Alvarez

In the past articles I have been talking about weight loss and keeping fit. I have been telling you several things. Among them, that you must want to lose the weight for yourself. Not for your boyfriend, husband, parent or anyone else. You have to want to do it for no one else, but you! When you have been on this road several times, it is because you have been trying to overcome some common road blocks.

These are some of them:

You read about all the failure rates, about how 95 percent of the people who have lost weight, tend to gain the weight back and then some, how it just doesn’t last very long. And the reality is that yes, in a lot of cases that happens, but, approximately twenty-five percent of those who lose the weight, keep it off for at least three years or more. There had to be a reason for that and a common thread.

Let me tell you about those common threads:

They had faith in themselves. They believed they could lose the weight and although they might have been on this road several times before, they just did not give up. After a while of repeating the yoyo pattern, they got tired of it and at that point decided to take control of their situation.

The majority of those who were able to keep their weight off, exercised regularly without becoming fanatics about it. They simple found a way to include the exercise that worked for them; like walking, which is one of the most recommended, into their daily routine, whatever that might be.

They think in a positive way, and feed their brains positive thoughts even when they overindulge. Rather than punishing themselves by eating more and more, they forgive themselves and tell themselves..I overdid it that time, but I’ll be extra careful the rest of the day.

Another difficulty is getting the proper support from those around you. They don’t understand what you are trying to do, and therefore, constantly ask you to..”try this”, or “a little taste is not going to kill you”, and so forth, you know the pattern. You have to stay strong, make them understand that losing the weight is important to you and ask for their support.

This one is what I consider at the top of the list. We must be willing to learn new ways of eating. We must learn to eat low fat foods as a way of life. We must learn to enjoy fruits, vegetables and grains. Our ancestors did not know of fats, fried foods or processed anything. They had a diet of grains, fruits, legumes and vegetables. The people in countries that maintain this habit, you have read about them, live into their hundreds and in pretty good health, especially mental health.

As I said at the beginning, you lose the weight for yourself not for anyone else. They enjoy life. A number of those who are successful today, used to take care of others and neglected themselves, food being their only satisfaction and companion. They have overcome that, and although they still take care of others they have learned to take care of themselves also.

Do not give up!

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By Gladys Alvarez

For some time now I have been enlightening you about artificial sweeteners and the dangers to our health and our weight. Some of you may ask, is anything out there safe to ingest without gaining any additional weight or affecting our health and weight?

The following are some high-calorie alternatives, which most likely are not for those with diabetes.

Maple syrup is considered the only large-scale, sustainably-harvested, forest sweetener in the world. It is one of the richest source of minerals found in any sweetener, buy organic.

Organic sugarcane molasses is another sweetener fairly rich in vitamins and minerals and has been purported (like fresh sugar cane) to have “anti-stiffness factors” that break down detrimental calcification.

Coconut palm sugar is available as a sweetener also, but is usually heat-processed, so try to find raw coconut palm sugar.

In South American countries Stevia has been used as a natural sweetener for centuries as well as in Japan. It is fast becoming popular in many countries due to its zero glycemic index and zero calories. Let us not forget that cancer cells thrive on sugars and fats. So we should be careful of the amount of sugar we consume as well as the amount of fats.

Beware of products that are advertised as natural and are not organic. Remember that if a product is processed, very likely it will contain additives and chemicals that are detrimental to our health in general.

Are we aware that the big sugar companies donate incredible amounts of dollars, somewhere in the millions to both political parties in order to make sure that Congress keeps tariffs high on foreign sugar so that the sugar industry in the US can charge higher prices thereby benefitting those companies who produce corn syrup (fructose) which is a sugar substitute and is added to many of the products we consume, like candy, sodas, etc. Corn syrup is a cheaper sweetener substitute. Read the labels!

Sucralose (Splenda) has turned out to be one of our favorite sugar substitutes now a days, but according to some studies, Sucralose alters the microflora in the intestine and “exerts numerous adverse effects”, including weight gain. We find more and more often that people who are constant users of drinks with artificial sweeteners, gain weight instead of losing it. Is this something we want to be consuming?

The more you read and research, as with any topic, there are pros-and-cons, but I tend to lean, for our health’s sake, toward the premise that sucralose is an organochloride compound. and that most of the derivatives of this type of compound are INSECTICIDES, HERBICIDES AND PESTICIDES.

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By Gladys Alvarez

Attaining and maintaining an ideal weight is a lifelong challenge, yet today there are many weight loss programs being advertised that encourage us to “lose weight fast”.

The fact of the matter is, losing weight fast is a very bad thing! When you lose weight fast, you put a lot of stress on your heart, you feel deprived, and you set yourself up to gain weight fast as soon as you stop losing weight fast.

Instead of losing weight fast, it is far better to focus on gaining good health steadily and continuing to do so on an ongoing basis. When you shift your focus to this easily attainable long-term goal, it will be much easier to respond appropriately to temptation and live your daily life without inappropriate food guilt. Here are some nutrition and lifestyle changes that will set you on the path to lifelong wellness.

The first thing you should do when thinking about attaining and maintaining your ideal level of health and wellness is to establish goals that you can achieve. For example, if you currently drink three sodas a day, set yourself a goal of substituting pure filtered water for two of them. This is an attainable goal that will reap big benefits in terms of health, well-being, fitness and weight loss. Be sure to drink plenty of pure water to stay hydrated and satisfied all day long.

Avoid setting absurd and unattainable goals, such as following a harshly restrictive low calorie diet. This is simply punitive and unhealthy. There is no reason why you should stay motivated to follow an unpleasant diet, and you surely won’t, so don’t waste your time with it. Instead, provide yourself with a healthful diet consisting of ample amounts of nourishing whole foods. Remember that by eating several mini-meals a day rather than three large ones, you will be far less likely to feel hungry. Snack freely on fresh fruits and vegetables and be sure that all of your foods are high quality, healthful and delicious.

While the greater part of your health and wellness diet should be fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and high quality protein, you should not deny yourself things you truly enjoy. Having an occasional small bag of chips or a cookie is not going to destroy your weight loss plan or your health. Commit yourself to making truly healthful choices 95% of the time, and allow yourself to have some of your favorite foods occasionally. What you will find over time is that your body will make a shift to enjoying healthful choices more, and you won’t need to worry about overindulging in non-healthful choices.

When you decide you are ready to make nutrition and lifestyle changes that will help you attain and maintain your ideal weight and wellness, take a tour of your kitchen. If you have a lot of junk food, it would be a good idea to get rid of it. Once it is gone, set yourself the goal of not replacing it. Be sure that your kitchen is filled with healthful nutritious choices. Have your occasional chips and soda when you are out at a movie, on a picnic or visiting with your family.

Making the nutrition and lifestyle changes you need to be slim, healthy and strong is a doable, attainable lifelong goal. By setting up your home and your lifestyle in such a way that it is easy and enjoyable for you to make solid, healthful choices on a regular basis, you are paving the way to lasting fitness.

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By Richard Lipman M.D.

Caffeine is clearly America’s drug.of choice. Over half of the population drinks 1 or more cups of coffee each day. Many end up drinking in excess of four cups each day. Caffeine is found in tea, numerous coffee beverages, energy drinks and sodas as well as in foods containing chocolate is everywhere you look. Even some weight loss supplements have extra caffeine. Coffee has 2 calories per 8 oz cup. So coffee or tea are nearly calorie neutral. Nevertheless, it really is what that is put into the coffee that is certainly the issue. A tablespoon of cream has 30 calories as well as a teaspoon of sugar has 20 calories. Go to Starbucks and you will discover a Grande Carmel Mocha Frappachino has 306 calories and a Grande White Chocolate Mocha has 510 calories. Stick with coffee and non fat milk with splenda and you might have consumed less than 60 calories. People that drink two or far more cups of coffee per day are constantly concerned about whether the caffeine is healthy and whether it helps or hinders weight reduction.

Caffeine and Weight Loss: Studies indicate that drinking coffee or tea with caffeine may slightly boost weight loss or prevent weight gain. But there’s no evidence that increased caffeine consumption results in significant or permanent weight loss. Although reduction in appetite is noted by most coffee drinkers, its only transient. Adding sugar, even a single teaspoon quickly reverses the appeite reduction and ends in more hunger.

Appetite Suppression: Caffeine may reduce appetite for a short time. But there’s not enough evidence to show that long-term consumption results in signficant weight loss.

Calorie Burning: Caffeine may help burn fat. But this is not significant so you will not see it on a scale. You need to be careful not to confuse studies on rats in a laboratory and humans. Just because metabolism may increase in lab animals, this data cannot be transferred to humans.

Water Loss: Caffeine acts as a mild diuretic, the mild water loss may temporarily decrease your body weight One study suggested that green tea (300 mg. of caffeine) might increase metabolism and promote weight loss.

For the group of people who drink higher levels of caffeine, weight loss numbers were also higher which suggested a connection between caffeine intake and increased metabolism. There was a suggestion of decrease in appetite as well. However, the group’s ability to maintain that weight loss was less. The answer is that caffeine is probably weight neutral. It neither helps nor hinders weight loss. The good news for coffee drinkers is that most of the long-term results are positive. Moderate coffee drinking is perfectly safe. As to increasing or decreasing metabolism, the evidence is also not clear. Some studies show an increase, while others show no change. One needs to be careful because the well known increase in fidgeting with caffeine may account for some increase in metabolism

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By Gladys Alvarez

Here we are again to talk to you about losing weight.

We have foods we call “comfort foods”, such as starchy carbs which make us drowsy or relaxed, while foods that are high in protein, can make us mentally alert when we are feeling tired, like fish, poultry and dairy products.

If we are overweight and we want to lose those extra pounds, we must question ourselves and find where our weak points are. Very possibly our overweight is due to excessive negative carbs, low protein and little, if any physical activity!

If we are serious about losing that weight, then we must take charge of our life, (it depends on our actions) and we must ask our self: Where is it that we are tempted to overeat or eat the wrong things? Is it at the movies, where we can eat that popcorn loaded with “butter”? Those Nachos with cheese?

At home in front of our TV? Or perhaps it is at work, where every day someone brings dough-nuts or perhaps a cake for a Birthday? Maybe you buy yours snacks from that Vending Machine with all those goodies.

When you have identified your weak spots, avoid them by taking with you a healthy fruit snack instead, even a low fat pretzel will work. Watch those fruits that are high in sugar content. Try snacks with nuts that are low in fat and sodium.

Avoid those fast food places where the food is loaded with saturated fats, sugars and carbs, while at the same time being very low in fiber and I wonder if you really want to know about the use of cattle body parts to make those hamburger patties. I could tell you about them and gross you out, but take my word for it, avoid those fast food burgers like you would avoid the plague! And if you have children, please don’t give it to them.

We as parents sometimes think that because our children are young, it’s OK to feed them whatever garbage they ask for. That is where we are supposed to come in to teach them about eating healthy foods.

In my experience I have seen parents having to take their children for a Lab-work only to find out that all those French fries, fried ripe bananas and other fried foods their children are eating, have caused them to develop very high cholesterol. Remember, just because they are young doesn’t mean they are immune to illness just as we are. Just because they are fat, does not mean they are healthy!

Let us set an example, pack up healthy lunches, not processed meats, such as ham, bologna etc. Processed foods are loaded with fats, sodium and nitrite to enhance color and extend the shelve life and that includes our beloved hot dogs.

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Losing weight is a common goal that many people have. Most want to learn how to lose weight fast and get frustrated if they don’t.

The quickest way to learn how to lose weight fast is by burning calories. This can be done with plenty of exercise, running, swimming and one of the easiest ways is machines. Most of your weight loss machines will keep count of the calories you are burning which can be very satisfying to someone and keep their motivation up.

While burning calories will let you start dropping weight at a fast pace, you need to keep your health first. Depending on how many calories you are able to burn a day will determine how much you will need to eat. Burning calories is critical in learning how to lose weight fast. For example, someone that just burned a thousand calories in a day can not only eat two hundred calories that day without having some health risks.

This will cause you to become extremely dehydrated, weak and eventually you will notice you will not have the physical energy to continue to work out everyday. This will also set you back in your goal to lose weight. While it will look to you like you are dropping the pounds quickly, in reality, you are starving yourself and your body will soon get used to not being fed. This is not how to lose weight fast.

When this happens, your body will start storing any food you are eating as fat to keep alive. As soon as you go back to eating, you will gain all of that weight back instantly and it may take you longer the second time around to lose it. Until your body realizes it will be fed properly, it will not digest the food like it is supposed to. To learn how to lose weight fast at a healthy pace and to ensure you are going to keep it off, it is best that you feed yourself enough food throughout the day to compensate for your workout.

Choosing a healthy diet, along with workout, can also help assist in quicker results. You will want to stay away from foods that are full of fat and sugars. It is crucial that you eat food with a lot of protein while you are learning how to lose weight fast. This will ensure you can keep your strength during your workout.

Also, foods with calcium, vitamins and plenty of water are highly recommended to have a healthy balance weight. Calcium is important to keep your bones healthy. Not only do you have to worry about keeping yourself healthy to continue to learning how to lose weight fast and properly, starving yourself can also affect your teeth, hair,nails and many other things that will be noticeable to people.

The overall point to learning how to lose weight fast, other than that being overweight is also as unhealthy as being underweight, is the way you look. You need to keep in mind that weight loss is not the only goal you are trying to achieve. You want to look good everywhere.

Workout as much as you can and burn off those calories. You will not only look better, you will also feel a lot better physically. You will be able to learn how to lose weight fast as well. how to lose weight fast

By Gladys B Alvarez

We all know that if today we are at a svelte 110 Lbs, and (we think) that tomorrow we are weighing 140/150 Lbs, it was not because we were making the right food or nutrution choices. Here are some tips that should help you along that road to losing the extra pounds, provided you are really serious about doing so:

Tip # 1

Ladies, for some time now I have been encouraging you to pay careful attention to your health and the health of those who surround you. I have been educating you to the fact that any form of exercise, improves your health. That reading the labels on the packaging of the foods you are purchasing is very important. We have become a nation of obese people. We think that since we have plenty, we are obligated to consume it all, and we are doing an excellent job of it.

Tip # 2

Before you exercise, if you do it in the morning have a light snack, so you don’t run out of energy in the process. In the interim, if you do so in the afternoon, have yourself a small carb snack, one or two hours in advance. To help your muscles recoup after your exercise, have a combination of protein and carbs, but make that a small portion and above all, do not forget to drink a lot of water. Some of us claim not to like water, and do not drink and much water as we need; but there are natural enhancers to flavor your water, I like a few drops of lemon, if you go for commercial enhancers, read the labels for sugar content.

Tip # 3

Remember that with any luck, with the advance in scientific findings, the chances of our living to a ripe old age keep improving, but… we do not want to get old in an unhealthy body or mind. Among some of the advantages, is the fact that we can remain independent and not become a burden to anyone, to that respect, we need to keep both mind and body, active. Research says that Alzheimers can be caused by inheritance or it could be caused by the inactivity of our brains. We pray for a long life, so we can see our children and grandchildren grow, in that case, the best chance we have of getting there, is by being healthy, and by taking care of ourselves today.

Tip # 4

To those of you who have children, take a good look at them, don’t be blind to the fact that they may be overweight, it’s bad enough that school food is not exactly healthy, let us not contribute to that fact by feeding our kids processed foods, cereals and snacks full of sugar, and sandwiches with preserved meats that are loaded with chemicals. Researches claim that just one serving a day of any of the preserved meats that our children ingest, increases their chances toward developing, at a later point, any number of diseases that they should not acquire otherwise and could do very well without.

Tip # 5

Consequently, let us not be enablers, by buying them all the wrong treats and foods just because they want them; if we do that, we are also predisposing them to becoming diabetics or morbidly obese, and what about choking the heart with all that surrounding fat! There is hardly an internal organ that does not suffer when we are overweight or heavy. And last but not least, let us not forget the taunting our children undergo from the other children in school, the name calling, the humiliating feeling they get because they are heavy! Our kids are our most precious commodity; let us take good care of them! Good luck!

Dr. Gladys Alvarez has 35 years of research in nutrition and weight reduction. She is now able to present you with her multiple fat loss strategies to see stubborn fat come right off your body that you can implement right away. Visit her website at http://www.bestweightlossplanss.com Today!

By Gladys Alvarez

Gaining weight not only affects your appearance, it also affects your self esteem, which in turn may cause depression, and other health problems. If you have tried to lose weight and have been successful at it, you know the great feeling of accomplishment, success, and confidence that comes with it. These are some of the reasons why a great number of people today are striving to lose the extra pounds.

People not only want to look good, but they also want to be healthy. We all know that being overweight can cause an innumerable amount of health issues, such as diabetes, heart problems, and hypertension just to name a few. When wanting to lose weight, we seldom go a doctor or a dietitian in order to obtain the proper techniques for rapid weight loss.

Before a physician suggests a technique for you to lose the extra pounds, he may suggest you have a physical and Lab work-up performed in order to determine where your weaknesses are. After consulting with him, you can begin the weight loss techniques by following whatever plan he draws for you.

There is no such thing as one diet to fit all who wish to lose weight. The unfailing rule is to determine what your caloric daily intake should be, based on your sex, height, weight and degree of physical activity.

Rapid weight loss can be obtained by reducing your caloric daily intake by 500 calories and increasing your activity level, as well as including a positive mindset. You must tell your brain, that losing weight is something that you CAN DO!

If you think that by skipping meals you will lose weight faster, you are wrong. All you are doing is sending your brain and body the message that you are going into starving mode, and your body will refuse to lose that weight. You will instead, lose muscle mass along with the few pounds you may lose. Stay away from fast foods, processed meats, sodas and sweets. Instead, eat meals that have a high fiber content such as vegetables, fruits and nuts, they will keep you fuller longer and hold off your cravings.

Remember, it is not only about losing the extra weight; it really is about changing our eating habits for healthier ones. Learn to like vegetables, fruits that not loaded with sugar and lower your salt intake. Don’t forget that the majority of the foods we buy are already overloaded with sodium and chemicals.

Use the variety of seasoning that is available. Follow an exercise program, whether it is walking, running, swimming, jogging or dancing if that is what you like to do.

Lately, a great number of people are following dancing programs in order to lose the weight and are being quite successful at it, because dancing is not only a fun but a great technique for burning calories and rapid weight loss. By the way, do not forget to stay hydrated.

Always follow a realistic plan. Do not over exert yourself, or you will lose interest and not be able to stick to your plan.

Don’t forget that the best way to keep your weight off is to make permanent changes to your life style and maintain a constant physical activity plan.

Dr. Gladys Alvarez has 35 years of research in nutrition and weight reduction. She is now able to present you with her multiple fat loss strategies to see stubborn fat come right off your body that you can implement right away. Visit her website at
http://www.bestweightlossplanss.com Today!

Many are discovering juicing benefits for the body as people are discovering the benefits of choosing organic food. Choosing organic food and juicing can help a person to absorb the nutrients better. In juicing, the enzymes are still intact, which is better compared to the amount of nutrients in cooked vegetables. Eating vegetables raw is more beneficial, as one gets the concentrated enzymes inside the fruits and vegetables.

Juicing benefits can speed up the metabolism. It can also increase the amount of phytochemicals in our body. Juicing is good for hospital patients who have just undergone a surgical procedure. It is recommended for people who have digestive problems. Patients who take advantage of juicing benefits can easily meet the daily requirements of the body in a single vegetable or fruit drink.

Through juicing, one can take in more vegetables and fruits than what they would normally eat. This makes it is easier to get the vitamins and minerals needed to fight major illnesses and to prevent any disease from developing.

What are the main juicing benefits?

It will lower the cholesterol levels. Instead of drinking sugary and carbonated drinks, replace it with vegetable and fruit juice and you can easily lower down cholesterol levels. Drinking juice will give your body with vitamins C and E, which are needed to repair the body and reduce stress that can lead to inflammation and other diseases. If you want to get more vitamin C in order to become healthier, add blackberries, kiwi, asparagus and spinach to your juice.

Another benefit of juicing is its ability to lower the chances of developing cancers and tumours. You’ll be able to fight cancer cells and remove them from the body through constant juicing. Feel full longer and feel motivated to change your lifestyle. By showing the recipes to family and friends, one can start a healthy lifestyle that can lower the risks of many illnesses and strengthen the immune system naturally.

How to choose a juicer?

In order to gain the nutrients from vegetables and fruits, it is vital to have the right juicer that won’t waste any of your produce. It must have dual stage extraction, quiet and easy to clean features. Make sure to get a juicer that has at least 5 to 10 years warranty.

Healthier Liver and Kidneys

Juicing benefits would also include the detoxification of vital organs like kidneys and liver. Drinking juice can strengthen these two organs by cleaning your blood and removing toxins and metabolic waste. Make sure to include cabbage, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower into your juice.

Remember that all fruits and vegetables have alkalizing properties. It can definitely improve brain function, heart function, slow down the process of aging. It can also relieve arthritis pain and reduce your chances of getting a major disease. Other juicing benefits include having a smoother skin, healthier hair, bones, nails and eyesight.