How To Stick To Your Diet Over Christmas
The Christmas season can be a nightmare for people who are dieting. Office parties, family gatherings, Christmas dinner, New Years Eve and of course, drink – lots of drink!
Eating out once in a while isn’t a problem but when the evenings out come thick and fast it pays to have a plan formulated in your head so you are prepared. What you don’t want to be doing is saying ‘to hell with it, I’ll drop the diet and pick it up again in the new year.’
You don’t want to be ruining all the headway you have made just because you’ve had a few too many drinks and lost your will power!
Follow these tips for a night out and you will be fine.
Many of you will go without food and starve yourself all day when you know you are dining out tonight in the belief it will be ok to pig out later seeing as you’ve eaten nothing all day – WRONG.
Never go out hungry. If you sit down in a restaurant and pick up the menu when you are starving, selecting something healthy is going to be a hell of lot harder. Always remember the importance of breakfast and never skip it regardless of what you have planned for the day. Also, always take the …
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food giants
Food Giants Subconciously Remove Healthy Food Choices
Food giants such as Coca-Cola, Kellogg and McDonalds have been using advertising and subconcious triggers to turn us off healthy food choices since the 1980′s says a new report released today.
David Levitsky – who is a Professor of nutritional sciences and psychology at Cornell –…
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cost of obesity
The Cost Of Obesity For American Men Is $2600 Per Year
The cost of obesity for American men has been given a monetary figure and it ain’t pretty reading. If you are classed as obese you will spend as much as $2600 per year for the privilege. If you’re an obese woman it’s even worse – $4900 per year!
A person is classed as obese if they…
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Resveratol supplement
Resveratol Will Not Help Men Lose Weight
Resveratol has gained quite a reputation – although it has to be said built mainly by the people selling or promoting it as the latest life extending, weight losing and general all round ‘must have’ supplement – but is there any truth behind Resveratol and weight loss for men…
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serotonin
Nuts For Weight Loss – They Really Do Help You Lose Weight
The university of Barcelona, Spain, has proven what many of us in the health and fitness market have known for years – eating just a handful of raw nuts will fight off any hunger you were feeling and give you a boost in your training that no so called ‘protein bar’ will ever give you.
As…
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weight gain
Personal Fitness Trainer Gains 70lbs
A personal trainer who wanted to get a better understanding of how it felt to be overweight decided to find out for himself – by piling on 70 pounds.
In 6 months he’s managed to go from a mean and lean 193 lbs with a 42″ ripped chest and a 34.5″ rock solid 6 pack to a saggy and bloated…
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obesity in america
Obesity In America To Hit 164 Million By 2030
A joint study on international obesity statistics – published today in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’ – by Dr Claire Wang from Columbia University in New York and Oxford University Professor Klim McPherson has warned that obesity in America will increase by an extra 65…
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double chin
How To Get Rid Of A Double Chin
Hi Tony – Whilst I’m not skinny I am not particularly overweight either yet in a passport photo recently taken I look like I am enormous. Can you share any tips about how to get rid of a double chin? Simon Crookshank, London
First off, a double chin or chubby jowls can be hereditary which is why…
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healthy breakfast recipes
The Importance Of Breakfast When Dieting
Most of us are first told of the importance of breakfast by our parents. “It’s the most important meal of the day so eat up or I kill the dog.”
If your parents were anything like mine, they didn’t know for sure why breakfast was so important but their parents said it to them so they…
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swimming to keep fit
Is Swimming Good For Weight Loss?
Dear Tony
I would like to start your diet plan for men but have a problem I hope you can help me with. Due to a long term illness I have to avoid any kind of impact exercise and even the isometric workout you advise for beginners would prove to be painful to my joints.
Is swimming good for weight loss and could …
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fat burning supplements
Fat Burning Supplements : Do They Work?
While training supplements may be the leading products for most of these companies, the fat burning supplements are a close second. The market for them is absolutely huge with customers eager to buy into the ‘magic pill’ idea. This is never more obvious than after the holidays with both…
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why diets don't work
Why Diets Don’t Work
When it comes to dieting, you probably think of words like starvation, calorie restriction and deprivation. You might think of dieting as a short term way of eating, temporary until you reach your weight goal but that’s why diets don’t work. In reality and to have a chance of succeeding,…
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Alcohol And Dieting
Alcohol And Dieting
Ewan McGregor was once asked how he managed to get that gaunt, heavy drug user look he achieved for his role of Renton in the hit movie Trainspotting.
“The easiest way for a British working man to lose weight is to just cut out the beer” was his reply. “I simply swapped my beer for a Scotch…
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addicted to bad foods
Are You Addicted To Bad Foods?
When trying to lose weight does your sweet tooth always get the better of you? Does a meal feel incomplete unless its accompanied with a few slices of bread?
Don’t worry you aren’t alone. The hectic times we live in have many of us addicted to bad foods by making us ‘conditioned’…
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the halo effect
The Halo Effect On Men
“Since I lost 100lb and got myself into shape everyone notices me yet when I was supersized and unmissable I seemed to be invisible!”
The above was one of the replies we got when we sent out a follow up to members of The Man Made Diet. The reason this member felt invisible until he got himself…
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