Weight Watching Tips

...For a Healthier You

Weight Watching Tips and Techniques

There are quite a few persons who find themselves to be overweighed due to no fault of theirs. This may be genetic.
All can work towards losing weight. See how these weight watching tips will help prevent gaining weight, and even loose weight.
Eating too much and doing little is just the right recipe for weigh gain.
With the right type of food, you can still enjoy life to the full without adding a stone or pound to your weight. If your weight is more than the expected for your height, you are overweight, or may even be obese.
If you think you are over weight, do not allow yourself to be depressed about it. Just see it as a problem that needs dealing with.
In the UK alone, over half of the adult populations are overweight. Same is true in the US.
Most times there is practical solution. Just do it the right way. Many try to loose weight the wrong way. But how can you tell if you are overweight or obese? What are the effects of putting on too much weight? What are practical weight watching tips?

How to know if you are overweighed
Being overweight or obese should not just be measured based on what others say, or what you think. Every one have a right range of weight bracket that he or she should be in. It is dependent on how tall you are.
In medicine, doctors call this your BMI or Body Mass Index. It is defined as the body weight in kilograms (Kg) divided by the square of your height in meters (m).
You can calculate your BMI by thus taking your weight in Kg and then your height. Multiply your height by your height (for example 1.8m X 1.8m = 3.24m) and then divide your weight (for example 80Kg) by the result (i.e. 80Kg ÷ 3.24 = 24.69).
Normal weigh should be within normal BMI range should be 20- 25Kg/m2.
Overweight is said to occur when your BMI is within 25 – 29.9Kg/m2,
and
Obesity exists when BMI is greater than 30kg/m2.
Most people realise they start gaining weight after the age of 20. This is because maximum body weight is achieved between the ages of 20 -40 years. In men, the body mass starts to rapidly decrease there after, but may remain stagnant in women till 55 years of age.
After the age of 40 then, the amount of food eaten needs to be reduced, or activity increased or both combined to maintain or reduce your weight.

A word of warning

If you notice you are loosing weight rapidly without decreasing your food intake, altering your diet, or increasing your exercise levels after the age of 50, please see your doctor. It is not usual to loose weight that can not be explained for by any change in habit or activity!

Problems with over weight
Apart from making someone to lose shape, being over weight poses health risk to the individual.
The following are the problems that come with been too overweighed:

* Loss of shape

* Having to buy new clothes as old ones becomes too small
* Psychological problems with school mates, work mates or spouse
* Joint pain
* Arthritis and back problems
* High blood pressure
* Diabetes
* Heart attack
* Obstructive sleep apnoea, which is a very serious health problem, and has lead to many divorces due to un-bearable snoring at night
* Stroke
* Problems with operations
* Gallstones
* Pregnancy complications
* Predisposition to developing various kinds of cancers
* Inability to control out flow of urine (stress incontinence)

How to loss weight
Or rather, we should start with how not to loss weight. Some who want to loose weight start by starving themselves? After, they go back and eat as much as they have missed eating before now.
Going on a short term diet is certainly not an effective way to losing weight in the long term.
Use of weight losing drugs and drinks are also not proven to be effective means of losing weight in the long run.
In our weight watching tips, we shall first mention why some become obese so that we could easily work out how to watch our weight.

Causes of Weight Gain and Obesity
As said earlier, some people gain weight just for no fault of their own. But for the majority, the following are reasons why they add weight. So please watch out: good weight watching tip!
Eating much. For some, their weight gain is due to eating disorders, where they just can not stop eating. Eating is a compulsion. Seeking medical help could help here. For some others, they eat a lot due to lack of self control. No one can help you here. You need to be determined and reduce the quantity of food you eat.
Eating the right kind of food. Some eat any thing thrown at them. A practical weight watching tip is to eat less of fatty food. Fatty foods, apart from containing too much fat which is deposited as fat under the skin and in the heart and blood vessels, it does not switch off the desire to eat more in the brain, as other foods like carbohydrates and proteins does. Large amount of the fat is stored, and not burned.
Irregular Meals. Never under estimate this. Some are so accustomed to eating snacks and eating irregularly that their brain forgets to recognise or does not simply recognise any pattern of food in take. It looses control of satiety control, and you find yourself eating at all times.

Alcohol Comsumption. Alcohol releases energy, stimulates appetite, and could make you loose control of restraining signal to eating from the brain.
Little or No Exercise. You need to use up more energy than you take in with food if you want abide with a practical weight watching tip and get results.

To loss weight, the following steps may contribute:

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  Avoid Refined Foods. Eating more of complex carbohydrates like starch food in yam, plantain, cassava, and avoiding processed or refined foods like sugary foods, chocolates, biscuits is good idea.
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  Increase your activity levels. Taking brisk walk for 10 – 30 minutes per day. Use the stairs. Register with a dancing class
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  Change your eating habit. Eat small but regular meals daily. Fibre rich diet will give you bulk and make you feel filled
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  Eat fruits and vegetables instead of snacks in between meals

In summary, your weight watching tips are: eat complex carbohydrate, eat regularly, reduce fat in your meals, exercise weekly, and see your doctor for any further concern.

For more weight losing tips, see the link below:
Useful links

Weight Watching Tips at Weight Watchers®, Online weight-loss from the name you trust.

How To Loose Weight Without Dieting Or Exercise

Weight Watching Tips and Fat Loss Guide For Idiots ... an e-book

THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR

When you look in the mirror everyday (which I’m sure that you do –make up et al) I wonder what you see. Someone that you love? Or someone that you’d rather not be? Do you wish you could be better than you are right now? Why am I asking you all these questions? You’ll find out in a minute. I chose to talk about this because I find that a lot of women seem to battle having a low-self esteem. This may not be a quick fix-it for you, but it sure will help you become a more beautiful person with a little bit of effort. THERE IS NO UGLY WOMAN. Every woman is beautiful. YOU are beautiful. If you don’t get anything else from this blog just remember this always. Now let me just give you 3 tips to being a more beautiful person.

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   BE COMFORTABLE WITH YOURSELF: be at peace with who you are. You’ve got to understand that if you want to be more beautiful, you must think of yourself as more beautiful. It’s simple, as a man thinks in his heart, so he is (Prov 23:7). If you are pretty on the outside and you don’t think so, invariably it will affect the rest of you. It’s a simple rule of transformation: first within, then without. There are things about you that you can change, good! Change them, but you must also realise that there are things about you that you cannot change so, accept them and someday you’ll probably start to enjoy them. For instance if you don’t like your hair length or colour, get a weave or if you don’t like being short please by all means wear heels but if you don’t like your complexion, then that’s a whole different ball game but if you accept it and take care of it, sooner or later, you’ll start to enjoy it. Maybe meditating on the serenity prayer sometimes may help. It goes thus: “Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”


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   LOVE YOURSELF: Without trying to sound like the average preacher – although no apologies for being a preacher – remember this: GOD DOES NOT MAKE JUNK. I think the major problem with women who battle a low self-esteem is a lack of knowledge. If you know who you are and what you carry on your inside, you will stop devaluing yourself. Everything God made has a purpose. And the amazing thing is God didn’t just make you; as a woman, he took extra care to make you. You see the Hebrew word used to describe the way a man was made is different from that used when describing how a woman was made. When referring to the making of the man, the word made there is similar to the cut and nail of a carpenter while that used to describe the woman is that of a furniture maker who not only cuts and nails but draws up a design first, then plains the wood and probably puts on the tiny details that makes whatever furniture he is making a masterpiece. Because you are a woman you have moved from being an ordinary man to being spectacular because you are everything a man is and more. You are a wom(b)man. You are productive, you are creative, you are powerful and wonderful or more aptly put full of wonder. Sweetheart, place some value on yourself. Don’t wait around for a man to do that for you. Take yourself out, buy yourself stuff, and treat yourself nice, you’re worth it.


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   INVEST IN YOURSELF: One of the most important things you can do for yourself is to invest in yourself. Find a gift. What are you good at? Then empower yourself through knowledge. Get a degree, a master’s degree, do a professional exam, learn a trade, etc. Whatever you need to do, like the Nike slogan says, just do it! Most importantly though, READ!!! And I don’t mean just novels, romance novels, fashion magazines, etc. read something that will expand your mind, challenge your thinking and perhaps even change your life for ever. I can sometimes indulge a man who is dull but a woman who is not sharp or one that relies only on her looks only gets on my nerves. You must train yourself to THINK – it never killed any one. You have a mind so use it. Get mentors. Not just physically but through books, tapes, etc.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, So is a beautiful face on an empty head. Prov 11:22 [The Message Bible]

Fascinating isn’t it? God expects that when you look at the woman in the mirror, you should be proud of whom you see. A lot of the things we take for granted are actually important even to God. So honey, take yourself out, pamper yourself – perhaps a day at the spa right? Then of course READ. Till next I hear from you. Go out there and be the best you can be. There will never be another you.

(God Bless Pastor Mildred)

The Cool Cucumber

Have you ever noticed that the more fresh fruits and vegetables you eat, the more you want? In Bible times, fresh vegetables were consumed regularly; unlike America today where processed foods filled with additives and hydrogenised fats are the norm. This is a concern of the medical field and should be a concern of ours as well.

How often do you eat whole, fresh foods? In our age of microwave and fast food eating, some might say they've even forgotten what natural foods taste like.

Fresh cucumbers are an excellent source of many nutrients, including vitamin C, vitamin K, and potassium. Cucumbers also provide dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin B6, thiamine, foliate, pantothenic acid, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, and manganese.

Adding a crisp, crunchy, cool cucumber to your salad is one good way to increase fiber intake. How's that so? The extra fluid you need when increasing fiber occurs naturally in the cucumber. You'll also receive the ever-important beta-carotene and folic acid. As a green vegetable, cucumbers also help lower the chances of coronary heart disease. It's best to eat fresh cucumbers, as pickling removes much of the nutrient content, especially vitamin C.

Proper vegetable preparation is key to preserving the maximum nutrients the vegetable offers. Heavily cooked greens lose many of the vitamins and nutrients readily available by eating them raw. Eating greens in a salad, or lightly cooked by steaming, in as small amount of water as possible, will preserve the folic acid, chlorophyll, and plant enzymes present that offer amazing life-giving benefits. A good rule of thumb for vegetable preparation is to look for color intensification. When your vegetables are bright and vivid in color, yet still crisp, they're ready to enjoy.

Many people, especially women, turn to the cucumber for a more radiant, glowing complexion. Cucumber juice is a recommended source of silicon. Due to the cucumber's silica components, cucumber juice can have a healthy, connective tissue, effect on the skin.

Cucumbers are also used topically for sunburn. Ascorbic and caffeine acids help prevent water retention, which may be the reason cucumbers help relieve swollen eyes and aid with sunburns. It's a common belief that this vegetable reduces swelling around the eyes. While it is true that cucumbers can reduce swelling, the majority of the cooling effect is from the cucumber's high water makeup.

The Healing River

By Benny Hinn

The Christian life is an ever-expanding life moving from life into deeper life. One translation for this expanding power is "dunamis," which means power reproducing itself within itself. The power of God causes the Christian life to be a journey of growth that continues to broaden outward and become a blessing to all it touches. It is like light that goes out of one spot and moves in every direction.

Just as light expands, we as Christians are continually expanding. We go from life to doubled life and then from doubled life to quadrupled life. As the power of God touches life, it keeps expanding within the heart until it reaches abundant life, and from there it still continues to grow and expand until eventually it becomes life eternal.

The same principle applies to joy. As you keep God's commandments and abide in His love, His joy will be in you so that your joy will be full. However, joy does not stop there. According to 1 Peter 1:8, you will have "joy unspeakable and full of glory." God wants to see you filled to capacity and brimming over with blessings in your life.

The Bible also declares that glory expands within you: "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18).

Glory will increase in your life as you behold the Lord and become affected by His presence. The process of growth continues until one day you are in eternal glory with the Lord. God wants you to be surrounded with expanding, intensifying, and thickening life, joy, and glory.

We are changed into the image of the Lord continually. Colossians 3:10 says, "Put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." This verse describes moving transformation and ongoing re-creation.
Recovery happens in your life as you come into the flow of the Holy Ghost. As you put on the new man, a river of life will carry you from faith to faith, life to life, light to light, and power to power.
The Holy Spirit will carry you from place to place in God. Eventually, in heaven you will reach the place of fullness and totality, but God wants the recovery process to begin in you right now so you can experience supernatural restoration in this life.

Sadly, some Christians are still in reverse. They do not know that total recovery belongs to them. Recovery and reversal can be described like two rivers. One moves forward and expands in depth, while the other moves backward and becomes shallow. Psalm 46:4-5 speaks of the river of God that is ever expanding and moving forward: "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her."
The Word of God shows that this river is a place of healing and recovery and invites you to be touched and restored in its waters.Are you ready to move into that river?

Are you ready to recover all? As you do, your life will never be the same

How To Make a Good First Impression

Quick tips on presenting yourself well to others
By Bukkie

Knowing how to make a good first impression is an essential tool for making new friend, and going on job interviews as a youth. Here are a few quick tips for youth on how to make a good first impression:
1. Stand up straight and take a deep breath.
2. Take a quick look at the person (or people) you want to impress.
3. Walk toward them with a confident stride.
4. As you approach, look them straight in the eye and hold your gaze for two or three seconds.
5. Smile as you shake their hand firmly.
6. Introduce yourself by name and tell them that you are pleased to meet them.
7. If you don't know their name already, ask for it.
8. Before you part ways, try to repeat the person's name in a natural way, such as "Nice to meet you, Jide" or "See you soon, Chioma."
9. Listen and make eye contact as the other person talks.
10. Be confident, and be relaxed. Your attitude and energy are contagious!

ENLARGING YOUR VISION

I heard a story about a man on vacation in Hawaii with his wife. He was a good man who had achieved a modest measure of success, but he was coasting along, thinking that he'd already reached his limits in life. One day, a friend was driving the couple around the island, showing them the sights. They stopped to admire a gorgeous house set high on a hill. The property was replete with beautiful palm trees and lush green gardens in a picturesque, peaceful setting with a panoramic view overlooking the ocean.



As the man gazed at the magnificent home, he commented to his wife and friend, "I cant even imagine living in a place like that."



Right there, something inside him said, Don't worry. You won't. You will never live in a great place like that.



Startled at his own thoughts, he asked himself, What do you mean?

As long as you can't imagine it, as long as you can't see it, then it is not going to happen for you. The man correctly realized that his own thoughts and attitudes were condemning him to mediocrity. He determined then and there to start believing better of himself, and believing better of God.



It's the same way with us. We have to conceive it on the inside before we're ever going to receive it on the outside. If you don't think you can have something good, then you never will. The barrier is in your mind. It's not God's lack of resources or your lack of talent that prevents you from prospering. Your own wrong thinking can keep you from God's best.

Your own wrong thinking can keep you from God's best.

You, too, may have assumed that you've already peaked, that you've reached your limits in life, that you will never be more successful. I'll never achieve significance, do something meaningful, or emjoy the good things in life that I've seen others enjoy.



Sad to say, you are exactly right .... unless you are willing to change your thinking. That's why the first step to living at your full potential is to enlarge your vision.

To live your best life now, you must start looking at life through eyes of faith, seeing yourself rising to new levels. See your business taking off. see your relationship/ marraige restored. see your family prospering. see your dreams coming to pass. You must conceive it and believe it is possible if you ever hope to experience it.



To conceive it, you must have an image on the inside of the life you want to live on the outside, This image has to become a part of you, in your thoughts, your conversation, deep down in your subconscious mind, in your actions, in every part of your being.



See you Tomorrow ..... YOU WILL GET THERE!