Tuesday 14 April 2015

Importance of Protein in Diet

Protein food makes you feel full for a longer period of time. Which means... it can help you lose weight! Proteins are also important in maintaining healthy body functions. They are essential for different roles in our body such as:  - the growth and replacement of body cells and tissues - building components of muscle, organs, some hormones - maintaining healthy hair, skin and nails
 
Unlike fats and carbohydrates, protein is the only macronutrients that doesn't store in our body for use when required. Thus, it is vital to obtain adequate protein via food source.  Proteins from animal sources can be absorbed by body more readily.
 
However, remember to choose protein which are high in nutrients and low in saturated fat and calories. 
 
Good protein comes from lean meat/ fish/ poultry/ eggs / milk and dairy products.
 
Protein can also be obtained from plant source. They can usually be found in beans and their products ( soy milk/ tofu/ nuts/ lentils ).
 
 
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Thursday 9 April 2015

10 Ways To Lose Weight Fast

Tip 1: Never Skip Meal
Tip 2: Increase Protein intake
Tip 3: Increase Fibre intake
Tip 4: Hydrate yourself regularly
Tip 5: Plan your meals
Tip 6: Keep a food journal
Tip 7: Go for Healthy fats
Tip 8: Give yourself a cheat meal 2 times a week
Tip 9: Go for complex carbohydrate instead of simple carbohydrate
Tip 10: Change your lifestyle, keep yourself busy
 
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Inadequate SLEEP make you FAT

Sleeping for weight loss
 
In the morning, do you always snooze your alarm clock a few times before waking?
Or do you feel sleepy in the middle of your work, and needed a cup coffee so badly?
Or do you skipped your evening exercise because you are too tired?
Or do pick up "to go" meal because you are too tired to cook?
 
All these problems have a common denominator: SLEEP DEPRIVATION.
 
Inadequate sleep is a vicious cycle that can cause weight gain and affect your health.
 
It started off when you have inadequate sleep, and your body is running low on energy. So your brain tells you to grab any food that is high in energy. Because high energy food means high calories food, you automatically grab yourself a bag of chips (or any other high calories snacks). Now you feel less tired, but you unintentionally increase your weight. When we are deprive of sleep, our body make wrong food choice easily, and it also give us our excuse to skip our exercise routine. Both cause our weight gain.
 
 
Is Sleep Diet Real?
 
Sleep Diet encourages dieter to sleep more so as to slim down. If you have read or heard about sleep diet, you must be wondering if it is really true. Well, it's partially true.
If you do not sleep enough, your metabolism will reduce. Our body need about 7.5 hours of sleep a day for your metabolism to be at it optimum. So if you are not sleeping enough, try sleeping more, and you will see your weight dropping. However, if you are already sleeping 7.5 hours per day, sleeping extra does not help you drop further.
 
 
The Science Behind Sleeping and our Diet
 
Apart from the bad food choice and lack of exercise that we mentioned earlier, inadequate sleep can also affect our hormones. Leptin and ghrelin are two hormones which control your feeling of hunger and fullness.
Ghrelin: hormone produced in gastrointestinal tract that can stimulate appetite.
Leptin: hormone produce by fat cell which can trigger the feeling of fullness in a person.
Research has shown that inadequate sleep (7.5 hours or less) can reduce the production of leptin, and increase the production of ghrelin. This can cause a person's appetite to increase, and at the same time, he/she will not feel satisfied after eating. This result in overeating, thus causing weight gain.
 
 
How to improve Sleep?

- Avoid caffeine drink after 2pm
- Exercise can improve sleep quality
- Avoid heavy meals 4 hours before you sleep
- Make you sleep time and wake time same everyday



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Monday 6 April 2015

Skipping meals make you fat

Skipping Meals Make You Fat


Thinking of skipping your meals to lose weight???
Or have no time for meals because you are too busy working???
 
Then you need to read this!
 
Find out what harm skipping a meal can do to you and your body...
 
 
Contrary to popular belief, skipping a meal does not help in losing weight. In fact, when you skip a meal, your body go into a "starvation mode". Because your body does not know when is your next meal coming it will try to preserve your reserve by reducing your metabolism to the very minimal. This slow down in metabolism will cause you to burn lesser calories compared to your normal day. Meaning… you can start gaining weight instead.
 
The worse part comes when you start eating your next meal. Due to the "starvation mode" that your body was experiencing previously, your body starts "storing reserve". And the best way for our body to store reserve is to store your calories you consume from food as "fat". That means your body will now have more fat because you skipped your meals just now. Long term skipping of meals can result in high body fat percentage, and body weight gain
 
Another reason why we do not skip our meals is "mindless eating". Because you're so hungry from skipping a meal just now, you have higher chance of choosing higher calories food. Studies have shown that a "hungry" person have higher tendency of choosing high fat and high carbohydrate food, while the "not-hungry" person will have better choice over food, such as more vegetable. Also, a hungry person who skipped a meal also have higher chance of overeating.
 
Breakfast is the meals that many people often skipped, either we are busy rushing to work, rushing to school, or sleeping in. But do you know breakfast is the most important meal of a day? Breakfast help you to kick-start your metabolism for the day. Our body relies on food for "fuel", if you do not eat, your body have no energy to work, not even to "burn fat". If you are trying to lose weight, go for low calories food for breakfast. Researches have shown that people who skip breakfast have will choose higher calories food later that day as compared to those who had breakfast.
 
Skipping meal does not help in weight loss. Always go for 3 regular meals for more effective weight loss. Choosing low calories option is a better alternative to lose weight.


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