Drinking Your Way To A Healthy Body

While dieting it is important to watch what you drink just as much as you watch what you eat. A great number of beverages and “healthy” fruit juices are packed with high amounts of sugar and will cause weight gain if not properly burned off. This actually defeats the purpose of dieting because by drinking all these beverages full of sugar, you are actually working against your goal. Here are a couple of rules when it comes to what to drink while dieting.

Rule # 1:
Drink plenty of water. I know, you've probably heard this a million times but it's true, this is a key ingredient of a healthy lifestyle.If you are the kind of person who just can't stand drinking water because it doesn't taste like anything, try adding a lemon wedge to give it a little twist in flavor.

Rule # 2:
Lay off the booze. We all know about the beer bellies but what many don't know is that it has been proven that alcohol has elements which actually make it more difficult to burn off fat. This isn't to say you can never drink again but you shouldn't exceed 1-2 drinks if you are looking to be healthy. Our liver is one of the organs mainly responsible for metabolizing fat. Since alcohol seriously impinges on proper liver function, too much alcohol means your body isn't being able to metabolize fat and therefore, you're not burning fat like you should.

Drinking alcohol also dehydrates the body which completely defeats the whole idea of drinking enough water. Not to mention the fact that alcohol contains almost as many calories per gram as fat. The fact is that if you are serious about getting in shape and losing the extra pounds, you have to lay off the serious drinking. If you must drink, try light beer or a small glass of wine.

Rule # 3:
Try not to drink too much coffee. Although coffee is very controversial, the truth is that a couple of cups a day isn't going to do too much harm. Coffee does, however, dehydrate the body as well and extra water should be consumed if you want to keep hydrated. If you are looking to lose weight quicker, then stay away from the creamy latte's that are packed with fat milk and creams and loaded with too much sugar.

Rule # 4:
Don't over due low-fat drinks. The fact is that diet beverages, be it tea, soda, sports drinks, etc., often bring a lot of sugar which, as we all know, is completely detrimental to losing weight. Again, the best way to hydrate is water. Anyhow, diet drinks haven't been proven to help you lose weight and sometimes they may even cause cravings for real sugar which can work against you. Remember that the consumption of excessive liquid may cause the onset of Cellulite. Read more about Cellulite.

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Your Brain Power And Losing Weight

Losing those excess pounds might be easier said than done, but when you think of it, it really is easy. I have always stressed the importance of right mental attitude when it comes to dieting and exercising in my previous posts, and I will stress it again.

The Power of the Brain

Have you ever heard of the Laws of Attraction? It says that like draws like. In a way, this is what my book talks about. The way you think can affect the way your body reacts and functions. For example, you want to go on a diet, but you only think of the long road ahead of you before you reach your targeted weight goal. Of course, that will affect your weight loss program. Instead of being a fun program, your brain focuses on the negative aspect, and your body, thus, reacts negatively. Now, you only feel the pain of your muscles after exercising and the cravings for your favorite and delicious foods.

Why not change the way you think? Instead of focusing on what you don’t want focus on what you do want. Do you want to be 30 pounds thinner? Then focus on that. Keep that image in the screen of your mind. Live it and breathe it. Let your brain perceive that as the truth so that your body will follow suit and make it easier for you to achieve your goal.

How to Get Started

Like I have said, visualize the goal that you want. If you want to be 30 pounds less, then imagine yourself minus 30 pounds. Let that serve also as your motivation and driving force. Next, you have to learn how to let your brain communicate your goal to your body. One way of doing so is by meditating. Know your “special time” where you can be alone and uninterrupted. This can be done best in a very peaceful environment where you can relax and be calm. Lastly, affirmation is very important if you want to stay on course. You have to repeat to yourself what you want and imagine yourself achieving your goal. In this way, the body adapts and then aligns itself to what your brain is constantly thinking. All things will then fall into place.

Do you now see how much power the brain can have over our bodies? By correctly tuning our brains to the right channel, it will be just a matter of time before we manifest what we truly want.

Do Calorie Shifting Diets Work?

Most of us find diets really exciting since they prove to be the fastest ways of knocking of our extra pounds. We get attracted to diets that claim they can help us lose 6 pounds or more in just a week. Do all of these diets actually work? Can we actually lose weight in just a week's time? And is that healthy? To answer your questions, not all diets are genuine. There are many diets that will claim to help you lose weight but some of them may not do that.

Some of them are healthy and some of them are not. So you have to be careful about which diet you decide to follow. However diets that work along the lines of the calorie shifting principle are very genuine and effective. They do help you shed your extra pounds and in a way that is not harmful to your body. The most famous of calorie shifting diets is the "fat loss 4 idiots diet". This diet proves why other diets are most unhealthy and proves to you a good scientific method of losing your excess fat.


Some of the most common diets work at reducing your calorie or food intake for an extended period of time. This helps you to begin losing weight. But more often than not, you start putting on weight even while still following the diet. The weight lost does not last long enough. This is because our bodies have been designed in such a way that if you give it a considerable amount of time, its metabolism adjusts to whatever your intake is be it less of carbohydrates, fats or proteins or just less intake of the quantity of food.

The fat burnt is proportional to the rate of metabolism. If your metabolism is fast, you will burn calories fast too. If metabolism is slow, naturally the rate of burning calories will be slow too. Lesser the food intake, slower the metabolism. Most of these diets are all about taking in fewer calories and hence lesser calories are burnt up as well. And if you go out on a binge even on one day, you will land up putting on even more weight since your metabolism will be slow and you will not be able to burn much fat.

The calorie shifting diets do not work like other diets. They have a scientific background. They understand that the rotation of eating routine is required in order to keep our metabolism high at all times. Higher the metabolism, more the calories burnt. The diet encourages the rotation of food stuff. It allows you to eat one type this week and to change it next week. So basically you eat new type of food every week. Your diet this week will not be the same as last week. This way your metabolism will be always high, thus burning out more and more calories.