Weight Loss Made Easy

Eating 30 grams of fiber a day can help you stay thin and healthy. Fiber helps you feel fuller longer. It also helps pull the fat through your system and helps you digest your food.

Here’s a list of high fiber foods that can  help you get 30 grams of fiber a day:

•  Raspberries, 8g per cup
• Artichoke, 10g medium
• Peas, 9g per cup
• Split peas, 16g per cup
• Lentils, 16g per cup
• Black beans, 15g per cup
• Lima beans, 13g per cup
• Baked beans, 10g per cup
• Brocolli, 5g per cup
• Turnip greens, 5g per cup
• Sweet corn, 5g per cup
• Pear, 5g
• Apple, 5g
• Oat bran muffin, 5g
• Bran flakes, 5g
• Brussel Sprouts, 4g per cup
• Potato, 4g medium with skin
• Sunflower seeds, 4g per 1/4 cup
• Oatmeal, 4g per cup
• Popcorn, 4g per 3 cups
• Brown rice, 4g per cup
• Figs dried, 4g per 2
• Blueberries, 4g per cup
• Strawberries, 3g per cup
• Banana, 3g
• Orange, 3g
• Almonds, 3g per oz
• Pistachio nuts, 3g per oz
• Pecans, 3g per oz
• Tomato paste, 3g per 1/4 cup
• Carrot, 2g medium
• Bread (rye, whole wheat or multi grain), 2g per slice
• Raisins, 2g per 1-1/2oz box

Tingly toes can mean many things, some of those things can relate to what you eat, or more to the point, what you don’t eat. The best way to find out what’s causing your tingly toes is to see your doctor and have him run some tests.

Here are some things to rule out that can cause tingly toes. First, make sure your shoes fit right and you’re wearing the right kind of shoes for the activity you’re doing. If you’re not sure, go to the kind of shoe store that measures your foot for you and ask. They may be able to help with your tingly toes problem.

Second, make sure you eat fruits and veggies. Also make sure you get enough foods that contain vitamin D and iron. Both of these things, if you don’t eat enough, can cause tingly toes.

I’m not a doctor, but I have had tingly toes, and tingly fingers. After much testing it turnes out, I have a vitamin deficiancy. Could a vitamin deficiancy be causing your tingly toes too?

Now we’re going to figure out your body fat percentage calculation. Your body fat percentage calculation is based on many things including your gender, height, weight and some measurements.

You probably already know your gender, height and weight. So to get your body fat percentage calculation get out a tape measure to get your measurements. These are the measurements you’ll need:

• waist at narrowest point
• waist at belly button
• hips at widest point
• neck at narrowest point

Now try one of these body fat percentage calculators:

• Health Status 
• Linear
• Cholesterol Network
• Self Calculation

How many calories in body fat is a question that all people trying to lose weight want to know.  The simple answer is that there are 3500 calories in body fat. What this means is that in order to lose one pound of fat off your body you need to burn 3500 calories.

If your body needs 2000 calories per day to maintain it’s body weight, and you only eat 1500 calories per day, you’ll burn off 500 calories in body fat per day. At this rate it will take you one week to lose one pound of body fat.

If you also exercise every day and burn an extra 500 calories in body fat per day. You’ll lose 2 pounds per week.

The food you eat every day will decide whether you lose weight or not. Keep track of food as you eat it so you don’t forget a single morsel. You need to keep track of food because it has ways of getting forgotten.

People forget about 20% of the food they eat. They only way to get rid of this problem is to keep track of food as you eat it. Write down everything. If you licked the bowl after making a cake, that counts too. If you only had one bite of the cake, that counts too.

Keep track of food all day every day. Then at the end of the day or end of the week, figure out how many calories you eat each day. Then figure out how many calories you should be eating each day.

Keep track of food, then lessen the amount you eat so you’ll get off the plateau and start loosing weight.

If you think about using food for fuel instead of for pleasure, you run a better chance of losing weight and, more importantly, staying healthy. Think of food for fuel every time you decide to eat. Everything you decide to eat will either give you part time energy, or real sustained long term energy.

Foods such as candy will only give you short term energy, and then you’ll crash and  then be tired afterwards. If, however you think of food for fuel and you eat something with vitamins, protein and carbs, you’ll have energy that will last longer, without the crash.

If you use food for fuel instead of pleasure you’ll notice that you have more energy, which means you’ll be able to get a lot more done. It’ll feel like you have more time in your day. You’ll have to cut out most of the junk food, but it’ll be worth it. Give using food for fuel a try and see how you feel.

Keeping a food diary is one of the key ways you can lose weight. For those who are having a tough time losing weight or have hit a plateau keeping a food diary is especially important. A lot of food gets forgotten about during your day, keeping a food diary of everything you eat is the best way to not forget a bite.

Every day you eat, sometimes you just nibble, every single bite or nibble has calories in it. If you’re one of those people who’s weight just won’t come off, try keeping a food diary. In your food diary you’ll need to write down every nibble, every crumb you eat.

Once you get used to keeping a food diary and writing everything in it, you’ll realize just how much you really do eat. The other thing keeping a food diary will do for you is stop you from eating too much. It does this because when you go to write something down, you’ll realize that you don’t really need that food. You  may put the food away instead of eating it.