Weight Loss & Nutrition

Part 10 – Be More Active Move more. Even when at home, on the phone or anywhere do whatever you can to move more. Every little bit counts, so move anytime you get the opportunity or better still make your own opportunities.

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Part 9 – Take Advantage of the “After Burn” from Moderate Exercise The Medical Journalist in the BBC TV program hated exercise, but he was tested after exercising on a treadmill (at brisk walking pace).  The test showed he used up a small amount of body fat after the exercise, initially he was disappointed. The [...]

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Part 8 – High Calcium Dairy products Help Excrete Fat This one is interesting as many people cut our dairy products when dieting. According to the science, compared to a low-calcium intake a high calcium intake increases the excretion of fat in the faeces. This means the more dairy calcium you include in your diet [...]

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Part 7 – Variety – Friend or Foe? It seems we are hardwired to prefer variety, if we see lots of choices we like to sample them all.  This can cause us to overeat – so beware the buffet restaurant – you’ll probably overeat by 30% or more. Of course variety in your diet is [...]

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Part 6 – Eat Healthy Soup The BBC program used sophisticated equipment like an ultrasound to demonstrate how eating soup can make you feel fuller for longer, giving a longer period of satisfaction between meals. They gave two groups of Army recruits the same meal consisting of rice, vegetables, chicken and a glass of water [...]

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Part 5 – Eat Lean Protein Including lean protein into your meals satisfies your hunger for longer. You feel full longer and there eat less. Why? When we eat our digestive system produces a hormone called PYY which is released into the bloodstream. This hormone informs a part of our brain that we have eaten [...]

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Part 3 – Count Your Calorie Intake Keep it simple. What do I mean? Take coffee for example, those fancy flavored cappuccinos have lots of things added, flavor, sugar, milk which all add to their calorie count – the worst I have seen is a Coffee, Mocha, White Chocolate, Skimmed, Whip, Tall from Starbucks with [...]

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Part 4 – Don’t Blame Your Metabolism Chances are you have a perfectly normal metabolism  – most of us do. It’s just that we love to blame something we feel is out of our control. Even if you have a healthy diet you may be consuming too many calories due to excessive portion sizes – [...]

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Part 2 – Use Smaller Plates This is part 2 of a series of articles inspired by the BBC1 TV program hosted by Michael Mosely. Using smaller plates seems an extremely simplistic idea. Surely our logic will override the visual? It seems not, the program detailed a study of the popcorn consumption of  people given [...]

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Part 1 – Don’t Skip Meals Recently the BBC produced a TV program with some interesting new insights into how to lose weight.  Their scientific approach helps us understand how our ingrained primitive instincts and natural bodily reactions affect our food choices and eating habits. People think that skipping  a meal means simply because fewer [...]

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