The Dietstopper: January 2012

If being a more healthier you and wanting more than a thinnerbody is your goal then the Dietstopper is for you. If want to gain better health by learning to make the right food and exercise choices to help you live a longer and healthier life we at The Dietstopper want to help you lose weight, maintain a healthy diet and experience life changing results.
The Dietstopper will help you determine what you need to lose weight and gain better health by finding a supplement or diet program that’s right for you. Diets are not a one-size-fits all. Finding the right program that works for you is important it can mean the difference between diet success or failure. There’s never been a better time to start thinking about weight loss and your health so why not start now.
Ask yourself do I need to lose weight. It is a fact that being overweight is harmful to your health. You must commit to a life long change to become a healthier, thinner you.
Belive in youself everyone has the ability to become healthy and thin. Set high goals for yourself. When you eat healthy they are achievable.
Take an interest in your health and eat the foods that work with your bodies metabolism.
The secret to looking good and feeling great is directly related to what we eat. Your body will thank you by keeping your health at it's best.
It is never to late to get started eating healthy and to get moving you will live longer and have a better quality of life. The diet and nutrition programs work and are safe just healthy eating. Always talk to your doctor for advice before starting any diet or exercise plan.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

by Barbara Godfrey, Top International Fitness Model and Mother of Three

Have you ever thought of how you would feel being healthy and looking the way you want to look? Now is the time to do it and I can help you change your life for the better!
We live in a fast-paced world. This pace has affected our lives in ways I don’t think we will truly understand until it is too late.
We communicate electronically instead of through live conversation, we opt for quick-fix, pre-made meals for our families because of the perceived time it will save us, we have no time to squeeze in thirty-minute runs with our dogs, so we investigate all kinds of crazy ways to lose weight by depriving our bodies of the nutrition we need.
We also spend more money on diet aids than on any other product (Forbes Magazine, April 13, 2005). I made the choice not to follow the masses and make the change to improve my life, and I hope you will too.
I was a professional model for several years and traveled all over the world. I saw it all. The creative ways people tried to stay thin. It’s not only dangerous but can be life-threatening. It was so sad to see what great lengths people would go to look thin.
As I am getting older I can see and feel the pressures I never felt before. It is difficult to understand.
I am in shape. I eat well and have a healthy lifestyle with a happy and healthy family. I felt like something was missing. My kids are at school all day, and I realized I was not as busy as I was used to. I wanted to go to work and had no idea what to do. I have many interests and have worn many hats in my life.
Looking back on my life, I realized what a positive impact my workouts, the way I eat, and my general discipline have had on how I feel as a person. Then I realized I needed to do something I love. I love working out, and I love helping people. People often ask me how I stay in shape and what I eat to look the way I do at my age after three kids.
I decided it was time to put it down on paper and try to help anyone I can to live a healthier life. In the process of writing my book, Stop Dieting Start Living, I continued to do fitness modeling which then opened another door to my latest endeavor which was opening a Sports Nutrition and Weight loss store, Nutrishop in Ladera Ranch Calif.
All of this has been so rewarding to me to be able to help people like you reach the goals they never thought they could!
Making the choice to change your lifestyle to get in shape and eat right can be tough. We all know the bad foods verses the good foods to a certain extent. Yet most people will make every excuse possible to not have to do the work.
What you don’t realize is that once you make that “lifestyle” change it won’t be work at all! It will become a habit to eat right and exercise. You will start to feel and see the benefits which will then help keep you stay on course to a better life!
The benefits outweigh junk food any day! I love the way I feel when I eat really well and exercise regularly. If I don’t, I feel terrible and start to feel like I am getting sick and run down. If I am not consistent in my eating habits it affects my mood, my energy, my skin and I just don’t feel like working out. I just feel like crap! It’s really not worth it to me.
Once you get to the point where you really feel good about how you look and feel, you won’t crave the “bad for you foods.” You will be so motivated that it just won’t be worth it to cheat and eat a bag of cookies or chips. You’ll want to just keep going down the right path to health and fitness. It is so rewarding, stay with it and feel the benefits to come! You’ll be so grateful you did!
Remember, I am just like you; I am a busy mom with kids and lead a hectic life. I Chose to Start living and Stop dieting so I could live my life to the fullest and be the best role model I could be for my kids. The excuses are out there. Now it is time to take control and put your priorities in order.
Would you rather eat what you want, or be healthy and look and feel the way you want? Remember, we do have choices. Are you ready to make a change?

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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Eat Right And Burn Fat Faster

By: Jayson Hunter RD, CSCS
Yes, it is obvious that you need to eat right if you want to lose weight. There are actually a lot of different strategies to eating right. Some may not work so great for you and others will work amazingly well.

The key with trying different diet and weight loss strategies is to give them an honest try. Following a weight loss strategy for just 3 days is not giving it an honest 100% try.

Stick with something for 3-4 weeks and then evaluate it to see whether it is right for you. If it works then keep going with it and maybe even tweak it to try and make it even more powerful for you. If it isn't helping you burn the fat you want to lose then scrap it and try another strategy. Just make sure you try it for 3-4 weeks before scrapping it.

Here are some strategies that have worked well for millions of people and hopefully one or a few of them will work amazingly well for you as well. There is no law that says you can't incorporate more than 1 of these strategies.

1. Cheat Day

Cheat days are popular with many weight loss programs for a few reasons. Mentally it gives you a break or a reprieve from the strictness you have been following and trying to attain. It allows you to enjoy some of the indulgences you have been avoiding.

Physically a cheat day allows your body to reset your leptin levels which is a critical hormone you want to control during weight loss. When you diet or eat strict whether that be low calories or low in one type of nutrient your body will start to deplete your leptin levels. When this happens your brain gets a signal that you are starving yourself so it starts manipulating other hormones to slow down the metabolism and store more calories as fat to be used later.

A cheat day for those who are following a strict diet is beneficial to regulating your hormone leptin and keep the fat burning process turned on. A cheat day is good to incorporate once every 4- 5 days.

2. Extreme short term dieting

This is when you significantly cut your calories for 1-2 days so that your body has to use the stored calories known as fat in your body. It also forces your body to better utilize the blood sugars and stored glycogen in your body for energy as well. When following something like this you may only eat 800-1200 calories in a day for 1-2 days. Then you will go back to your normal caloric level that is right for you to lose weight.

When you are eating such low calories on these 1-2 days it is suggested that you also consume some branched chain amino acids to help your body maintain your muscle mass and provide specific amino acids that will fuel your body on these severely low calorie days. It is suggested that you consume 4-6 grams of a BCAA supplement between meals. So this could be mid-morning, mid-afternoon and before you go to bed. On these days you would consume around 15 grams total of a BCAA supplement.
This can be a very effective way to lose weight quickly especially in the beginning of a program.

3. Fasting

Fasting if pretty straightforward. It means you don't eat or drink calories for 24 hours. This is done while dieting to stimulate your body and force it to use stored fat calories and stored glycogen as energy. This is another time that you are required to consume a BCAA supplement because your body can use these amino acids as energy. This prevents or minimizes the likelihood that your body will use the amino acids in your muscle. This you don't want as your body breaks down the muscle to get these amino acids. Essentially you lose muscle mass.

This is also why you don't fast for more than one 24 hour period. During this fast day you will consume BCAA supplements 4-6 times a day throughout the day. Consume 4-6 grams each time for a total of approximately 30 grams of Branched Chain Amino Acids.

Fasting is not for the weak of heart or lets say weak discipline. It takes discipline to not eat or drink calories for one 24 hour period, but it is a great way to jump over weight loss plateaus and condition the body to burn the stored calories it already has. Just make sure you take your BCAA supplement such as Prograde BCAAs during this fast day.

4. Low carb

Low carb is also pretty straightforward. You severely cut back on your carbohydrate intake or totally avoid carbs which is called no-carb dieting. This works best for those looking to jump start a weight loss program and start losing weight quickly. It is also good for those who are not very active during the day or with their job and may sit at a desk all day.

Why it may work so well is because it forces you to stop eating the processed high calorie foods that fill you with empty nutrients. You do still have to watch out for higher fat intakes so stick to lean cuts of meat and lower fat proteins when following this type of fat loss method.

5. Carb Rotation

Rotating your carbs is designed to teach your body to not be so dependent on sugars or carbohydrates. Yes your body needs this nutrient, but not at the level that we tend to consume it. Rotating your carbs is broken down into a normal or what I call a high carbohydrate day, a low carbohydrate day and a no-carb day. You then repeat this cycle on the 4th day.

This is done to teach your body to burn the calories it eats differently. This program actually incorporates a few different methods of weight loss all into one program and each method is only one day so that your leptin levels do not get too low and trigger that starvation response. On this type of program you are also providing your body with higher amounts of protein to increase the thermic effect burn of the food you are eating and to control your hunger so that you don't overeat on calories.

6. Isocaloric Dieting

An isocaloric diet is one where you eat almost an equal proportion of carbs, fat and protein. So each nutrient class is in the 30-40% range. This helps to slow the release of insulin after a meal and lowers your blood sugars resulting in more calories used for energy and less stored as fat. The one thing to watch out for with this program is to not consume too many overall calories and end up gaining weight.

7. Low fat Dieting

The idea behind this type of program is that 1 gram of fat has more calories than 1 gram of protein or carbs. So by cutting out the extra fat you eat less calories. The biggest problem with this type of program is that most people tend to eat carbohydrates in place of the fat and then wonder why they are not losing weight. If you are to follow this type of program, which you can you need to make sure you replace the fat with lean protein instead of extra carbohydrates.

These are some of the top ways to shed fat and get you the body you have always dreamed about. Some methods are more strict and require more discipline than others. Though the reward can be much great with those methods as well. So you have to decide which method might work for you and then follow it for 3-4 weeks. If it works then see what you can add to it to make it even more powerful.

Keep building on it from there until you have reached your fat loss goals. In all of these methods it requires you to consume a higher amount of protein than what most people normally consume. This can be hard to do for some people especially for those that do not eat larger portions of foods. So an alternative is to purchase a protein powder to supplement with your meals and eating plan. This will allow you to consume the proper protein needs required to be successful with these methods. Grab a bottle of all natural protein powder and get started with one of some of the methods discussed above today.

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