Getting Back On The Paleo Diet Track

Many of the requests we have received over Christmas have asked us how to get back on the diet track following a little too much indulgence over Christmas!
Food For Thought
The best advice we have is to clear out all those leftovers that are calling you to the fridge. Lose the chocolates, the cakes and leftover treats. Give them away and if that feels uncomfortable just throw them, they are not doing you any good and anyway on reflection, why would you want to inflict this junk on loved ones, friends and family?
Food For Diet
Next, get back to basics! A healthy diet must have the right balance of macronutrients to suit your lifestyle and activity level. For instance marathon and endurance athletes require and can tolerate high carbohydrate loadings, however for most of us and especially those wishing to lose weight this will be as follows; fat, protein and some carb (start with green leafy vegetables) at each meal. Use intermittent fasting. This is a neat way to trick your body into ketosis and let it rest after all that over indulgence. Practise listening to your body and finding when you are hungry. If you are not sure if you are hungry....you are probably not!
Fastest Way To Lose Weight?
What is the fastest way to lose weight? You need to get your body into fat burning mode (ketosis). It can't do this if insulin levels are high. And what causes high insulin levels? High carb foods: that is junk food, for example white bread, pasta, liquid carbohydrates (pepsi, banana milkshake, soda, fruit smoothies ) consumption - all of these cause elevated blood sugar levels and prompt an insulin response from your body to push the blood sugar out as energy where required and to store the surplus energy as excess fat in your body (For further reading see related article below).
Beware The Three Wise Dieticians
Finally, do not panic and turn to conventional dietician wisdom! And by that we mean the idea that to lose weight we must eat less and exercise more. This thought process is the kind of knee jerk reaction that sends us scurrying back to weight watchers and slimming world or lighter life and continues the cycle of overeating and starvation that gets us into a mess in the first place! Yo-yo dieting anyone?
The Promised Land
You will find that if you have followed a paleo diet before Christmas, your body will want to go back there. It just takes a little planning and a little thought and we are here to show you how. Give us a call if you need some inspiration. We'd love to hear from you
Above all, keep it simple and keep it real.

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Mike

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HCG Food Plan for Rapid Weight Loss

Obesity is a life threatening condition that many are suffering from these days. Most of the people who realize that they need to reduce their weight would rush to the nearest fitness centers and dieticians. These are often not the best weight loss methods in existence.

Obesity is a life threatening condition that many are suffering from these days. Most of the people who realize that they need to reduce their weight would rush to the nearest fitness centers and dieticians. These are often not the bestweight loss methods in existence.Losing weight at a rapid rate is not an easy task if you are not following the best regimen.HCG food plan is one among the rapid weight loss techniques that have proved efficient. HCG, a pregnancy hormone produced in the female body, is now medically used to treat a variety of health conditions.

HCG food plan restricts your food intake to 800 calories a day. The most common doubt that would arise is whether you will feel hungry throughout the day. Constant hunger can be an unappreciable distraction that might soon lead to anxiety or depression. With the help of the diet regimen, you would learn to distinguish hunger from other cues that trigger eating so that you would know how to deal with it. The quality meals prescribed to you would be sufficient enough for you to remain healthy. The most appreciable breakfast is a lean protein meal and fruits. Never skip the breakfast because this would have an adverse effect on your metabolism. The first meal of the day provides you with energy to function normally. It would also help you stay full for few hours and avoid overeating the lunch. The professionals say that the best lunch and dinner that you can have should include 100 grams of lean proteins each, a handful of vegetables and few healthy fruits.

The HCG food plan suggests that you should be consuming apple, orange, strawberries or grapefruit in defined quantities to facilitate the weight loss. Zero fat drinks are another diet restriction that you need to follow. The only drinks that are allowed include tea, coffee, plain water and mineral water. Prior to the treatment, the patients are expected to eat to the capacity at least for a week. It is vital if you could take vitamin and mineral supplements that has no fat soluble ingredients or sugar. It is the unwanted accumulated fat in the body that is burned so that there would be no signs of unhealthiness while you are on the diet. You might have to stop using the cosmetics containing hormones which can interfere with the endocrine regulations.

Why is the HCG food plan unique? Usually, when you are on the diet, the body tends to store fat as these are sources of energy. This would lead to the slowing down of metabolism. With the HCG diet, there is no such issue of the lowered metabolic rates due to the consumption of lean proteins. Mild hunger would be experienced only for the first few days whereas from second week onwards you will find the servings satisfactory. If you are on a healthy diet with high proteins and low sugar levels, you would feel lesser cravings. The amount of weight that you can lose is dependent on age, gender, height and how lately you dieted. The professionals offering guidance can be contacted via websites.