Weight Loss Blog

It's been a while, busy due to jobs!

2008-07-30T20:46:00.001+07:00

It's been a while since the last time I posted at this blog. Yeah, i'm still struggling to lose weight but atm i have lost approximately 10-12 pounds thanks to Proactol. You can learn more about proactol from this video ;)

Male sexual health

2008-06-23T23:35:00.001+07:00

Male sexual health has become an issue of concern in the UK. More than 33% of men in the UK suffer from some type of sexual disorder. The condition is made worse when some men delay the treatment process or do not seek treatment at all due to embarrassment. However, hiding the condition is no solution and can only result in complications.

Due to medical advancement, various medications are available today to treat common male sexual disorders. You can buy Viagra for treating male sexual dysfunction, which is also known as impotence. Viagra is an oral prescription drug, which helps treat erectile dysfunction in men. Some other well known erectile dysfunction treatment drugs are Cialis and Levitra.

Premature ejaculation is another common problem affecting male sexual health in the UK. This problem can be easily treated by using V-RX delay cream. It is a natural formula for treating this problem in men.

Another sexual concern in men is smaller penis size. It causes a lot of dissatisfaction in men as smaller penis size is considered to be barrier in successful intercourse. It is much of an emotional problem than anything else. Natural penis enlargement pills like VigRX are available today to help men in gaining bigger penis size.

All these and much more information about male sexual health problems and treatment can be found here: sexualperformance.co.uk

Al Oppino's Success Story

2008-05-08T21:00:00.004+07:00

No, this is not another testimonial. This is Al Oppino's real story that really inspired me (and hopefully inspired you as well). Al Oppino is one of advanced Opera users and I know him really well. Al Oppino said he was fat and he lost weight after one site told him about the real diet product out there. He used it and tried his best to lose weight. In the end he got the last laugh.

you can read his story here: http://my.opera.com/oppino/blog. Tell me your opinion after you done with it :)

Reasons To Follow Your Mom's Advises

2008-04-19T15:00:00.003+07:00

Everyone has their own mother. Most mothers are kind to us and always give us positive advises. When we were still children, they usually told us to go bed early, don’t sleep too late, and chew our foods before we swallow it. Unfortunately we were not always did what they told us to do. Sometimes we slept late because we played playstation or supernintendo. Sometimes we only chewed our food 2-3 times before we swallowed it.

Maybe you never knew that these things are important for our body. Our behaviors lead us to what is good and what is not for ourselves. Those who always sleep 5-6 hours a day, for example, are more likely to gain weight faster than those who sleep 7-8 hours a day. This is why sleeping is very important especially if you really want to become slimmer.

The other important thing is chewing our foods. Doctors suggested us to chew our foods at least 20 times before we swallow them. If you don’t chew your foods, your body will become busier and eventually your metabolic rate will become slower. Now you know why we should follow our mother’s advises, don’t you?

Low Carb Diet

2008-03-25T13:46:00.001+07:00

Low carb diet is useless, believe me. The rules are always too strict to be followed, and in long run you won’t be able to keep up the same pace because you’ll lose your energy (carbohydrate). Low carb diet believes that if we cut our carbohydrate consumption, we’ll lose weight faster than if we follow any traditional low fat diets. Atkins diet is the most popular example from low carb diet programs.

Maybe you haven’t noticed that with low carb diet we lose weight because we lose our glycogen and muscle, not our excess fat. It happens because when we cut our carbohydrate consumption, our body won’t have enough glycogen to bind our muscle. In long term, you’ll lose some of your muscles and your glycogen. This is not good for our health, of course. But if you ask Dr. Atkins (founder of Atkins Diet), obviously he will deny this argument because he really make a good amount of money from his low carb diet program.

Actually what we need is to cut the “quality” of our carbohydrate consumption, not the “quantity”. Some foods contain high carbohydrate but low in glycemic such as fruits and carrots. Foods which contain high carbohydrate and also full of glycemic are rice, pasta, white sugar, etc. Now if you eat your meal carefully, you can reduce your carb consumption without losing any muscles and glycogen. Of course it will be better if you follow traditional low fat diet plan although (maybe) you’ll lose weight slower than this program.

For low fat programs, you might need help from diet pills. I have read some stories about people who successfully lost their weight by using diet pills. Read the first story here and the second one here.

Someone Else's Path?

2008-02-14T22:47:00.001+07:00

The easiest way in achieving our goal is to follow someone else’s path. This kind of method works in every aspects of our life. Whether you want to be successful in your business or only in your personal life, following someone else’s victory road is always the simplest way. Weight Loss is not different. You need to know what works best for others, then follow it.

However, sometimes what works greatly for others doesn’t always work for us. If a 40 old man tells you that he lost 12 pounds with calorie shifting plan within 2-3 months, probably you will only lose 2-3 pounds. People have different body each other. But if you ask me, actually there are several plans which work for everyone (although the results are not always the same).

Are you wondering what are those plans? OK. First, you must remember that higher metabolism rate is always better. People who know nothing will teach you that more often you eat, you’ll gain weight faster. The case is not as simple as that. If you eat less foods but you eat quite often (5-6 times per day), eventually you will lose weight faster. Of course you need to reduce the amount of the fats in each meal if you want to lose even faster.

Higher metabolism rate is not only about eating. You need to take exercises more than once per day. If you think jog 40 minutes every day is enough, why don’t you try to jog three times per day with 15 minutes each? Believe me, it is much better. Your body will get used to faster and higher metabolism rate and in the end, you will lose weight faster. Better metabolism also means you will have better eye sight. If you have any problems with your eyelids, i know one site that can really help you through eyelids surgery.

Tips for Mommies

2008-01-22T22:32:00.000+07:00

Weight loss plans for normal people and for new mommies are different. Why do you think new mommies are always fatter than single women? You ate too many foods while you were still pregnant so it’s understandable if now you are struggling quite hard to get back to your normal habit. Another reason is because you are busy with your newborn baby. You breastfeed your baby and you also take care of your husband so you don’t have enough time for yourself.

It is true? Not really. Everyone always has time to relax. It’s up to them what they want to do in that situation. Some people go watch television, some people go to gym, some people play games, etc. Now you must do something worthy every day. Well, the easiest thing to do is to breastfeed your own child. Some mommies told other females to breastfeed their children. They didn’t know that breastfeed will burn up to 750 calories. A good thing for both your children and your weight, isn’t it?

Beside breastfeed, of course you need to get sweat. If you have some friends, ask them to run every morning or every evening. You can use treadmill if you want but it’s much easier if you have partners. You will be motivated every time you run, jog, or go to gym while you have friends. Different if you are alone, sometimes we are just too lazy to even wake up from our bed! Get strong, girls!

Appetite Suppressant - What You Need To Know

2008-01-08T13:22:00.000+07:00

Appetite Suppressant is a pure medicine for weight loss problem. It has helped more than 10 million people in this world. To be honest, it's pretty dam* hard to lose at least 25 lbs without any appetite suppressant. This medicine could help you more than you can imagine. Read the articles to know more:

appetite suppressant pill -> This article tells you more about the benefits of using appetite suppressant pills.

safe appetite suppressant -> Well, this article is also great. It helps us to know how to pick between safe and unsafe appetite suppressant.

How To Lose 10 Pounds -> actually this is nothing to do with diet products but you might want to read it. There are plenty of information there that you definitely need to know.

If you already understand about appetite suppressant, you might get tempted to buy one. Actually, it is the best kind of diet pill.

About diet pills

2007-11-26T11:03:00.001+07:00

In modern age, busy life is something that we must accept. Work from 8 AM – 6 PM is something that we can’t refuse. With this kind of lifestyle, our physical health can’t be considered as healthy unless if we taking exercises every day (or every two days). Well, technology has an answer for us. In the new century, weight loss pills are very common to our life. People with excess weight and lazy activities often typed keyword “weight loss pills” or “best weight loss pills” in Google just because they want to lose weight fast.

Actually, can they lose weight so fast? Nope. However, the real weight loss pills can actually help you but only if you have patience. Working on your body, running 15-30 minutes every day, and other healthy activities are still needed. Try to live with healthy eating habit is also needed if you want to lose weight. But of course, weight loss pills can help you to lose more unwanted pounds.

To know more about this, you should read this article: http://ezinearticles.com/?Weight-Loss-Products,-Which-Is-The-Best?&id=845414

Young Women, You Need To Read This...

2007-11-09T12:19:00.001+07:00

Young women. I think many young women in this world are working too hard on their body. When they think they are fat, they will do anything in order to get a better physical appearance. Sometimes, they even skip meals at night/afternoon just because they feel uncomfortable with their body. When they are skinny, they even think they are still fat. This is a serious problem which, unfortunately, faced by most young women. They want men to worship them although they never admit it.

They need to know that lose weight needs patience. You can’t skip meals because in long term it will harm you. When you are fat and you think you need to change, then change your lifestyle BUT periodically. Don’t ever think you can change in only one night or one week. Sport activities and healthy meals are needed but skip meals are a big no.

Don't Punish Yourself

2007-11-02T19:06:00.000+07:00

Many people talked a lot of things about dieting but actually dieting needs process and that process is something uneasy. In diet, we need to change periodically. Don’t you think you can change your eating habit in one night, it won’t be useful for you. For example, if you love to eat three fried chickens in every lunch, then try to reduce it to two. Don’t suddenly stop eating meat at all. Your body needs adaptation, just like when we live far away from our home. What do we need? Adaptation.

Beside about eating, exercise is also important. But similar with foods, you also need to adapt with exercises. If you never train your stomach, why do you think you can sit up 200x per day? Don’t punish your own body. You need to do exercises every day but you need to begin with the easiest level. When you already get used to it, then you can move to the harder stage. It won’t bring any good if you punish yourself because in long term you will surrender and come back to your old habit.

Vegetables, Fruits, Vegetables, Fruits

2007-10-17T18:05:00.000+07:00

It is very important to keep eating vegetables and fruits for your diet. Everyone (including me) always suggested you to eat vegetables and fruits if you want to stay healthy and lose weight at the same time. Various vegetables are very important to beat fat excess and keep away diseases from your body. Sometimes we only care about our physical activities but we forget about what we eat. Actually, it is very stupid if you eat lots of foods after you done with your physical activities or workouts. Many people said it is normal if we eat lots of foods with many calories and fats inside them after we work so hard to lose weight. Well, two most important things in our life are physical activities and eating habit. So start eating veggies and fruits after now you realized that actually we desperately need them.

Bingeing

2007-09-06T14:08:00.001+07:00

Let’s talk about bingeing. Nowadays, bingeing had become one of the usual habits of stressful people. Bingeing is kind of bad and a bit strange eating habit. When you do not feel hungry at all, but you always want to eat, that means bingeing. The cause of this trouble is very common. When you are stressful because of your daily job or family matters, you will want to eat. Some people only eat small but the others will consume lots of foods and also drinks just to make they feel better.

Well, do you know Elvis Presley? This man is a legend in music but we all know he has so many problems in his personal life. In the last few years before he died, he changed his eating habits. Suddenly, he became fat and never thinks twice when he eats. This is similar to bingeing. You do not feel hungry but you eat to feed your anger and disappointment. Is this good? Absolutely not.

I always told you to stay healthy and eat proportional meals. Bingeing can ruin everything because what you eat is connected to your weight loss problem. To stop bingeing, you need to know what the source of the problem and solve it! Yes, you need courage and perseverance to help your problem but you know there is no other way. Ask yourself what your biggest problem is and how to stop it. Then you must act, don’t be afraid. When you solve your problem, you will stop eating unnecessary foods. If you can’t stop your problem, consult it with a psychologist or your family

What is Cholesterol?

2007-09-05T19:32:00.000+07:00

Cholesterol....people often linked this word with something dangerous. When they hear the word “cholesterol”, usually they will think about diseases that can affect all of us. Actually, do you know what cholesterol is? You know you need to change your eating habit in order to stay healthy but what is the connection between these stuffs and cholesterol levels?

So in science, cholesterol has its own definition. Cholesterol is kind of lipid that you body need for some crucial functions. You can find cholesterol in each of your cells (also mine, of course). Cholesterol has two important jobs. First, to insulate your nerve fiber and second, to send signals around your body. You need to keep your cholesterol level, if the cholesterol in your body is uncontrolled (too high), the risk will be very deadly. You are going to be attacked by the heart disease. Sounds scary?

There are some kinds of special device which can check your cholesterol level. But I strongly advise you to go to the doctor near you so you can really understand what is happening to you and what you need to do. Actually, heart disease is not only depend on your cholesterol level, but also your lipoproteins. Lipoprotein is a “thing” which has a job to carry your cholesterol within your body. So you absolutely need to know how well your lipoprotein is, beside your cholesterol level. If you want your cholesterol level to be normal, you must stay away from high cholesterol foods.

Mediterranean Diet...It is effective for our diet?

2007-08-29T18:08:00.000+07:00

I have seen many people practicing Mediterranean diet. Some experts say Mediterranean diet is the best diet method that ever existed but maybe not. It called “Mediterranean” because this program came from Mediterranean country like Italy and Greece. This program is identical with red wine. So it sounds easy, right? Not too hard to practiced and you can drink red wine, what else can you expect?

Mediterranean diet is the combination of red wine, fish, lots of fruits and veggies, and a bit of wheat and beef. But remember you need fresh veggies, do not keep it in refrigerator before you used it for your Mediterranean diet. It is fresh and effective for your diet but the negative thing is the price. Yeah, you must spend a lot of money and effort to practice this kind of diet. All the above ingredients are not cheap.

And it is very time-consuming to search ingredients for Mediterranean diet, and like I stated above, you need fresh veggies, beef, etc. You can’t go to super market and buy any fresh vegetables. You need to find a traditional market, and I don’t think we can easily find it in big cities. In overall, Mediterranean diet is good and effective BUT only if you can find all the fresh ingredients. Oh…I do not mention the price anyway :)

Diet Coke, safe or not for you?

2007-08-29T14:17:00.001+07:00

When we ask people about diet soda, the answer will be divided into two kinds of answers. So many pro and contra about diet soda. Some people think it won’t help you but even worse, you gain more weight with drink more diet soda. But some people also think diet soda is good for all of us since there are no calories inside them. Their reason is simple, diet soda uses artificial sweeteners (usually called aspartame) which won’t affect your teeth and blood sugar levels.

Diet Coke, a product from Coca Cola is a pure example for this. Diet Coke has only 1.3 calories in each can, different from regular Coca Cola can which contains 142 calories. Wow, the difference is big, isn’t it? So if you are kind of people who loved to drink soda or other kind of drinks which uses lots of sugar, you should replace them with diet soda. Let’s say if you drink one can of soda every day and from now on you replace it with diet soda, then next month you will lose 4,200 calories!

However, it’s the theory but practically, not everyone (who loved drink soda) can really lose that much when they start drinking diet soda. Maybe to get the best result, you must stop drinking any soda, including diet soda, even though I know it’s hard. Anyway, usually people who are practicing no-fat diet method can be tempted easily by tasteful drinks. Because they didn’t feel any “delicious” foods in their meals, so they ran to sweet drinks after they finished eating their meals. Many true stories to proof this theory, maybe you are having the same problem?

Yes, when we eat foods, we will consider the taste of the foods. Even when we are not hungry, sometimes we’ll still eat our favorite foods, right? Same to drinks. If you are a soda-addict, it’s better to start replacing your favorite drinks with diet soda. It’s much, much better than if you keep drinking regular soda. But still, I recommend you to plan a balanced meal so when there is any tasteful food/drink in front of you, it won’t tempt you easily.

Not only addiction to soda and other sweet drinks, but nowadays we often see people who addicted to caffeine. Caffeine is the basic ingredient in coffee and it can give us extra strength whenever we get bore or feel sleepy. Many weight loss pills uses caffeine because caffeine can change your “desire” against tasteful meals.

But I still prefer to use diet soda if I was a soda-addict. Diet soda has the same effect with caffeine and it has less calories. Just remember, you should try to balance your meal, don’t eat foods without fat and if and only if you are a soda-addict, change it to diet soda.

Welcome to Weight Loss Blog

2007-08-29T14:14:00.000+07:00

Hello, I'm John. I created this blog because I know many people are still struggling with their weight loss problem. Eat and fitness are two most important factors in losing weight. But the problem is, most people have no discipline at all. Since now, I will try my best to post my suggestion and tips about losing weight. Good luck!