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How to Look Slimmer, Instantly
With the same body weight, the better your posture, the slimmer you are perceived by others.
Here's how: Standing in front of a mirror, lift up your shoulders, rotate them back and press them down. Keep your shoulders as far back and down as you can for the count of 16. Relax your arms. Make your neck long and straight, do not tilt your head. Flatten the lower part of your back and contract your abdominal muscles to flatten your stomach. Take a minute or two to 'memorize' how your body feels while in this position. Remember this feeling every time you want to look slimmer.
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Diet Television Tip: Dorm Room Diet? Don’t Deny It
The Dorm Room Diet recognizes that you need not deprive yourself completely, and that one bad day doesn’t make or break a diet. For example, a pint of Ben & Jerry’s could be a once-a-week indulgence, but don’t make it a daily one. If you need a daily ice cream fix, Dorm Room Diet creator Daphne Oz suggests a lowfat yogurt bar instead.
If you’re following the Dorm Room Diet plan, substituting healthier meals and snacks when faced with a dazzling array of high-fat, high-calorie choices is one of the keys to success. Try these ideas for healthy substitutions in the dining hall. Not a student? The same rules apply at any salad bar or office cafeteria.
Choose skim or lowfat milk for cereal.
Load up your salad with veggies and opt for a vinaigrette dressing rather than a creamy ranch or cheese dressing.
Look for whole grain breads rather than white breads.
Outside the dining hall, eating healthfully can be just as hard. If you must indulge, you can make your study snacks a little better by keeping these tips in mind:
Order green peppers, not pepperoni, on pizza; you’ll save calories and fat.
Beware of alcohol; it impairs your judgment and will contribute to the munchies.
Crave crunchy snacks? Ms. Oz is a big fan of baby carrots; they are crunchy, tasty, healthy and low in calories and fat.
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What are power foods?
'Power foods' is a term introduced by Sonoma Diet's author Connie Guttersen. Sonoma diet basics are close to those of the Mediterranean diet. The list of power foods include:
Almonds
Bell peppers
Blueberries
Broccoli
Grapes (also wine)
Olive oil
Spinach
Strawberries
Tomatoes
Whole grains
Functional foods are a different story. The term Functional Foods is used to describe foods capable to produce certain health benefits. So called probiotics is a good example. Probiotics are friendly bacteria, for example, those making yogurts like Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium. They help to improve immune system, digestion, etc. Recently, research showed that yogurt help losing weight.
Functional foods with proved health benefits are also soy, Psyllium, whole oat products, fatty fish, garlic, black and green tea, dark green vegetables, and many others.
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Diet Television Tip: Sonoma Diet Advocates Small Plates
The so-called “secret” of the Sonoma Diet is “enjoying the right foods in the right amounts.” Essentially, this is a portion control diet that comes with shopping lists, meal planners, and recipes for tasty-sounding dishes like Greek Pizza, Spinach Lentil Salad, and Peach Berry Cobbler.
You can participate in the diet by buying the book and/or cookbook, or by signing up via the diet website, through which you’ll have access to recipes, menus, and diet tips.
The “right amounts” part of the equation comes from your tableware. You use a 2-cup bowl or 7-inch plate for breakfast, and a 9-inch plate for lunch and dinner. The Sonoma meal plans guide you to the proportions of different foods to put in the bowl or on the plate for each meal.
The Sonoma Diet also shares some traits with low-carb diets in its “3 Wave” approach to weight loss:
Wave 1: This starter phase of the Sonoma Diet includes healthy, whole food meals but in limited portions. The idea is that you will feel satisfied, but you’ll lose weight by limiting your overall daily food consumption.
Wave 2: This is the phase that lasts as long as it takes you to reach your goal weight. Wine is allowed (no alcohol is allowed during Wave 1) and the meal choices include a greater variety of foods including healthy fats, lean proteins, whole grains, nuts, eggs and many fruits and vegetables in moderation.
Wave 3: This last phase is typical of most maintenance phases. Ideally, you will be able to continue your mindful, healthful eating practices now that you have achieved your goal weight.
Inspired by the indulgent, “good life” mentality of California, the Sonoma Diet is a grown-up portion control diet, aimed at adults who want to enjoy good food, avoid gimmicks, and not have to calculate carbs and fats, but who still want to lose weight and eat more healthfully. But be aware that meal planning and preparation are a big part of this diet, so if you don’t like to cook, it’s not necessarily the best plan for you.
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Watching what - calories, fats, or carbs?
With seemingly endless amount of diets in the world, it all boils down to only three principal types of them: limiting calories, fats, or carbohydrates. Which one is best for you?
Generally, limiting calories is a very beneficial approach, health benefits-wise. It also requires self-discipline, so the best results are achieved with programs offering planning, support, and psychological services, online or offline.
Limiting fats works well for physically very active people, not obese, and spending high amounts energy including calories from food carbohydrates.
For obese people and those with insulin resistance, the best way of eating is limiting their carbohydrate total intake and/or the kind of carbs in their foods (complex versus simple, fast absorbing versus slowly absorbing).
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Diet Television Tip: A Clean Sweep: Raw Food Detox Can Flush Out Toxins
The Raw Food Detox Diet, developed by Manhattan-based nutritionist Natalia Rose, is less of a weight loss diet and more of a plan to incorporate raw foods into whatever diet plan you follow. The raw food consumption, says Rose, is a way to enhance your overall health.
The theory behind the Raw Food Detox Diet is that our bodies build up toxins over time by storing waste byproducts from foods (primarily processed foods) that are never fully eliminated from the body. Rose suggests that eating more raw foods will help the body eliminate these excess toxins. The potential benefits of eliminating excess toxins include clearer skin, shinier hair, more energy, and a slimmer body, although the evidence for any of these results is limited.
Still, if you want to get inspired to eat more raw foods as part of your diet, consider this: the meat and starch-heavy meals that make up much of out diets take more energy to digest; thus the body has less energy available to flush out toxins and repair itself. The inadequate repair is part of the culprit behind the bags under your eyes or your seemingly sluggish metabolism. Anything that promotes eating more natural, healthy foods is good, even if the philosophy behind it may seem dubious to some.
Although this is not a vegetarian diet, it does emphasize fruits and vegetables. For the specific recommendations of how to incorporate more of these raw foods into your diet, you have to buy the book; there’s no online newsletter component.
And keep this tip in mind: If you have a sensitive colon or bladder, or if you are not used to eating a high-fiber diet, you may find that following the high fiber food recommendations of the Raw Food Detox Diet leaves you feeling bloated.
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The last 10 pounds
When we talk about the most stubborn "last 10 pounds" we usually mean the weight loss plateau we hit when dieting. Sometimes the best diet is just a diet that's different from the one on which we were losing weight before the stalling. For example, a week out of a low carb and into a low fat vegetarian diet can do the trick.
However, there can be reasons that don't depend on diet's specifics and apply to any diet. They usually are:
Nutrient deficiency
Using wrong supplements
Subconscious cheating
Wrong exercise routines
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Diet Television Tip: The Jury is Still Out on Dr. Phil
The Shape Up! Diet designed and promoted by psychologist Philip “Dr. Phil” McGraw was discontinued several years ago. In 2005, a group of dissatisfied dieters who attempted to sue Dr. Phil for fraud petitioned a California judge to allow them to expand their complaints into a national class action lawsuit, according to CNN.com.
Although the jury is still out on whether Dr. Phil is liable because dieters who attempted to follow his plan did not lose weight as promised, if you are interested in Dr. Phil's Diet plan ideas and his philosophies about weight loss, you can buy his book, "The Ultimate Weight Solution: The Seven Keys to Weight Loss Freedom."
In the book and its accompanying food guide, Dr. Phil endorses a sensible eating strategy that basically mirrors the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food pyramid, with a balance of high-fiber foods, whole grains, plenty vegetables, lean protein and healthy fats. His books include menu ideas and suggestions for ways to make choosing healthy foods easier.
But Dr. Phil’s selling points are more psychological than physical. He endorses healthy thinking as well as healthy eating, and he devotes much of the book to the emotional aspects of unhealthy eating and being overweight and he suggests that depression is the root of weight problems for many people. If you want to explore the psychological reasons behind your weight problems, then this plan might be for you, but if you want more action and less introspection, you might want to look elsewhere for a diet plan.
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Nutrition and Red Wine
A recent dieting trend turned to the benefits of red wine. The Mediterranean group of traditional diets have red wine on their staple food list, along with olive oil and fish. Research showed that having a glass of red wine daily can prevent heart disease.
