by joeduty

7 Principles to healthy and effective Weight Loss

Nowadays, there is a variety of information on dieting: losing weight and maintaining healthy weight, which may lead you to confusion. To achieve a healthy weight loss, here are seven important principles that you should follow:

1) Firstly, before you can start any weight loss program, you need to be in the right frame of mind. When you follow through a diet program, you have to be conscious of your food intake. Having a positive self-image is the only way in order that you can choose to eat healthy diet.

2) An important factor that you should consider when going on a diet is the second principle that should be on your list, and this is to learn more about your ancestors. If your ancestors were healthy though they ate more, then that may also be applicable to you because that is indigenous to your body.

3) The third principle to remember is to eat, as much as possible, natural whole foods. When you eat whole foods that are full of nutrients, your body, as a wonderful machine, automatically knows how much enough is thus you need not count calories and you will have plenty of energy and be at the best weight. However, when you eat highly processed foods, your body will require its needed nutrients thus keeping you eat more.

4) The best weight loss supplement – water. Remember this as the fourth principle. Know when you are thirsty or hungry for you not to eat when you are just thirsty. Drinking water before eating will also help fill you up and not eat too much.

5) Teeth are for chewing food, make use of them! That is the fifth principle. Chewing helps aid digestion and when you chew your food well, you will get the most nutrients out of them. When you get the right nutrients, you have enough energy and require not eating more.

6) The sixth principle; eat small, frequent meals in a day also aids digestion. It lessens the work of your digestive system and when you eat small, frequent meals in a day, more nutrients in the food is absorbed by the body, thus you need not eat more.

7) The first six principles would not give good weight results to a certain extent if you do not practice the seventh important principle that is to increase your physical activity. Simple exercise or daily physical activities will do you good. You can walk your dog for a longer period of time, walk to the grocery store, or clean your room. Choose activities because you enjoy them and not just because of the fact that they burn calories.

The use of Acai Berry supplements has taken a huge rise since a popular afternoon talk show spoke of the berry as a wonder. I have personally tried the supplement in capsule form and after self-tests and research I have determined that the berry does have a level of effectiveness.

I went to great lengths to find out if the cost of the capsule outweigh the benefits. In general, there do not seem to be many reports of negative short term effects of the supplement. I checked online, spoke with doctors and pharmacists, and as stated tried the supplement myself.

Short term effects seem to be limited to a minor lightheadedness and some digestion issues (one pharmacists warned me about getting “gassy”). The research on long-term effects is very limited and what I found is too inconclusive to mention.

I will say I noticed a slight increase in weight loss when I added this supplement to my regular diet and exercise routine. Since I did not radically alter anything other than the addition of the supplemental Acai Berry capsule, I must assume the loss of weight can be attributed to the Acai.

White tea with acai berry is really nothing new to the dieting world if you really break it down. White tea has been around in Asia now for thousands of years. It is simply green tea, but you harvest it when the leaves are very young and you get a much better tasting and stronger form of green tea that we call white tea. Acai berry has been around in the dieting world for a couple years now, and gained huge popularity when it was featured on Oprah. It is just a small berry found in Brazil that when made into a juice has unbelievable weight loss properties. So, what is the big deal about white tea with acai?

Well, white tea is known to contain something called polyphenols. Polyphenols are responsible for burning fat in your body, and they do this at a very rapid rate. The more polyphenols your body gets, the more fat it will obviously burn. White tea actually has the highest amount of polyphenols of any weight loss supplement on the market today! With that being said, the weight loss effects can be very drastic, so let’s look at acai berry.

Acai berry is also known to cause major weight loss, but in a very different way. Acai berry has the highest ORAC rating of any food in the world today. ORAC is simply a scale used to measure the antioxidant content in a food. These extremely high levels of antioxidants rid the body of dangerous chemicals which can cause huge amounts of weight gain through holding waste. For this reason acai berry can cause weight loss very fast, in as little as three days.

Note: I keep very good records of exercise, calorie intake, and many other weight altering factors. The final cost factor is the amount of money spent. A person trying to lose a significant amount of weight in order to get within a heath body mass may consider that although the supplements I found were a bit expensive – the loss of the weight will reduce long term health care costs. Even if you are someone that wants to just “look good in those jeans”, try to find a retailer or online resource that will give you a good deal.

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