Tuesday, February 12, 2008

1200 Calorie Diet For Weight Loss

1200 Calorie Diet For Weight Loss: "Try this menu, you can change a bit of foods to suit your needs.

Breakfast
100% Natural Cereal, plain, Quaker, 1 Cup: 426.24 calories

Egg, whole, boiled, 1 large: 77 Calories
Egg, whole, cooked, hard-boiled, 50 grams,
Salt, table, 0.2 grams

Snack
Apple, raw, small, 63 calories


Lunch
Chicken or turkey, potatoes, and vegetables (excluding carrots, broccoli, and dark-green leafy), no sauce (mixture), 1 Cups: 200 calories

Chicken, broilers or fryers, meat only, stewed, 895.54 grams
Peas, green, canned, regular pack, drained solids, 272.81 grams
Potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, without salt, 486 grams
Celery, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, 32.68 grams
Salt, table, 8.91 grams"

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Foods High In Protein For Weight Loss And Building Muscle

Foods High In Protein For Weight Loss And Building Muscle: "For weight loss, the one important key component is dieting. You can have the best exercise program in the world and you can workout in the best gym in the universe but you still would not get impressive results if you eat burgers and fries everyday.

A common diet that most people use is high protein diet. It can be high protein and have very low carb or with complex carb. There are a couple schools of thought in this matter but it does involve foods high in protein. This is because this type of food is essential for building muscle. Muscle are made out of protein and without it, you can build much."

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Foods That Burn Fat, Tips From A Personal Trainer

Foods That Burn Fat, Tips From A Personal Trainer: "We all know that the equation to a beautiful body is weight training plus cardio plus dieting. But sometimes, even we do all that; we can’t seem to get the body that we want.

It seems that there is something extra needed to be done to get the body that looks like the cover model on the Men’s Health magazine. With that in mind, consider these foods that can help you boost your metabolism and burn extra body fat to help you lose weight and get that ripped body that you dream of.

Foods That Burn Fat 1: Vitamin C Rich Foods

Foods that contain lots of vitamin C is said to be like fat burners. Examples of foods that are rich in vitamin C are like limes, lemons, oranges, apples, watermelon, celery and broccoli. Vitamin C is believed to dilute fat and makes it easier for the body to flush the fat out. Not only that, apples and most fresh fruits contains lots of Pectin, which limits the fat absorption by the body. Pectin also aids in the absorption of watery substance and this causes a reaction between the cells and the watery substance which ten releases fat deposits."

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

1500 Calorie Diet For Weight Loss

1500 Calorie Diet For Weight Loss: "Besides going on a diet, you need to know that you definitely need to exercise in order to lose more body fat and maintain muscle. Not only that, exercising will help maintain weight loss for long term.

The diet will help you lose weight initially but when you start to get back on your regular eating habits, you definitely need exercise to maintain the balance.

1500 Calorie Diet For Weight Loss

Breakfast

1.One cup of cooked Wheat Hearts, Calories: 149.76
2.One cup of egg whites cooked with salt: Calories: 81.18
3.One cup of pear: Calories: 97


Lunch:

1.135 grams of roasted chicken thigh cooked with salt: Calories: 330.67

2.One cup of beans, greens and potatoes: Calories: 109.71

Beans, snap, green, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 559.42 grams
Potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, with salt 772.2 grams
Onions, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 178.75 grams
Lard 27.48 grams
Salt 8.58 grams"