How many people said at the beginning of December they were going to watch what they were eating during the festive period, and how many actually stuck to it? We always seen to be tempted by the mince pies, crisps, peanuts and chocolates and then there’s the drink, the saying “just the one” comes into mind but who actually has just one?

Many of the countries women must be dreading the first day back at work and the inevitable squeeze into the work clothes. You are not alone in this thinking however it’s up to you where you go from here! As there are many different diets on the market we thought we would discuss the Lazy Girls Diet, this is ideal for the woman who would rather being anything else rather than slaving over a hot stove.

This is a simple diet and if you are a single person you can lose as much as 10lbs in only one month, all you have to do is visit your local shop and buy any pre-packed food which is low-calorie and low in fat. There is no need to prepare, count calories or look at fat content, in-fact all you do is heat it up and eat away to your heart’s desire and the good thing about this diet is that it is also suitable if you are vegetarian.

This diet works by choosing 3 pre-packed meals plus one snack per day, you have to eat the entire meals, do not miss any meals as this will make you make you hungry and then you will tempted to snack. As with all diets you have to drink at least eight glasses of water this will keep your body hydrated and will also take the edge off your appetite, if water is a bit bland for you then you can drink tea and coffee without the sugar.

As well as the milk on the diet you are allowed to drink 300ml of skimmed milk on top of any milk that is mentioned in the diet sheets.

This diet will consist of some of the following:

Breakfast

• A 200g pot Müller Light Cherry Yogurt, 1 medium-sized banana and 1 apple
• Small individual pack of Shreddies from a variety pack with 150ml skimmed milk. Small glass orange juice.
• 6tbsp Fruit ‘n’ Fibre with a 200g pot of Total 0% Fat Greek Natural Yogurt.

Lunch

• 250g of Tuna (John West or Tesco health living), Smoothie Yogurt, and 2 kiwi fruit.
• Boots shapers meals.
• Asda Good for you sandwiches

Dinners

• Tesco’s healthy living meals
• Asda Good to you range meals
• Birds Eye Roast Beef in gravy, 2 small boiled potatoes

Snacks one per day

• 30 seedless grapes
• 10 Maltesers
• 1 apple and 2 satsumas
• Boots shapers fruit selection.

As well as the Lazy girl diet there is also a range of lazy Girl exercises

Well this is the season to be jolly and don’t we know it, as we sit there stuffing our face with turkey sandwiches, crisps, nuts and chocolate we keep saying to ourselves “I really have to go on a diet but it will have to be after the New Year”. To be honest not many people actually start a diet during the festive season, as we know there are far too many temptations, but once you have made your New Year resolution you have to be serious.

As the second of January arrives so does the diet, but which is the best one for you, you could spend weeks looking through all the diets that are on the market. Which diet is best suited to you, as you study them there are testimonials from people claiming they lost ten pounds in six hours, and “I used to be twenty three stone, look at me now only nine and only been on a diet for twenty weeks”. What are you to do and which diet is best for you?

When we want to lose weight, one thing is for certain we have to use up more calories than we take in, for most that includes doing some extra form of exercise. That does not mean you have to spend hundreds of pounds and joining the local gym, it will be just as good for you taking the kids or the family dog out for a walk another idea is when you want to go to the local shops walk rather than take the car. This is the first step to helping you lose weight.

Choosing a diet!

As I said there are literally thousands of diets on the market, which is best for you? There are diets that help you lose weight quickly, steadily and some that try and restructure your eating habits. We have all heard of the main diets like Atkins diet , Slim fast and Weight Watchers but there are many more that most people have not heard of, diets such as the Lazy Girls Diet, Muffin Top Diet and the Sensa Sprinkles Diet, over the next few weeks we will hopefully help you in choosing a diet that will suit your lifestyle and help you lose those extra pounds.

At this time of year we all love to spoil ourselves especially when we are doing the Christmas shopping we like to go out for lunch or be taken out for dinner. Then when we get home there’s the large tin of chocolates, mince pies and crackers and cheese and that’s not to mention the festive drinking. All this extra eating and drinking will take its toll on your body, we know this, but one thing is for certain we don’t like people saying to us “are you putting on weight?” that just depresses us more, so we eat more.

As Christmas day arrives the festive eating and drinking will continue in-fact how many people will, after their big Christmas Dinner fall into their favourite seat undo the top button of their trousers and relax. This is very common in Britain today, so you are not alone. This is probably the first time the thoughts of a diet come into the head, as you sit there watching the traditional Wizard of Oz or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

As the day’s move towards the New Year the thought of diets still play on your mind as you sit in your house eating your way through bags of nuts, crisps and the occasional take away. Again you are not alone in thinking about your diet, millions of people will be sitting thinking the same but let’s be honest WHO starts their diet at this time of year there is far too much temptation around you.

Diets are normally saved for the resolutions along with the no smoking, drinking less and saving money, if you are serious about losing weight there are various diets that you can look at, over the next few weeks weight-loss-now will be looking at the good and bad points of various diets.

Fed up being told that you are putting on some weight, TV and radio commercials constantly spouting out about fat this and fat that, and that how in ten years time we and our kids are all going to be suffering from heart and liver disease.Well eventually it starts to sink in and we do think about our kids future, how can we help them and maybe even help ourselves to get a bit fitter and maybe even lose an extra pound or so.

One of the best ways to lose weight is to stay active and do a little exercise,  as we all know  actually getting off the chair and walking down the park may be a bit extreme so one of the best ways is to actually enjoy what you are doing and there is no better way than the use of a gaming console.

The gaming console is the Nintendo Wii, it is simply brilliant whether you are downhill skiing or playing tennis you will love it, challenge your family and friends to a game of bowling after 10 games of moving around you will soon feel the benefits of this exercise. Nintendo Wii have also got programs which will target problem areas such as your tummy, thighs and arms so there is no need to even leave your home to do a complete workout. Pretty soon you will be an expert at lawn tennis, bowling and skiing as well as being more healthy and looking great.

With the Christmas holiday party time looming many of the young woman across the land will be trying their best to fit into that ‘hot’ party dress. Many will be trying diets that will cut out carbohydrates, cut out fat and even some will be eating just fruit and only fruit.

There are so many different weight loss techniques on the market at any one time – so which is best?

Many fad diets ‘promise’ women that they will lose those extra pounds in a matter of days, they even had testimonials from other women claiming “I lost 30lbs in only 1 week”, so you read on and after another 5 or so more testimonials from other women claiming they lost 10 – 20lbs you actually start to get excited about this fabulous new diet.

It’s only when you reach the end of the page, you realise what you have been dreading, they are now looking for your credit card details but the soft hooks are in and your so tempted to try this latest diet fad and it is only £49.99. What are you to do – you need to lose weight for Christmas?

Here are a few helpful weight loss solutions that don’t cost the earth…

You may have heard some people talking about weight loss suppressants, this works by fooling your body into feeling full. Weight loss suppressants have seen some attention on the media that’s why there are so many available on the market today. Please be very careful when choosing which appetite suppressant to take as some may contain only natural ingredients while others may contain ingredients that have been banned in other parts of the world.

For that quick fix, try a body wrap, these will not only lose those extra inches on your ‘fatty’ areas but will also help you skin to look great. Water retention does make you gain weight and a body wrap will (depending on which one you choose) help draw the toxins and fluids out your body thus helping you lose those extra inches.

Exercise is still the best method of natural safe weight loss. Start by walking to the shops for the paper instead of the taking the car, taking the kids or the family dog out for a walk or go down the park with the kids to play.

At the end of the day losing weight is a balancing act between cutting down on the number of calories taken and the calories burned through physical exercise.

People who watch the music channels would have noticed how much weight Beyonce Knowles put on, then took off. She is reported to have lost as much as 22lbs in 2 weeks for her film role in Dreamgirls. When asked about her weight loss she put it down to living on “maple syrup, water, lemon and cayenne pepper for 14 days”.

The Lemon Detox Diet is a simple liquid based diet uses 100% natural tree syrup mixed with water, lemon and cayenne and is designed to give just the right amount on minerals and trace elements. This is now one of the best and popular detox programs on the market today.

The Lemon Detox Diet retails from £39.95

Lets be honest when we talk about weight loss we automatically think of women, many men don’t want to or don’t like to think that they have to lose weight. Never the less more and more men are now realising that vanity has got the better of them and are now enrolling in ‘weight loss program classes’.

Chemists have now realised this and there are now many good weight loss tablets on the market specifically for male use. Thermobol is one such tablet, this slimming aid will help burn off those extra pounds as you train. Remember becoming obese does not happen over night it takes months even years, taking Thermobol tablets will help speed up your metabolism and help you lose those extra pounds more quickly.

Thermobol retails at £26.99 for 90 capsules.

With the Summer time comes the ‘healthy’ salad option meals, I use the word healthy very loosely. Are the people that are trying to lose weight fooling themselves into thinking that eating all that lettuce, carrots and cucumber will assist them in their weight loss?

If it were just left to those three staple ingredients (lettuce, carrots and cucumber) then it would help but
lets be honest that’s not what we call a salad, we add mayonnaise, cheese, potato salad and that’s not to mention the meat or chicken and the full cream spicy cheesy side dip, to be honest after we add all the extras to our salad it can add up to having more calories than a steak dinner with all the trimmings.

We all have to be very careful when we are on our diets, many of the things we think are good for us end up doing the exact opposite. Salads are great but we need to watch what we put into them, add in some
carbohydrates and proteins and cut down on the fat content, don’t just eat the lettuce and carrots as there is not enough to sustain our bodies, and it will go into survival mode thus storing any fat that it receives.

The way to succeed in weight loss is to eat a normal well balanced meal but in smaller portions, by all means have a side salad with low fat dressing. We all have to train our bodies into the way of healthy eating this is the only way to succeed in a successful weight loss program.

There has been much talk over the past six months about the latest weight loss tablet to hit the market : Alli! This is the first, over the counter tablet to contain Orlistat (a prescription only obesity drug). To obtain this tablet your doctor will have to weigh you first and if you have a BMI of over 28 then you can purchase this weight loss aid from your pharmacist.

GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturers, claim that taking Orlistat in small quantities will help you lose as much as 50% more weight than you would just dieting. How does this super drug work? Is there any side affects?
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When we put on weight our bodies go through certain changes, our heart has to work harder to pump the blood round our body. Kidneys and liver are both put under pressure to cope with all the extra food we consume and our joints take more strain with every step we take.

If we continue to eat we will become obese, obesity is measured by your Body Mass Index (BMI) which
measures the amount of excess fat that is stored in your body. People become obese with lack of exercise and when the amount of calories taken in is far more than your body requires. Being obese and overweight, in the most extreme cases can cause death, below are the most common health problems brought about by being overweight and obese.
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