By Nataly Orlova

I am very upset when I read about health problems resulted from wrong diets and about psychological problems of people following weight loss programs. The same feelings I have when I see articles such as “Two pills will solve your excess weight problems forever”.

In different weight loss articles you may read the main points how to grow thin. Here I want to share with you my own weight loss secrets that help me to follow weight loss program without “breaks”. I hope they will be useful for you too.

Now we begin.

Alarm clock rings. I hear it but don’t open the eyes. I lie some time pampering myself in the bed. The main point here is not to go too far cause I will gladly sleep again. After that I up my hands and feel how at first slow and then faster and faster the blood goes through the vessels. I down my hands and stretch left leg if it becomes longer a bit. Slowly return it back. Then it is turn of the right leg. At this time sleep vanishes in to the thin air. My whole body is awake. I get up and gently say myself – “It’s nice!”

I go to the kitchen and do our simple breakfast. I like this cares and it makes me smile. In the bathroom I wash my face with cool water look at my sleepy face and say myself - “It’s nice!” no matter like I reflection in the mirror today or not. Now it’s time to wake up others. After breakfast I see to the door my son and husband – one to the school the other to work.

Now it’s time to work myself. I am sitting a lot in front of computer screen during a day. Simple exercises help me in my sedentary life. I do my exercises every time when remember that it is time to do them or when my neck remind me about it. Usually it takes 5-10 minutes every hour.

Sometimes I get annoyed without reason and can not concentrate on work. Then I get a break in my work and turn away from the computer. I up my hands and bend myself from one side to another. I think about something except work and smile saying – “Everything is OK”. After some minutes I am again ready to work.

When I feel slight weariness or some discomfort it means that it’s time for a snack. Usually it happens at 11-11:30 am. At this time I get something not allowed by my weight loss regime but tasty. It can be a sandwich with cheese or sausage or a bun. I am sure that my brain activity will burn it completely without any harm to my body till lunch.

Again it’s time to work with “exercise breaks”. Exercises make blood goes faster and my brains work better. Lunch time for me is 2-2:30 pm. My main rule – If I have a small cutlet then I take a green salad (cucumber, tomato dressed with olive oil) for a garnish. For chicken or ham I choose cabbage or vegetable marrow. I eat without hurry and with pleasure complementing the cook (cause it is me) for dishes. “OK! It’s nice!” - I smile myself. Half an hour later a cup of tea will be good.

Before the end of working day I have a snack. But now it has strictly no carb foodstuffs. More often I have pair pieces of cheese, some not fat curd, yoghurt, apples or something like this. I make my exercises. Here stretching is good. Why my head can not band to this damned knee? I never can do it! Or may be I can? Today it seems that I did it better than yesterday. Yes, sure. – I smile and complement myself for having will and persistence to follow the chosen lifestyle.

Be healthy,

Nataly

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By Nataly Orlova

What are the problems the scientists from all over the world are thinking of? There are many of them. But among these problems medical treatment of serious diseases takes one of the first places. Not long ago the announcement of live telecast where donor kidney of one incurable woman must be raffled off agitated the whole Europe. Several weeks main TV channels discussed the telecast. In the end it was revealed that it was a staging. But what a discussion it roused.

Health problems are of great interest nowadays. Weight loss problems are too. This time when housewives shared with one another only with new recipes of cakes are gone. Today they are discussing oftener new diet plans and weight loss programs. Everywhere you may hear how people tell that they are now on a half hungry diet or become a vegetarian or have separated nutrition not mixing proteins fats and carbohydrates.

Book shelves are full with books containing advices and recommendations how to grow thin. The titles promise to make the process pleasant and without additional expenses. You read them and your hand is stretching for your valet. STOP! Now is just the time to think it over. Here is the first deception – expenses already began (you need your valet first).

But it is not all what you need to lose weight. Only making efforts and with a help of your will you can obtain slim beautiful figure. The passion you need also.

Mainly all offered recommendations can be summarized in following well known rules:

First – Eat 5-6 times a day in small portions reducing quantity of fats and carbohydrates.

Second – Dinner must be low calorie and not too late.

Third – Increase physical activity; visit regularly gymnasium, swimming-pool and so on.

If it is new for you then go to the book store and buy any book about weight loss without doubts. It will help you for sure.

The pharmaceutists are also ready to help you to lose weight. In any drugstore you will find plenty of weight loss teas and tablets. But choose carefully. Many of them are simply ordinary laxatives.

There are pills that can reduce your appetite. But it is much harder to suppress your “psychological desire” to eat. Your stomach is full but your eyes still want something to eat. Is it known to you? If you can not manage with this “psychological desire” it will be hard to lose weight with any pills.

Moreover you must get rid of the habit to muffle any problem with the tasty meal. It is much better to switch on something interesting on something you really like to do. In this case your fridge has no such great power on you.

From the other hand if you want to muffle the problem with foodstuffs it means that the problem is not actually so serious. When anybody has a real stress you hardly imagine him/her with a full mouth.

If you want to lose excess weight the first and very important step you must do is to understand yourself. You must know where you can make mistakes during your weight loss program. Then it will be much easier to avoid them. That means that you must create your own weight loss program your lifestyle where the meal is not your only joy.

Be healthy,

Nataly

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By Nataly Orlova

Do you know that you begin your weight loss program long before you have first foodstuff limitations or physical exercises? As a matter of facts you begin it in the moment when you looking in the mirror understand that things can not go on this way further. You understand that you must take prompt action.

Everybody has it in different ways. Some people have strong will and are ready to act decisively. Others have strong “psychological bondage” from food. These people often eat when they are not even really hungry. They simply try to muffle their problems with the meal. But this way problems remained unsolved and only excess weight problem is added.

In this situation the help of psychologist is needed. But people having “psychological bondage” from food can do something themselves.

I want to give you one very helpful advice. Try to change your attitude to your body. If you want to succeed in weight loss do not avoid your mirror. To look at yourself in the mirror from time to time is much better than stand on scales every hour or measure constantly your waist. You must think this way - “I am pretty enough! I must only correct here and here a bit.” After that find exercises for parts of your figure you want to correct and do them regularly!

Begin your weight loss program from your image. Renew your coiffure. Change the color of your hair. Change the style of your dress. Revise your make-up. May be it is better to highlight eyes and lips?

It will take a little time to change your appearance than to get rid of excess weight. But you will be pleasantly surprised how your body “will try to conform” to your new image. You now have firm understanding that to have fast food in any place completely does not correspond to your new image. You are not fat. You are beautiful elegant woman. Such kind of woman can not have a snack that way. Such kind of woman has her lunch in nice places at the table beautifully laid where plates, forks and knives exist!

You will see that your new image will change your private life. You will notice that now you attract men’s attention. Do not undervalue it. It is not a secret that many women compensate the lack of love with tasty food. If you meet your sweetheart that will be the end of surfeit habits.

Keep a diary – when and why you ate something not allowed by the weight loss program. You will see clearly why you have the diet “breaks”.

For example: “Yesterday boss shouted on me. I ate a bar of chocolate”, or: “Quarrel with husband. Talked about it with a friend and had tea and cake.” This diary can help you to find methods to avoid this kind of problems.

Sometimes it seems to you that you eat nothing but nevertheless do not grow thin. Carry out the experiment. Take a pan and lay down there every piece of food you intend to eat except your weight loss program. You may have tremendous results that explain your weight loss problems after “completely not eating day”.

Begin your day from these words: “I am beautiful. I grow thin because I need it. I want to be slim and elegant.” This auto-training will help you to be steady in your decision. In your decision to be slim and beautiful. You will understand that this is necessary most of all for you.

Be healthy,

Nataly

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By Nataly Orlova

I think those who visit this site already seriously think about their health and want to change their appearance for the better. And you understand already that it highly depends from your way of nutrition.

Simple limitation of foodstuffs you like will not help for a long time. Nobody can follow this diet long enough. After some time you become tired from all “dietetic foodstuffs”. You will want something not dietetic but tasty. You will not want to look at apples, curd, boiled meat. And here you may break your weight loss program for day, two days and even for several weeks.

May be the right thing to do is mono diet? This is kind of diet that is based on one foodstuff. For example on Monday you eat only apples, on Tuesday only kefir/yoghurt, on Wednesday only curd and so on. I think you will be tired from that kind of diet even sooner than if you would follow the low-calorie or low-carb diets. In case of mono diet it is harder to resist natural organism reaction to get something tasty.

Real-world example: Kefir/yoghurt is the foodstuff you like! You think if you like it there will be no problem to have three days of mono diet based on kefir/yoghurt. First day was gone almost easy. Next day you think that kefir is not as tasty as it was. You think that sausage would be much better. In the evening you feel yourself unhappy. You see sweet-shop in your night dreams. In the morning you make rush to the fridge. The mono diet is ended.

So, why we break weight loss program in one ill-fated moment. Why hunger overcomes us?

Sometimes it occurs when stomach is not really empty after some lunch or dinner. Then why?

The answer is – in this case you feel hunger as a result of changing sugar level in your blood.

“How strange is it!” - you may think. “But I did not have sugar even in my tea. I ate only two small sweets!”

As a matter of facts not sugar but glucose level raises in blood that provokes hunger feelings. We get it eating some foodstuffs reach with carbohydrates. Even a small sweet may provoke strong hunger feeling.

Conclusion: Not to feel strong hunger you must limit carbohydrates consumption. You must not refuse from them completely cause they are in many fruits and vegetables reach with vitamins and cellulose we need. You must limit only high-carb foodstuffs such as sugar, flour, potatoes.

Wonderful! All problems are solved! You have next day nice soup from cauliflower. But to the end of the day you feel that you need something. At least small peace of bread. The second day you do not want cauliflower at all and feel yourself flat-out.

Conclusion: Simply to limit carbohydrates is not the way. Not to feel yourself flat-out you need protein. We move, our muscles work and need protein!

Well! We get chicken broth with cauliflower and not fat yoghurt. But hunger feeling remains!

What is the reason? The problem is that without sufficient supply of carbohydrates and fats protein can transform in glucose too! That is the reason of hunger!

What to do then?

Did you notice that small piece of ham can satisfy our hunger for a long time? From the other hand ham contains fat. How to grow thin with fat?

And here is the point. Fat can not transform into excess weight. Fat can not transform in glucose that can add you excess weight.

But why? Look here. During digestion fat dissociates on fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketone bodies are the second resource of energy for us after glucose. Ketone bodies supply our hair, skin and nails with vitamins. You must know that excess glucose transforms in excess weight but excess ketone bodies never can do that. Excess ketone bodies simply go out from your organism.

Conclusion: Fats MUST be in our nutrition. We need them to look good. To digest a peace of pork you must spend many calories. So calories you received with this peace of pork will burn themselves.

And what we must limit without doubts is carbohydrates. Peace of ham will not make any harm to our weight loss process. But if you eat after that a piece of cake or a pastry it is another story. Excess carbohydrates will slow down splitting of fats and fats will be deposited in blood vessels. Do you need it? I do not think so.

Be healthy,

Nataly

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The main reason of excess weight is high-calorie meal we eat. So the way to grow thin is to decrease consumption of high-calorie foodstuffs. It looks very simple. You can eat only vegetables all the days and drink mineral water or fresh juices. If it is so easy then why to get rid of excess weight is a so difficult problem?

The answer is that now on people are civilized creatures and foodstuffs are not a question of life or death for them already. Foodstuffs are the question of taste now. It is not easy for adult person to change his/her tastes and substitute smoked sausage with carrot and Big Mac with cucumber.

Tasty meal is a pleasure. And it is very difficult to refuse from any pleasure. So looking sadly in the mirror we can not force ourselves to eat not salted rice.

It looks like vicious circle. Following a weight loss program we feel deprived in something very pleasant. That is the reason of bad mood of people trying to lose weight. And when this feeling come to high point we have a “break” in weight loss program. It can lasts during weeks eliminating all efforts we did. Some people have the state of “diet/break” during years. I call them “losing weight for ever”.

Weight loss program that will not lead to depression is not a simple choice of some foodstuffs. It is a lifestyle above all. You must AGREE to it. It must be COMFORTABLE for you. You must like it and choose it knowingly.

Of course if we are talking about 2-3kg (3-6lb) of excess weight then there is no reason to think about so lofty matters. But if your goal is to lose 20-30kg (30-60lb) and to maintain normal weight after that then you can not manage without changing many of things. You must change your lifestyle and reconsider attitude to your nutrition.

It is a very serious step. It demands that you reconsider some values. The pleasure from meal must become not so high value as it was for you. This process can take not days but months. Your goal is to change foodstuffs one by one to create your own balanced diet you can follow easily. There will be a place for pleasure in it for sure that you can follow it long. You must create not weight loss program but healthy and pleasant lifestyle.

Be healthy,

Nataly

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Women called housewives have mostly three reasons to complain about. These reasons are foodstuffs’ shopping, meal preparing and excess weight. Housewives every time taste the meal during cooking and sometimes eat dishes remained from children. These moments must be taken in to consideration if housewives want to control their weight.

Here below I offer some simple rules for housewives to avoid excess weight.

1. Don’t eat food that may leave your children.

2. Remember that tasting a meal during cooking you get lots of calories. Use advises of professional cooks who never swallow tasted meal but even rinse their mouth with water after that!

3. You have two ways to keep your good health and slim figure. First – your whole family must have healthy and balanced nutrition. It is a good way if somebody in your family also has excess weight problems. Second – follow alone healthy and balanced nutrition if members of your family refuse to follow it. In this case you must check how many calories you consume and carefully choose foodstuffs you use. You must think over in advance what foodstuffs you buy for yourself. Remember that you must like foodstuffs you buy for yourself. You fail if you try to stuff yourself with the meal you don’t like. You must like dishes you eat. Nobody will eat meal he/she dislikes during long time.

4. It is not easy to have meal separately. The only way in this situation is to limit foodstuffs you eat or to choose low-calorie dishes. To limit your foodstuffs take small plate to yourself cause on big plate it will look sad. Low-calorie dishes must be from foodstuffs permitted by your weight loss program.

5. Have minimum 2 hours between your snacks. The interval between supper and breakfast must be not less than 12 hours (better 14 hours). It means that if you had your supper at 20:00 then your breakfast must be not earlier than 8:00. During night your metabolism goes to normal state and your blood cleans itself.

6. Remember about your advantage not to go to a working place every day having your lunch in some dubious café (fast food the same). Your house is your working place. Healthy nutrition is in your hands!

Some words about short term diets. If you have about 5-6kg (11-13lb) of excess weight they can be possible and effective. But if your excess weight problem is more serious short term diets are not for you. You must choose carefully your way of cooking and nutrition to get rid of excess weight and after that keep it normal. This way must guarantee you health and nice slim figure for all life long.

Be healthy,

Nataly

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By Nataly Orlova

Fruits/berries fasting days are especially tasty and various. They are very effective for weight loss and absolutely safe. And summer is the best time for those fasting days. How many fruits and berries you have at hand in summer! How many variants you can invent according your taste! The way you must do it – have 1.5kg (3.3lb) of any fruits or berries and nothing more! Mineral water is without limit. Of course fruits must be not so “carb” as bananas are for example. About bananas we will talk a bit later here.

It is better to have fruits/berries fasting days when the weather hot is. These days lack of appetite is a common thing. So it will be easy for you to hold fasting day then. You will feel no discomfort or hunger.

And what about bananas? You may have fasting days using them also! You of course remember that banana is a rich of calories fruit. One banana of medium size has about 100 calories. 5-6 bananas will give you 500-600 calories. Is it not a fasting day? The main thing is – no other food except bananas and mineral water. Remember the rule? It is not important what you eat but how much.

Some people may like an ancient Indian receipt.

5-6 ripe bananas cut in blender. Add water with honey (1 glass on 2 bananas) and heat it but not boil!

During fasting day you drink only this cocktail and nothing more. This fasting day will be good for those who follow low carb diet. Low carb diet may provoke “bad mood” from time to time. You have 5-6 glasses of banana cocktail during fasting day. It will not add your excess weight but up your mood for sure.

In many diets you may find drinks from fruits and barriers. These drinks are very health-giving for your kidneys. It is well known that just kidneys suffer from medicaments and bad foodstuffs. You must maintain your kidneys using such excellent natural resources as cranberry, red whortleberry, strawberry and dog-rose. You can do tasty nice drinks from these berries.

Do you like strawberries? To eat them fresh is a real enjoyment. Be advised also that strawberries contribute to cholesterol normalization. It is a strong weapon against atherosclerosis. Have strawberries fasting days – 1.5kg (3.3lb) of strawberries and mineral water.

How much time you spend before computer screen? Bilberry fasting days will be very health-giving for your eyes. These fasting days must be done with fresh bilberries cause frozen or preserved bilberries lose a lot of their health-giving properties.

To keep your alimentary canal in good order you must have fresh apple juice in bilberries fasting days. In other days I recommend apricots, grated carrot dressed with olive oil and lemon juice and apples. This way your alimentary canal will be in good order.

Be healthy,

Nataly

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