**I know there are many overweight smokers in this world. I believe that smoking does aid in weight loss for certain circumstances.

**Those such circumstances are people who gain weight after quitting, then they start smoking again and lose the weight they have gained. I’m sure this has happened to several individuals as there has been documented studies that people relapse cessation because of weight gain, thus they must lose it or no one would ever pick it back up right???

**Read this article my colleagues discovered. Very interesting…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15508020?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_SingleItemSupl.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed

**What is Your opinion on smoking and weight loss? Any first-hand knowledge of weight loss after starting – and did that person ever exercise or change eating habits or did they simply lose weight as this study portrays.

**Thanks in advance & NO i’m NOT a smoker. Thought it was interesting though….

I know there are many overweight smokers in this world. I believe that smoking does aid in weight loss for certain circumstances.

Those such circumstances are people who gain weight after quitting, then they start smoking again and lose the weight they have gained. I’m sure this has happened to several individuals as there has been documented studies that people relapse cessation because of weight gain, thus they must lose it or no one would ever pick it back up right???

Read this article my colleagues discovered. Very interesting…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15508020?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_SingleItemSupl.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed

What is Your opinion on smoking and weight loss? Any first-hand knowledge of weight loss after starting – and did that person ever exercise or change eating habits or did they simply lose weight as this study portrays.

Thanks in advance & NO i’m NOT a smoker. Thought it was interesting though….

Many people want to lose weight but never succeed for various reasons. If you are serious about losing weight, here are some things you need to know.

Do you know that the key to successful weight loss lies in your muscle? Muscles is calorie hungry. A pound of lean muscle requires at least 35 calories each day to maintain itself while a pound of fat tissue needs only 2-3 calories per day. Hence, if you are able to add more lean muscles mass that will require more calories and will tap into the stores of fats you have in your body, you will be able to lose weight, in the form of fat tissue, permanently.

As a result, to embark on a successful weight loss program, you require 3 main components in your weight loss plan. They are:
Aerobic Exercises: To burn calories effectively and efficiently
Strength Training: To build lean muscles
Healthy Diet: To help cleanse and nourish your body

Incorporate 3 these components into your plan for the best result and here are 7 tips to get started

1. Set your goal. How much and by when do you plan to achieve the weight you want. Write them down. You may even want to do a mock photo of how you will eventually look like to motivate yourself.

2. Make a Plan. No way will just cutting down on what we eat produce any significant weight loss. We need the 3 components mentioned above to work together for maximum impact. So work out an action plan and stick to it. Remember if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

3. Put exercise sessions into your schedule and call it Time for Me. Make sure that no one or nothing will disturb you during this time.

4.Eat and Drink wisely. Start with more fiber. Fiber is good for the body under any circumstances but when we are trying to lose weight, it is even more important. Fruits and vegetables are low in calories and fat and they keep us from being so hungry. Simple substitutions are often the easiest way to cut calories. Drinking a diet soda instead of a regular soda every day will save you 15 or more pounds in a year. Eating a turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato and mustard instead of a roast beef sandwich with mayonnaise just twice a week will save you another 15 pounds. Go through your fridge and pantry and simply throw out all the high calories, high fat snacks and food that are not in your plan. Water is nature’s magic elixir. It keeps our organs working with us to lose weight. Eight glasses of water or non-calorie drinks a day is essential.

5.Learn as You Lose. The more information you have about food and its relationship to weight, the better off you will be and not just while you are losing weight but after the weight is gone. You want to keep those pounds off!

6.Get Support. Enlist Your Family in Your Battle. Nobody can sabotage a diet faster than a spouse or significant other. Get them on your side from the start. Weight loss is hard at best but it does not have to be lonely. Join a Support group if that can help you.

7.Chart Your Progress. Keeping a Food Diary will help to get you to keep to the weight you want to be. A progress chart to show you how much weight you have lost will help to motivate to stay on task.

With these tips and information on hand, they are useless if you do not apply them. So, do not waste any more time. Commit yourself to your goals and plan and you will be on your way to a successful weight loss.

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Ill give you an example, if you tell a child dont spill the milk you will notice that in the next instant, the milk will be spilt, this is not the childs fault. Its simple brain design. Our minds have to first do the thing, and then negate it. So, in essence, you have actually told that child to spill the milk…and they obeyed!

Telling yourself to diet follows the same principle. You are telling yourself to die or kill off some part of yourself in some respect. How many times have you been on a diet? When you are dieting you are telling the mind to die but this causes a rather large problem. On the one hand, you are telling your mind that you want to die and on the other, its primary purpose is to look after your health and wellbeing.

Its no wonder that dieting often causes an internal battle. One part of you wants to restrict what you eat so that you can lose the weight, the other part is feeling deprived and rebels…so you diet for a while, and then cheat like crazy!

When people think of going on a diet, usually, the first thoughts that come to mind are about what they will no longer be able to eat. Before they have even started their regimen, they will have thoughts of deprivation. Ive come across many people, who before going on a diet, will go and pig out and eat all the things that they wont be able to for the next few weeks. They will consume ice cream, chocolate, chips, whatever it is that they love, in larger quantities than normal, because they are going on a diet the next day. The destruction has begun even before they have started; theyve packed on more calories than they would under normal circumstances. Diet spells death and deprivation.

Another dangerous side effect of dieting is depression. When people feel that they are depriving themselves of something they need, they feel depressed. Also, the food that they have been eating serves an emotional purpose. Sweet and dairy foods such as ice cream often spell a need for nurturing, and often, people will consume these foods because it gives them nurturing on some level, take that nurturing away, and theres physical and emotional deprivation. Depression soon follows.

Third, we have the wonderful yo yo dieting phenomenon. Its a dangerous cycle, both physically and emotionally. People will start a diet, lose a little weight, but the deprivation and feelings of depression will soon kick in…So they stop dieting because of how they are feeling emotionally. They will eat again, and often more unhealthily than before, and the pounds are back on…the dying starts again and so the cycle continues.

So, if you dont diet, what do you do? Whats the alternative to dieting? Healthy eating! If when we hear about healthy eating, we often hear the words healthy diet associated together. Its interesting, that since the mind is literal, and doesnt have a sense of humour, why would we want to attach health and die together?

They are opposites in my book! So, consider this for yourself. What would be a more empowering phrase that you could take on that would help you to create healthy and vital eating habits? I recommend healthy eating or dynamic eating or even eating vitally you can create any phrase you want that will empower you and help you to create a whole new pattern of health and wellbeing. Installing new and lasting habits begin from the thoughts we have about them.

Today, create a new start for yourself. Stop dying, start living and eat to live and be vibrant. The thoughts you think make a tremendous impact to what you attract into your life.

Take the first small step by changing the words you use. Next, there may be some emotional, unresolved issues as to why you may be comfort eating in the first place. Also, there may be some habits that you may not have thought of, that may be impacting your health and weight. Here, I suggest that you look for support and help. Life coaching can be very useful for resolving and healing issues such as low self esteem, lack of time, or stress from work or relationships.

There is another option in the form of hypnosis that is very effective in dealing with such issues as well. There are products and help available. The first step begins with you. Notice how you speak to yourself, your choice of words, especially when it comes to food and eating. Start with thinking about healthy eating, and start noticing the difference from day one…start living and stop dying, the rest will begin resolving itself.

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I have found that there exist two different worlds in the realm of dieting. The first is the world of planning. In the world of planning you can plan out every meal for the next week or month or for however long you want to plan. If you are detail-oriented, write down how many croutons will be in your salads, or specify the appropriate length for the banana you want to eat. Why not? The more specific you are in your plan, the easier it will be to follow, right? Well, maybe not.

Let’s talk now about the other world: the world of reality. In the world of reality, you change your mind about what you want to eat, often. You go out with your friends for dinner on a few nights that you hadn’t planned for, and on two of those nights you eat pizza, lots of pizza. You eat a banana split one night because everyone else is having one, and you don’t want to stand out. On three occasions you buy and eat three candy bars within 20 minutes for no apparent reason. You eat three huge meals that your Italian mother cooked, because you know how happy she is when you have to loosen your belt just to breathe after her meals. Nothing ever goes as planned. That’s the important message. Circumstances will usually change and you will be forced to modify your original plan. I had to learn how to handle these situations.

Let’s say that for this Wednesday’s dinner, you’re planning to have eight ounces of skinless chicken with vegetables, but you have just been invited to a barbeque (hotdogs, hamburgers). Don’t torture yourself and stay home, unless you don’t like that group of people. Have fun, but try to limit yourself. You will probably take in more calories at the barbeque than your original dinner, but maybe you can adjust your week’s meal plan. Making adjustments to your eating behavior is an art form that requires a little bit of practice. Try using logic and not your emotions when making these kinds of adjustments.

Try to eat slowly at the barbeque, because they will throw meat at you if you are empty-handed. It is easy to just panic and toss down a few greasy burgers while you aren’t paying attention. I’ve done that too many times. Try to look busy, and always have a food item in your hand, but don’t take any bites. Tell the hosts you’ve already eaten three burgers when you’re actually on the first one.

Another way of looking at these two different worlds in dieting is to notice the difference between logical thought (planning) and emotional execution (reality). You can be very logical when making your plan, because you probably haven’t even started your diet yet. You will count up the correct number of calories per day, hit all the different food groups, and still be able to eat one piece of a candy bar every single day. That’s great—until the diet starts. Once you find yourself on the inside of the fishbowl rather than on the outside, everything seems to change. The rules now seem unfair. “Why do I have to eat this crap every single day?” “I have desires (pizza, enchiladas, chow fun).” “I feel like I’m in prison.” We often forget that we volunteered for this diet. And we can get so emotional that the execution of our diet, just following the plan, becomes completely impossible.

That is how we came to be overweight. The types of food and the quantity we eat became too important to us. We try to give it up, but part of us still puts up a tremendous fight. It is part of us now, unless we can change.

I have a friend named Jeff. I’ve known him for about nine years. He is just like you and me except he genuinely dislikes eating. I know that’s hard to imagine. Jeff told me one day that he wishes that he could just take all his nutrients in pill form. That’s right. Just slosh them down with water. That way he wouldn’t waste any time having to chew anything. The reason I have introduced you to Jeff is to show you that there are other ways to be. There is Jeff, us, and everyone in between. You can step into that “in between.” When your emotions are locked on a bear claw, think how much better you’d look if you lost an inch anywhere. Losing the weight has got to be more important than a one-night stand with some chocolate Kisses.

If you want to stop eating certain types of food (like cookies or pies) the best place to start is in your own home. Take a look around your house, especially in your refrigerator and freezer. Do you see anything that will tempt you greatly? I generally have to keep all types of fatty foods and desserts completely out of my house, because if I know they are there, they will eventually crawl right into my mouth. I don’t mean to do it. I may be a victim of my own genes. So instead, if I absolutely have to have something, I’ll go to 7-Eleven and buy “just one” of whatever it is (usually chocolate) and bring it back. That’s my rule—just one regular-sized piece of junk food. Of course I could go right back and buy another one, but if the same clerk is at the store, he’ll think I’m a pig to come back so soon. I don’t usually take that chance. But many other stores sell candy bars, and unfortunately, I could drive to many of them blindfolded.

Some of you don’t live alone as I currently do, and you may have to get some help from your spouse or roommate to keep fattening foods out of the house. This may be more of a challenge for you, because your food environment might not be under your control. A little give and take may be in order. Hopefully, your spouse or roommate is someone with whom you can feel comfortable sharing the details of your diet. Or maybe he or she would also like to lose some weight. Having a supportive friend would be great, assuming he or she takes the diet seriously. It is usually easy to tell if someone is taking a diet seriously. If your roommate starts declaring Wednesday as “All-You-Can-Eat Pizza Night,” or if he or she feels that two “Big Macs” is the perfect meal, you are on your own.

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Johnny T. Flynn (Author) Heavy Lettuce: Adventures of a Journeyman Dieter, ISBN: 0976352516, website: www.heavylettuce.com, email: Johnny@heavylettuce.com

How is your attitude? Do you have “stinking thinking”? What are your first thoughts when you awake in the morning? You’ve got quite a lot to choose from. Do you begin the day by dragging out of bed bemoaning the fact that you have to get to work? Or, do you embrace the morning as another great opportunity to do great things? Our attitudes shape our lives. Indeed, the famous pastor Charles Swindoll says this about attitude, “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people say or do. It will make or break a company…. a church….. a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past….. we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…. we are in charge of our attitudes.”

Put the universal law of reciprocity to work in your life every single day. Did you know as much as ninety nine percent of our conversation is negative? There are some folks who can hardly wait to get their mouths open so they can “one up” another person’s current negative situation.

Hmmm, think back to that self talk. If what you hear every day is negative, it’s no wonder your self talk brings you down and prevents you from being, doing and having everything you desire. Try this exercise. Make a decision today, right now, from this moment to spend the rest of the day contributing to conversation in a positive way.

Impossible, you say? Not so. Say that somebody complains about another rainy day. Your response might be, “yes, isn’t it great? See that beautiful rainbow!” Try and create the habit of saying something positive to everyone.

If you are learning to say something positive to everybody about everything every time, you are disciplining your subconscious for positive results in everything that happens to you.

This is crucial to any diet or exercise program. You will never achieve the results you want without a positive attitude. Make sure you tell yourself everyday when you wake up, “I am slim” or I am fit” whatever it is you are seeking. You will be amazed at the results.

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Glenn Freiboth is a Certified Health Advisor lives in Illinois and has helped many overweight and obese people lose weight and keep it off. Get Medifast weight loss products at www.GetYouHealth.com