Ways to Stop Overeating - Part 2

• Share your feelings — sad, bad or otherwise — with family or friends.

• Seek support from others trying to lose weight — family, friends or online buddies. They're there to help, and want to see you succeed.

• Look to calming alternatives if stress is your trigger. Anything from deep breathing to yoga to arts and crafts could help. And don't forget: Exercise is a great tranquillizer. (It also reduces your appetite!)

• Count to ten. Is overeating your way of coping with anger? Consider other ways of dealing with negative emotions, such as learning assertiveness techniques.

• Find other ways to fill the void. If you typically overeat when you're looking for emotional nourishment; stop. Feed your spirit by caring for yourself as well as you can during times when you feel unloved, under-appreciated or unworthy. Be your own biggest fan and try to focus on your successes, not to the occasional lapse. 

• Be patient and forgiving of yourself. Long-established complex habits won't change overnight.

• Avoid all-or-nothing thinking, such as "I've already blown my weight loss plan, I might as well finish off the box." Accept that you may go off the rails from time to time. So you've lost six pounds and regained three? It's important to congratulate yourself for the pounds that you lost. You're doing a great job!

Concluded

Ways to Stop Overeating - Part 1

People who overeat often feel out of control and disgusted with themselves. It becomes a vicious cycle, leading to low self-esteem and even more eating.

Here are some tips for winning the battle:

• Take it slow. Crash dieting is more likely to end in losing control than a slow, steady loss of a pound or two each week. 

• Don't cheat yourself! Eat a sensible amount of food each day. 

• Allow occasional treats. If you don't totally cut out "forbidden" foods (such as those donuts that you love), you're more likely to stay on track, because deprivation often leads to overeating. Opt for low-fat versions of favorite foods. 

• Reward yourself for every win — how about a bath or a walk just to enjoy a sunset rather than a reward consisting of junk food.

• Plan ahead to stay in control. Facing a big test or other ordeal that you fear will send you straight to the cookie jar? Try to keep healthy snacks around to nibble on instead, and exercise to offset your munching — and calm you down, too!

To Be Continued....

How Green Tea is Beneficial - Part 2

8. Green Tea and Cholesterol

Green tea can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol by reducing bad cholesterol level.

9. Green Tea and Obesity

Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you'll be obese.

10. Green Tea and Diabetes

Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level and balances your metabolism rate.

11. Green Tea and Alzheimer's

Green tea helps boost your memory. And although there's no cure for Alzheimer's, it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer's.

12. Green Tea and Parkinson's

Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain which could cause Parkinson's. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson's.

13. Green Tea and Liver Disease

Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers.

14. Green Tea and High Blood Pressure

Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin,  which leads to high blood pressure.

15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning

Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar

Blood sugar tends to increase with age but polyphenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

To Be Continued....

Source : DSDG

Everyday Health Triggers Series

EATING DINNER ON THE SOFA WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION

Yoga - Its the worst thing to do  to your system as violence or sadness on TV is ingested with food. Sitting at the table is fine, but i's best to sit cross-legged on the floor. Vajrasana (picture below ) post dinner for 5-10 minutes aids digestion.

Cardio - Scientifically, i cannot say how one eats or where affects the heart

Endo - TV dinners are killer dinners - they are full of calorie excess. Traditionally, sitting on the floor cross-legged is good for digestion.

Psych - People eat more while watching TV. If it's a regular habit, the risks of obesity-related heart concerns are higher.

Source - TOI

Don't get defeated by obesity. Just fight it away !

Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20 per cent or more above normal weight. By preventing obesity, you are also preventing medical conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease.

Practical Tips :

• Recognize that obesity is a disease. While most epidemics can be defeated with a pill or vaccine, obesity requires people to change the way they eat and live.

• Eat, healthy. Include fruits, green vegetables, cereals and whole grain foods in your daily diet. Avoid sweets, fried, junk packaged and refined foods. Eat small meals.

• Set aside at least 30 minutes every day for cardiovascular exercise. Walking, jogging, running, cycling and swimming are great for weight loss.

• Ignore popular quick-fix weight loss methods unless they are medically supervised. This category includes fad diets, weight loss pills and powders and fat burning machines.

• Become a non-smoker.

• Avoid drinking. Most forms of alcohol contain a high percentage of fat.

• Reverse the clock. Discouraging as this state of health might be, remember that you are not a lost cause. Give life a second chance. There are effective solutions; from lifestyle modification, diet and exercise on one end of the spectrum to bariatric surgery on the other.

Source : Times Wellness


Inputs : Dr.Muffazal Lakdawala, Bariatric Surgeon, Mumbai, India.